Dreaming of Spring

Today I find myself dreaming of Spring and Summer. I always hate Winter, and after Christmas the hatred just worsens. I am so sick of the cold and snow. The high for today is only in the upper teens/low twenties and the low for tonight is only 8 degrees. I'm sick of the grass being dead and the trees being bare.

I'm dreaming today of 75 degree temps.,  green grass, sunshine, green leaves on the trees, BBQ on the back patio and the dogs playing in the green back yard! It can't come soon enough for me.

This is what I wish my back yard looked like right now...

Instead of this! :-(

Winter, I wish you would go far far away!

Good News and Bad News

Its only 10 a.m. and I've already had a crazy day. The bad news came at about 7:15 this morning. While I was finishing up getting ready for work, my husband called and said his brakes went out... Yikes!!! He was on his way to work and thankfully had only gotten to the end of our street when they started to go out. He made it to the shoulder safely, but he said it was a terrifying experience. Had there been cars coming, things would not have went so well. We had to call a tow truck to come pick up his car and tow it to our mechanic. While the tow truck was there, we noticed that Jake's car was leaking fluid (we're assuming its probably brake fluid). I'm hoping and praying its something that is easily fixable and relatively inexpensive. We shall see.

The good news is... once I finally was on my way to work, my cell phone rang and it was my OB/GYN with my progesterone test results. If you remember... my previous number before taking Clomid was 0.5, which meant I wasn't ovulating at all. They like your number to be at least a 15. Mine this month, with the help of Clomid, was 28.8!!!! Yay!!! I'm so happy. If I'm not pregnant, my cycle should start again sometime late this week or weekend. If it doesn't, I'll be able to take a pregnancy test by the weekend and it should tell me one way or another.The nurse on the phone said if I get a neg. pregnancy test this time, she'll prescribe another round of 50 mg of Clomid for next month since it helped this past month. I'm trying to wait patiently, but thats definitely easier said than done. This month makes it a full year of being off the BC pill. I'm praying we will get even better news this weekend! Please keep us in your prayers!

I hope you all are having a good day on this freezing cold Tuesday. :-)

Sweet Bacon Crackers

Here is another recipe for a yummy treat we had at our Super Bowl party last night. My sister made these and they are always a HUGE hit. Here is the recipe.

Crescent Pizza Pockets

Those of you that know me, know I'm not a cook, but I had seen these on a commercial and wanted to try making them for our Super Bowl party. I made some with pepperoni and some with just cheese. For my first time, I thought they turned out pretty well and they seemed to go over well at the party. I made them slightly smaller than this picture shows because we had so many people to feed. Here's the recipe.

Super Bowl Party 2011

Well our Super Bowl party was a success this year!! We had about 22 people over and we all had a great time!!! We had TONS of great food. I even tried a new, easy recipe which I'll post later. I had everything cleaned up and put back together, the dishes in the dishwasher and ready for bed before midnight... so thats what I call a success!! Here are a few pictures...

The food table with lots and lots of food on it!

The counter with more food and drinks on it.

Watching the game.

Landon and I watching the Puppy Bowl upstairs.

Cupcakes that my sister made and decorated for the party!!

Super Bowl Party Decorations

Jake and I host a Super Bowl party every year and this year I decided to be a little more festive and get some decorations for the party. Here are a few pictures to show you my decorations!

Going downstairs to the party.

The food table (what is normally my scrapbook table). I managed to get all the cute decorations at the Dollar Tree!!

 A close up of the food table. The big football in the center is a candy dish. The little footballs on either side are salt and pepper shakers that I got from Dollar General. The bowls will be for chips. :-)

The cute decorations over the food table.

The candy dish filled with roasted peanuts for the party.



The counter in my scrapbook room all decorated for the party.

More Valentines Day Decorations

Hope you are all having a great weekend. Mine is going great so far. I've spent most of today getting ready for our Super Bowl party tomorrow and I have pictures of my decorations that I'll post in a minute... but while I was out shopping for party supplies and food, I found some really cute V-day decor at Target and Michaels. I just love these colors! Here are some updated pictures of my kitchen and front door.

Our dining room table all decorated for V-day. I got the table runner, napkins and red plates from Target. All the candle holders are from Partylite, the ribbon is from Michaels and the confetti is from Schnucks.

A close up of my centerpiece. The inside is filled with little heart shaped red hots! :-)

A close up of a place setting. The red charger is from Walmart which I bought at Christmas time for our New Years Eve dinner at church. The white plates and silver napkin ring holders are part of my set that I use every year for our New Years Eve dinner at church. The little red plate and the napkin are from Target.

A partylite votive holder that I tied some cute ribbon around to make it more festive.

Our bakers rack decorated for Valentines Day.

A close up of some more Partylite candles decorated for Valentines Day.

My cute Valentines Day candy dish filled with V-day peanut m&m's.

The next two pictures are of a set of dish towels I got today at Target. :-)

Sign for our front door.