Back to my regularly scheduled life

First of all, I hope everyone had a fantastic Labor Day yesterday! && Second of all, good luck to all the kiddos starting school today! 

(Around here, it's the first day of school. I know some started a couple weeks ago though.)

One of these days it will be me posting pictures of my children going off to school and crying my eyes out, but until that day, I'll just keep posting pictures of my dogs. I'm definitely not rushing on the kids thing.

Well, today marks the first day back to work with no countdowns to the next vacation. The past few weeks have been a little crazy for me. My boyfriend and I took a vacation to see his parents and then we headed off for the mountains for a little getaway, just the two of us. I'll have to make a whole separate post for that vacation though, so be sure to check back this week. 

This past weekend was spent at the beach house with my family. Our beach house pretty much stays rented out, so it's only a couple times a year that we all get to go down there together to spend some time together. Unfortunately it wasn't much of a beach weekend due to it being super windy, but we still had a lot of fun and got a lot of relaxing in! 

Although I'm sad that I don't have any other vacations to start counting down to, I do have lots of other countdowns now... Here's a few I have going at this time:

Eagles Regular Season Football Starts- 6 Days

Flyers Regular Season Hockey Starts- 30 Days

Admirals Regular Season Hockey Starts - 38 Days

My Birthday- 49 Days

Halloween - 53 Days

Thanksgiving - 79 Days

Black Friday - 80 Days

MY GRADUATION!!!! - 102 Days

Christmas - 108 Days

New Years - 115 Days

I have a lot to look forward to, especially my long awaited graduation! Another thing I'm looking forward to is fall and colder weather! I can't wait for jeans and hoodie weather, crock pot meals, and pumpkin patches. 

By the way, when is it too early to decorate for Halloween???

Time to get some homework done and get through this work day. Check back for my post on my mountain adventure!!! :) 

The City of Brotherly Love

I woke up before the sun came up Saturday morning, to a bunch of rain... but that didn't dampen my mood. Usually when I'm being woken up at 5 am, I'm not too happy... luckily it was so I could head up to Philadelphia. After getting up and getting myself and the dog ready, we headed over to my parents house. Jonas got to stay the day with his puppy brother, while my Dad and me set off for the City of Brotherly Love.

If you know me, you know I'm obsessed with hockey.. and more specifically, the Philadelphia Flyers. I even have a tattoo on my leg. Anytime I get to take the 5 hour trip up the Eastern Shore, I never hesitate! Especially when there's free tickets involved, and a promise to see Mr. Mike and Mrs. Barbara. Unfortunately we didn't get to spend much time there, but any time is better than none. 

Dad and I got everything ready to go and set out on the road to Philly. My Jeep got broken in for her first road trip, as well. I've done the trip to Philly a million times, but some how we got to talking and completely missed our exit to continue up 13. Things started to look pretty unfamiliar to us, so I whipped out the phone and pulled up google maps. Sure enough we were headed up 50 instead of 13. But no biggie, thanks to technology I just plugged in the arena address and we were well on our way. I think, however, we found a new route to head up.. to us it seemed a lot easier of a drive. Higher speed limit, less traffic lights, and fewer little towns to go through. I think we made a great find! 

We got up to the arena and parked, then headed in to get some Chickie's and Pete's. If you haven't had crab fries from there, you're seriously missing out. It's always a must have when I go to a game. After devouring some delicious chicken and fries, we set off to find our seats. I absolutely loved our seats! We were sitting behind the goalie (which is where our season tickets are at Admirals games) and 12 rows up off the glass.

The name says it all.

Cutlets and Crab Fries.. && of course cheese sauce!

Though the Flyers didn't win the game.. I couldn't be upset. Being here in Norfolk with an AHL team, you see a lot of players come and go and Saturday was no exception. A good handful of guys that won the Calder Cup here in Norfolk, were playing against the Flyers on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Though I definitely would have liked to see the Flyers win, it's always a great time seeing the boys of the past doing really well in the show. 

