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!!!!!

   

Bad Day.......Getting BETTER!

So my week hasn't been the best and my morning was NOT going great!!  But things are starting to LOOK UP~

Let me go back a little bit and let me fill y'all in.  I have REALLY been struggling with some personal issues in which I am not really going to talk about on here.  I know I tend to put it all out on here but there are just some things I am going to keep private.  But I have been trying to deal with them the best I can on my own.  I have made some major decisions in my life that I didn't make lightly y'all.  Some have some over a period of time and others, just in the last couple of weeks.  So I have kinda had a lot on my plate so to speak. 

One of which is to be A LOT more serious about getting my FAT ASS back in shape!!  I am sick of feeling the way I do about myself and seeing what I see when I look in the mirror! So I decided I was going to set my alarm and get up and start the C25K on the treadmill in the mornings before work..........................FAIL!!!!!!  Why is this SO HARD FOR ME?!?!?!!?!?  I REALLY want to do this but I just can not seem to get up in the mornings!!!! 

I set the alarm and even put it on the other side of the room so I can't just it snooze.................so what do I do?????  Get my FAT ASS up and hit snooze and take my alarm to bed with me and go back to sleep!!!  (My alarm is my cell phone by the way!)  I know, I am the most pathetic person ALIVE! 

So for three days in a row I have NOT gotten up to do the C25k or anything for that matter!  Yesterday I hardly made it up in time to shower and get myself and B dressed and out the door.  I dropped B off at school and made it just in time to work!!!  I thought I hit snooze and I really turned OFF my alarm!!!

And here we are to this morning and once again, LAZINESS hit me and I didn't get out of bed.  I did get up in time to actually pack a lunch and get B dressed and myself and not be totally rushed this morning.  However, on my way to work I almost had a MAJOR accident because PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!  I was cruising along on the road on my way to work and went around someone in so I was in the fast lane.  Well an IDIOT turned out in front of me and was going about 30 miles per hour and continued to go that speed!!!!!!!!!!  I had to SLAM on my brakes and so did everyone behind me! It was ridiculous!  Everyone went in the "slow" lane to pass me and the idiot in front of me and that took a good 5 minutes off my time.  I know, I know, what is 5 minutes but when you cut it as close as I do it is a HUGE difference! 

Moving along to the next part of my journey I have another person that thought they should just pull RIGHT OUT infront of me too! I must have had a sign on my car this morning or something, I don't know!

Now on to the better part of my day!!  I FINALLY got B dropped off at school safe and sound mind you! As I am pulling into the parking lot of work I am waiting to hear a prize give away on one of my favorite radio stations. I never win anything y'all but I just had a feeling this morning for some reason they were going to say my name!

I am a HUGE country music fan, incase you didn't know..............I might be a little bit of a redneck y'all!!!  The prize was two tickets to the Rascal Flatts concert this Friday night and I WON y'all!!!!!  I am SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! Now, who should I take to the concert..........................stay tuned for pictures and a recap!!!  Super excited!

On a side note.............B got his second hair cut last night and it went WAY better than the first one!  If you don't remember how that went you can read it here.  He looks like such a little man when he gets it cut!  They are doing school pictures tomorrow so he had to look "fresh"!!  Here is a picture of my gangsta for y'all.  He is just so adorable I could eat him up!!! Not the best picture but I haven't had one on here for a while.

If I wanted him to have his hood up, he wouldn't! But I didn't care I guess so he wanted it on!!

 

 

 

 

Piece & Chicken Grease Y'all!!!

Getting Old!

I must be getting old.........things that never really bothered me, or I felt were that big of a deal, are REALLY starting to bother me!!

Now I know being a mom changes you but I am REALLY starting to he my MOTHER come out of my mouth more and more these days!!!!  LOL

I can remember when I was going up when we would go out to eat at a restaurant that was a pretty big deal.  I am not talking about McDonald's or  something like that, although that didn't happen that much either!  I mean like a sit down and eat type of place. 

I am telling y'all, people are just rude these days!!  Customer service is a thing of the past I think!!  Went to eat at the Village Inn around the corner from the house.  The tables were not full and when we walked into the place there were people waiting to be seated. This I have NEVER seen in the almost 10 years I have lived here!!  VI is never that busy!! 

The hostess takes FOREVER to come up to see how many and then tells us there will be a 7-10 minute wait.  I look around and see plenty of empty tables.  She says her waitress are a little overwhelmed and she is giving them time to breathe.  I have NEVER heard of this in ALL my life!!  I have worked in food service since I was about 15 years old.  If it is busy and you are overwhelmed you just keep going!! Not at this VI location! Their manager/hostess likes to make other people wait while they get a chance to "breathe" and get caught up. 

Let me take a step back here.  I should have known better than to go here in the first place anyway.  I have went to this location several times and always TERRIBLE service EVERY TIME!!  So I really should not be surprised by this happening. But I thought I would give them another chance.  WRONG!!  I won't be making that mistake again!

After waiting there for about 7 minutes and the 3 other tables ahead of us had not been seated I decided I wasn't going to wait any longer.  So we headed up the street to Perkins.  I was in the mood for breakfast food.  We get there and I think there were 3 cars in the parking lot.  Great we will be in and out in no time................or so I thought!!

