Chick-Fil-A's Frosted Lemonade: A copycat recipe

Chick-Fil-A has this new frosted lemonade.

If you haven't got it yet you really should!

It's so good.

But, if your anything like me, once you try it you'll get

hooked.. So what could be better then making

it at home?? 

Shortly after tying it I decided to see if I could replicate it. 

We tried a few things and I think we came pretty close!

Copycat Frosted Lemonade

Ingredients 

1 cup or 10 lemonade ice cubes 

3/4 - 1 cup milk

1 Scoop vanilla ice cream 

1 tsp Country time lemonade powder. 

Throw it all in the blender and there you have it! 

So here are some extra thoughts.. We tried normal ice cubes but they didn't blend very good.  Maybe it's just our blender, but when we used frozen lemonade instead of just normal ice cubes it turned out way better.  

When you use the lemonade ice cubes it is pretty good without the lemonade powder, but I wanted it a little sweeter.. 

If you just made the lemonade stronger before you 

froze it that would probably work good too. 

If you don't want to take the time to freeze lemonade then just use regular ice cubes and a full scoop of lemonade powder. 

This is perfect for a hot day!

It's getting pretty warm around here and 

we are trying not to turn on the a/c yet haha

so this is just what we needed today :) 

The Kitchen Renovation

If you missed it, the before and after pictures of the kitchen are here

This post is all about the process of transforming an old gross kitchen..

This is what we had to work with.

Matt HATED those apples, they were the first thing he wanted gone haha

The kitchen was gross and kind of falling down, but for the most part the cabinets were

useable.  Matt did a little big of work on the cabinets themselves, but not too much. 

The goal is to tear this kitchen out eventually and put in a new one.

But heaven knows it will be a while before that happens. 

So our goal was to get it as nice as we could while spending as little money as possible. 

So we decided to pain the cabinets.  

I had been wanting a white kitchen for a while so I was excited. 

We took down all the doors and started to clean them. 

And quickly realized how gross they were

Our cleaning process was to take a screw driver and scrape the gunk out of the edges of the doors and then 

wash them down with cleaning product.

It was lots of fun :)

Once we got all the doors off I painted the faces or frames or whatever you would call that. 

The countertops were tricky.  

We definitely needed something cause

we weren't feeling the yellow that was there ;)

We eventually decided on counter top paint.  

Who even knew that was a thing?? 

You paint it on your countertops and then let it dry for a 

few days and voila! 

It feels just like real counter tops and it was a super cheap way to go. 

I am definitely excited for real countertops someday, 

but this is a good temporary solution. 

I was so excited when all the yellow was gone! 

We took all the cabinet doors down to the basement to pain them. 

Luckily we had a friend that let us borrow his paint gun.

I was prepared to roll the paint onto all of those doors, but the gun made it soo much easier. 

We used an acrylic enamel paint that was self leveling. 

Man that stuff was not fun to work with. 

unlike normal paint it was impossible to get off your hands and out of brushes.

But it is definitely what you want for cupboards! 

It cleans really well and doesn't scratch off easy or anything like that.  

We actually moved in before we got the door painted.. 

We just couldn't wait any longer! 

But we got them painted and hung not long after we moved in. 

The back splash was a different story thought.. 

It took several months before we put it in. 

So it looked like this for a while

We decided to do bead board for the backsplash.  

Once again it was a less expensive, but nice looking way to go. 

And man did it make a difference! 

We were a little worried that having white doors and a white backsplash

would be a little much, but I love it!!

I love how bright and light my kitchen is. 

We also LOVE our floors.

We chose to do a vinyl plank because it is water proof. 

And there will always be water spills in the kitchen.

I am really excited about the lights in the kitchen and dining room.

We got the chandelier at DI for 25 dollars. 

Then several weeks later we went back and found 

those round lights! 

They match the chandelier perfectly!! 

And they were 5 dollars each.

We love DI

As you can see we are still rockin the yellow sink..

We have a different sink that my parents gave us, 

but putting it in just hasn't happened yet.

I'm not gonna lie I've gotten kind of attached to the yellow haha

We found these bar stools at DI as well. 

