Today was filled with lots of random activities!
After church, I was in the mood to bake, but didn’t want to make a cake or a batch of cookies for just me and Ryan. I decided to try my hand at granola bars and searched around for a recipe online.
I stumbled upon this recipe for Playgroup Granola Bars which received rave reviews from more than 800 people.
I got to work in the kitchen, combining ingredients and snacking on the dough. 
I made a quarter of the recipe noted online, which was supposed to yield six granola bars. I must have ate more of the granola dough than I thought, because we only had two large granola bars by the time I baked ‘em up. Oops. 😉 
It’s a shame we didn’t have more, because these were delicious! I wish I would have made several to enjoy throughout the week, crumbled on top of Greek yogurt or baked apples. Oh well.
While we waited for the granola bars to bake, Ryan took in the Bears/Seahawks game while I browsed through cookbooks beside him on the couch. 
We both made sure to mess with Sadie. 
I love when her jowl gets caught in her teeth. It cracks me up!
Sadie was clearly unsatisfied with our lazy-day activities, so eventually we peeled our butts up off the couch and leashed her up for a walk to the downtown Orlando farmer’s market.
It was hoppin’! Unfortunately by the time we got there, all of the good produce was picked over, so we left empty handed.
All was not lost though because it was absolutely gorgeous outside and we had a great time walking around the lake, simply enjoying the weather. 
Along the lake we saw a booth for Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice. Ryan asked if I was interested and I said no. I wanted Big Julie’s Soft Serve!
We walked home and Ryan told me to hop in his car for a treat.
Guess where we went?
I love being married to a man who loves frozen yogurt and ice cream as much as I do!
I enjoyed a bowl of birthday cake soft serve with rainbow sprinkles from Delish while Ryan and I sat along Lake Baldwin and chatted. It was seriously so nice outside!
Once our fro yo was gone, we hit up the grocery store for our food for the week before heading home for dinner. I sorted through a box of random stuff we’ve had in our spare room while Ryan cooked dinner.
He made us steaks with broccoli and it was delicious! 
My steak was nice and thick and perfectly medium rare.
I’m craving something sweet, so I’m off to dig around in the pantry to satisfy this craving.
Have a great night!
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I hear the weather in Orlando was beautiful today! I’m bummed I left just in time to miss it. Grazing all afternoon is totally the way to go on a lazy weekend day- especially when sprinkles and baking are involved 🙂
Wow! Y’all LOVE fro-yo! 🙂 Looks like such a beautiful day in Orlando. I wish we had a year-round outdoor market (and that the weather was nice enough to have one). P.S. Sadie is adorable!
I watched that football game too. Go Bears!
Sadie is too cute 😉
My dog has an underbite and really messed up bottom teeth, so whenever she yawns, her upper lip gets stuck on her bottom teeth. I tell her she is “snaggling” … pretty funny on a German Shepherd mix!
i’m ALWAYS looking for a good granola bar recipe…but i seem to find something wrong with them.. maybe it’s me haha
I’m envious of the sunny, warm day pics – it was 10 degrees not counting wind chill this morning, so it was a treadmill day. As tough as I think I am sometimes, I HATE freezing 🙂
Enjoy that Florida sunshine for us!
hahaha i LOVE it when the jowl gets stuck! one of my favorite things. and i like my steak medium rare, too. yum.
Sounds like such a relaxing day! Farmers market and froyo sound perfect to me 🙂
Oh yeah those granola bars look delicious!! Very dense, too..like they’d actually fill you up as opposed to Special K bars or something like that.
I loooove a good steak. My husb grilled some prime sirloin and tenderloin last night…delicious!
Funny pic of sadie. Those type are always the funniest!
Your post officially convinced me to head to the freezer and get some sorbet 🙂 Thanks!
I love the picture of Sadie 🙂 Whenever Rush’s jowls get caught it always makes me think of Sadie lol.
Thanks for the granola bar recipe! I think I’ll have to give it a try!
I just posted about my own homemade snack bars and recipe and reviews of some storebought bars. I don’t love the price of storeboughts and love that i can make my own, per what i want extra of in them, i.e. extra choc chips 🙂 so i have been making my own bars for about 18 mos…has saved me so much cash-ola!
FROZEN YOGURT is my favorite! I literally go basically everyday… the owners basically know my life story 😉
I am so jealous, Orlando looks so warm! Michigan is freeeeezingg!
Sadie has the prettiest eyes!
Homemade granola bars have been all over lately, I think I finally need to make some!
I’ve made those playgroup granola bars before and from what I remember, they were pretty good.
Today was a beautiful day for us too. Love the fact that temps here have gotten above freezing for once! 🙂
Dinner looks delicious! I hope you both were cheering for Chicago! I sure was! GO BEARS! :o)
I LOVE Fro-Yo too….to bad my man doesn’t so much 🙁 Have a great night!
Those granola bars looks great!!!
I too have a man who loves froyo as much as me 🙂 quite an important thing we have in common. Froyo is so good!
Those granola bars look great! I’m really picky about the consistency- gotta make sure they’re soft and chewy!
sadie is shooo cuuuute!
I would kill for some sunshine right now! Looks like a really great day though. You sure married a keeper 🙂
I think I was checking out that same granola bar recipe just the other day! Glad to know it’s a good one 🙂
that shot of sadie is priceless! such a cutie pie 🙂
Boy does that froyo look fantastic. As do those bars! nomnomnom. Jealous! 🙂
Your family is the cutest thing ever. 🙂 Sadie is a doll!
Girl, you eat so much fro yo! You’re going to turn into it! ;D
Goodness, I love the stuff!
My kids love those granola bars — we make them regularly in this house! Of course, they prefer them with some added chocolate chips . . . .
That steak looks aweosme as does your fro yo!
I want a huge fro yo lover too. I am pretty sure its the only way to go!
You lucky ducks with that beautiful weather! It rained all day long… oh well. I’ve been meaning to make oatmeal cookies for a week now, better get a move on!
p.s. I gave you a blogger award!
i tried to comment on your blog, but it wouldn’t let me! 🙁
Darn! Well, thanks for visiting me! 🙂
after looking at your frozen yogurt picture, i had to go get some for myself! 🙂
Those granola bars looked fabulous!
I love Frozen Yogurt too! The only bad thing is that there are no self serve places near where I live. I would love to go to one like that! That steak looks fantastic and so goes the granola. Yum!
Mmmm..those granola bars look yummy! I’m going to have to try that recipe! Thanks!
I especially love having lazy Sundays!
P.S. I am so jealous that you guys still have a farmer’s market going!
I always end up snacking on so much dough that I never try the finished product until the next day, hehe 🙂 Those granola bars look delicious though!
Yummm that fro yo looks so good. So does the granola! I may have to try that recipe sometime
I spy the shorts I got ryan for christmas:0)
STEAK!!! and Frozen Yogurt!!!! Lucky!
Scenery photos are absolutely beautiful! How motivating to have such a wonderful place to go for a walk!
So jealous of your beautiful weather. Its been warmer here in Wa lately (like in the 50’s) And its been making me SO happy! I had fro yo over the weekend too! YUM!
I made your granola bars over weekend but added choc chips with the raising loved them. Next time cranberried & white choc chips. They got a little hard but still good.