Day 308, December 23rd

On Friday, I had a very important phone call in the morning, and then spent the rest of the day preparing for Christmas!! We worked a half day from home, and then didn't have to return to work until 2012!! You can imagine how nice that is!!

Every year my sister and I spend crazy amounts of time baking cookies for gifts for our family as well as for our Annual Tamale Party.  So Friday afternoon, Ann headed over to my house to get into cookie mode.  We usually bake at my dad and Sara's house, but since the refuse to get a double oven for us to utilize this time of year, we decided it was all the same to be at our own pad.  We made 6 different cookies, and even brought back the green trees which haven't been around in some time.  It was a long but lovely night!

Day 289, December 4th

Sunday, I went shopping with my sister for Christmas.  We spent the whole day out and about getting presents for our familia.  It was a productive day for us!
When we got back to the house, Ann's car had a flat tire, which was sad, but she called AAA, they came and saved her and then I got to working on homework I had been slacking on! Ryan made dinner, I finished working and our night could begin!
After dinner I did a bit of baking and made some yummy chocolate chip cookies.  I baked up the cookies and then we watch Dexter per usual.  Seriously if you aren't watching it...you should be! And that was the extent of our crazy Sunday!

Day 283, November 28th

Monday, back to the real world.  It was very nice having four days off, made for quite a productive weekend.  We hit the gym, cooked up dinner then relaxed on the couch for the night.  While we were in full relax mode, Ryan suggested we make the grilled bananas again for a nice little dessert.  So we pulled out all the fixings and made ourselves a yummy treat.

Day 205, September 11th

Sunday was really a day of not too much excitement. It was the first day of football, so that was really how Ryan spent his day.  I did some chores around the house, read a little and we headed out to the grocery store.
We had some bananas that were on their last leg, so I made some banana nut muffins for the week.
Since it is the 10 year anniversary of September 11th, we had taped all the specials on during the day, and spent the night watching some of them.  It was actually quite a depressing night, and I'm not sure why we did it, but it was a reminder of that day, and how awful that tragedy really was.

Day 199, September 5th

We were super smart about our weekend vacation, coming back, and still having Monday off, because of Labor Day.  That's really the nicest thing to have another day to recover!
We searched for kayaks to buy, they aren't cheap, spent some time with the kids, and went grocery shopping.
Even though we spent the weekend feeling bad about ourselves for knowing exactly how many calories we were eating every meal, I decided I wanted something sweet, so I made some yummy chocolate chip cookies.  The recipe is from the Abs Diet Cookbook, so technically they aren't that bad! Great ending to the perfect weekend.

Day 152, July 20th

On Wednesday night, Ryan played baseball and spent my evening in the kitchen.
We were doing a potluck at work on Thursday, and I was volunteered for the dessert.  I felt so much pressure to do a good job so all my co-workers would be so impressed with my skills.
I made up personal marbled cheese cakes and I think they turned out pretty darn good.  Ryan came home when I was finishing up, and helped swirled in the chocolate, such a professional he is.
The ladies at work said it was good...they could have lied, but that's okay, at least my ego is feeling good!! 

Day 104, June 2nd

On Thursday Ryan had a baseball game, so after work I met Amy and Elise at Aunt Chilada's for  happy hour!! I wasn't planning on going, but since it was a stones throw from my house how could I refuse?! 

It was lovely catching up with the gals, we got so caught up that Amy was almost late picking up Heath from the airport!! Luckily he was a bit delayed so he was never the wiser.

Once I got home I decided to finally use up the going bad bananas and make some banana bread.  The last recipe I used I really liked, but couldn't remember where I found it...if only Ryan had written it in my recipe book!! :) So I found another one that used ingredients I had, it wasn't as good as the first one I made, but it was okay. Ryan came home and we went to sleep.  Wild Thursday!! 

Day 80, May 9th

Back home Monday, so no more pizza roll dinners, back to the gym with me!!  We hit the gym then made dinner, lemon garlic shrimp and grits which is quickly becoming my favorite!! While cleaning up, Ryan politely asked that I make chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, which he has been asking for for weeks! Since he made such a lovely Mother's Day dinner, I decided to get to work on the cookies. Plus I sort of use any excuse to bake now that I have a Kitchen Aid!!! Don't mind my post gym look!!
I made the cookies, and we caught up on all of our shows from the past week.  We watched Michael's last Office and literally I cried, I'm tearing up now thinking about it!! Then watched Glee, Modern Family, The Killing, all the wonderful shows everyone should be watching!! Nice relaxing night back at home with all the boys!