Hello!!

Hey there everyone! Hope you are all well. I am back from a long and much-needed hiatus from blogging. I missed it though!! Tried to keep up with the blogs I follow though so I haven't completely lost touch!!

I am really bummed though! I had hoped to share some pictures with you and for some reason I cannot get them off of my camera and on to the computer. Whateva! I will figure it out and post some soon.

Sooooo, what's been going on with me you ask? Ok maybe you didn't ask, but I'm going to tell anyhow. We just got back from a weeklong vacation. We started out on Friday the 17th driving north to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We were there to celebrate my father's 80th birthday. My sister has a home on Lake Michigan, so 21 of us made the treck at one point or another, and it was wonderful celebrating in true "Moose" fashion. Moose is my dad's nickname, and he LOVES to party!! While there, we went to Mackinaw City, Travis and his friend Austin went to Mackinaw Island, we met up with a girl I work with who lives about 1/2 hour from my sister. I know, right???? Who lives up in the U.P.??? We also visited the town of Petoskey, which is just a quaint little seaside town. Besides that, we spent alot of evenings down by the beach where we built fires and, yes I must admit, downed refreshments.....

We left Michigan on Wednesday and drove 8 hours home. Did a few loads of laundry till 1 a.m. and then woke up early to leave for another 10 hour trip South to South Carolina. OMG YES, we are NUTS! John's son recently had a baby and we have been dying to see him, and so, well no time like the present right? We got there in time to meet them for dinner and see the precious little guy, along with John's granddaughter Madison and his son and daughter-in-law. Basically we just hung out while there, and ate way too much. It was a wonderful visit! John and Taylor are awesome hosts and ahhhh, what I wouldn't give to snuggle on that little baby again!!

So I definitely gained weight while on vacation, which actually sucks because I DID NOT NEED TO GAIN WEIGHT!! So I'm on a diet. Struggling but I'm workin it the best I can. Please keep me in your thoughts, because I really need to watch right now!! I swear to God I have no willpower.

There are some other things going on personally that I will talk about later this week, but for now I want to keep those to myself. Actually just till tomorrow, when I tell the people I have to tell and then I can tell the world! Good things......

Poor Jackson Gepperheimer was in the kennel for 10 days, bless his sweet little heart!! He was so darn happy to see us, and I could not wait to see his little self! He has been gettin lots of love and scritchin today!

We are T minus 4-weeks and counting till Travis leaves for school. I can't believe it is here already, and I really need to get busy and start getting stuff together!

Well that's about all I can think of for now! Hope you all have a wonderful day. I have missed the blogosphere. It's good to be back!!

Hey Everyone!! Updates ~

Well Jeesh, it has been awhile and for that I apologize! It's just, well, I didn't have much to say. Dear God, I didn't have much to say? I must be coming down with something.....let me check my temp....

Actually it has been quiet around here. Travis spent the week up at his dad's in Youngstown. I bit the bullet and let him drive up there. It was a nail-biting 3 hours but the fact is, he has been a little down since graduating and I think he needed the change of scenery. He did well and sounds like he has had a great week visiting family and friends from his old school. He will be back tomorrow and then we have a couple weeks till vacation, and then after that, a few weeks till he leaves for school. Crazy. This summer is going to go so fast!

The big news.....John's son had a baby boy on 6/16, Davis John. He is so precious! I can't wait to get my hands on him! I'll have to post some pictures. He is a big boy, so alert. He doesn't look like a newborn. Now John is chomping at the bit to make a road trip to South Carolina so we can see the little guy, and his son and DIL and Davis' big sister Madison.

Work has been crazy. My boss was let go at the beginning of the month so there have been lots of changes and uncertainty in our department. The higher-ups are doing their best to ease our minds with regards to our own jobs, and we are doing our best to ease the minds of our teams, but it does seem as though the mood has changed so to speak. Everyone seems a little down, or a little cautious maybe?

Tonight we are going to the G&R, Waldo's famous restaurant for Fried Bologna Sandwiches. LOL it is our claim to fame! Anyway, we are meeting some friends down there. I'm really looking forward to it. I have been in a funk so maybe this will get me out of it!

