My life as a pie chart...

This pie chart = My life

(except I don't get to sleep nearly that much...) 

I feel like I am always searching for things that I just had and am sure are somewhere that they are obviously not. 

Do you ever feel like this?

Facebook Attack

Isn't David funny? I love it when he randomly posts on here. Apparently so does everyone else because he gets a million comments on each post he writes. I just love reading his posts, they make me happy. :) I have started a couple of different posts over the last couple of days, but each time I feel like I have to defend my actions described in Davids "Moments with David and Shantel: Installment 1." However, everything happened exactly like he describes it. I will just say that the Kitchen Aid is a lot harder to clean than the mixer I grew up using. (Emily... I use a fork to make pancakes! I would never use a Kitchen Aid... silly. Oh and also, to everyone else who commented, we still dont have a mixer... but will be getting one soon!)

Moving on... I thought that I would give you a little insight into what David and I like to do for fun. One of our favorite things to do is play Facebook Attack. It is a world domination game (like Risk, which ironically.. I detest) but is an application on Facebook. We love it because we are able to play throughout the day and over the course of a week or so. It keeps us entertained and we love making bets on who will win. Unfortunately, I tend to lose... ALWAYS. I think that I have him right where I want him and I may even win several games (We usually play at least 3 out of five... but have played up to 12 games at the same time with the ultimate winner being the person who took over the world in the most games.) but he always ends up pulling his armies together to come out on top. 

We started playing the game over the summer while we were both working on computers and had a little extra time to take our turn throughout the day. However, now that I am student teaching and work at night, I don't have as much time to take my turns as David does. This generally results in David grabbing the computer after we have been home for a couple of minutes, pulling up Attack and handing the computer to me. It is super fun, and he is so cute about it. He loves it. 

Sometimes, however, I surprise him by taking my turn when he doesn't expect it. Last night was a great example of this. We had a friend over after we got home from work (Who brought us a DELICIOUS dinner! Thanks Megan, you ROCK and your photography logo is going to be AWESOME!) and after she left we were just relaxing on the couch. I love to just snuggle up to David on the couch. We had been there for about five minutes just cuddling and talking to each other when he said something about how he was waiting for me to take my turn in Attack. I told him that I already had taken my turn earlier in the evening. He was SO excited, but he tried to hide it. At the same time that I said, "What? Are you going to make me stop cuddling with you right now so you can take your turn?" He said, "Don't you want to go finish your burrito?" We both started laughing, and he frantically tried to convince me that he really wasn't trying to get rid of me! I got the point though and told him that he could take his turn. 

He is so funny and I love playing this game with him. If any of you would like to join in our games, it is actually MUCH funner to play with more than two people, however, we don't have anyone who will play with us. Let us know and we will start a game with you! Maybe even set up a Facebook Attack tournament. Haha. This makes me smile because I know that David would be so excited. 

The only thing that David loves more than Attack is College Basketball! Thank goodness Spring Break is next week during the big tournament! I don't know that he would get any studying done... he loves the basketball too much! 

Hope you are all doing well!

Moments with David and Shantel

Dear Blog Readers,

After my immensely successful recent post, I have been promoted to write occasional columns called "Moments with David and Shantel." I hope you enjoy them. Please be aware, the opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinions of "thepeadenlife" or Shantel Peaden.

Friday February 26 (About 7 PM)

Shantel: Do we have a hand-mixer?

David: No.

Shantel: Didn't we get one of those for our wedding?

David: Yes. We took it back because you said that we did not need it because we have a Kitchen-Aid. So we would never need a hand-mixer.

Shantel: You should have told me that we did need a hand-mixer and not let me take it back.

David: Yep.

Shantel: Next time we go to the store we are buying a hand-mixer.

David: Okay.......why do we need a hand-mixer?

Shantel: Because the Kitchen-Aid is hard to clean.

David: Okay.This is a hand-mixer, which we will soon be purchasing. If you read this and you are the wonderful person who gave us a hand-mixer for our wedding, we sincerely apologize. We were wrong to return the hand-mixer and we should have kept it.

So what did we need the hand-mixer for...well I am not sure but Shantel did make these delicious Butterscotch bites that I loved, here is the recipe. I don't think she needed the hand-mixer for this recipe, I just really like it. Plus I do not know what she needed the mixer for.

6 tablespoons butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/3 cup butterscotch chips
2 tubes (8 ounces each) crescent rolls (According to the recipe "I like the recipe version", but I don't know what that means)
1 cup contectioners' sugar
4-1/2 teaspoons milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. In a small bowl, mix the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon, then stir in butterscotch chips.
2. Open up each tube of crescent dough, then cut each tube into 4 rectangles. Spread with butter mixture. Roll up each rectangle jelly-roll style, starting with the long side.
3. Cut each into six 1 in. slices; place cut side down into two greased 8-in square baking dishes. We just used a cookie sheet so ours were flatter rather than looking more like cinnamon rolls. Bake at 375 for 14-16 minutes or until golden brown.
4. In a small bowl, combine confectioners sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth. Drizzle over warm rolls. Yield: 4 dozen.

Good luck!

Installment 1 Post 1: Moments with David and Shantel.