Peanut snoozing...

Here's a little shot of Peanut snoozing on Christmas Day at my parent's house.  She was just too tired after the crazy paper tearing party!

You know, this little lady can't stay away from the action for one minute!

Plum tuckered out, I say...

Thanksgiving Break...Heading to ISU for some...

I had a great time this Thanksgiving hanging out with my old college roommate Diana and her family.  It was nice catching up and being able to see her family.  It was disappointing that Di's mother was really sick and cooped up in the house the whole time.  

After arriving in Des Moines, I got the rental car and headed to Di's.  I had this little matchbox car that blew all over the road.  I thought it sounded like it was going to blow up the whole way there, but I realized when I got to her house that I had the car in the wrong gear the whole way.  That strange shifter.  I survived, and after a bunch of laughs, we settled down for the night.  The next day would be the FOOTBALL GAME!!!

Woke up bright and early to head to HyVee to pick up a few souvenirs (I got a ISU jacket, some ISU gloves, A Coffee Mug for the car and a TShirt) statium.  I've been waiting for this game since the WVA Mountaineers joined the conference.  I'm so excited because now I'll be able to go to the games in West Virginia!  

Before heading into the stands, I took a few pictures of the Jack Trice Memorial...

We honor him every time we enter the gates...

 Such an amazing athelete.  He gave his all...

 Fight, Fight, Fight for Iowa State...

Now let's head into the stadium!  

Heading into the stadium.  Everyone is bundled up because the wind is a whippin' and the air is FREEZING!

And now for the starting line-up...

Missed a few, but you get the gist...

  The team is praying for a win and healthy men!  GO STATE!  Beat them Mountaineers!!!

It's pretty exciting!  The team is playing well, Those hillbillies are fightin!

Cy's just struttin around.  He's enjoying the play with the mountain man.  

This dude was FREEZING, as were these players huddling around the heater.  

The crowd was Freezing but festive...GO CRIMSON AND GOLD!!!

Go get 'em boys!  

Halftime...Marching band comes out to play.  BRRR It's cold out here!  

 The band sounded great!  

I've never seen such a special tribute before.  It's tradition for the seniors to march off the field leaving their 

shoes behind...How touching.  

Boy, FREEZING!  

Here they are, lined up and ready to be picked up by the remaining students.  BRRR..I'm sure it was really cold having to leave the field without shoes!  It was about 20 degrees in the stadium.  

Now, back to the game...It's the second half and it's getting dark...

Cyclones having a bit of trouble keeping the ball... I'm having a bit of trouble keeping my lens focused in this freezing cold stadium.  At this time my toes are NUMB!

Cy's struttin' his stuff.  I'm not sure why he was smiling, we lost a close game and it was darned cold!  We'll get 'em next year in West Virginia!  

After the game, Diana and I headed over to Hickory Park.  I had some of their YUMMY coffee to thaw out before digging in to some tasty chicken.  We headed back to her house after that.  

Over the weekend, we went back to campus 

Now on to the Wrestling meet against ODU.  We should win that meet, right???

 I think he scored a point right after flippin' him over.  

 A few of our guys were lookin' good...but...

We've got a "BUILDING YEAR" they say...We lost that too.

Maybe I brought my Cyclone's bad luck!  Hmmm....

So after the match, we drove over to Lake Laverne...Maybe we'll have better luck there...

Alrighty, there they are...Lancelot and Elaine.  Enjoying another day on the lake.  They're looking good 'eh?   Now on to the Campanile.  

The sky's getting gray and the light is dark.  I need to edit this picture.

Nah, the Campanile is not falling over, I took a crooked shot with my new lens.  ZOOM, baby ZOOM!  I hope to head there some spring or summer to get some really amazing shots.  

Hopefully, the next time I travel all the way to Iowa State to see the Cyclones play, we'll actually win something!  

Yummy Sunday

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Hey all!  Boy, it's been a while since I posted on this blog so I thought I would hop on and post something I'm proud of doing today...

I baked!!! Now don't roll over or choke in shock!  Although it's rare, I do bake when I have an unexplainable urge...SOoo...Here's what came out of my oven a few minutes ago...

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YUMMY, Delicious sweet rolls...Well um...not quite...

I had all intentions of making some monkey bread but I didn't quite follow the recipe on the bag.  Instead, I poured the bag of frozen bread bites into a bowl, added a little vegetable oil to coat them, then started making the sweet mixture.

In making the sweet mixutre for the bread, I added the following into a mixing bowl:

1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 stick marjarine (melted)
1 package Jell-O Banana Instant pudding mix.  (the recipe on the bag called for Butterscotch pudding.)

Mixed that all together and added it to the bowl of buns.....Poured it all into a baking pan and popped it into the 350 degree oven... Waited 20 minutes and brushed with melted butter....Took some pictures of my masterpiece and DUG in...OH MY GOODNESS...

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SIMPLY DEVINE!!!  

Now I'm ready for the snowstorm...Come on Mother Nature, don't let me down!