Several years ago...or a lifetime ago...I worked in a small gift store that also printed stationary, wedding invites, note cards, etc.
I fell in love with it, and have never gotten over my love of paper and wrapping paper. I have boxes of it, not that I ever intend to use it on anything, I'm sure I just thought it was really pretty at the time ;).
Since then, I have constantly messed with it in some way, birthday invites, thank you notes, etc. So when a very, close friend, Kelly Lokey, had asked me, or mayyybe I offered and begged, to help out with her daughters 11th birthday, I was beside myself. It started off with water bottle labels, then I decided to do luggage tags and suggested it for party favors.
I think I might be onto something here...
So off to get more paper...yeah!
All printed out...
Getting ready to finish, luggage tags were front and back...
Before labels were put on...
And after...
Miss Abby's present...
Luggage tags were also used as place cards...
These were sooo yummy...
One of my personal fav's...
They made home made pizzas, that were super good...
Birthday Girl focusing...
Except for this, anchovies, ewwewwww...
And yes...somebody tried it, yuck...
Yummm....
Happy Birthday Miss Abby!!
To another crazy tomorrow,
A
So, I have a friend...
We went to high school together and after she graduated, yes she is older, we did not keep in touch. That is, until she moved back up here.
There are a very few people, I think, in your life that you can go 11 years or so without ever seeing, much less ever talking to, and run into them and pick up exactly where you left off. Like you never missed a beat.
And that, my dear friends, is Leslie, which I am truly thankful she and her hubby decided to leave the Big D and head back up North..and/or West, umm, somewhere in that vicinity, somewhere...
Her sweet family of little men moved back about two years ago and started up a business, GreenCattleBeef.com, selling only grass fed beef, and maybe some eggs. My little people suggested they should look into pigs because we like bacon so much, but I don't know if Leslie was to excited about that idea...
Let me tell you...it is yummy!!
So I stole one of her recipes for the chuck roast we got from their family, and holy moly...it was good, so good in fact, we had NOTHING let over...
We seriously 'heart' squash around here, or some of us do...
a really bad pic of orange zest pound cake...
BBQ ed chuck roast, mmmmm...
And some sweet taters' to finish it off...
I must have been super hungry, because these pics turned out so bad! Sorry Leslie!!
This one is particularly bad during the Tech vs. Tech game because 1.) We were soooo hot, 2.) We ate too much, 3.) There was an annoying Texas fan next to Leslie, 4.) And too many more reasons that I can't remember right now...
You can check out their website/blog for yourself. They have great recipes, pictures and such on there. And like I said, it is 'super duper' yummy!! And did I mention how grateful I am she is back?
To a crazy tomorrow,
A
Bah-da Bah-da-da-da, Bah-da Bah-da-da-da....
I have a love/hate relationship with Mondays.
For starters, well it's Monday. That in itself is enough. Nothing else needs to be said. I seriously dread it because of getting everyone up and going.
But, on the flip side, it's back to somewhat of a routine, which is nice. And more recently I have become more fond of Mondays because (1.) it's just me and the shortest of the little people, and I love our time together, (2.) I seriously heart Monday night t.v., and everyone is usually tired from waking up early, so off to bed a little earlier than usual, (3.) and it's the only night of the whole week that we don't have any night time activities, except for tennis, which is in the afternoon. So we can all sit down and actually eat together and not in the car, or in 30 minute intervals...
I decided to make a brisket for just us and thinking we could 'snack' on the leftovers throughout the week, perfecto! Get the brisket started and do head out to do the usual, gymnastics, errands and McDonalds. Now, I am not the biggest fan of this place, BUT shortie has figured out that they 'give' you a toy every time you go there, and if mom also orders a happy meal, then that means a 'free' toy times two, Yipee! And now since we have one right down the street, we conveniently pass by it everywhere we go...lovely...
But she always eats all of it every time...
mmmmmm...it's sooooo yummmmy....
and Monday is usually laundry day, so a little laundry in between nap time...
I had bought a brisket, smaller than usual. I usually only fix it when we have company, it only made sense to buy smaller and we would have left overs right? I mean the kids hardly ever eat it right?
some sweet potatoes with marsh, er..as the little people say, shmarshmellows on top...
and yummy green beans, but evidently I was to hungry to take a pic...
And we ate it ALL.
Everything.
Gone.
Oh wait... there was a tiny bit left...
Which was eaten as the plate slid into the dishwasher. Thinking I need a bigger brisket next time...
To another crazy tomorrow,
A
How I love sweets...and the little people too, but not so much with the mister. I can get into serious trouble when trekking throughout the grocery store, even if hunger is hanging around.
I was wanting cake.
And not just any cake.
It needed to have cream cheese icing...why? Who knows...
And no, I am not pregnant.
While pushing the basket with two of the short people, I casually strolled down the 'sugar aisle', and thought of carrot raisin. And I can reason rather well with myself. It has veggies for the kids and raisins are great, so its practically something good for everyone... who knows, maybe even the mister will try it...
So I busted out this dandy little thing, not like I got it for actual cooking...
And got things rolling, while the short peeps were bouncing around so excited to eat cake...I forgot to mention to them it had carrots AND raisins, whoops...
And they never noticed, even licked the plates clean. In fact, the shortest of the shorties came along afterwards and managed to 'clean up' any excess crumbs everyone had left ;)
Even the mister managed to eat it, and I think he did more than once...
To another crazy day,
A
