MIA

So I am a bad blogger. I went to Kansas City, with every intention of blogging while I was there. I even brought a laptop from work so I could check my email and do a little blogging. Then I get to the hotel and it was 9.99 for access! No way. I figured I would just catch up when I got home. But then, errands and work happened!

So I'll have to catch you up now. I went to a meeting planner retreat and it was pretty fun. I met some great people that I can talk with and come up with great ideas for my association. Kansas City reminded me a lot of Tulsa, but bigger. The downtown area we stayed in was a little sketchy in areas, totally different from Boise. On Saturday it was basically deserted. But I tried to take a few pictures and I'll post those later.

This weekend was beautiful and we broke out the grill Saturday and Sunday night. Saturday night we cooked up some of the finest $1 hot dogs money can buy. Sunday we made like three pounds of chicken for the whole week. We also grilled eggplant, but I think we really went overboard on the salt. Now it is cold again. It only got up to 45 today and it was at least 80 this weekend. Boo. I'm ready for warm!!

Mat purchased shingles today for our new roof. Mat and his dad are going to start on it this weekend, which is just so exciting. So it isn't the most exciting, but we are saving a TON of money on labor and it will just help to increase the value of our house. Plus, we have to fix some places on the roof anyway to keep our homeowner's insurance.

We got our invitations back from the printer! And we found someone to marry us! We're doing pretty good in the wedding planning department.

Spring Surprises!

Although it is only 42 here today, it still is beginning to look a lot like Spring in our backyard. To my surprise, there are some fun little blue flowers popping up in our flower bed that we thought we had pulled everything out of. Mat told me a few days ago that we had some cute blue flowers in our backyard, but I just assumed they were weeds! Pretty fun to have some flowers this soon and with it being still so chilly! I can't wait for it to get warmer and warmer every week.

Tonight is game night at Alana's and I am so excited! I made some delicious Oatmeal Carmelitas that I found on the Pillsbury website. Don't tell anyone, but I didn't buy Smucker's caramel sauce. OH the shame. Mat and I had a taste test after lunch and they are pretty tasty. All the gamers are supposed to bring something different and I signed us up for dessert. Hope everyone else likes them! We'll also bring a game or two, but who knows what we'll end up playing.

Tomorrow is our dreaded run to the grocery store. We did get cleaning out of the way today, so we won't have to worry about that tomorrow. I'm hoping we can get to the store and home and then just sit around watching some fun movies. I'm sure there are some wedding plans we need to work on, but I kind of feel like taking the weekend off!

Oink, Oink

One thing I love more than anything in the world is to eat food that is bad for me. I try not to do this except once or twice a week, especially in preparation for the wedding (after I'm married, who cares?). Tonight is the night for stuffing face. My sister is coming over and we'll get pizza and breadsticks and wings and enjoy every minute of it. I can almost taste the pepperonis right now.

It sounds like the entire weekend will be filled with some of my favorite things: pizza tonight, mac and cheese tomorrow night, yummy breakfast foods on Sunday morning...

I can just hear my stomach expanding to make room for all these goodies!