Spring Break Essentials for Her

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It's Spring Break season, so I thought it would be fun to share a few Spring Break
Essentials for Her. These are things that I love or would really love to have!
Happy Spring Break!

Note - This is not a sponsored post - just things I like :)

Hello Spring Break in Disney World

If you follow me on Instagram (meandmypinkmixer), you've probably seen most of these photo's, but for this Hello Monday post I decided to share my Instagram photos of our spring break trip to Florida and Disney World.

Hello Florida Welcome Center.
My husband insists that we always stop for the free orange juice sample :)

Hello home for the week.

Hello to watching the Nationals and Yankees spring training game.
The Nats won - yay!

Hello to Madison catching a ball from one of the Nats players :)

Hello to mother/daughter Mickey ears.

Hello to a day at the beach and my first Starbucks "you are here collection" mug.
I can't wait to add more cities and states to my collection when I travel!






















Hello to dinner at T-Rex in Downtown Disney.

Hello to my favorite Disney sweet treats.

Hello to a brief visit to Hilton Head Island on our way home.
One of our favorite vacation spots!

Hello to going back to work, detoxing from my Disney sugar coma and clean eating this week!
It was a fabulous vacation, but back to reality :)

What have you been saying hello to my friends?

Linking up to Hello Monday with Lisa Leonard.

Vacation and Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

Sorry I haven't posted lately, but I took a little blogging break while on vacation. 
We just returned from Disney World and our favorite vacation spot, Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort.
We love, love, love Hilton Head Island!

These refillable mugs are one of my favorite things about vacationing at Walt Disney Resorts - all the
Diet Coke I can drink :)

My daughter's boyfriend, Ryan, went with us.  He had never been to Florida, so it was fun showing him around.  We stayed at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort for five days and then spent the last three at Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort.  The weather was beautiful - nice and hot!

Thought I would share a couple of pics from our vacation and then share another yummy zucchini
recipe.  Enjoy :)

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

1 cup whole wheat flour (I used Soft White Wheat)

1 cup All-purpose Flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp. ginger

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup grated zucchini

1/2 cup applesauce or canola oil (I use applesauce)

1/3 cup mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine brown sugar, zucchini, applesauce and vanilla is a medium size bowl and set aside.  In a large mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir with a wooden spoon until combined.  Fold in chocolate chips.  I use a medium size ice cream scoop to drop the dough onto a silpat or parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake for 12 minutes.  Makes 14 large cookies.

Family Vacation at Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort

We spent 4th of July week at our favorite place ~ Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort in South Carolina.  We absolutely love Hilton Head Island, and of course anything Disney related is always fun.  My in-laws flew in from Texas, so we really enjoyed spending the week and catching up with them.  Most of the time we go out for dinner since vacation is all about relaxing and new experiences, but I decided I was going to make my Low Country Boil (click here for the recipe) for the 4th so we could avoid the crowds. We biked around and found this wonderful little seafood stand called Barnacle Bill's for our shrimp.  Barnacle Bill was so nice and he even let me take his picture. Wish we could have had those lobster tails for dinner, but the shrimp was definitely more afforable!

Barnacle Bill also had some nice tomatoes, so we grabbed a few of them for our salad.  They were so sweet and tasty! So our 4th of July dinner consisted of a Low Country Boil, Tossed Salad, rolls and my Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie for dessert.  See this post for the recipe - it's the bomb!  My daughter and father-in-law fought over the last piece - next year I will definitely have to make two.

For those of you that know about my Diet Coke addiction, this is my absolute favorite thing about vacationing at Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort.  I know it's sad, but it's true!!!  As soon as we get to the resort I buy us these refillable Disney mugs.  They cost about $15 each with tax, but I can fill it up from morning to night with as much Diet Coke as I can drink for our entire stay!  I am in Diet Coke heaven!! I love you Mickey!

One of our favorite places to dine outside in Hilton Head is Scott's Fish Market in Shelter Cove.  The view is so pretty and the food is wonderful.  My mother-in-law ordered this Mojito for me.  She actually said I had to drink one with her!  Is she the best mother-in-law or what!  Scott makes a mean mojito!

I ordered this Grilled Shrimp Salad for dinner and ate every last bite!

Another one of our favorite spots is this little dive called the Sea Shack.  This restaurant is really small inside, but definely big on taste!  Each day they offer different sides to go with your seafood choice and let me tell ya....you want to go on the day they have Sweet Potato Cornbread!  This stuff is amazing!!!  I was lucky enough to get the recipe and will be trying it at home soon, so stay tuned.

Madison's favorite breakfast was her Mickey Mouse waffle.  Yes, even teenagers love Mickey!

Well I hope you enjoyed this little glimpse of our family vacation and if you ever get the chance to stay at Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort, you should definitely go. 

Thank you Chere and Ron for a wonderful vacation!