Love on Wednesday

Hello Lovelies!

Sorry I have been MIA for a week. I haven't felt very motivated to blog and have been busy with other things, but now I'm Back and ready for WILW with Jamie.

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I'm loving that my sister and her husband were in town last weekend and I got to see her and her little growing baby. I'm sad she won't tell us the name before the baby is born, but I understand why. She did say that she would tell us the initials a little later. Yay! We all went out to dinner for birthdays, my mom's birthday is Feb 1st and Jon's birthday is Feb 10th so we celebrated with family at a local mexican food restaurant. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of fun!

Sisters! (Me, Meredith, Lori)

Lori and Jon

Meredith and Nico

Me and Ryan

My parents refusing to take a picture and being silly. :)

Much better!

My mom and her mini me. We don't look that much alike but we act identical.

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I'm loving that we finally taught Cali how to shake! 

Cali practicing outside!

Trying to get me to play with her. haha.

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I'm loving my nephew Gavin, he is getting so big!

Gavin, 6 months

Being cute!

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I'm loving when Belle talks to me.

Or just when she is cute like this!

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I'm loving this house that I pass every time I go to my parents. I hope this doesn't seem stalkerish I just really like the design of it.

It's kinda hard to see but it is beautiful!! 

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And I'm always loving my honey!

Thanks for reading!

Love, 

Carmen

Top 2 Tuesday: Blogging Lessons

Hello Lovelies!

I thought I would link up with Taylor today, like I do every week, and share some Blogging lessons I have learned. I am fairly new to blogging so I haven't learned too many things about it.

1. It seems to be easier to get followers if you already have a lot of followers.

I thought this picture was cute, but i think it is for Twitter. haha

It seemed like it took forever to get my first follower because nobody wanted to be the first. As I have said before I didn't join because I had family or friends that I wanted to follow my life. I started my blog as my journal and to follow some blogs that I liked. It still is hard to get followers, but that is why I do so many link ups so that my blog can get known.

2. Leave comments on others blog and they will usually leave one back.

I love to read blogs and love to comment and i have found that if I comment on certain blogs that they will comment back or email back with "thank yous." Leaving a comment will make my day, so I like to think that it is the same for others as well.

Another thing I like about blogs that mine doesn't have yet is the tabs on the top so I can easily learn about the blogger. I love reading about your love stories, wedding stories, and learning about you and your life.

Well I'm at school so I need to go but I hope you come visit again!

Love, 

Carmen

Miscellany Monday: Superbowl Edition.

This week i'm linking up with Carissa for another miscellany monday.

I really dislike Monday because it is the start of the week and I just know it will take forever to get to the end. Plus, traffic is always worse on Mondays. I guess everyone is running late and is in a hurry. Seriously, every other day of the week I can get to school in 25 minutes and on Mondays it always takes longer. For instance this morning I left with 40 minutes before my class starts and I was 10 minutes late. I wasn't going to walk into the class late because I knew there would be no seats on the outside so I would have to "excuse me" all the way to the middle of the row to find a seat. Not to mention that the door is the in front of the classroom so everyone would be staring at me the whole time I found a seat. So, today I decided to sit outside the class and attempt to listen to the teacher. She luckily doesn't take attendance so I didn't receive an absence.

Yesterday was the Superbowl and that means lots of food and family, for me anyways. I went to my parents house where they cooked a feast for the four of us. Seriously we could have fed 8 or more, but they love to fix way more food than needed. We had 3 dips, spinach and artichoke, guacamole, and an onion dip that was SO good. Then we had jalapeno poppers, chicken wings and ribs. It was all really good but I was stuffed.

Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Onion Dip. (It was the best!)

My Dad's famous Guacamole!

Jalapeno Poppers made with cream cheese, cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese, bacon, salt and chili powder. Topped with some Panko bread crumbs and baked in the oven.

Chicken wings (sweet and sour and hot) and Ribs at the top. They were Asian flavored with some marinade my dad made.

Well one of my favorite things about the Superbowl are the commercials. My favorite one was the Bridgestone tire commercial. I thought it was so cute and funny.

Also I kinda felt bad for Christina Aguilera when she messed up the National Anthem because I know I would be way nervous too. Singing in front of people is hard especially a song like that which everyone knows. My mom and I were watching it together and we just looked at each other at the same time when she messed up. It was so funny. But I heard her sound check this morning on the radio and she messed up way worse then.

Well sorry this wasn't more interesting but I'm off to do some homework and catch up on my blogs.
Thanks for reading!

Love,

Carmen

Craziness.

Hey Girls!!

