My favorite store...

Most of you know I love the bookstore! I go there when I need to get out of the house and enjoy wandering around. I have found another reason to love them. They have these fun 'parties' for different books. I took niece #2 to a Fancy Nancy party a couple weeks ago. She dressed up like Fancy Nancy and we had a BLAST! at the party. Then this week nephew #1 and I went to a party for the new Rick Riordan book "The Red Pyramid." Much fun was had! I think I like the parties as much as I like the coupons (I'm pretty sure I haven't paid full price for a book in quite a while! Don't tell!) If you have a Borders near you - check out the storytime and parties!

Fun treat

Last night we had bookclub at my house. I made a yummy apple dip!

1 block cream cheese - softened
1 cup brown sugar (i usually add 3/4 of a cup instead)
1 cup toffee bits
dash of vanilla

Mix cream cheese and brown sugar together. Fold in toffee bits.

My roommate told me a new way to keep your cut apples from going brown. Instead of dipping in lemon juice - you can dip them in Sprite (or any other lemon-lime soda). I think they taste better than the lemon juice ones!

Shirley J giveaway

I hope I win this giveaway. I'd like to try the Shirley J products!

http://www.mommyenterprises.com/moms-blog/416/shirley-j-review-and-giveaway/

Don't smash your toe...

After dealing with the problems that have come after smashing my toe about 3 years ago - I reccommend never smashing your toe on my mom's dinner table leg. I was having major problems with the nail again and went back into the foot doctor today (a year and a half after my last visit). He ended up taking off the nail again - the whole nail this time, not just half. I almost told him on the way out I hoped to never see him again! :) But since I have to go back in two weeks, that seemed a little silly to say.

Belated...

I got to go on a fun trip down to visit Lindsay and family a few weekends ago - but kept forgetting to write about it! I had so much fun and am looking forward to my next visit. I had to buy pepperjack cheese for quesadillas when I got home, you got me hooked on it Linds! I miss reading stories to little A. and enjoying time with friends!

Overheard last night...

My sister-in-law had her baby last night, I have a new nephew! While at the hospital to see him I overheard the following conversations between sister-in-law and 3 year old nephew.

nephew: Bye Mom!
s-i-l: Bye.
nephew: I take baby home?
s-i-l: No, baby needs to stay here with me.
nephew: (crying) But I want to take baby home!

I found it funny he didn't care if mom came home, he just wanted his baby brother home. The next conversation was funny.

nephew: Mom, does him talk yet?
s-i-l: Nope, not yet.

I think my brother and sister-in-law will have their hands full with these two!

Computer help desk...

I went to Grandma's last night to fix her computer so she could do more indexing for the Church's genealogy program. I'd tried the first 2 solutions for the problem and the next was to uninstall and reinstall the program. All Grandma sees is her icon disappear. She FREAKED out. I told her I would get her icon back, but she didn't believe me until I had it back on the desktop and had the program running again. I tried to get her to leave the room and go fix her dinner so that I wouldn't scare her again, but she didn't want to leave me. Once I got it back and running she wanted to go get dinner at the local Mexican restaurant. Chips and Salsa, count me in! :)