college, cupcakes, & corsages?

We had a great weekend. i really feel like i could write a couple of posts right now, so we'll see where this one takes us...

Friday night was interesting. I bought locally grown tomatoes and avadacoes for quacamole! i was mega excited! little did i know how to pick out an avacado. so i went with what was natural, the hardest one was the best one. (we've made quac before and i think just lucked out) So when we started cutting the avacadoes, we ran into some trouble. I learned later, much later after trying everything i could including making a weird salad thing in the blender-that they weren't ripe yet.

SO we went on with our dinner plans and made black bean quesadillas. you haven't lived until you've had these!!! we added grilled chicken, peppers, and tomatoes. yum yum yum!!

Saturday I hit the gym. I was pumped and ready!!! i ran 3.5 miles!!  and I felt amazing!!! def felt all the endorphins kickin in. Then I did my weights and boogied home where Daniel was making sausage and pancakes!

We ran some errands and went to Academy. I just looked at everything and drooled. and then went home and updated my amazon wish list, hahaahahahhahh!

We decided to go to Shawnee, where Daniel's alma mater is. I had been there once 11 years ago.

We basically just walked around taking pics of ourselves. very normal.

what's funny is that i almost went to school here. I applied and even visited the campus. but then i saw the dorms......

(sometimes i try to be artistic)

Then we headed to Starbucks for happy hour!!!! Check it out at their site, it's for another week!!!!

Sunday was mother's day of course!!! My parents are coming up this next weekend, so we stayed up here in Oklahoma. One memory i always have of Mother's Day growing up, is my dad buying my mom a corsage for church. Every year we would see the corsage sitting in the fridge waiting for my mom to wear it. There was 1 lady in SS who had a corsage and i just loved it!!!!

SS-is another post all in itself. (Code word-crowded loneliness)

I woke up this morning to a card that Daniel made for me. even though we're not parents yet, we're excited for it whenever it comes.

here's us this morning.....sidenote-why do my eyes always look like i've been crying? anyone?

After SS we went and had lunch with the fam to celebrate Daniel's mom! ummmmm did i take a single picture?!??!! ugh! as soon as we got in the car to drive home i remembered i had my camera. grrrrrr....

I was feeling very domestic tonight, so i made choc cupcakes (with flax seed!!!!) and homemade frosting. 2 KINDS OF FROSTING!!! Regular vanilla and almond flavored.

We tried a new recipe for dinner: whole wheat penne pasta with broc and sausage. it was good, but we forgot the tomatoes and i think next time i'll add almonds for some crunch.

We've got a pretty busy next few weeks ahead of us. we're travelling some, having family over, and running :)

hope everyone had a great mother's day!!

love

laura

weekend rewind

As usual.......my blog will be a little bit of this and that.

First...Tuesday nite.....anyone watch TBL?!?!?! it was amazzzzing, one of the best episodes ever in my book. I cried my way thru it and loved it.

Wed, ran my 3 miles and felt really good about it.

Fri, we had dinner and watched the Food Network channel (our fave channel pretty much), and i was asleep by 8:20. i could not keep my eyes open to save my life!! i felt like such a loser. i constantly fight it. i want to prove that i'm not old. so i lay on the couch drifting in and out of sleep, telling myself that i can make it till at least 9. oh no such luck!

but......i got a great nights sleep and slept till 7. woo hoo for me.

Saturday was date day/nite. I wanted to plan it this time.

All you Dallas people who always talk about your cute little cake and cupcake shops.....know that you bring me to jealously every time. So next time you think about writing your fb status about the delicious cupcake you just had...think about those less fortunate who don't have cupcake shops to enjoy.

anyways, that's how i got my date idea. I was dying to go to a little cupcake shop and just googled to see if there was any in the state of Oklahoma. To my shock, there was!!!!!!

So Saturday afternoon, Daniel and i headed to the nearest cupcake & coffee shop. The plan was to read, study language, and just hang out, then go to dinner. Daniel didn't know any of the details of the day, so i had to pack his language stuff and books without him knowing.

Here's us on the way....notice Daniel's eyes are on the road like a good driver :)

Ok, remember....Oklahoma is trying to catch up with Texas in some ways. Places like this new little cupcake shop are a thing of the future here. I'm hoping to see them more commonplace soon. SO, it shouldn't have been too surprising to see the line out the door of our little cupcake shop. In fact, we were there for over 2 hours, and the line was out the door the entire time. But wow, was it worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

here's my Mocha...SO delish!!

Daniel with his chai....

and the reason for it all....the cupcakes!!

i hope you're drooling right now. bc i am. i want to go back this second and eat 5 cupcakes and 2 mocha's. what? everything in moderation right?  :)

Of course, our day wasn't complete without playing a little bit of Would You Rather? They had the game cards sitting next to us, which can entertain me for hours on end.

Daniel, looking ever so intent as i ask him nonstop Would You Rather questions....

After our afternoon full of sugar and caffeine, we head to dinner. We went to a local restaurant, which is one of Daniel's faves. And mine too.

Daniel's pizza...

My parmesan crusted chicken...

That was our date in a nutshell.

Today, was Sunday, high attendance day at our church. We had breakfast with our Sunday School.....and i ate way more than i should have. it was the complete breakfast buffet.

But the best part, is that our deaf ministry joined us for the main service, and a deaf teenager was baptized. He had an interpreter for him, and all his deaf friends came and supported him. One thing i really like about our church, is that when someone is baptized, all their friends and family go on the stage to support them. it's so great to see!!

Anyways, we sat behind the deaf section, and when we were singing "all hail the power of Jesus name" the part where we say 'crown him Lord of all' the sign language was just beautiful. It looked like they were really acting out the crowning of Jesus. I loved watching it!!! I have always wanted to learn how to sign, so i try to pick up a few words whenever i see people signing.

We had lunch with the fam at a local restaurant, and have been resting ever since. Well, not true. I tried to make guacamole for the first time and had my avacado's in the fridge. I didn't realize they needed to be room temp....so we're waiting for them to soften up a bit  :)

hope your weekend was fun and relaxing!!

love

laura