OHHHH and we got a new car!!!! Long story. I had leased a Mercury Milan 3 years ago and the lease was up. So we either had to buy that car (which I wanted to do) or get a new one. Of course the sales men make buying a new one sound so great. We ended up doing that, and I got a new Mercury Milan Premier. It has all the bells an whistles. However, they did not close out our lease before selling us the new car and so now we are fighting about a $1547 bill we were slapped with on the lease for mileage. Had we known this we would have just bought the other one. So we are disputing that but who knows. We feel they should have settled up on the old lease first so we knew exactly what we were looking at. Not sell us a new car and then say, Ohhhh by the way, you owe us $1547.....

At any rate, I love my new car. Leather seats, moon roof, it is white but kinda opaque. It has Sync, hands free phone that works from my cell phone. It has climate control too which I really like. I loved my old Milan and this one is great too! I just think they are a great car!

Well that's about it for us. Hope you all are doing well!! Have a GREAT WEEKEND!

Tuesday's at the Table

Carmelized Onion and Garlic Chicken

Today's TATT recipe is kind of a mixture of a couple recipes I found on the internet and combined. In an effort to eat more healthy, I have been trying alot of recipes with chicken lately and for some reason, boneless skinless thighs have caught my attention. I don't really like chicken all that much, but for some reason, boneless skinless thighs on the grill taste wonderful. Well I'm bored of that already, LOL. So I tried this and it was delish!!

I used 1 and 1/2 package of boneless skinless thighs.

2 T olive oil

2 large onions sliced

4 cloves garlic minced, or throw some already chopped garlic in there.

1/3 C of brown sugar

2 T. white wine vinegar

salt and pepper to taste

Put 2 T of olive oil in a frying pan and put the onions and garlic in. Cook, stirring for 10 minutes or until soft. Stir in sugar and vinegar and cook for an additional 6-7 minutes.

While that is cooking, spray a baking dish with Pam. Put your chicken in the baking dish and salt and pepper to taste. Spread the onion mixture over the top of the chicken and bake for 20-25 minutes. Cover loosely with foil if the onions are getting too dark towards the end of the cooking time. Let rest 5 minutes before serving.

Enjoy!!

Stop over to visit Cole at All The Small Stuff for more Tuesday's at the Table recipes.

Curious.....

I was just kinda curious.....Do any of your husbands or significant others get jealous of the time you spend on the computer?

I try not to play into it, but dang, every time he comes up and sees me on the computer I start getting the comments...."Oh there ya are" (said very snarky I might add), or "That's what you need to be doing." He just came up here and I was looking at my work newsletter online and said "There's what you should be doing" and I said, do you have any idea at all what I'm doing? He asked what and I said, not that I owe ya an explanation, but it is my work newsletter.

He fondly refers to Facebook as Assbook. OK that one did make me laugh, but still.

I honestly don't know why he gets like that. I try not to play into it at all, because, quite frankly, if I want to sit my a$$ at the computer all night long, I'm damn well gonna do it!

I do think he might think that because I work from home I spend the better part of my life in this office, and he cannot understand why I would want to be in here during my time off. What he doesn't understand is that just because he feels that way doesn't mean I have to feel that way.

I just love being on the computer. I so know that 99% of you reading this can relate to that comment or you would not be here :o) I love reading blogs, searching the internet, checking email, etc.

I was just curious.....

Well I'm off to read the rest of my favorite blogs, check out facebook, twitter, play on YoVille......That should put me off the computer around 10ish......Take that, bastage! JK!! JK!!

Weekend Round-Up x3

Hi!! I know I have been slacking in my blogging. I can't really put my finger on why. Is it because I don't really want to talk about what has been going on? Maybe if I avoid it, things didn't really or will not happen? It has been an emotional 3 weeks or so. All good things happening, but emotional just the same.

On May 24th Travis graduated. I was dreading it. So very proud and excited for him, and yet, I could not help but feeling like my baby is now grown up and moving on. He doesn't need the mama too much anymore. It was a beautiful day. My parents came down, his other grandparents, and his dad and step mom. I really did not cry till the end, when I looked across the stadium and saw his best friend's mom crying. How could I see this right? I could. She kept dabbing her eyes. Her husband passed away last year and it was so hard for her to see her son Kit graduating without his father there, understandably. So that is the only time I cried. Yep, I'm pretty proud, LOL. Below is a picture of Travis with Kit. As you can see, Kit was bawling his eyes out too :o)

We had a bit of a surprise in that he ended up being Salutatorian. His GPA was 3.96. So close to Valedictorian. We laugh because he did not loose his 4.0 on AP Calculus or anything like that. No, he lost it in Spanish.

