Supper at the Bluebird

Spousal Unit took me to supper on Friday. He said we're getting to be like old people. huh, well whatever!! So we popped over to the new Bluebird Cafe in North Liberty. It''s in the new plaza called Stonebridge Promenade, here's a Link to their grand opening information.

So the Bluebird Cafe is very pretty, neat and tidy, with comfortable booths and seating. While we were there the servers accommodated a large family group of 8, so they are flexible to meet the customer's needs.

They serve breakfast all day and are open until 9pm.
We ordered the fresh squeezed lemonade. It was OK, nothing too special, hubs added a bit of sugar to his.

I had the penne pasta in marinara sauce. It was OK. Nothing crazy or outrageously flavored, just plain old marinara. I wasn't a fan of the giant croutons, they tried to pass off as garlic bread...too hard to bite!! It was a very good sized portion though, I would have liked it a bit more saucy.

Hubs had breakfast for supper, eggs over easy, toast, hash browns and homemade sausage. The eggs were perfectly cooked. The hash browns were good too. Hubs wasn't a fan of the sausage, but I thought it was good, I swabbed some in my marinara (wish there had been a little more sauce) and it really helped my dish.  Service was wonderful, the servers were very attentive and we were perfectly well taken care of. I doubt if the Bluebird will be a regular stop for us for supper ( I think I should have went with the special-chicken salad croissant and we saw plates for other diners with burgers & sanwiches that looked great-that's what I'll have next time), but I think breakfast will be the best bet here.

4th of July 2012

So I'm a fan of Independence day.  Especially my small town Parade, and associated activities.

Old Tractors,

New tractors, politicians, horses, kids on bikes, kids on 4 wheelers, kids on hayracks, kids on utility trailers, kids in cub scouts, kids on softball teams, kids collecting candy!

Look at DD holding the umbrella so little Colton doesn't get sunburned. Colton and his big sister-standing by DD, are the kiddos of  Susan & Korby Brenneman. Cutie kiddos. DD graduated with Susan.

This little sweetie in the polka dot dress is Lilly. Her mommy is also a dear friend of our family's. She was 1 year ahead of uber son in high school. That handsome young man is her mommy's friend-goodness I just gave waaay to much information, didn't I!!!! DD is getting sun...how many times do I tell her to use sunscreen?

It was sooo hot-here's Uber Son with his girlfriend, and her Grammy, and her Dad  just waiting for the parade!

And I could watch the fireworks out my back door! YAYAYAY!!!!

Look I figured out how to post a video! At least I think I did. Here's where scardy-dog Sandy was the whole time.

Draw Something

Although I must admit that draw is a pretty abstract term in this case. Draw Something

Is a pretty fun app game to play. You and another person draw pictures of items and have to guess what it is ...a la Pictionary.
One of my son's friends got me started on my phone and I think it's very fun!

look me up and we can play it!
Oh and Merry 4th of July!

Wedding Gifts...Oh Boy!

SO if you didn't know it already, it drives me crazy to pay more for gift wrap or a gift bag, than what the gift cost! SO I clicked on Pinterest and saw some cute as can be ideas for ways to pretty up gifts, inexpensively.  Look I wrapped this knife set I got for Mike & Lieshia's wedding in brown paper-leftover from the "I Won" post....and then glued on some paper cutouts and some paper doilies (BTW I got the doilies in a swap a long time ago-so they were essentially FREE ninety nine! My favorite price!!) Of course I forgot to wrap the gift reciept in with the box so I stuck a little card on with the receipt  taped inside.

Then DD had a box of Pyrex ware to wrap up. I had some silver solid paper left from a Christmas 75% off sale and then stuck on MR. & Mrs. letters to make it festive!

So TA-DA...really nice looking packages to go to the wedding and no $8 gift bags!!!

A June Wedding

So DD's pal Lieshia & DD's Pal Mike got married yesterday. Honestly, I have never met two youngsters who should get married the day they met, until Mike & Lieshia. An matchmaker Darling daughter will never let ANYONE forget it!