Top 2 Tuesday!

Time for another Top 2 Tuesday! If you want to join in go over here.

This week is top 2 favorite movies!

My #1 favorite movie is

Billy Madison!

I have seen it probably 40 times and can recite the movie from the beginning to end. I think it is the funniest movie ever. I could watch it every day and not get tired of it.

My #2 favorite movie is

Dirty Dancing!

I was going to say Notebook but I think I would get bored and depressed if I watched it too much. I could never get bored of Dirty Dancing. It is the ultimate love story and has amazing dancing.

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!

Wahoo! I had a great birthday weekend. Saturday night cheesecake factory with friends. My food wasn't what I thought I was getting but it was ok. I had peanut butter chocolate cookie dough cheesecake! It was like they knew I was going to be there! All my favorite things! Plus I got to blow out a candle after they unenthusiastically sang to me and my friend who has a bday tomorrow.

Sunday, Hubby went to get a hair cut. When he got home he surprised me with flowers and a card that made me cry! Pictures of the flowers and what the card said to come.

I tried MONKEY MEAT! Even though I am a picky eater I will try whatever you want me to if I am pressured enough. So I got guilt tripped into having a half piece of a tiny piece and it was nasty. It was chewy and made me want to vom. I will stick with chicken and steak please!

Sears update: I tweeted Sears HTS and they were super nice. They called me this morning and said that $75 is not worth losing a loyal customer over. They gave my info to sears cares and they called me today and are sending me a check!!!!!

Hoping Hubby will cook and do the dishes today. Keep your fingers crossed!

DO NOT BUY FROM SEARS!!!

We bought a kenmore washer and dryer from sears and were told we would get a $75 rebate. Because we got a 5% discount for opening a credit card they are not denying our rebate. I don't want your crappy 5% discount for your crappy credit card. Give me my $75. Please forward this to everyone you know. I will do whatever I have to get the word out that sears is a bunch of liars and no one should buy from them. I'm tweeting, writing blogs, I'll make a youtube video if I have to.

The last 6 years ago today!

It is the last one!




We left off with Hubby asking me if he could take me out to dinner on Friday night.

I said, "Of course! You want to take me out on a real date? How sweet!"

You know how college boys are, they like to do the "hang out" thing and rarely take girls on dates. So I figured that is what Hubby and I were doing. I was so surprised when he wanted to take me on a date!

I don't remember what I wore that night. I don't really remember getting ready. I think Hubby showed up on time and rang the doorbell. I think my roommate answered the door. I remember walking to the door and he had something behind his back. It was a dozen red roses!!! I had never had a boy bring me flowers on a first date! My roommate said, "I knew he was going to bring flowers!"

We went to a little family owned Italian restaurant in downtown Chico. Sadly it is no longer in business. But when we lived there it was one of our favorite places. We like restaurants that give you bread.

I remember conversation being easy. I remember him slurping his linguine with marinara. Guys, just a tip, I wouldn't eat pasta on a first date if you are a slurper. But I think I must have already been in love, because I didn't care.

I don't remember what else we did that night.

It was the best first date I ever had. It was our anniversary that we celebrated for 5 years together. Today we will not say happy anniversary to each other because we have a new anniversary, our wedding anniversary!

Wedding Album

The place we got married at offered many different wedding packages. You could pick one and build on it or take from it as you wanted. My parents decided to go with the "sweet and simple" package and add things to it that we wanted. The "sweet and simple" package included two photographers all day on our wedding day. It did not include a wedding album. We figured, ok, no big deal, we will get one later.

I had a few bridezilla moments, but I definitely don't think they could have made a 30 min show about me being a bridezilla. I had a few things that I cared about and a lot of stuff I didn't. It is interesting to go through the wedding planning processes because you often don't know until you are going through it what you will become a bridezilla over.

I am a scrapbooker and have friends who made their wedding albums on kodakgallery.com. I also have friends who have professional wedding albums. Having a professional wedding album was one of the things I ended up caring about and wanting.

So, my dad contacted the photographer about an album. He said to contact the place we got married at. The told my dad we could get a $1,000 album or a couple hundred dollar, smaller, engagement type album.

Uh, thanks? Because we were given the rights to the photos we were lucky enough to be able to take the pictures elsewhere. I asked a photography friend how much she would do the album for. She said $500 ish. It still felt too steep. So I posted on facebook that I was struggling with this cost. My friend told me about blurb.com. It is a website you can make your own photo book at. I was exploring the site and thinking it was really cool, when I found blurbnation. It connects you with people who have already made books and make them for clients. I thought, "Someone to do it for me? How much will it cost?"