Below is a picture from prom. He was prom King and this was with the Queen. I just thought they both looked so sweet in it.

So then came his party on June 6th. It seemed like everything that could go wrong did go wrong. However, in the end it all came together and we had a great time!!

This past Friday and yesterday we were at Miami University for orientation. What a great time! I think that Miami will be a great fit for Travis. He is excited and nervous. He was so upset about scheduling and what should he take and what should he not take. I just told him to chill out and relax. His life does not need to be decided today. That seemed to relax him. He has some tough courses and his schedule is spread out all over the day. That did not exite him in any way, shape, or form, LOL. Move in day is August 20th. The day before his birthday. That is my next day of dread, LOL. I'm thrilled for him to be moving on, honestly I am!

Today was a majorly lazy day for John and I. I have had to work, so in between checking emails I took a nap, and watched the Nascar race with him. It was nice. We have been so busy lately that it was a welcome break to lay around and veg. I'm looking forward to our vacation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Should be a GREAT TIME!

OMG I lost 2 followers. I'm so sad! Ohhh well, hopefully they will come back someday.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Tuesday's At the Table

You know, every so often my hubby John G. gets a hankerin for some comfort food. This is one of his favorites. It is amazingly easy!!

CUBE STEAKS IN GRAVY

Spray a baking dish with Pam. Take 6 cube steaks and place them in the baking dish. Cover with 2 jars of Heinz Beef Gravy. You can make your own homemade gravy but I never do because I pretty much suck at that, LOL. Anyway, open a can of mushrooms and spread evenly over the gravy. You can also cut up onion and spread that on as well. Cover with foil and bake for at least 1 hour, but check it and see. It comes out very tender. I serve this with mashed potato's and corn or salad and we are all set.

Be sure to check out My Chihuahua Bites for more great recipes!!

Back From My Sabbatical

Hello! Long time no blog. I have seriously missed it! It has been a crazy 2 weeks and I'm glad I'm on the back side of the graduation and then the party. The party was this past weekend and it went off without a hitch! OK well there were a few hitches, but it was what it was and no one noticed any of the little things that went wrong.

So now on to bigger and better things. We have college orientation coming up! Dangggg, no time wasted!

Well I need to run for now, just wanted to send a quick hello! Talk to you all soon!

Aloha Friday

Happy Aloha Friday!! You know the drill. I ask a question and you answer.....and then you hop on over to An Island Life and check out all the other Aloha Friday questions.

It is great fun to hop around, blog to blog to blog answering questions. Go figure!

Today's Question......Since I have graduation on the mind......

How many graduation parties are you invited to this year.....

And.....Does anyone have any neat ideas for gifts that are not obnoxiously expensive?

Of course I was invited to a zillion parties this year since Travis graduated and I have been giving each one $20 and guess what.....I'm slowly going broke!

I'll post more on the graduation festivities tomorrow. It has been alot of fun, and I'm soooo very proud of myself.....I've been keeping my emtions intact!!

Talk soon!

Melancholy

Yea, that's me today, Melancholy. Today was Travis' last day of high school. I can't believe it is here already. Seems like just yesterday I wrote this post. Wow this year just flew!! I can't believe how fast it went. It was a great year for him with many highs, and a few lows, but all in all things went well for him.


The other night, John and I stopped at McDonald's before a track meet. There was a mom there with her approximately 6-7 year old son. I watched them for awhile. He was fighting a bit because he didn't want to eat. Instead, he wanted to go into the play gym. That was sooooo me and Travis 10 years ago or so. The mom was totally annoyed, and I thought to myself, boy, not too long and she will be sitting where I am. Before I knew it the tears were streaming down my face. And then there is John. LOL. Sooooo not compassionate when it comes to these things. He looks at me and goes OMG STOP!! Personally I think it is better I get it out early, LOL. Maybe I'll be all cried out by graduation! Lord knows I'm so not pretty when I cry.


