pumpkins and gourds are the epitome of happiness

This weekend was quite an eventful one - or so it seems to me.   And besides the flu shot making my whole body ache for the two days - it was a wonderful wonderful weekend..

Friday night, I went and grabbed the items I needed for pasta salad and the cooking began.  I managed to make pasta salad and homeade oreos in one night... I felt so proud that I was that productive for once.  Its usually that I can accomplish one new recipe a week (whether it goes good or bad), but two recipes in one night?!  I will be posting the receipes to Pasta Salad and Homeade Oreos in a short bit - which will also contain hyperlinks to them in this blog.  Bare with..

Saturday morning we got up, packed our bag and headed the Arboretum..  It was a PERFECT day for picnicing..  I'm always down for a picnic and I love that Damon does too.  :) 

He's such a trooper!

I managed to snap this - and its one of the best all day! <3

We also decided it would be a good day to take the Robert and Emilee to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins and burn off some steam.

Emilee refused to wear sunglasses to block her eyes, so thus the shadow (Damon's arm blocking it)

I love gourds.. Apparently so does Emilee..  Of all the pumpkins she picked, she picked a spikey, warty gourd.   Thats my niece!  The green "Swan Necks" are my favorite..



let's go rangers!

Rangers!! Rangers!!  The Championship game is upon us - Damon and I couldn't be more excited.. Atleast one team is doing something right!  Hopefully we can dominate over the Yankees and send their whiny arrogant butts home. 

We will be proudly sporting our claw/antler shirts along with player shirts throughout the series!

LETS GO RANGERS!  Make Mama Proud!

weekends are for lovers..

since the weather has started to cooperate - and well flat out been cooler than the typical dreadul Texas summers, I can't wait to start going out and doing..  For this weekend Damon and I are going to make a trip out to the Dallas Arboretum to see all the fall landscapes - I hear it is absolutely gorgeous there this time of year.  And better yet, we are going to have a picnic as well.  Like I told Damon, I LOVE PICNICS!  I dont know what it is about them.  Probably just have the simplest of foods on a blanket out in the gorgeous landscape with the perfect weather.  Its a simple love in life.

Seriously who can resist?

I also am looking forward to the pumpkin patch, the you pick farm and pumpkin carving... Yay for Autumn! I will post pictures of our like adventures soon.  

Stay in touch!

fall is in - so are the allergies

Recently, Autumn decided to drop in and stay for awhile... Dont get me wrong, I love Autumn..  Leaves rustling, the colors, the smells, the nice chill in the air.  Pumpkins, cider, cinammon.  You get the picture.  Along with the joys of Autumn are the allergies.. I'm a fall allergy sufferer amongst many others...  Suffering from the congestion, sneezing, and itchy throat, I couldnt hope more for a "good freeze" than anything right now.   Just kill that crap off and let us less fortunate allergy sufferers breathe in peace.  :)

Enough with my rant to mother nature, Damon and I bought a new camera for ourselves.   Mine decided to go to camera heaven months back so we had to suffer through those disposals.  I said enough was enough, and we got our a Canon to capture the memories to be had and shared.   Sadly, our first camera time was spent taking pictures of the car accident we were in :(   alls okay - no one was hurt, well his truck and their SUV but that can be fixed.  

I'm making it a goal to start blogging more pictures, once we get them together, so those that read regularly (maybe 1 or 2) can enjoy them.

We also got our engagement pictures taken - and should have the prints and our cd with all our pictures in about 2 weeks, so I will share those then as well..

Love you all and hope you are enjoying Autumn!

Kitchen is up and running

I'm gonna be spending alot more time writing/gabbing over at my kitchen blog - feed is in the upper left hand corner under "Put Your Apron On" talking about my adventures in the kitchen.  I love experiencing recipes.  Its more than cooking, its learning, teaching, creating... and I want to share that - give others the same opportunities. 

So stop by - leave some thoughts, try some out.

I love you guys.  Only 8 months until I'm Mrs. Damon Gregg :)