One "UNFORGETABLE" Weekend

What a great time!! This weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday we spent the weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio. Our daughter had AAU basketball tournaments at McGee's Sports 4 Courts in Mason, Ohio...what a great facility! One of the nicest we have been to (and we have been to a lot)....that always makes it better and more enjoyable when things are clean and run smoothly! LOL We ended up going 2/4 so we didn't do great but hey 1/2 isn't bad! It would always be nice to take home the trophy but the experience and friendships my daughter takes away from it is enough in itself! My daughter loves basketball, actually she likes any sport with a ball but basketball would be the one that drives her! I love to watch her....sometimes her intensity and love of the game just pops right off the court...as seen below:

As you can see....she would be the one on the bench putting her arms up in excitement to her team mate that went up for a shot! Gotta love that!! =) But we all had fun......got to know her team a little better, got to do a little shopping =).......I have been wanting to go to these 2 stores that aren't around our area....MAC makeup and a store called Sephora which also sells makeup! It was awesome...and hopefully I will get to make it back sometime soon!! If you love makeup....Sephora is the place for you! Then........................ what would the weekend be without a little drama. We witnessed something that only happens on the news but right beside our hotel was a restaurant called Lone Star Steakhouse, which we had planned on going to eat at that night. But.......this happened:

Ahhh yes you are seeing right.....a car drove thru the front of the restaurant! Apparently an older gentleman went to pull in the handicap spot and hit the gas instead of the break! Yikes! But everyone was okay, and I felt sad for the elder gentleman! They got him out with the jaws of life and he seemed to be okay. But I am sure he was feeling a little humiliation that day! Sooo needless to say we ended up at Applebee's =).....................

On the way home my husband also stopped by this place and got me a..........

.....Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory!! Oh my goodness was it wonderful!! It was so rich though had to share it with the hubby! That was a great ending to our trip as we began the 3 1/2 hour drive home!

What a UNFORGETTABLE weekend......memories that I take away from it are priceless and thank God for giving me those many moments! A great way to start out spring break........now what to do for the rest of the week!?! I would like to give a little shout out to La Quinta Inn...I would like to apologize now and to so many of the hotels that I do this at! But I accidentally took something of yours home with me..........

So sorry =(.......maybe I will get that into the mail for you! Darn it!! Come on you know you guys do it too! LOL

We will be back Cincinnati!;)

New and Creative Ideas for Lunches

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Why is it that we can't get this darn commercial out of our heads!?! LOL We all keep singing it over and over again in our house, messing the words up occasionally. So what do I do...I call my parents to tell them about it and here they start singing it to me! I guess it's just that catchy!(HA ;) Get it!) So yesterday my daughter was asking what she could make for her lunch today for school. As of this year..she has really wanted to start eating healthier, which requires more packed lunches! Which I don't mind...I think it's great that she wants to eat healthy (since I struggle so much with that) and also I think it's gonna be cheaper in the long run. There are a few healthy options @ the school, but things she don't really like so much. So she has been taking pb sandwich, chicken caesar salad, turkey sandwich and that's pretty much the extent of it. Being somewhat of a picky eater...she has not allowed herself to have many choices. So I thought I would start to look for different things to pack, not so sure I found what I was looking for but found some great links that I thought I would share a couple:
10 Healthy Lunch Ideas for Your Kids

55 Healthy & Cheap School Lunch Ideas

Seen this book (link below) and thought about getting it to see...maybe the library has it too! I'll have to check it out and let you know. =)

Lunch Boxes and Snacks: Over 120 healthy recipes from delicious sandwiches and salads to hot soups and sweet treats (Hardcover)

If anybody has any other great ideas..I would love to hear them! But for now I will keep looking ............. :)

Journey in progress - proceed with caution

Well HELLOOOOO blogger world!! Who would have thunk that I would have a blog?? Ummm certainly not me! HA But it's official....I am a member of myspace world, facebook world and now Blogger world! Okay sooo I am no writer, nor am I some fanciful artistic person. But just a simple person, with poor grammar =) ...(so all you grammar teachers don't get mad), that has been blessed by God and feel like He has given me lots to share at times in my life and maybe some very random things also! I have been following other people's blogs for quite sometime and see that not all blogs are in vain! ;)So thank you to those bloggers who have given me wonderful insights, awesome ideas, and funny logic! So here it goes...I may not be very good at this, but let's give it a trial run! Wish me luck, here goes nothing.................