What's Cookin Y'all?

Sorry this is late y'all but is has been NUTS'O crazy around here!! 

Here is just a short recap of all the FUN activities we did last weekend.  Of course there are some pictures for y'all too!!

Saturday morning we finished emptying the storage that we had ALL of our junk in!!  There wasn't much left so it didn't take long thank goodness cause it was COLD as SHIT out y'all!!!  Big B was THRILLED to be outside cold or not!! He was SO mad at me for making him go in the house!

Big B braving the cold weather!

Next up was a trip to the store to buy all the great stuff to make for either my Grandma's Thanksgiving on Sunday or or AMAZBALL Hot Apple Pie drink!!

We had never made the drink before but just bought some at the craft show a couple weeks back.  After buying it we thought we could make it just as easily!!  So to Pintrest I go for a good recipe to try and here are the "fruits" of our labor!!  (I know y'all I should have been a comedian!!)

If you would like the recipe we used you can find it here.  We didn't put the Everclear in it since we aren't big drinkers but it tastes AMAZBALLS without so I can't even imagine how it would taste with it!!

Hot Apple Pie Drink jarred and ready for the fridge

Next up was some pie baking!  I had Big B help me with this.  He is becoming such a big helper in the kitchen!!  I am sure is because when he was a little baby I used to plop him in his bouncy seat and set him in the kitchen while I cooked supper and talked to him like I had my own cooking show!  Yep, y'all I am weird and damn proud of it!!!

Two home made pecan pies from my Great Grandma James' recipe

 

I took one of these to my Grandma's Thanksgiving on Sunday.  I will say this, it wasn't the best one I have made but it was still pretty good.  Pecan pies aren't the easiest pie to make.  It is very hard to tell if the inside is done and mine wasn't all the way done.  But that is how you get better, by making more!!

Terrible picture, but these are pilgrim hats I made for Big B to take to school

After we got home on Sunday, I put these cute little things together.  They are so simple to make and all his friends loved them at school. 

I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving tomorrow and try not to eat TOO much food!!  I will be back to fill y'all in on my BLACK FRIDAY shopping experience!!!!!  I already have plans to be at a store bright and early tomorrow morning at 5 AM!!!

Piece and TURKEY Grease Y'all!!!!

NOT a FAN!!!!

So this will be a short and sweet blog for y'all today!!  I am NOT a fan of this SHITTY cold ASS weather we have in Iowa!!!  Someday I will live on a beach that has a view like this!

From our trip to Kauai HI in October of 2010

Don't get me wrong, sledding and riding a 4-wheeler in the snow is a good time but to live in it for the next 2-4 months??!?!?!  HELL NO!!!  The only time I like to see snow is on Christmas morning and then it can stay around long enough to go sledding for a while and that is it!

I have about an hour drive to work on a sunny and 75 degree day so after it took me an hour and 20 minutes to get home last night I figured I better leave early this morning.  I headed out in PLENTY of time, knowing the roads would not be great.

I didn't get 2 miles from the house...................and my day went from not bad to ARE YOU F'ING KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????

I was driving all of about 40 miles per hour and I hit a patch of ice (I thought the whole road was a sheet of ice but that is just me!) and it sent me into a 360 spin in the MIDDLE of the road y'all!!!!  Oh and did I forget to tell you there was a car coming from the other direction!!!!!!!!!  AWWWWW HELLLLLL NAW!!!!

What could I do?  Nothing! I bump it into neutral and just start praying!  The car that was coming from the other direction must have slowed down because after doing about 3-5 full spins in the road I hit more than likely the ONLY dry spot on the road y'all and it sent the car straight into the ditch!

Thank you JESUS my baby boy wasn't in the car with me!  I wasn't hurt and the car was completely fine! It was running fine just sitting in a ditch............and stuck! So after I stopped shaking hard enough to pick up the phone I called my daddy to come and pull me out of the ditch. 

I must say, it is nice to know that there are some nice people left in the world.  I had three people stop to make sure I was okay and didn't need a ride anywhere.  It was only about 20 minutes for my dad to come to the rescue and pull me out. 

I was out of the ditch in about 5 minutes and headed to work.  The roads got a little bit better the closer to work I got but they weren't that great the whole way in.  Lets just say this, it is going to be a LONG ASS WINTER if I go by how things went this morning!

However, I will say this................I am kinda looking forward to seeing Big B outside in his Carhartt bibbies and snow boots playing in the snow for the first time this year!! He has been putting his Carhartts on in the house and he thinks he is pretty big stuff!! :)

Try to stay warm out there!!!  I have found a new canning recipe I will be trying hopefully this weekend so stay tuned for that!!!  Warm Apple Pie!!! 

Piece & Chicken Grease Y'all!! 

8 inches..........WHAT?!?!?!?

So most of you know me as a person that DOES NOT make quick decisions.  I take my time and think things through for a while and then decide what I am going to do.  Well last Tuesday I called my very good friend up who does an amazing job on my hair and asked if she had time to get me in for a cut and color.

Of course she is AMAZBALLS and fit me right in that afternoon!!!!  That is just how she rolls y'all!!  She asked what color I wanted in my hair and of course my response was..........."Whatever you feel like putting in there!" I am not that hung up on my hair color.  I trust her fully with that stuff and she always does a great job so I leave all that stuff up to the professional!!

So when I get there she says to me........."Are we going to do it this time?"  I look at her and said, "if it is long enough then yes, cut it off!"

I have been thinking about cutting my hair for a while and she knew this but I wanted to donate it to Children with Hair Loss so it had to be at least 8 inches long.  She measured it and it was long enough y'all!!  So we put it in a pony tail and she got out the scissors! 

This is how long my hair was to start with.......................

me and my mini me!!

He is the pony tail before cutting

this is the end product!

Here is the REALLY bad selfie for the new cut!

The new cut and color

You can't see the color very well but it is AMAZBALLS as usual as well as the cut!!!!  I couldn't be happier with it and it is all for a GREAT cause!!!!! 

So I finally made a sort of rash decision and it was great!

Now onto the next topic that I am sure is on a lot of your minds. I am not going to get into detail about this matter as it is a personal matter and this is my blog.  I know I get pretty personal on here but there are just somethings I must say are Nuna Damn Business y'all.  So here it is.

I am sure most of y'all got to see the beautiful pictures that I have on my facebook page of the family.  I am also sure y'all noticed there is one person missing from those pictures.  My husband and I are separated.  That is all I am going to say about the matter and that is really all y'all need to know.  I don't mean to be rude about this but it really is no ones business but ours. So the next question out of your mouths will be, then what the hell are you talking about it on here for?  Well, to answer your question is, I am not.  I just wanted to clear up the rumors and gossip that I KNOW goes on in small towns when NOT EVERYONE knows what is going on. The people that need to know do know and that is all that matters. 

Now, onto happier things.....................how did I ever get so lucky to have such an ADORABLE little boy?!?!?!?!

As always, I appreciate all y'all that read my blog!!  I know there aren't many of you but the ones that do really mean a lot to me!

Piece & Chicken Grease Y'all!!!!!