I found lifesong and emailed them for a quote. Andrew sent me an email back with several different book options and prices. They were about $150-$200. I told him I liked his prices and what was the next step. I had to upload photos to his website. It was easy. Chosing the photos to put in the book can be difficult. I had already made my mom a scrapbook so I knew which photos I liked. I also had to give him a $100 deposit.

Once the pics were uploaded and the deposit sent he had a book made for me. The photographers at our wedding didn't put the pics in choronological order and the order got messed up when I uploaded them so Andrew had them in that order. I told him what order I wanted things in and what changes I wanted made and he had another book made the next day. We went through 4 drafts I think and I felt like such a crazy person but he didn't mind at all. He wanted me to be happy.

The only surprise I had was when he sent me the final invoice. It was $26 for shipping. So if you decide to use him, keep that in mind.

The book arrived quickly and was packaged with care. I absolutley LOVE! it! It is exactly what it looked like online. Worth every penny!

favorite recipes

I'm participating in Top 2 Tuesday!

In my opinion we eat really good over here at casa de Megs7827. But Hubby and I are also picky/boring eaters. We also have topic secret recipes. Hubby uses my Nana's recipe to make the best cookies on the planet! People regularly beg us for the recipe. I posted on facebook last night "who likes Hubby's cookies?" And these are the responses I got: "U KNOW WE DOO", "They are the best cookies in the world!", and "I do! I do!! I do!!! I do!!!! I do!!!!! I do!!!!!! I do!!!!!!! Can The Big Guy take a hint?". Our neighbor asked if he put concentrated orgasms in them.





It was so hard to pick our two favorite recipes. I was yelling from the other room, "If you had to eat two recipes the rest of your life what would they be." But he couldn't pick. We love to marinate chicken or steak and bbq it. Costco has the best chicken, flank steak, and tri tip. We use the Yoshida's marinade they sell there. Hubby loves their shrimp prawns for bbq or pasta. We are going to start eating more salmon from Costco as well. He broilers it in lemon and spices or bbqs it in aluminum foil. We love our taco Thursday. He make the white corn tortillas by putting them in a pan of evoo to get them kinda crispy. We cook the chicken in Lawry's chicken taco seasoning. We use Knorr's Spanish rice. He puts beans. Costco mexican cheese, sour cream. Sometimes I do lettuce and red onions or green onions. Yumm! He also makes calzones from pillsbury's pizza dough. Some marinara, cheese, pepperoni, folds it over and cooks each side for 10 mins then 5 mins. Those are just some ideas you can play around with. Here are some recipes that you can follow the steps on:





I like the first recipe because it has all your food groups, is cooked in one pan, is quick, and healthy!





Chicken and Rice with Vegetables


You will need:


1 tbsp. oil


1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips


3 cups cut up vegetables (we do broccoli and carrots)


14 1/2 ox can chicken broth


1 cup minute brown rice


1 cup minute white rice


Italian dressing (this is a kraft recipe so that what they recommend, we use Olive Garden's)





Heat the oil in a large skillet on medium heat. Add chicken. Add vegetables after chicken looks pretty close to cooked. Cook and stir for 3 to 5 mins. Stir in broth. Bring to a boil. Add brown rice and dressing. Cover and cook 5 mins. Add white rice and water if needed. Cover and cook 5 mins. Check to make sure rice is cooked. Serve!





Hubby and I love PF Changs lettuce cups. So I was excited when I found this recipe because it sounded yummy and easy. Which it is!





Caesar Lettuce Cups


You will need:


1lb chicken


salt and pepper


2 cloves garlic minced


1tsp Worcestershire sauce


1/2 cup Parmesan cheese


iceberg lettuce





Cook chicken in frying pan. Season with salt and pepper. Add garlic, then Worcestershire sauce and cheese. Separate cups of lettuce. Scoop mixture into leaf. Optional add croutons or red onion. Serve!

The wedding band FINALLY!!!

Because rings are so high maintenance and you have to get them cleaned and checked every six months, I wanted my wedding ring to be from the same jeweler as my engagement ring. I'm not going to different places to get my rings cleaned.

Since Hubby didn't want to pay$1,820.00 ranging upwards of $2,790.00 for this ring, I was not planning on going with Tacori.

My mom and I went to Devons when I was home for my bridal shower. The man that helped us knew of a ring he thought would go well with my engagement ring. But he had to get the ring from another store.

My mom and I went back the next day and the ring was a great price and looked great with my engagement ring. So I put money down to hold it. Hubby came back another time and bought the ring for me. I was so excited for the day Hubby put that special ring on my finger!

Can you tell it isn't the same designer?