Thanksgiving

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endureth forever.

Just a few of the starters.......

It's deep dish peach....and no. it's not a "non-pie" because it's rectangle ;-) I set up a little buffet behind dad....I actually got to use ALL of my crockpots for one meal!!
Methinks me father enjoyed the meal ;-)
Me brother too.....
It was a successful dinner!! sorry I wasn't able to snap more yummy shots....I got up at 4:30 to put the turkey in the oven (threw out my back doing so...thank God for strong fiances!)...my H sister knocked on the front door a few hours later so I made her a mocha and myself a macchiato....and then the Bug and Eye ventured to Giant for just a couple things....and then I began to make the largest mess ever out of my kitchen to create a feast :-) and not one of my family members picked on me for having a large rectangle deep dish peach pie.....

It was so nice having so much of my family there....it was a good day...and as I sat at the table with a full plate and surrounded by the ones I love....the aches left my body and I forgot about the effort to make the meal, and I smiled.

As we enter this Christmas season, I pray that you are blessed beyond measure and that the peace of God that passes all understanding saturates your soul and home.

know what?? know what???

I get to get up at 4 a.m. and put a turkey in the oven!! and then I get to spend ALL DAY in my kitchen!!!!!!! I get to make a huge feast and serve it to my family!!!!!!
Yes, I am genuinely excited! I'm hosting dinner for 8 at my place...and it shall be divine! Thus sayeth Eye!!
Pictures to follow...provided I can pull my hands out of the flour and such to take them.....

now this is cool.

So my IAAP newsletter included this link this month...
So of course, I clicked away and wow....instantly this woman was brought to mind...as was this one....
I mean how many times am I surrounded by paperclips but no safety pins?
this site would make Macguiver smile!!

So...

It's Thursday.
Dropped the price on my house today. Learned that the lack of garage/basement is deterring people...which kinda sucks a bit...
*sigh*

Weekend....success!

So...we went to the little C Village for the weekend with every intention of being vegetables...didn't quite work out like that, but it was a good weekend...Friday night we ordered a veggie pizza and watched a movie....Saturday...we chased my mother around Otown in an attempt to shop with her. I still maintain she was trying to ditch us ;-) She says she was just trying to not let us see Christmas presents.....

We thought we'd get home late morning/early afternoon, veg for a while, maybe head to H town or something...yeah...got home early evening....popped in a movie...I made dinner...we finished the movie and rubbed each other's feet with tingly mint lotion (man I love Bath & Body Works!) and that was the ball game....

Sunday...ah Sunday....we had a bridal show slated for the day....so we knew we were headed back to the City earlier than usual.


My eyes flew open at 7:30 and wouldn't close, despite the fact that I didn't need to be up for at least two more hours...

so...for some reason I thought it would be a grand day to watch the video from my high school grad party...nearly 10 years ago....
I smiled when I saw this one and the 2 month old TINY baby....cried when the heaven dwelling brother showed up on screen...and had a good laugh at the adeptness (stop laughing.) of my volleyball skills...

then I decided the day must be productive.


And how is this done? Simple!

Find the laundry room floor after cleaning out the linen closets a couple weeks ago and discovering that EVERYTHING must be washed.

Gather your fuel making ingredients.

Check on the strawberry muffins...(forgot to take the pic of them in the bowl...sorry...)

Make the espresso...

Pair the uber yummy muffin with a raspberry cappuccino...
Serve to the adorable fiance...

Kick your feet up and enjoy...

Let him read for a bit....

and then venture off!!!
yes. it is a sticker. it says here comes the bride.

And should the bridal show not be all it was hailed to be....

comfort yourself with food you shouldn't be eating anyway....

REMINDER

http://www.fathersloveletter.com/fllpreviewlarge.html

I don't think I need to say another word.

*WHEW*

It's over......that horrid two day exam is over....and now I wait 45 days to find out how I did.
Seriously, if I don't pass this thing, I am going to sit down and cry. It was gruelling, and long and stretched the brain and such...good thing I studied hard!! I read the review materials and felt pretty prepared for it. Fortunately, a lot of it was common sense stuff so that helped.
The first part, I have no idea how I did, nor how to gauge. The other parts went pretty well...two of them I felt really good about, and the last one I think I did ok....
but I'm done thinking about it because if I rehash it for the next 45 days I'll drive myself crazy (shush. I know.)

So the rest of the weekend was nice. When I got to Bug's house after the last part of the test, he made me a wonderful dinner (sorry, I was too fried to take pics)....Butternut squash, basted with grape seed oil, (which I'm pretty sure was infused with rosemary and garlic) and then he sprinkled a little shredded Parmesan on top and baked it...*drool* it was SO good!!!
He paired it with fresh Tuscan bread and asparagus risotto. Yup, that man loves me!!!!

Then we vegged and watched "The Next Iron Chef" and I went home and fell into bed!

We had a party for his aunt's birthday yesterday which was great fun and got to dance to "our song" for the first time :-) Which is kinda funny 'cause we've had a song for a few years now...but it was nice. His cousin who was DJing announced "the future Mr. and Mrs. B_____" while we were dancing and everyone cheered for us. awww shucks....

Well that's our weekend...how was yours?