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I received a box of Fiber One Protein Cranberry Almond Cereal and a box of Fiber One Protein Maple Brown Sugar Cereal from General Mills in my BzzAgent kit free for review. All of these opinions and thoughts are of my own.

I was excited when I received my Fiber One Protein cereal boxes in the mail! I am an avid breakfast person. I truly believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It is what get’s you up and going, and sets the tone for your day. My favorite way to start breakfast is with protein and fiber. Something that fills me up and gives me energy! I find it difficult to find any cereal that offers up BOTH fiber and protein AND tastes good. I thought it just didn’t exist. Enter Fiber One Protein Cereal!

I first tried the Cranberry Almond flavor,  a masterful mix of crunchy almonds, delicious cranberry pieces and sweetened granola. It tasted great and had a little bit of a sweet side with the cranberries. My favorite part about the cereal is that it stays crispy and crunchy the entire way through, down to the last bite. I think my favorite way to eat this cereal is with yogurt. It tastes delicious mixed in some plain or vanilla yogurt!

Next up I tried the Maple Brown Sugar, a bountiful blend of sweetened granola and crunchy pecans topped with the taste of maple brown sugar. Now, I am going to be very honest with you. I was very skeptical about trying this flavor. I had a feeling it was going to be too sweet. I am not fan of the maple brown sugar oatmeal for that reason. I waited two weeks after receiving the boxes to even try it and had a back up breakfast ready to go.

With all that being said, I actually was very pleasantly surprised!!! The cereal wasn’t overly sweet and it had the same great crunch factor that the cranberry almond flavor offered. The crunch factor is the most important thing for me in cereals, I am a textures person and nothing makes me sadder than soggy cereal. Out of the two flavors I tried, I am surprised to say that the maple brown sugar is my favorite! I have a bowl of Fiber One cereal and a side of berries in the morning and it holds me over well into the lunch hour. Something else that is very important to me!

With 10 grams of protein and 20% of your daily fiber in just one bowl, you really cant go wrong! It makes being healthy quite easy! Might I recommend giving Fiber One Protein Cereal a try?!

1. SnOMG

That’s right folks. the deeps south received some more snow Wednesday night. I really enjoyed it because this time I was snowed in, not out! It was the beautiful kind of snow that falls down in big fat flakes and covers the ground immediately! We had so much fun playing in it! The dogs, well mainly Gracie, loved it too!!! You just don’t get beautiful white covered scenery often in the south, so we had to snap about a million pictures!!! Chris took some with his fancy camera, but these are a few of my iPhone pictures.

2. Sweet dogs. After playing in the snow early yesterday morning, I think someone was tired.

3. Sisters. Keeping it classy since the 80’s!!!

Before we took this picture, I was joking about how everyone always thinks I am the “younger” sister, even though I am five years older. Hehe. Tracy said she always thought that was awesome when we were younger, but now she doesn’t like that very much! I really enjoyed getting to spend some quality time with Tracy last weekend! I don’t get to see her nearly enough.

4. Wild South Brewfest – The Wild South Brewfest will be at Iron City tomorrow. Chris mentioned that he wanted to go, and invited some friends from Huntsville down to hang out with us. I am really excited. There will be several local Alabama breweries in attendance, along with some North Carolina ones. All the proceeds go to a good cause too!

5. Happy Valentine’s Day bitches!

Mac might only be 7 pounds…but he certainly can fill up a room with his personality!

I think the thing that always amazes me the most about dogs, is that they have no sense of personal space. Mac and Gracie will walk all over you and your stuff to get where they want to go. Dogs invented parkour not people.

Mac will let you know when he is not pleased.

See that face. How dare I be on my lap top when there is petting to be done.

Mac didn’t authorize me to work on my taxes.

There are no worries about wondering what it is that Mac wants. He will be sure to let you know, subtly of course.

Whether it is a belly rub….

Or to come inside.

Mac can multi-task. He is very resourceful. He can sharpen his teeth and hold Gracie’s toy hostage simultaneously.

Mac also finds the ground for peasants. He prefers his throne.

Yup. It is safe to say that this is Mac’s house. We are just lucky enough to live here. You know, since we pay the mortgage. And open doors since we have thumbs.

Linking up with Jackie and Karly!

Just when I thought I said all I could say….

Don’t even pretend that you weren’t singing Usher!

— Maybe I have had a bag packed in my car every day so far this week full of clothes, boots, a scarf, and gloves in case I get stuck somewhere because of this crazy Alabama weather. With an empty book bag to deposit my purse and work lap top in if I had to walk for a long distance. And when I say maybe I mean I do.

— I don’t really care about Valentine’s Day. Mainly because I think it is a stupid holiday. Shouldn’t you show your significant other love throughout the year and purchase them random little surprises because you thought about them instead of doing it because you are supposed to? Because a holiday reminded you to? Lame sauce.

–I do like hearts and pink glittery things, so not all of Valentine’s Day is lame sauce. You better believe I hit the clearances aisles at Target and purchase the pink towels with hearts all over them and the glittery xoxo.

