All about the bubbly!

So yesterday was a criizzazzyy day! Work seems like it's just chugging along for the both of us. Patrick had the day off to take a test so was home most of the afternoon. 3 major things happened:

Numero uno: I got my Jim Brickman "Christmas Themes" book in the mail. I had been waiting for it for a week or so and was so incredibly excited to get home and break it in. For those of you who don't know, Jim Brickman is an AMAZING pianist!! He plays a lot of music and I'm sure you've heard his stuff especially around this time of the year with Christmas and all coming up. Every year around this time I try and reward myself with new Christmas sheet music for the piano. This year I went all out and bought a whole book. I figured it'll give me more to play during the rest of the year. I love it!! Ah!

Numero dos: (That means Number 2 :D) When I got home last night I had a huge suprise waiting for me. Roses and dinner!! Even though Patrick had a bad day and hasn't been feeling well lately, he went out and bought me roses and made me dinner. What an amazing person he is! I love him so much! It's nights like these where being married totally beats being single! Some of my work friends are single and have asked me before why I got married so young, or I didn't date enough or I missed out on a lot of good times, but then I think of all the times like last night and I'm glad I'm not single!

Numero tres: This didn't really happen last night but I had to throw this in there. I got our Twilight tickets! I know. Its da bomb!! :)

P.Track with his awesome apron on!

Candlit and Flowers: My Favorite!

Set up and all!

Sparkling Cider!! I could drink that stuff like it was Dr. Pepper! HA!

T-T-T-Tater

So OCD of the week is a little late.. My bad! Well, when I told Patrick this was my topic for "OCD of the Week" he questioned whether or not tater tot cravings can be considered an OCD. Well, all I have to say about that is, whateva! My OCD can be on whatever I want it to be, right? It's all about controlling your OCD.... :) kinda. Anywho, I think I've gone through 2 full bags of tater tots in the last week/week and a half. I know I know. Tater tots every other day probably isn't the best thing to be having for dinner, but seriously, Yumm!! I love them like a fat kid loves chocolate! (I've always wanted to say that!) They are so good and so easy! I can even give you the recipe:

1 bag of tater tots

some salt

ketchup

a bit of cheese (every once in a while)
(sometimes mayo for some fry sauce baby)

Preheat oven to 425 degrees (the bag says 450 but I burned them once on that. Too Hot. Don't want to waste perfectly good taters by burning them!) Dump some (maybe a lot) of taters on a cooking sheet and bake for 15-17 minutes. (If your in a cheesey mood, when the tots are nice and done, pull cookie sheet out and immediately sprinkle cheese on your taters for an extra cheesy umph.) Salt 'em up, and dip away!!

Man, now I'm hungry for some tater tots!

The Best Wife!

You seriously couldn't find a better wife than me. I share everything with my dear husband... even my cold AND my flu!!! I know, I know. Best Wife Award right herr! :) So Patrick and I spent the weekend in bed, and trust me, it's not what you think. We laid there watching T.V. (I'm really good at that!) covered in cough drop wrappers, crumbled up tissues, and throat lozenge boxes. Very romantic, let me tell you! It was the laziest weekend we've ever spent together. I got up to run to the grocery store because we were starving and our pantries were bare. We ended up scrounging whatever I had picked up at the store with what we had at home, and came up with a do-it-yourself taco salad. It actually was pretty good and helpful because, being sick, we both wanted different things in our salad and this was our solution.

Even when we're both sick, we know how to eat in style! It was great we had hamburger, lettuce, sour cream, fresh tomatos, lots and lots of cheese, and green onions (not my favorite, but patrick likes them.) We even had Sparkling Cider. I know, I had a weird craving at the grocery store and it seemed like a nice addition to our dinner.

MMmmm.... Bubbly!