In the mood for wings??

We have a neighbor that owns a restaurant in town called Pluckers. Yeh, it's wings but they have other things too like burgers, potatoes & salads. We have never met said neighbor. He lives 2 houses down from us. I don't remember when he moved there but it's been at least a year ago. I think a little longer. Our next door neighbors who live next door to him haven't ever met him either. I don't know if I've mentioned but we're a very social street! We like to know our neighbors. If they're weird that's fine but we need to know. One of the other neighbors did meet him BEFORE he moved in & he told him that he doesn't get home until late at night because he's at the restaurant & that he's single. He's obviously a nice guy because on Halloween he left a big bucket of candy on his porch with the light on even though he wasn't home. Only nice people do that right?? We know that he's young, like late 20's early 30's. We also know that he's done stuff to the house. Someone saw the granite people leaving one day & he has a lawn service that fixed his landscaping & cuts his grass. So, we've decided to take matters into our own hands. We're all bombarding Pluckers tonight to eat & hopefully meet our not so new neighbor! I'm not sure how many of us are going but I know for sure 11 adults & 3 kids. We're going at 7:00. Hopefully, we'll actually eat before 9:00 unlike the last two times we've gone out! Aside from meeting him our neighbors that live next door to him would like to meet him at least once before they ask him to do something about his outside light that shines in their daughters  bedroom at night. She's taken to covering her window with a blanket. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Hopefully, he's a nice guy. I'll let you know.

Toodles!

Mother's Day

Our Mother's Day was very nice. Dean & I went to his parents for a crawfish boil. Dean's mawmaw, aunt & cousins were there along with my parents. It's so nice to have everyone like each other & get along. It makes holidays A LOT easier. We spent the majority of the day on the pier eating. As usual there was a ton of food. Look how pretty the crawfish were.

I didn't even eat any. I planned to but there was also fried shrimp, fried fish & french fries & those are some of my favorites. By the time I was done, I was too full for crawfish. Not to mention the key lime pie, tot pie, blackberry pie & strawberry shortcake that we had. It was all sooooo good!! Can you tell we really love to eat in this family?? Dean's cousin Cassie brought her kids bouncy castle thingy. The kids LOVE this thing. I thought it was funny how everyone was standing around looking at it inflate!!!

Cody was moving to fast for me to get a picture of him but Emma was a little slower & more willing to pose!

How cute is that!!!

The men all sat on the pier & watched the LSU baseball game. For some reason it was cloudy & cool. When I say cool, I mean that I was sitting on the swing wrapped in a blanket. Eventually, the ladies went inside to warm up!! That's Louisiana weather for you!

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!!

Toodles!

A Day In The Pool

Saturday, Logan & Lydia came over to swim for the first time this year. It could've been sunnier, Logan has a farmers tan he needs to work on.  Here he is wondering why we're all taking pictures of him! 

He loves to splash!

See what I mean about the farmers tan??

We got out for a little bit to have lunch. Dean grilled burgers for us & Logan chilled with a bottle.

We put the canopy on his little pool float when we got back in because the sun had finally come out. He had a blast chewing on the noodle!!!

Logan is just exactly like his daddy, he can't sit still. Or stand still for that matter. He's only still when he sleeps & being in the pool was no different. The entire time those little legs were kicking 90 mph. He also doesn't like to be confined. Here he is trying to climb out of his float.

He's not even a year old, why does he need to climb out??? Where does he have to go??? I tried to explain to him that one day he'll realize how lucky he was to have a contraption to float around in & people that want to carry him around. When you get old, walking gets old!

Toodles!

