Prood of ID to eat cake?!

Well yesterday we celebrated our one year anniversary. Actually, all weekend we celebrated our one year anniversary! On Saturday we slept in REALLY late and then we went to eat sushi atthe local Japanese Steak house. It was really good. Sushi is definately one of those things that Allen and I have both decided we like a lot, but it's not something we have the desire to eat alot. Since we ate there this past weekend, we probably won't feel like eating it for another several months. Then we went to the mall and bought a new game called Pente that we have had our eye on for while. We relaxed at home for a while and then we went to out to dinner at Kelly's for their prime rib special. It was really good, but the dining atmosphere was not good at all. Allen and I have decided that it was the last time we are ever going to eat there. We just can't understand why so many people in Quincy love it. It must just be a "native" Quincy thing because honestly, it's over priced and the place was over packed, and instead of a nice romantic quiet dining experience, it felt like we were trying to eat dinner at busy bar. We definately have no desire to eat there again. It was good food though! Then we went to the movies. We finally watched Zombieland. It was not as good as we had hoped. I think we had our hopes way too high because we had heard so many good things about how hilarious it was going to be, and when it was only funny instead of hilarious, I think we both were pretty disappointed. It's a good movie, just one that I wish we would have waited and rented to watch at home. Part of the disappointment might also have had to do with the PACK of teenage girls shrieking at even the previews! BLEH!

When we got home Saturday night, we weren't even sure we were on the right street because there were so many cars lined up in front of our house and all down the street. The neighbor boys, across the street from us had a two keg house party! Honestly I think half of Quincy was trying to squeeze into their house, and it is not any bigger than ours! It was crazy! There were tons of people just walking around on the street. We heard several people get into a fight, we didn't think the cops got called on the party, but come to find out , our next door neighbor Mike , did call the cops on the party and all the partyers were told was that it had to be inside! They got off easy for as many people as there were!

Saturday night we also played our new card and board games we bought. We have several new games to play now. In addition to Pente, we bought Uno Stacko, Scabble Slam and Shoot the Moon. We can't wait to have another game night!

Sunday we slept in really late again and watched one of our favorite movies together, Forest Gump! GOOD MOVIE! We finally took the wedding cake out of our freezer and ate the traditional tiny piece. It actually didn't taste too bad! Oh, and I found my drivers license that I lost at this time last year. SERIOUSLY, I'M NOT KIDDING! MY DRIVER'S LICENSE WAS FROZEN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CAKE PLATE IN THE FREEZER FOR A YEAR! And yes that includes the move in March! UNFREAKINBELIEVABLE! When I had lost it last year, I thought for sure it was just gone forever, so I ended up buying a new one. Who would've guessed that a year later it would show up on the kitchen table after thawing off of the bottom of the cake plate! CRAZINESS!

It was a great weekend and Allen and I are looking forward to spending many many more happy anniversaries together!

And you know how the rest of the story goes....back to work...back to work...bleh!

Back to Monday again...bleh!

Well it was back to work today for both of us. I'm on the late shift this week. YUCK! I hope this week goes by quickly because this weekend we are celebrating one year of marriage! YAY! :) We have been saving our pocket change for a few months now, we counted the silver tonight, and we have about $81.00. Not sure how much in pennies. We decided we are going to do the same thing for our anniversary for next year. Next year we will have enough change to cash in to do something even more fun! We still aren't 100% sure what we're going to do yet.

This weekend was a fun and busy weekend! Saturday Allen had to work, but Josh, Caleb, Grandma Hazel, and I ate lunch together and went to the folklife festival in Hannibal! It was really neat! I bought some local honey, and homemade horseradish sauce. I also bought Allen a suprise. He was pretty bummed out that he had to work and couldn't go with us. I bought him some flint rocks and a striker that was made by an old fashioned blacksmith! You should have seen his face when he saw it! He loves it! That night we all went to Grandma and PopPop's to eat soup and play games, but before that we played little bit of tennis at the tennis courts after Allen got off work. Then Caleb and Josh spent the night over here. We stayed up WAY too late and then had to get up early to go to Mom and Dad's because Uncle Roy was over from Indiana to sell Caleb his first car! I can't believe my littlest brother is going to be old enough to drive in just a year and a half! IT'S SO CRAZY! We spent the whole day on Sunday hanging out at Mom and Dad's. We took family pictures. Most of the pictures turned out pretty good, but it was windy and we couldn't get the light exactly right, so we might be taking some indoor pics closer to Christmas at our house. It was a lot of fun though! We had some of Dad's famous chili for lunch and mom had made us egg sandwiches for breakfast earlier in the day! This might be too much information, but later on when we got back home Allen and I ended up stink gas bombing our house! LOL! Chili and eggs, that is one dangerous digestive combination!

Oh and speaking of digestively dangerous food. After almost one year of marriage, I finally succeeded in cooking a meal that was not edible! LOL! I made some chinese "sweet and spicy" shrimp stir-fry that ended up being too spicy to eat! I'm not kidding, it made our noses run!!!

I used something called tiger sauce, and a little tobasco, but ummm the tiger sauce aparantly didn't need any help!

Hope everyone else had a great weekend! We missed everyone in Sturgeon this weekend! We can't wait to come and see you guys!

Mid-week Update

Well, it's already Wednesday! Time is flying by soooo quickly. Can you believe that in two weeks Allen and I will be celebrating our first year of marriage! YAY! :) Allen bought me an amazing ring for our anniversary. He gave it to me early so we could get it sized so I can actually wear it on our anniversary. We haven't really made any special plans yet, but it will still be a special day!

Nothing much else to report. This weather is not fun! Getting too cold too soon! This weekend Caleb is going to come over and help us hang plastic on our windows.

