Great weekend!!! General Ramblings and randomness

Hi my crafty friends!!!
Wow!!  What a great weekend!  We had a lot of fun!!!  First, Friday, we went for sushi and it was sooooo yummo!  OMG!  I'm talking some of the best I've ever had.  To make it even better, it was really close to the house AND it was reasonable!!!  YAY!!!!  :)  Woot, woot!  After sushi, Mike noticed a little winery next foor so we checked it out.  Nice.  Not awesome, but we had a nice tasting and bought a couple cheaper bottles.  Then we went home and watched Easy A.  That was really good!  I'm not sure if I'll let my 13 year old watch it, but it was a NO KIDS weekend and we could watch whatever we wanted!  :)

Saturday Mike slept in and I crafted starting at 6am!  :)   YAY!  I will show you some creations soon.....  Then we went to a place called Dream Dinners.  Ever heard of it?  Well, it's pretty cool.  You prepare meals using their precut, preportioned stuff and their recipies.  For example we made a meatloaf and they had the bread and spices all laid out.  We just had to add whatever we needed for each recipe - 2 C bread crumbs, mixed with 1/8 t salt.....and we put it all into ziplock baggies and then you have the meal all ready to go.  Just mix and bake.  Easy peasy.  Pretty nifty.  I saw an ad on TV one morning and thought I'd give it a whirl.  We had the meatloaf last night and it was pretty good.  The kids said that it wasn't as good as mine (I'll give them some extra allowance next week for that one!) but we all enjoyed it.  Not bad and really easy.  No mess in my kitchen either.  I dont think it is something I'll do all of the time but I will compare pricing and see just how much more I think I'm paying to do it that way.  If it's not too bad, it may be worth the convenience every now and again. 

My son also had a basketball game Saturday....they lost for the first time.  Boo!  Then Mike and I ate at Bob Evans (chicken and noodles...yummm!)  then went back home to watch some Football and take a nap!  :)  I crafted some more...YAY!  AND THE PACKERS WON!!!  YAY!!! 

Saturday evening Mike made his fabulous steaks and we fried some potatoes.  I have a mandolin (SP?) that I hardly ever use because I'm a bit scared of it.  But Mike wanted to use it and it really does do a great job!  HOWEVER....OMG.....

Mike - 0; Mandolin - 1!!!!
YUCK!!!!  He cut his finger.  Blech! 

SO...............he took it easy the rest of the evening and Sunday.  Good thing there was football!  :)  We also watched New Moon on Saturday.


Sunday we stayed in our jamjams all day long!  Niiice!  I crafted my little heart out in the morning.  Then Mike and I made homemade donuts!!!  :)  That was something on my goal list for 2011.  I'm gonna keep it on though, because I'm not calling it quite a success yet.  This was just a trial run.  They were good, but not as good as I know they can be!  I also had some bananas that needed attention so we made Choc Chip Banana Bread.  That was YUUUMO!  :) 

I also made a crock pot full of green beans.  Love them!  Threw in some ham from last week and they were delicious.  I let them cook all day and then we had some with our meatloaf.  We have plenty to last all week.  YAY!!!  :)

Kids came home last night around 6pm and they were off today.  I had to work, but did get to leave a bit early.  Gonna watch another movie with them and may play a couple games. 

