Superbowl Yummies

Last night I went with my parents to a Superbowl party at a friends house. I wasn't much for watching the game, I like football and all but wasn't too thrilled about either of the teams playing. I planned to watch the commercials but that didn't happen either. Trying to push my way through 10 strong men for a front row seat every ten minutes wasn't ideal for me last night. So I just sat with all the ladies, swapped funny and recent stories, and stuffed my face. I LOVE Superbowl food...cheesy dips, mouth watering meatballs, rib meat sliding off the bone, Dawn's shrimp pizza, yummy raspberry jalapeno jelly over a succulent brick of cream cheese. I'm pretty sure I added 5 lbs to the scale last night and today's leftovers may just throw on another 2 or 3.

I wanted to share a recipe with you that my step-mom Camille made. SOOO YUMMY! I LOVE me some, as Dawn calls it, attitude adjustment, otherwise known as hot sauce. Chicken, cream cheese, blue cheese dressing, sourcream...yummy...white creamy sauces are sooooo bad for the figure but so delicious! Below is the recipe for this yummy buffalo'ness' that Camille cooked up!

Prep time 5 minutes

Servings: 16 people

Ingredients:

1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese softened

1/2 C blue cheese salad dressing

1/2 C Frank's RedHot Original Sauces. Camille actually used the local Cookie's brand hot sauce

1/2 crumbled blue cheese or shredded mozzarella cheese (she used mozz)

2 cans of chunk chicken breast in water, drained. Or feel free to cook and cut up your own

Serve with assorted veggies and crackers

Directions:

1. In a bowl, stir the cream cheese with a form until smooth. Stir in the dressing, hot sauce, blue cheese dressing, and crumbled blue cheese or mozz. Stir in the chicken.

Camille put hers in a small crock pot and turned it on to medium.

It was super tasty and I had someday with my leftovers for lunch! Try it! You won't regret it!

Sioux City Sioux!!!!!

Love & Goo

So let's face it...I LOVE love stories. There's just something about holding hands, kisses on cheeks, playful giggling, the moment a man brushes a piece of his ladies hair out of her eyes, the teasing, the squeezing....uhhh!!! I can't can't get enough of love stories. Sometimes I feel like maybe I'm a little over the top. Like when I cry at the weddings, more like ALL of the weddings I've shot in the last year. I'm sure 2010 will be no different either!

I am such a sap. But I like bein a sap! Don't judge me ya'll! I could blame it on genes (my mom...she is a sap too) or that I have a soft heart. Maybe I am just too emotional. Or maybe it's that I picture myself in the place of others I shoot, see on tv and movies, the older couple walking through the mall holding hands...it's a vicious cycle I tell ya!

I also love happy endings which leads me to this photo shoot. Except I wouldn't say that the story of this trio has ended, just recycled maybe. I took these photos over a month ago but I recently saw a post on Facebook that related back to this photo shoot. Tanya, this beautiful mama/girlfriend posted the cutest thing on John's, the daddy/boyfriend, wall. It said:

"story of us...we meet, we love, we hate and boy did we hate good. We leave, we change, we meet again, we love even better, we have beautiful Toes (nickname for their daughter)...what a whirlwind of 8 years. I'm ready to do it again! :)"

When this little post popped up on my newsfeed I melted into a big pile of GOO on my office floor. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that Tanya and John wouldn't want to do the hate part again though! ;) Seeing them on this day was such a beautiful thing. They were all of the things I mentioned from above and boy did they laugh...A LOT!!! And Toes (baby Olivia) seems just as happy as her mommy and daddy. Maybe someday these two...hint hint...cough cough...will need an engagement and wedding photog!