After the game was over we fought the traffic and the rain to go get a delicious cheese steak from Geno's. Yes, you can get a great cheese steak in a million places around the city.. but the two most famous are Pat's and Geno's. They are on opposite corners from one another and no matter what time you go, there is always going to be a line and lots of people. The pouring rain didn't stop anyone that day, that's for sure. I've had both Pat's and Geno's and I definitely prefer Geno's... but that's just my personal opinion. I never go to Philly without making a stop at Geno's. If you're ever in the area.. come with an appetite and try them both and see which one you prefer. But be sure to order right... or you will get kicked to the back of the line. Me... I prefer mine to be, "Whit Wit". Gotta learn the lingo before you go. 

I got my fat girl on with this one! Delicious.

After saying goodbye to Mr. Mike and Mrs. Barbara, we hit the road again to head back home. We made sure we paid attention to the roads and came back down the planned route (13). Everything was going along just dandy and we were pretty much traveling alone, no cars around us. Randomly my Dad looks in the review mirror and here comes an SVU barreling down the road. By the time I looked in the side mirror, I see the car swerving straight towards my back bumper and at the last second swerve back the other way and drive past us... inches away from my car. I was completely freaked out! I was screaming and trying to climb out of my seat. After he went past us, we saw him swerve all over the road and we were sure we were going to see him splattered across the road way, but thankfully we didn't. 

After making it home in one piece, I headed home to bed. I don't know why... but something about being in a car all day traveling makes me exhausted! I was just happy to be curled up with my dog and not sitting in the seat of my car anymore. 

Now I'll leave you with some pictures to look at since you've now read a novel! Hope you enjoy! Sorry the quality isn't that great, I forgot my camera... rookie mistake. I have tons of pictures of the game, but there's too many to post!

Going through some of my Flyer's jerseys.

I look horrible, but this is our drive up!

Chickie's and Pete's.

Our seats! Not too shabby right!?!

Mr. Mike! Love this man!

Look! He has a Flyer's jacket on!!

This made me giggle... Gudas and Downie!

Snow... I don't do snow!
Glad it was all melted.

Mayhem! But the glorious Geno's.

Told you it's crazy down there,
but here is Pat's.

Mrs. Barbara and Mr. Mike! 

Ray's Happy Birthday Bar.
I just thought the sign was funny.

Rocking my new Hartnell hoodie!

It's Finally Friday!

Why, oh why, do I find it so hard to clean out my closets and donate clothes. I seriously have so many clothes that I don't even wear, but I still hang on to them. I have heard the trick about turning hangers around to help you get rid of stuff you don't wear within six months... but it won't work. I even keep clothes that I don't fit into anymore, in hopes that one day they will fit. It's such a horrible habit. I really need to tackle this whole getting rid of clothes thing, and quickly. I'm starting to run out of room in my closet and dressers.

Goodwill, I hope you're ready for all these bags of clothes... cause it will be quite a few. Are there any tips that help you to throw out clothes? I could sure use some helpful hints. And it's not just clothes sadly. I just need to go through my whole house and get rid of things that I don't really use. The place I live in is up for sale, so eventually I'm going to have to move... I'd rather not have to pack and move stuff I don't need. Sadly though, that hasn't even motivated me much.

On a brighter note, my Mom and Sister are going to help make my goal of cooking more become a bit easier. My lovely sister Beth had the fantastic idea to set up a board on Pinterest where the three of us can share recipes. Seeing as how this is where we all mainly find our recipes, it seemed like a brilliant idea. When I went to start pinning to it, I realized I really need to get out of my comfort zone. I easily have about 200+ recipes.. and I could only think of 4 that I have tried off of Pinterest. So, now it will be new recipes from here on out. Send well wishes my way, I will need them!

If you have any awesome recipes on Pinterest that you would like to share with me.. PLEASE... by all means .. do so. This is my Pinterest link. Cleaning tips, DIY projects, recipes... I welcome it all! 

