Maggie wasn't a fan of the fire trucks.
But the abundance of salt water taffy thrown at her seemed to lighten her spirits.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Trucks and Taffy
The 3 of us found our way to a parade on the 4th.
But the abundance of salt water taffy thrown at her seemed to lighten her spirits.
But the abundance of salt water taffy thrown at her seemed to lighten her spirits.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Has it really been 4 years?
Four years ago today, I got hitched. Luckily for me, I got a good one.
To Kory:
To Kory:
- Thank you for teaching me that it's okay to be myself, despite what others may think of me.
- Thank you for teaching me to have my own opinion and to think for myself.
- Thank you for teaching me that life isn't just about going through the motions and that I need to enjoy it now, rather than always waiting for "someday" to come.
- Thank you for teaching me that there's more to music than country. :)
- Thank you for trying your hardest to make all my hopes and dreams come true.
- Thank you for embracing my inner foodie by buying me my own copies of "The Hotdog Show" and "An Ice Cream Show" so I can watch them on demand, and for DVRing specials about cotton candy, hot chocolate, pizza, etc. so I can watch them whenever I feel compelled to do so.
- Thank you for bringing me a treat home from work today. ;)
- Thank you for encouraging me to pursue my dreams, even though my fears usually keep me from doing so.
- Thank you for teaching me that it's okay to take risks and to think outside the box.
- Thank you for being so smart and for working so hard to be a good provider. I am always amazed that you are so eager to learn as much as you can about current technologies, new programming languages, and other computer stuff.
- And thank you for being such an amazing dad!
Monday, July 7, 2008
You've got to be kidding me!
Was The Bachelorette this season a joke? I am completely shocked that she chose Jesse. That wasn't how it was supposed to end up. COME ON! Jason was perfect for her! I'm speechless.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
A lot of pennies saved...
Kory saw a Target team member buying her milk at Wal-Mart on Saturday. I guess even the employee discount doesn't amount to much when buying groceries at Target these days.
I like Target, but only for clothes and some decor. I usually buy everything else at Wal-Mart because I don't like to waste money on groceries. I guess some Target employees feel the same way.
I like Target, but only for clothes and some decor. I usually buy everything else at Wal-Mart because I don't like to waste money on groceries. I guess some Target employees feel the same way.
9 Months
My sweet, happy, and energetic baby is 9 months old today...and I just adore her.
(Thank you Jessica for the picture!)
(Thank you Jessica for the picture!)Saturday, July 5, 2008
Too bad
Ben didn't place in the top 3 at the Olympic trials today, so he won't be going to Beijing. Regardless, he's still an amazing athlete to have made it this far. Way to go Ben!
Friday, July 4, 2008
Go Ben Go!
My cousin Ben took first place in his heat at the Olympic trials last night for the steeplechase. He has one more race to go, but it appears that he has a good chance of going to the Olympics. Good Luck Ben!!!!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Marketing Basics
I was just paid a visit by a traveling salesman who was trying to sell me some window cleaning solution. I can't say I really understood the fella's presentation, but 2 things about it did manage to catch my attention.
1. In an effort to demonstrate that the cleaning solution was non-toxic, he opened the lid and licked a good amount of the solution from the inside of the bottle...twice.
2. The solution had a faint lavender scent to it and he told me that in addition to being a great window cleaner, it was also a great deodorant.
I turned him down and wished him luck. In any event, don't you guys think a good BLT (minus the L and the T) sometimes just hits the spot? I don't think anything else would have quenched my lunchtime hunger like my bacon sandwich did today. I really want another one now.
1. In an effort to demonstrate that the cleaning solution was non-toxic, he opened the lid and licked a good amount of the solution from the inside of the bottle...twice.
2. The solution had a faint lavender scent to it and he told me that in addition to being a great window cleaner, it was also a great deodorant.
I turned him down and wished him luck. In any event, don't you guys think a good BLT (minus the L and the T) sometimes just hits the spot? I don't think anything else would have quenched my lunchtime hunger like my bacon sandwich did today. I really want another one now.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Really Long Vegas Post
Well, we made it back safe and sound from our Vegas vacation. We had a great time and I think Maggie was a pretty good traveler overall. Here's what we did.
