mamacita:-)

To my simply Gorgeous Mamacita: I am so blessed to be your first and to make you a momma! You have always been there for me and I love you so much! You have been an excellent role model for me in my life and support through rough times! You taught me the right way to shop and to make sure a girl always has shoes and bags! 

In this wonderful month of Love, my ever so loving momma was born!! :-) I love you mom! 

Have a safe trip home, and enjoy your trip! :-)

early out.... and SNOW DAY!!!

February has arrived and I have not posted pictures for a while so this post may seem a bit random, but I'll try to bring it together as much as possible. 


Let's go in rewind for a second to the last part of January. It was jammed packed with lots of fun....


Hubster made amazing ribs!!! Check out the recipe...

Benge’s Famous Brown Sugar & Honey Baby Back Ribs

Ingredients:

·      ketchup

·      brown sugar

·      water

·      vinegar

·      onion

·      worstshire

·      salt

·      pepper

·      honey

Mix:

·      1 cup of ketchup

·      1 cup of brown sugar

·      ½ cup of water

·      1/4 cup of vinegar

·      ½ onion

·      tablespoon of worsteshire

·      1 tsp. salt

·      1 tsp. pepper

·      ½ tBS. of honey

Mix all ingredients into a mid-sized bowl and stir throughoughly. Boil ribs for 1 hour and a half on stove. Put ribs into metal baking pan. Pour over special mix and bake for 1 hour and a half. ENJOY!!! J

                    

Most of the time you can find me humming/whistling/or singing a tune and while I clean the house it's no different. I have to have music on and be singing a lot. I just find it soothing. Many times Hubby and I dance in the kitchen, and Kirbster looks at us like what are you doing. So I picked up Kirbster and started dancing. I think he's getting the hang of it! :-)

I finally get all 43 of my Christmas/New Year's cards in the mail and low and behold, they get returned because they are "non-machinable" Sorry for all the stamps!!!

You know how they say, "When it rains, it pours" Well it was like that this weekend and we couldn't have been happier. There are weekends when you have hardly anything going on and then there are weekends where it seems that everything falls at one time. Why is that? I remember my dad would always say, "You know not a single car drives by our house for 15 minutes and the minute I go to back out of the drive way 15 cars drive by at the same time" every Sunday before leaving for church. 

So first of all I have to announce that we went to RIVERDANCE!!!! It was amazing! They dont' let you take pictures, but the awesomeness is engraved into our brains. Nolan and I kept looking at each other like Wow, that is amazing. We surprised on of my good friends this past weekend for her birthday and it was so fun! 

The decorating...and this is after having a Kirby vacuum salesmen try to sell us $1,000 dollar vacuums for 2 hours.

Lunch:

Before.....waiting for the birthday girl to arrive.

After...

And surprise off to RIVERDANCE at the Civic Center!!!

It was a packed house and the pictures don't even do it justice!

We were off again.... to sundown...we skied from 1-5 on Sunday and were exhausted and sore, but so worth it!

The crew....

Molly and I right after she almost knocked me down. :-)

It was beautiful!

Of course we had to take breaks to de-freeze ourselves...

When I bent over to get a drink Molly found out I had fallen one to many times...

But then we went back out to ski a couple more runs...

I can't believe it is almost the weekend of two very important people's birthday's in my life! My Husband and my Mom! Will update more tomorrow, and I'm so excited to get this weekend started for some quality time together!! :-) 

I love these people! :-)

rock-it, mid-week style :-)

I don't know much about bocce ball, or smoking a ham, but time together with family to get is always the best! There was a lot of togetherness this weekend! Please bare with me as I have run out of space on blogger for pictures so I am putting up pictures from Photobucket. 

Saturday consisted of ham, potatoes, green beans, an amazing cheesecake, cabela's hunting, frisbee golf, bocce ball, and scrabble.

My MIL won with 270 points!! WAY TO GO LAURA!!!

I lost with 197 points... :-(

The Iowa Energy game was a good time! 

You can't resist this sweet face, loving the basketball game.