Tomorrow is the big day and I can't wait! If you read my last blog, you already know I'm headed to Philly. Even though it's only a day trip, I will try to take as many pictures as possible. Driving up at 6am in the rain won't be fun but it will all be worth it! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! 

One of my favorite places on earth.

Starting the New Year off right.

It's only six days into this new year... and already it's looking good. I'm just saying.. I ate my black eyed peas on Wednesday, and Thursday I was going through to make sure I got all the money out of my Christmas cards and guess what I found!?!  A $100 bill. Usually I take the money out of cards right when I open them, but for some reason I didn't. Thankfully I looked in the card before I threw it away! If this is what happens when you eat black eyed peas for New Years... then I'll be sure to eat them every year!

As everyone is making different resolutions for the year, I am just thinking about things I want to improve upon. I think the three things this year that I really want to work on are finances, happiness, and cooking more.

I've been doing much better when it comes to handling money and starting to save up instead of just blowing money on stupid stuff, but it's something I think I can improve on much more. Seeing as how cooking more is on my list, that will also help with not spending unnecessary money. If I don't cook dinner, I usually go out and by lunch, which wastes more money. I'm usually only cooking for myself, so when I cook.. I definitely have leftovers for lunch. I have a few basic recipes that I know really well, so I tend to just do those over and over. Broadening my recipe base is definitely something I'm looking forward to! If you follow me on Pinterest, I apologize in advance for all the pinning of recipes. If you don't follow me... check me out here!  I tend to find tons of great recipes and DIY projects that are fun to do! 

The third thing on my list of things to improve upon is happiness. Don't think I'm all depressed and sad all the time, because that's not the case. I love my simple, laid back kind of life. I tend to let things that I can't control affect my happiness though and I'm done dealing with it. My goal is to hold no grudges against anyone, for anything and just live the life I want. The only person that will be in charge of happiness from now on, is ME! 

This weekend is definitely going to be a good jump start on the year, seeing as how I'm headed to Philly. My Dad and I are taking a day trip up to Philly for the Philadelphia Flyers game vs the Tampa Bay Lightning. I can't tell you how excited I am for Chickie's and Pete's, a cheesesteak from Geno's, a good ole hockey game! 

Unless you've tried these... you will never understand how amazing they are!
Chickie's and Pete's Crab Fries!

What are you guys' resolutions, or what are you trying to work on!? 

My Weekend Went Out With A Bang...

... And when I say "bang"... That's the sound the tow truck bed made as it hit the ground to tow my car back to the dealership.

Yea, you read that right. My brand new Jeep, that I have had a week and a half, had to be towed back to the dealership. I swear I have the worst luck. Hopefully today we figure out what is wrong with it. Everything was fine and dandy when I went to have lunch with my life long best friend. However, when I came out to leave... things started going down hill. Here's a list of the depressing moments from yesterday...

My Philadelphia Eagles lost to my Dad's Minnesota Vikings.

My Philadelphia Flyers lost to my Dad's Washington Capitals.

The Norfolk Admirals lost to the Charlotte Checkers.

&&

I had to see my baby towed away.

... Luckily the Anaheim Ducks beat the Edmonton Oilers and that made me happier than it probably should.

Let me tell you, a brand new car that still has temporary tags does not look good on the back of a tow truck. I am not a happy camper right now. Luckily the dealership is trying to make things right and gave me a new car off the lot to drive until they figure out what's wrong with mine. Hopefully it gets fixed the first time and doesn't happen again.

I'm just excited that for the next few weeks I don't have to worry about homework and tests! I finally get to relax a little bit and enjoy the holidays. Other than yesterday, the rest of my weekend was great! But, instead of getting all down on myself about my horrible luck... I just gotta try to stay positive! :) I'm almost done with Christmas shopping and I get to spend the holidays with my family! I can't believe Christmas is so soon!

Well, time to go get this work day started! Here's to hoping the week turns around for me!

Such a sad sight!

At least the sky was pretty! No filter needed here!

I'm Not So Crafty.