Allen's headaches are hitting him hard now. Last night he was up for most of the night with a really bad, extended headache. So bad and so long, he actually ended up taking two showers to try and get some relief. I wish I could take his headaches away. It's very hard to watch him in so much pain and know there isn't anything I can say or do to help the pain go away.

Hope everyone is having a good week and staying warm!

GOOD NEWS!!!! No, GREAT NEWS!!!

I don't know what's up with this picture, but it made me laugh out loud, so I definately had to share it!

Allen received his letter in the mail on Saturday from General Mills letting him know that he has been placed in their hiring pool! YAY! So, now we know he gets the job , we just have to wait until there is an opening. My mom says that they are firing people and people quit all the time, so hopefully it won't be too long. Allen is going to keep his other job, of course, until he gets word that a position is his to start. Then he will give them his two weeks. This news comes to us as a great relief. Thank you to everyone for all of their thoughts and prayers for Allen. We will let you know as soon as we find out that a position has opened up.

This weekend was not long enough. I wish the work week was only four days long every single week! (It could be for me , I guess if I wanted to work four 10 hours days, but I've decided with the type of job that I have, 10 hours might drive me crazy!)

Love you all!

Interview done

Well I finally had my interview with General Mills and now I can stop worrying about it. It is getting late so I won't go into great detail but I believe I did very well. It was the weirdest interview Ive ever had. There were 6 people getting an interview and they had us all in the same room. We were as far away as we could be in the room during the interview but you could still hear everyone talking. We each had 2 interviewers, one from management and one from the production line. The questions were pretty standard and I answered them all very well I think. However, I was expecting to get the why general mills? and where do you see yourself in 5 years? questions but never did. Also what was weird, is that I was the only guy wearing a tie and 2 of the guys were wearing t-shirts and jeans!! Who wears that to an interview seriously. Any how, they said that we would be getting a letter in the mail about 2 weeks from now telling us if we got the job or not. If we did then we would be put in their "hiring pool" and could wait anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months to hear from them. All I can say is I'm glad I'm not hurting for a job. This has been a long process and to add a couple more months to it would make it unbearable if I didnt have a job.

Love you all! Have a great day!

Tomorrow is the big interview!

Keep Allen in your thoughts and prayers at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. He has his big interview with General Mills. We will let everyone know how it goes!

I AM NOT CRAZY!

THERE WAS A SWARM OF BEES/HORNET TYPE STYINGING THINGS IN THE BASEMENT! Today Allen found their nest and RAIDED the heck out of it. Now there's like 50 dead bees on the floor! YUCK! (Hey Jessica, wonder if Kelly's family thought about RAID? Worked for us! LOL! I crack myself up!) Actually, Allen says the bees are really yellow jackets, which looks like he's right! UGH!!!!

P.S. The Mexican Stuffed Peppers are DEFINATELY making it into the regular meal rotation! They were yummy and really cheap to make!

Wishing the weekend wasn't almost over...

We had a wonderful time this weekend. I hate that it's now Sunday evening and that means tomorrow...back to the work week. (SIGH...it's life...if we didn't work, we wouldn't probably be able to have the wonderful weekends that we do.) Friday night we went to visit Grandma and Pop Pop. We had some homemade chili, which was yummy. It was our first bowl of chili since the beginning of chilly weather. (Which by the way...we are not ready for yet! Gotta get the plastic up on the windows ASAP!) We ended up playing three games of 10 point pitch and an entire game of Mexican Crazy Train Dominoes. An entire game of MCTD took us two hours! It was so much fun though! Oooo and grandma sent us home with a jar of homemade pepper relish! It is DELICIOUS! On Saturday Allen had to work, I ended up braving the crowd at Hy Vee so I could have a gallon of milk for .99, 2lb of 85/15 hamburger meat for $1.98 and four bags of shredded cheese for $4.00. The prices were so good I couldn't pass it up, and apparantly neither could anyone else in Quincy. (The sale was a six hour sale.) I'm not kidding you, it was a MAD HOUSE! No parking spots, no carts, no room in the aisles...CRAZINESS! It honestly looked like Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving! I made it home safely from that and then I went up town with Mom and Caleb. We went to the Farmer's Market at Farm and Home, and to the mall. While mom was trying on a shirt in the dressing room, I saw a GIANT spider just sitting on the back of one of the shirts hanging on a rack. I took a picture of it, but the picture didn't come out well. I took the shirt and the spider up to the cashier. I would have killed it first, but I thought maybe they would want to see what kind of spider it was. Wierd huh? When Allen got home from work we decided to have date night. We went to Sprouts for dinner, then we went to the mall. We went to shop ko and came home with a Shop Ko brand magic bullet blender! YAY! I've been wanting one of those soooo bad! We got ours for $25 with a three year warantee! Which, the Magic Bullet at Shop Ko is $70! We've already made smoothies with it! I LOVE IT! :) We also bought a dice game called Kismet for $4. We figured what the heck...we would try it, since it was only $4, couldn't go too wrong with it! Well, it is definately worth what we paid! It's so much fun we played five games of it last night! We can't wait to play with everyone else! (Grandma D. , we think you are REALLY going to like it!)

Today, I cleaned up house a lil bit and started to do laundry, but stopped as soon as I realized there was a swarm of some kind of hornet around the dryer. Allen is home now and says that he can see two now in spider webs, but earlier I swear there were at least ten-fifteen of the suckers! UGH!

Tonight for dinner we are having a recipe that I have completely made up on my own. I didn't have a recipe, but I stole a basic idea and built on that. We are having mexican stuffed peppers tonight! They are in the oven now! I hope they turn out good!

Hope everyone else had a good weekend too! LOVE YOU ALL LOTS!