I believe they were 6 dollars a piece (maybe 5 I can't remember) 

We recovered them and tightened a few screws and they are as good as new! 

The handles are the ones that were already on the cabinets. 

Turns out handles aren't cheap!

All these needed was some cleaning 

I actually like them pretty good so I was glad that worked out 

I am loving my kitchen!

There are still some things we want to do but I couldn't

wait anymore to show off our progress. 

Renovating the kitchen isn't super easy, but it's definitely doable! 

And it doesn't have to cost a fortune either! 

Not counting the floor and decorations our kitchen reno was probably around

120 dollars.  I should have kept better track so I could tell you a for sure number, but I remember an

estimate of what each thing cost. 

I'm loving our progress! 

Life is good :) 

Before and After: The Kitchen!

Guys, I am honestly in shock right now! 
I haven't looked at the before pictures of our house for months 
and I forgot how bad it was!! 

I'll get more into that, but for now here you have it! 

And now for your viewing pleasure, here they are side by side. 

I can't believe how far we have come!! 

Sometimes I get a little depressed thinking that we have lived 

here for so long now and there is still so much to do.

But seeing these before pictures makes me realize that we are doing awesome! 

The process may be slower then I would have hoped, but we are definitely making progress.

looking back, it blows my mind that we took a look at this nasty kitchen and said,

yea we can make this work! 

HA! 

We were so brave!

I think a lot of people didn't think we could handle it.

And now looking back I can see why! 

I think our naiveness actually helped us out because now that I know what it's

like.. I'm not sure I'd do it again haha 

The kitchen was seriously so gross.  

I literally had to scrape the gunk off the cupboards with a screwdriver.

I spent forever in there getting it cleaned up,

and honestly loving it.

Maybe I'm weird, but just knowing that this 

house was ours to make awesome made me excited to 

spend hours cleaning some of the nastiest stuff I'd seen. 

Oh and there was like three layers of linoleum that we had to get out of there. 

There is no way we could have done this without the help of family and friends. 

Everyone has been so awesome! 

From babysitting to jumping right in and getting their hands dirty..

I am so so grateful for awesome people :) 

I still can't believe that we took on this project. 

I'm proud of us haha 

For the sake of this post not getting super long

I did a part 2 here

with all the lovely details :) 

A quick trip to see family :)

So early in the week my mom told me they were going to meet my sister in Twin Falls and that I should come.. Then I found Luke and his family would be there too!

My parents and two of my siblings all in one place just a few hours away from me??

I had to go.

Unfortunately it was in the middle of the week so Matt couldn't go.

So Me and Micah set off on our first road trip without daddy.

I was pretty nervous going alone and I hate leaving Matt (I'm pretty attached to that guy :)

but I decided to be brave and go for it. 

On kind of a side note, this was Micah a few hours before we left..

hahahahah he feel asleep standing up!! 

So funny.

I was expecting to stop a lot on the way because usually after an hour or so 

in the car Micah needs a break, but he did so good! 

On the way down we didn't stop once and he slept most of the way.

I was so relieved! 

Oh hey Idaho :)

The highway to get there was through lonely open spaces 

my favorite kind of driving :)

As soon as we got there we went straight to swimming. 

cause I mean, what else is there? 

Micah is pretty timid when it comes to water.. Which is actually pretty nice cause he doesn't try to jump in, but he will barely get in at all haha

I didn't think he was even having that much fun, but he cried when we left so I think he enjoyed it haha

Then we went out to eat and he just wanted to sit in my lap the whole time which is really weird for Micah. Usually he is all over the place. 

He got a little sick that night.  I think it was from the pool cause he was fine the next morning. 

It was sad though because he didn't really want to play with his cousins and he only wanted me to hold him.. Oh well, hopefully next time he will be more social. 

The next morning he drug his bear all over the motel..

He really loves that bear 

We did some more swimming that morning. 

After swimming Micah crashed, poor kid was so out of it this trip! 

After a little nap we had a picnic on the lawn and Micah started acting more himself. 

Then we went and checked out the canyon!

It was really bright 

It was a fun trip and I'm really glad I went! 

I just love my family :)