I have been waiting a few years...

but it finally happened!! I GOT A NEW JOB! yay yay yay! And it couldn’t have come at a better time, with gas prices rising everyday, I have managed to successfully accomplish # 1 on my 101 in 1001 list. I have reduced my commute from 100 miles a day to 30!

I also want to take this time to thank all my family and friends for their support! And mostly to my amazing hubby who has supported me so much through this time, and well everyday since the day I met him. :) I love you! Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart!
This is going to be a major professional shift for me, as I go from a design engineering position to a software engineering position. I have a lot to learn, but I know I have a lot of people in my life who have the ability to help me. I can’t wait to start this adventure! Thank you again to everyone, I am truly blessed!

Happy Birthday to ME!

Yay its my birthday! I have the most amazing friends and family :) I mean I already knew that but I just wanted everyone else to know too. My lady friends at work took me out to lunch today :) We went to Mimi’s, Jamie and I love that place!  I had the Turkey Pesto Ciabatta and fries:



This picture was taken after I had already eaten half of the sandwich and all of my fries.  I saved this half for Erik...maybe...if it makes it home :) For dessert we had Mimi’s famous chocolate mousse:



mmm mmm mm delish. I had to wait until I got back into the office to eat it, because we only have 45 minutes for lunch, I will leave that one alone.

Also today is the 10 year anniversary of my owning my baby car, yes I know I still haven’t donated it yet.  I just can’t let it go :(.  It will probably be one of the hardest things on my 101 in 1001 days list. *sad*

Sandwich update, this is what was left of the earlier mentioned sandwich when I got home, do not judge me!



I had a lovely dinner with my closest friends tonight! We went and got Pho, Vietnamese noodle soup, delish!  While at dinner, I received some wonderful news, I will wait until tomorrow to blog about it though, I have to keep you guessing! 

After dinner we went over to Erik’s family’s house for cake! Anya bought be a really yummy carrot cake from The Swiss Bakery, where she works:

I am not the biggest fan of carrot cake, but this cake was so good!  It was a great day/night! We will go out an celebrate this weekend again :) Here is a picture of a few things my friends got me for my birthday, I love it!:



I hope everyone had a great day!!!!!!!!!!

Mondays, Bleh

I believe this picture says it all! This is how we all felt this morning, no doubt about it.

I hope everyone has a great Monday!

Happy Mother’s Day!

I want to wish all the mom’s out there a wonderfully happy Mother’s Day, especially my mommy, who is in fact the best mom in the whole world.  I love my mom more than any words could ever describe. 

 We had a fabulous Mother’s Day dinner which consisted of steak, mashed potatoes, veggies and corn on the cob.  Annnndd because the weather was so nice we got to eat outside :).  My mom also got the most wonderful Chocolate Tuxedo Mousse cake from Costco. oh man, Costco NEVER disappoints me, it was fabulous.  Obvi no picture, because the cake was gone as soon as I took it out of the fridge. haha.

 After we ate, Erik started the fire in our outdoor fire pit and we sat around it and talked for a few hours, until it was time for our softball games.  This weeks shirt theme was pink, figures it would be the week I couldn’t play we wear my favorite color!  But I gave Erik my favorite pink softball shirt, I have had this shirt since I was about 12 years old.

 
Doesn’t he look cute in pink!? hehe. I love it!  Well unlike our football game, we lost both of our softball games, in baaad fashion too :( The team we played was filled with a bunch of you know whats.  Very unsportsmanlike!  Needless to say, I had a few choice words for them throughout the game.  I am really really hoping my leg will get better this week, so that I can play next weekend!

Well folks, that is all for today. I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day!

We WON!

Hey guys!

A quick update for today, we had our second football game and we won!  Diana and I couldn't play this week, so the 3 ladies had to stay in the whole game and they were awesome! I think the ladies really stepped it up, ok fine the whole team stepped it up! We all agreed that we should have beat the team by a lot more than we did, but a win is a win, and that makes me happy.  My hamstring will hopefully be healthy enough to allow me to play next week!

Ernest and Jason had a pretty killer collision and I was trying to put the video up on here but it won't let me :( I will put the video up on facebook and you can check it out there!

Alright well I hope everyone has a nice Saturday night!

Date Night :)

Tonight Erik and I had a date night! I love date nights!!!! We went to Z Burger for dinner, YUM, and I obviously have no picture to post because we ate our dinner in record time. So I will show you someone else's Z burger picture I found on the interwebs:

I mean we were in and out of Z burger in 20 minutes, and I think it took them a good 15 minutes to get our food to us! haha. Don't judge it was around 8pm and we were STARVING. After dinner we went to see Thor in 3D. It was a pretty good movie, and we even got to wear really awesome 3D glasses. Our date night wasn't your traditional get dressed up nice and go out to a nice restaurant date night, and we loved it!
Well folks that is all for tonight!

Question: What is your favorite thing to do on date night?

Cinco de Mayo! - Yesterday, haha-

Soo, my mom says she liked my blog better when I had a lot of food pictures up :)

 So here you go mommy!

 

Last night we invited my mom and sister to come over for some Cinco de Mayo festivities.  I made tacos/burritos, and my mom brought the avocados and margarita stuff (the most important ingredient to dinner!).  We had a great time. The tacos were really really yummy and Erik made some amazing margaritas! mm mm mm!

After dinner we watched the recording of the season premier of  “The Voice”, I really like that show.  If you haven’t tuned in for that show, I highly recommend it.  I like it so much better than American Idol, because everyone who comes onto the show has a great voice.  They have already done their screenings, so that there aren’t any “William Haongs”. 

