Birthday Celebrations

Sunday was my Darling's 27th birthday, and we enjoyed a quiet, relaxing day together celebrating.
After morning church, we came home to enjoy a dinner for two.

Lasagna is one of Matt's favorites, and Ree Drummond's recipes are my favorites, so I combined the two and made a yummy birthday lasagna. :-)

Here is a link to The Pioneer Woman's recipe.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/the_best_lasagn/

Matt has never been a huge "cake" person,except for cheesecakes. He LOOOOOOOVES cheesecakes!!So I made him a Triple Lemon Cheesecake.
I found the recipe on a cute little blog I stumbled across the other day when I was searching for "crafty" ideas. This lady bakes AND crafts and is good at both! :-)

Here is a link to her blog...
http://gratefulprayerthankfulheart.blogspot.com/

...and a link to her cheesecake recipe.
http://gratefulprayerthankfulheart.blogspot.com/2012/01/triple-lemon-cheesecake.html
(Make sure you follow her directions on baking the cheesecake in a water bath...it keeps the cheesecake from cracking!)

My sweetheart's birthday cheesecake

After dinner, Matt asked if we could go to the beach and look for sea glass like we had done the previous Sunday! I was all up for it, so we packed a cool drink, and a bucket to collect our sea glass in, and headed for the beach.

This is the truck we sported all weekend. I love the perks my man gets with his job! :-) I fell in love with this truck the minute Matt brought it home! He even let me drive it some over the weekend, and I just fell MORE in love!! *sigh* ;-)

It was a beautiful warm, sunny day and a slight breeze cooled us off while we strolled the beach hand in hand, picking up beautiful pieces of sea glass. We had good success in finding pieces and came home with a jar full. We found quite a few green pieces, and also some "treasures."
Here are the greatest finds of the day!

The blue piece was just sitting on the sand when I found it. I was SOOOO excited because blue is the hardest color to find. Matt found the other two pieces. When he found the clear piece, part of it was buried in the sand. He kept pulling and pulling and the piece coming out was getting bigger and bigger! :-) We were both excited when we saw it was the complete bottom, and a bit of each of the sides of a bottle!
We spent most of the afternoon at the beach, and then took the scenic route home, stopping along the way to look at beautiful houses, or different parts of the shoreline.
After church that evening, we took the remaining lasagna and cheesecake over to his parents' house and enjoyed supper with his family.
Our day ended with trying to spot a big black bear that had been seen in a field just above Matt's parents' house. We immediately hopped in the truck and headed up the road to see if we could find it, but it was not to be seen. Oh well, maybe next time! :-)

One of the gifts I got my man! Tim McGraw Soul 2 Soul. It smells DIVINE!!!!!! Anybody want to watch Flicka? ;-)

Cinnamon Rolls

While doing some blog searching today and copying down some recipes that I had bookmarked, I came across this recipe for cinnamon rolls. I had been trying to decided what I could make for Matt to take to work tomorrow for "the guys" to enjoy, and when I saw this recipe I knew I HAD to try it! It comes from Ree Drummond's aka The Pioneer Woman's blog,and ANY recipe she posts is DELICIOUS!!! Here is a link to her cooking blog and the cinnamon rolls.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/cinammon_rolls_/


Enjoy!! :-)

My freshly baked cinnamon rolls

That time of year!

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SPRINGTIME!!!!

These are just two of the many things I am enjoying this spring! :-)

A Picnic and Seaglass

We've been having EXTREMELY beautiful weather lately and have been enjoying every bit of it. Since it was so nice yesterday, we decided to have a picnic for lunch. I packed a lunch for us after church and we drove down to Pumpkin Head Island and ate our dinner on the beach.

Our view while we ate!

Pumpkin Head Lighthouse

After we were done lunch we walked the beach there looking for sea glass. We found a few pieces, but there wasn't much beach to search on, so Matt decided to take me to the beach by his family's camp. He said sea glass can always be found there. We had a grand time walking the beach looking for our "treasure",and when it was time to go we had a whole travel mug full of clear, brown, green, mauve, white and blue sea glass. Matt said blue is the hardest color to find, so we were both excited when we each were able to find a piece of blue! :-) When all of the different colored pieces were put together in a jar, they made a beautiful, nautical decoration for our house! :-)

Watermelon!!!!!

Slurp... sip... sloop...

You can't eat watermelon quietly!=)

Matt and I both LOOOOVE watermelon, so my man brought one home tonight as a special treat! We enjoyed it IMMENSELY!

My handsome man! (Note the new haircut!)

A perfect summery treat for a beautiful warm, summery day!

Because....

...It was a beautiful warm, sunny day....

...It was the weekend...

...Matt had had a good week at work....

...I felt like eating an icecream cone...

...My man loves me....

He spoiled me rotten!!!

My darling man added to the ice cream cone idea, and took me out for supper to a Chinese restaurant called Shinbashi on Saturday. It was recommended to him by one of his coworkers, so we thought we would give it a try. It was a cute little spot with really good food, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! On top of taking me out for supper, and getting me an icecream cone(black raspberry soft-serve, no less) my man took me shopping and bought me a GORGEOUS tangerine colored shirt! (Maybe I'll post a picture of it sometime!) :-) I have the sweetest man EVER!!!

Matt's drink. {I thought it was so cute!} He said the lime was *SOUR*!!!

We ordered the pu pu platter for two. It has a flame in the middle to warm your food on. SO NEAT!!

*So Beautiful*

I've been enjoying my gardens the last couple of weeks....watching different plants come up, form buds, and little flowers burst forth making splashes of color in various places! I've also been enjoying watching the wild flowers blossom! There are millions of violets, and johnny-jump-ups in our lawn which I use to make bouquets to pretty up our kitchen table. I wanted to share some of the beauty of our outdoors with you! :-)

My garden is prettier than these pictures show. The light from the sun washed the picture out! :-(

Are these narcissus? That's what I'm calling them right now! =) Leave a comment if you know what they are.

My peace lily has one bloom on it, and another bud formed! I was SO excited when Matt spotted them!

Our freshly mowed lawn.

Our current "kitchen table" bouquet.