Cinco de Waito

I decided that I wanted to go to a mexican restaurant for Cinco de Mayo. I've never been & I keep hearing about how much fun it is. We decided to go to La Caretta. It's close to home & the food's good. So me & Dean went with our friends Dennis & Jackie & their daughter Allie. We got there at 5:45 & there were people everywhere. Dean had to park at Albertson's which is across the parking lot from the restaurant. We went to put our name on the list. They'd ran out of pagers so they were taking cell numbers. Good luck hearing your phone in that crowd! They said the wait was approximately 2 hours. Normally, we would NEVER wait that long especially for mexican food but there was a band outside & it never takes as long to get a table as they tell you it will. YEH RIGHT!!! I got a Rumrita & started to people watch. OMG! Seriously, what are people thinking??? There were more "store bought parts" there than I've ever seen in one place! Of course there was the usual people wearing stuff they had no business wearing, a few random sombrero's & even a guy with a fake mustache. Not sure what that had to do with anything but whatev. You know the part in Sweet Home Alabama where Reese says "You've got a baby...in a bar"? Well, I had that thought several times. I know technically, it was a restaurant but last night it was really more of a bar & there were people that had little kids & babies there. It just seemed strange to me. Here's me, Jackie & Allie. The iPhone camera & sun aren't the best mix. Obviously.

The band was interesting. Like I said, I've never been to Cinco de Mayo but I assumed it would involve Mexican music. Not that I'm a fan of that, I just thought that was part of it. Well, it's not at La Caretta. The band was a bunch of white guys. The singer wasn't good. Although, the later it got the better he sounded. I guess he just needed to warm up. He did sing a really good variety of stuff. There was Journey, Better Than Ezra & even Def Leopard. Thinking back, I guess that was kinda strange to have one guy singing all that stuff.

There were a couple of tables outside where we were & if you were lucky enough to snag one you didn't get up. Finally, around  8:30 we were able to get one of these tables. It was after 9:00 when we ordered & got our food. That would be twice in 4 days that I've eaten after 8:00. At least this time it wasn't because the waiter forgot about us but this is not a trend I want to continue. I tend to get grumpy if I have to eat that late. I was good last night because there was so much to see. It really reminded me of back in the day when we always went to a bar in Tigerland called The Stadium Club. At one point I thought we were at a reunion. There were all sorts of people there that we used to see. We ended up seeing a lot of other people that we know too so that made it fun & the time go by fast. At 9:40 when we left they still hadn't called to tell us we had a table!

Lucky or Stupid??

I vote stupid. Last night I was cleaning out some files & I came across an envelope from our mortgage company. I opened it to see if it was something I needed to keep. It was an escrow report from 2008  & there was a $318 check included!!! OMG!! How could I have not deposited it?? It was dated April 18, 2008. Thinking back I remembered that was when we were finishing our pool so there was a lot going on but there was also a lot of money being spent so I can't imagine that I just forgot about a $300 check. Nowhere on it did it say void after 90 days or anything so I took it to our credit union this morning. They told me that even though it doesn't say it on the check most companys have what is called a "stale date" of about 6 months. They told me to call the mortgage co. & check with them. Back to my office. I called & the lady laughed & congratulated me for finding money & said that they don't have a stale date & that it's fine for me to cash the check. Back to the credit union I go. Did I mention that I don't have on my most comfortable pair of shoes? Thank goodness the credit union is next to my office. They cash the check & YAY ME, I'm now $318 richer!!! I'm just really happy that I didn't throw it away, which I've been known to do. FYI - don't throw away a check that is sent to you from across the water. It's a real hassle to get a new one.

Yesterday, I said I was going to cook enchiladas. Well, that didn't happen. When I got home Dean had decided that since we're planning to go out to dinner with friends for Cinco De Mayo he'd rather not have mexican. Fine by me because I'd rather not cook! We had a Stouffers frozen Chicken Parmesan dinner. This was the first time we've had one & it was pretty good. A little bland for us but a lot better than having to cook & we have leftovers for tonight.

I've said before how much I like reality TV. Well, last night was very exciting. It was the season premiere of Real Housewives of New Jersey! I think I'm so obsessed with these shows because I just can't believe people really live like this. I'm also convinced they're the mob or have mob ties. I mean who goes to a furniture store & spends $20,000 & pays cash??? Not to mention one of the housewives husband has never been shown on camera. If that doesn't tell you something I don't know what will. I only watched the first half of the show last night because Bravo hasn't realized that 8:00 is a better time for me than 9:00. Lucky for me I washed my hair yesterday so I could skip today. That gave me time to finish watching the show before work this morning. I tried to get Dean to watch it with me but he just rolled over & went to sleep.

