Happy Belated...

..."Birth" Day to our Great Niece Maylee Gail Simpson.
We have a gift basket here for her, guess it better get sent off in the mail before she grows out of of the outfits we bought, if she hasn't already. Thought we would make it up to Fort Worth to give it in person by now. You Gaston's know how we are. Can't wait to take her on a shopping trip when we do make it! She is CA-UTE! Check her out on The Simpsonian Institute blog.

..."Birthday" to nieces and nephew Larissa, Ashleigh and David and my step-sister Sylvia...sorry Larissa, Ashleigh and David, we haven't been able to leave comments on your blogs, having a hard time retrieving our password, can anyone help us??? Anyone? The only reason I can access our blog is because I saved our password on our computer...Gerald and I can't figure it out, spent over an hour and still could not retrieve it (long story)!

..."Mardi Gras"(Tuesday) spent the day with my dad and sister. We had a great time together. Later I had a surprise party after school for The Junction. I served Crawfish Etouffee, Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, rice, garlic bread and King Cake. Here is the recipe for Crawfish Etouffee, Yummy! Serve with garlic bread and a salad for a great meal! If you don't like crawfish try it with shrimp.

Crawfish Etouffee

1 lb. fresh or frozen shelled crawfish tails

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1/4 cup flour

1/4 cup butter or margarine additional

1 medium chopped onion

1 small chopped green pepper

1/2 chopped celery

1 clove garlic, minced

2 tablespoons snipped parsley

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1/4 teaspoon red pepper

1/2 cup water

Thaw crawfish. In a heavy pan, melt first 1/4 cup butter. Stir in flour. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, about 10-20 mins. or until a dark reddish brown roux is formed. DO NOT BURN. Add the remaining butter stirring until melted. Add onion, green pepper, celery. Cook and stir about 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook about 5 mins. or until all vegetables are tender. Add crawfish tails, parsley, salt, pepper and red pepper. Stir in water. Bring to boiling, reduce heat. Simmer uncovered 5 -10 minutes. Serve over hot rice.

Just a Spoonful of Sugar?

Today is our last Girl Scout cookie booth sale! I hope we get the last of these cookies sold as Snicker Doodles is tired of looking at all these cookie boxes. From the booth sale we will head for our place to have the sleepout where we will be up ALL night watching movies (sorry Gerald). The girls have requested pizza, Hot Cheetos, Funyuns, Tostadas with chile con queso, ice cream with all the toppings (chocolate syrup, whip cream, cherries, nuts,) root beer, Dr. Pepper and for breakfast, french toast (with strawberries, powdered sugar and syrup), coco puffs, and cinnamon toast crunch cereal, Sunny D and donuts. Oh and I forgot to mention they will have six boxes of Girl Scout cookies to gobble up courtesy of a dear friend of mine who donated her cookies back to us. If you are thinking they couldn't possibly eat all this...think again. So let's see... that amounts to about 15,000,000,000,000,000 grams of sugar!

bun co also bun ko

n. pl. bun cos also bun kos

A swindle in which an unsuspecting person is cheated; a confidence game.

tr. v. bun coed also bun koed, bun co ing also bun ko ing

To swindle.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

So this is what I do once a month? I get together with unsuspecting people to swindle them? Or is it just a confidence game? Oh wait, it's a confidence game played while swindling unsuspecting people. What Fun co!

Kidding aside, this IS so much fun! I look forward to each month. Getting together with these awesome, funny ladies is a joy! I always leave with my (face) cheeks and sides so sore from laughing! Here are a few pictures taken last week by Debby:

One More Thing

I see I have posted four times not counting this one ok so count this one which makes it five times in the last two days but I think it should be six because the post two days ago should count as two since it was way long, wow! That was a run on sentence, huh? Please refer to "Run on Sentences" blog entry made on July 28, 2008.

I Learned Something New

I was just playing around on the blog and by accident clicked on one of the photos. Did you know if you click on a photo it opens up in a new window and you I mean I don't have to use my bifocals. Who would of known? Obviously not me. Yikes! I might want to take the pictures of me out of here!