4 of you were right.

I gained two pounds for quality control. Uggg. Oh well at least it is all boxed up and out of my sight now right! Next poll will be how much weight I lose next week since I WILL LOSE WEIGHT!

A different kind of personal ad

I'm pretty sure I could post the same want ad, minus the whole restoring furniture thing!

Mosey on over and meet my good friend
crazy lunatic pregnant bitch Murissa!

Her and I became friends when dealing with Nicole crazy lunatic fake pregnant bitch.

After months of nagging my girl (ultra hot mama) she started a blog. Hit her up! Try not to get mad at how goddamn perfect she looks while being very pregnant.

Fuzzhawk

I'M ALL CLEAN AHHHH NO MORE NECK CHEESE

CHECK OUT MY FUZZ HAWK

COULD I BE ANY MORE AWESOME?

WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH BRING BACK NY NECK CHEESE

WHAT? HUH WHO FARTED? NOT ME!

I HAVE BED HEAD HAWK

I think I'll pis myself now

Here is a look at what I see each time I walk by my front window.

It may be obvious what it is to you

See totally harmless

Cept every time I walk by the window this is what I REALLY see!

Your going to gain weight reading this post

The day started out with Brandon playing some video games. I like this picture because if you look closely you can see that he is actually moving the whole controller to the left hoping Mario will just move with it.

Yes mommy you got a one up

Then he got a little shy when Ginger first got there and hid from her

Holy groceries

And the destruction starts. See all that, yeah, ALL that was to make ONE batch of pumpkin cookies, can I just tell you how much more of a mess this was after 3 batches of cookies?

First batch of Pumpkin cookies hot out of the oven. I walked over and grabbed one to taste while it was warm and gave Brandon some. Ginger said, "your mommy is not supposed to be tasting these already." Brandon just laughed and stuffed cookie in his mouth. He looooved these cookies.

Making macaroons. Let me just tell you what a damn mess this was. You see, the directions say, add enough of this to that until it becomes sticky. WELL I of course couldn't determine sticky with out sticking my hands in it. So the next thing you know I'm covered in coconut goo that was so sticky it could rival super glue.

The first batch of raspberry and orange cookies. I only tasted about 2 of these at this point because I was waiting for the real excitement.

Codi was very busy while we were cooking

Well I mean, if there are this many cookies no one is going to notice if I taste just one more right.

Weeeeeeee melting chocolate.

Ginger dunking cookies in chocolate....I forced her to smile showing her teeth, I hate close mouth smiles, you don't look like your having as much fun as open mouth smiles!

This is what Rob did while I slaved away in the kitchen making Christmas presents

At this point Brandon was past sugar high, past flying, and moved on to teleporting from his sugar high. I only tasted about 3 of these, one raspberry, one orange and another raspberry that I picked while trying to find an orange.

These were the future home of peppermint bark

Cutting up more chocolate

Ginger thought posting a picture of me licking all the chocolate off the counter while sporting my empty moby would be funny. I was like ehh, do what you want I'm busy with the chocolate licking!

Little peppermint barks ready to be chilled

Kinda looks like snow huh

The first days dishes

The macaroons before we dipped them in chocolate. I only ate two undipped and two dipped...I think
Either way these turned out amazing and Ginger and I ended up pissed that we didn't make more. We weren't sure how they would taste so we only made 3 batches (doesn't make much) and then they turned out to be the best of all and we were super pissed that we didn't triple what we made.

Codi was still hard at work

I got up early the next morning to glaze the pumpkin cookies..Brandon called them cookies with ice cream and proceeded to lick all the frosting off and hand me back the cookie.

What is one to do with all that left over glaze?

Codi still hard at work

The start of making truffles

Here is this mornings aftermath. You see along with making all of this, I had company coming over for dinner at 6pm. We finished the truffles at 6:25pm. So after all that mess I had to make dinner to. This is what I woke up to this morning.
(I made this for my company, but I did mashies instead of risotto)

More of what I woke up to

Some of the finished product

A look inside. This box is with out macaroons, in case you don't like coconut!

The best of Shannon cheats part two

This is one of my better cheats. When I was about 15 my cousin and I had went to Wild Waters. We met these guys, Kieth, Luke and Scott. I had dated Scott for quite a while on and off and then later Luke and I started to date (like 2 years later). Anyway Kieth and I over the years had become pretty good friends and so it was nothing strange for us to hang out. Luke and I would sort of haphazardly date. One day we decided to kind of make things official. The problem with Luke is, well...he was a nice guy. Nice guys and me didn't really get along. I mean, I needed adventure and arguments, and tears and well, great sex you know. So after a few weeks of being very bored with Luke and how freaking nice he was I called Kieth, who was also his good friend and told him we needed to talk about this whole thing. I headed out to his house and we were hanging out talking. One thing led to another and before I know it we were hooking up. Kieth was the bad guy I was looking for. He was also someone I had no interest in beyond that night. Anyhoo here we are hooking up when my phone rings. Well Luke had known I was going to see Kieth and I kind of thought that if I didn't answer he would think it was weird, especially since he had just called Kieths phone and he also hadn't answered. So I picked up, while still fooling around. We talked for a bit, I passed the phone to Kieth and he talked for a bit. We hung up and kept doing what we were doing and all the sudden the phones started ringing. He would call me, then Kieth, then me again. I imagine he got off the phone, thought about it all and figured it out..I mean obviously my voice sounded a little funny and, ummm distracted. I told Kieth he should tell him since they were friends he wouldn't be to mad at him. So he told him. Then I got a phone call from Luke bawling (I don't handle that weepy shit well). I told him, OOPS and hung up. He tried for a while but I didn't care. I had hoped what I did was enough to send a nice guy running, but no such luck man! I eventually just stopped taking his calls, but man nice guys are hard to get rid of.