I told you all last week that I was going to attempt to make a wreath for my house. I saw an awesome post on Pinterest where a girl had done one for her favorite football team! I decided that it didn't look like it would be very hard to do... so I made up my mind that I was going to try one! 

Keep in mind... I'm not crafty at all! So I enlisted the help of my wonderful Mother! We went on a for some tulle, letters, paint, and wreath! This is what we found!

I ended up getting 5 yards of each color of tulle. I also got a bag of plain letters... I tried to get the ones that were already done at Michaels, but of course they were missing one of the letters I needed. So I purchased some white spray paint, as well as glitter to go over top of the white. 

It was quite simple, but I like things to look perfect and unfortunately they weren't! However, I think the wreath turned out quite decent! I may add a couple of small things, but for now... here is my wreath!!!

As you can see, I probably used too much fabric in the beginning. I should have measured each strip and yadda yadda yadda, but I didn't. I had absolutely NO method to my madness! After it was all done we took the scissors to it, so we could trim it up! Here is the final product so far! Don't laugh! And thank to my mom for helping me out!

ADTR

Welcome back to another dreary morning! BUT, I think the sun is suppose to come out today. Even though today is Monday, I'm in a great mood. Today is the day that I finally get to go the incredible Jeremy McKinnon and the rest of the guys in A Day To Remember.

I absolutely love ADTR. Though they've played around here before, this is my first time seeing them and I couldn't be any more excited than I am. I was going to get VIP tickets but I was too late and they were sold out. :( Sad Face. Thanks to awesomely fabulous friend Matt for going with me!

Photo Credit.

This weekend went pretty well! How could it not.... hockey was back in town. Friday night the Admirals came out blazing in the first period and scored 5 goals. That meant in the first period we got free wings! However, after that first period.. I was pretty disappointed. Saturday was pretty lame as well. I'm hoping the Admirals get their act together before this weekend. I wanna see some better hockey.

I did work on my wreath, but it's not finished yet. I will definitely post a picture once I am done. I have realized thought, that even the simplest DIY project... is not for me. I have no crafty skills what so ever... Like at all! Thank god I have an amazing Mother who knows a thing or two about crafting. Now only if she could find the hot glue gun so I can finish with the final touches!

I hope you all have a fantastic week! I figured I would leave you today with an awesome picture of a male cheerleader! Can anyone guess who it is!?!

When Life Throws You a Rainy Day, Play in the Puddles!

"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring."

I know that things have been dry lately, with little rain... but dang is it making up for it now! Rain for pretty much a week straight... That's no fun. All this rain makes me want to do is put some pjs on, curl up in bed with the pup, and watch movies all day. Unfortunately life doesn't stop for a little bit lot of rain, so on with life we go.

To cheer up my mood, I've been thinking about all the exciting things going on this weekend. Most importantly, HOCKEY COMES BACK TO NORFOLK! That's right, the Norfolk Admirals are in town for their home opener Friday night! If you don't have any plans, you should definitely go... you can buy tickets HERE! They are suppose to be having a party on the plaza before the game, but I'm not sure how it's going to work with the game. I'm also hoping kickball is cancelled so that my friends can make the game on time. I streamed the game from Saturday night online and the team was looking pretty good, let's hope they keep it up and get a win for the home crowd.

Saturday is clean up/grocery/craft day. My bright self evidently left the freezer door open all day yesterday... so now everything I had in there, is ruined. I guess that gives me a good reason to give the freezer a good scrub down right!?! I always plan to get up early on the weekends and do some cleaning...but it never happens. This Saturday is no different, I plan to get up early and get stuff done. Crossing my fingers that I don't just decide to be lazy since it will be rainy! Saturday afternoon is going to be spent doing crafts! Now don't get your hopes up for pictures of these awesome crafts I do... I'm not crafty at all. I want to make my house look a little more "homey" so I found a link on how to make an easy wreath. I decided that since it's hockey season, I'll try to make a Flyer's wreath. I'll be sure to post a picture so you can either laugh at my embarrassment of a "wreath", or be blown away by my awesome crafting abilities that I got out of thin air. I'm pretty much guessing it will be the first option! Hey, at least I'm going to try! Saturday evening will be spent at the Scope Arena to see home game #2 for the Norfolk Admirals. :) 

Sunday seems like the perfect day to throw something yummy in the crock pot and watch football all day! I'm trying to cut back on spending, so instead of going out and watching the game like a cool person... I'll be staying home making yummy food, and maybe even baking! I also will have to make sure I'm finished up with The Walking Dead Season 3 since Season 4 premieres Sunday night!!! I  want to start on the show "Orange is the New Black". I've heard a lot of good things about it.

