I can remember eating the most delicious pie at my grandma's house when I was younger. I even requested it as my birthday "cake" several years. I haven't had that pie in a few years...until Sunday night and it was as good as I remembered :) I had asked my mom about it a few weeks ago. She said she would find the recipie and send it to me. She did, so I decided to make it and see how Aaron thought it was. So, without further ado....here is the recipie. And, your in luck - it's so super easy to make!
Melt 1 stick oleo and 1/2 bar German Chocolate. While melting, beat 3 whole eggs until white and creamy. Add in 1 cup sugar 2 heaping tablespoons flour. Beat approximately 3 minutes. Add in chocolate mixture, 1 tsp vanilla and an optional 1 cup chopped nuts. Pour into a well buttered 9 inch pie plate and cook for 25 minutes at 350. Cool. It is extra yummy served with whipped cream, but perfectly fine without :) I hope that you enjoy this dessert as much as I do. Oh, and Aaron said it was "okay". What does he know anyway?
Griffin burps. I swear, I have never heard a dog burp before, but he does! It is as shocking as when one of my little kindergarteners burps too. He is loud. It sounds just like a human....so weird.
This is a picture of our little man eating his birthday cookie :) I can guarantee that he burped after he ate it. He also sneezes and hiccups. Like I said, weird, but I sure love him :)
With fall comes fall television. So naturally, I spent every night this week watching something on tv. I will admit that I can be a bit of a couch potato. Is it really such a bad thing? Don't answer that.
Monday was the return of Castle! My new favorite tv show. It was sooooo good! I absolutely love this show and was so excited for it to come back on. Last Sunday, Aaron and I went to Best Buy to use a giftcard. While we were there, I decided to look for season 2 of Castle on DVD. I found it for $35. Ten dollars cheaper than I had seen at Target. Pretty cool. Even cooler? When we went to check out, it rang up for only $19.99. I was pumped! Anyways, at the end of Castle on Monday, they said that there is a book out. In the show, Castle is a writer working with the cops to come up with stories for his books. He wrote a book called Heat Rises in the show but they said that this book is now for sale! I already found it on the iBook app. Tuesday was the season premiere of NCIS. This was also very good. I have been obsessed with this show since my Grandma introduced me to it a few years ago. Don't judge. It is really good and I am proud to say that I have gotten Aaron's sister Morgan hooked on it as well :) With Wednesday came Modern Family! Again, so pumped about this! It is easily my favorite sitcom on tv. It's so funny and I look forward to it every week. I also enjoyed seeing them win so many Emmy's last Sunday. And finally, on Thursday came the premiere of Grey's Anatomy. This has been my favorite show since college. Although it has had it "weird" phases, the whole Izzy seeing Denny thing, I have stuck with it. This season looks like it is going to be pretty good. I have heard that Meredith and Derek may not return for next season, so this may be it for me. I don't think I can watch Grey's without the original "Grey". We shall see. For now, I will just enjoy it :) Well, there is my run-down. I hope you don't think I'm too pathetic for having almost every night of the week busy with tv. I will say that I DVR some and watch them when I can. Does that make it better?
Did you know that your first anniversary is "paper"? I was unaware of this until I googled it. I can't wait for our diamond, silver and platinum anniversaries :) For our first anniversary, we celebrated together by going out for dinner to Ruth's Chris. It was sooooooo delicious, but quite pricey. I am sure we won't be going back on a regular basis, but maybe for other celebrations. My favorites there were the orange mojito and the sweet potato casserole...delish! Since we were celebrating our anniversary, they put little heart glitter all over the table and we even had a free dessert....creme brule with fruit!
After dinner at Ruth's Chris
On Sunday, we had a little party at Aaron's grandma's house. It was small, just family, but we had a great time! Greg and Paul were the chefs and made slider burgers for lunch since we had sliders at our reception. They were AMAZING and I suggested that they be the cooks everytime we get together. I don't think they were too fond of that idea :) To finish off the meal, we had the same cake we had on our wedding day, princess cake (just a fancy name for white cake) and mexican chocolate. They were still as tasty as I remember from the original tasting over a year ago.
Back to the paper....our gifts to each other according to tradition were supposed to be something paper. I found this really cute idea on pintrest and decided that it was perfect.
