On Monday, I shared with all of you my patio makeover! I?m still so in love with the outdoor space. It?s become my new office. 
To celebrate our Urban Oasis, we had some friends over for dinner. Every month, a few of us girls get together and make blogger recipes we found on pinterest. As you can see from this picture, the men in our lives are starting to show up. I think they know we?ll be making some good food and they don?t want to miss the meal.
When it comes to hosting a party, I had tons of things to do to get ready. (not including styling my patio.) I spent a lot of time cleaning, grocery shopping & making recipes. When 3pm came around, I was exhausted. I needed a little pick me up so I?d be able to finish up my last few chores before our guests arrived.
Helloooo, Gevalia Coffee. Gevalia coffee is so good! I love how I can buy it at Safeway. I picked up a box of K-Cups while I was grocery shopping.*
I?m all about making quality food & drinks at home?and that even includes coffee drinks! Instead of heading to you local coffee shop, make a tasty Gevalia Iced Coffee in your own home. For this recipe, all I used was Gevalia Signature Blend, Sugar Free Caramel Syrup, Skim Milk & Ice.
The rich, never bitter taste of Gevalia comes in a variety of flavors and roasts, most of which are available at Safeway. I picked the Signature Blend because it?s a lighter roast and it would compliment the caramel syrup. It was the perfect choice for me! My husband isn?t into girly coffee beverages, so he drinks his coffee black. He loved how smooth and light Gevalia?s coffee tastes. (And that means a lot! He needs coffee to function:) )
Anytime I?m feeling sleepy or in need of a coffee pick me up, I?ll be heading to my Keurig & picking a Gevalia K-Cup.* Turning it into an iced coffee beverage was all I needed to get me ready for our party on Saturday!
(*Kraft Foods is not affiliated with Keurig, Inc. KEURIG and K-CUP are registered trademarks of Keurig, Inc.)
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You’d think we’d have given up. Signs of the technology police state whip gale force at our flag. Our social tools serve to serve us tragedy while our legislative bodies do their best to serve themselves. There’ve been plenty of reasons to hang our heads low. But we clench our fists and push on, even if our faith’s been shaken. When regulators tried to hand the Internet to Hollywood, we beat back SOPA. When terror struck Boston, perhaps we followed along a bit too eagerly, but hung in there together as the Redditors did their best to dig up evidence. But PRISM. It’s made us question everything. Our government, our tech giants, our privacy, and our morals. Does Obama really fight for us? Have our social networks and search engines pushed back hard enough? Is anything secret anymore? Are those secrets worth sacrificing for security? It’s legitimately scary to think that the greatest threat to our way of life may come from within. Abraham Lincoln understood. In 1838, he asked: “Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” While Lincoln spoke of the brewing civil war, his warning holds just as true for surveillance. Not only could its overstepped application strip us of our freedom, but its looming spectre casts a chill over expression, discussion, and the dissent our nation was built upon. Today we must celebrate our independence differently. Not just by remembering our founding fathers’ ideals but by taking up their cause. By refusing to sit idle behind our screens. By demanding not the nation we have or even had, but the nation we need. And none are as empowered to take a stand as we, the makers of tomorrow. It’s up to the founders, doers, and entrepreneurs whose work touches the world to say
