Incoming and Birthday Cake!

The hubby's birthday was good! He says he had a good day, even though he slept through most of it, lol. Anyway, my redvelvet cake turned out great! Although I know a few things for next time:

1. Use a little more food coloring (lol).
2. Put more frosting in between the layers.
3. Pay attention so that I don't buy fat free cream cheese for the frosting.

The cream cheese frosting recipe I got from my cousin, because I mess up frosting recipes every time. Her's is simple, for every 8 oz of cream cheese, use 1 cup of powdered sugar. Simple, just have to let the cream cheese soften for awhile. The first time I used it, the frosting came out amazing. This time, my frosting was runny, I added an extra cup of sugar, and it was still pretty runny. Couldn't figure out why. . . my cousin asked if I used light. . . oops, I accidentally bought fat free, for some reason, light and fat free make your frosting runny. . .so anyway, it didn't look the best, but it tasted great! :)

We don't have round pans, so I had to use square, lol.

I dusted the top with coacoa powder to try and make it look a little prettier, lol.

It was yummy! :)

Here soon I'll have golf pictures posted from last week, I plan on getting that posted at some point today.

And now for my incoming!

From Melissa.

I love the notcard! The puppy reminds me of Rusty when he was a puppy :)

So, that's all for me. Had a busy day yesterday with my youngest nephew and my niece, they were here all day. So we had lots of fun.

Oh, if everyone could please take a moment and say a little prayer for my Aunt. She was in the hospital for 4 days, then came home for one night, and is now back in the hospital. She has an infection in her foot and yesterday they found that it was an abcess. So she is supposed to have surgery today. Hopefully everything turns out okay. So, if you could say a prayer for her, it will be very much appreciated.

Hope everyone is having a good week so far.

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Photo An Hour, Friday, August 17th

So, I was browsing random blogs recently (which I tend to do often) and saw a few people that had done this post, a "Photo An Hour" for a whole day and then shared the pictures on their blog, so I decided it would be fun to do. Although I'm sure other people's lives are a lot more interesting than mine, LOL. So anyway, this is what I ended up with!

Good morning!! Believe or not, this is actually sleeping in for me, I usually wake up at 6am, so I was happy that I slept longer.

8am: The temp was already 86*F outside, gonna be a hot one! (Ended up being about 102*F yesterday, ugh).

9am: Paying Bills since it was payday.

10am: Getting my roster set for the first week of Fantasy (American) Football (this is one of my 3 teams this year).

11am: Favorite time of day, mail time! And it was all for me :)

12pm (noon): Put some chicken breast strips in water to defrost and then marinate in Italian Dressing, and Dad grilled them up for dinner, so yummy!

1pm: Yummy pork tamale for lunch.

2pm: Editing pics and posting about Incoming Mail on my blog.

3pm: Sorting through wedding picture proofs to see which ones my Mother-in-law marked so I know what enlargements to order.

4pm: We got to borrow Dad's big blue truck!

5pm: Delivering the mattress our friend bought since he has a little car.

6pm: It's okay to eat dessert before dinner, right? On our way home, best cookies ever, white chocolate macadamia nut!

7pm: Got home to this, my niece fell asleep laying on my Dad like this, too cute not to take a picture!

8pm: Relaxing and reading my Kindle while the hubby took a nap before work.

9pm: Watching part of an old black and white movie with the hubby before he had to get ready to leave.

10pm: Bedtime for me! I actually didn't end up falling asleep until a little past midnight, but my phone was dead, so I stopped taking pictures after this one, lol.

So, I hope you enjoyed my photo-an-hour. And yeah, my Friday was a little boring, maybe I'll do this again sometime when I have something more exciting going on :)

Oh, and I am currently reading: The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes, by Dawn Schiller. It's a memoir and it is soooo good! I can't believe the stuff this girl went through having a relationship with John Holmes, the things that he did to her and put her through toward the end of her relationship with him are absolutely horrific, I am amazed that she survived everything. It is really an amazing book about strength and survival. I highly recommend it, it's about 500 pages long and I'm almost done with it after starting it 5 days ago. It is pretty graphic, a lot of violence toward her, drug use, and sexual descriptions, so if you're offended by that, it may not be a book for you. Just wanted to give you a warning, they have a good description of it on amazon as well.

Okay, well, I'm off. Today is the hubby's birthday. I made him his favorite breakfast (biscuits and gravy) and sent him to bed. Now I need to go see if my red velvet cakes have cooled so I can frost them, if the cream cheese has softened enough for the frosting, lol. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far!

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Some Incoming Mail

After almost 2 weeks of no mail, everything in the mailbox today was for me! I was all excited, that never happens with us living with my parents.

So anyway, I'll get to the wonderful incoming :)


First, I did some shopping last week at LaPapierre. I adore her stationery and when she was having a special to celebrate her son's birthday, I couldn't pass it up!

Beautiful packaging as always!

I ordered two A5 Grabbags this time, 5 different designs in each, 10 sheets of each different design, great way to get a sampling of designs! :)

These two designs were both in the grabbags, so I ended up with 20 sheets each of them, yay!

