Snakes on a Plane!

WE LOVED IT!!!!! If you want a really good "bad"movie to see this summer, this is the one my friends! Some great one-liners in it! Spend the muthaf$ckin' dough and watch Samuel L. Jackson in one of the funniest performances of his life.

Arriba! Yo quiero un mas margarita por favor, un grande!

We are going to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for the honeymoon, and we are so excited! I think just about every other night at least we are looking up reviews and more pictures on www.tripadvisor.com. This is an awesome website by the way if you are planning a vacation anywhere. You have some losers that are gonna complain about everything, for example there was a post on our resort, Dreams that a coffee table in their hotel room had a chipped corner. C'mon if you are that bored that you notice the coffee table, you've got some serious thrill issues. The table could be broken in half when I checked in, or spontaneously catch on fire and I could care less, YOU'RE in MX on vacation! But you better believe I'd get a picture of it burning!
We are really looking forward to a nice vacation though. We've had to save up leave all year and we are using just about everything on the wedding and then the honeymoon. We'll be in Mexico for a week, and I tell you what, we won't wanna come back. Yo practico mi espanol y esta bien. (Been practicing my spanish, I am pretty good). One of my crew partners is Puerto Rican, and he has been working with me for awhile on my Spanish so I am pretty decent now. I had a good base, I am from TX after all, so I knew some basics, but needed some refreshing. As long as we do not end up in a Mexican prison with the federales we'll be ok!

Pecan Pie recipe

Mom's Pecan Pie


What you'll need:




1- 15oz package refrigerated piecrusts (you'll stack two together)
3- large eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 light corn syrup
2- tablespoons melted butter
2- teaspoons vanilla
1 1/2 cups pecans

Preheat oven to 350F. Toast pecans on a cookie sheet for about 5 minutes or until fragrant, be careful not to leave them in too long. One of the secrets to this recipe is toasting the pecans, if you don't then they are chewy in your pie.
--While pecans are toasting, unfold the 2 piecrusts, and stack them together one on top of the other in a lightly greased 9" pie plate. Push edges down around plate with your fingers.
--Stir together eggs, sugar, syrup, butter, vanilla and COOLED pecans. Put the pecans in hot, and you'll begin to cook the eggs.
--Pour filling into piecrust. Bake at 350F for 50-55 minutes until set. Serve warm, or cool completely on a wire rack. ENJOY!!!!

Homestyle southern cookin'

Well, today my friends you are in luck! Being inspired by favorite
chef, Mrs Paula Deen, thanks Mary for the magazine, we are
going to make a very southern style dinner, which is not too common to come by in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I love to cook, (at one time I didn't & I was actually not very good at all) but tonight I am going to make homemade bread, chicken fried steaks & chicken fried chicken for me, hashbrown casserole, bacon green beans, and you guessed it, pecan pie! Mom truly makes one of the best pies in the world, I always remember holidays, that was one of the things everyone looked too the most. So I took her recipe, tweaked it just a little, and think I have made a Pecan pie even Paula would rave over!

The BAR exam

OK, Dr. Keri, this one is for you! Alas, I don't have a scanner, otherwise I would put your smiling face on here!
For those of you who are checking up on me via this blog, my sweet dear friend Keri has pointed out that I am not putting up enough info on my blog, and well that just needs to change if you are going to have blog. And put something more interesting on it. Ok, point well taken.
With that being said, Keri has just finished taking the BAR exam down in Texas! After 3 grueling days of testing, she will not find out the results until November 3rd, so let's all keep her in our prayers! Keri, you are truly an amazing woman, with an incredible drive to accomplish everything you have. I am truly blessed to have you as my friend and best-lady at our wedding! Love you!!!!

VINO!!!!!!

Well, ladies and gents, my wine supplies should be arriving today. I use a couple of different suppliers, it kind of depends on what I am going to
need and order. Got all the bottles and corks coming in, along with the
labels. So you know what I will be doing this weekend!
I am looking forward to getting to share the vino with you all at the
wedding! I am going to the Nagle Warren today(that's where the reception is at) to figure out centerpieces and decide on a lunch menu.

Maybe one day soon, I could do this full time, that would be my dream job!

Argh finally got my password back!

