Happy Birthday Gramma Honey!

My Gramma Honey had the best birthday.  Why do you ask...because it is Halloween!  Now, my Gramma Honey passed away back in 1998, but our family still celebrates.  It is more of a bittersweet holiday for us.

To honor my Gramma's birthday every year my Mommy and I purchase something that reminds us of her.  Normally it's a Witch and if it has purple on it it is a double bonus because that is her favorite color. Needless to say I have about 12 different Witch related items decorating my house and every time I see one it puts a smile on my face. We always go up and visit her grave site and put flowers and sometimes we eat Taco Bell with her.  Today my parent's and I went up to visit her and my Uncle came too so it was great little visit and shared a few memories of my Gramma. 

I think of my Gramma everyday and wonder how she is doing, but then again I know she is having a fantastic time up in heaven watching over us.  A quote from my favorite movie Top Gun she is, "Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving  the bird!"

Gramma Honey...I love you and hope you had a wonderful birthday!

"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy." ~Eskimo Proverb~

Betty Croker I am not!

My dad asked me to make him some chocolate chip cookies because my mom said, "you don't need them." Well he is my Daddy, so of course I am going to make them for him.  Now I am not a "cooker or baker". I don't have a lot of patience, so it never goes so well.  Anticipation and the smell of them is so strong and irresistible!

Finally the time goes off and to my surprise out of the 3...yes 3 baking sheets 2 were completely black on the bottom and NOT edible!  I have a double oven, 3 cookies sheets, baking a double batch of chocolate chip cookies and I have to resort to using the 1cookie sheet the cookies turned out edible on!

Needless to say, my name is Aubrey and is not going to be Betty Crocker anytime soon!!

HSN...My new favorite channel

I have this strange obsession with watching infomercials when I can't fall asleep at night or when I am waiting for something else to come on television.  Now I have purchased a few items from infomercials in years past, but then I started watching HSN.

Now HSN is infomercials on steroids! I mean there is everything on this channel from my wonderful new best friend Tom (my GPS), Cricut Imagine, and today a Versacooker.  I mean hello its Today's Special so I had to purchase it.  I have no clue who Wolfgang Puck is, but he is a pretty amazing chef & made this Versacooker that is a slow cooker, oven and something else look amazing! We all know I don't have a clue what to do in the kitchen.  It is like flipping a coin if the meal will turn out edible.

Anyways, I can't wait for it to come to cook in it. Hopefully have it turn out fantastic and edible. I will keep you inform on how it turns out!

My Cricut Imagine

I love to do scrapbooking & card making, so HSN was doing a 24 hour craft day. Well all I have to say is that I watched as much as possible & wanted to purchase everything.  We all know I wasn't allowed to purchase everything since Josh was home with me (darn jury duty), BUT I was allowed to get the new Cricut Imagine!

Now for you non-scrapbook people, the Cricut is a cutting system that cuts out alphabets & images and makes scrapbooking a blasts.  It cuts from 1/2 in all the way up to 24 in.!  The newest version of the Cricut is the Cricut Imagine.  This machine is a printer & cutter, so it gives you endless possibilities!  I have having so much fun playing with it and getting to know how to use it.  I am still in the beginning stages of learning all of it but I have made my first card with it & LOVE IT!

 :::::The Machine:::::

 :::::Dining Room table...aka...New Craft table:::::

:::::My 1st card for a baby shower:::::

Needless to say I don't think I will be doing housework anytime soon. =)

2nd Anniversary

Two years ago today I became a married girl! I can honestly say that the day can be summed up into one word...surreal. I always thought I was the one who would live but the phrase, "always a bridesmaid, never a bride." but then came Josh.  The day was amazing from hanging out with my best friends & Captain, my walk with my Daddy to the Top Gun Theme, the AMAZING party that my parents put on, and to the AMAZING DJ who kept the dance floor packed all day, and to end it with "I've had the time of my life" was priceless.

I never became a Bridezilla because there were only a few requests that I had:

1. Walk down the aisle to the anthem to Top Gun.  No Josh has nothing to do with the Navy, but that is hands down my FAVORITE instrumental piece  of music
2. Have a Chocolate wedding cake. My favorite cake is chocolate & that cake was to die for! The entire room smelt of chocolate
3. My dress to have a little fun in it with the green theme of the wedding.

And all of my requests came true, the cake was fantastic even a year later! 

Now we may not of had the most romantic 2nd Anniversary with going to dinner to Claim Jumper & watching Monday Night Football, but I know Josh loves watching football & sometimes life gets in the way.  But then again, that is just us!

Cheers to many more years Josh!

I know my beans

Tonight Josh made dinner since it is my long travel day for work. I told him I was craving Mexican food so we decided on burritos with taco meat and rice.  He was awesome and cooked the entire meal while I changed and took a little siesta on the couch.

Once dinner is ready he wakes me up to come and eat.  As I get my tortilla heated and ready to put my beans into place I notice that they beans have a weird color and texture to them. As I sniff out my beans with a crinkle nose and odd look on my face I have Josh telling me "just to eat them they are fine!" Not trusting him and knowing that these are not the normal Rosarita Refried Beans I go on the hunt for the can. And what do I find...yes these are Rosarita Beans BUT they are BLACK! Ha, I knew it and I don't eat black beans! They have a strange texture, smell weird, and taste like dirt.

Needless to say, I know my BEANS and I am proud of it!

PS.  GO CHIEFS!!!

Airports...

For this wonderful Labor Day weekend I am lucky enough to spend it with my cousins.  I had to make the decision if I would drive the 6 hr drive alone or if I would just fly up here. In the end I chose to fly.

Flying these days are out of control. One would think that majority of the population knows the strict security rules that the airlines & airports have, but no.  Not only did people in front of not have his/her ID ready to show to go up to security they even forgot their boarding pass...really?! Since when do we get our boarding passes issued at the gate? Then there are those that think its ok to bring water/soda bottles, etc etc. Come on people read the rules or just watch the news! Signs are everywhere!!

Now the actual time in the air wasn't that bad, could use a bigger bag of pretzel's, but hey, times are tough.

As we land and are taxing to the gate out of all 20 gates to debark the airplane the gate we go to is occupied by another airplane.  So instead of getting in on time we sit on the tarmac for 20 mins.  Then comes the dreaded baggage claim.

Yes, I know I could've made it easier on myself for not doing checked baggage, but that is a whole different topic of its self.  People are CRAZY at baggage claim. They are like vulture's. First of all the second you get off the plane doesn't mean your baggage is waiting for you downstairs. Again, you just read the signs and it will let you know when the bags are on their way. The best part is when the belt starts moving is when the vulture's come out. They all run to the belt and block each other out waiting for his/her luggage, but when you are the one trying to squeeze in to get your bag no one moves. If they do move out of the way its only body width that doesn't include room to turn and put luggage down.

I guess what I am trying to say is this. Just read the signs and know what you are expected of at the airport and when you are at baggage claim if you leave a 2-3 ft. path between you and the belt it would make it easier for those people to get their luggage and for you to wait for yours. :)