This week I got some pretty sweet deals on mousse! I got 4 cans of mousse for $4: 

2 Pantene ones and 2 Herbal Essences ones, here are the deals

Aussie or Herbal Essences shampoo, conditioner 10.1-13.5 oz, styler 6-14 oz 2/$5.97 = $2 Ecb (limit 1)
Use 2 $1/1 coupons found in the P&G Everyday savings book
Pay $3.97
Get back a $2 Ecb
Final cost $0.99 each!

Pantene Pro-V shampoo, conditioner 12.6 oz, styler 5.7-11.5 oz 2/$5.97 = $1 Ecb (limit 1)
Use the $3/2 coupon found in the 5/1 PG
Pay as low as $3.97
Get back a $1 Ecb
Final cost $0.98 each!

That was pretty exciting! If you know me and my hair, you know that I use a lot of mousse, and at $5 a pop they are pretty expensive, so this is a really great deal for me!

Well folks, I hope everyone has a great Friday!!

Stolen Pizza!

Ladies and Gentlemen, today someone stole my pizza from my desk at work.

My friend Sundeep, was kind enough to save me 2 pieces while I was out couponing, and when I got back I asked him if he saved me pizza and he said, “maaayyybe”, which means yes, obvi. So I walked over to my desk and there was nothing there, I went back to his cube and asked him where he put it, and he said right on your desk.  Obviously someone had stolen my pizza right off of my desk. 

I just don’t understand what kind of person does that.  I haven’t been picked on like this since elementary school and let me tell you, it didn’t feel good then and it doesn’t feel good now.  I know it was directed at me personally, because another guy at work had someone put pizza on his desk, and no one took his pizza. *hmph*

Well I did go couponing at CVS today, and it was a great couponing day, I also went to walmart and couponed there, but I will have to tell you about both trips tomorrow.

I hope everyone had a better day than I did!

Rite Aid Coupon-ing

Kirstie and I went to Rite Aid today for our weekly coupon-ing session. I spent $5 for $40 worth of stuff. *Note: the Pampers you see are not for us, we are going to a Diaper party this weekend for our friend Shera.*  Here are the instructions on how to get these deals, from Hip2save.com, :

Revlon Beauty Tools 40% Off Regular Retail
Buy 2 Revlon Emery Boards 2 packs $1.25 each (should ring up at $0.75 each)
Pay $1.50
Get  a $4 +Up Reward (when you buy 2 beauty tools; limit 4 offers)
Final Cost FREE + $2.50 moneymaker!
**This is an awesome deal for all you newbie couponers as it requires NO coupons!

Buy 1 Dove Men+Care Deodorant $3.99
Pay $3.99 (+ tax)
Get back $3 +Up Reward from the deodorant

Gillette Fusion Proglide Power or Manual Razor $9.99
Use the $5/1 coupon from the P&G Brand Sampler (there is also a $4/1 coupon in the 5/1 PG)
Pay $4.99
Get a $5 +Up Reward (limit 2 offers)
Final Cost as low as FREE (or $1 with the $4/1 coupon)

Crest Toothpaste 4 oz. +, Scope Mouthwash 250 ml., or Oral-B Toothbrush $2.99
Use the $1/1 Crest coupon from the P&G Brand Sampler
Pay $1.99
Get a $2 +Up Reward (limit 4 offers)
Final Cost FREE!
 
Pampers Diapers or Easy Ups Jumbo Pack $9.99
Use the $2.50/1 diapers coupon from the 5/1 PG
Pay $7.49
Get a $2 +Up Reward (limit 4 offers)
Final Cost $5.49! 

Wednesday is CVS couponing day, I have a few good deals for CVS, so look for the post on Wednesday!

Have a great day!

Question: What deals did you get this week?

Two hand touch football is more dangerous than you think!

So, we had a football game yesterday afternoon.  I was nervous/excited about the game.  I am super competitive, so I really wanted to win.  We came out strong, scored a touchdown on our very first drive, things were looking good.  And that is were everything really started falling apart, don’t get me wrong, we played a good game, but we lost.  Sometime during the game, I don’t really remember when, a guy on the other team went up to catch the ball and had his back turned towards Diana, while Diana had her arms stretched out to down him.  Well what Diana didn’t know was that another guy on our team, James, was also going after the guy, long story short the guy ran into Diana and bent her wrist back. *sadface*

I took one look at her wrist and had a feeling it was broken, I just don’t think her hand would have puffed up like a balloon if it was just sprained.  Needless to say, she had to sit out for the remainder of the game *sadface*.  I went in for her when our team was on defense, and everything was going well until I lifted my leg and took a step and felt my hamstring “pop”.  Oh man it was painful, I also had to come out of the game *sadface*.  Diana ended up going to the ER to get her wrist checked out and found out that it was indeed broken *double sadface*, and she will have to have a cast on for 6-8 weeks.  We are hoping that she will be able to come into the game and play defense, but I am not sure that is a good idea. 

A doctor friend of ours took a look at my leg and told me that I either pulled the muscle or partially tore it, but he did say that I did not tear the tendon (whew).  I probably won’t be able to play this weekend, so personally I am hoping for rain, maybe we can use that time to practice a bit more, who knows.  We did learn a lot from our first game, and I think we will be ready to come out and win a lot if not all of our games this season!

Because of my injury I did not get to play in any of our softball games today :(.  I heard we lost all 4 games *ugh*.  Well I am going to relax on the couch like Ella:

I hope everyone has great Sunday!