she sells seashells down by the seashore

If I ever get the time (how ironic) I want to work on some of these crafts!
and gather enough shells to have the Limes kids do one!!!

Lee and I have a little joke about Koalas. haha and these are soooo cute!

and  for Christmas I want to do  this!!

and I've already done this, however not so much work involved.

Salad!!!!

I bought lettuce this week because it was on sale, and I have ate (eaten?) a salad every single day.
I am addicted!
I guess that is a great thing to be addicted to though.
I think it's mostly because I have found the most delicious salad dressing. and shockingly enough it is not caesar - formerly the ONLY dressing I ate.
Wishbone Creamy Italian = delicious.

and I made homemade pizza the other day.
the last time I made homemade dough it didn't rise enough this time it raised too much!
well Lee thought so anyway, I like a nice thick pizza dough

Canadian Thanksgiving and 5 yr Anniversary

Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving.
but apparently you can celebrate Thanksgiving anytime over the weekend..... so on Friday people on facebook were saying Happy Thanksgiving & I was confused... b/c it's on a Monday right?  well whenever Friday-Monday.
We were unable to celebrate such a holiday because I only saw Lee for about 30 minutes a day and that was when I went over to campus to take him something to eat.
So on Sunday night I made him a turkey sandwich and said Happy Thanksgiving!! haha

After 5 years of being with Lee I have learned that he will eat anything with cheese and onions included.... :)
I didn't have much to offer a turkey sandwich, because after all when I eat one I just eat turkey and bread, so cheese and onions it was! and mayo of course. and he really liked it :)

and last night for our 5years of togetherness I wanted to make him something special that I had never made before.... so I made him pasta with sausage.  he LOVES sausage in pasta, but I DO NOT eat sausage, so he only gets it in restaurants...

I ground up some sausage and put it in the sauce, (which was just canned hunt's cheese & garlic sauce) cream cheese, fresh garlic, onions, bell peppers, and some Cajun seasoning.  I also cut some of the sausage up into bits and fried it with some onions and put it on top...
Lee was very happy.
I ate garlic bread for dinner. lol.

my new anthem

we sang this song in church this morning & I loooooved it.
exactly what I needed to hear this morning.



I Am Blessed Among The People
I Am Blessed Among The Nations
I Am Blessed Because I Am Loved By You

I Am Loved And Highly Favored
Saved By The Grace Of A Mighty Savior
I Am Blessed Because I Am Loved By You

No Weapon Formed Against Me Will Prosper
No Curse Can Ever Take His Promise From Me

When Hope Is Gone And The Darkness Has Fallen
I Will Still Believe, I Will Still Believe

I Will Rise Up, I'm Will Rise Up
I Will Rise Up And Call Myself Blessed
I Will Rise Up, I'm Will Rise Up
I Will Rise Up And Call Myself Blessed

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

If you'd like to make a photo to raise awareness for your facebook profile or for your blog you can do something similar to this on picnik.com
it's FREE!!!
& your picture doesn't have to be pink... you can just have a ribbon.
<3 please remember to check yourself!!

What's for dinner

I realized I've been writing a lot about desserts... so I thought I'd share some of what we've been eating for dinner recently.

- Spinach Chicken Alfredo Pizza, with homemade dough I might add - yum yum yum!  (this picture was taken before it was baked)

- Regular Pizza too
- Teriyaki Chicken Stir Fry -onions, carrots, bell peppers, rice, and gasp -lentils!? haha
- Pumpkin soup and cheese quesadillas for dipping :)
- Chicken and homemade dumplings - I was really happy about this one.  My mom makes dumplings and they are so good, so I was happy to have mine turn out just as good!! and the dumplings are just flour and eggs, who would have thought! lol
- Tacos, something we eat at least every 10 days or so...
- Hamburgers and Macaroni & Cheese - one of my favorite, easy meals.... loooove Macaroni!
- Spaghetti
- Omelets - Lee has finally approved my omelet making skills.  He truthfully is really really good at making eggs.... but he trusts me now.  I don't eat omelets so I never made them before.  but poor guy he just gets onions, peppers, and cheese in his.... bacon and sausage is too expensive & fattening. lol.  When Lee eats an omelet I just have a fried egg and toast.
- Chicken Sandwiches and fries
- Pot Roast - yay for a crockpot!!  I really like pot roast, and Lee does too, he just doesn't really love potatoes so he doesn't like them in pot roast..... weirdo.
- Chicken, mashed potatoes, and peas - easy and home-y.
- Alfredo - we eat pasta a lot.... we have Chicken Alfredo probably once a week. Homemade sauce now too... jar sauce is too expensive & with cream cheese I can make it sooo much better anyway.



Ok, that's enough..... I think I have pictures of some of these meals somewhere... or at least pictures of other things I've wanted to blog about. so I'll try to update more frequently.!
now.... what to have tonight ??

genius!

I feel like a genius right now... haha. (I don't know if this is as great as I think it is....)
I have been craving a turkey sandwich, but lunch meat is pretty expensive here... and I'm a bit picky.
But today I was getting cheese from the deli and gave in an bought a half pound of this plain, white, oven roasted turkey... and it was cheap! $4.50EC for the half lb. so like $2.50US
When I was making lunch it looked gross..... kinda slimy and plain.
So I decided to spruce it up a little... I sprinkled some brown sugar in a frying pan and cooked the turkey a little bit, no oil or anything... just fried it on each side for like a minute or less and it got a little brown and flavored & turned out good!
I'm so proud of my brown sugar glazed turkey sandwich. haha.