Happy Halloween!!

I am neglectful of my blog, and for that I apologize.  

Now that I've gotten that out of the way we can all move on with our lives.  :)    Today is Halloween!!!     This used to be my favorite holiday, but this year I'm not really sure what happened.   Maybe I'm just getting old.   Who knows.    Tyler and I did carve a super cute pumpkin to keep the evil spirits away tonight...   I had a blast doing it...   I also discovered that Oliver LOVES pumpkin.    He went crazy over the bowl of "pumpkin guts" and got really mad at me when I took it away.   I just knew he would literally eat the entire bowl and I didn't want him to make himself sick. 

I had some friends over from work and we watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.   Afterwards we went to see Paranormal Activity 3 while Tyler did homework..   I think it was much better than the first two..    You didn't have to wait until the very end for something exciting to happen.   After I got home I had to make something for Tyler to take to work today for their Halloween potluck (the one he didn't tell me about until so I could prepare something super yummy for, so they have to settle for something just kind of yummy)  I put it in the oven and played around on Pinterest for a while and apparently I was really tired or really intrigued with Pinterest because I didn't hear the timer go off....   I have no idea how much too long it was in the oven but it didn't LOOK burnt so he took it anyway.    Maybe that'll teach him to tell me in advance.  


Lately I've been trying to get back into working out.   I've actually been doing really well the past few weeks (minus the week off for me hurting my knee...) I'm going to start kickboxing again.   I'm actually thinking of going this week.    It wont be the same as going to my dad's classes, but I'm sure it'll still be good.

Time for a protein shake.     Hope everyone has a great week.  

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Brandi

Just another manic Monday...

This morning when Tyler's alarm went off at 5am, I thought well this is weird.   I'm pretty sure I actually said "that was weird." after he turned it off.  Then when he got out of bed I remembered he took the early shift at work so he could get off earlier since I'm off work today.   I also remembered I promised to make him waffles with my new *awesome* waffle maker.  So I've been up since 5 on my off day.    Oh well.   So far I've cleaned, made breakfast; *fantasticly delicious* waffles, done laundry and made three (yes, THREE) wreaths.  One of which I got the idea from here.   I love them.   I'm going to give one to my mom and send the other to a friend.  I think they will both like them.     ohhhhh!  I almost forgot, I ordered my sewing machine.   I got this sweet baby!   I absolutely can NOT wait for it to come in.   Should be here some time next week.    MAYBE, JUST MAYBE I'll be able to quickly learn it so I can make a baby quilt for my soon to be here baby cousin Aiden.    I just hope I can figure out how to use it.  

-OAN, I'm really wanting to have a cookie swap this year.   Has anyone done this or attended one?   If so, tips, tricks and ideas are welcome.  :)

I think a nap is in order now.    When I wake up, I'm making ice cream in my new ice cream maker.   Happy Monday everyone!!!

Brandi

not so silent Sunday

Today was a fairly eventful day.   I woke up with a headache; what's new?  But as I was making breakfast (lemon rolls, they're divine if you haven't tried them) I noticed that my 20% off coupon for Bed Bath and Beyond was expiring TOMORROW!!!   It's been on my freezer for several months and I don 't even know what made me look at but I'm sure glad I did!   Initially I was looking for a sewing machine, but I decided I'd go to Jo Ann for that and while I was there Tyler talked me into ordering the one I had picked out off Amazon.com because I would save over $100..    I completely get the whole saving money thing but I wanted it right then.    I'm over it now.  haha.   I decided on the Singer Curvy 8770.  Pretty much the only thing I can see that it doesn't do is embroidery...  Which is okay I guess.   Not that I know crap about sewing machines..   I just know I want one and that one caught my eye.  Does anyone have any recommendations?   Is Brother better than Singer? I've found a brother one that does embroidery...  ANYWAY.   After our entirely too long visit to Jo Ann we went to Bed Bath and Beyond.    I had it in my mind we were going to use the coupon for an ice cream maker or a waffle iron.  I know, I'm weird.  But I don't have either and I really wanted both.   I finally decided on the waffle iron because they didn't have the ice cream maker I wanted..  After we picked it out we walked around the entire store (like we always do) and ended at their clearance/open box section where I was gazing at the Paula Dean Deep Fryer they had I happened to see a bowl like thing sitting on top of the box so I grabbed it to look at it and low and behold it was a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer Ice Cream Maker attachment!!    Marked down to $49.99 because it was a display.   I was thrilled because it was the ice cream maker I wanted anyway, and with it being half off I got BOTH!  yay me!  and yay Tyler for buying them both for me!   Over all a good day!   I'm going to do more sewing machine research now.  Happy almost Monday!!  

Brandi