The makings of a perfect weekend...

A best friend...

(sorry for the roughness, but hey we're at the lake)

A lake sunset... 

A grill master...

a DELICIOUS meal...

(yes, that would be tequila lime chicken with grilled corn on the cob that has chile lime butter and feta sprinkled on top, props Lo)

and chowing down...

Once again, perfect.

I wonder if the hospital in Alexander City is hiring? :)

Sorry Mary

Yep! She did it! And sadly this is one of the only pics I have on my camera.  Oh well, this is a little grainy for some reason but a good one caught right in the middle of the "shake and accept" maneuver you do to get your diploma.  Congrats Kalpal, see ya in Austin!!

Last weekend we had a girls weekend at the lake, I've noticed some facts about everyone as I've looked through these pics: 

1.  Margaret loves dogs.

2.  Lori love magazines (and I probably bother her too much about less reading and more  talking)

3.  Margo loves headbands.

4.  We all love a group shot, even though we all are looking like the definition of lake rat.

 

And on ANOTHER note, this post is really jumping around.... I made lamb last night!  Now let's get two things straight, first of all, I am very nervous about cooking meat and secondly, I have been wanting to try this for a while now and finally got the guts to do it.  I asked my self what's the worse that could happen?  It would be inedible, which would be detrimental to my ego, but not the end of the world.  Here's what I came up with....

It was delicious and SO easy.  I got the recipe from here.  I liked the lamb, but I liked the fried spinach leaves even more, who knew that would be so good?!

Road Trip!

Well, I thought my blog had been broken, but it turned out to be my seriously inept technical skills...oh well :)

And we're off!  J and myself are headed to Gainesville for Kallie's Graduation this weekend!  I am so excited to see everyone!  One small pit stop in Auburn to pick up Anna-banana and we'll have about 5 1/2 hours of car fun ahead of us...yeah, so I've decided to make it a little more exciting and came up with some homemade snacks.  First up, Butter pecan cookies...you'll never want a Sandie again.

3/4c. chopped pecans

1/2c. butter, room temp

1/3c. sugar

1/8 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1c. all-purpose flour

Preheat to 350.  Toast pecans until fragrant (about 6 min) and cool.  Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt.  Add flour, fold in pecans.  Roll dough into small balls and roll dough balls in sugar.  Gently flatten and bake 12 min.  So easy, which is why I love these!

 Look at that mixer go, I really love this thing way too much.

Mmmm...

I also decided that instead of buying the Jalapeno Chex mix that I can't get enough of, I would make my own hot and spicy mix!  Of course I didn't follow just one recipe, I was working around about five I found and I added in a little of my own stuff too!  Here it is:

6 tbsp butter

1 1/2 tbsp seasoned salt

1/2 tsp onion powder

2 tbsp worchestire sauce

3/4 tbsp garlic powder

2 tbsp hot sauce (I used tabasco)

3 c corn chex mix

3 c rice chex mix

1 c buffalo hot wing flavored pretzels :)

1 c crushed bagel chips

1 c goldfish

Melt the butter and mix in the seasonings, pour over dry ingredients.  I baked it at 250 for about 30 min.  Of course I sprinkled a little more tabasco, seasoned salt, and added some hot everglades spice stuff we had just to make sure it had enough kick.  I already can't stop eating it and we haven't even left yet.

More pics from Gainesville when I get back!  Have a great weekend!