Mail

Yesterday, we received this in the mail! Carl's mom sent us a super nice Halloween basket.

It has so much cool stuff in it! There are plates and napkins, window clings, cookies cutters, Halloween sprinkles, a super cute halloween dress for Jez, and of course a little candy. THANKS MOM!!!!!

I figured since mom was so nice to send it to us, I would take pics and post them here. My doggie is so cute!!!!!! She just looks so sassy in her dress

Here is one where you can see what her dress looks like:)

She just loves it, and so do I!!!!

winning weekend

This last weekend my mom, Rodney, and Nate came to visit. They came to go to the balloon fiesta but we never actually made it there :) We mostly hung out and my family played wii golf. It was really fun to watch my mom and Rodney play golf on the wii. They are just so funny.... I think my mom now wants a wii for Christmas so they can play video games... mostly just the golf and bowling, i guess:).

We did go to Albuquerque on Saturday and while driving, my mom suggested we all go to the hard rock casino. I don't think any of us really cared either way, but my mom offered to give us all $50 to have fun with so we all went. Everyone split up, except Carl and I who went and played the quarter slots. It was so fun! The last time we did this was when I was 21 and Carl was only 20 so he didn't get to play.... this time was better because we got to sit by each other, talk and having a good time while we BOTH played.

Well, we went to a little room and played some more and ended up winning (I took pics with my phone but I guess I didn't click 'save' before I clicked off the camera so it wasn't on there).Carl won more than I did, but we both came out with more money then my mom gave us (and she didn't even want any of the money back, so we got to keep it all!!). It turns out that Carl, Nate, and I all won money and my mom and Rod just lost the $50 they played.... it is sad but true. I think that is just how it goes because the same thing that happened in Vegas for my 21st birthday, the kids won and my mom and Rod didn't. It was so fun and all-in-all a great way to spend an hour while we waited to eat dinner (and my mom and Rod were not upset, just glad that we all had fun and that we won some money).

It was a good weekend and I look forward to seeing them again for Jessica's baby shower in a few weeks :)

FOOD!!

I wanted to post a pic of a salad I made the other day that was delish! It had garden tomatoes and avacado with spinach and italian dressing.

I also wanted to show you what yummy thing I made today :)

Yesterday I had the thought of how good some chicken soup would be, if only it didn't have chicken in it. So today, I made some soup! Here is what I did:

• Pour some veggie stock into a pot (yes this is really how I cook... I don't really measure things)
• Cut up about 3 stocks of celery and 1/4 of an onion.
• Cook the celery and onion in a skillet with about 1 Tbsp of butter and 1 Tbsp of minced garlic.
• While the celery and onion are cooking, chop up some baby carrots (i did about 1/4 of a bag) and put the carrots in the pot with the veggie stock.
• When the onions and celery are clear, put them in the pot with the carrots.
• Add seasonings (i used parsley, chives, tyme, and oragano).
• Add noodles and cook for about 20 min.

The soup was SO good! It is a lot like chicken soup without chicken LOL. I ate it all up with a bit of bread and thought it was very flavorful and was surprisingly filling. If you are in the mood for some super good soup that is really easy to make, I would suggest trying homemade veggie soup like mine :D

cinnamon rolls

Last week I made cinnamon rolls.... from scratch. It was so easy and yummy! I made them on Wednesday and they were all the way gone by Saturday. I think they were enjoyed... lol. Carl and I ate them for breakfast everyday until they were gone. They were so sweet, I didn't even put icing it. I added raisins and I think when I make them again, I will add nuts too. Here are some pics of how they turned out :)

Quesadillas!

On Friday, while Carl was at school, I looked up some recipes for some corn

we had leftover (we bought some on the cob corn and had about 6 left that we hadn't eaten yet). I was searching for something yummy and came across black bean & corn quesadillas. I thought.... "hmm.. those could be good." So when Carl got home, he grilled the corn and I homemade some tortillas from a mix that Uncle Pat bought us. We cut the corn off the cob and got out a can of black beans, grated some cheese, and made some YUMMY dinner! Here are the pics!

Sorry if the pics are a bit blurry... i took them with my phone :) I would recommend if you are hungry, to make these and eat with just a bit of salsa. YUM!!

Breakfast!!

Carl came home on Friday with these:

Some farm fresh eggs! There is a girl he goes to school with that has some chickens (don't worry, she doesn't have any roosters) and she was happy to part with these for us.

They are a bit weird colored, but today we made a veggie omelet with onions, orange bell peppers, tomato, fresh spinach, green chile, mushrooms, and a tiny bit of soy cheese. I took out my phone and caught some yummy pics of our great breakfast with farm eggs :)

You can see the tomato and green chile really well, but we added a bunch of veggies and only 3 eggs. It was so good!

Our nighttime visitor

Carl and I had a little visitor last night. We were laying in bed reading (well, I was reading and Carl was playing with his iPAD) when we heard a weird noise by our bed. I asked Carl to move the bag (I thought the noise was a plastic bag moving because we had the fan turned on). He got down to move the bag and....... there was no bag. He moved some stuff and he said, "MACEY, COME HERE!!! LOOK!!!!" Well, that usually means it is a spider or cockroach or something I really don't like, but here is what we found:

A FROG!!! We guessed it came in through the doggie door and found our room. It was so funny and he is so small! I was super glad that it was not a spider or something gross, but we both laughed and Carl put him outside by our garden.