Sorry it has taken so long to put something back on here, but I forgot my password and couldn't get it reset for the life of me! But all's well now and it is fixed!

Been busier than a one-legged man in a hop-scotch contest with school. Fininshed up today as a matter of fact, and ANDY and I both got an A!!!!! Yippeee! We are officially half way done w/our master's in project mgmt from George Washington now!

Wedding planning is going very well, ordered the bottles today for the vino, yum.... The Chardonnay is finished as well as the White Merlot, and both are just great. I really wish I could do this full time. So those of you who are coming out will get a sample of each.

Gonna go grab some dinner at Chili's. Neither one of us want to cook tonight. Hope everyone is well, hope to see some of you in a little over a month!

The SCREEN!

Ok, so we come home the other day and there is a hole ripped in our back patio door screen! We are so mad and we are trying to figure out how it happened. Then we find a piece of the screen inside under the dining room table and realize that it was Oscar!
What had happened was the night before there was a little stray cat that I saw outside. So being the big softie that I am, I filled a little container up with food and took it out to him and set it on the patio. Well the little stray never came back, but I left it for a day to see if he would. Oscar decided he just couldn't take more food sitting in front of him that he couldn't have so he kicked a hole in the screen with his back claws in an attemp to get it! What a fattie!

In the kitchen

So here is my latest culinary creation. Lemon bundt cake, from scratch. It was so good. I got the recipe from Cook's Illustrated, it is a fabulous magazine. They basically take favorite recipes, and make the best possible creation. They will test things thousands of different ways to come up with the very best version of it. Delicious!!!

Dress arrived!

Yippee!!!! The dress came today and I am soooooo excited! I tried it on, fits great and it just looks fabulous! So very pretty! I was so bummed yesterday when it didn't show, btu now it is here! Yea!!!!!

Argh, dress didn't come yet!

OK, so I waited around yesteday hoping my dress was going to get here, but I checked the shipping info on it, and it made it into Denver last night. So maybe today? I was really looking forward to getting it though. If you wanna see what it looks like, check out this link...
http://www.bridalonlinestore.com/store/caroline.asp It is the top pic.

I tried to post the pic on here, but it is copyrighted, so I will have to wait until I actually get. And then it will just be on the hanger, not on me, no peeking yet!



But here is the cake! Can you say DELICIOUS! It is dark, semi-sweet icing, marzipan fruit, and the cake itself is a dark rich chocolate, with raspberry filling. I tried it downtown at the baker I am using, Ben Appetit, and it was honestly the best cake ever. We are thinking of doing some chocolate covered strawberries alongside it.

Oh honey!

This is Oscar, our beloved 15 pound cat. That is not a typo, he really does tip the scales at 15lbs. Our friend Sammy V came over, and when he first saw him, he asked "Oh my gosh, is that a bobcat?!" No Sam, he isn't a bobcat. We tried to dress Oscar up for Halloween, he was going to be a bumblebee, but the little jacket wouldn't button close, so we had to take it back! Poor Oscar...

Favorite pics

Bahamas, Atlantis hotel, October 2005.

Update on us

Ok, sorry it has taken so long to start posting stuff on here, and it probably won't be too frequent, but alas I shall try!
Work has been really busy, we had our annual code change in the end of April and I had to stay in the field for a week! Arghand I thought going out for 24hours was bad! I shall never complain about going on alert again! But that is done so it is starting to settle down.
Wedding planning is going pretty well. I have my dress, I am waiting on it to get here today, yippee! It is champagne with bronze and gold ribbons on it, just gorgeous. Got the cake done last week, we have our cantor--thanks Hannah! The cake is going to be fabulous it is a CHOCOLATE and I do mean ALL chocolate cake--yum! Since everything is going to be small and very personal we are doing what we really want to do instead of doing things, "because that is what everyone else has done". Honeymoon is going to be in Puerto Vallarta, MX. Pacific side should be safer as far as hurricanes go, which is a concern for us b/c we are going in prime hurricane season.
Still looking at flowers, may do silk bouquets and actual flowers for the centerpieces, not 100% sure yet on that. Check out where the reception is going to be at http://www.naglewarrenmansion.com
When I get more stuff to write, I will!

Cheers and Greetings!

I will be updating this as I have time....come back soon!

Until then, Cheers!