I really like the one all the way to the left in picture.

My 8 surprises! And I love them all! And that's my first airmail envelope ever, lol.

So, my hubby is a great sport. I still had a 10% off coupon code for Le Box Boutique, so he let me shop there this week as well :)  So of course I bought more Washi Tape! I love her deal that she has where you can pick up to 16 feet in up to 8 different designs. Also bought a sampling of Tissue Tape to try. 10 feet in 5 different designs that I picked :)

I love the simple yet cute packaging!

Went with mostly solid colors this time around in the Washi Tape.

I love how the tissue tape looks, can't wait to use it!

And the last thing to share with you is the coolest piece of mail I have ever gotten!! I was a little confused at first when I saw it in the mailbox, but I seriously can't stop looking at it, it's so cool!!!  This was from my penpal Melissa. Thank you, thank you, thank you Melissa! I love it!! 

A cutting board! :) And when we finally move the red will match my kitchen stuff perfectly (my color scheme is red & black).

And a recipe on the back for Chocolate Zuchini Cake, can't wait to make this! It sounds yummy!

Thank you so much again Melissa!! :)


So, that's all for today. But here soon will be some other posts. I have golf pictures from Wednesday, still need to upload and edit them. Today I have been doing the "Photo An Hour" that I have seen a few people post as I've been browsing blogs and it looks like fun, so I'll have that up in the next couple of days. And tomorrow is my hubby's birthday, so I'll have pictures from things I have planned tomorrow! Wish me luck baking a red velvet cake from scratch, I guess practice makes perfect, lol.  Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!


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Plans Keep Changing. . . .

Tonight the plan was to go bowling with the inlaws. We need to practice since league starts up Sept. 5th.  

The new plan is to let the hubby sleep until about 8pm, since they called and asked him to work midnight-6am. UGH. The other graveyard driver disappeared for over a week, and then they finally got a hold of her and she's "resigning".  Thank goodness a new driver will start next week, so the weeks of 6 days will end quickly.

In other news. . . I ordered some stuff on Etsy in the last week. I had coupon codes and so I decided I may as well. Now I should be done for awhile, I hope. I ordered more Washi Tape today, just couldn't beat the deal, plus I had the 10% off. Although now I'm thinking it may not have been a good idea to order things as I have been having mail issues still. . . 

I just realized today that one of my bills never came and it should have been here last week :-/  Good thing I looked at the calendar and saw that the bill was due this Sunday, because I had completely forgot about it! And it's for our storage unit, so that wouldn't have been good at all. I asked them to send me a monthly bill because I knew I would forget without that reminder.

So, I'm not sure what to do about the mail issue. Again today I got mail for another street, and I'm wondering if that's what is happening to mine? But I'm still not getting it, and it's very frustrating.  Would it be odd for me to ask the people on the other streets if they have been getting mail for our house?  I'm not sure, I don't want to seem rude to someone, but I just want to know where my mail is. It's frustrating.

Anyway, I'm off to find something to keep me busy for a little while.


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A Quiet Day

Just another quick note. Things have been going great! Lots of fun visiting time! A quick rundown:

-Dad's surgery went great and he's feeling great, even took the dog on a little walk today.

-Dinner with hubby's family last week, so much fun! 

-Chargers won their first preseason game, woohoo!

-Hit like crud at the driving range (me & hubs both!).

-Finally met hubby's Aunt, she's very sweet!

-Awesome pool party with the inlaws over the weekend.

-Hot, hot, hot! Been over 100 degrees for almost a week, ugh.

-Mad at my brother's wife (long story).

-No mail for over a week, I was keeping an eye out for a package and a letter (that was sent before 4th of July) and neither has shown up, stupid mail service!

That's about all for now. I have had such a horrible memory, heat=headaches, so all of the stuff we've been doing, there are no pictures because I kept forgetting to put fresh batteries in my piece of junk camera. And my cell phone camera has been an even bigger piece of junk :-/

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

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A Quick Hello. . . .

Just a quick note to say: the next week or so is going to be highly busy, so I probably won't be around much.  Hubby's sister is in town and also found out today that his Aunt and Uncle will be coming down this weekend as well, so lots of plans to visit, among other things! Also, my Dad is having knee surgery today, second one on this knee, everyone say a little prayer that this surgery will fix the issue (and that he will be a good patient for me).

But I promise I will soon be back and when I do I will probably have lots of posts to share with all of you! 

Hope everyone is well!


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(American) Football Season Has Arrived!!!

I am so stoked! Unfortunately I wasn't able to see Sunday night's game, but the first Charger preseason game (we're playing the Packers) is Thursday, and I cannot wait!!!

One fantasy draft the evening of the 15th, and the league that I am commissioner for is drafting on the 19th! 

But I'm more excited to see what's going to happen with my Chargers this year, I hope that this will finally be our year!

Go Bolts!!!!

Me and Defensive End Corey Liuget at last year's Chargers Training Camp.

Anyone else excited for Football?? :)


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