A week in photos

So mainly this week I have been sewing and playing dominoes but I do have a few pics to share (none of my costume yet...spoilers)

The Mister and I started a marathon game of Mexican Train

My Tardis notebook ordered for my birthday finally came in! (Ordered in October!!!)

Visited Little Punkin and she tried hiding under The Mister's hat to avoid pictures

Seriously look how many tiles we had to draw to get the 3/3 tile!!! That was a LONNG game

Tried a new recipe and it was okay, mainly because we couldn't find the right dressing to marinade it in, but it was still good just a little tangy..

Yummy Fruits for a mid day snack

Making new friends

Well guys I made a new friend last night around 9:30. How you may ask...well it was not on purpose. The mister let Taco out before we went to bed and saw something on the roof of the porch.

(don't pay attention to the messy porch ceiling, we have had a lot of rain lately & I don't clean it that often)Now before I took this picture we didn't what it was. Honestly, we thought it was a rat at first. So the Mister sent me to go get his gun (since we thought it was a rat) and when I got the gun & camera I didn't close the front door. I know! How dare I do something that silly! Anywho we realized it was a bird and the mister thought it was a baby owl. We poked the bird to see what kind it was (and because we wanted him off the house). Well we didn't think that though very well because this is what happened next.

HE FLEW IN THE HOUSE!!!

Okay so I bet y'all saw that coming since I said I left the door open but still! It was funny and scary all at the same time. We were trying to get him back outside and every time he took flight the Mister & I dove to the ground. Now we are not afraid of birds, actually we like them, we sit on the porch and watch the birds and squirrels but it is completely different when they are in your house flying around! We finally got our new friend out of the house after he visited our bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room. Luckily he did not leave us any presents.

Have y'all had any types of unsuspecting visitors in your house, and how did y'all handle them?

Hidden Treasures

I may have mentioned this before but I love estate sales! I feel like you get to know an older generation and the stuff you find is amazing. This weekend the Mister and I headed out early to check out an estate sale with boy toys like Star Wars, GI Joe, WWII and Space. The Mister was more excited about this one than I was, but we got there and it was PACKED! I swear the whole town was there it was crazy.We were able to get 2 things that we love.

Check that bad boy out! I love it! It is a game table made around 1952. We know this because the last president listed was Eisenhower and it doesn't say when his term ended! It is amazing. We got this beauty for $20 can you believe it!? I have found the same table with the top in worse condition than ours for sale on ebay for $180. Now ours is NOT for sale it is to be kept and loved for more years to come. 

1. Taco snuggling with her mama, making it difficult to play on the computer.2. My beautiful new ring holder 3.Yummy cotton candy with my love4. Seriously we love cotton candy 5. Sat. was too early of a day to cook breakfast so we stopped for doughnuts6. Food Fight!7. I couldn't quite reach it8. Delicious mini banana nut muffins9. The Mister's new toy from the estate sale

**UPDATE** 24 Before 25

*UPDATE*#6 I finished both Divergent and Crossed. I also got Walter The Fating Dog for Josh and even though it is only 10-15 pages I read it, and it was silly and great! Well I have officially finished off this task. I should have made it a higher number, but now I know for next year. (I am also listening to The Sweet Potato Queen's Wedding Planner and Divorce Guide by Jill Conner Browne, it is hilarious!) 6 out of 5#14 Um I do not have a schedule set up, but I am keeping the house cleaner all together. #18 HA this is not working at all! The only thing that is staying on plan is this post.#19 getting engaged has helped with this one too! Getting to see my family show off the ring plan the wedding it is nice.#20 Well this happened! I had no control over it but still it is marked off the list too.#22 This is tentative. I met someone though the nerdfighter site, but I am waiting one the first email (since she is in the middle of a move)#23 Getting engaged helped me with this. Many of my old friends from High School and I have been chatting much more mainly about their marriages and my upcoming one, it is really nice.

Mardi Gras

Finally! I know I have been slacking on my blog but my camera and computer are now working together again so I can have more pictures besides phone pictures. I know you are excited. Anywho as soon as my card reader started working again I uploaded my pictures. With out further adieu Madri Gras!


1. This is right before we opened the doors and let everybody in, the band had set everything up the night before/they were awesome!2.The first night we were so slow! we had maybe half the people we had last year.3.this is how it was most of the two night so I could take too many pictures4. but I did get some with my friend from high school (we were Casa Ole waitress/neighbors in high school)5. and the new bar helper for the year6. and of course all of the bar wenches together7. my lovely Momma C was huggin' on everyone8. we server countless Jager Bombs (SOOO GROSS)9. this fell one night after I got home(around 1 am), I am so glad I didn't have to deal with that.

