A Busy Weekend

I can't believe we are halfway through December already! Like 2 weeks away to 2014 oh my gosh where has time went??? I know where my time has went this weekend. It has been a crazy busy weekend in the Navarro house. I know I said I would do better about updating the blog but I swear time just gets away from me. Let me just share a bit of our weekend with you and you will see why I don't update as often as I should.

Friday

 

Friday night Ashleigh had Winter Formal. Since I am currently doing a two week sub job at her school, her and her friends were able to just ride home from school with me. That means I had 4 teenage girls hanging out by the front office waiting for me at the end of my very long day of subbing as a sped para. We headed home so they could have some quick dinner and get ready for the dance. They looked adorable, and no I am not just saying that you can see for yourself!



Ready for the dance!



Silly girls



Hair Pose!


Now see I told you those girls were adorable! After we dropped them off at the dance we went out to dinner with R.J. and his girlfriend Renee. Yep that is what you just read, we went to dinner with him and his girlfriend. We went to a great little pizza place that brought all 4 of us alcoholic drinks when we sat down. I know the drinking age is lower here, but I was thinking um these are kids sitting across from me even though as much as I hate to admit it, next year R.J. will be a grown up and out on his own. Then my next thought was damn, I have to pick the girls up or else I would drink their drinks! :) Sadly they just went to waste, they were yummy proseco apple spritzers.

This was our first time really being around Renee although R.J. has spent plenty of time with her family. I must admit I enjoyed our dinner and Renee seems like a really nice girl. She helped Bubba clean out the car and even vacuumed it so she is already high up on my list.Brace yourselves I am going to admit something really shocking here. I don't always like R.J's girlfriends. What you don't believe me?!?! I know I am just such a friendly person and I keep my thoughts to myself so much! Hehehehe. Seriously all joking aside since I do tend to voice my displeasure at times over some of his girl choices, I think it is only fair to say when he is dating someone nice, and right now he is dating a nice girl. After dinner we picked Ash and her friends up and headed back to our house for a sleepover.

Yes I stole this off of twitter I am not ashamed to admit that!

Saturday

 

Saturday was off to an amazing start as I spent the morning making peppermint swirl bark, tiger butter, and butterscotch cream cheese cookies. I am chairing an event for my spouses group where we collect holiday treats and then deliver them to military members that tend to work 24 hr shifts or extra hours. We deliver to Security Forces, the flight line workers, post office workers, fire stations, and other places where they people tend to be at work when others are not.

We planned to head to Rudesheim to visit a Christmas market once I finished baking. For some reason my cookies took forever to make and we ended up leaving an hour later than we were supposed to. While we were getting gas I figured out why we left so late. R.J. called and his car wouldn't start. So we headed over to the exchange to see what was wrong. We weren't able to get it going and so we took him on his way to meet up with his girlfriends family so they could all go to a Christmas Market and we could go ahead and go to the one we planned on visiting. Yep that is right R.J. went to a Christmas market with her family not ours. Hmph emph Hmph (In my Kevin Hart Voice). Since we left so late we were thinking of not going but my wonderful husband decided we should go anyway. I am so glad he did, Rudesheim was the cutest town ever! Okay, second cutest town Rothenburg is the cutest!

Cool place that we ate dinner at.



Tiny narrow streets with tons of people, but super cute town!


In order to get to the Christmas market we had to take a ferry. Um I don't like bridges so I was a tiny bit FREAKED out for us to drive our car onto a freaking ferry! But it wasn't bad at all and was way worse in my head than in person. Here are some pictures of us waiting for the ferry and on the ferry. I got out of the car and took pictures and Rob and Ashleigh stayed in the car.
 

Waiting in line to get on the ferry.

       


The village view from the Ferry.



 

 

Yummy apple punch with amaretto.

We had a good time at the market once we found parking. One thing I did want to try was Rudesheim coffee which has a local brandy in it that they set on fire. When we finally made our way back to the little ice cream cafe they were closed so I did not get to try the coffee. Oh well guess we will have to go back!


 

 

I love these marshmellow wafer thingies. Might be because mine was Bailey's flavored. :)
 

Crazy girl. Not sure who she was posing like.
 

Such cool decorations on the market stalls.

 

Sunday

 

On Sunday I had to meet all the volunteers on base to collect their donations and plate up all the yummy goodies. Before leaving home, I went ahead and prepared dinner since I knew by the time I got home I would be super tired. So I made some kind of ham casserole that I found on pinterest. It consisted of ham, pasta, cheese, sour cream, cream of chicken and celery, onions and I threw in some grilled chicken too. It was a winner and I will probably make it again. Although not with ham, since I only make ham once a year at Thanksgiving. Next time will just be chicken and bacon. I tried to make it as low fat as I could and used all low fat ingredients except low fat cheese. That stuff is just nasty.

While I was plating up 27 plates of cookies with my fellow super spouses, Rob was troubleshooting the little car. Rob and his co-worker think they might have figured out what the problem is and will try to get it over to the auto shop tomorrow and find some parts at the junk yard. I sure hope they can get it fixed because I have gotten used to R.J. having a car and not having to run him to work and home all the time.

After all that I met up with Rob and he drove me around the flight line so I could deliver some yummy treats to the Fire Station and the guys were pretty excited to get some holiday treats. The flight line guys were just as excited as were the gate guards. At times my spouses group is a lot of work and I think why do I volunteer to do this stuff but things like that are exactly why I do what I do.

Well I hope you all have had a great weekend. I am off to sit on the couch with a glass of butterscotch hot chocolate and fall asleep. I work 3 more days this week and start my break 2 days early. I declined the offer to work on my birthday and the day school gets out for the break. One of the few benefits to not having my own classroom, choosing which days I go to work!