Long Lost Friends

We had the family Dumas over for dinner last night. She is my good friend from my hometown, he is her latin lover husband who is from Argentina, they now reside in Brazil with their 2 girls. My camera settings were all out of focus so the pictures didn't turn out that great and I quit trying. I made my trusty potato soup, but then tried a cobbler w/o self rising flour. Suppossedly you can add baking soda and powder to make it work but I couldn't find out how to do it so I guessed, and I guessed wrong. My peach blueberry cobbler didn't rise correctly, got a little over browned but was edible. This is why I hate baking but love cooking. Baking has to be precise while cooking isn't so rigid. Anyway it was 5 hours of food and fun, and they may come back Friday.

Date Night

We finally had a date on Friday night, we haven't done anything at all since Sept (I think), it could have been even earlier than that though, but I know it wasn't anytime after that. We didn't do anything spectacular just shopped a little and ate at Logans Roadhouse. We both ate our signature dishes. If you know Nate at all you'll know what he had,(chicken fingers) and I had buffalo wings. I always want to try them at every new restaurant we eat at so that I can find the best ones. My favorite ones are the dry ones and I ate them somewhere but have never been able to find them again.

When we were loading the kids in the truck to take them to my mothers Luke said "Mom you sure look beautiful, I wish I was taking you out."

And when Nate got home from work Luke told him "You know Dad you are taking out my girl." AWWW!!

Saturday was a hang out at home day, we walked around the woods, and stood right next to a rabbit for at least 2 minutes without knowing it. It finally bolted and gave me a good scare since it was 12 inches from my foot. Nothing like being scared of a bunny. My mom brought over a big ham dinner that night so I was off the hook for cooking, my only contribution was a bought peach pie and coffee.

Today was church and Nate is watching golf. We did head over to Cingular after church where I was added to Nate's plan and got myself a cute little red phone. There was this awesome iridescent plum phone for 200 more than the one I got and I knew what an idiot I was for wanting the plum phone but I couldn't help being such a girl and wanting a phone for color not function. I would never have got it, but I did handle it a whole lot.

I'm trying the CVS extra buck system as well and am still trying to figure out how to maximize my savings. I spent $71 the first time and received 23 extra bucks plus a $3 off coupon for the store, then I bought $26 worth of stuff for zilch and now have 10 extra care bucks plus a $3 off coupon. I may head over there today and get the new sale flyer or wait until the Feb monthly one comes out.

Science Club, Shock Collars and 1 Lunatic

Yesterday was the kids (only the oldest 2) first science club. It is from 1:00-2:30pm for the next 6-8 weeks and only cost $10, praise God for other moms who like to do experiments with other peoples children. Luke and I went and visited our previous next door neighbors who were so happy to see their favorite buddy.

Homegroup was last night at my house and normally that might only get a passing mention, but something strange took place that may be of interest. We are letting one of the couples who have a nuerotic dog borrow our super duper shock collar, and while we were explaining how to use it and what setting they may want to zap their dog with, Tia's husband wanted to know what it felt like to be zapped. We hooked him up (on the hand), gave the conroller to another husband, and the meeting took on a new demention (no that was not a sp error). There was laughing and cheering and fist pumping while the chant of WILL!, WILL!, WILL went on. Every time he was zapped and stopped his twitching the setting was bumped up to the next hightest level and the next round of antics were continued. It ended with him being zapped on the highest level, and congrats from all the other people whose testosterone is as messed up as his.