All over the place

First Top Three Thursday is on the top three restaurants you like to eat....can I only pick three???

I'm going to have to do four. Cheater. I know. My all time favorite chain restaurant, On the Border, I'm not going to really count. I love to try local restaurants but this chain brings me in again and again and I don't understand why!!!! Could it be the cheese, chips and more cheese??

So, on to my top three...if you aren't from Memphis, this may not be much fun.

1. High Point Pizza

There is a small neighborhood in Memphis called High Point. It is actually where my husband grew up his whole life and where we are looking to move to. Within high point there is a small old strip center that holds a grocery store, cleaner, a cute gift shop, etc. It also holds High Point Pizza. I LOVE it. I love the atmosphere, the ranch dressing, the BBQ pizza, the chef salad, did I mention the ranch dressing? I can't wait to one day walk our children up there to enjoy.

2. Swanky's Taco Shop

Back to mexican, I know. Its my weakness. That and homemade ranch dressing, that is. I'm not sure if this is a national chain or not but I really don't care! You stand in line and order what you want fresh. Kinda a Mexican Subway, if you will. The salads are the best but everything I have had there has been good.

3. Buckley's

You may remember this is who catered our rehearsal dinner. It is a locally owned steak house. They also have a small lunch location for the "work" crowd. I love the steaks, the creamed spinach, the stuffed mushrooms...man, this post is making me hungry!!! The wife of one of the owner's also is the one that does the paint parties that are sooo much fun.

Lots of stress in our world right now trying to find a house...to buy smaller on a GREAT street or a little bigger on an OK street? Everyone always says location, location, location but I just don't know. What are ya'lls thoughts?

 

For Thoughtless Thursday, I decided to throw in an engagement picture from last year...just cause I like it :).

Wednesday Quiz on LOVE!

First picture ever taken together, October 2007

Who is your man? Tom

How long have you been together? Together since October 2007, married since August 2009

How long did you date? Oops, guess I jumped the gun on that one above
How old is your man? 37!!! :)

Who eats more? sadly, its probably a tie!

Who said "I love you" first? I really don't know....I think I loved first though.

Who is taller? He is...6'1 versus 5'7

Who sings better? I really don't think he can sing but since I KNOW how bad I am, I'm going with him!

Who is smarter? Me :) at least, that's what I am going to keep telling myself!

Whose temper is worse? His, but only on very rare occasions

Who does the laundry? He does it all. Yes, I am quite aware how lucky I am!

Who takes out the garbage? he does

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? me

Who pays the bills? Me

Who is better with the computer? Me

Who mows the lawn? definitely him, however I think I shocked him when i did one day. I did live alone before him!!

Who cooks dinner? Him usually

Who drives when you are together? Usually him.

Who pays when you go out? same account, we do joke about who "pays" though

Who is most stubborn? HIM

Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? neither! ha!

Whose parents do you see the most? both

Who asked who out? He asked me for a happy hour and then I stalked him, true story :)

Who proposed? him!

Who wears the pants in the family? I'd say we are equals!

Top Two Tuesday...beauty secrets

I tried to think of the first two things right off the top of my head so these might be a little random.

1. Everyone probably already knows this but I just realized how true it is! There IS a difference in cheaper drugstore mascara and the more pricey department store. I was a tried and true "there is no difference" believer UNTIL my best friend left her lancome mascara at my house...(yes, a little gross to use someone else's mascara but she is my best friend!)

Lancome was SOO much better than my normal cover girl. I wear contacts so sometimes my eyes get irritated. They were irritated MUCH less than when I wore the cover girl also! The wand was better, the quality was better, IT IS JUST BETTER. And no, I don't work for Lancome :).

2. Do you love the long wear lipsticks but hate how they dry out your lips? Just put vaseline on them everynight before bed. Common sense, but it works wonders!

Head over to the Undomestic Mama to get more tips!

Favorite Fridays...Dramatic Book

Friday Faves is on favorite book, category drama. This is right up my alley! I LOVE to read. We are getting ready to move and I never realized HOW MANY books I have but I'm still not ready to give away. So my favorite drama book that comes to mind is a pretty recent one by Wally Lamb.

Now this is a GREAT book but its not exactly a beach read. At least it wasn't for me; I think it would be better if it had your full attention and I know sometimes that isn't easy! But if you find time, it's definitely worth it.

Thoughtless Thursday...Rehearsal Dinner

Since I never posted pics of our rehearsal dinner, I thought I would post some on thoughtless thursday so I don't have to explain much! These aren't the professional ones but I thought they were pretty good (aside from my sweaty face and being 18 pounds heavier!!! :)

Wishful Wednesday...Diets

I wish' .... I had the willpower to

stay on one particular diet,

and it would be...

 

Ok, you all know I have been on Jenny Craig for about 5 months....I've done OK...I've lost 18. I wanted to lose faster than this but let's just say I definitely don't stick to the plan on the weekend.

 

For those that don't know Jenny Craig is REALLY easy but not that easy on the wallet. There are four weeks of "planned diets" that you begin with. You have a calorie level based on your current weight. My current level is 1500...although I must say I sometimes only eat based on the 1200 level...it allows for my cheat days on the weekend!

 

Each day I eat a Jenny Craig breakfast which are usually frozen meals. They really are good! I have breakfast scrambles, blueberry pancakes, etc. You can also have a yogurt and one serving of fruit at breakfast but I usually save those for the afternoon when is my "weak" time.

 

About 10 am, I eat a Jenny Craig "vitamin bar". These aren't the greatest but they FILL you up and give you all the vitamins and nutrients you need for the day.

 

For lunch, I have another Jenny meal. In the afternoon, I usually have a yogurt and a couple of servings of fruit.

 

Finally for dinner I have another Jenny meal and usually some broccoli with light cheese sauce. I also even have a Jenny snack before bed!

 

As you can see, you really get all the food you want! I'm not ever really hungry. I have moved on from the planned meals and pick my meals. Like I said, I only do it during the week and for that reason, I feel I have been really successful. I know if I stuck to it to the letter, I would have lost much more by now. However, eating out with Tom is one of our favorite things to do and I'm not going to give that up!

 

The meal plan runs about $18 a day which if you are used to eating out at lunch, regular meals are almost up there anyway!

 

So now back to wishful wednesday...I wish I could give up the weekend meals but its not going to happen!!

Easter 2010

I LOVE Easter. I love all that Easter entails...church, family, spring weather, cute dresses (for me and kids! :)), good food, etc.! I can't wait until we have a family of our own to go to church and Easter egg hunt. It has been so much fun to see everyone's pictures on their blogs.

This Saturday we went over to Tom's mom's house to dye easter eggs with the Fontana cousins and I didn't take one picture! (GASP!!!) I did manage to get a couple of just us from Easter Sunday.

See that tan speck to the left of Tom's legs..that's our baby Elle (I say baby she'll be 7 this year). You really see how small she is in pictures like this!

I hope everyone had a GREAT Easter. We are going to look at houses this afternoon. Wish us luck!!