Well, not much has happened since I last posted. We are still covered in ice and now a nice 5-6 inch coating of snow is on top of that. I have been off school since Tuesday and it is great. I am wondering though how next week will be since we have missed so much material. I hope it isn't too overwhelming!

The snow falling last night.

We finally ventured out yesterday before the snow started falling and went to CVS, Wal-Mart and I went tanning. It was nice and toasty in there. :) I had Ryan drive since I was afraid of getting into an accident. I thought I would have to go into school on Thursday since at 4 SMU sent out an e-mail stating that they would be open on Thursday and if you could not make it then to let your professors know. I guess enough students and staff complained because at 6:48 AM they decided to cancel school for the day! I wasn't planning on going anyways but it was good to know that I hadn't missed anything. 

My outfit to bear the cold. It wasn't very warm!! Haha, we aren't prepared for cold weather here.

This morning I woke up and went outside to "play" in the snow. Really Cali wanted to go out so we took her ball and she ran around trying to find that thing. It was funny watching her run because they snow was so high. 

The pretty trees outside!

Our roommate's car was covered in snow. You can hardly see the alley.

Cali loving the snow, you can't even see her paws. :)

Ryan with Cali!

Me attempting to hold Cali while wearing Ryan's jacket. Haha. It was way warmer than mine.

She got away!!

Our house! :)

Today will be a lazy day. I have some shows to catch up on so I will be snuggling on the couch with Belle and staying warm under my blanket! My favorite thing to do.

I've been sticking to my diet and exercise plan. I had to take a break from The Biggest Loser Workout video because I am super sore today. I may do my ab workouts though. 

We have a roast in the crock-pot for dinner and i'm so excited to eat it! It smells so yummy! Sorry that this post is so random. Thanks for reading if you got to the end!

Love, 

Carmen

The pretty tree from underneath!

WILW!!

Hey my lovely followers!

I'm linking up with Jamie again for What I'm Loving Wednesday!

I'm loving that we have had two snow days in a row because of all the ice. The only downside is that I can't get down the driveway to even try to go somewhere because it's covered in 2 inches of ice... :(

I'm loving that despite the cold i've still been working out and am trying this Biggest Loser DVD. I'll let you know how it goes, it sure does make me sweat though.

It looks silly but its beneficial.

I'm loving that Ryan is now off until Sunday since he worked late yesterday. He works 12 hr shifts Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and then a half day on Wednesday usually and then is off the rest of the week. He decided that instead of trying to bear the ice today twice then he would work late so he wouln't have to go in today. :)

I'm loving that I'm getting caught up on all my shows because i've been off of school. I watch entirely too many shows so it's hard to stay up to date!

I'm loving that I made a cinnamon swirl cheesecake on Saturday and I've been having a small slice after dinner everyday now. :) But i'm not loving that it kinda burnt because it was the first time I made it in the house oven opposed to the oven from the apartment and i've learned that they very in temperature and cook time..... 

This is what it is supposed to look like (How it has looked in the past)

I'm NOT loving that I have a cold and a man cough because of this freezing weather. It is currently 16 degrees outside... and I think my cold is just getting worse.

I'm loving these yummy pudding cups that are cinnamon roll flavor. They don't taste like they are sugar free and they only have 60 calories! 

I'm always loving my fur babies!

And I'm always loving my wonderful boyfriend. :)

August 2007. :) We look so young!

Top 2 Tuesday and randomness.

Hey All!!

It's time for another Top 2 Tuesday with Taylor.

Thing I learned about friendships:

1. With a true friend you can go without seeing them for over a year and when you get together again everything seems normal and like it has always been. 

My best friend moved to a town about 30 min away before we started high school. We had been friends since the 2nd grade and best friends since 3rd. She would still come in town and hang out and even though it's harder now with school she still can come back and visit and it seems like old times. Yeah we may not know all each others friends but the 4 of us will still hang out and talk until we fall asleep from exhaustion. lol. She is now my friend who is expecting and i'm so excited for her to become a mommy.

This i the best picture I could find of all of us.

ME, BROOKE,ALYSSA,ERICA, and CHELSEA (the one that moved away)

This was at their last Spring show after I quit Drill Team. I sang at the show.

2. Friendship doesn't always have to mean your girl friends. I think Ryan is my best friend because I can trust him with everything and I know he understands and will be there for me always.

Church Camp together summer 2007.

Happiness. :)

My Prom. 2009.

On another note I'm out of school today because of all the ice we had last night and this morning. I woke up at 6 to see if they had e-mailed about school being canceled and it was so I went back to sleep! I hope it will be a relaxing day but I wish I could get out and so tan and work out. I guess I'll have to try to work out inside, which is no fun! Any ideas????

I may post later about my uneventful weekend so stay tuned!

Love, 

Carmen