AHHHH....they're back!

I keep a pretty clean kitchen, but come spring I find myself cleaning the kitchen with a little more elbow grease. They just seem to invade southern kitchens everywhere come spring. I hate loading the dishwasher and finding at the bottom of my sink a swarm of ants!

ATTN: ANTS- beware the cleaning lady is in and you are not welcome!

Meal Planning Mondays

Monday: Pizza and Pawn Stars...a relaxing evening
Tuesday: Dinner with Natalie, Caprese pasta and salad
Wednesday: Chicken squares and Caesar salad
Thursday: Tacos
Friday: Dinner with the Nimmon's-grilling on the patio. Chicken sausage, grilled veggies, and strawberry salad with lime vinaigrette
Saturday: Breakfast, cinnamon rolls. Dinner with the family

In the times of life's most frustrating moments, those are the times that God uses to mold us and shape us. This is a song that had really spoken to my life lately, remembering that I am not in control and even when things get frustrating God is in control and I am completely blessed. ENJOY!

Birthdays are for celebrating!

This past Saturday my sister turned 20! I can't believe it, she is such an amazing young woman and God has great, big things planned for her!

We of course started the day out right, with a sister pedi!

We enjoyed the pampering and celebrated with key lime pie, and black cherry soda!

Our sparkly toes...we love the rhinestones!

That night we headed out with our family and friends to Maggiano's.
Dad, grandma, and James (unfortunately my mom wasn't there, she had a conference in Austin)

Drew and I enjoying a tasty dinner

Me and the Birthday girl!

Our good friends Tom and Kathy

And of course we had to end the night taking couples pictures in front of the fountain. This was the best one of Drew and I, but of course it is also the one of my brother in the background being goofy!

Busy cookin'

Lately I've been trying a lot of new recipes, and they are really tasty! Here you go, if you are looking for some good low cal recipes (especially if you are doing weight watchers) check out skinnytaste.com.

Slow cooked sweet barbacoa pork from skinny taste

http://www.skinnytaste.com/search/label/Pork%20Recipes

This was our Valentines dinner, it is Shrimp Scampi (not healthy at all) from cooks.com, but I cant find the exact recipe online, I'll have to post later!

Cilantro Lime Shrimp with cilantro lime rice from skinny taste

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2010/03/cilantro-lime-shrimp.html

Chicken Pasole from Real Simple

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/chicken-posole-00000000020559/index.html

The Blessing People

This last weekend at church we had a guest speaker Reggie McNeal (not former A&M quarterback) come and (obviously) speak. He gave us some stats on where the world is headed in terms of Christianity, and Asia is headed to great heights...so exciting! He really brought things into perspective that our job here on Earth is to bless people, and through that we pray that God will open up their hearts to him. He challenged us to bless three people this week, I have not yet done this (it is a huge stretch outside my comfort zone) I feel God saying get going. It is as simple as asking a waiter or barista, "how can I ask God to bless you." A simple question like that really does open up the doors. So lets get moving and become the blessing people!

Great Weekend

This has been a great weekend with friends.

Friday night I headed over the my aunt Ilma's house for a girls dessert night. My aunt Cindy is leaving at the end of this month to go to New Zeland with YWAM (yoouth with a mission). So we had an evening to get together and talk and pray for aunt Cindy.

(sorry I couldn't get it to a decent size, so it's blurry)

I spent Saturday with the Morris girls, we headed to pei wei for lunch and when Kate went down for a nap Emily and I had a great opportunity to chat and catch up. (Unfortunately no pictures here either).

Saturday night Drew and I headed out to Buca De Beppo for one of Drew's co-workers birthday. I got to meet a lot of the people he works with, and the food was really good! Unfortunately I did not get any pictures of Drew and I or our group.

On our way to church we got a call from Trent (he works with Drew), he invited us to the Stars game...we had such a blast. It had been awhile since Drew and I had been to a stars game, they lost, we still had a good time.