The New Year!

          I lost my camera! I'm so sad! I think I left it at Texas Roadhouse, so I am going to go today and see if they have it. I dont like to blog without pictures- the posts seem so lame!
but since it has been a month... I figured I would give you an update!

     SO I am taking 20 credits this semester, which is QUITE an adventure! But I am going to graduate in SUMMER! YAY i am so happy that I will be done soon! it is the only thing keeping me going!
   
           I love my work, and trudging through school, but soon it will all be over and i will just be working! ahh the anticipateion of graduating its KILLING me! But i dont think I want to walk. I really just want to get a picture or two taken in the cap and gown but i dont care enough about my degree to sit through a 3 hour ceremony... it just seems really really BORING!
I just want that piece of paper saying that i have accomplished something in my life :)

    Patrick is going to start the Isys program in Fall!

    i feel like my life is so boring! I go to school on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and work Tuesday Thursdays and Saturdays! But at least this semester Patrick and I are on the same schedule so we can meet up with eachother on campus for lunch!

    I dyed my hair again- It's dark again! I love it! It has a tint of red in it! the only think i don't like is that i wanted to go a little edgier so i tried to have straight bangs, and well i am not a fan, so we tried to fix them a little bit, and well i moved and we cut a little chunk of my bangs out! haha !! its funny now, but at the time i was a little mad.. but bangs grow so fast its going to take like 3 weeks and they will be normal again!
i really like my hair dark I think i works well with my complexion.  i would put a picture up, but again my poor camera is out in the world somewhere!

the BEST part of the hair cut is that i finally cut off all the hair that i damaged from bleaching it! so now it is healthy! I am going to just stay dark this year and get it to grow and be healthy!

other than school and work not much is going on over here! we are doing well and just trying to keep up with everything!

we are however, getting ready for another Super Bowl Party!
I cant believe its been a year already! this year has just FLOWN by!

overall it has been a great year that I get to spend with my best friend!

ER

well, last night was kind of scary. I noticed a few bumps on my arm that looked like spider bits, but they were a lot bigger and ouch-ier than i ever remembered a spider bite being. then the next time i looked i could clearly tell that i had broken out in hives or welts all over my arm and my eves, and i itched every where. i went to take a bath hoping that it would help the itching. but then i noticed that my throat was getting really really tight. I monitored my breathing an throat for a couple more minutes, and  it was getting a lot worse. so we went to the ER, and got me on an IV. it got to the point that i could barely breath. the thing that scares me now is that i have NO IDEA what i am allergic to.
what i ate that day (now no making fun... i am on vacation right)
Trixs cereal, some peppermint bark, a piece of a chocolate orange, a refried bean and cheese burrito, and that's IT!!!
I was wondering if any one has had an allergic reaction to switching birth controls?
or from being on Paxil?
leave me a comment if you have any ideas. i cannot go to an allergist wile i am on the medication they gave me to get better. i am just afraid to eat anything!!!

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!!!