At around 4:45 I was getting a little hungry but knew we’d be eating dinner around 7 so I knew of the perfect snack to keep me slightly full but not TOO full:  mixed nuts.  Here’s my portion:

It was a rainy morning here then it cleared up and just about as we were heading out, it started POURING out.  Go figure!  DInner was spent w/ my parents, brother, and grandparents in honor of Bill’s birthday.  It was a great time and many many laughs were exchanged!  I started out our dinner at Macaroni Grill with a house salad with italian dressing on the side.  I love their house salads (especially the black olives) – everything tastes so fresh.

For my entree, I ordered the Skinny Chicken ~ one of my favorites.  However, when they brought out our food, they brought out a vodka penne dish instead.  The waitress seemed frazzled and upset and was going to get my another but I decided oh what the heck, I like vodka sauce, so I’ll just stick with it.  It was realllllly good too!  I ate about half of what is here and brought the rest home.

Dessert was of course a must since it was Bill’s last birthday celebration.  My grandmom made a carrot cake and brought it to the restaurant so we all had a slice of her absolutely delicious and “famous” (in our family) cake.  This is Bill’s favorite cake out of the ones that my grandmom makes.

I haven’t been feeling so hot today – I think it’s stress due to our impeding house hunt/buy/sell, etc.  We have an event at our church tomorrow where we will be gone from 10am-4pm so I better get some sleep now so I’m not cranky!  Hope the rest of your weekend is great