Valentine’s Day

The Letter V

Happy Valentine’s Day!!  Or in college I called it SAD day also (Single’s awareness day).  Hope you enjoy the day however you decide to celebrate it!

First off, I’d just like to say, I’d be lying if I said I was happy we hadn’t had snow yet.  Now I’m not a big fan of snow, but it did snow some yesterday, so that was exciting.  Now I’m done with it for the year… LOL :).

Hubby was so sweet.  He didn’t want me driving in case it got worse so he took me to work.

You know how women like new purses?  Well back right after we got married, hubby’s first married birthday, he got a new wallet.  Well that was a little over a year ago and he was starting to get the itch for a new one.  So for Valentine’s Day I’m pleased to say, hubby got a new wallet.  Since I’ve known him he’s always carried the Cowboy style, or Rodeo style I think is what they call them if you go to purchase one.  But this time, he decided to go with the trifold.

Now since it’s Valentine’s Day, I ran across a cookie that I figured hubby would like.  He loves M&M cookies.  He likes peanut butter & chocolate combo.  What better way than to put the two together!!

Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
adapted from here

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups (1 bag, 12 oz) mini M&M’s

Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2) In a small bowl, mix flour, cocoa, soda and salt using a wire whisk and set aside.

3) In another bowl, cream butter, sugar and peanut butter until light and fluffy.

4) Add eggs and vanilla and mix until combined.

5) Add flour mixture to creamed mixture and mix until combined.

6) Stir in mini M&M’s.

7) Roll cookie dough into 1-1/4 inch balls.

8) Place on parchment paper covered baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. Cookies will still be soft but will set up after cooling. Place cookies on cookie rack to cool. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

So I only baked off half the dough.  The rest is going in the freezer so the next time he wants cookies, we just have to bake them off :).

Happy Valentine's Day

My husband and I were cooking dinner tonight (a recipe I’ll have to share) and I had my iPod playing… ok well the iPod on my iPhone ;)… anyway Trace Adkins started singing “Chrome”, I like that song.  Then I heard this song.  This song really made me smile… “One Hot Momma”.  As women, I think we all feel this way at one point or another (the first part of the song) but the men in our lives feel the way he describes in the rest of the song.  If you’ve never heard it, have a listen.  And the Music video is great too.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

Valentine’s Day weekend

I love how people ask if I got my ring as an early Valentine’s Day present. Nope, I got a fridge :). I told him he wasn’t allowed to give me one on Valentine’s Day, Christmas, my birthday, basically no big holiday! So Friday was National Safety Pup Day and Lincoln’s Birthday. I’ll always know it as Nicole got engaged day… haha.

Over the weekend we headed to Branson for Tbug’s Cheerleading competition. They placed 3rd!! This set up was so much better than Tulsa (held at Union High School) ever thought about being. We haven’t been to the 2 other Tulsa setups but the one we went to, we were in the nose bleed section (so was everyone), all seats were far from the girls performing so forget about pictures unless you have a telephoto lens, which I didn’t. All the girls look like blurs in my photos. I was so disappointed. At Branson the stage was about shoulder height on me, the judges were set up about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way back and they were on platforms also so parents could get right up in front of the stage. I got some awesome pictures of the girls!

I was happy, I got some closer up shots of her!!!! (more…)