What are some awesome shows that you would recommend me watching? What are you favorite things to do when it's rainy outside?

Photo Credit goes to the Norfolk Admirals.
To purchase an Anniversary puck just click here!

Pot Roast

Happy Hump Day!

and happy Flyers hockey day!!!!

My brain isn't really working properly today, seeing as how I'm feeling a bit under the weather. Let's hope it's just sinuses. I hate being sick so tonight will consist of my bed, medicine, and watching hockey. I'm incredibly excited to watch my Flyers play tonight, even if I have to stream it online. I would love to think up an awesome post for you guys today, but the truth of the matter is... I'm not! 

However, I never did post the recipe for my pot roast the other day... so that's what you're getting today. I'll give you the recipe, then tell you about how mine turned out and what I would change about it!

What you need:

Crock Pot

Crock Pot Bags (I like less clean up, you don't have to use one!)

London Broil (Mine was about 2 lbs)

Potatoes (As many as you'd like)

Carrots ( I used baby carrots, less work!)

Package of onion soup mix

Package of brown gravy mix

Can of Cream of Mushroom Soup

Water

Directions:

1. Put meat in the crock pot.

2. Wash and cut up potatoes, then put in crock pot.

3. Add carrots.

4. Sprinkle brown gravy mix and dry onion soup mix. Spoon cream of mushroom over everything. Fill can up with water and dump in. Put lid on.

5. Cook on low all day.

This was my first time making one, so of course I will be tweaking some things next time. Instead of using a london broil, you can use rump roast or pork roast. My mom always uses london broil, that's why I chose that. My pot roast turned out really good but a little bit dry, to correct that, I won't be adding the brown gravy mix. I think that's the only thing I'm really going to change. Instead I'll use the liquid from the pot roast and heat that with the gravy when I'm ready to eat. That way made it won't be as dry. It was still very delicious and I had left overs for days!  Try it out and let me know how you tweaked it, and how it turned out!

The hockey planning has commenced.

Hello Everyone and Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone's weekend went really well! 

All of the NHL Hockey schedules were released Friday, and for me it began a frenzy. I was taking a look at all the teams I liked and started figuring out games that I wanted to go see! If you haven't figured out by now, I'm a huge hockey fanatic. My #1 goal is to make it to Anaheim to see a game in the near future. Whether that will happen or not, who knows. It's always good to have goals, right?

Here are the games in which I'd love to be able to make it to:

Sunday, October 6, 2013 - Carolina Hurricanes vs Philadelphia Flyers

Sunday, October 13, 2013 - Anaheim Ducks vs Ottawa Senators

Friday, November 15, 2013 - Carolina Hurricanes vs Anaheim Ducks

Monday, December 23, 2013 - Washington Capitals vs Anaheim Ducks

Saturday, January 25, 2014 - Philadelphia Flyers vs Boston Bruins

Sunday, March 2, 2014 - Washington Capitals vs Philadelphia Flyers

Now I definitely will not make it to all of these games! But if I at least make it to 2 of the 6, I'll be extremely happy. :) 

While I'm on the lines of talking about hockey, I'd like to wish Mr. Shawn Thornton a very happy 36th birthday. You're getting old poptart! But I still love you! :) 

Quite a few years younger, but Shawners none the less!

Hope you all have a fantastic day and thanks for reading my blog!

...Until Next Time...

NHL Draft Day

Hello everyone and Happy Monday! 

