Grandmommie

This week was not great.

Next week will not be the best but, I have seen God shine!

He is amazing and will continue to be my comfort!

Heaven is rejoicing.

Let them dance!

Gulf Shores

Eric and I LOVE going to the beach!

We normally stay in Navarre, Fl.

The beach there is perfect and never crowed!

(we even got married there) :)

This year we are looking to stay in Gulf Shores.

It has been many moons since Eric has been there and personally, I was always a Florida girl.

There are so many condos online to choose from. You just never really know what you are getting until you arrive.

This is where you can help!

Do you know of a condo or house that we could rent for the week?

Possibly one the beach?

If so please let me know.

We need all the help we can get!

THANKS!

Tim

Please say a prayer or two for my sweet, wonderful, fun, loving, selfless step dad, Tim.

His cancer is back.

Gosh, I hate that word!!

Please keep him and my Mom in your prayers.

Thank you!

Tyler Weekend

yes, I took this picture... that's my wine. It was good!

This weekend was a Tyler weekend.

On Friday we headed over to Eric's parents house. We went to dinner at a great placed called The Fish Grill. I had snapper and Eric had some kind of fish that I had never heard of

... sort of like chicken.

Friday night we stayed up late playing UNO attach with family and friends. I came in last place out of 9. That means I am pretty bad!

On Saturday we had lunch at a Louisiana theme restaurant called Fat Cats. The lunch was great! After lunch we made our way to the Kiepersol Winery.

I had always wanted to go and check it out but, everytime we are in Tyler we normally already have a packed schedule.

Upon arrival we drove through the grounds checking out the B&B, as well as the restaurant.

It's all very nice!

We sampled a good bit of wine and then had a glass of our favorite.

Before we knew it the tour was to start.

The tour of the production center was so neat! They took us through the many steps of wine making. It's very intense the first 2 weeks!

The tour was great! We plan on going back in the spring when the vines have some foliage on them.

After we left Kiepersol we went to eat Crawfish... this turned out to be quite the production!

The first place we went to the Crawfish was TERRIBLE! I am one who ever complains about my food but, the crawfish we were severed tasted like salt.

We soon left and went down the road to the Purple Pig. We were really excited when we walked in to find there was a band playing. The excitement soon ended when we found out that they did not have any crawfish, even though they had a huge sign outside saying so.

We soon left and headed to our finally place. Fat Cat's, the same place where we had lunch.

It was nice to finally know that we were going to eat.

The weekend was great!

The winery was such a hit that my parents are making plans to join us on our next trip.

Hope you had a great weekend!

GO SAINTS!

http://www.kiepersol.com/winery/winery.shtml

It's Getting Really Close!

MARDI GRAS!

I love Wednesdays!

Wednesday is the best TV day!

I can not believe I like to sit at home and watch TV.

I use to hate watching TV!

Now that I am married I have become such the homebody.... and I like it!

If you do not watch abc on Wednesday nights then you better start!

You are missing out!

In less than 30 mins I will be sitting on my couch until it's time to go to bed.

This is what I will be watching.

The Middle

Modern Family

Cougar Town

Eastwick

Off to grab my snuggie!

Chicken Enchilada Soup

The first time I ever had the recipe was when we were snowing skiing gosh, two decades ago! (wow, feel old)!

Every year my grandparents would take all the grandchildren and parents to Red River, New Mexico.

We have so many wonderful memories there!

We would head out early and ski up until lunch time.

For lunch we would always go back to our condo and the Mom's and my grandmother would have lunch ready.

This soup was one of our favorites!

Eating it now makes me think of those fun times!

Hope you enjoy!

This recipe was given to me with weird measurements Just go with it. The soup turns out perfect! :)

Chicken Enchilada Soup

1 onion

1 garlic clove

2-4oz chopped green chilis

4 cups water & 4 beef bouillon cubes

3 cups water & 3 chicken bouillon cubes

2 cans Healthy Request cream of chicken soup

2 cans of Swanson's chicken breast

3 cups water

4 tablespoons Heinz sauce

1 tsp cumin

4 teasp Worcestershire sauce

1 1/2 tsp chili powder

Simmer for an hour

about 20 mins before serving add 15 white corn tortilla cut into 1 inch strips.

10 mins before serving add 1- 8oz pkg. shredded Cheddar

New Years 2010!

DORK!

My camera died so, I only got 3 pictures from the night.

I am hoping the only reason Carie and Julie did not tell me that I have gloss all over my teeth is b/c the restaurant was really dark.

ha!

ha!

ha!


If someone is computer savy please let me know on how to remove the gloss from my teeth.
:)
thanks