I’m back! 

And I’m sure you will all be glad to know – that Lando is back to her spastic, psychotic self!  When I came home on Friday she was running around, jumping, basically – doing all of the things the vet said she shouldn’t.  I even had to put the collar on her at a few points because she kept going for her stitches.  Look at how funny she looks:

Here’s her supermodel look:

LOL – I crack myself up! 

Saturday morning I was INSANELY productive.  We ended up getting up at 5:30am since Mike had to take his Dad to the airport.  Since I was already awake, I decided I might as well take care of some stuff around the house!   So by 7am, I had already done 2 loads of laundry, cleaned our room, washed all our dishes, organized some piles, and drank way too much coffee!

Since I actually get to eat breakfast at home on the weekends (instead of preparing oatmeal at work) – I usually stray away from oatmeal, and eat more of an egg based breakfast.   Saturday was no exception!  I made a delicious egg/cheese/chicken breakfast sandwich!

Around 9 I headed up to the gym to get a workout in, then came home and got ready for my friend’s baby shower.  I was really excited for the shower, because she is my first friend to be having a baby!  :)   They know they are having a boy, and they are huge Yankees fans so they had a baseball themed shower.   Look at how cute the centerpieces were:

Not to mention, the cookies were AMAZING, they were almond flavored – YUM!

All the rest of the food was amazing as well!  This is my first plate, but I DEFINITELY went back up for seconds!

I had a turkey sandwich, pasta salad, veggie pizza, pumpernickel bread with spinach dip, and veggies & dip.

Here’s me and Kristin with the adorable momma-to-be:

After the shower, I headed home to pack, and then we hit to road to go to Mike’s parents for an early Thanksgiving celebration.  Once we got there we just relaxed, had some adult beverages (okay – SEVERAL adult beverages!), and my mother-in-law brought out a delicious spread of munchies:

I kept going for the cheese and crackers.   The white cheese was amazing – it was a creamy horseradish – I’ve never had any other cheese like it!   And it was just the right amount of spicy – not the “make you cringe and your nose hurt” sort of horseradish flavor.

I ended up passing out well before everyone, my 5:30am wake up call ended up catching up with me. 

For breakfast, we ate cereal because they actually keep milk in there house!  (I’m really really bad about keeping milk in our house)

My sister-in-law had requested a special main dish for our holiday – chicken paprikash!   OMG was it PHENOMENAL!   I could hardly wait to dig in – hence why the chicken is already cut in the picture, I went right in to chow down without even thinking about the picture!

Here’s my contribution to our meal – a colorful salad (c’mon – WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM ME?)

And here’s the whole spread – all washed down with tasty Savignon Blanc

Lando was sad she wasn’t invited to eat at the table:

Thanks for the fabulous meal June!

Here’s my view on the car ride home:

Nosey Rosey Lando had to take in all the sights, god forbid she actually lay down on the card ride home!  

Once we got home, I had a hankering (LOL – I hate that saying but I just HAD to put that here) for some Great Lakes Christmas Ale.  Actually, I really can’t say I had a hankering, because I’ve never tried it before.  So I had a really strong urge to try it!  So I convinced roomie Josh to drink with me!

THIS STUFF IS FANTASTIC! Now I see why everyone makes such a big deal about it!  Although – I didn’t think it was as great this morning when I woke up tired and with a headache.

I decided to make breakfast at home, so I made a repeat of Saturday’s breakfast – a yummy egg/cheese/chicken breakfast sammy

And that’s about it!  It was a crazy busy weekend, but I had a fantastic time!  Now I just need to get through the 3 day work week – and then IT’S THANKSGIVING!   Good lord, where did November go?!  I can’t believe it’s already Thanksgiving week!   Have a great one!

Can’t wait for Thanksgiving – 2nd time around on Thursday!