Garlic Bread Lessons

{Sorry this pic is so small. Not sure how that happened.}

No, this is not a lesson on HOW to make garlic bread. This is a lesson LEARNED FROM garlic bread. And it still makes me giggle!

*Sorry, Joe*

Here's how it goes... About 2 years ago {crap, has it been that long?} we had Albert's brother, Joe, living with us while he was going to school. Joe had a job at a hardware store here in town that is connected to a grocery store. So, before Joe would come home for his lunch break, he would go buy something for lunch and bring it home to eat.

One day, Joe came home with a can of ravioli and a half loaf of garlic bread {you know, the really delicious kind that is pre-slathered with about 3 inches of that nasty garlic butter spread}. Joe proceeds to open his can of ravioli and warm it up and here's how the rest of his lunch break went....

A: Hey, Joe. Are you going to broil that garlic bread?

J: Broil?

A: Yah, broil. *Pause* Toast it, Joe. Are you going to toast your garlic bread?

J: No. I don't think you're supposed to.

A: Yah, I'm pretty sure you are.

J: No. I don't think so.

A: M'kay {of course with a sarcastic and 'do whatever you want' eye roll}.

Joe sits down and starts eating his lunch. Scrumptious ravioli and pieces of un-broiled pre-slathered garlic bread, broken off piece by piece right out of the bag. MMM....DE-LISH!

1/4 of the loaf gone.

J: {While continuing to hoover, secretly thinking after the first bite of bread - and a year later confessed to his fav. sis-in-law - something to the effect of....GROSS. I think this garlic bread was supposed to be toasted. Well, I'm going to keep eating it anyway. Can't let her know she's right.}

1/3 of the loaf devoured.

1/2 of the loaf eaten.

J: Wow. This butter is really over-powering.

A: {Not saying a dang word, just standing in the corner with a smug look on her face fixing her own lunch and lunch for the hubby}

Most of the ravioli and 3/4 of the loaf ALMOST down.

J: I don't feel very good.

A: Really?

So, what did we learn here?

The only reason I posted this story is because I made lasagna and GARLIC BREAD tonight and that got me chuckling about this story again.

~No harm or embarrassment intended, Joe!~

I think that says it all.

McWheelin' with the McPherson's

On Saturday, we went wheelin' with our new wheelin' buddies, Dave and Michelle. They took us out on a really cool trail south of Nine Mile Canyon. We were gone most of the day and I think we ended up riding about 75 miles! It was a blast! There are a crap load of sweet trails out there!!! Hopefully we'll go out that way again next year or something.

Unfortunately, we didn't get any pix with Dave and Michelle, but here are a few pix of the spot we stopped at for lunch. It was this really cool look-out over the Green River and it was so beautiful with some fall foliage still left to look at. The pix just don't really do it justice. Sigh.

Wheeling in Moab

Albert and I took a quick weekend trip down to Moab 2 weeks ago to go 4-wheeling! Call me a redneck, but 4-wheeling is my new favorite thing to do as of about a year and a half ago. I love it! It is a lot more fun for me than rock crawling or mountain biking (both of which are a couple of Albert's favorite things to do), probably because I can be in control a lot more - not that I have issues or anything.

We were lucky enough to be able to stay in a desert house that is owned by our bro-in-law, Kirk's, uncle. It was awesome! The only strange thing is that this house HAS NO BLINDS!!! ANYWHERE. Talk about a strange experience walking around a house nekked or mostly nekked { ;) }, wondering if some random hiking enthusiast will saunter on by the back porch while you're watching a movie or something.

Weird.

It was great, though! Thanks again, Kirk, for the hook ups! We rode some pretty awesome trails on Saturday - Gold Bar Rim, Bull Canyon, and Gemini Bridges. After wheelin' most of the day, we de-stinkified ourselves and went into town and walked around the cute little shops on Main Street. Albert took me out to a very cool restaurant called The Sunset Grill. It is up on a hill at the north end of town and it over looks the beautiful city lights of Moab at night. So romantic! I have the best hubby!!! Thanx again, babe, for the awesome weekend! It was fabulous!

Here, again, are some wicked awesome collages of our trip. I think you can click on them to make them bigger if you can't see them very well.

{***Disclaimer - Some of the pictures you are about to see of me are kind of retarded and should not be considered an accurate portrayal of what I normally look like. Thank you.***}

Young Women Haunted Candy Houses

A few weeks ago, for our weekly activity, we made haunted candy houses for Young Women's. It was fun to see the girls get creative and see how they all turned out so differently!