For all my Virginia readers... no more texting and driving. Though it was illegal before, it is now a primary offense. If you get caught in the act you will get a $125 fine the first go around and a $250 fine the second time you're caught. I'm sorry, but no text is worth $125 when you can wait til you get to your destination to send it.  Also, state sales tax are going up today! If you are in the Hampton Roads or Northern VA areas it will be going up to 6%. All other areas will be only going up to 5.3%. Just thought I'd share those facts with you guys!

Now on to what consumed my day yesterday.

The 2013 NHL Draft!

Oh what a day it was. I know you probably think I'm a loser for sitting in front of a tv and watching a draft all day. But hockey is my passion, so I follow along with this stuff. There was some big moves made yesterday. And some that I didn't quite understand, but to each their own. 

Two major trades went down yesterday, so I'll tell you about them first. I never would have seen either of the two coming.

First, Vancouver traded Goalie Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils for the #9 over all pick in the draft.Vancouver ended up getting Bo Horvat a 6'0' 200lb Center from the London Knights.  This came as a complete shock to fans and to Cory and to starting goalie Roberto Luongo. Luongo was already cutting ties with the team and looking for a new place to play this season, leaving Schneider to be the starting tender this season. But with Schneider gone, what does Luongo do now?  I think this will be a good move for Schneider though, seeing as how Brodeur is at the end of his career. It's going to leave Schneider as the new franchise goaltender. There won't be the uncertainty in Jersey like there would have been for him in Vancouver. 

Second big trade was Chicago sending Dave Bolland to Toronto for their 2013 2nd round pick (# 51), 4th round pick (# 117) and a 2014 4th round pick. I get that cap space was a major factor in this trade and that Bolland will be going back home to play, but I think Bolland got the crappy end of the deal. ONE WEEK ago he scored the game winning goal to win the Stanley Cup, now he's going to a team that he's not going to get a chance to win the cup with for quite some time. Toronto is a great city, I love Toronto... but they don't have the best hockey team. But maybe he's happy with it, I wish him the best in Toronto!

The two teams I keep up with are Philadelphia and Anaheim, here are the picks that they received in yesterday's draft. 

Flyers:

Round 1 #11 overall

Samuel Morin

6'7" 205lb Defenseman

Round 2 #41 overall

Robert Hagg

6'5" 205lb Defenseman

Round 3 #72 overall

Tyrell Goulbourne

5'10" 195lb Left Wing

Round 5 #132 overall

Terrance Amorosa

6'1" 185LB Defenseman

Round 6 #162 overall

Merrick Madesn

6'4" 177lb Goalie

Round 7 #192 overall

David Drake

6'3' 155lb Defenseman

For Anaheim:

Round 1 #26 overall

Shea Theodore

6'2" 179lb Defenseman

Round 2 #45 overall

Nick Sorensen

6'1" 172lb Forward

Round 3 #87 overall

Keaton Thompson

6'1" 170lb Defenseman

Round 5 #147

Grant Besse

5'9" 177lb  Right Wing

Round 6 #177

Miro Aaltonen

5'10" 172lb Center

Good luck to all the kids who got drafted yesterday and thanks for making me feel old. All these kids were '94 and '95 babies... who just signed HUGE contracts for lots of money. I don't know about you, but it makes me feel old...and VERY jealous. :) 

For a full list of draft picks, go here!

...Until Next Time...

Sports filled weekend. :)

Happy Monday!!

Sorry for the lack of posting on the weekends,

but they are usually so jam packed I really don't get any time!

Friday night was kickball night.

Actually for about 7 months out of the year,

Every Friday is kickball night..

Anyways.

My team name is SchweatyBallz and we are awesome.

Basically we are one big family.

And because we are so awesome... we won Friday!!!!

SchweatyBallz kickball baby!

We may not look like much,

But trust me we can hang with the best of them!

That win took us to 3-1 for this season!

I love my team to death and am so proud of them.

Honestly being a coach is tiring and takes some of the fun out of it.

But I wouldn't change it. :)

Well Saturday my dad and I traveled up the good ole I-95.

