Deion's Birthday Party

I think my headache my finally be starting to go away, I've had it for the last 32+ hours, ugh! I hope it stays away for awhile! So, I made a TuTu Dress, I'm almost finished with it, just need to wait for my clips to come in the mail tomorrow - super excited for it, it's look really cute!

So right before we went to Florida, Connor went to his 2nd Birthday Party of the year - Deion's. They celebrated down at the Bowling Ally, Scott took him to this one so I do not know a lot of the details to the party. I do know that a few of the other boys in his class were there and Connor gave him this really cool Transformers mini-lego set. I hope Deion likes it and he had a great 5th Birthday!

Hanna's Birthday

So I got all of my homework done that's due, woho! With a few hours to spare too! I can't wait until these classes are done! This summer I will be taking Accounting 1 every Monday & Thursday night, so that could end up being worse........ugh! I guess I'll just have to wait and see, but thankfully only 13 months left until graduation!

So I'm way behind in my posts (like usual it seems these days, maybe I should start trying to do two a day to catch up??). 3 weeks ago we celebrated Hanna's Birthday at Don & Helen's house. We ended up being a little late because of the get together at Aunt Missy's house but I always like to show up to celebrate her birthday, even if it is late. We got her this really cute necklace holder - and I hope she likes it, because I liked it :). I hope her birthday was fabulous - and next year she'll be a teenager! Where on earth does the time go?

Zucchini Brownies

So this weekend is going to be full of homework, not fun! I have a huge project that is due tomorrow night and I just started it yesterday - however I do have 2 of the 7 sections done already, so hopefully if I just spend a couple hours today and tomorrow that should be enough. Only a couple of more weeks left of the semester then I can take a couple of week break before it starts all over again!

So almost three weeks ago now Aunt Missy had a bunch of the family over and I turned to my favorite cookbook - Taste of Home to use a recipe to use up some of the zucchini I still had left in my freezer. On page 228 you will find a recipe for Zucchini Brownies. butter, sugar, eggs, yogurt, vanilla, flour, baking cocoa, baking soda, salt, and shredded zucchini made up the brownies and there was frosting on top which consisted of chocolate chips and peanut butter. I never actually got to try the brownies but considering that most of them were gone in a short amount of time I'm assuming they were pretty tasty. I will definitely consider making these again in the future.

Madison's Birthday

Just finished up with some homework that's due tonight - way to wait until the last minute! Now I'm taking a quick break to check up on a couple of things and make a post before I take over the kids from Scott so he can do his homework. I can't wait to graduate in 13 months! I'm for sure going to take a year or two off before I start up again!

So my baby brother's little girl turned one a few weeks ago! I can't believe how quickly she's growing up! They had a nice little party with the family up at his grandparents house and it was great seeing people again that I haven't seen in awhile. It's so funny seeing Madison & Savannah interact they really are super cute together. I'm pretty sure Savannah still has Madison in height, but Madison is definitely bigger in weight and feet (Savannah still wears a 3, and I think they said Madison was in a 5 already). It just goes to show how differently kids grow. It should be interesting to see the difference when they're older. Happy Birthday Miss. Madison!

Hair Cut

Crabby children tonight! Ugh! Not fun! Not sure why they are so crabby, Scott said his parents didn't mention them being crabby all day today - maybe they just waited until home to be super crabby! And it being Monday after vacation just makes it that much more awesome - NOT!

So two-ish weeks ago I got my hair cut and highlighted at MCV Salon. This is the second time that I've been there (first time I just got a hair cut) and it will probably be my last time. I really like the hair cut that I received - best one I've had in a LONG time BUT the highlights are not what I wanted. I wanted to go blonde - which with my dark hair I guess wasn't possible without a very long bleach - so she just started doing things to my hair, which turned out to be highlights. She didn't ask me, or give me options she just started doing it. Don't get me wrong, I love how it looks but it is not what I had in mind and wanted and if I was given the option I would have just gone a light brown instead of the dark brown my hair is with highlights. I really don't understand why she didn't give me options when she thought she couldn't do what I wanted, she just started working away. This however is not the reason I will not be going back - it's because of the price of the services - too steep for me and the only reason I went there in the first place was because I had a gift certificate.

