Grille de Cooley

Well, as it goes...you know...back to work yesterday; but before I begin on the normal everyday happenings, how bout a quick recap of this past wonderful weekend?

We went to Sturgeon where we had a great time. It was sooooo good to get to see everyone. Matt and Nicole have a new house that is a really neat house. We are VERY happy for them. We had the most delicious food ALL weekend! We felt like we were eating at a five star restaurant! No kidding, we had New York Strips on Saturday night and we had smoked BBQ ribs Sunday night, not to mention the delicious brunch we had on Sunday too! We played an AWESOME game of trivial pursuit. We bought the latest edition, "Best of Genus", and pretty much Phil whooped all our butts! Talk about a walking history encyclopedia! It was a lot of fun, but we ended up playing for over three hours before Phil took his team to victory. Afterwards, I seriously think my brain hurt! LOL! :)

Then, as always, the weekend had to end, back to the regular routine...bleh...well almost regular routine. Allen did have his interview yesterday and he said it went really well. He feels pretty confident about it. Now the waiting...we hate the waiting; but it's out of Allen's hands now. He has done all he can do. If it's meant to to be, it will be. ( OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE LET IT BE! :) )

Last night I made one of my mom's famous casseroles for Allen. Taco Biscuit Casserole. It is a prize winning recipe she makes from one of the Pilsbury great Bake-Off cook books. Allen loved it! If anyone would would like the recipe let me know. I'll hook you up!

Tonight was played tennis again. WHEW! IT WAS MUGGY! We were sweating up a storm, but it's good for us! I'm still not very good, but I'm going to keep practicing!

I can't wait for this weekend!!!! It is a tax holiday in Hannibal, and I'm going clothes shopping! :) It's going to be expensive but I am in dire need of some office appropriate clothing and a few pairs of jeans. Allen could use a few more good collared shirts as well. I wish clothes weren't so expensive, but if I can buy em without having to pay taxes for em, you betcha I'm gonna do it!!! Nicole, if you're reading this and you feel like making a trip up here this weekend to go shopping and want do it tax free, let me know, you guys can stay the night at our house! It's seriously a VERY good deal and it only happens once a year. Dustin and Jessica, if you read this , same thing to you guys too! :)

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