Yeah, So?

Yeah so my Cowboys got their butts handed to them last night. I'm getting over it ...
I have lived through a good 15 years of disappointment - I have become used to it.

I guess I figure if I put it out in blogland SOMEONE will hear me - please please please hire me a new coach! Mr Wade is probably a good guy - Lord knows he's a good ol' Texas boy, but he is NOT a good coach for us. We need a new one and we need one THREE YEARS AGO.

I was sooooooooooo looking forward to fall - to the cold weather, boots, football all weekend, chicken wings .... please no more of these stupid games. If you're gonna lose OK lose - but don't just HAND people the game ... you may as well have not even gone to D.C. you know what I'm saying ???? You could have stayed in Dallas and did what you did.

I mean for REALZ Jerry Jones ... I am just one little ol' girl here in Houston, but if this is a decision that needs to be spurred on by some good ol' fashioned ass kicking then OK, I will come home for a weekend and take care of business. SOMEONE needs to.

Kah

Ballard

About three years ago Conrad and I looked and fell in love with a house in Tomball, built by Plantation Homes. We loved it SO much we ran home and immediately and did our budget to see if we could afford it. We COULD - but it would have been hard especially if we had to hang on to this house for any period of time. I was honest with Conrad and told him I loved the house, but I really didn't want to have a house that caused us stress and we had the floor plans so we could always build it later. It had a lot of cool nooks and crannies and one of them was this cool small bedroom they had set up as a nursery. (It was a former model home, still set up as a model)

Back story is that for about a year I had been watching this one item in the Ballard Designs catalog. It was a giant safety pin that was $45 and I LOOOOOOOOVED it. But $45 ??? I don't even know why I am so drawn to it, probably because it's very different and I've never seen anything like it. So when we walked into this Plantation Home imagine my SHOCK when I walked into the nursery and saw my safety pin hanging on the wall. It was JUST as beautiful as I knew it would be, only for me I would have hung it in the laundry room ... the salesman noticed and said we if bought the house he guaranteed he would throw in the safety pin. LOL!

Well we decided not to get the house but since I had seen the pin in real life I decided $45 was worth it. I went online to order it and they didn't CARRY it anymore! HEARTBREAK! I looked on Google, Ebay, you name it ... I looked EVERYWHERE for my pin. Nothing ...

Well imagine my surprise this weekend when I logged on and it is BACK. Not only is it back, it's back in a set of THREE (including the original one) for $35. I am pulling the trigger on this one! I am ordering it today ... and I am so excited! It's on backorder until 11/21 but I do not care! I have waited three years for this!!!

Kah

So it was a surprise party

That was the thing I haven't been able to talk about for MONTHS ... I am so glad it's over so now I can stop worrying every time I post something on Facebook or talk to the birthday boy!

So our high school buddy (from Dallas) lives here in Houston. He turned 35 today - and his wife planned him a surprise party and he really WAS surprised. You'd mostly expect this for 40, 50, 60 year old birthdays .... not 35 so I think he was completely caught off guard.

The fun part was the Lindsey's flew in from AL - old poker playing and church buddies .. and his dad and brothers were there, his best friend from high school, Bob (now lives in Michigan) and good friend from high school Candice who lives in Dallas - she came with her family. So he went on a fishing trip with his dad and bros for three days and all these people snuck in then.

Saturday was a fun day - Conrad and I went to breakfast with Bob. I haven't seen him since he flew in for our wedding 2.5 years ago --- then Bob and Conrad went to the gun range. They came back to our house and while we were catching up, Candice and her brood showed up at our house. It was a really good time! Then we went over there, had the surprise, the party itself was a lot of fun - and these two old people here (us) partied it up til 2 AM . WHOOP!

This morning we all drug ourselves out of bed feeling like 84 year olds - and went back over to Adrian's to tell Bob and the Lindsey's goodbye. They all decided they wanted to see the land Conrad and I bought for the new house- so we took a field trip over there and then hugged everyone goodbye on the street and separated from there.

We are a REALLY close high school group. I have no idea why  and I don't know many other ones that exist like that. We were good friends as kids and had each others backs as young adults and maybe it's not so easy to let that go. As good things happen in life with marriages and kids and jobs - you want to share it with your friends and we have always done that. We have people here in town with us and some as far away as Michigan and Ireland, but we still stay really close together and I am super proud of that. When Conrad and I met back up at one of these little reunions five years ago it was REALLY easy to start dating him. We had the same friends and we both knew they would have never approved the union if we weren't both really good people. It was easy to trust that.

