MMmmm, CAKE!

Today I made a DELICIOUS cake. I found it on AllRecipes.com, but I will go ahead and tell you how to make it.

Here are the girls ready to bake!

Here are the ingredients:

Creamy Peanut Butter

1 cup of butter or margarine

4 eggs

Yellow Cake Mix (I used the butter kind, but I think you can probably do any kind you want)

2/3 cup of water

Confectioner's sugar

Heavy cream (or milk, I used the cream)

1 tsp Vanilla (optional)

Hot fudge (optional)

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (optional)

The Cake:

Preheat the oven to 325 and "grease and flour" two 9 inch cake pans (for this I sprayed some Pam and sprinkled some flour in the pans).

Mix a half cup of butter or margarine with a half cup of peanut butter. I used the electric whisk-er, but I don't think you have to. Then add the 4 eggs one by one, mixing in between. Next alternate the cake mix with the 2/3 cup of water until just mixed (no whisking here). Put the batter in the cake pans and bake for 25 minutes. This is one of the pieces cooling:

The Frosting:

Mix another half cup of butter with a full cup of peanut butter. Whisking is ideal here to make it creamy. Then add confectioners sugar. The recipe called for 4 cups, but that seemed like a lot, so I only ended up with 3 cups. Here I also added some vanilla extract as recommended by one of the critiques on the website. Then pour in 1/3 cup heavy cream and whisk till creamy and fluffy. If it still seems thick, add more cream until it looks fluffy and spreadable.

Make it pretty:

Toppings

After the cakes cool, stack them and cover with the icing. I got some microwavable hot fudge from the ice cream toppings section of the grocery store and heated as directed, then drizzled it around the cake. I was hoping it would look more drizzly than clumpy, but its fine. Then I got mini Reese's peanut butter cups and smooshed them into the icing....and VOILA!

Hope you make it, and hope you like it!

BBQ Adventure

Today Andrew and I went to see "Date Night" at a hole-in-the-wall theater in Pearland. Some friends told us about it the other day, and said that you can see a movie at night for only $4.50. Since I am working tonight and tomorrow night at the ER, we decided to go on a daytime date and see if the matinee was cheaper. It was indeed, only $2.50 per person, and the movie was really funny.

Afterwards, we decided to go ahead and get dinner in the area. Andrew was feeling adventurous, and decided we would be dining here:

Here is Andrew enjoying his BBQ. You can see a little bit of the "ambiance" in the background.

This one is a little blurry, but I still think you can tell how classy it was...

And last but not least, the view from our way out the back...

Lazy Days

I don't have to work today, and I'm just sitting here watching HGTV, surfing the web, and snuggling with all my lazy girls. The past few months I've had a lot of lazy days like this. I've had easy classes and rotations that don't require my presence at school or at a hospital most of the time, and I've really gotten used to just sitting around and doing nothing. This month I started my last rotation of medical school: the pediatric emergency room. I've worked more this month than any of the past 4 months combined. Its made me remember what my life is going to be like when July gets here and I am a REAL doctor. I am excited, but I am going to miss my lazy days with just me and the girls. Unfortunately, today won't stay lazy for long. Since I've been working so much the house is filthy and I have no clean clothes left, so I have to get to work. Maybe I can really rest tomorrow...

Proud Momma

As you know, we enrolled Izzie in puppy training classes a few weeks ago. So far we've mostly learned how to sit, to walk on a leash without pulling, and to "watch me". Most of these tricks she'll do when we have a treat in hand, but if we don't, she chooses whether or not she wants to listen. Its frustrating...she is such a stubborn mule. I would understand if she just couldn't learn the things we were teaching her, but for her to know exactly what I want and ignore me...bah!

This last week I couldn't go to her class because I was working nights in the pediatric emergency room. Soo, Andrew had to take her alone. When I finally woke up Friday, I asked Andrew for a full report and show-and-tell of the new tricks we learned in class. To my surprise, Izzie learned to lay down, and to leave a treat until you tell her she can take it! Never in a million years did I expect her to be able to learn these kinds of tricks! Not only that, she has started to do more of them without needing a treat. Don't get me wrong, she still ignores me about 25% of the time, but thats better than the 100% of the time that she ignored me before starting school. I am looking forward to increasing tricks, and decreasing the stubbornness....

Here is my baby on the way to class the week of Easter:

Tooo long

Its been WAY too long since my last post. I knew this blogging thing was going to be difficult for me. Top 10 things that happened to me since the last post:
10. Andrew took me shopping for our anniversary and I got some really cute stuff!
9. Monday the 15th I found out I matched to an obgyn residency. Didn't know where yet, but at least I knew I matched.
8. Wednesday the 17th my mom and sister came in town, and "surprised" me by bringing my cousin too. Then we went and hung out for St. Patty's day and I got to wear cute shamrock stickers on my face!
7. Thursday found out I would be doing my residency at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, which was my first choice! I am very excited to be moving back home close to my family.
6. Friday was Andrew's birthday and we went to the horse races which was super fun. Didn't win really, but lots of people came and there was a dessert buffet...
5. Saturday night was my 4th year class banquet for medical school. I taught a few people how to play craps (sp?) and had a dance party with lots of friends...what a great way to finish this long journey with good people! I'm really going to miss them!
4. I had a whole lot of nothing to do this week, which included sleeping in, reading a new book, taking the girls to the dog park, etc.
3. I finished my obligations as president of the obgyn student association and can pass on all the stress and annoyance I've dealt with this year to the new president.
2. Izzie had her first training class yesterday and didn't flunk out. Hopefully she will continue to learn every week and become the good little pug that she needs to be.
1. Baylor just beat St. Mary's and are going on to the Elite 8! So proud to be a bear!

Fun With Friends

Yesterday we went to Levi and Mandy's house to see their new Sheltie pup, Lucy:

We went to the rodeo this week with Brad, Haley, and Grayson- Super Fun!:

Doggy Love

I love my girls, all three of them, but I am and always have been a dog person. There is just something about being able to take your dog places and do fun things with them, run around, throw things for them to catch, and see the joy it brings them. This weekend we took the girls to the SPCA Mutt Strut, a fundraiser 1 mile walk/run for the SPCA. THEY LOVED IT! Even though Izzie took about 10 minutes to stop barking, whining, squeeling at everything that moved, she finally calmed down and was quite well behaved. All of their doggy friends came to the strut too and we had a grand time!









In other news, my sweet husband and I celebrated our two year anniversary on Monday. We had a romantic dinner at Vic and Anthony's Steakhouse Monday night, and tonight are going to see Brad Paisley tonight at the rodeo!