Cooking my heart out

Since being on maternity leave (sort of) I've been able to at least be home early enough to cook something good every night. I've tried to remember to post pictures and recipes on the food blog every night. Hop on over and check out my skillz!

Tasty Temptations

Also notice over there on the left sidebar I have a nifty little widget showing you what recipes have been posting most recently. Don't forget you can search the site by protein, ingredients, sides and so on just by checking out the label section!

The golden necter of grossness

The sickie in his bed being the king of the world, watching Back in the Back yard on his brand new cable DVR box hooked up to his Superman TV! Do you know what this means???? This means my Tivo can finally have room for something other then Dora, Mermaid, Tigger, JoJo, Wubzy, Cow, Elmo, Monster House, Mickey, Pooh and on and on and on!

My kids are sick. Both of them. And if you thought a two year old with a stuffy nose who couldn't breath was sad, well a 4 week old who can't breath is even sadder. Since he can't breath he has had trouble nursing at night. That is even sadder then the first part of the sad. Anyway since he can't nurse well I keep waking up with a lot of milk. However last night about 2am I was full. My boobs were FULL!!!! He nurses some on one side but not the side that was bursting at the seems. I thought about pumping but really didn't want to bug the whole house. So I just went back to bed. The next thing I know I woke up in a puddle. I was laying on my left side and so much milk had leaked out of my right boob that it was literally filling up my bra on the other side. Enough that I could actually dunk my finger in it. Fun huh? Yeah that was terrific. Since I'm lazy I grabbed a cloth diaper (I use em as burp rags) and tucked it into my bra and called it even. Nope I woke up with a sopping wet bra and shirt and child (he was sleeping with me). I had to pump this morning when I woke up because if not Codi totally chokes and then spits out all his milk. Can you believe after all that leaking I still got about 6 oz off my right boob alone? Yeah it was that full. I then got 2 off my left (he had been nursing off that side at night thats why it was less). But still 6 ounces on one side people I can't even imagine the amount I would have gotten last night had I not leaked out about 38 ounces on myself. I do not love waking up drenched thats for sure!

In other news Brandon spewed out cream cheese vomit all over my couch last night. And no amount of upholstery cleaner (I so just spelled upholstery with an A, apolstry, hmm), Fabreeze, and Lysol are taking the smell out. So I'm sitting her smelling this rotting milk smell and I keep thinking, "omg your bra is rotting from all the leakage last night," but then I stop and realize that NO its the tub of cream cheese my sick child puked up last night. I'm going to have a damn nervous break down over this. I would just wash all the cushion covers AGAIN but he puked on the back of the couch too...you know the kind I can't just wash!

Brandon is laying next to me and he is giving me a shot up his nose and I can see the boogers from here. Man oh man this stuff is sad.

Lets see what else. My husbands old bosses wife came over last night to bring us dinner. Seriously he hasn't worked there in over a year but they still love him. I'm not sure I've met nicer people. She brought us dinner as something nice after having Codi. She brought, mashed potatoes with garlic, chicken, garlic bread and cheese bread, a salad and cookies. Cookies of the Gods by the way, I need her recipe. She even put it in a fancy little basket and covered it with pretty table clothes. Then she packed Brandon a present and got me a cute Scrapbook for Codi. Now that is a lot of work for someone to go through for a guy who hasn't worked for them in over a year and only worked for them for about a year. Does that give you an idea about the kind of guy I'm married to? Yeah, he's that guy. The guy that everyone loves. Not just because he is nice (but omg is my husband about the nicest friendliest guy you'll EVER EVER meet) but because he also does his job. He is such a hard worker, and not because he wants to show off, or hes trying to get over time or something, nope hes just that way because its his nature. You do something, you do it 100%. So that means that when he worked for that boss the boss that basically didn't like anyone and was mean to everyone (they did construction so there was a lot of yelling), he was the one getting called pet names like son, or buddy. He was the only one given a full week off paid leave when he had a baby (another guy had one same week and didn't get a dime), he was the only one who got time off for my other surgeries, in fact he got flown back from his job site by his boss just to make sure he was home in time. He was the only one who basically never got in trouble and his boss and his wife still to this day talk to us. They don't speak to anyone after they quit. Not us. They have brought a present to both of Brandon's birthdays. His wife emails me, and last night they brought over a full dinner. So you see, thats the kind of man I married. The man that makes the biggest meanest bully of a boss turn into your goddamn best friend or your dad. In the mean time I can't stop eating cookies because they might be the best cookie I've ever had in my life.

My Moby

My mom just got me this thing. It's called a Moby. It's soooo cool. I can wrap Codi up about 9 different ways. I've done two so far. This is how he is sleeping right now. It's organic cotton, super soft and way comfy for me and him. I think I need like 2 more, one for my car so I have it at the store and mall and one for work and then my home one. These things are just awesome. You all need one now!

Wamart makes the men do strange things

Does your Walmart have anything in front of it? Mine has a nail salon and an eye glass place in front. Every time I walk out I check out the little nail salon for no good reason. Twice now though on two separate occasions I've looked in there to see men getting manicures. Now let me first say I see nothing wrong with men getting manicures at all. I do find it strange though that that would pick Walmart to get them, especially since it is a wide open space in the very front of the store where every single person has to pass to get out. Because of this I find it terribly hard to not giggle at them when I walk by. I don't know why I find it funny. I mean, it's Walmart and it has happened twice in one month that I've seen these extremely dorky looking men sitting there getting their manicures. Do you find it funny or is it only me who is giggling about this. I mean if your going to do it, go to a salon or a nail place where you are inside and no one can walk by and laugh at you.