I have to give some mad props to my sis-in-law Julie, from who I stole this fantastic idea! We did this with her kids the first weekend in October - you haven't seen any pix on here of that experience because I posted like 20 pix on our family web site and that took forever, so I figured that would be sufficient - anyway, it was fun to do this with Julie's kids and these crazy teenagers had a good time, too!

***I will have you note my rockin' new collaging skills. I got a digital scrapbooking program at the Expo and it took me a while to figure out how to upload my flippin' sweet collages onto this stinking web site. But, as you can plainly see, I did it, and now you don't have to scroll through 85 pictures of a lot of people you don't know.

You're welcome.

{NAME} TAG

Thought this was funny. I snatched it off Johnny and Becky's blog-ola. I think my Stripper and Rockstart names the best!

Your real name:
Alisha

Gansta name (first three or four letters of your first name, plus izzle, favorite type of icecream, favorite type of shoe):
Alizzle Mint Chocolate Chip Flip Flop {AMCCFF, or AM C squared F squared, or AM double C double F, if that's shorter}

Native American name (favorite color, favorite animal):
Purple Weiner Dog

NASCAR name (first names of grandfathers):
Ronald Rogers

Stripper name (favorite perfume/scent, favorite candy):
Very Sexy Boston Baked Bean {my fav at the moment - can't get enough!}

Soap opera name (middle name, street you live on):
Anne 400

Star Wars name (first three letters of last name, first two letters of first name):
Fosal

TV weather/anchor name (first grade teacher's last name, major city that starts with same letter):
Hale Honolulu

Spy name (favorite season, favorite flower):
Fall Tulip

Cartoon name (favorite fruit, article of clothing you are wearing now):
Mango Scrub

Hippie name (what you ate for breakfast, favorite tree):
Oatmeal Weeping Willow

Super hero name (second favorite color, favorite drink):
Red Diet Pepsi

Goth name (black, name of one of your pets):
Black Mo'ki

Movie star name (first pet's name, first street name):
OJ Royal Point

Iraqi name (second letter of first name, third letter of mom's maiden name, third letter of dad's name, first letter of a siblings name, last letter of mom's name):
Lnnae

Rockstar name (first pet, current car):
Kitty Titan

Now, I'm going to tag April, Mandi, Sue, and Lowanna!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

I know, I'm a big dork, but I LOVE my birthday! It's pretty much the best day of the year.

Here are the beautiful flowers that my sweet hubby got for me!!!

AND... Albert even made me a cake for my birthday during his lunch break today! What a guy! Thanks, Honey! I love it!!!
German Chocolate....mmmm.....

Here's my cake and my flowers together!

My parents were also cool enough to send me this awesome bouquet of flowers at work. The card was only mildly embarrassing. I'm never going to live down the "Pooh Bear" comment, but it's all good! I'm the special one that got flowers and not them!

They are sooooo PRETTY!
THANKS, MOM AND DAD!!!

Here's a picture of the flowers that all my rockin' co-workers got for me! They are so cool! Have I ever mentioned that I love my job and all the people I work with? Well, I do! They're the best!

And here are the flowers that my sweet neighbors brought over for me! Howard and Betty grow the best roses every year and Howard is nice enough to share them with me every summer! A lot of mornings in the summer, I will go out to my truck to go to work and The Flower Fairy has already been to my house with a cute little arrangement of roses in an old 7-UP bottle that is now being used as a vase! Funny!

Well, it seems like it was a fabulous day of fantastic flowers, flowers, and more flowers!
I love it!!!
I love to get flowers! I'm not hard to please when it comes to gifts.

BUT....
I want to make some shout outs for all the other gifts that I got!
Thanks to Mom and Dad for the sweet temple bag, new G's, the gorgeous flowers and the card!
Thanks to Julie, Kirk and the kids for the cute wreath holder and the way fun weekend!
Thanks to Alyson for the card!
Thanks to Grandpa and Grandma Jones for the card and cash!
Thanks to Gayle and Papa John for the funny card and cash!
Thanks to Howard and Betty for the flowers and zucchini bread and card!
Thanks to everyone at work for making the Pooh Bear feel oh, so special!
Thanks, in advance, to April, Jeremy, Mikkele, and Granty for the package who's content are still yet to be determined!
Thanks to Aaron for the hilarious email! It did make me smile a lot!
And last, but certainly not least.....Albert!!!
Thank you, Honey, for my awesome cake, my beautiful flowers, my new clothes, and for reminding me that I'm 3 years younger than your oldness! I love you!