It's been a long time......

Okay....either I am all confused after such a long time to post or blogger is!
It's probably me!!!
Anyway, it's been almost 2 months since I was here last. Ugh!!!
I am not even gonna try to fill you in on everything but here goes!
I believe the last time I posted I was ranting about the Colts!!! Well, I'm still upset about the 2 game loss but what can I say! So after that post they played a playoff game and won! YAY! So I thought I best not post! So then they won another playoff game and I knew I shouldn't post!
I was ecstatic! We are going to play in the Super Bowl! WooHoo!
In between times the Pro Bowl was played and my team won, however I was just a little upset that they changed it this year! How can you have viewer voted players not play because they are in the Super Bowl! I understand they can't take a chance and get hurt, but why do you get to vote and then not get to watch those players play?!! I say if you are going to change when they are going to play then they should change the voting!!! Oh well, whatever! I'll have to get over that as well! So we endure a weeks worth of hoopla until the Super Bowl which is okay I guess! Then comes the big day! I mean I am so excited I can't stand it! All day coverage from an Indianapolis channel, what more can you ask for except of course for a Colts win!!! Well, we all know by now that didn't happen. I am True Blue for sure and if they couldn't win then the Saints were a great team to beat them! Their problems being what they have been for the last 5 years and what can you say about Drew Brees? He is a great quarter back(not the greatest) but still great and what a humanitarian! Wow! Okay, I am not an expert on football or how this play should go or not go, but I just want to say that that onside kick (great call or not), some actual experts are saying that it was great because it worked, had it not worked it would have been a really stupid call for the Saints to make, but I say isn't that what it's all(not just football but life itself) about. Sorry I was side tracked anyway that onside kick really shocked the Colts(and their fans) until they couldn't recover. Some say the coach was simply out coached and some say the Colts were simply not 100% but I actually think that it was a little of everything but that onside kick is what turned the game around! So here's to next season and hoping the Colts are just as great if not greater! Congratulations to the Saints!!

We have had lots of snow! Lilli has posted about over at thebuttonboxgirls !
We have had lots of fun! We played and made snow angels and rolled down the drifts! We had our own hills thanks to the wind!

Since we can't get out we have been cooking and baking! Do I have some pictures for you, but I will post that another day! This post is getting rather long!
Here is just one photo for you! John's birthday was February 8 and this was definitely food for a great celebration!!!
This is Cheesy Cavatelli! There is only one word to describe this wonderful dish! DELICIOUS!!!
We had leftovers and when you open the refrigerator door it actually, we decided, smelled better than any restaurant!!! The recipe came from MixingBowl.com! I have written about this site before! It's great! Later I will share the other things I have made from there!

With this I am off to bake cookies! There is nothing like hot chocolate and homemade cookies when it is freezing cold out side and you are snowed in! I have actually been in since Sunday which I love! I am a homebody for sure!!!

Wherever you are whatever you are doing I hope you are having a wonderfully happy day!
Vickie

MY BIRTHDAY, yesterday!!!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! I wanted to share with you some of my birthday fun!

This is what we had last night for "cake" and ice cream! I am far from normal so I had pie and ice cream for my birthday cake! It was a pumpkin pudding pie topped with cool whip! Then we dipped our pretzel rods in chocolate and sprinkled them with fall colors! I made Blonde Brownies from Aunt Bee's(The Andy Griffith Show)recipe book! We bought the new TV Network magazine on Tuesday and there was this White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cherry Cookie recipe that sounded so good! However I changed the cherries to cranberries! They were so yummy!Okay on with the gifties! I have a new friend from blog land! Debbie from debbiesquiltsandmore. She is so sweet and kind. She sent me a pot holder and a towel that she had machine embroidered! They were sent last week part of extras she had left from a PIF that she had done! Aren't they great?!!! She sent me the wonderful handmade birthday card yesterday! I think that it is a great card and she was so kind to send it! Thank you Debbie!

My really great in-person friend(we have been friends for at least 17 years), Deanna(she has no blog), made me this altered book! It is fabulous with all the great yarns she used on the spine and it's green! It is an antique home-ec book, which is right up my alley! It has all the old fashioned pictures in it and she then added verses that I really like and some from the Bible that we both like! She took a lot of time with it!
It was accompanied with a Mary card! I love Mary stuff!

Here is the inside of a couple of the pages! The verse says True Friendship is seen through the
Heart not the eyes! Isn't that the truth?!!! Thank you so much Deanna, Kacey and Mark! I will cherish it always! Kacey I am so proud to share birthdays with you! I hope you had a great day yesterday!

My in-laws gave me this new Gooseberry Patch book! I have just about everyone they have come out with! I am sure there will be lots in it that I will try! Can't wait! Love you both!

I had to share with you this wonderful fits us to a tee card John gave me! It's funny, cute, and very appropriate! Love you, too, John!

Just one more little present! The egg spatula to add to my egg collection! I love it! I received money(from my parents), thanks Mom and Dad! Love ya a ton! Magazines, candles, candy, and I even have a box coming this week! I think I received way toooo much. However, the most important gift of the day was the time I was able to spend with all my family and friends! My niece and nephew and his precious little baby girl were here. Connie, my sil , was here. We had lots of pictures taken! I'm sorry that my soon to be niece couldn't make it and my nieces' boyfriend couldn't either. My brother was out of town, so he couldn't make it. We did send goodies to everyone, though. Missed you all and I love ya! All the great wishes from every one in blog land made my day even that more special! Thank you so much to everyone from the bottom of my heart!

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you are having a wonderfully happy day!
Vickie