Peanut Butter Muffins

Hello fall!

This is my absolute favorite time of year. The leaves are changing (kind of), the weather is finally cooling down, & everything is pumpkin flavored (literally everything).

As much as I LOVE pumpkin, believe me it is a lot, my first love is actually something else. Peanut butter. If I could put peanut butter on everything I would. It is my favorite thing to eat (sometimes just straight out of the jar). But I have done such an awesome job getting to my goal weight and now building muscle so I can no longer just allow myself to eat a whole jar of peanut butter while binge watching the office.

So like any other person who is craving delicious food I ventured on to pinterest. I stumbled upon this awesome picture & found this amazing blog (found here)! It looked amazing just the way it was, but almost too healthy to combat my sweet tooth too. So I changed some things up to make it both enjoyable for me & my husband. Because who doesn't enjoy peanut butter, protein, banana, chocolate chip muffins (name still pending lol).

The original recipe only allows 6 muffins to be made (I like to food prep so I doubled it). This is what I gathered up & put in a big mixing bowl.

4 Tbsp. Peanut Butter

1 Medium Banana Mashed

1/3 Cup Oat flower

2 Whole eggs

1 Cup Egg Whites (I eyeballed this)

2 Scoop Vanilla Protein (be careful when adding this because you do not want to dry out the muffins)

2 Tsp. Baking Powder

1 Pinch (the tiniest pinch) of brown sugar.

2 Tsp. chocolate chips

I mixed that all up in a bowl and whisked it until it was a smoothish consistency.

Then I poured the mixture into the cute little cupcake tin with my Halloween liners until about 2/3 full in each little liner. It should make about 12 muffins.

I baked them at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes (I forgot to set my timer so I had to do a lot of eyeballing on that too).

Overall it was pretty simple and it turned out delicious.

Because I am super health conscious I also calculated out the calories and macros for about ONE muffin:

Calories: 115

Protein: 9

Carbohydrates: 12

Fat: 5

Obviously these muffins don't replace a steak when it comes to protein, but they are SO filling and are going to be a great addition for that weird time between post-workout and lunch. Plus it helps me not want to eat an entire box of cookies, or a jar of peanut butter. 

Side note: next time I plan to add chia seeds. I've done this for peanut butter banana nut bread & it tastes amazing. I just wanted to add chocolate to this batch for Tyler. 

Enjoy!

Celebrations




Goofy Faces

So Tyler had a pretty amazing birthday! We went to the movies, which is obviously Tyler's favorite thing to do. We saw This is the End in the afternoon and then went to Red Robin for dinner with his parents. Tyler being the best person in the world that he is picked it and then suggest to see monsters university, even though he really wanted to see Startrek. And then we spent the rest of the night together hanging out. It was a really fun day though.

Then America celebrated its' birthday. The 4th was pretty fun. Tyler had to work all day so that kind of sucked. But I went to my parents house and went swimming. Basically got a huge sun burn which is now somewhat tan. Basically I don't look like a ghost anymore & now look like I'm alive. When Tyler got off work we celebrated his birthday with my parents by having cake (we did the family dinner later that week so we could celebrate my grandmas birthday too).

Pretty much since then it's been Tyler working like crazy and me waking up super early going to the gym every day and playing with the dogs. Nursing school starts in 3 weeks and honestly I can't wait. I miss being in class and having stuff to do everyday. I love being crazy busy so not having anything to do right now is killing me.



Ready for the end... like the movie ;)

Our kids will be beautiful ;)

No but really, they will be

My husband is so hot

Cutie puppies

Happy birthday America

Cake cake cake 

Fire on the mountain

Sad
 

My dad takes amazing pictures!
This one is featured in Red Rocks calendar.

I did a deep clean of our kitchen

Spot thief.

blessings

"Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven." -Jeffry R. Holland

I just feel like I need to take a moment and just express how grateful I am for everything that has been happening to us lately. Back in March we hit a rough spot with everything that was going on around us, the apartment got broken into, Tyler's transmission in his truck completely gave out  and I had to get surgery. It was a little bit frustrating, but we knew we could get through it together and we did. I really do think we were blessed because we didn't give up. I got into nursing school, Tyler got a new job recently that will allow him to take more classes at better times and better benefits, and we moved into a beautiful house. So many great things have happened & it's just the beginning.

And even more exciting, for the end of summer we are trying to plan a vacation! Well just a mini weekend getaway. Which is still just as exciting. We want to go to California and spend the weekend at the beach sometime before school starts (which is in like a month for me). 

Tomorrow is Tyler's birthday!! So expect another blog post pretty soon & probably with pictures :)

The Holidays!

 

This season has been crazy so far!! As soon as we got back from California in October I had exams each week or papers due until Thanksgiving and then we were back to Disneyland with my family for Thanksgiving! It was a lot of fun. We stopped at Tommy's Original Chili Burgers like usual, it was Tyler's first time. He isn't a true fan of it yet but I think that will change. We had a blast in Disneyland of course. As soon as we got back we decorated our place for Christmas. It's like a cute little winter wonderland in the Brox home. Finals are over with but of course there isn't really a break with all the prepping for standardized tests and what not. The next count down is for our Colorado trip December 23rd! I might actually have my first white Christmas this year. Crazzzzy. But here are some pictures from the past month and trip.

 

 

 

 

Clearly we have a different view on roller coasters

The characters of Harry Potter made the Good List

 

Merry Christmas

Our first Christmas

look at the tree

Daisy & Dodger

Our niece Sophia turned 1!!