–I haven’t painted my finger nails in almost two months. They started to chip and peel really, really bad after having them painted constantly for three weeks. It freaked me out and took until now to stop looking a mess. I am going to paint them this weekend and hope the layers of my nails don’t peel again! What do all of you use to protect your nails who have them painted constantly?! Clearly what I am using doesn’t work!

–I have my toe nails painted. The same paint I put on around Thanksgiving. There are 4 toes left with color. Maybe I should fix that? I say what’s the point until the flip flops get broken out. My winter work shoes just tear my toe nails up.

–I have gotten in EVERY T25 work out last week and this week so far! I have also stayed on track with my meal plan this week. Score!

–I hate lower focus day. Holy squats and lunges my legs shake for awhile after my work out.

–I have a ridiculous attachment to things that are sentimental to me. Chris bought me an iPad2 for my birthday the year it came out. It was my first tablet and I have loved it ever since. Chris has an iPad 4 but his work just purchased him an iPad Air. Chris offered me his iPad4. Sweet! However, now I don’t need the iPad 2 and I know I should sell it and put that money towards something else. But I kind of sort of have a really hard time letting go. Chris bought it for me for my  birthday so it is really special to me.

Note to Chris: don’t buy me shit that is upgradable for my birthday in the future…I will have a really hard time letting go when it is time to upgrade!

–I cant believe I am going to say this…but I am kind of ready for warmer weather. What the what?!?! That’s right. Me. Nadine. Lover of cold weather and winter. I am ready for some flip flops and dresses and no more threat of ice paralyzing my beloved little southern city. I am sure I will insert my foot in my mouth when it is April 2 and 85 degrees with 1546% humidity and I am sweating my ass off. You can laugh at me then.

It’s Wednesday. I am wearing pink.

On Wednesdays we wear pink and link up with Kathy for Wednesday Confessions and Liz for the Hump Day Blog Hop!

So, Amanda posted Shit that her boy says a while back and then turned it into a link up. I was super excited because Chris says the funniest most random shit all the time and I knew that his words would be blog post gold!

BUT then I realized that if I posted have the shit that he says on here you people would think I was crazy for being married to him and he would probably end up in jail. SO….I had to keep a note on my iPhone of the stuff that I can actually publish that he says. Not near as much material, but let’s go with it.

– While we were in Gatlinburg after Christmas, every year there is a Christian group up there. Now I have nothing against Christians, I am one. However, you put thousands of Christian kids together in a touristy area and they will get on your damn nerves!!!! We were walking downtown one day and I think we had all had just about enough of these annoying kids. (They are teenage-aged kids.) There was a table with some items you could buy to support their group. One item caught Chris’s attention and it became the joke the rest of the trip. Chris says out loud to all of us, “I am going to buy one of those I heart Christian Boys tshirts and wear it around town. Then let’s see what these kids have to say.” We all just busted out laughing.

– We were watching Revenge and the episode ends. Some serious shit just went down on the show. I am in a little bit of shock and processing all the events that just took place. Chris looks at me all serious like, and I am prepared for him to discuss what we just saw. He looks dead serious at me and says, “I’m going to need a huge piece of brownie warmed up with ice cream and milk.” Then he gets up and walks to the bathroom. Seriously!?!

– Randomly one night, “Do you ever hear your butthole right before you crap on the toilet? It talks to you.”

– We were out shopping and we walked past Men’s Warehouse. I ask Chris if he wants to look in there for some work clothes. He replies, ” They guarantee the way I look….but will they guarantee the way I feel?”

– Chris pre-ordered a game at Game Stop. When you pre-order a game at some of these places, they display the case and take the game out and keep it in a drawer until they can give them to the people who pre-ordered. Chris is all excited to pick up his game and we get inside and he realizes he is getting one that isn’t wrapped. He is upset. He says not only to the cashier but posted to the Game Stop Facebook page:

Unwrapping a video game is like undressing a girl for the first time. When I pre-order something, I expect it wrapped.

-We are watching Pretty Little Liars. Chris screams at the TV: “I am ready to stop playing just the tip and get some answers already!!!!”

– This past weekend we hung out with one of Chris’s friends that he used to work at a law firm with. They were talking about how that firm was sort of “the bad guys” in most situations. Chris starts talking about a case and says, “There was this plant in one of those western states….I dunno…Minnesota…Wisconsin…something like that. Anyways, the plant was putting out asparagus. Wait. Fuck. Not a fruit. Asbestos. The plant was putting out asbestos.”

– Later, with this same friend, we were discussing TV shows that we watch and some of our guilty pleasure ones. Chris and I were talking about how we used to really like Vampire Diaries until The Originals came on and now we like it better. We all agreed the show has gotten to be a little far fetched. Chris says, “Travelers is where they have gone too far. That is stretching it.” Joe says, “Really?!?!Travelers is where they have gone too far?! Not witches? Not vampires? Or werewolves?” Then I chimed in and said “Hybrids isn’t where they went to far?!?!”

Chris wore this horse head in the car driving around downtown Gatlinburg. He kept sticking his head out the window. People were loosing their shit.

Oh the crazy shit that boys say…and do. I love him and he keeps me entertained on the daily!!! I am so glad I have someone who I can be silly and funny with. I feel like we are both always ourselves and it is wonderful! It makes life A LOT more fun and interesting!