Our first stop was obviously In-N-Out. I got a cheeseburger, animal style. And Kory got the usual - a double-double, animal style. We also got animal style fries and a strawberry shake. I think next time I will forgo the animal style on the fries. It was too messy.
Maggie liked her first In-N-Out experience...and her fry.
Following lunch we visited the Cupcakery. Wow, their cupcakes were SO much better than Mini's it makes me sick....not the cupcakes, the fact that they're so much better. My favorite was Southern Belle - a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Kory, of course, got banana. Yuck. I think he does that so I won't ask to share it with him. That dirty dog. As you can see, they got a little smooshed in the car, but they tasted great.
That night Nigel made us some really awesome Chicago-style deep dish pizza. The chunkiness of the sauce scared me at first sight, but I must say that it was delicious. Kory and I will definitely be going to Chicago to chow down on some deep dish.
On Wednesday we went on a tour of Ethel's Chocolate Factory.
Such pretty chocolates. We got a free one at the end.
Then we went on a tour of the cactus gardens outside the factory.
We ate at Capriotti's for lunch and had some excellent sandwiches! The turkey wasn't the sliced deli type, it was real shredded turkey breast. If you mention you're a first-time customer, you may get lucky and get a free brownie like we did.
That night my mom made us all some ravioli for dinner. And for those who are interested, ravioli is both singular and plural. To say raviolis would be incorrect.
We swam A LOT in Larry's pool. It was a great pool and stayed at about 88 degrees throughout the week. This would be a picture of Michelle, Jeff, and Kory swimming underwater. I'm not pictured. I still can't go underwater without plugging my nose. Maggie also loved the pool.
On Thursday, Kory and Jeff played golf at an awesome course. Larry's friend Gino works at the Piute Resort and let them play for free! It would have normally cost them about $239 each. They thought it was neat to have their clubs cleaned for them and to have GPS in their golf cart. I think that was the highlight of the trip for both of them. Thanks again Larry for setting that up for them!
While the boys golfed, the girls went to the outlets. Then we went to Panera Bread for lunch. It was just like Paradise Bakery and my salad was really tasty! That night Larry treated us all to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. It was really good. Sometimes a good beef lo mein and some Szechuan chicken just hits the spot, you know?
Later that night we hit up Fremont Street for the Fremont Street Experience. It really was quite an experience! The huge movie screen over the street was amazing.
I also tried my first deep fried Twinkie at the Mermaid Casino that was featured on the Food Network. It tasted like a funnel cake and it was delicious! Michelle got the deep fried Oreos, which were good as well. I pretty much love everything deep fried. I wish I could just go somewhere and order a bowl of fried batter. Yum!
Friday we went to breakfast at The Original Pancake House. It was very good. Here's an omelette.
And here's a stack of pancakes.
The omelette's are baked for 18 minutes. The pancakes were perfect and the syrup was so good. This place is known for its apple pancakes, but I chose something different since baked apples make me gag.
Then we walked the strip to see some of the hotels and to shop. It was pretty hot that day. By the time we got to the other side we were ready to be done, but we had to make it back to our car. Luckily we had a nice dinner at the end. Maggiano's was great! Their meat sauce was incredible and the portions were huge. We will go back for sure. I tried some of the gnocchi and the sausage ziti and they were very good as well.
On Saturday we just kind of chilled at Larry's house, went to a fun outdoor mall, hit up In-N-Out again, went to Frys, and then went to the Red Rocks Buffet. We didn't end up going to the Spice Market because it was far away and Red Rocks was given pretty good reviews on Yelp.com. It was good. I think with any buffet you sacrifice some quality for quanity. I really liked the gelato, the pot stickers, and the chili verde fajitas though. Regardless, it was a fun experience since Kory and Jeff had never tried a Vegas-style buffet before.
