Monette's first camel ride....
Oh, Coytt's too....
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
WE DID IT!!!!
We bought our plane tickets for our two week trip to Euorpe. We leave outof Phoenix to pick up Mark's brother Billy and his girlfriend Irena in Nashville TN then to Chicago, from Chicago we have an 8 hour layover in Dublin Ireland so we are going to tour Dublin for the day, from Dublin we head to Rome Italy we will be in Rome for 4 or 5 days and then it is off to Paris for 4 or 5 days, then from Paris we are taking an overnight train to Madrid or Barcelona then we will split the last 4 or 5 days between Madrid and Barcelona. I am so excited. Now we are just looking for Hotels. We are staying with Mark's uncle in Spain so that should be fun and save money as well, plus I can't wait to eat his Aunts potato pancake things she makes :) Now we can officially start counting down to June!!!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Cookie Recipie
I receieved an email with the story below, I forwarded the email to my mom and she said the same thing happened to a man in SJ so I decied to just post the story on my blog along with the recipie, ENJOY!
Let's let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus
Cafe In Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because
both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the
'Neiman- Marcus cookie.' It was So excellent that I asked if they would
give me the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown,'I'm
afraid not, but you can buy The Recipe.' Well, I asked how much, and
she responded,' Only two fifty - it's a Great deal!' I agreed
to that, and told her to just add it to my Tab.
Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-
Marcus Charge was $285.00! I looked again, and I remembered I
had only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a
scarf.
As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said,
'Cookie Recipe-$250.00.' That was Outrageous! I called Neiman's
Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was
'two fifty', which clearly does not mean 'two hundred and fifty
dollars' by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money
because, according to them,'What the waitress told you is not
our problem. You have already seen the Recipe. We absolutely will
not refund your money at this point.' I explained to the Accounting
Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the
State of Texas I threatened to report them to the Better Business
Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud. I
was basically told,'Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how
you can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of your money
Back.'
I just said, Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm going to
have $250 worth of fun. I told her that I was going to see to it that
every Cookie Lover in the United States with an e-mail account has a
$250 cookie recipe From Neiman-Marcus...for free. She replied,'I
wish you wouldn't do this.' I said,'Well, perhaps you should have
thought of that before you ripped me off!' and slammed down the phone.
So here it is!
Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly
think of.
I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER
make another penny off of this recipe!
NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
2 cups butter
24 oz. Chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Salt
2 cups sugar
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 tsp. Vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream
the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together
with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda . Add chocolate
chips, hershey bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches
apart on a cookie Sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
Makes 112 cookies.
Let's let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus
Cafe In Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because
both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the
'Neiman- Marcus cookie.' It was So excellent that I asked if they would
give me the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown,'I'm
afraid not, but you can buy The Recipe.' Well, I asked how much, and
she responded,' Only two fifty - it's a Great deal!' I agreed
to that, and told her to just add it to my Tab.
Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-
Marcus Charge was $285.00! I looked again, and I remembered I
had only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a
scarf.
As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said,
'Cookie Recipe-$250.00.' That was Outrageous! I called Neiman's
Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was
'two fifty', which clearly does not mean 'two hundred and fifty
dollars' by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money
because, according to them,'What the waitress told you is not
our problem. You have already seen the Recipe. We absolutely will
not refund your money at this point.' I explained to the Accounting
Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the
State of Texas I threatened to report them to the Better Business
Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud. I
was basically told,'Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how
you can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of your money
Back.'
I just said, Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm going to
have $250 worth of fun. I told her that I was going to see to it that
every Cookie Lover in the United States with an e-mail account has a
$250 cookie recipe From Neiman-Marcus...for free. She replied,'I
wish you wouldn't do this.' I said,'Well, perhaps you should have
thought of that before you ripped me off!' and slammed down the phone.
So here it is!
Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly
think of.
I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER
make another penny off of this recipe!
NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
2 cups butter
24 oz. Chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Salt
2 cups sugar
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. Baking powder
2 tsp. Vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream
the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together
with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda . Add chocolate
chips, hershey bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches
apart on a cookie Sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
Makes 112 cookies.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Hook 'em Horns!!
Last night Mark went to the Fiesta Bowl. Coytt and I stayed home and watched from the couch, and tried to spot daddy on TV. It was such a great game and Mark had a blast! He went with a friend from his home town in West Texas. His only task was to get me a picture of Matthew Mcconaughey, but I guess he was so busy watching the game he only got pictures of the players. Here are some of my favorite pics he took, if you want to see more just let us know and we will email them out. Notice the AWESOME seats he had!!
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