Pedicures...Pizza...& Peeps

On Wednesday night, my sisters & my mom came over & we had a pedicure party. We at thin crust delite pizza from Papa Murphys (their pineapple is the BEST), some salad, some popcorn & some peeps. It was recently my nephews bday & my sister had some leftover frosting. Most of my family has a HUGE weakness for sugar. I'm not as bad as some of them...but it is good stuff. My mom got a spoon out when she noticed the Tupperware full of frosting....and then we had some bunny peeps...she said "Hmmmmm...wonder if frosting would be good on a peep." Ashley & I had no desire to try it, but my mom & Angela said it was delicious.

I dipped a piece of popcorn in the frosting...that was delish. I love salty & sweet stuff. We dipped our hands & feet in a FREAKING HOT paraffin wax and painted our piggies. It was a fun night. We also watched a little Hairspray. LOVE that show!

Caleb hates me. He likes Casey sooooooooo much more than me. It shouldn't tick me off, but it does. If Casey is around & I try to play with Caleb he'll just scream at me & cling to Casey. WTF? I know I'm way cooler than Casey, so what gives???

Pour some sugar on me

I won tickets on the radio last night to go see Posion & Def Leppard!! The concert isn't even until August. I can't believe that I freaking won! I was at work & the DJ said "Okay...I've been teasing you all night long, within the next 20 minutes, we'll give away those tickets" So...I listen...& listen...& listen...& listen....and hour & 10 minutes go by & I wondered how the heck could I have missed it! (I had even written the radio station name & number on a post it so that when I won & he said "Who is hookin you up" I wouldn't screw up their name. Tee hee) Then the DJ says "Oh crap! I forgot to give away those tickets...caller 9 wins" So I dial....it rings....he says "Caller 5 try again" So I hang up & hit redial...it rings...he says "97.5 the Blaze - who's this?" and the rest is history! I sounded so dumb on the radio. I had been rehearsing in my head what I would say & it came out so lame. I even think I muttered "Heck yes" Embarassing!

Caleb's diagnosis is a strep infection, and an ear infection. And then to make him even more miserable, I noticed yesterday that he has 2 teeth coming through on one side. So - that probably explains the ear infection. He is feeling MUCH better.

Scrapbooking

I've been attempting to get better at this digital scrapbooking stuff. It's so cute in my head...and then blech. I don't know what happens. It's like when you are playing pictionary...the unicorn looks just like one in your head, but it looks like a really weird animal with a sword through it's skull on the board. Sometimes ya just can't win. Here are my favorite pages that I did this weekend.Caleb is so sick! He's had a bad fever for about 24 hours. At one point today it was at 103.8 The little sicky breaks my heart. I hope I can get into a Dr first thing Monday morning. He has chilled on the couch for most of the day watching movies. He's watched Shrek twice, 1 Baby Einstein, & Cinderella (not his choice, mine) Needless to say - I'm sick of TV today.

On Friday night, Casey's mom came over to babysit so we could go on a date We had a coupon to Texas Roadhouse & have never been so we thought we'd go there. We got there right around 5 and the place was packed! There wasn't even a place to park! Aren't most people just getting off of work? Aren't we in a recession?? (just kidding) We ended up spending twice the amount of money we wanted to & went to Chili's. It was sooooooo good. If you haven't had their Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie - you are missing out. We then went & shot a couple of games of pool. I won...both games. Casey will say that I won by default because he scratched on the 8 ball both games & I still had at least 4 balls on the table...but a win is a win.

Hardware Ranch

On Saturday (while I was working) Casey met his family at Hardware Ranch to see the elk. I've always wanted to go on a date there, but that has yet to happen. Casey said that Caleb was kind of cranky & needed a change while they were on the sleigh ride - that sucks for Caleb, Casey AND everyone else around. Peeeeee-u! After they saw the elk, the had a little tailgate party & had lunchie.

Caleb FINALLY is doing more tricks! Today - out of nowhere - he started clapping! I was saying 'Yay!! Hooray!! Good Job!!' and he kept clapping & clapping & clapping. We did this trick for most of the day.  

I had to wake Caleb up to have dinner the other night - that is why he looks so shabby & cranky...but I wanted to get a picture of how he has to have his legs crossed when he eats. Silly kid.

Caleb (& Casey) are sooooo addicted to TV! Caleb will watch pretty much anything. Here they are watching some Animal Planet series about Jockeys. Boring!

Valentine's Day

What a weird holiday. Is it just supposed to make people look forward to SOMETHING since it's to frickin' cold to do anything else?? Restaurants are always soooooo crowded...flowers are soooooo overrated & just die anyway...men usually have a hard time picking out jewelry...so I told Casey I would just like a steak/shrimp dinner at home & a cake from Cold Stone. What a guy...I got EXACTLY what I asked for! Casey made steak, popcorn shrimp, corn & baked potatoes for dinner & then we snarfed down a cold stone cake with red velvet cake & cake batter ice cream. DELISH!!! I was actually slightly disappointed in the ice cream cake. I expected nothing but perfection from the Cold Stone Creamery & it isn't perfected quite yet. Good...but I need to sample other flavors before I put in my full verdict.

I got Casey a T-Shirt & a big Reese's heart & Caleb got a tiger flashlight that roars. He loves it. Caleb got me a cute stuffed teddy bear & some cheesecake Hershey kisses & got Casey some regular mini Reese's. Anyone notice that Casey might like Reese's??? Caleb also got a bag of mini teddy Grahams from my mom & dad & a toy semi from Casey's mom & dad.

I really have nothing new going on in my life...so I thought I'd show you something that I do to make cooking not seem like such a hassle sometimes. I HATE chopping up onions. They are good to add to ground beef, soups, some casseroles & I don't add them because I hate cutting them. One of my sister's neighbors actually gave me this idea....but I will buy a bag of onions (much cheaper than buying them individually) and chop them all up in my food processor & separate it into a bunch of different Ziploc baggies & freeze them. Your fridge/freezer does smell like onions for a few days - but it goes away and I haven't noticed the onion taste getting into any other food. Hope this helps someone!

Randoms

I sat the garbage out the other day & was going to go get some shoes because the cement was wet & I didn't want wet feet...bad call Brittni. Bad call.

I went to the gym 18 out of 31 days in January. Dripping sweat. So sore that I can barely move. And I lost ZERO pounds. I've been doing weight watchers for 2 weeks & I've lost 7 pounds. Stupid food. I don't think I eat poorly. I never buy ANY good food. Whenever anyone in my family comes over they check my pantry & fridge for something good & never find anything. I'm not sure why the keep looking. I don't buy chips, cookies, cakes, ice cream, candy...nothing like that and I don't drink soda hardly ever....but I guess with Weight Watchers it is all about portions. So - want to shed a few - it's the secret.

Here is a pic of me & Caleb watching Shrek. He still loves it & loves Shrek 2. I've tried putting in Finding Nemo or The Little Mermaid because they are so colorful, & he flat out isn't interested. What a weird kid. But - I like him.