11 Things *TAG*

So my game plan was to put up the pictures from the picture-a-day thing I was doing but my card reader on my computer decided to quit working so all the lovely pictures I took are still on my camera and not on my computer yet. I am going to see about getting it fixed by my computer genius fiance or get a new cord for my camera (it has been missing for years). So instead of having no post today I am going to do the 11 things tag everyone on the blogosphere has been doing. I read so many so I decided to jump on the band wagon.

There are five rules:

1. Post these rules.

2. Post a photo of yourself and 11 random things.

3. Answer the questions set for you in the original post.

4. Create 11 new questions and tag people to answer them.

5. Go to their blog/twitter and tell them you've tagged them.

1. When I was younger I would read books during TV shows and watch the commercials. As I got older I stopped reading because I had to for AR Points and I didn't like being forced to read.
2. I get sad and cry when I see my my 2 grandpa's because one is frail from a heart attack & isn't as strong and lively as he use to be and my other grandpa because he lives so far away and the last time I saw him was at my grandmother's funeral in his Dress Blues and trying not to cry 
3. I lose my shit at military funerals! I think Taps is the saddest song ever and I cannot even try keep my eyes dry when I see them folding the flag, oh and the 21 gun salute!
4. I have had a large range of animals in my life time, countless dogs, 5 ferrets, a sugar glider, bunnies, a potbelly pig, chicks, tarantula, iguana, an evil cockatoo, fish, frogs, turtles, and I think that is it. The dogs and sugar glider were my favorites.
5. I am super lazy! I will get done what has to be done, but after it is over with I am on the couch or in the bed cuddling with Taco and Josh on the computer or watching TV.
6. I still keep in contact with some of my teachers from High School and my step-dad (who works there) gets questions from my other teachers asking how I am doing
7. In school I made really great grades I was in the Magnet Program for the gifted and talented, but I never really tried hard it just came naturally. By the time I reached High School I was already done with my foreign language credits, and my Sr. year I was taking college courses and only had classes half the day.
8. I have more picture of my baby sister Blake than I do of anything else on my phone, work desk, and in my house.
9. I drive maybe once or twice a month. Josh & I carpool to work and go everywhere together, he prefers driving. We still have my car and use it on the weekends, for grocery trips, and vacations because it is roomier and since it is an SUV(Mercury Mariner)  it is covered unlike Josh's truck.
10. I was never taught how to put on make-up or fix my hair. I also do not put much effort into either unless I am going out. I am actually trying to learn via youtube videos.
11. I am a VERY indecisive person. I think this bugs Josh because he hates picking everything like what to eat, where to go, etc.
Not since I was not properly tagged but susannahbean tagged everyone so here is her questions

1. Who's your celebrity crush? I would have to say David Tennant, Cary Grant, Michael Buble or David Boreanaz

2. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a teacher or a hair dresser (the lat one would be hilarious since I can't even fix my own hair)

3. What's your favorite flower? I do not really like flowers but I guess I would say Honey Suckles because I remember eating the "honey" out of them when I was little 

4. If you could only drink one thing for the rest of your life besides water, what would it be? Easy! Sweet Tea, it is always my go to drink (unless I am at a restaurant where I know the tea is gross)

5. Do you believe in ghosts? I do not know, I feel that they could be real but I have never seen one. I am open to the idea, yes it would scare me if I saw one but ya I guess they could be real

6. What's your favorite meal at your favorite restaurant? I don't really have a favorite restaurant but something that I crave often is Spicy Garlic Boneless Wings from Buffalo Wild Wings

7. What was your favorite cartoon as a kid? Hong Kong Phooey or The Little Mermaid cartoon on Saturday morning

8. What's your favorite thing to wear from your closet? My black bow flats from AE for Payless, they are the coziest shoes ever and sadly they are getting a little roughed up & I need to replace them

9. If you could wake up tomorrow with the knowledge and ability to do something that you can't do now, what would it be? Musical talent! Singing or playing an instrument oh or dancing I would love to learn to dance

10. What's your favorite song of all time? O this is so hard. I like so many songs and genres. It all depends on my mood really um okay a song that I always enjoy singing Captain Hampton by The Aquabats or Jeremy by Pearl Jam

