My Birthday...

My Birthday Cake!

Yesterday was my Birthday! I turned 23...yikes I'm getting up there! :) jk I had to work all day but when I got off I celebrated with my parents and grandparents. We went and got ribs and then came back and ate dinner and then had this delicous 7 layer cake. It was VERY rich but good. Here are some more pics of my cake...

View from the top

The 7 layer cake...mmm good!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Hope you all had a day filled with fun, family, good food, and great company!

Let the countdown begin...

4 Days until Christmas!

Can you believe it? Only 4 days until Christmas? YIKES!!! Hope everyone has most of their shopping done by now! Trust me you do not want to be out shopping right now. It's CRAZY!!! Parking is worse than shopping. You have those crazy people that want to fight over a spot or race you to get that good parking spot. If you are going out go early. Trust me it gets worse as the day goes on.

5 Days until my bday!

Yes! 5 days and I will be 23. Wow! I'm getting old! :) lol jk This year I will be working on my bday. :( Oh well. You kinda expect it when you work retail. I get off at 6 though and then I'm driving to either Arkansas or Dallas. Not sure which one yet but its looking like Dallas. I will be there for the weekend with my parents. Either place it will be lots of fun! Well I'm off to work. Get to shopping!!!

Peanut Butter Emporium...

Peanut Butter Emporium is the best! They make peanut butter, fudge, gift baskets, and on top of that they have a restaurant where they serve all of those and deliver to area businesses and schools. One of the best things they make besides the peanut butter is their famous peanut butter pie! mmm Inside the restaurant they have a display of the history of peanut butter and all kinds of peanut or peanut butter related items. When I graduated high school one of my first jobs was working here. I made the peanut butter, fudge, and peanut butter pie. BTW those are secret recipes so don't try and ask for them. :) I found out the other night that there was a fire at PBE. The restaurant and cleaners they owned next door were burned completely. Also the owners lived above PBE and they have lost their house and all of there possessions. It is sad to see this happen to PBE but especially to the family because they have lost everything and now have nothing. I hope that one day they will be able to open PBE again so that people can go back and enjoy lots more peanut butter!

Check these out!

I love it when I find a neat blog or web site. Here are a few that I have found and love to read!

The first one is called $5 Dollar Dinners. This lady posts every day a recipe that only costs $5 dollars to make. She also has some good tips and ideas!

The next one is called A year of CrockPotting. This lady is cooking something in her CrockPot every day this year. She mostly does food items but she has done some other fun things as well! Her latest thing to make was Christmas ornaments using her CrockPot. Very neat!

The last one is called Free 2 Be Frugal. She has frugal ideas and will post about free items that you can get. I have just started reading this blog but so far it looks like she has great ideas and some frugal tips!

To view any of these blogs just click on the link and it will take you there. Enjoy!

Let it snow...

Well winter is here! Yesterday we had the first snow of the season. Temps were in the 30's for a high and the low was 19!!! The wind was very strong making it seem even colder. During the day it got colder and colder and rain, sleet, and snow starting falling from the sky. When I left work at 6 the parking lot was covered in a white dusting of snow and my car had a layer of ice. Now that I work up north in the city I have a longer drive home and the weather also tends to be a lil worse up where I work. Going home was fun on icy bridges and driving on the road with people that didn't realize how bad it could be. Oh well..I made it home safe and sound and made myself a warm cup of hot chocolate! mmm The weather men here are predicting even more of this fun weather on Mon and Tues of this next week. They are saying it will be worse than what we had yesterday. Great that is not what I wanted to hear. I hate driving on the icy roads. lol Guess I need to move back to TX so I won't have to! Hope everyone is having a great week! Stay warm!!! :)