Busy, Busy, Busy

That about sums up these past few weeks for us. I feel like I never have anytime to get anything done!

This week has just been chaotic! I have been trying to fit in Christmas shopping, work, wrapping presents, dinners, workouts, etc! I feel like this time if the year is just so crazy.

On Tuesday, Mitchs grandparents came into town and we are celebrating Christmas with them this weekend. We are trying to get everything ready and with me working on Friday it makes things a little more difficult!

Last night we made our favorite paleo meal- chili. We usually get our meat from our this guy in mo that sells grass fed, organic meat, but lately we have been using venison. My brother and dad love to hunt, so our freezer is always packed full of deer meat. I mean you can not even put anything else in our freezer… so my parents always sent a bunch of ground beef, steaks, breakfast and summer sausage and much more home with us. So we made our chili last night with deer meat and it was so good! We both love chili and this new recipe is our favorite!

I had a hair appt yesterday and I got lots of layers in my hair!! My hair grows so fast and I cannot believe how long it already is again. I feel like I just got it all cut off. It hasn’t even been a year since I chopped it off to above my shoulders! Since I have such thick hair, the layers help lighten it up. This is kind of funny, kind of embarrassing, but I get really bad headaches because my hair is so heavy and it pulls. I can’t wear my hair in a ponytail for more than an hour without getting a headache. So not only do I love the way the layers look, but they are so light!

I wrapped a few presents last night while Mitch was doing some application stuff for school and I had a little helper.

Bella thought she was helping, but she would grab the roll of wrapping paper and run off with it! Ha! She wasn’t too much help, it took me twice as long to wrap presents, but she made it fun.

On a completely different note, we got our first snow this week. It wasn’t much, we only got about a half of an inch, it was just enough to cause issues! 

Mitch left for work and it took him about an hour to get there. I don’t have to be at work until 9 in Tuesdays but usually go ahead and go in early. Well since I kept hearing the roads were bad, I decided to wait a while to see if it got any better. Well it didn’t It took me about an hour to get to work and the roads were so slick. We were not expecting that when we went to bed Monday night.

It just reminded me the winter has just begun! Last winter was horrible, so I am hoping it will go easy on us this year.

I am going to leave you with a picture of Bella and I. This was at my parents house cheering on the pokes during bedlam! We are both supporting our OSU gear!

Have a great weekend! 

Friends and Football

Hope everyone has had a great Monday. Work has been so up and down for me lately, I am just glad to be home for the evening!

Last Friday, we headed to Tulsa for the weekend. It was my dad and grandmas birthday and also, Mitch was going to Bedlam (still jealous).

Friday night we went out to Los Cabos, one of our favorite mexican restaurants with Peter, Scott and Tayler!  I loved getting to spend some time with them! After they all came back over to my parents house and we played with Bella and watched football!

Saturday, we were lazy all day! We got up and laid around the house all morning. Peter and Scott came back over and we ordered Hidaway pizza for lunch! There are those places that I feel like I always have to eat when I ma back in Tulsa, and hidaway is one of them!!

Mitch, Peter and Scott left for Stillwater and my mom and I did some shopping. I can't believe how close Christmas is and how many gifts I still have left to buy! My parents ordered a bunch of food for the game and we stayed at home for the rest of the night watching the cowboys kill the sooners!! It was such an awesome game! My whole family was going crazy!
Mitch said it was such a fun atmosphere. He went with ou fans, so they didn't have a good time, but Mitch did ha!

Sunday, my whole family came over and we ordered in bbq to celebrate my dads and grandma's birthday! I love getting together with my whole family. I grew up living right by my grandparents and now I feel like I never see them...I miss them!

Friday before we left for Tulsa, I came home that afternoon and Mitch had the whole outside of the house decorated! All out lights were up and are decorations were out! I was so excited!  I will post a picture when I get up enough courage to go out in the COLD and take a pic!

Overall- we had a pretty good weekend :)

Tonight for dinner we are having coconut chicken and sweet potatoes! I am pretty sure I have posted this recipe before.
Also, I found a good paleo recipe for banana bread and I have been craving it lately! So tonight I am going to try and make it and I will let you know how it turns out!

Off to watch the country music awards! Have a great week!

Footloose, Bella and recipes!

Yesterday we took Bella in for her surgery, she got spayed. We have heard some many different stories on how dogs react to the process, we had no idea what to expect.

So Mitch dropped her off early yesterday morning and she seemed to do fine. We called about 2 yesterday and they said she did good, and was still sleeping. 

She had to stay the night, and since I got off at noon yesterday we were excited to spend the day together. We have been on such different working schedules lately we haven't got to spend much time together. We went and had lunch and went Christmas shopping. I am usually on the ball with my christmas shopping, but with everything going on I haven't had much time.

Mitch ended up having to teach a tennis class for most of the afternoon, but we decided when he got done we would go see a movie. We went and saw Footloose, finally! I have literally been dying to see it, but we never seem to have any time.

It was so good! If you haven't seen it, it is well worth it! I have always loved the original movie, and didn't know what to expect with the remake, but it was amazing!!!  It is definatly a movie to buy when it comes out. I don't buy many movies, unlike Mitch ha, but this is one of those movies I could watch over and over! 

When we got home, I finally ordered my new Erin Condren planner!! I have always had an obsession with planners and I always have to be organized and have it with me. Mitch has always made fun of me! He jokes about how I have had an iphone since hey very first came out, but still carry my planner ha! I just love them! I have been looking at these for months now and finally decided to order one! Her stuff is so cute. Click Here for the link to her website. She has a lot more cute things besides planners, but I am addicted to planners, and hers are awesome! The more detailed they are the better :) I will post a picture when I get it in! 

I took off work today, since we weren't quite sure how Bella was going to be. Mitch had to work and we were told someone needed to watch her at all times for the first few days. She has been pretty good so far. I think she has no idea what happened, but is very uncomfortable. I think her medicine is starting to wear off.

She has been pretty lazy all day, I know she is just waiting for mitch to get home :)

Tomorrow we are headed to Tulsa! My dads birthday is next weekend, but we can't make it to Tulsa that weekend, so my mom planned his and my grandma's party for this weekend. We will just hang out tomorrow and then saturday Mitch is going to stillwater for the game!! I am so jealous... I have been talking to him all season about how more than anything I want to go to the game and he gets offered a ticket! But I will say, he was sweet about it and declined it so I wouldn't have to watch it by myself, but I made him take it. It's not everyday you get a ticket to one of the biggest games of the year! 

Then Sunday all my family is coming over to celebrate birthdays! 

In my last post, I promised I would post the mashed potato recipe we used for Thanksgiving, so here it is... Best mashed potato recipe! It makes a ton, so its not the best for just a couple people, but take it to your next get together... I promise everyone will love it! 

Also, here is the pecan pie recipe we used, super easy and delicious! Southern Pecan Pie 

Thats about all thats going on here, but I am going to leave you with a picture that I saw earlier this week. It made my day! Many of you may saw it when I posed it on twitter, but it is definitely worth sharing again :)

This was at the fayetteville mall, and every time I see it I can't help but laugh! 

Have a good weekend!