Don't get me wrong, I'm soooo happy for him and so proud of him. And it's not even that he is moving to college. I think it is so much deeper than that. It's kinda like God gives us children for just a little while to raise, and then it is time for them to move on and make a life for themselves. I get that, but it is also the part I'm having the toughest time with. My opportunity as a parent is basically done, and I guess I'm just not sure what this next phase will bring. Now I know once you are a parent you are always a parent, but what I'm saying is the opportunity to guide them, to teach them right from wrong, to get his sweet hugs and precious kisses, that is the part I'm missing! When he was little he thought I hung the moon. Now he knows better, LMBO! That age of innocence is gone.


I'm just a roller coaster of emotions right now. And contrary to this post, I AM enjoying the ride. The festivities have been GREAT. Today they had a big water balloon fight after school that ended with someone going to the hospital in an ambulance. Good times.....NOT! Tomorrow is Shatzapalooza, a big senior party at his friend's house. A few of us parents are going, just to make sure the food situation is cool. Friday my parents will be here for the weekend. My mom always helps me put things into perspective. We are going to get pedicures on Friday, that should be fun. And then Sunday is graduation. Wish me luck peeps! Hopefully by then I'll have my emotions under control!!


On another note, how about Dancing with the Stars???? Cute little Shawn Johnson won! Rebecca Jo, did you see that one coming???? I thought for sure it would be Gilles!


Hope you all have a wonderful night!!

I'm the Queen Mum!

OMG I am seriously the Queen Mum !!! I'm the mom of River Valley's 2009 Prom King. Yep, he was the Prom Prince last year, so he was promoted, LOL! What a fantastic way to end his senior year. I am really excited for him!

Prom was yesterday. I have included a few pictures. It was literally pouring rain in these pictures. The kids were on the front porch and the parents were under a tree snapping the pics. Good times!

This first one is Travis on our front porch.

This is Travis and his friend Kaitlin. His girlfriend is on a 3-week trip through Europe and he didn't want to miss his prom so ended up taking a good friend. I think her dress was sweet!

This is the group. The girl on the end in the black and white was Prom Queen.

Typical Travis.......always is sticking his tongue out in pictures!

Prom was at the Palace Theater in Marion and they did their Grand March (Where each couple walked across the stage and were announced, a great opportunity to see everyone) on the stage. Really pretty setting.

They were off to Cedar Point today. I'm sure he is exhausted. His wisdom teeth have been bothering him and when he called earlier saying they were on their way home he said his mouth was killing him.

Not much going on with John or I. I am just really working on scrapbooking and picture boards for the graduation party, graduation next weekend, and the graduation party that is coming up in 3 weeks. Soooo much to do and no time to do it!

Back to work tomorrow. The weekend flew! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Aloha Friday

Welcome to Aloha Friday!!!!

Sooooo Aloha Friday......started by Kalani over at An Island Life, as a day to take it easy. I ask a simple question......you give a simple answer!!

My Question Is:

What is your favorite flavor of ice cream????

Mine is Chocolate Peanut Butter Parfait from Handels, which is a local ice cream shop started in Youngstown Ohio. All I can say is Yummitha!!

And I suppose you have been wondering where I have been! I'll post this weekend and let you know, not that it is anything exciting.....just life basically!

Have I Told You I Love This Guy

Love him! That's all, just love him!

We went out to dinner tonight. You know it was just me and Travis for 9 years before I got remarried. Now, going out to dinner, just the 2 of us, doesn't happen, what with his busy social life and all. But tonight the opportunity presented itself. John has been out of town with work so when Trav got home from track he said "MOM, LETS GO EAT!!" Maybe I'm being sensitive because he is getting ready to graduate, but tonight's conversation was very reminiscent of the good old days when we used to go out years back. Get that boy talkin and he will tell you everything! Maybe even some stuff you really don't particularly care to hear! It is nice though, to hear all that is going on with him. What his thoughts are about the future, about graduation, about leaving his friends, and about leaving home. Anyway, I thank God for special times like these.

See ya tomorrow! Gotta go watch Lost!

Weekend RoundUp ~ New Windows

Just a quick update from the weekend.