Hope you all had a great weekend!!! :) 
TTFN,
Tammy

Wicked awesome

Hi my friends! 
What a great vacation we are having so far!  Let's see....to begin the weekend - I got an iPad!!!  What a great gift is that?!?!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! :)  It was a great way to start the weekend! That was Friday.  Saturday, I spent a lot of time making cookies and hanging with my BF.  He fixed the fabuloso steak dinner I had blogged about.  YUMMO!!!  Seriously...I don't think it's legal for food to taste so good! Sunday was good too - more baking, good times with my fam.  It was great!  Then Monday was my first official day of vacation....I took the kiddos shopping, we got all finished up and had a good time together.  I think they are aware that Santa is watching...but I don't care what the reason.  We really did enjoy eachother! 
Then....last night.  WICKED!  Wow!!!  What a great musical!  It is a new fave!  We had a wicked awesome time!!  I'd gotten the tix for my daughter's 13th bday....she has aspirations to perform on Broadway.  I think she will make it too!  She's pretty amazing!  If you get the chance...you should see it!  You won't be disappointed!
Today has been wonderful too!!  We had a jammie and movie day!  We have done next to nothing all day long!  :)  Nice and easy!  We have watched 3 movies and laughed and chatted, we did wrap a few presents, but that's about it.  Days like today are so few and far between I am so happy to get to spend them with my babies!!! :) 
I am going to share a few pictures with you....
Hope you are having a great week as well!!! :)
Merry Christmas!!
Tammy

My daughter ready for Wicked:

The set for Wicked:

My brother with his blankie!  :)

 My pretty little puppy all ready for Santa...

And, finally, I asked my son to get me a pop and this is what he brought to me.  I really heart that boy!!!

(I love you, mommy....Awwww!)

Randomness

Hi pals....
I really do think of you all as my friends.  In saying that, I have some true to life friends that I actually see on a regular basis.  A few of them are even followers!  I felt the need to point that out because I may be embarrassed for sharing today, but here goes.
I am wearing the most God-awful, uncomfie pair of granny panties that I think I've ever worn.  Why am I wearing them then, you ask.  Because I need to do laundry, that's why.  Not just a load or two.  Oh no, that would be a cinch!  I'm talking about possibly 10 loads!  Ugh!  I really hate laundry.  Actually that's a lie, I don't mind doing it - I HATE folding it and putting it away.  I am tempted to take off these panties and just go commando.  That is pitiful.  I should be embarrassed, I s'pose, but who hasn't been here, really.  With so much other more fun important things to do, I really just don't want to do laundry.  So there.  I want to shop, read cards, wrap presents, make cookies, eat cookies, eat treats, eat everything.  I don't want to do laundry.  I just had an idea!!!  MAYBE...I'll just shop for some new panties!  There!  Problem solved!  :)  I love it when things come together!  :)  Okay, not practical.  Esp not when I have better things to spend money on right now.  Including a reciprocating saw that my BF just told me he would like to have.  What the heck is a reciprocating saw!?!  Honestly, I love tools although I don't play with them much, so I'm figuring that this will be a win/win type present cause it looked pretty neat when I looked it up on the Sears website.  I think there are some projects I could use it for AND it could get some things done on the Honey Do List as well! 
YAY, I'm off of work next week.  I'm looking forward to playing with the kids, eating too much, baking too much, visiting neighbors, watching movies, sipping cocoa with Bailey's and alcohol infused whipped cream!  OMG...have you tried that stuff???  If not, run out and get some.  It's a little pricey - about $10 a bottle and you have to shake the tar out of it before it will come out smoothly, but it is sooooo worth it!!!  Delish and delish!  :)  Totally yummy!
This weekend it's just me and Mike in the house.  Oh how I am looking forward to that too!  Not even any games to go to.  All we have to do is breath all day.  WOW!!  AND he said that he's going to get steaks for us for tomorrow night.  OMG!  You don't even understand...this man is a grill MASTER!!  He makes the best steaks I've ever laid my lips on!  Seriously!  I no longer can order a steak at a restaurant unless it's very high end (which I hardly ever go to).  YUM!!!  Reason 5,234,985,439,299,001 that I love him so!  He really is a great man, I am a lucky girl.  
Okay, I guess  I'll end on that mushy note and I will wait impatiently patiently for this last workday to go by so I can return home from work and so that we can start our 'together' weekend and let our batteries recharge for a busy, fun, family-filled , alcohol infused week! 
Hopefully I will touch base sometime next week, but if not, have a Very Merry Christmas!!!!!
TTFN,
Tammy

PS - I'm thinking I will lose these panties any minute!  YUCK!