Hurry up and get here weekend!

Happy Birthday Nicole! :) We LOVE YOU! :)

Tonight we bought a new coffee maker at Wal-Mart. The one Grandma and PopPop gave us bit the dust. Our new one is pretty neat digital coffee maker! It's a GE, so it should last a while. Allen's parents are coming over tomorrow night and are going to stay the night with us so that we can spend the day together on Saturday. Not sure what all we are going to do yet. We were thinking about heading to South Park for the German Fest, there's supposed to be an authentic german band playing and german food and german beer. Everytime we go over to Allen's parent's house Brenda always has something delicious for us to snack on. So I made a dip for them. I tried a new recipe and I think I found a winner. It's called BBQ Bacon Ranch Dip. We taste tested it and Allen REALLY liked it alot. In fact he told me that I should make it for our bigger family gatherings too! :) If anyone wants to have the recipe, click here: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/BBQ-Bacon-Ranch-Dip/Detail.aspx . It can be made a little bit healthier with 1/3 less fat cream cheese or even fat free cream cheese and less bacon. I used the 1/3 less fat and it still tastes AWESOME. I'm going to serve it with ritz crackers. (Not really ritz...the cheapy Hy-Vee crackers actually...) Tomorrow I'm going to make my first zucchini bread. I'm going to try a blueberry zucchini recipe. Hy Vee has their blueberries on sale. I'll let you know how it is. Recipe here: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Blueberry-Zucchini-Bread/Detail.aspx .

Can't wait for tomorrow's work to be over and for the weekend to begin!



Tomorrow is Allen's test. Any prayers and positive thoughts his way are appreciated! :)