Happy Thanksgiving!

I can not believe it is Thanksgiving already!  The husband and I will be leaving early this evening to begin our Thanksgibing traveling.  First we will be driving about 4 and a half hours to my Granddad's.  We will have Thanksgiving tomorrow with him and my parents and then make the 3 hour drive the husband's family to have Thanksgiving dinner with them.  The rest of the weekend should be pretty relaxing.  The husband is going to hunt and I plan to do some reading and diubg some shopping with my mother-in-law.

I have so much to be Thankful for:  A wonderful husband, a great family and extended family, my health and the health of my family, a home, a job, 2 precious kittens who have become our children, great friends and so much more.

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving, eats way too much and endulges in that extra piece of pumpkin pie!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yummy Food!

So many weeks ago I said I would post on the ship side of the cruise.  I am now getting ready to do just that.

The food was so yummy!

As I posted before, they had a Johnny Rockets on board!

We also ate at the fine Italian restaruant, Portofino,onabord and it was AMAZING!

My pasta course between the many other courses

The hubby's pasta course

The main course

Dessert

Cruises are also famous for thier buffets.  We had a night time buffet one night and they displayed some of their food sculptures.

We can't wait to go on our next one!

Being Productive

First, I hope if you had the day off yesterday you had a great one!  I ended up being pretty productive.  I did not leave the house all day long and actually stayed in my lounge clothes all day.  But I was productive!  I ended up doing 6 loads of laundry and putting it away, cleaning the kitchen including the inside of the microwave, cleaning the bathrooms, straightening up the whole house, doing some organizing and of course some relaxation and catching up on the DVR. 

Since yesterday was my scheduled day off I also have today off since it was a holiday!  Yay for sleeping in 2 days in a row!  Today I hope to again be productive and get a bunch done for school.  I am thinking about heading to the library this afternoon so I don't get distracted.

We are actually staying home this weekend!  The West Virginia Mountaineers play on Friday night so we will be staying in to watch the game.  Let's hope they pull out a win against Cincinnati!  Saturday I have to work at an outreach event all day and have to leave the house by 6:45am.  But I am excited because it is my favorite type of event.  I am also expecting I will have lots of downtime so I plan to work on my upcoming presentation.  If I get back at a decent hour the hubby and I would like to do a date night.  We haven't been eating out (or limiting it as much as possible) so it would be nice to treat ourselves to a dinner out and maybe a movie.  We have been wanting to see Couple's Retreat.  Anyone else see it?  No plans for Sunday and that's the way we like it!

Well off to start being productive!

Veteran's Day

I wanted to say thank you to all the current active military and veterans out there.  Thank you for putting yourself in harms way for this country.  You are all heros!

In my job I get to work for our veterans.  My favorite part of my job is going on outreach events where I can talk to the women and men of our armed forces.  I have learned so much from them and love to do anything I can to help. 

Thank you again for your service.

Weekend Recap

First, I have been a bad blogger again. I promise to try harder! Second, where did the weekend go? It just flew by. On Friday the hubby and I went to help a friend put together a bunch of Ikea furniture. She has been remodeling a house she bought in the spring and is almost ready to move in. We did three dressers and a bed which took over four hours of steady work. But we had a good time and everything is functionable!

Saturday the hubby at inventory at work and we left around 11:30 to make the three hour drive to his home town. His parents own a small business and I am doing a project on it for my capstone paper. I actually got a lot of it done this weekend and his mom was a great help. It feels great to have the majority of it completed and I don't present until the end of next week. Last night my mother-in-law made a great dinner and we just had a relaxing evening.

Today we went to his parent's business for a little bit and then made the three hour drive home. Tonight I made potato soup for dinner using a recipe I got off a friend awhile back. It is so easy and pretty good.

Easy Potato Soup
1 can condensed potato soup
1 cup milk
1 cup frozen hash browns (the potato chunk kind not the shredded)

Cook on the stove at medium heat for approximately 10-15 minutes or until potatoes are cooked. Remove from heat and let stand for about 5 minutes. Top with cheese and bacon if you would like.

I am going to spend the rest of the weekend relaxing and possible a quick grocery store run, but that may wait till tomorrow.

Hope you had a great weekend!