Friday night we went to a track meet in Canal Winchester which is on the other side of Columbus. Every single year it pours rain on the way down, and every single year I pray it is cancelled, and it never is. So we are sitting there, and they say they saw lightning and that the athletes needed to return to their busses and the parents to their cars. While we are walking to the car the tornado sirens go off. They opened up the auditorium for us to wait out the tornado warning. You would think after that they would let us go home, but noooooo, the show must go on! They ran that track meet in the pouring rain. Travis said it felt like needles pelting him when he was running the 400. Those Canal Winchester people take their track meets really seriously, LOL. Fortunately, I found made a parking spot at the end of one of the aisles and we were able to watch the whole track meet from there. Ohhh sure, people kept pulling up next to me and blocking us and I told them to move on and go find their own illegal parking spot! Good times!!!!

Exciting News! My hubby worked on putting new windows in! This is him doing our kitchen window and sticking his tongue out at me. Nice, HUH?

This is looking out the hole that was our kitchen window out at the shed. Kinda funky to see a hole in your kitchen. I kept hoping no birds would fly in, and praying no spiders would crawl in. I can't wait till we are all done, but only 2 are done so far......10 more to go. Our house was built in 1973 and had the original windows. Half the screens were missing, etc. So it will be nice to be able to open the windows!!

This is Travis and his girlfriend Meredith. I have a thing for light eyes and dang, will ya look at those eyes??!!

Well thats about it for us! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Tuesday's at the Table

There are 2 meals that my husband makes that I just, 1) absolutely love, 2) cannot recreate. They are his chili and his meatloaf.

I try, and I fail, each and every time. But I'm so OK with it, because it sure doesn't hurt him to cook every once in awhile. In fact, we have a deal, I cook Monday through Thursday, go out to eat on Friday, and then he takes care of the meals Saturday and Sunday. So usually we eat out the whole weekend.....sadly, LOL. Actually that's not true, he is pretty good at grilling on Sundays. But I told him I don't even want to have to think meal preparation on the weekends, so he offered.

His chili is just a bowl full of chunky goodness with lots of meat, peppers, onions and tomatoes. Major Yummilicious!

His meatloaf is Rock Your Socks Off good! So without further ado, I give you......

JOHN'S MEATLOAF

1-1/2 pounds ground beef

2 eggs

1 roll of Ritz Crackers crushed

Heinz 57 sauce (no measurement, some for in the mix and some for the top)

small onion chopped

small green pepper chopped (half the time we leave this out because we don't have a green pepper)

Onion Salt and pepper to taste

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Add some Heinz 57 sauce to the mix. Once you place your meatloaf in your loaf pan, cover the top with Heinz 57 sauce as well. Bake in the oven for at least one hour. I like mine to brown up pretty good on the edges, because, well I pretty much like everything burned. So I call the ends, LOL! Try it, you are gonna love it!

Be sure to stop over to My Chiuhuahua Bites for more Tuesday's at the Table recipes!

So my back is feeling a little bit better! Well actually I would even go so far as to say 1/2 better!! Thanks for all of your well wishes. I had posted on Facebook something that looked like this:

Back = ouch = equals doctor appointment tomorrow for Drugs.

Here is how my lovely friends responded with nothing but these short, one-word answers.

Diva Kim: Yoga

Florence: Stretching

Sharon: Alcohol

LMBO! Actually I tried 2 of the 3 last night and Yoga was not one of them! No need for the doctor though, phew. I hate to go!

Have a great Tuesday all!

PS: Do you guys twitter? I opened an account. I think it is under Gepper524. I don't really know what I'm doing yet though. Can you reply to people?

Yowser, My Back Hurts

OUCH!!

I don't know how I did it. Might have been the laundry.......

I don't know why it happened to me.

I don't know what I did to deserve it.

But Good Lord, I hurt my back and its KILLING me! I *think* I'm going to have to suck it up and go to the doctors tomorrow. I'm miserable!

I have been taking alot of this......

But what I really need is some of this.......

And I will tell you that this may go a long way in making me feel better!

Think John will go for it?

Yea, I don't think so either!

I'm going to lie back down. I hope you all have a wonderful evening!!

Aloha Friday

Happy Friday!!!! Time for Aloha Friday! You know the drill. I ask a question and you answer :o)

My question for this week is really kind of a tough one I have been asking myself, and I thought it would be neat to get other people's perspective as well.

"Am I treating myself how I deserve to be treated?"

