DYING FROM HEAT EXHAUSTION

Although today is cooler - this week has been ridiculous!!! 100 degree heat in Washington for one whole week?? I mean no one here has AC in their houses so we all roast every night. It just sucks. I have been a patron of the local movie theater so I am sure they appreciate the heat. I saw My Sister's Keeper and I loved it....till the last five or ten minutes. I was so disappointed with the way they ended it. I read the book and was so shocked that they could change it so much. But besides that dramatic change it was good - a tear jerker for sure and I was crying after about 5-10 minutes.

SPOILER ALERT - If you have not seen Harry Potter yet and don't want me to ruin it please stop reading. I will be as vague as possible but don't want to ruin it for anyone.

So this week I have also seen Harry Potter and it was freaking awesome. I actually liked some of the things they added that were not in the book. Was a little disappointed with the way there was so much emphasis on the half blood prince and then about 20 seconds of explanation about it but I don't think there was much explanation in the book either now that I think about it. I think it just seemed rushed in the movie. I was bouncing and anxious as soon as Harry & Dumbledore left for their seaside adventure. OH BOY it was just good. I think this is how the movies should have been from the beginning and definitely my favorite movie so far.

I hope you are all well and if you are stuck in this heat - heaven help you too. Peace!!

Check out the new main pic above

I got this pic from someone else who attended Laura's wedding and I really like it. Nothing really new to report: Just entered the 3rd trimester, had to buy new shoes because my feet are swelling, getting bigger in the mid section and the hormones are definitely getting stronger. I have had a few more crying moments but not too many rage moments - certainly none as memorable as listed here already. I will try to remember if something funny happens because I know Stacy LOVES my funny stories :D

Love to you all,
Chippy

This picture is from my boss - he found this funny thing in his Grandmother's apartment that he was cleaning out.

And this picture is me before Girls Night Out with our ward. The sassy red shoes are new for my swollen feet.

Rage and Frustration

So last night I had the first crying jag hormonal issue and I will post about that later today when I can get input from Mom and Eric to make sure I get it right. Today it's funny to me but last night it was not funny at all.

But I digress because today we feature RAGE. I went to lunch with some friends from work and after we went to the mall to get Godiva chocolate because we like to do that. We get out of the car and as soon as I stand up, all the sudden I have to pee....Like REALLY need to pee NOW. So we go into the mall and I start walking toward the bathroom, following the signs...

After spending half my life walking across the entire mall and trying not to pee on myself, I finally see a Security guard and ask him how much further to the bathroom. "Just around that corner M'am." Erg - M'am.....Anyway after walking across the whole mall, now I have to walk down a white long hallway of death. Seriously you could get killed in this bathroom and NO ONE would ever find you.

So after going on this adventure to the bathroom and half running cause I HAD to go, I now have an cramp in the arch of my left foot. I see Baskin and Robbins across from the bathroom and I think "Hey - I am warm from running for my life, my foot hurts, I should get some ice cream." A small thought goes through my head "You are in a white dress and your chest is starting to get huge due the child growing inside, so do you really want to chance spilling on yourself...Sure why not?"

So I get two scoops of chocolately goodness and I start my adventure back to my friends at Godiva on the OTHER flippin' side of the world. I show up and they have been waiting to pay because I have the Godiva rewards card so I feel bad for making them salivate over the gourmet choco-goodness....and THEN, right there I spill on the right side of chest, a nice chocolate spot to remember this adventure by.

So now I am so frustrated because I spilled (I think I stamped my foot ("I thought girls only did that in movies" - five bucks if you can name where that comes from) and I am upset because the chest is just too huge and who really needs them anyway??? Then we get to the car and I use a baby wipe to get most of it off my white dress....before spilling on my sky blue jacket that goes over my dress...

The next thing I remember is looking up and seeing RED. I zero in on a couple holding hands and being cute right outside the car. I was so close to just rolling down the window to warn her, "Run away from him! Don't procreate because your boobs will get too huge for you to enjoy ice cream ever again!!!!!!!!!" But I came to my senses and kept my cool because I thought that my friends might think I am truly crazy and the people outside the car might call the cops because of the deranged look on my face.

So then Belinda says “oh just get mad at Shawn”, but Shawn has two kids and he knows what pregnant emotions are like so he goes all silent and non-responsive because he thinks I am going to freak out at him next....I told him I am only allowed to get angry with Eric cause he's the hubs and loves me even when I lose it.

And that is why today totally sucks!!!

Food, glorious food...

