Oops!

I know I know, I did it again. But here I am WILLING myself to get home later and add photos....

until tonight!

Neglected

I know, I've neglected this blog. But I promise to get on here this weekend and upload some photos from the birthday party.

We had a blast! Had everyone over at our house. Some of the wives couldn't make it so that was weird but ended up having plenty of room!

Until this weekend-

:)

I <3 CC

It's almost here!

Yay! The big day is almost here! Tomorrow is the kiddos 12th birthday party! We are ALLLLL set. It's going to be at a park that is close to our home near the foothills. We are planning on bbq-ing hot dogs and hamburgers. We'll have chips and fruit to munch on also. Yay! I'm baking the cake tonight. Pretty sure what I'm doing with the decoration on it. He wanted a white cake with white frosting. (Hmmm wonder where he gets THAT?) I'm going to stack 2 sheet cakes and frost them up. The write his name in chocolate and stand the letters up on the top of the cake. I'm thinking about other little doo-dads that I can do also. Like stars or swirls. Gotta keep it from getting girly tho.

Just spoke to the hubby who is working in the snow today. I really hope it stops soon. Will kinda ruin the park adventure. We CAN have it at our place but there's not much room...but it will have to do!


Praying for sunshine-

:)

I <3 CC

me me meeeee!!!

Well I did it. I buckled down, got to it and did it. I entered the Pillsbury Bake-off! Woo hoo for ME! The hardest part was taking my recipe and making it out of their ingredients. In the end I decided to use their premade cookie dough and do my thing to it. It's a simple and quick cookie recipe. I figure the simplicity will either work for me or against me. Either way I'm glad I did it and can move on. They make thier decision in September and 100 finalists will be flown to Florida for the bake-off contest. Wouldn't THAT be fun! I don't really expect to be a finalist but it's fun to dream. All in all it's something I can say I did and maybe even enter again next year!

Until September- fingers crossed!

:)


I <3 CC

5 years

Happy Anniversary to me and my hubby! 5 wonderful years of bliss. Learning from each other and leaning on each other. I'm convinced more and more everyday that THIS is what God intended marriage to be. Give and take. Love and be loved. Honesty. Understanding. Laughter. Humility and Faith.

He's my rock-
I LOVE HIM!

food food food

We got the food for the party! Looks like we are going to have 12 plus a couple "little ones", including us. So that should be fun. Still waiting to hear back from one family but they are the ones I didn't think I'd hear back from. That's okay. :) We have TONS of hot dogs and hamburgers. That was the one thing that we really wanted to do, was provide all the meat for grillin'. I'm sure the guys will be grateful to make double cheeseburgers if they want. That reminds me, we still need to get cheese. We also got some chips to put out. Lots of paper plates and napkins and forks. And the fixings for cake. Have two options for the cake. Either way I think I'm going to do a three layer round cake. Either going to be big and yellow with the happy face on top. OR look like an oreo cookie. I'm leaning towards the cookie. Need to look at one online or something, it's been awhile since I've seen an Oreo. Mmmmm oreos...

Our wedding anniversary is tomorrow- whoop whoop!

:)


I <3 CC

R.S.V.P.

Sent out an email to friends inviting them to Jonethans birthday party next Saturday. Should be fun we are going to bbq hot dogs and hamburgers. On the invite I asked everyone to rsvp by next Monday. I'm really hoping folks do this we are buying the food and it would be great to have an accurate head count. So I said if we didn't hear anything by the 13th that we are going to count them as a no. I can only really think of one family that might not reply. But I also think that they won't come either. I'm really hoping CM and her familiy can show up. It's unfortunate that none of our friends have boys..but I hope that lots of our friends can show up with the girls and at least have a big party for him. And we found a park near our house that we are going to have it at. They don't have/allow reservations for the parks so we have planned to start cooking at 11:30 for the party and have decided to just go at 10am and find the table(s) we want to be at and "save" them that way. Just sit outdoors for awhile, read. That'll be nice. Maybe have the kiddo open our gift from him. That'll give him something to do. Hopefully I can go tonight to the bookstore and get his gift. Yay! I'm excited!

3 days until our wedding anniversay-

:)

I <3 CC

HE GOT IN!!

More info to come.... :)

Funds for the party!

Let's just get this outta the way: that sunburn I got on my neck? It's peeling. Fun. It's just a little strip of burn so I'm anxious for it to heal.

Okay let's move on.

The kiddos party is approaching and I'm happy to say that as of 10:04 mountain time in the State of New Mexico, MY STUDENT LOANS ARE ALL PAID OFF!! Woo hoooooo! Pass out the noisemakers, pass out the champagne and let's all take the afternoon off!!!!!!!!! Yeah if I could emote anymore happiness on here I would right now!
But back to the party, I have some overpayment coming back to me from the loan people and am going to throw the party with that money. It's not much but at least we can buy the hot dogs and hamburgers/buns for the event. Along with paper plates. Maybe even some chips! Now we'll pray for good weather on April 18th as we would like to have it outdoors. Actually in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains where there are covered tables and bbq grills that we can use. I almost want to find a park that we can play at tho. Because at the foothills you aren't even allowed to throw a frisbee. I hope with the good weather we can throw the frisbee and find something else active to do. I think there is another park nearby that we can go to if needed. But my nephew just had a birthday party at a park so I'm not sure I want to follow so close. But even as I type this I'm leaning more towards the park. I guess it depends on the weather. If it's nice we can eat, open presents, and then hike around the foothills. That's my #1 party idea. Yeah, gonna go with that one. I'm just so excited about my loan being finished. Took me 10 years but I did it!

WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)