It is just a set of cute cards that say "How do I love the? Let me count the ways" They are numbered 1-12. I printed out the templates then cut them out. I gave Aaron one set and kept the other for myself. I wrote 12 reasons I love him and vice versa then we exchanged them before we went out to dinner. If you know Aaron at all, you know he is not the sappy, lovey dovey type of guy. I was surprised at how sweet and serious all of his reason were. I expected them all to be funny. I think it was the perfect gift because now I can look back and read them whenever I want. Of course, this wasn't the only thing we did. Since those were free, we also did another gift. Aaron recieved some all black, custom Nike shox that he can wear on his rotations through hospitals and ambulances. Hopefully he will be comfortable! I got to go on a little shopping spree to my two favorite stores, Nordstrom and Forever21! It was SO much fun :) We started one tradition on Sunday as well. I found another idea on pintrest (imagine that) and decided that we had to do it. I found a picture of a couple who take a picture every anniversary holding a picture of them from the anniversary the year before. Eventually, the original picture (from our wedding day) will be so small, you won't even see it. Here is the picture we took this year, holding last years picture. (wow, I used the word picture a bit too much in this paragraph)
Overall, I thought it was the perfect first anniversary. We had a great time and I loved spending so much time together. I can't wait to celebrate our 2nd one next September!
Best friend. Soul mate. Knight in shining armour. Love of my life. These are all words that describe my husband, Aaron. Exactly one year ago, I had the honor of marrying him. It was the most amazing day of my life. I can still remember almost everything about that day. I felt so much love from everyone: family, friends and of course Aaron. I am sure that some things did not go as I planned (although I am unaware of them) but to me, that day was perfect.
Our first year of marriage has been fun! I have loved creating our home together. I know that marriage is hard work, but truly, it has seemed effortless. We just get along. I think we have a good balance of give and take. At dinner the other night, someone congratulated us on being married for one year and commented that the first year is the hardest. I asked Aaron about that when we left the restaurant. He said he didn't think it had been a hard year at all. I agree. This past year seems to have flown by. I think our transition from dating to engaged to married was so easy. I don't feel like anything changed other than that we live together. Of course there was some adjusting (me nicely reminding him to put things away after he comes home or to put the toilet seat back down, him getting used to my closet space) but other than that, it has been smooth sailing :) We have done so much in just one year...I can't wait to see what happens for us in the coming year! Hopefully our big adventure for year 2 will be buying a house and making it our home! I will leave you with the song from our first dance. I love this song. I smile every time I hear it on the radio...which is much more now that Blake Shelton has covered it!
Happy One Year Anniversary, Aaron! I love you with all my heart!
First off, let me say THANK HEAVEN FOR 4 DAY WORK WEEKS :)
I am loving that tomorrow is alreay Thursday. Next, yesterday was my first day with only 19 students! It was amazing. I loved it! I could go on and on. The class is so much more manageable and I was able to officially start some of the things I would have started earlier but I didn't want to since I knew I would be losing some kids. It makes things so much better. And finally, I would greatly appreciate your prayers Friday morning at 8:30 as a very important event will be taking place in our family. I am not going to say anything else about it YET, but I promise, once everything is done, I will share the details in our blog :) ....and no, I'm not pregnant!
That time of year is upon us. Football season. I love it. I am slightly apprehensive about the NFL season this year though. College football....great! NFL....skeptical about the players. I was NOT impressed with many of the players or owners over the course of the lockout. However, I will watch the season and cheer for my Cowboys, however dismal they may be this year. Yet again. Anyways, Aaron has organized a Fantasy Football league and I will be playing for the second straight year. Last year was a rough start for me. My team had a losing record and I did not make the playoffs. With that said, I have high hopes for this year. Especially after managing my baseball fantasy team, which has a bye this week, the first week of playoffs :) Anyways, the draft is tonight so I better go log in so that I will be prepared. Hopefully I will have good news to report once the "season" is underway!!
Soooo, with the start of school I have been absolutely exhausted. Having 26 kindergarteners can do that to you I guess. The good news, I have tomorrow off :) and starting Tuesday, we are adding another class so I will only have 19 kids! It will be so nice to be able to easily manage them. With that said, I am hopefully over the exhaustion part of the beginning of school so hopefully the blogging thing will go better. This weekend started out great! Friday night Aaron had class so I made plans to hang out with my bestie, Becca. We had such a good time eating dinner, walking around the mall and just visiting :) We even watched the second half of the TCU/Baylor game. It was so nice to have a few hours of uninterrupted visiting time! Hanging out with her makes me remember how much FUN we had when we lived together in college. The only thing missing was our other bff, Kala. I think we are still both working on convincing her to move to Dallas :) Saturday, Aaron played golf in the morning so I went shopping! It was fun! I didn't really do any back to school shopping so it was nice to get a few things now. When he got home, he showered and then we headed out to Legacy Village for dinner at Taco Diner. It was so yummy! Afterwards, we walked around a bit then headed home to watch some football. Today has consisted of church, Whataburger, and napping. Hopefully tomorrow we can be a little bit more productive. We shall see! Oh yeah, next weekend is our One Year Anniversary!!!! I'm so excited for our celebrations :)
