TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY and Kimmy's Birthday!

        Well we have made it two years! I can't believe it has really been that long! So we are celebrating by going to Cheesecake Factory and seeing TRON tomorrow, so tonight we decided to make our FIRST HOME MADE GINGERBREAD HOUSE. keep in mind that the stores were all out of the kits, so i made gingerbread cookies and rolled them out to make the walls. it was a fin little adventure!

Here are the walls I made out of the gingerbread cookies

It stared outwell, we got a floor and two walls up.

now we are up to four walls, our house is rising!!!

Here is the roof, now because i didn't have a cookie cutter or anything... the walls were, well lets just say they were not even! so this is the best we did with what we had!

about two seconds after i took this picture the roof caved in, but we shoved a piece of one of the sides in and it stayed...

so this is our final roof!!!

Patrick and i both had two walls here are his

(he loves me! he loves me!!!!)

Pretty house!

And here are mine!

that's a Christmas tree inthe window if you couldn't tell! hahah

two year Anniversary!!!

us and our mutant gingerbread house!!!

I think if we ever decide to build a house, we will probably hire a contractor...

Kimmy's 21st birthday was a couple of weeks ago, we had a movie night here at the house.
 i made her a devils food cake with peppermint bark in the middle and raspberry chocolate frosting...it was GOOD

Kimmy and Allie

you can'y have a party without Martinelli's 

Happy Birthday Kimmy!!!

Christmas Lighting 2010

here is our FIRST Christmas tree

It's one of my first REAL ones!

i decorated it myself from the very pricey ornaments from the Dollar Store!

It's a cat in a Stocking!!!

Oh Midnight we do love you! it's just too fun to torture you!!! :)

***SNOW***

Well it's the first snow of the year.. that stuck at least!

Patrick's excuse for his face was...

"it's bright"

love him

Be safe in the cold!!!

A Turkey DISASTER!!!

This thanksgiving was our first thanksgiving on our own as a married couple. We decided to stay at our home and cook a dinner for another couple. I got up early cleaned the house, and then started in on the food. For the turkey because we were not having many people over I just got a turkey breast. So I go to put the turkey in and, well I have never cooked a turkey on my own. So I just put the turkey on a baking sheet and stuffed it in the oven. I put a meat thermometer in because all the places said once it reached 180 then it would be done, and it would take about 2 to 3 hours.  So I just let it cook and prepared everything else.  I made some amazing sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole rolls and cherry pastries. But when I went to go check on the turkey around 2 hours it looked done, it was the right temperature and everything and it looked pretty good! So we took it out and let it cool. I called my mom to ask her how to make gravy and she told me to take the drippings from the turkey. Problem ONE: there were NO drippings. The pan was completely DRY. Problem TWO: when the turkey had cooled about 15 minutes before we went to serve it, we started carving it. The turkey was SO not cooked, it looked like it had just defrosted and had never been cooked!! So what do we do? We are fifteen minutes from eating and our turkey isn’t done. We could put it back in the oven but at that rate it would take about 2 more hours! So we decided to start a new tradition. In out fridge we had a tri-tip steak from Costco, so we decided to just make that! It was awesome and only took 45 minutes. So our disaster turned out ok! Our new tradition is going to be shrimp (that is from Patrick’s family) and steak. I think I am going to like this tradition; I never really liked turkey dinners anyway! So it turned out to be a great Thanksgiving. We at yummy food, and watched the Cowboys put up a good fight! I am so excited for the holidays to come. Patrick and I are celebrating our second anniversary on the Second. We are going to be putting up our first REAL Christmas tree, and hoping our cats don’t destroy it within the first night! AND we got all of our Christmas shopping done online during Black Friday!! Finals are three weeks away and then we get a blessed vacation! Only two more semesters to go before I graduate! I cannot wait! Hope you had a good turkey day, I would ask advice to let me know what I did wrong with the turkey, but seeing as we are axing it from the menu, I will just let Pat be in charge of the Steak form now on! I’ll do the sides and dessert!

All in the Name of FOOTBALL

What Patrick will do in the name of Football!!!

Yes that is our antenna 

he has been standing like that for about 30 Minutes!!!

ahhhhh..... the final result

We can enjoy our football once again!!!

oh by the way.. it's snowing outside

and I have officially finished all my Christmas shopping

be jealous!

I start my new job tomorrow, transferring to another branch, moving up in hours, and will be doing loans! So excited!!!

The Game of LIFE

 Well the past couple of weeks have been well, interesting. I had a visit to the Urgent Care that kept me out of LIFE for about 3 weeks. And let me tell ya, missing that much of LIFE things start to build up!

Well now on to what has been happening in our life... school... work... church.... and the occasional date. Patrick and I have decided we need to spend more time just us together. SO we have decided to take a nature walk each week. BUT since we really need to get some excercise in any way, we decided to hike the Y until it gets too cold to! Our first Hike I got some pictures in. That hike was a lot harder than I expected. The next weeked we did a night hike Saturday after Pat got off work. It was really peaceful, and it helped that I could walk more than just one switchback without taking a break, like the first time. It is only a mile and a half hike but you climb up in elevation very quickly, at times it's hard to get a full breath! When we get to the top we have our picnic we packed. And just enjoy the peacefulness, and look at the stars! It  has been great! One of the best dates ever, maybe it's the company I shared it with! I think we are going to have to keep this tradition. so much fun!

Let's hope this doesn't happen this year!

he's on my fantasy team!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWWrdDNBRU