Snowpocalypse. Snowtorious B.I.G. Snowmageddon.

This is the road down to our house during the first snow storm. Looks fun right?

Same road, I really do love our street in the winter, it can be treacherous but its so pretty!

My windshield wiper came off on the way home!  Spencer is a trooper and fixed it though

Our home in the snow, from this picture you'd never know we live in the 'burbs would you?

Doesn't this make you want to go for a drive?

This tree is over half way under snow. HALF WAY. 

When the weather starts to get like this George doesn't really care where he potties...as long as he can get back in quickly!

upcoming picture post

I have been a bad bad blogger lately.  Stay tuned later this week for a post filled with photos of what we've been up to for the last month.  Complete with snow days, bowling, friends and the like.

Will it never end?

the snow I mean.  We are apparently in for our 3rd snow storm in a month, here in the KC metro area this does not happen often.  This next one is supposed to be worse than the previous two, mainly due to the wind that will potentially make snow drifts that are waist high.  Excuse me? Yes, I said typed waist high.  Ugh.

On a brighter (and dimmer) note we bought our tickets to FLORIDA!!!  Having warm weather in my future makes me a happy kiddo!  On the flip side (dimmer side if you will) I have realized that I am probably not going to be able to complete the half.  My knee has been giving me a LOT of trouble the past 2 weeks and I haven't been able to train at all.  I have not been able to break this news to my friend who I was supposed to run it with.  Best case scenario at this point is I go, I try, and probably get picked up by the cart that picks up the slow people who can't finish it in time. (how mortifying)
I just don't think I can tell her I wont even try it......
But no matter what we will be in Orlando, warm weather, a fantastically amazing friend to see and lots of fun to be had in the days we are gone. 

Menu Plan Monday!

Teriyaki Chicken and rice *Monday*
Chicken Tortilla Soup *Tuesday*
Frozen Pizza *Wednesday*
Hamburger Helper -- don't judge, its a cheap meal! *Thursday*
Mushroom Risotto *Friday*
Wings, haven't decided if we're going to do a traditional buffalo wing or a peanut butter and jelly wing recipe I found online..... *Saturday*
Honey Mustard Chicken *Sunday*

I think we've got a pretty well rounded menu this week, we'll supplement with salads for the veggies and we *may* eat out one night this week.  We'll just have to see!

Leaving things to the las minute

Am I the only one who does this on REALLY important things?  Give me a dinner party, or just a party, to plan and I have 3 complete menu options, decor ideas music selections and a cleaning schedule that will make your head spin.  Weeks in advance.  Give me a test that will determine if  keep my several thousand dollar raise at work and 6 months to study for it and, eh, I'll get to it I'm sure.  Suddenly its 2.5 weeks to go and I'm freaking out because I realize that this is important, like really important.  Crap.
I've done the same thing with the half marathon training.  Granted, I've also been in some pretty significant pain during the process that hasn't helped, but still.  I am NOWHERE near the miles I should be, and I'm worried I wont be able to complete the half.  Now, this kind of reality check should be motivating to me.  Instead its another of my, eh, I'll get to it when I get to it items. 
What the heck is wrong with me?  I have been a lot of things in my life, not all of them very complimentary to be sure, but until lately I've never really considered myself lazy.  Sure I'd rather ask Spence to get me water if he's already up (or looks like he could be getting up sometime soon) but that's just good planning right?  I need to seriously get my head in the game here and start to take care of business! 
Maybe there is some sub-conscious fear of failing at the important things in life? That it will confirm my deepest fears that I'm not really good enough? That if I really try at something that it won't come together the way I want it to and I don't want to deal with that?  Maybe, but since I'm not licensed in psychobabble we'll probably never know. 
What I do know is that tonight instead of lounging in front of the TV, I will be reviewing a water loss power point and going over coverage scenarios on my laptop.  Tomorrow I will be at the gym, doing something productive instead of laying in bed and thinking about it.  It may not be the 7 miles I should be jogging but I'll keep going till I can't.  There.  Motivated. 

Menu Plan Monday!

Well I realized last week that I have every intention of eating certain meals on certain nights....but it doesn't always happen.  So I'm just putting all the meals I plan to make this week out there and we'll eat whatever sounds best at the time.  This week's food is not a super complicated recipe week.  And a lot of what I'm making we already have at the house, I'm excited to have a lower than normal grocery bill!

Italian Chicken with salad : marinate chicken breasts overnight in Italian dressing, coat w/ Italian bread crumbs and then bake at 350 until done.
Grilled cheese and soup: this one didn't make it to the table last week....oops? so its back on the plan for this week.
Boboli pizzas garlic bread and salad: purchase the pizza crusts, add sauce cheese and whatever else you want to eat on the pizza and bake
Baked honey mustard chicken and green beans: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Honey-Mustard-Chicken/Detail.aspx
Chicken and cheese quesadillas with a chips and salsa appetizer: seems pretty self explanatory...
Chicken Cordon Bleu and corn: my mom got some of the little frozen ones at Sams Club a while ago, its time to remove them from the freezer lol.

Death....ok not really....just kinda

That sums up how I feel today.  Last night was way too late, and involved just a bottle teeny tiny bit more wine than it probably should have.  Eh, oh well, it was also totally worth it.  I've talked on here about my friends before, and how freaking blessed I feel to have such awesome people in my life.  Last night was a prime example of why I love my friends.  Usually during the week 3 girlfriends and I get together for dinner and wine.  It's just a low key, relaxed evening (that has been known to last until the early morning hours on occasion...) where we can all catch up, talk about whats going on in our lives and just be girls.  Well last night we decided to extend the invite to our better other halves as well.  One of the things we usually at least touch on during our "wine nights" is that its baffles us that our husbands/boyfriends just don't seem to feel the need to go hang out with their  buddies the way we feel the need to have weekly time with each other.  Every week all of us say to the guys some version of "hey why don't you call the guys and go out for a beer/watch a game/play pool ANYTHING except sit at home while I go out tonight"  99% of the time we all get the same response....."nah". 
So you can imagine our (the girls) surprise when it was the guys who weren't ready to go home last night!  Apparently when we force invite them to do things and don't give them an option to say no they do enjoy getting out of the house! 
All in all the evening was a success, and I got a chance to try out a new recipe that I think will be making its way into our rotation.  Cheesy Chicken Bundles  http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/cheesy-chicken-bundles/Detail.aspx