And my answer would be "Absolutely NOT!"

I have been thinking about this a lot this week! We started a Biggest Loser competition at work and I was thinking about the things I needed to do to accomplish my goal. Exercise was one of them, but my big excuse is I dont have time. The true problem is I dont MAKE time! So my goal for this week, and I start with baby steps, LOL, is to MAKE time for myself to exercise. I DESERVE IT! I DESERVE TO MEET MY WEIGHT LOSS GOALS and that is the first step in getting there!

Hop on over to An Island Life for more Aloha Friday questions.

It looks like it is going to be a beautiful weekend! Hope you all have a good one!

The Alphabet Game

A is for Age: I am 44 ~ Yikes, where did the time go?

B is for Favorite Beer: I don't drink a whole lot, but I do like Samual Adams Cherry Wheat.

C is for Career Choice at the Moment: Quality Coordinator in the medical transcription field.

D is for the Name of your Dog: Jackson Gepperheimer of course. But I do want to mention my dogs growing up because they did have a huge impact on my life. There was Gigi, a sweet little toy poodle and Fritzie, the best dog ever (Sorry Jack), a miniature schnauzer who was just my best bud in the world.

E is for Essential item you use Everyday: Computer, LOL. I'm in front of it basically every single day of my life, and suffer withdrawal when I'm not.

F is for Favorite TV Show: I would have to say Lost, Greys Anatomy, Dancing with the Stars. But some of my new faves, Bones, The Mentalist, and Rescue Me <----hilarious show, can't believe they can get away with the stuff they do!

G is for Favorite Game: I would say LCR. It is a dice game that we usually play when the whole family gets together. I love Catch Phrase too.

H is for Home Town: Poland, Ohio.

J is for Favorite Juice: I think just plain old orange juice.

K is for whose butt you would like to Kick: Jenn.....only because we both need to get over it.

L is for Last place you ate: wherever I was an hour ago…I pretty much eat all the time......I'm just saying...... Seriously we ate out last night at the G&R.

M is for Marriage: Yes. Marriage can definitely be a struggle, but in the end, I do think it is worth it.

N is for Your Full Name: It’s Kimberly Ann.

O is for Overnight Hospital Stay: Just when I had Travis and we were stationed in England.

P is for People you were with today: John and Travis.

Q is for Quote: Right now, this is my fave. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

R is for Biggest Regret: No regrets…just lessons learned.

S is for Siblings: 1 sister, Terri, 2 brothers, JD and Frank. They rock!

T is for Time you woke up Today: 5:15 everyday except when I'm off.

U is for Underwear: Yes, and I guess thats all I will say about that right now.

V is for Vegetable you like: I like lima beans. I know, weird.

W is for your Worst Habit: I'm a huge procrastinator! I absolutely hate that about myself.

X is for X-Rays you’ve had: Jeesh, I cant remember. Most recently my wisdom teeth.

Y is for Yummy Food your Mom made: She used to make this chicken and rice thing in a pan on the stove. I loved it and she can't remember it but I wish I could find that recipe. She makes awesome meatloaf too, like a big meatball with sauce on it!

Z is for Zodiac Sign: I’m a Piesces. My birthday is February 26th.

This was fun! I hope that you will all play along on your own blogs! The Questions stay the same, just replace the answers :o)

Tuesdays at the Table

Well it's that time again.....Tuesday's at the Table! For this week, I thought I would share the recipe of an appetizer that I absolutely LOVE. I make this a lot for the parties we go to, etc., and I have even made it for me and John to munch on for dinner when I haven't felt like cooking a big meal.

BUFFALO CHICKEN CHEESE DIP

2-10 ounce cans of chunk chicken breast drained.

2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese softened.

1 cup ranch dressing

3/4 cup Franks Red Hot Sauce

1-1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese.

Heat chicken and red hot sauce in a pan on the stove until heated through. Spread softened cream cheese in a 13x9 pan. Pour ranch dressing over this. Spread chicken mixture over top and bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Top with cheddar cheese and bake and additional 5 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips.

For more exciting recipes, hop on over to My Chihuahua Bites!

So Travis' track meet was cancelled. Was it wrong that I was overjoyed? I mean it IS me who is complaining that these school related activities are coming to a very quick end here. But it is cold, and wet, and just not real nice here in Ohio.