On Sunday we went to church, took naps, relaxed in the pool, and headed home. It was a really fun trip. I can't wait to go back. I was amazed at how much there is to do there and how nice Vegas really is once you get away from the strip. And the heat wasn't really too bad.
Oh, and I won $66.50 in an interesting sort of way playing slots. We all signed up for the players club at the Rampart casino near Larry's house because my mom read that if you signed up, you got $25 in free slot play. Anyway, so I was playing my free money on the slots and I somehow broke the slot machine. When the dudes came over to fix it, it was completely frozen, so they opened it up, filled a bucket with quarters, and told me to take it and if it wasn't enough to come back and they'd give me more. Anyway, I had no idea what was going on, so I took my bucket full of quarters, played a few of them in another slot machine and won $7.50 more. I then went and cashed out what I had in my bucket and it totaled $66.50. I guess I stuck it to the man, but I am still confused by the whole ordeal. I'm assuming they thought I had been playing on the machine all night and it had been broken, so they were trying to appease me so I wouldn't complain. Little did they know I was playing their money and I only had $8 left to play. I should have gone back and said it wasn't enough. I wonder what they even meant by that. Weird.
Our first stop was obviously In-N-Out. I got a cheeseburger, animal style. And Kory got the usual - a double-double, animal style. We also got animal style fries and a strawberry shake. I think next time I will forgo the animal style on the fries. It was too messy.
Maggie liked her first In-N-Out experience...and her fry.
Following lunch we visited the Cupcakery. Wow, their cupcakes were SO much better than Mini's it makes me sick....not the cupcakes, the fact that they're so much better. My favorite was Southern Belle - a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Kory, of course, got banana. Yuck. I think he does that so I won't ask to share it with him. That dirty dog. As you can see, they got a little smooshed in the car, but they tasted great.
That night Nigel made us some really awesome Chicago-style deep dish pizza. The chunkiness of the sauce scared me at first sight, but I must say that it was delicious. Kory and I will definitely be going to Chicago to chow down on some deep dish.
On Wednesday we went on a tour of Ethel's Chocolate Factory.
Such pretty chocolates. We got a free one at the end.
Then we went on a tour of the cactus gardens outside the factory.
We ate at Capriotti's for lunch and had some excellent sandwiches! The turkey wasn't the sliced deli type, it was real shredded turkey breast. If you mention you're a first-time customer, you may get lucky and get a free brownie like we did.
That night my mom made us all some ravioli for dinner. And for those who are interested, ravioli is both singular and plural. To say raviolis would be incorrect.
We swam A LOT in Larry's pool. It was a great pool and stayed at about 88 degrees throughout the week. This would be a picture of Michelle, Jeff, and Kory swimming underwater. I'm not pictured. I still can't go underwater without plugging my nose. Maggie also loved the pool.
On Thursday, Kory and Jeff played golf at an awesome course. Larry's friend Gino works at the Piute Resort and let them play for free! It would have normally cost them about $239 each. They thought it was neat to have their clubs cleaned for them and to have GPS in their golf cart. I think that was the highlight of the trip for both of them. Thanks again Larry for setting that up for them!
While the boys golfed, the girls went to the outlets. Then we went to Panera Bread for lunch. It was just like Paradise Bakery and my salad was really tasty! That night Larry treated us all to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. It was really good. Sometimes a good beef lo mein and some Szechuan chicken just hits the spot, you know?
Later that night we hit up Fremont Street for the Fremont Street Experience. It really was quite an experience! The huge movie screen over the street was amazing.
I also tried my first deep fried Twinkie at the Mermaid Casino that was featured on the Food Network. It tasted like a funnel cake and it was delicious! Michelle got the deep fried Oreos, which were good as well. I pretty much love everything deep fried. I wish I could just go somewhere and order a bowl of fried batter. Yum!
Friday we went to breakfast at The Original Pancake House. It was very good. Here's an omelette.
And here's a stack of pancakes.
The omelette's are baked for 18 minutes. The pancakes were perfect and the syrup was so good. This place is known for its apple pancakes, but I chose something different since baked apples make me gag.
