Weekend

This past weekend my parents, Sister, Brother-in-law, and nephew came to visit. On my parents way up here to see us we had them stop at ever walmart and K-mart looking for Liam's birthday present from me and Lisa. The item that we wanted to get him we couldn't find it here in Pineville/Alexandria. Our three walmarts, Target, and K-mart didn't have it. I would have just ordered it from walmart and had it shipped site to store, but they didn't sell the item anymore. The target site shipping and handling was too expensive. My parents two walmarts, and Target didn't have it either. So they said that they would stop at every walmart and target that they come across on their way up to our house. Well they stopped at a few and finally the K-mart in New Iberia had it, so they bought it.

My parents got here about 4:00 and we went out to eat at a seafood restaurant called Fant's that night. It was really good. Aiden was invited to a little kids birthday party so they didn't get to leave Longview until after 6:00 that Friday. They got to the house about 9:30 or so. We all stayed up for a while talking.

Saturday Lisa had to go to her school because they were having their Fall Carnival that day, and she had to work it. We thought it would be fun for the boys too, so we decided that we would go up there and let them play and have lunch there. First, mom loved the pictures that we made of Liam at the pumpkin patch so much she wanted to take pictures with Liam and Aiden at the pumpkin patch, so we went there first and took pictures. We then went to Lisa's school and walked around the carnival. The boys got to pet a rabbit, baby chicks, goats, and a cow. Liam loved the rabbit. I signed up for some raffles to win a flat screen TV, and an IPod Touch. (I didn't win). We said there about until about 12:30 and then we went back home so the boys could take their naps. They were so tired they both fell asleep in the car on the way home.

We had a early supper that night so everyone could get back on the road to go home. My dad had to be a church on Sunday. My dad boiled Shrimp and Crabs. YUM. It was really good. Then they all left and went back home. We was a good but short visit!

Boss' Day

With yesterday being Boss' Day we decided as a group to have a breakfast for our boss. Wednesday on my way home from work I stopped at SuperOne to buy the ingredients. Since Kavita and I are the ones that have to do everything for the office, because no one else volunteers to do anything, we decided what we were going to have and make. We are also the ones that make the super snacks. We decided that we were going to have hash brown casserole (Cracker Barrel recipe), french toast, and bacon. We have our hot plate grill that our boss bought for us a couple of months ago so we wanted to use it to make the french toast and bacon.

I got up at like 5:40 yesterday morning, and started making the hash brown casserole at home. It took a whole hour to make it. Thank goodness I got up early. Once that finished cooking I left for work, and to go pick up Kavita, she needed a ride to work. Our boss gets to work at like 5:00, so he was here in his office just working, so Kavita and I started working on making his french toast and bacon. We made his plate, and gave it to him. He was very appreciative, he said that he didn't even know that it was boss' day. He is a really good boss, and he does a lot for us, so we just wanted to do a little something for him. He buys us lunch a lot, and he lets us do a lot of things that other bosses wouldn't go for. We then made breakfast for all the other employees too.

It was getting close to lunch time, and we still had a little money left over from everyone paying me back for the breakfast, so Kavita and I decided that we wanted to get him lunch too. We knew that he liked sushi, and that is cheap, so we went and picked him up some sushi, and some dark chocolate kisses. He likes dark chocolate too. We gave that to him for his lunch. He was really surprised. He was like, "wow, sushi and dark chocolate, I love both, man this is great."

So, I think he had a good day, I know everyone else enjoyed the breakfast too. It was really good if I must say, and I'm not just saying that because I made it all hehe.

Pumpkin Patch

Saturday we decided to take Liam to the Pumpkin Patch, to get some pictures of him with the pumpkins. We decided to go at 3:30 after he got up from his nap, and we thought this time would be good because it wouldn't be so hot. WRONG... It was so stinkin' hot!! We took a lot of pictures, but I don't know if Liam is looking at us in any of them. He was so interested in the pumpkins, and not us trying to get his picture. We had a lot of fun watching him play. I decided to share some pictures with yall. Hope yall enjoy.