My bloggy friend Rebecca Jo commented last night saying that she loves Dancing with the Stars this season and that since I thought it was boring, I should check out her review. I wanted to link over to it for any DWTS fans, because she has great insight!! I really enjoyed reading her take on the show. Check it out here.

Well that is about it for us! Hope you all have a wonderful evening!

Where Am I??? Not at the Beach, That's For Sure

Sorry I have been gone so long!!!! I have been neglecting my blog so badly! I have just been so busy with my son's upcoming graduation, finalizing details, shopping, scrapbooking, and then sadly there is work, which takes up another big chunk of my day, darn it, leaving me with little time to do the "fun" things! BUT I'M BACK!!!

I had the best weekend! On Friday my parents came down to see one of Travis' track meets. It was in Bellfontaine (which normal people would pronounce bell-fon-taine, but in Ohio it is pronounced bell-fountain. Weird, I KNOW!) Travis was supposed to run the 4x400, which he did, but they gave him a 1/2 hour notice that he would be running in the distance medley and would be running the mile. Dang, 4 times around the track for that one. Travis was nervous and was afraid he would not do well, and kept shaking his head, because he was not at all prepared. To hear him talk, I had these visions of everyone finished and him still having 2 laps to run, and finally crawling over the finish line, but that was not the case at all! He did fine. He didn't lose, that's for sure. There were like 4 people behind him. To be in shape like that, ya know?

Then on Saturday we went for a little road trip. We went to Miami University, which is the college my son will be attending in the fall. He has a friend that goes there, so we hooked up with her for lunch and then they walked around the campus and she showed him so many things. He was soooooo excited about it! My mom and I walked around quite a bit, and did some damage in the book store. Dad and John sat and people-watched. After that, my niece was playing in a softball tourney in Middletown Ohio which was only about 20 minutes from Miami, so we headed over there. Katie is an awesome baseball player and they won, not only their game but the entire tournament! We stayed there till about 8ish and then started on the 3 hour treck home. Boy were we tired! Sunday I just veged all day and caught up with some shows I had TIVO'd. My parents left at about 11 in the morning. I always hate when they leave. I love the mamma so much. OK and my dad too, although he did a lot of agitating this weekend, and sadly I was forced to retaliate!

So Travis and I had a conversation about him leaving me, which, as most of you know has been weighing heavily on my mind. I felt so bad because he said he was so worried about me for when he goes. I said, I don't want you to worry about me Trav. Although I will be sad to not see you everyday, I am TRULY excited for you! I WANT you to experience college and I WANT you to have the time of your life, with a whole lotta studying thrown in there! I hope he never loses track of his goals. He said he felt so much better. I'm glad he mentioned it because truly, I don't want him to waste 1 minute of his life worrying about if I will be OK when he goes. I'm sure I will be fine.....gulp..... hee hee, JK, JK!!!!

OK now on to other things.....SAY IT AIN'T SO............. Someone is clearly missing from this picture ~

Edie, did you really leave???? I have to do some research to see what is really going on here! Although she was a bad girl, I do think she added a lot to the show. This show is normally one of my must-sees, although not so much this year.

Well I must go get dinner ready and then Dancing with the Stars is on tonight. There is another show I'm bored with this season....major ho-hum if ya ask me. I hope you all have a wonderful evening!

Tuesday's At The Table

This is not something I'm having for dinner tonight but it is a great little breakfast casserole for when you have company. I live out of town and my parents and sister come to visit. This can be made the night before and then baked in the morning. It is really great, and I did just recently make it for dinner, and my guys just loved it! Enjoy!!

Breakfast Casserole

6-8 slices of bread broken up

1 lb sausage (I use Bob Evans Hot Sausage)

1 medium green pepper chopped

1 small onion chopped

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

6 eggs

2 cups of milk

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9x13 pan with Pam. Brown and drain the sausage with the pepper and onion. Tear bread into pieces and place in bottom of baking dish. Place sausage peppers and onions over bread. Sprinkle with cheese. Beat eggs and milk together and add salt and pepper to taste. Pour it in the baking dish, over the bread/sausage.

Back at 350 for approximately 35-40 minutes. Edges will brown and eggs should be set in the middle.

It is just yummy!