Blog Challenge #10: To Infinity and Beyond

Doesn't this guy just make you want to smile:) 

For the last edition of the blog challenge I am sharing my infinity and beyond!

My Goals for the Future...

*start some kinda workout routine-I am way off at this current time and have just gotten plain LAZY!

*explore some DIY projects for the house

*take a photography class and rock the cool camera we have

*be a hostess more often-I tend to be a MAJOR homebody and need to put myself out there more!

*stop and smell the roses-I always feel like I have to be doing something

*lay off the TV more and get a hobby (EWWWW!)

*find ways to love my hubs and little squirrel more

*begin talks about family expansion in the next 100 years or so!

Thank you for joining me on this blog challenge adventure.  It has been a blast and who knows, maybe I will just keep going!!!!!

Blog Challenge #9: Kitchen's Closed

I have to admit, we are not so adventurous when it comes to eating out.  I wish we were, but it's expensive to eat out and not enjoy it!  We usually frequent places we know are a sure thing and with the ultimate picky eaters (Mike and Luke) our choices are beyond limited.  Last weekend, my parents kept Luke so Mike and I had a little date night.  We ventured out to try a new restaurant close to where we live that I have been hearing rave reviews about...

We LOVED it!  We went at 6:00 pm on a Saturday night and walked right in and were seated.  Bonus, because we were crazy hungry!  We opted for the fried mozzarella sticks (duh!) which had a rockin' great marinara sauce!  The bread basket was so-so, nothing that special.  We each ordered a separate meal.  Here is my little plate o' heaven...


Penne alla Vodka with chicken

 This is Mike's...

Baked Ziti with Chicken

We split this...

Holy Cannoli

I would highly recommend this restaurant!  The service was great, the atmosphere was quaint, and the food rocked my socks off!

Blog Challenge Day #8: Book Worms Are Cool!

Summer is the best for reading.  During the busy school year it is almost impossible for me to get into a book.  By the time my head hits the pillow I either want to sleep or watch mindless TV.  Good thing the summer TV schedule is awful and I can get in my reading quota for the year.  I also LOVE requesting books at the library, waiting for them to come in, and going to get them!  It's like Christmas in July really!  And if the book is awful I'm out only a 5 minute drive!  Here is what is currently sitting on my nightstand waiting to be read...

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

Parents magazine-July (no spine due to the poor, sweaty door to door postman!  Those men and women deserve a raise during the summer months!!)

The complete book of Curtains, Drapes, and Blinds  (thank you Melissa for letting me borrow this!)

What are you reading this summer?

Blog Challenge #7: Hey, Good Lookin'! Whatcha Got Cookin'?

I love to know what people are eating.  That was usually the first question my mom asked every time she saw my sister and me after school.  Well, I have followed in those same footsteps and love to find out what everyone around me is feasting on or has in their fridge and pantry.  This is hot topic #1 at lunch everyday at school. 
Here is the current state of my fridge, freezer, and pantry.  (FYI:  I love what my fridge looks like right after grocery shopping-so full and pretty and ORGANIZED!)

Fridge favorites include:  Horizon Organic Cow Milk, sliced cheese, Barefoot twist top wine, chocolate pudding, pickles, and Dijionnaise mustard

(We do have fruits and veggies-they were drying on the counter)

Freezer favorites:  Freezer pops, frozen mugs for milk, garlic Texas Toast, 100 calorie ice cream sammies

Pantry favs:  Oats oatmeal, Pop Tarts (brown sugar), Baked Cheetos, my brown box of greatness that holds all my WW recipes that is alphabetized and wonderful!

Blog Challenge #6: It's All About the Benjamins, baby!

For this blog challenge I am to imagine that I wake up and there is a crisp hundi sitting on my pillow.  How would I spend this cool Benjamin you ask....

On this...

Laser Hair Removal

Now, I know that $100 dollars would probably only get me a small fraction of that baby bottom skin I so desire, but it would also keep me from looking like this...

What are your thoughts about Laser Hair removal?  I would love some first hand experience to help me on this hairLESS journey!



Blog Challenge Day #5: Happiness is...

I looked up the definition of happiness on Wikipedia and I think I am more convinced that happiness cannot have a true definition.  I think everyone has their own definition of happiness that is meaningful to their life.
Here is the meaning of happiness in my life...

Meeting up with an old friend, talking for 4+ hours at Chick fil A, and never missing a beat!

Our adorable children who also acted as if they had known each other for years!

Doing something really special for my parents with the most special people in my life!

Having a sister!

Sweet treats with my 2 favorite guys!

Okay this last one I CANNOT believe I am about to post, but truly happiness consists of this in the summer!

The sleeping beauty and his scary ogre momma!

Happiness Friday Peeps!

Blog Challenge Day #4: Do the Shuffle

So for Day #4 I found my ipod hidden in my nightstand and hit shuffle. 
Here are the 5 songs that played!