So it was a super fun Labor Day and it was sort of sad to see everyone drive away this morning ... but it was so nice to have them all back for a day.

Kah

Labor Day

I think Labor Day (with the exception of Thanksigiving) is my favorite work holiday. I sooooo very badly needed this long weekend. We have something exciting going on tonight (can't talk about it yet). Tomorrow the excitment continues and then dinner at Texas Roadhouse ... and Monday not a DARN THING ...

When I got up this morning it was almost cool outside, there was for sure not much humidity. I have college football on, it's nice and breezy outside, I can hear the washing machine, the house is SUPER clean ... and my precious baby angel is just layng around enjoying her weekend too. I have one of my fall Yankee candles burning and am in absolute HEAVEN. 

I adore fall and all the things that go with it. I come ALIVE in fall. I dress better, look better, have more energy. I get creative, I cook, I bake - I am just all around a nicer person. LOL 

I am so excited Labor Day is here- because it means fall is literally less than a month around the corner. GO FALL! ....... oh and for me, GO COWBOYS! 

oh and for my husband and also a good friend - GO TEXAS A&M!

Kah 

Another Busy Week

It was end of the month at work - which is always busy ... I have a busy Labor Day weekend coming up. My friend Tosha will be 40 tomorrow so I have a nice lunch and present planned for her. She is SO excited ... today Kelley and I had matching doc appts which was funny. Same doc. Hers was 15 minutes before mine, so we just went together ...

and all of that adds up really to a pretty busy week. Conrad and I came home tonight and started cleaning the house. We have had no energy (lazy) these past few weekends - so tonight we Swiffered and vacuumed and washed guest room sheets, dusted, cleaned the bathrooms ... I washed all the cool Pampered Chef my sister gave me last week on her way out of town ... so I've been busy tonight.

Another week has sort of come and gone. I will be SO happy for Monday off. YAY!

Kah

Tacos

Tacos are one of my favorite foods. If you told me I had to choose five things/meals I could only eat from now til the end of me, well I'd for sure pick tacos. My favorites ever come from Pappasito's!

I decided to make some the other day - and I didn't have a spice packet! I almost always use Old El Paso. PANIC!

Then I read one of my cooking blogs and they gave the taco spice recipe.

1/2 Tsp Salt
1/2 Tsp Pepper
1/2 Tsp Oregano
1 Tbsp Garlic Salt
1 Tbsp Chili Powder
1 Tbsp Cumin

Mix together with your meat and I added a few tablespoons of water at a time until I got the consistency the way I wanted it. Just like on the packet it says 2/3 cup of water. I think that's too much. So I just poured some water in a cup and drizzled some here and there until I got it right.

I think it was some of the best taco meat I ever had. I won't buy the packets anymore. Also I would maybe add a few dashes of hot sauce. We like our tacos spicy!

Kah

P.S. If I  had to choose five foods/meals from now til the end of my days that I could ONLY eat:

Tacos, Chicken N Dumplings, Spaghetti w/ Garlic bread, Hamburger w/ fries, Grilled Cheese like my grandma (and me) used to make

Baby

I got myself a Silhouette Machine - and it is SWEET. It's a vinyl cutter and in my opinion, way better than the Cricut machine - because with this you don't have to buy cartiridges. You can use your own Jpegs, use the FREE CD of shapes I got with purchase OR you can buy shapes for $.99 on the Silhouette website and you own them forever. It cuts vinyl, paper, lables, whatever you want.... so AWESOME! I used it tonight for the first time.

A co-worker and his wife had a baby two weeks ago - and her shower is this weekend. Her name is Addison, Addie for short and I just love love love giving "grab bag" type gifts. Usually I go with a basket but I noticed at the last shower I went to, almost everyone brought a basket. So I went with a nice pale pink pail - and I think she can use this forever. I used my cutter and personalized it. SO CUTE!

I stuffed it with little sherpa boots, designer looking pacifiers, University of Alabama stuff (her parents went there), socks, Bodreaux's Butt Paste, pink zebra fork and spoon, onsies, washclothes, headbands, etc ... I think it's so cute and I hope they like it!

I just love how the bucket turnd out! I think it's so cute and useful.

Kah