One of my pet peeves is when you walk into a restaurant and they have a host stand, they should greet you right away and be pleasant!  Well the manager was talking to one of the staff members behind the counter and just glanced at us and said "I will be with you in a sec."  OH that drives me NUTS!!!!  NOT professional at all!!

Once we got seated our waiter came over for our drink order.  We just got water so that was pretty simple. Then he came back to get our food order and that went pretty smooth also.

Here is where things went down hill!  It took FOREVER for our food to get there.  Now when you have a little one it seems like YEARS when they are hungry and it takes a long time to get their food.  And remember, there wasn't very many people in there at all!  Then when he did finally bring our food out, he dumped my glass of water all over the table and wasn't really apologetic about it.  Or very quick to clean it up to be right honest with you! 

I have started to see customer service go down hill and it really makes me sad!  I remember when it was important to treat your customers with respect and they were always right.  Remember if it wasn't for me being there you wouldn't have a job.  Now, everyone feels entitled to having a job and owed something rather than needing to earn it!  It just makes me sick!!

I am not one to talk about religion or politics on here.  It is just a MESSY topic either way.  However, I am glad the BIG BABIES in Washington took their heads out of their ASSES long enough to get something figured out!!!  Not that it matters, it sounds like it will happen again in January if they don't get their shit figured out! I am just tired of the little man in middle America doing all the hard work being the ones that have to feel the pain of the ASSHOLES that CONTINUE to get paid and don't feel ANYTHING from what they are doing to everyone else!!!  If I was doing what they do at my job......................I WOULD BE FIRED!!!!  Maybe they all should be FIRED too!!!!!!!

Well there is my soap box for the day y'all!!

Piece & Chicken Grease Y'all!!!!

P.S. Drive thru at Subway is the BEST invention EVER!!!!!  I love that I don't have it get out of my car to eat something semi-healthy!!!!!  LOVE SUBWAY!!!

PUMPKINS!!!

Well yesterday was the day that B got to go to Howell's Pumpkin Patch and he had a BLAST!!! 

Of course this mama forgot to make sure the camera was charged so didn't get much for pictures but there will be many more chances for that!!

At first when we got there B wasn't sure about getting down and seeing what all there was to look at there.  But once he got used to everything, he was on the go!

Howell's has so much for kids to do.  If you live in the area and are looking for a good pumpkin patch you should check it out!!  They have a corn box that B LOVED playing in! Then we just had to check out the pedal tractors of course!! 

Then it was off to the REAL tractor ride out through their pumpkin patch and flower garden.  This place is amazing! They have so many acres of things to look at.  They have a HUGE corn maze out there too.  We decided not to go through that as I am TERRIFIED that I will get lost in those things and not be able to get out!!  The tractor ride took us out through all the fields and back to the barn. 






Now was the time to pick out the "Great Pumpkin".  We got a wagon and off we went to find the best ones we could find!  We got two really big ones and one "just right" for B.  I truly think he enjoyed riding in the wagon more than picking out the pumpkins!!

All in all it was a GREAT trip!!  B had a wonderful time and I believe this will be our yearly destination for pumpkins! 

I will make sure to get pictures of our carvings once we get those completed!  I am SO excited to see how B does with that......................should be interesting!!!

Piece and Chicken Grease Y'all!!

The Bucket List

So how many of y'all have a "real" bucket list?  

I have always had one but not that I had written down or kept track of.  So with all the strange and new things going on in my life I decided to start one.  A REAL one.  I don't know how much of it I will actually do but we shall see!

Don't laugh y'all...........some things might sound silly to you but this is my list remember!  What is yours?!
The Bucket List:

( )Go to Canada
(X) Go to Mexico
(X) Go to Florida
(X) Go to Hawaii
(X) Swim in the ocean
( ) Go to New Orleans
( ) Kiss in the rain
( ) Stay up all night on the beach and watch the sunrise
( ) Visit every state in the United States
( ) Go sky diving
(X) Go Disneyland/ Disney World
( ) Own my own motercycle
( ) Own a farm
( ) Attend the NCAA Finals
( ) Watch my son grow up to be a man!


This isn't finished by any means but I will have to think on some of the things I want to do.  I heard some sad news last night about someone who was taken from his family way to soon.  We really never know if we have tomorrow y'all so live each day to the fullest!! 

Kiss your babies every chance you get and never have any regrets!

I will leave you with the lyrics to my new FAVORITE song! It is my motto right now y'all! Life is too short to hold your tongue!

"Brave"

You can be amazing
You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug
You can be the outcast
Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love
Or you can start speaking up
Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do
When they settle ‘neath your skin
Kept on the inside and no sunlight
Sometimes a shadow wins
But I wonder what would happen if you

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

Everybody’s been there,
Everybody’s been stared down by the enemy
Fallen for the fear
And done some disappearing,
Bow down to the mighty
Don’t run, stop holding your tongue
Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live
Maybe one of these days you can let the light in
Show me how big your brave is

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

And since your history of silence
Won’t do you any good,
Did you think it would?
Let your words be anything but empty
Why don’t you tell them the truth?

Say what you wanna say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say
And let the words fall out
Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
See you be brave

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you
I just wanna see you