Then we walked the strip to see some of the hotels and to shop. It was pretty hot that day. By the time we got to the other side we were ready to be done, but we had to make it back to our car. Luckily we had a nice dinner at the end. Maggiano's was great! Their meat sauce was incredible and the portions were huge. We will go back for sure. I tried some of the gnocchi and the sausage ziti and they were very good as well.
On Saturday we just kind of chilled at Larry's house, went to a fun outdoor mall, hit up In-N-Out again, went to Frys, and then went to the Red Rocks Buffet. We didn't end up going to the Spice Market because it was far away and Red Rocks was given pretty good reviews on Yelp.com. It was good. I think with any buffet you sacrifice some quality for quanity. I really liked the gelato, the pot stickers, and the chili verde fajitas though. Regardless, it was a fun experience since Kory and Jeff had never tried a Vegas-style buffet before.
On Sunday we went to church, took naps, relaxed in the pool, and headed home. It was a really fun trip. I can't wait to go back. I was amazed at how much there is to do there and how nice Vegas really is once you get away from the strip. And the heat wasn't really too bad.
Oh, and I won $66.50 in an interesting sort of way playing slots. We all signed up for the players club at the Rampart casino near Larry's house because my mom read that if you signed up, you got $25 in free slot play. Anyway, so I was playing my free money on the slots and I somehow broke the slot machine. When the dudes came over to fix it, it was completely frozen, so they opened it up, filled a bucket with quarters, and told me to take it and if it wasn't enough to come back and they'd give me more. Anyway, I had no idea what was going on, so I took my bucket full of quarters, played a few of them in another slot machine and won $7.50 more. I then went and cashed out what I had in my bucket and it totaled $66.50. I guess I stuck it to the man, but I am still confused by the whole ordeal. I'm assuming they thought I had been playing on the machine all night and it had been broken, so they were trying to appease me so I wouldn't complain. Little did they know I was playing their money and I only had $8 left to play. I should have gone back and said it wasn't enough. I wonder what they even meant by that. Weird.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Yard o' Korn
The neighbors brought us this tonight:
They say the kettle korn business has been pretty slow. There must be some sort of correlation between the mortgage industry, the price of fuel, and kettle korn sales. When I figure it out, I'll let you know. Regardless, I feel bad for them. They were hoping to pay off their kettle korn supplies by the end of the summer, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. I will admit, their kettle korn is top notch. They brought us some of the leftovers from the event they entrepreneured at today. They added cinnamon to it this time to kick it up a notch, and I must say that it was a surprisingly good addition to the already tasty treat. Kory told him about the neighborhood ice cream party that I won and he got excited and wants to make kettle korn for the event. So, I guess I'm now spearheading the first annual neighborhood carnival on our side yard. Mark your calendars for August 30. Anybody got a cotton candy machine I can borrow? I may as well go all out.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Vegas or Bust!
We're going to be in Vegas this coming week visiting my mom and Larry. Of course that's not our only purpose for going...we plan to swim and eat a bit as well. I have spent many a night researching good buffets because Kory has never been to one in Vegas and that's really just a shame. I think I have it narrowed down to the Spice Market Buffet at the Planet Hollywood. If any of you would like to agree or disagree with this selection, please speak up. Here's what else I plan to eat.
Probably some of this
and this at Maggiano's,
one of these at Chicago Hot Dogs (if the place still exists),
a few of these at In-N-Out,
one of these at Capriotti's,
a lot of this at the Spice Market,
and one of these at The Cupcakery.
Oh, and maybe, just maybe, one of these at some random casino on Fremont Street.
I will report as soon as I return. Please speak up if you think I'm missing anything. Don't expect me to divulge too much information about what we did on our trip though, because I'm told that what goes on in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Friday, June 20, 2008
So what did Emily win?
A Wienerschnitzel hot dog on the run.
Needless to say, it was dear to my heart and now I miss it. But I suppose that's just what you have to do sometimes for the sake of the blog. Sacrifices must be made and tears may be shed.
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