Toodles!

Waiting On Friday!

It's Monday. Oh Joy. Thankfully, it's almost over, at least the work part of it. It hasn't been an awful day but of course it's not as good as being home or doing something fun. Yesterday, we went to mama & daddy's & ate lunch. We got there early & were able to play with Logan a lot. Lydia & Scott ate with us too. We had a nice visit.

Our neighbors have just finished putting in their pool so we walked down with our other neighbors to see it & visit. We ended up deciding to go eat. We went to a fairly new restaurant that's close to our house called Bear's. We got there about 7:15 & there were 9 of us. Our waitress came & took our drink orders & when Amelia-Ann asked for root beer the waitress gave her a really funny look said "WHAT?". A-A repeated herself & the waitress said "Oh I thought you ordered a beer". Umm, yeh. I guess that should've been a clue of  things to come. We all ordered & it wasn't much after 7:30. Well, at 8:10 we were thinking that wow this was taking a long time. Nobody had ordered anything difficult. The majority had wraps & burgers. Our waitress was nowhere to be seen. Finally, she came out to get us refills & said our food would be right out. Well, to me "right out" means like 5 mins. or less. About 15 mins. later we see her & stop her & she said that it's coming, the manager is in the kitchen now. OK Whatever that means. Keep in mind I was STARVING. I'd been hungry since like 6:00 & I get grumpy if I haven't eaten by 8:00. I'm like a Gremlin that you feed after midnight. Finally, she brings our food out but we have no utensils. It was a mess.  The food was hot so we know it hadn't just been sitting back there. We think she forgot to put the order in. The waitress looked like she was trying to hold back tears. I felt bad for her but we had been very patient. One of my friends asked if the manager was going to come to the table. She said yes. We were almost finished eating when he showed up. He apologized & said they got behind because of having to boil 800 lbs. of crawfish & he'd give us 30% off the bill. We know the bit about the crawfish wasn't true because we saw several people that came in after us get food well before us. The manager must have heard us discussing how he was lying because when the checks were being passed out he came back & said he was giving us 50% off. I was happy about that & the food really was good. I think we'll probably give them a second chance. I can't really afford to write off anymore establishments!!! If I keep it up we won't be able to go anywhere.

Speaking of food, tonight I'm going to make enchiladas. I've done this once before & they were good. I'll let you know tomorrow how they turn out.

Toodles!

Saturday with the Kiddos

I had every intention of going out to dinner tonight BUT it's not happening. Dean got home from the golf tournament earlier than he expected but neither one of us feel like changing clothes to go anywhere. Yeh, I know, that's lazy.

LSU just lost for the second time today. They ended up getting rained out last night & they had to finish the game today. That's 6 losses in a row. That hasn't happened at LSU since 1982. Talk radio is going to be lively this week!

This morning I got up & went to Allison's. I played with Cael for a little bit & then Allison & I went to visit Emily. She's so cute & tiny. She's 2 weeks old now.

We had a nice visit with Wendy. We were able to break down Real Housewives of NY. We're all in agreement that we aren't Team Jill & we're VERY excited about New Jersey starting Monday night.  Here's another pic of Emily. She's so sweet!

 
After hanging out with Wendy & Emily I dropped Allison off & went home. My mom & Logan came over. Lydia & Scott brought some friends to their camp this weekend so Logan is staying with all his grandparents. We played for a long time. We had a little incident as well. Logan took off to the kitchen & I was putting my flip flops on. Before I could get in the kitchen I heard a crash. Me & mama both took off. I couldn't imagine what it could be. Well, he'd opened one of my cabinets & pulled out my "tea for one" set. He was also very interested in the fireplace tools. I had to put them in our bedroom & close the door. The flip flops had to go there too because he was chewing on them! HAHAHA!! We went outside for awhile, which he loves, but it's really muggy today so we came in & had a snack.

Logan also likes magazines. I had a stack on the coffee table that he enjoyed playing with. Of course they weren't on the coffee table for long.

Dean came home in time to see Logan too.

How sweet is this??

Toodles!!