Tangled

Easter is tomorrow, are you ready? Will the Easter Bunny be coming to your house? I know he will be coming to mine! I'm currently baking 3 pumpkin pies for tomorrow - I needed to use the pumpkin puree that was in my freezer before it got bad! I also made some peanut butter cookies and as long as I don't end up eating them all I'll be sharing those tomorrow too.

So last night we sat down and all watched Disney's Tangled. We got this for Savannah for Christmas (I believe, but maybe it was her birthday) and I've been wanting to watch it for awhile. It was just as good as I thought it would be. Super cute and fun for the entire family to watch. Even though it's more of a "girl" movie Connor really enjoyed it - this was my first time seeing the movie but I know he's seen it a time or two before. Definitely will be watching this one again! If you haven't seen it yet, I totally recommend it!

Betty's Birthday

Wow, sorry I've been slacking - the internet at the hotel was horrible so I was lucky if I could get my facebook status updated! However, I now am in ownership of a laptop once again so I'm hoping I can catch up on my posts and not fall behind again!

So, two weeks ago was Betty's Birthday and we celebrated with dinner at Jim & Pat's house. From us she received a whole bunch of craft supplies (what she asked for) and also a large mug painted by Connor! I'm sure she loved everything and all the other stuff she received as well. I hope her birthday was wonderful and she had a great time!

The Hunger Games Trilogy

Woho, Vacation Baby! I am officially off of work until April 9th! Other than maternity leave I haven't had a solid week off of work since my honeymoon! Super excited! But before we start the fun part of the vacation there is lots of stuff to do. We have to finish packing, Scott & I both have homework we need to do, Connor has Karate and a birthday party tomorrow and we also have Easter pictures, busy busy.

So we finally started up book club again! I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from Jeni and we all decided to start up again and meet tonight. They really wanted to read The Hunger Games and although I had heard of it and knew a movie was coming out I really didn't know what the hype was all about. They had mentioned possibly talking about all three books but I realistically didn't think I could read all 3 in that short of amount of time. WOW was I wrong! I started the first book last week Tuesday afternoon and finished the 3rd book this past Sunday night. Sarah was nice enough to lend me her kindle so I didn't have to buy the books (the waiting list at the library is ridiculously long!). OMG I loved them! I have to say the first is by far the best but I still enjoyed the 2nd and 3rd a lot. The detail in the first book was just so amazing that you really could picture a movie being created out of it. I really can't wait to see the movie now. Jessica and I are waiting until it gets to the $5 Tuesday/Wednesday night to go see it! Did anyone else read all 3 of the books? If so, did you read it in a ridiculously short amount of time like I did? I recommend everyone to read this book I can see how a vast range of people would love it. They did make it a book on CD so I have Scott's name on the list so he can "Read" it too, but it may take a few months for him to get it the list is pretty long! Hopefully he'll get it by the time it goes into Redbox so we can rent it! (Cause I know I'm going to want to watch it more than once)

Guacamole Chicken Wraps

Finally finished putting together the TuTu I've had waiting for awhile. 1/3 Pink, 1/3 Purple, 1/3 Yellow = Spring TuTu. It's super cute. I might have Savannah wear it for our Easter pictures that we're getting done this Saturday at JcPenney's, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

Recently I tried another recipe out of my Taste of Home cookbook - Guacamole Chicken Wraps - pg. 118. Ingredients: guacamole, spinach tortillas, salsa, Mexican cheese, southwestern chicken strips & lettuce leaves. I couldn't find regular spinach tortillas at the grocery store but I did find some garlic spinach, so that is what we used and for the Salsa we used THIS. These were SO GOOD. OMG. I want to make them again already! Next time though I wont try and eat 2 of them because I was super full!

Kitchen Sink

After a fun filled Saturday we have another busy day today. Family get together, a birthday party, bowling and I'm also going to try and finish the 3rd book of the Hunger Games series today. I started them Tuesday afternoon and am about 60% done with the 3rd one, so I'm pretty sure that's achievable.

So 3 years ago (approximately I think) we purchased a new kitchen sink & faucet from Menard's. Unfortunately it has just been sitting in the basement this entire time collecting dust. Well finally we got it installed!! It ended up costing us more money though because we realized our garbage disposal was leaking but thankfully they were on sale at Menard's for only about $45, so not to bad at all! I gotta save, I love how it looks. So much better!!! What do you think? Better?