Pioneer Woman comes to AL and a funny video

Yup.

She'll be comin' round the moutain when she comes.

The Queen of blogdom herself, Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman, will be in the fair city of Birmingham tonight to sign her new cookbook. The very same cookbook that I happened to have purchased for myself on Saturday.

Yup.

That Ree Drummond.

A huge thanks to my friend, Cyndi, for telling me about the book signin' in the first place and for offering me a ride! We're gonna hop over to the ham a few hours early and hope the line to meet her isn't like Wal-mart on Black Friday. Will any of you locals be there? Are any of you as worried as I am about being a blubbering idiot in front of the Pioneer Woman. Do any of you love her movie trivia games as much as I do? Or her salsa? Or, good heavens,

 her iced coffee?

Sheesh she's fab.

Here's hoping we actually get to meet her and get our books signed instead of being disappointed because 2,345,623 people showed up. I'll be posting updates on twitter for any inquiring minds...

And since I'm now sounding a bit like a 'crazed' fan instead of just a 'fan', I'll stop and change directions entirely.

Tonight, after a lovely birthday dinner with my family at the tree table of Iguana Grill, a moth flew in the door with us upon our return home.

This is what followed:

p.s.sorry for the snorting...

Happy Wednesday Friends!

Wednesday at our house (Spring Break edition)

***first things first***

could you do me a HUGE favor?

it will take 2 clicks of your finger.

that's it.

2 clicks-

1st- head to Modern Bird Studios facebook page here, and 'like' it

2nd- click on the pic of our 3 kiddos here and 'like' it.

the photo we entered was taken by Erin Schmidt Photography and looks like this:

that's it!
THANK YOU!

The most 'liked' photo will win their Spring 2011 photo contest and be turned into a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork. To see examples of their work, check out my last post here.

now- onto regular blog business...

we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming (What I Wore Wednesday) since the lady of the house has put absloutely NO effort whatsoever into her clothing choices this week. In fact, she only took 1 pic of herself recently:

showing off her fab new slipcover

the lady of the house will also now stop referring to herself in third person.

I made pancakes this morning.

(take a sec to pick your chin up off the floor)

Chocolate chip pancakes with turkey bacon that were scrumdiliumptious.

I'm thinking this counts as 'making a meal for my family' which means I get to check off another 31 by 31. Right? Pancakes count even though they're insanely easy??

I also made the skillet lasagna last night and it was oh.so.good.

even whipped up some garlic bread

this one definitely counts- I've had this recipe in my folder for, oh, maybe 6 years. It was a breeze to make and didn't even require baking. Only stovetop.

Pretty quick too- ready in about 40 minutes total.

awesome

 I saw this last night on facebook and have to share.

This will make you smile-

I promise

Hope you're having an awesome day!



Put a Bird on it

I've seen this on a few blogs lately.

no words are really necessary.

this is pure awesomesauce.

enjoy.