The Pampered Chef

Hey Everyone-

Just wanted to let you all know I started selling Pampered Chef now- so if you are interested in doing a cooking show or a catalog show please just let me know!!

Pampered Chef has great products for Wedding Gifts and Gifts for yourself or for friends.

Just think -if you are a Maid of Honor or family member putting on a shower for an engaged couple, we can set up a wish list for wedding goers to buy things the couple want off the wish list.

Great Ideas!! Just let me know!

Thanks
Ali

Big Move at a Crazy Time

So this weekend Trent and I are moving to a smaller place. We are going from 3 bedrooms 3 bathrooms and two level place to a two bed room and a storage room, 1 bathroom and 1 level place. WE are going to definitely figure out what true love is with the one bath room. I’m really excited to move because it will be a change and I will get to redecorate, and I’m also excited about the set up of the new place. The kitchen is going to be bigger and the dining room and living room are the entire length of the place so we will have more room for our table and for guests. Also another thing I am excited about is that our place now has a stackable washer and dryer in the kitchen and this place will have a side by side in the den/storage room. YAY!! It is definitely the small things in life :).

I’m going to miss having the two levels so you can have a division of rooms but I think that the cats are going to miss it the most. Homer loves to lay on the steps all day and night long and they both love to run up and down the steps to play and chase eachother. It is fun to watch.

Anyway I’m excited to move because that means that next weekend we will be on our way home for Christmas :) YAY!! Can’t wait!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our Thanksgiving was great….it was our 2^nd annual Iowa Orphan Thanksgiving at my place. It was so much fun! I really missed my family but it was so great to have our friends surrounding us with so much happiness. As I was doing the dishes I heard everyone in the living room laughing and talking and it was such a great feeling.

We had SOOO much food! I made the “famous scalloped corn” since no one had ever heard of that before and I made it last year also and they all loved it. I also attempted for the first time my Grandma’s secret pie recipe which the pie part was good but the crust was a disaster, so it pretty much became a second topping, but it was still good…but not as good as Grandma’s. It still brought back a lot of great memories though!

I also got my first lesson this year from our neighbor Vickie on how to prepare a turkey…GROSS!!! Seriously, you have to get really up close and personal with a turkey…eww…I’m glad I lucked out and got to watch and didn’t have to perform and butt stuffing…ewww…Turkeys are really slimy. But it was delicious.

All and all the 2^nd annual Iowa Orphan Thanksgiving was a success!! It was also our last event in the place we live now since we are moving December 10^th. YAY!

Alright I Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Harry Potter/ Sale Shopping Weekend

This weekend was VERY Productive. First I did some packing for our upcoming move. And then I helped my neighbor take care of some kids in need- We took them out to eat at Pizza Hut and had them watch a movie to keep their mind off what had happened to them.

Then on Sunday AM I got up and my neighbor and I went to the Leesburg Outlets to do some Christmas shopping / work clothes shopping. We hit up some GREAT sales and I got a bunch of cute things for work and the house and Christmas Presents J YAY!!

After I got home Trent and I then got ready and we went to Harry Potter with a couple of his friends from his work. It was a decent movie, I still like the other movies better but it was good. I think that I really need to read the rest of the books. I have only made it thru the 4^th book. I guess I am going to need to get a bigger purse since you can’t get Harry Potter for your Nook or Kindle.

All in all though I had a great weekend.

Now I need to get the house prepared for our 2^nd annual Iowa Orphan Thanksgiving day celebration at our place since we have the biggest kitchen and dining room area! I’m excited!

Warrior Dash Work out

So Trent and his co-workers got this great idea about doing a Warrior Dash next Spring. It is "3.11 hellish miles". Here is the website for you to check it out.
http://www.warriordash.com/register2011_maryland.php

The race consists of:

Running thru tires
running thru mossy trees
Diving into darknees and escaping the trenches
Jumping over junkyard stuff/cars
Climbing voer cargo nets
climbing over hay bales
crawling across nets
sliding down a slippery slope
walking a tight rope
climbing over walls
jumping over fire
and finishing with muddy mayhem-crawling under barbed wire fence in the mud.

It is all in that order too spread out thru 3.11 miles.

Now you can see the craziness That my husband wants to put me through. We are going to start out work out today so I will try to keep you posted. AAHHH!! I'm going to die.

Hopefully we stick to training out because this will be good for us.

Second to Last day

So back in October…actually October 1^st thru the 18^th I was temporarily out of work due to a mishap with all of the contractor’s contracts at my work. Some of us were off for a week and some are still out….which that really sucks.

Anyway I missed out on 88 hours of work, so there for our company was nice enough to let us do over time to try to compensate for the money lost while we were gone. So we did a simple equation of number hours missed divided by 1.5 for time and a half. Anyway I had 58.666 hours to make up and we could only do 2 hours extra a day and only 8 hours each weekend day.

ANYWAY…My point is I am so very excited to say that last Saturday the 13^th was my last Saturday working and today is my second to last day of over time!

I’m very excited to say that my last day of over time is on my Sister and Brother – in – laws birthday J YAY!! Many celebrations are due for this fact. YAY!!

From this experience I have figured out that I will NEVER be the person that works 60 hour work weeks and come in on the weekends…HOLY COW….ITS Hard!!!!!

Anyway I am thankful I got to make up my hours but I am so happy to know I am finally about done J

More Random Facts- working Hard

While working to make up hours of overtime for being on “temporary vacation” I found some more dumb facts I thought I’d share…..

More dumb facts

Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

This is why people should e-mail

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!

Wow I feel fat lol!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

Trent ….BE CAREFUL!!

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!

In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.

We know a Dr.Sueme

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E! Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!

Is this possible?

Mount Vernon, IA

All softball diamond lights must be turned off by 10:30 PM.

Guess we know why State Softball isn’t held there.

Baltimore, MD

It’s illegal to take a lion to the movies.----- SERIOUSLY!!

Rockville, MD

Persons may not swear while on the highway.

Good thing I didn’t have a car when we lived in Rockville…haha

Alright now..everyone enjoy...I enjoyed looking them up and wasting 30 mins :)