Superbowl Weekend

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  Ours was pretty good.  Trevor and I got to spend some good quality adult time together since the kids were with their mom all weekend. 

Friday night started off on the right foot with my hockey game.  I scored another goal and assist.  So proud of myself.  I’ve only been playing for 3 years, could barely skate when I started and still have issues stopping on a dime.  I just use the other players to stop..hehe   Already looking forward to next weekends game. 

Saturday afternoon was spent cooking and prepping for our dinner party that night.  Since we were kid-less this weekend it was perfect to have some great adult time with some friends of ours.  We decided to make it a themed dinner party, so we decided it was going to be Italian.  Brenda was going to take care of the appetizer, and so we came prepared with dinner and dessert.  Brenda and Al offered to host it at their house since they have an 8 year old daughter and were unable to find a sitter. 

Brenda prepared some awesome bruschetta. 

And voila the lasagne I made.  Click here for the recipe. 

And of course dessert was Tiramisu.  It kind of fell apart on me since I think I didn’t leave it in the fridge long enough to set.  We kind of slept in too long Saturday morning, so we had a later start at making it.  Oh well…it still tasted pretty awesome.  Click here for the recipe.

After dessert we started the games night.  We played Cranium. 

The four of us played New Year’s Eve and the boys won..so tonight was rematch night….um, boys won again…. lets blame it on having had too much wine that night… it was a close game…but we’ll get you next time boys…muah haha.

Think hard boys

The evening went by really fast and great laughs were had by all.  Lots of giggling from the girls too.  Next thing we knew it was 2am and we had a quick 5 minute walk home in the dark and rain. 

Sunday was a really lazy day.  We slept until noon, Trevor made us some coffee and I cooked up some yummy Cinnamon French Toast for Brunch.  Then it was off to buy groceries for the week and get ready for some Superbowl entertainment.  I’m not much of a football fan, don’t know anything about the game. My favourite part is the Half Time Show.  I thought this years was pretty good… the costumes were awesome.  Go Packers

It was leftover lasagne and Tiramisu for dinner and dessert..and of course a glass of wine.  Getting ready to watch a new Glee episode now and then off to make my lunch for tomorrow. 

How did you spend your weekend?  What did you think about the Superbowl? 

Have a great night

Bea

xoxo

Breakfast for dinner.. why not?

It’s going to be a busy weekend on this side of the Pacific.  But let’s start with last night:

I went to bed early last night because I was dead tired, only to be woken up around 1am to a loud BOOM and a flash of light.

OK, well it didn’t look quite like this, but things really do go Bump in the Night.

It was pouring out and the sound on my skylight outside my master bedroom was so loud and a good indicator of how hard it was raining.  The storm went on for a couple of hours.  Buster was not impressed.  He cowered under my covers… he hates storms.  I don’t blame him.  The thunder was so powerful it made my windows shake.  Anytime we get storms, the dog panics…he hides under my covers and it’s almost impossible to get him to stop shaking, drooling and panting.  Poor guy.  So needless to say, I was pretty tired when the alarm went off this morning.  I had planned on getting up early to go for a morning run, but I needed that extra sleep.  Sometimes things just don’t go the way you plan.

On to other things…

It’s Superbowl Weekend. 

I’m not going to pretend to know anything about Football or that I’m a fan, but I do like to watch the half-time shows.  So we’re either going to have friends over or we’ll go to the pub.  To be determined later. 

Saturday night Trevor and I are hosting a dinner party/games night with another couple. The kids are with their mom this weekend, so it’s a perfect weekend for some good quality adult fun.  We wanted to have the dinner at my place, but our friends have an 8 year old daughter and are unable to get a sitter, and so we decided to have it over there so that Ashlee can go to bed and then it’s just adult time. 

So I’m going to hit the grocery store tonight before hockey and tomorrow I’ll be spending my day making yummy eats..our theme is Italian.  Will be making my world famous Lasagne from scratch (noodles and all) and some Tiramisu for dessert.  Come back Sunday night for a possible pics. 

And tonight I have another hockey game.  Hoping to score another goal or two.   

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Breakfast for dinner…I think so

I still had an egg in the fridge and thawed out some wheat-free bread I bought at my favourite bakery down island in the summer.  So I decided to make some French Toast….Cinnamon French Toast that is…

To make:

Take 1 egg and beat in a bowl.  Add a pinch of sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and a splash of vanilla extract. Also add some milk.

Soak your bread in the egg/milk mixture and cook in frying pan over medium heat until brown.  Then flip and brown on other side.  Drizzle with pure maple syrup and maybe some yogurt?

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Well have a great Friday night and a safe weekend..will try to be back Sunday night and for sure Monday.

Anybody have big Superbowl plans this weekend? Any other plans?

With love,

Bea

xoxo