Super Snack Recipe: Smores on a Stick

Ingredents:

1 (16 ounce) bag large marshmallows
1 (16 ounce) bag chocolate chips
1 (16 ounce) package graham crackers

Directions:

1. Crush graham crackers in a big zip lock bag until they are like bread crumbs.

2. Place crumbs in a bowl.

3. Melt chocolate in the microwave stirring often until smooth.

4. Stick a toothpick in a marshmallow and dip in chocolate all the way then in graham cracker crumbs half way.

5. Set on wax paper to dry (we put them in the refrigerator to get the chocolate hard).

Check Engine Continue

I have an update to Check Engine post that was made about a week ago. Well I tried my dad's suggestion on disconnecting the battery, and then reconnecting it after about five minutes. It worked. Well, it worked for about 2 days. I disconnected it on Thursday when I got home from work, and then the check engine light came back on mid day Saturday. GREAT!!! Good thing I didn't cancel my scheduled appointment at the service department. I brought it to the service department yesterday, and told them about my issue with the warranty expiring because I was 3000 miles over the warranty.

I left the car there and got a ride to work. I got a call about 12:20 saying that the car was ready to pick up. I got a ride from another co-worker to the dealership to pick up the car. I was worried about how much this was all going to cast me. I walk up to the counter, and the lady told me that they needed to replace some valve, and that she put the mileage down as 35,700, so that it will still be under warranty!! I was like thank you, thank you. Since she did this I had to pay NOTHING!!! She was like well you should get a survey in the mail, and I hope you will give me a good review. I was like no doubt!!! You are going to get the best review.

My Ears are Bleeding

Today is *Mrs. Mary's music day so you know what that means, Ear Phones here I come!!! I usually like everyone else's day of music, because we all pretty much have the same taste, except Mrs. Mary's. She likes to play elevator music. Not only is it elevator music but she turns it all the way up, because she is in an office and she can't hear it very good in her office, so everyone else has to suffer. I mean really she shouldn't have a day, because she is in an office, with her own speakers for her computer. She can just listen to her own music in her office, but no she makes us suffer. The music that plays for everyone is pointing in our direction.

I usually get to work early before everyone else, except the boss, and I will start the music, because I like to have something to listen to in the morning, and then when everyone else gets in if it's their day they just change it no big deal. Well when it is Mrs. Mary's day I don't turn it on, because I hope that she will forget about the music and not turn it on. Well it didn't work today. About 9: 15 the music started!! At work we all use Instant messenger to talk to each other, and as soon as the music started I got like three instant messages! This is how they went down:
Me to *Kate.
Me: "Oh Crap"
Me: "Mrs. Mary's Music"
Me: "Ear Phones here I come"
Kate: "Hilarious"
Kate: "Hilarious"
Kate: "Okay that's loud"
Me: "wow, that is loud"
Kate: "I slowed it down one"
Me: " you SLOWED it down?"
Kate: "yeah"
Me: "How fast was it going? LOL"
Kate: "Lowered the Volume"
Kate: "Shut up"
Me: "HAHA"
At the same time I was having that conversation I was having another with *Travis.
Travis: "I left my headphones at home!!!!"
Travis: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
Me: "lol lol"
Travis: "I even did the fist pump at the sky, but you couldn't see that"
Me: "I was just telling Kate OH crap, Mrs. Mary's Music.
Travis: "This is like my Favorite CD"
Travis: :
Me: "I thought I saw this on your playlist"
Travis: "What are you talking about? This IS my playlist. LOL"

I really think that it is really funny how we all have pretty much the same reaction when her music starts. If I look around the room everyone has their earphones in. Well except Travis, because he forgot his. HAHA.

She cranks the music up so load that it is blaring us out, and we can't hear our own music in our earphones, so one of us will usually turn it down. Then in a few minutes Mrs. Mary will realize that she can't hear her music, and turn it back up. Then we turn it back down. It's a continuous cycle.

*Names have been changed to protect the innocent!!!

Shopping in Shreveport

This past weekend Lisa, Liam, Mia, and I took a trip to Shreveport to have a birthday party for Lisa's Grandmother who was turning 75. We left Friday after work and made it to Shreveport at 7:00 PM Friday night. We ate supper and let Liam play around before we put him to bed. We made plans to get up on Saturday and go shopping. Yay. Lisa and I wanted to get some new clothes for our trip to Disney.