So here are pictures of my most recent cooking escapades. This is an appetizer that is SO easy to make and SO yummy. Some reviews of this appetizer include:
"Baby, you've been holding out on me for the last 3 years!" - Eric
"Davis, this is really good!" - Belinda


And here we have the stages of my chicken pot pie. I didn't do a double crust so that cut a lot of calories and fat. That made me happy since I am trying to make healthier meals. Some reviews for this dish:
"Grrryummmm. Schreally good." - Eric
"Yummy!" - Mom
"You made that? Wow." - Belinda


I forgot to get a picture of the pot pie completed but here's a pic of it half way consumed. As you can see it was delish!

Cooking Bug

I have FINALLY been bitten after 3 1/2 years of marriage. It's about freaking time!!! I will post pics of my most recent endeavors and keep you updated on any awesome recipes I find.

I had a little OCD kick in today (though if you ask Mom she'll say it's a LOT of OCD that kicks in these days...) Anyway I have had a lot of recipe books that I only want a handful of recipes from. I always have wanted to go through them, rip out what I want and add it to my recipe binder/book. (It's that whole having too many things in the cupboard that I don't need and use that freaks me out.) So this morning I started this project. I now need page protectors and/or recipe sheets to put the various recipes into but I have the binder all organized finally. And I have the loose recipes in order of their category: Appetizer, salad, side dish and entree. That way when I get the sleeve protectors BOOM they just go on into the right place. I now need a bigger binder for my recipes...

Dessert - Well that's a whole other story. For the section on desserts I have it all divided into these 10 categories: cheesecakes, cakes, pies, pastries, misc. (sauces, random things that don't fit anywhere else), cookies, kid stuff, dessert breads, cold stuff and drinks. I now have to get a binder just for the desserts! :D It's only going to be a one inch binder though so don't go thinking we are heifers!!!

Pregnancy is going well. Crazy to think we have less than 14 weeks to go; we are under 100 days away from Tiernan's arrival. WOW time has flown. Tired sometimes, heartburn most of the time and happy/ecstatic/awed all the time that we get this bundle of joy. Hope all is well with you and yours!!!

Pictures of FOOD and the FOURTH!

Raspberry Pie!!!

Look at my creation

Look at my belly :D

I even had festive hair....

I did red, white and blue ink AND eyeliner

This is the layered cheesecake bowl of AWESOMENESS!!!

Side view of the bowl of creamy goodness

This is Jordan, who belongs to Lisa from work. Isn't he so cute???

Jordan and his mommy

The caption to this photo is "Now kids gather round...."

"...Let me teach you the proper way to handle fireworks."
This is the bulk of the fireworks that made up Mark's Fourth of July Firework Extravaganza!!!

This Fourth of July was FANTASTIC!!!

Touched by the Master's Hand - Finally!

Ok so we are totally still alive...it's just that there is not much to report. Just pregnant and finally feeling AWESOME. I am enjoying it because I know this feeling does not last as I head into the third trimester.

I have never felt very domesticated but that changed this morning. Fresh strawberries: $5. Fresh Raspberries: $6. A great morning in the kitchen making awesome desserts for 4th of July BBQ's with your Hubs: Priceless.

I must say that I finally feel like I have "the touch" with something: DESSERTS!! I took a no bake chiffon pie recipe and tweaked it to our tastes. Now Eric and Mom ask for it all the time and LOVE it! Plus it's healthier than a true chiffon pie and SO easy to make. Here's the link for the recipe, but we like to substitute other fruits: We've done a lemon one that was good, but we have done raspberry the last 3 times and like that the best. I garnish mine with fresh raspberry puree and cool whip. (You could make this extra creamy and thicker by using whipping cream but then the whole health factor goes out the window.)

I made one of those Raspberry pies for my first BBQ today and then I made another dessert for our 2nd BBQ. This dessert is called Layered Strawberry Cheesecake Bowl and it is awesome!! My sister made it for me and introduced me to the recipes at Kraft.com so I figured this would be great piece to take. I was so proud of myself because my sister warned me it was hard to get the cream cheese (we used Neufchâtel) really smooth but I did it! And we cut a few calories on this one by using the Neufchâtel, 1% milk and cool whip (my sister makes the best home made whipped cream so she used that in her recipe - I figured I better stick to cool whip and not try too many new things this time around). We also added an extra cup of strawberries because we LOVE the strawberries.

I am going to take pictures of these desserts once I have them garnished and ready to go. I will also make sure to take some pictures of my pregnant self today and I will post them all soon. Happy Fourth of July everyone!!!