New Recipe

Creamy Petso Chicken and Bow Ties

2 tablespoons of butter
1 pound skinless boneless chicken breats, cut into cubes
1 can Campbells Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup prepared pesto sauce
3 cups bow tie-shaped pasta, cooked and drained.

1.  heat the butter in a skillet over medium-high heat.  Add the chicken and cook until it's well browned, stirring often.

2.  Stir the soup, milk and pesto sauce into the skillet.  Heat to a boil.  Reduce heat to low.  Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.  Stir in the pasta.  Cook until its hot.

SURVEY SAYS...  It's a keeper!  It was so good the boys asked for seconds! I can't take the credit for this one, though - Sean cooked it, I just picked out the recipe:)

Sean

As I have briefly mentioned before, Sean has been leaving early Monday mornings and not coming back until Saturday nights for a project in North Carolina (this crazy traveling started two days after we came back from our honeymoon). 

When he actually is home, he is still sometimes sucked into working:(  I look forward to when this project is finally over! (however, the deadline somehow keeps getting pushed back...)

Sean working away...

(please excuse the mess-packing has begun!)

Black Friday 2010

Friday morning I was surprised to find post-its that Sean had left for Ethan and I to find.  You can't really see them very well in the picture, but he wrote "I am grateful for my beautiful wife!" and "I am grateful for my awesome son!"

Later on, I came home from work and found even more post-its added!  Ethan added "I am grateful for my awesome Dad" and "Mom you are awesome, Love Ethan and Dad" and then pictures of each of us.  So cute!  I love these little surprises that they leave for me:)

In the evening, we went to the Air and Space Museum - it was so fun to see all of the airplanes, astronaut stuff, and to go to the Observation Tower.  Afterwards, we met up with Sean's sister, Aubrey (who is in town from Utah) and her boyfriend, Ryan.  What a great visit!  We are trying to convice Aubrey to move back to VA... that would be so much fun!

Thanksgiving 2010

Per tradition, we went to my parents house for Thanksgiving.  My aunt and uncle came from South Carolina, Meg and Bobby, my grandparents, and our crew all enjoyed each others company. 

Picture coming soon - I forgot my camera and had to use my mom's

My Grandparents' 60th Wedding Anniversary

60 years ago yesterday, my grandparents were married.  To celebrate, we (except for Sean-he is in NC for work) all met at Lonestar for dinner and went back to Sunrise (where my grandpa lives) and had cake.  Grandpa looked so handsome and Grandpa looked equally pretty - they both dressed up for the special occasion:) 

My grandma told us a little bit about their wedding day...  At the time, my grandpa was a Private in the Marines and he didn't have enough money for the marriage license, so the night before, he set up pins in the bowling alley for the money that was needed.  The next day (which was Thanksgiving) they drove to Philadelphia because to get married in Virginia, you had to get blood taken and my grandma didn't want to do that. 

My Grandparents on their wedding day - November 23, 1950

My Grandparents' 60th Wedding Anniversary

November 23, 2010

{New} Home Sweet Home!

As of Friday afternoon, we are officially homeowners!  It was quite an experience to get to this point...  We are so excited, though for our new home and all of the memories we are going to make in it!  Over the weekend the house was scrubbed from top to bottom and the carpets were deep cleaned and then steam cleaned.  We won't be officially moving in until the second or third weekend in December and we can't wait!

Off of Private and Back to Public

About two weeks ago I turned my blog onto private after a freak-out moment when the guy who found Sean's iPhone that he lost in Miami (on our way to the airport after our honeymoon) called me asking for the passcode to get into the phone.  I was paranoid that since he had my full name and cell phone number, he could just google me or something, find my blog, and know a lot of stuff about us that I don't want random people to see. 

But let's be honest, my blog is probably really boring to those who don't know us!  SO, I don't think that the guy will really care about it if he does take the time to 1) google me and 2) read the blog.  Also, some people mentioned to me that they didn't have gmail so they couldn't look at my blog anymore, etc., so to make life simple and for everyone to be able to see what's going on in our little corner of the world, I made the blog public again.  I hope everyone enjoys reading it (and I apologize I haven't added any pictures yet from the sealing dinner, ring exchange, or honeymoon - life's been really busy, but I promise I will soon!) <3