1.  Stan  by Eminem and Dido

2.  Whipping by Pearl Jam

3.  Intergalactic by The Beastie Boys

4.  Money by Pink Floyd

5.  All Along the Watchtower by Dave Matthews Band

Blog Challenge Day #3: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite things

This is a fun one! 
Here are some of the many favorites in my life!



My little one chillin' his 'roos!



Can't get enough of JT!

Yummy goodness!

Too many flavors-not enough summer!

Summer pedi's!

 

A daily facial!



The most comfy shoes on the planet-Sanuks



Anti-Kindle:  A good ole book that you can touch the pages from the library and a book light



Deliciousness in a box

Laugh if you must, but you may catch me in this most days!  Love my Moo-Moo's!

Woods family fun!



Blog Challenge Day #2: Let's Make A Deal

Remember the old game show Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall?  Ya know the one where you could possibly sit next to a couple dressed as bacon and eggs or win a cage full of chickens or a donkey by choosing the wrong door?  Well, my favorite part about the game show was the last 5 minutes where Monty Hall would stroll into the audience and ask Little Bo Peep if she had a hay penny or a box of bobby pins in her purse.  And lo and behold she would and would win like $20 smackers!  I remember watching that and saying, "one day I will be on that show and I will take the biggest purse I can find and pack it with the most random items so I can win some fast cash too!" 
Sadly, the game show went off the air and was later replaced with some lame updated version.  (FYI, it was probably off the air before I was even born or allowed to carry a purse), so this blog challenge will have to replace the whole in my heart left by Monty Hall.
I have emptied the contents of my purse for you to see what I carry on a semi-normal basis.  Remember I am a neat freak, so I let it get a little more messy than I could normally stand to keep the audience of 5 interested:)
First off, here is the purse I am currently carrying...
This Coach bag was found last year at the Coach outlet in San Marcos on our trip home from San Antonio.  They were having a huge sale and I got this little gem that was originally marked at $549.00 for......$78.00!

Here are the contents of my purse...

Wallet, 3 sets of keys, 2 chapsticks-I have an obsession with Natural Ice chapstick, $4.00 and some change, an empty sippy cup, make-up bag, broken hair clip, package of Wet Ones, band-aids, 2 packages of Colgate Whitening Wisps, a red pen, gum, Crackberry, lipstick, pick (which I have since discovered people don't use on their hair anymore, weird!), receipts from today's purchases, Bed Bath and Beyond coupon, a mound of Wet Naps from Rosa's, fruit snacks, baggie of goldfish, Kleenex, hand mirror, camera, and my notebook.

I hope I win $20.00 and Monty Hall is behind door #3!

Blog Challenge Day #1: Behind the Blog

For Day 1 of the Blog Challenge I wanted you to know the lady behind the babbles.

I put my husband up to bat to tell you 10 things about me that you may not know and then I created a list of 10 things about myself as well.

Husbands list:

1.  Brooke has a Hershey Kiss toe (I had to change the name of my toe to make it PC, that is not what he calls it normally!)

2.  Brooke worked at Take It Home Video when she was 15.

3.  Brooke was grounded for a whole summer for sneaking out of the house to go meet a boy.

4.  Her nicknames are Booger and Doodle.

5.  She was the driving force behind me breaking out a window at church camp.

6.  Brooke hates touching drains or any open grates.

7.  She loves Hot Tamales in her movie popcorn.

8.  As a child, she had wolf tendencies and it was reported that she would sometimes howl at the dinner table.

9.  Brooke is scared of the Superman ride at Six Flags and once cried the whole time we were riding it.

10.  In nursery school she stuck a rock up her nose for fun and then her parents proceeded to take her to the doctor to have it removed-not fun!

My list:

1.  I always have an escape plan wherever I go in case someone gets all "Godfather" on the place.

2.  I hate touching door handles anywhere in public.

3.  I LOVE grotesque things like popping zits and plucking wild hairs.

4.  I am scared to touch the inside of my belly button.

5.  When I am in a dressing room I will (a) grab the flab around my middle and make it talk and/or (b) do crazy dances to the elevator music piped into the changing areas.

6.  Squirrels are my favorite animal and I have been known to have a secret voice I use to talk to them. Very much a squirrel-whisperer!

7.  When it would rain and I was in the backseat of the car as a child, I would look out the window and pretend I was in a music video and sing my heart out.  Hello-channeling my inner Debbie Gibson!!!

8. Believe it or not, but I was the tallest girl in my 5th grade class.

9.  I am a firm believer that every house should still have a Yellow Pages phone book-to heck with technology!

10.  I am obsessed with things being in their perspective places, like the sink faucet MUST always be in the middle of the sink before I can leave the house.

I hope you enjoyed Day 1 of the blog challenge.  Day 2 will be...

Let's Make a Deal

Empty those purses ladies and let's see what's inside!