11. What's an annoying habit or quirk of yours that people probably don't know about?  Um people on here don't know about but my whole family does... Chewing my tongue when I am concentrating. I got in trouble so much in school because my teacher thought I was chewing gum. I got this habit from my Dad (Blake is starting to do it too, but Candice is trying to nip that in the bud)

OK so now for my 11 questions for y'all1. If you could have any super power what would it be?2. If you could meet anyone dead or alive, fictional or non-fictional who would it be?3. What is your favorite homemade meal?4. If you won the lottery what would you do with your winnings?5. What is your favorite TV series?6. What is your biggest pet peeve?7. What is/was your childhood nickname?8. What is your biggest guilty pleasure?9. Best thing from the 90's movies, music, tv shows, fashion, toys, whatever.10. Most frequented website?11. What you would/have named your first child?
I will tag anyone who wants to do it. 

Questions about religion

*These are my real questions! They are not meant to hurt anyone's feelings, I really want to know the answers! I will not be offended by any answers, and will give honest feedback. I truly want to learn more on this subject*

So I know there are many religious bloggers out there and I am a little jealous of that. I wish I was that devoted to something like that. I am a spiritual person, I feel I do the right thing most of the time, I don't drink, I have never done drugs, and I don't break the 10 commandments but I have so many questions about religion that I cannot be truly and wholly devoted to something I have questions about. I was raised Southern Baptist(I don't know the difference but that's what people at my church always said "southern Baptist") and it was ok I really enjoyed spending time with the youth group but I got bored in church! I am very interested in religion, in all religions. I want to know more about them. I know that I will get comments on this but...

How do you know the religion you believe in is the right one? When I ask this question I get the same answer "faith". I get that being raised on something makes you believe it; like Santa if you raise your kids saying Santa is real, then they will believe it until you tell them otherwise (or they learn from older kids). Now I am not saying Santa is Jesus/Buddha/Allah/etc. equivalent but I am saying that just because your family raised you one way doesn't mean it is right (not that religion isn't right). 

I really hope I am making sense right now.

Okay so another thing I may get comments about is...

The Greek Gods, I understand where the Greeks were coming from with their gods. They had things happen in the world around them and didn't know how to explain them so they had the gods. I understand that logic. But the thing that I really like about it is the lineage. The question I have always had in church as a child was who was God's father, we know that Jesus was born of Mary and Joseph and was God's child, but who is the Grandpa or God's dad. When learning about creation I was always told something cannot come from nothing that is why the big bang isn't possible, so using that logic is where my question came from. I was always told it was faith. I got tired of all of my questions having the same answer, I wanted a real answer. 

IF something cannot be made from nothing how did God make Earth

WHO is God's father

WILL our current religions be told as fictional stories (like the Greeks) in the future

HOW did you know what religion to choose

HOW do we know what was written was meant to be turned into a religion instead of a philosophy 

Those are just a few question that I have had that have never been answered. Like I said I was raised baptist but I have been the Catholic churches and they are a spectical and not in a bad way. It is completely different going to a catholic and baptist churches, baptists are usually less structures in the churches I have been to and when I went to the catholic churches I felt that I was in a club and did know the secret hand shake. (Again this is just my experience in the few catholic churches I have been to) Catholics have rituals that baptists don't like when the preacher Father says 'Bless you' the whole church goes 'And with you'. This completely threw me off when it happened the first time, because I was not warned this would happen, I felt like I didn't have the script. In baptist churches the preacher preaches, the choir sings, the congregation opens up the hymns and sings, the preacher preaches some more and church is let out with the choir singing. (yes I left bits out but that is the just of it) So going into this Catholic church I was expecting about the same, but it wasn't and it was nice. I like to ritual of it all. As I understand it (and I could be wrong) Catholics and Baptist belief the same core stuff virgin birth; miracles; atonement for sins through the death, burial, and bodily resurrection of Jesus; the Trinity. But Catholics are (I don't know how to say this so bare with me) more hardcore, like with the rituals, Lent, and Christenings. 

What I don't get is why the difference? Why are there multiple religions that all use the same book? I mean all Christians(Baptists, Catholics, Pentecostals Etc) use the whole bible, Mormons recognize the Bible but use the Book of Mormon(am I right on this), Judaism uses the Old Testament, and Muslims recognize it as an old version. (PLEASE correct me if I am wrong I want to know) 

**Edit**
I realise some may not want to answer in the comments so if you do feel like making a response you can email me at jesslynnsteele (at) gmail (dot) com

I am sorry this is so long winded but sometimes you just have to let all of your crazy out so it is easier to sort.