Saturday morning we got up, and then Lisa's sister Laura and her husband Robie came over to go shopping with us. Lisa's dad was going to come with us also, but then Robie and Mr. Danny decided that they were going to go to the Bass Pro Shop, so we all split and went different ways. I didn't go with them, because I don't hunt or fish, and there is nothing for me there. So, we all headed out our different ways. Our first stop was Michaels. We wasted to much of our time here just standing around. I really think this is where we went wrong!! So Lisa and I got 101 cookie cutters at Michael's, and then it was time for lunch. So, we decided to meet Mr. Danny and Robie at McAllister's. We ate lunch and then we were off again.

I wanted to go to Kohl's because the last time I went to Kohl's I got a pair of jeans for 5 dollars. So we went to Kohl's, and I got two pairs of Khaki pants for $3.99 each, awesome, and a pair of shorts for $5 and a shirt for $5. Lisa got two jogging suit pants and jackets too. Then we went to JCPenny's and I got three shirts for $6 each and Lisa got two more jogging suit pants and jackets for our trip to Disney. We did really good.

Then we had to go run by Laura's house to go pick up some stuff for supper. This is another place that we wasted too much time, because I wanted to go to the Boardwalk to do some more shopping. So we left Laura's and head to the boardwalk, we only had like 30 minutes to shop there because we needed to head back home to start cooking supper. I got some wind pants for our trip to Disney, and that was it. We when home and started cooking fried shrimp, fries, hushpuppies, fish, and grilled shrimp.

Then Sunday Lisa's mom's, brother and his kids, and her Grandparents came over for lunch, and to celebrate Mrs. Brown's birthday. We ate lunch and had cake, and then just sat around and talked. Then Lisa and I headed back home. It was a long weekend, but it was also short. This has been a pretty boring post, and I'm sorry you had to sit here and read it. Hopefully I'll have something better later in the week.

Check Engine

I get a call this morning on my way to work from my wonderful wife saying that a little light came on in her trailblazer. At this point I'm thinking great that's just what we need. I asked what light was it, and she doesn't know what the symbols mean, so I ask her what it looks like, and she says it looks like a little video camera. I'm thinking a video camera, I have no idea what that is. Then I start looking at my little light indicators. OH the check engine light kind of looks like a video camera I guess. So I ask where she is at and she is on the way to her school, so I told her I would meet her there. Sure enough it's her check engine light. So I take her trailblazer and leave her my truck. I'm thinking I can call the dealership, and they can take a quick look at it and let me know what's wrong. No, the earliest appointment they have is next Thursday a whole week. So then I'm thinking "I wonder if I should take it somewhere else". Wait I think it's still under warranty, it's a 2006. So I go to the truck to see what the date was that we purchased the trailblazer. 11/1/2005. Yes, still under the 3 year mark. Then I think, I think miles have a play in the warranty too. The warranty is for 3 years or 36,000 mile whichever comes first. Well, wouldn't you know the trailblazer has 39,005 miles. Dangit!!!

Well I don't know what to do, so I call the person that I always go to when I have questions on things that I should do. Who else... My Dad. So, I call my dad and tell him all this and he says hold on let me ask Doug (Dad's Mechanic friend). My dad just so happened to be getting his tires rotated by Doug at that time, and he use to work for Cheve in Houma. Great luck right! Doug said to check the oil and make sure there is oil in it, and then to disconnect the black wire to the battery for a couple of minutes. He said that sometimes things go a little crazy and they just need to be reset. Then to check to see if the light comes back on, if it does then there is a problem and I need to get it looked at. He also said that I should take it to the dealership because they should still honor the warranty, Awesome. So, while I was still at work I went out and check the oil, which is fine. So, when I get home I'm going to do the battery thing. I hope it works, wish me luck.

Super Snack Recipe: South of the Border Mix

Ingredients:
6 Tablespoons Margarine or Butter
1 Package (1.25oz.) taco seasoning mix, dry
1 tablespoon Vorcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
8 Cups Rice Chex Mix or Wheat, or combination of the two
1 Cup Peanuts
1 Cup mini-sized pretzels
1 Cup bite-size cheeze crackers

Directions:
Microwave: In large microwave-safe bowl, melt margarine on HIGH. Stir in taco seasoning, Worcestershire sauce and pepper sauce. Gradually add cereals, peanuts, pretzels and cheese crackers; stir to coat evenly. Microwave on HIGH 5 to 6 minutes, stirring thoroughly with rubber spatula every 2 minutes and scraping sides and bottom of bowl. Spread on absorbent paper to cool. Store in airtight container.