He was so excited to met the mascot, SARGE. (aka. a superhero) Aunt Molly took him to meet Sarge and he gave him a high five and Landon said, "He was really nice he didn't even hit me!" :)

Even though we got a little bit more snow yesterday, this is a little update of how much snow we have on the ground, for a little weather update for you. We hopefully won't have any snow days so we can still be done June 3rd. 

Where my husband proposed to me in August 2009! :-) He proposed right inside of the covered bridge and without the snow. :-) Very romantic:-)

Buddy got a new toy from grandma and this is how he always sleeps with new toys on the first night. It cracks me up! :-)

This weekend for the first time in a long time I went to see some of my students in a show choir invitational and it brought back memories of HS (The Vocal Chords) and traveling almost every weekend in charter buses and performing. I must say I noticed a lot of the moves and stances that look familiar. 

Aren't' the trophies beautiful!

Hope you had a great weekend and happy mid-week!! :-)

cords.....

You know it's a good day when...... a cord is found and all is right I have not blogged simply because I have been looking for 2 weeks for the USB cord to upload the pictures to my computer. Please tell me I'm not the only one this happens too..... because when it comes to finding things it drives me CRAZY!!! until it is found. I feel like my house is a jungle ( I am the monkey) and things get torn apart and I look in the same places every night. I even ask my husband, "Where did I put that cord?" He responds, "What cord?" (seriously why can't he read my mind :-)) I respond, "the black one that has a USB and has a white sticky tag that says ROHS to put my pictures on my computer, and it would be really helpful if you can help me look for it. hint... hint... :-)
So we search... under the bed, in the TV drawer, behind the tv, under the couch, chair, coffee table the junk drawer, the closets for several days when we would get home we would look everywhere....

 

Kirby gave us the, "What are you doing mom and dad?" look

Anyway, finally it hit me... we took it with us NYE in a black Hawkeye bag. Therefore, I now need to find the Hawkeye bag that this cord is in. 10 minutes later I found the Hawkeye bag in the closet (right next to the two bags I had went through the day before) and I saw it... pulled it out and opened it and this is what I found....

Let me tell you it was a happy day last night when this was found! I had even come to the point where I was just going to buy another cord, but come to find out no one sells Polaroids anymore and no one had the cord that fit my camera, and it was tearing me up to pay 20+ dollars for a cord that I knew I had to have somewhere in the house. 

It was found and it was a happy day of REJOICING!!! :-) 

Who knew that looking for a cord could be so frustrating and time consuming!! GRRR... 

So enjoy!! :-)  

How could you not love this? Hubby is dancing with the new Xbox Kinect Dance Central game. It was hilarious!!! :-) 

Disco time baby!!! ;-)

Date night at the Cheesecake Factory (last weekend)!! and I stepped out of my box and tried something new, other than fruit loops (which my family teases me about since that is what I ate most of the time during our honeymoon and it was all inclusive so we had this large buffet every morning, noon, and night of food from all over the world, and I choose fruit loops because I do NOT like trying new things)  it was carmel chicken and I recommend it!! It was so good, and they give you plenty for leftovers the next day, with Kahlua cheesecake!!!! 

Saturday night was my MIL 50th Birthday!!! :-) We had a great time together!! Lots of laughs!! :-)

Nolan loves his new toy and loves to snow blow everything! 

Gotta love a man in carharts :-)

Check out my new blanket I am crocheting! I'm so excited about the yarn colors, but know it won't be done for a while!! I'm getting better and better, but still have trouble keeping it tight, so it will not be perfect, but it will be my own imperfections and I'm ok with that!! :-) Kirby already loves it when he lays on me and I drape it over him. He is such a snuggle bug and loves blankets that keep him warm!! :-)

This one shows the colors in the yarn a little better, but it's a great activity for me to do while I'm watching my shows!! :-) Crocheting is so amazing! Who ever thought of it is amazing to be able to just have yarn and a hook and you can make some great things!!! :-) 

Hope everyone's 2011 is off to a great start!!