Taco night

Some days things just work out differently from what you plan.
Paul called me a few minutes ago and said his sister is having taco night at her house tonight. Score! This means I don't have to cook!
While I'm not to thrilled with not being able to go home right after work at least I don't have to cook. Tacos sound really good tonight too.
Now i know what you are thinking... "what's so great about tacos?"
Well for starters they don't use regular taco shells. They use corn tortillas cooked in crisco until they get crispy and then you put a slice of cheese on it for just a few seconds till it melts.
We also dice up sliced pickles and put those on tocos along with refried beans. And while I don't eat guacamole my kids love to eat it with their tacos too.

So I planned on going home but I'll make a pit stop for tacos first.

So much in such a short amount of time

So where to begin....

Friday night's Wild About Wine at the zoo went great. A cold front came in while we were there so it got a little chilly but it was so nice anyway. The food was great and the wine was good too. Then we got the boys and headed home for an early bedtime.

Saturday was a very busy day. Melissa's shower went FANTASTIC! These are only the pics I took with my phone. I completely forgot to take my camera but Melissa brought hers so she will email me those pictures when she can. In those you will see that Andrew is in every one of them. He thought she just couldn't open her gifts without his help. (austin didn't care about anything other than cake and his trains so he's not in many of them)

Andrew was so funny though, she would open a gift and you would hear him say things like, " that's so precious, or it's so beautiful!" And then he would try to remember the name of who gave the gift and say thank you to the group mostly, he didn't really know who that person actually was. It was funny.

As you can see the cake turned out well, not as block like as I wanted but it still came out and tasted great. Melissa had most of the bottom half to take home with her, she said she liked cake.

After the shower was over Mom, Melissa and I headed to my grandma's house to practice our song. Sunday i was so proud of all of us, I think we did great considering we hadn't sung together in 8 years. I actually saw many tears from some of the people in the aduience that have known us our whole lives and singing careers. They may have been crying because it was bad and they just lied to us and said it was good, who knows...

Today i barely have a voice left at all, we practiced a bunch on saturday.

That's all for the moment, I will post the other pictures when I get them.

Wild about Wine

We are going to the zoo tonight for their 2nd annual Wild About Wild celebration.
I worked at the zoo last year for a while and help with it last year and Paul and I had a blast.
It's good food and you go from booth to booth and try different wines paired with foods, and there is good entertainment too. This will be our date night tonight.
It's only from 7 to 9...

Austin is feeling better so both boys will go to grandma's house for a few hours. I think It's just his back teeth coming in because he's chewing on his plug(passifier) like crazy. (and spare the comments on the boy still using one please, i know...)

Tomorrow is Sussa's shower and i can't wait to see how her cake turns out! I'll post plent of pictures come monday!

Austin is stumpy today

My poor Baby Austin is stumpy today. Stumpy is the word we use when we don't feel good. It's short and frumpy put together so it comes out stumpy.
He has a low grade fever not enough to be too worried about but he is just really lethargic.
Austin is the kid that could be really sick but you'd never know it because he's still running around like a wild indian. But today he just wanted to lay in his bed and watch his Thomas and the Magic train movie. When I left for work he was sound asleep.
I called his doctor and they said he may be getting his back mollars or growing and sometimes that could do this to kids. Just to keep an eye on him to see if he gets any other symtoms.

Just pray that my baby feels better soon would ya?

Sometimes you have to give your mother a little credit ;)

I have to give my mother some credit for a few things today.

First, she gave me this recipe a while back for a corn salsa. I belive she got it from somewhere else but she made it for us when we were in SA last and it's addicting. Today at work we had to bring something to share for a birthday. I'm not much of a sweet eater so stuff like this I really enjoy, plus it has tomatos or panatos as my kids call them so that makes it even better. Well I brought it to work today and got lots of praise from all the ladies here that are on diets becasue it stays within their diet. (what's a diet?)

Well i thought i would pass along this recipe for those who read this to enjoy too!

Corn Salsa

1 lrg can corn
2 cans petite diced tomatoes
1 can black beans
1 large avocado diced
1 can rotel (hot, regular or mild. Whichever you prefer)
1 tablespoon finely chopped shallots
1 small tablespoon finely chopped cilantro
½ cup zesty Italian dressing


Drain all your cans and rinse the corn and beans.

For a smaller portion just substitute for 1 regular can corn
1 can of tomatoes
A little less Italian dressing


Enjoy!

Also, mom gave me this book to read this past weekend and she said it was fantastic. I've heard about it from tv and a few people who have read it. I must say I can't put it down. It makes you think, and it messes with your head a little. I'm only half way through it so we'll see how i feel about it when i'm done. I highly recommend everyone reading this. i don't want to say too much about it because i don't want you to think I'm crazy and not read it. But go out and buy this book! like my mom said, don't put it down how tough it gets, just keep reading!

Good Job mom!

what a week/weekend

Well last week was spring break for Andrew and he was so happy not having to get up early, or go to bed early either. Really though I don't know how he can sleep so late. Paul and I weren't able to take off for any days of it but i didn't go in until 1pm for a few days so he enjoyed me being at home with him. Austin liked having someone to play with/ pester/beat up. They got to go to Robin's house which they haven't done in a while and they really liked that.

This weekend my family came down. Oh, the jedi mind powers Sussa has over Andrew! He was so glad to see her, it made his spring break perfect i think. And she's coming this weekend too for her shower so he is just beside himself with excitment. he is counting down the days until he gets to see her again.

Austin is a PawPaw's boy. He loved to be held by him and wanted to sit in his lap the whole time he was here. At lunch on sunday we were about 2 hours past his nap time and he would only sit quietly in PawPaws lap. He even ate some of his fish, then he snuggled up to Nanna and fell asleep. We all went home and took a good nap after that.

Well the pictures of the boys are them with hats on. They both love hats!

Oh, and set ur DVR'S!! This sunday my mom, Sussa and I are singing infron of First Baptist Church. We all grew up going there and that is were Sussa's shower will be saturday but some how mom talked us into singing again. We haven't sung together in maybe close to 10 years. I guess yo could say this is for old times sake. All i know is that I'm gonna need some xanax and maybe a few shots of taquila.... I'm scared out of my mind! i don't even sing in my church choir i go to now! So set your DVR'S for Sunday on channel 4 or 720 if you get HD at 11am... let's hope we don't screw this up!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA ASHLEY!!!

Today is my grandma's birthday! I think she is 81 years old today. Although you would never be able to tell because she looks great and is in better shape than most of us. She has a great social life and lots of friends and family who loves her!

Just so you know, her mother lived to be almost 101 and lived by herself until she was 98. Her mind was sharp until she died. I'm sure grandma will live to be that age and just as wonderful and smart too.

So Happy Birthday to a wonderful Grandma!

Leigh Ann

p.s. I'm taking grandma out to eat to celebrate. Just the two of us! Paul is gonna pick up the kids and let me have a great dinner with my grandma.