Can you guess how many cops we saw in our 2 1/2 hour journey?

Try about 16!!! WHAT!

VA Tech was playing Cincinnati at the Redskins stadium,

So unfortunately we were in that traffic the whole way.

We made it safe and sound though, no speeding tickets.

After all the initial hellos and such,

it was off to Baltimore we went.

I hadn't been to Baltimore in 3 years, so I wanted to site see.

As we were about 30 minutes outside of Baltimore,

Dad realizes he forgot the tickets. !?!?!?!?!

Thankfully my brother in law is a computer nerd,

Cause he told us not to worry... we will just go to FedEx Kinkos to print them off.

Dad and I would have NEVER thought of that.

After our pit stop we made our way on into the city...

And into the National Aquarium.

Dad says I've been there...

But I don't remember it at all!

My favorite part was the dolphin show!

YES!!! They have a dolphin show.

Dolphins!!

After fun times in the Inner Harbor we headed over to Camden Yards.

Oh what a beautiful park!

Of course the game was amazing...seeing as how we won.

The best part.. Dad and me are O's fans...Beth and Josh are Red Sox fans.

And go figure, the O's were playing the Red Sox!

Yesterday we went to this awesome little fair in Occoquan, Va.

They had all kinds of crafts and foods and anything you can imagine!

I absolutely loved it!

I bought the dog an Eagles fleece jacket!

(Which he wore for the game last night)

I got an amazing Flyers christmas ornament.

Found a lady with some amazing dip mixes and such,

So I bought a few things off of her.

To end my awesome weekend,

I got some skype time in with the boyfriend...

AND WATCHED MY EAGLES BEAT THE GIANTS!

WOOO HOOOO!

Oh that was definitely the icing on the cake!

Well now it's off to make this an awesome Monday!

Shopping, Cleaning, & Cooking.

Oh the joys!

This guy's car was completely wrapped in Ravens!

Inner Harbor!

Old Submarine.

My Dad and I !

I look like poo! But sister and me!

The 4 of us!

Batting Practice!

This was too cute!

Dad photo bombed!

Dad and Beth. This is right after Dad legit almost fell out his chair!

I need this for my house!

Jonas and I watching the Eagles, with his new fleece jacket!

This man made all kinds of figures! Too freaking cute!

Picked up this beauty for $5!

For The Love of Hockey

Hockey is my #1 passion. I've grown up going to games all my life, I worked at a hockey rink, and I even started to play when I was younger. I'm that crazy fan who has the hockey tattoo on her leg and wears it proudly. If you read my last post, you saw that I'm a Flyers fan. For those of you who don't know much about hockey... Flyers fans are known to be the worst in the league. We are absolutely brutal.

I went to my first hockey game in Philly some years ago with my Father. It was actually for an AHL game though, so you figure it wouldn't be as bad. The team that plays here in Norfolk was playing against Philly in a playoff game so we decided to go. Mind you, neither of us had been to a game in Philly before. We were there to support our team... so what did we do? We wore our teams jerseys. We quickly found out that was a huge mistake. We got opened ketchup packets thrown at us, beer thrown at us, cursed out, and any other horrible thing that could happen. And that's where my love for Philadelphia blossomed. 

I know you're probably thinking I'm a crazy person. But to me I saw an arena full of people who cared passionately for their team. If you wore anything Philly, you were accepted. But god forbid you wore nothing sports related or a different teams stuff... they were literally going to kill you. 

I am a very intense hockey fan. Nothing comes between me and my hockey....  except this lock out. Come on guys, let's get it together. While the owners and players feud...the die hard fans, like me, are about to pull our hair out. Want to know why they are feuding?  There's $1 billion extra in revenue and they are trying to decide who gets the cut of it! Come on now! How about you just shut up and play hockey! I end up going to Philly for hockey at least once a season. I already had my game for this season picked out... and now they just want to crush my dreams. 

If there is anything that have learned from this post... I hope it's to never go to Philly with a different teams shirt on. You won't come out alive.