As NFL buffs, we are excited when the draft rolls around each April. C and I even wore our Bills jerseys to support our favorite team.
This makes me excited for football season to come again. 
Go Bills!
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And With the Tenth Pick…
Buffalo Chicken Sunday
Let’s face it, Sundays make good pizza nights. Especially when there is championship playoff football involved. Tonight we were trying to decide whether to make wings with our pizza when we realized we could just make Buffalo chicken pizza!
It’s super easy. You put 1/3 of a cup of bleu cheese dressing on your pizza dough/crust (I used light). Toss cubed, cooked chicken with hot sauce (we used Frank’s) and layer on top of bleu cheese. Then add a smattering of mozzarella cheese and bake. Yum!
Next time I will probably use less hot sauce, since the girls don’t really like spicy things, and it was a little too hot for them. They choked it down with some smoothies, though, and were happy to watch the playoffs and yell “Defense! at the TV at inopportune moments.
“Hey Dad, what’s your favorite team on football?” J asked at one point.
“The Buffalo Bills,” he replied.
“Mine is the Cowboys,” she declared proudly.
“Why?”
“I just like them,” she said. She asked JJ, too, who informed her that her favorite was also the Cowboys. Out of all the teams, why the Cowboys?? I don’t know, but it was cute hearing them talk about it as if they knew what they were talking about. It also reminded me of when I was a kid, because we had a poster with all of the NFL helmets/logos on it, and my sister and I used to study it and pick out our favorite teams (based on their logos).
I think I was destined to be a Bills’ fan, though. It’s in my blood. And probably my kids’, too, even though they don’t know it yet.
Life Lessons
Things I have learned in the past two weeks:
• I am very bad at drafting fantasy football teams. Often, the guys I was going to pick are drafted one or two spots ahead of me, and then I completely panic. This results in a very bad team for me.
• I am also very bad at designing t-shirt graphics.
• If I sit around all day on Sunday (watching football) and don’t go grocery shopping for the week, I probably won’t until the next Sunday. Which means that we will run out of food halfway through the week.
• You should always check to make sure your toddler isn’t standing too close to the car door before opening it, lest you whack them in the head. (Oops.)
• God knows us so well that He is already at work answering our prayers, sometimes years before we even pray them.
• One of the ways that you will know if you are doing God’s will is if you feel an incredible peace about your decisions.
• My husband may not be an earth-shattering preacher or evangelist, but he is a rock that the church is/will be built upon. I am proud to be married to him.
Buzz Buzzzzz…
We got a call this evening from the Apple Store, saying that my Macbook is finished and ready to be picked up! I’ll be happy to have it back…with a new keyboard, hopefully. No more broken keys!
Tom and I are just sitting here watching the end of the Indianapolis-San Diego game, biting our nails…because we both have fantasy football games that hinge on this game. Nerve wracking, let me tell you. Fantasy football can’t be good for one’s blood pressure.
Last night, I told J that we would be going to church in the morning. I wanted to see if she’d remember. When we were sitting down to breakfast this morning, she was saying, “Bye bye, see ya, bye.” I asked, “Where are you going?” and she said, “Church!” I was shocked, to say the least. I didn’t think she’d really remember. (She loves going to church. I think she likes to play with the other kids and different toys than we have at home.)
It’s been fun lately to watch her putting things together. She’s starting to put words in sentences and concepts together…like picking up two crayons and saying, “Two crayons!” I asked her if she was Mommy’s sunshine, because I used to sing her the “You are my sunshine” song, and she said, “Daddy’s sunshine!” Little stinker. 
She loves putting lip gloss on her lips and calls it “lips gloss.” This is a fun age. 
I can’t believe that she’ll be two in only a few months! Time goes by so quickly. (Sort of.)
I also can’t believe that if all goes according to plan, we’ll have another little one in a few months. It’s strange to think that we’ll have a new baby, with all that that entails. Sometimes I forget that I’m pregnant, because I really don’t feel that much different, although I feel her kicking me all day long, so I can’t really forget for too long. I call her SuperActiveHyperBaby, because she doesn’t have very much down time during the day…or night. During the end of my last pregnancy, I had some issues with HELLP Syndrome, and I’ve been worrying about it coming back. I know it’s silly. I’m not a worrier by nature. Usually HELLP doesn’t come back until the third trimester, and my blood pressure has been good and everything. But a couple of other things have been bothering me, and I just keep wondering if everything is fine. I’m going to ask about it when I see my OB on Tuesday. Even if I’m being stupid, I just want to make sure that everything is okay.
zzz
It’s almost Christmas! We spent the day with my dad’s family today. It was nice, but I’m SO tired. I think it’s time for bed…
I’m also really disappointed because my fantasy football team made it to the championship game, and they’re going to lose. Several of them didn’t do well, and I made a couple of bad coaching choices. *sigh* Oh well.
Busy as a bee
I haven’t blogged in a few days…I’ve been working on a project, and it’s been consuming all my time. Literally. I only hope it’s actually worth it in the end.
Anyway. Friday was Game Night, and Starr and I did some karaoke…we played Cranium…and a never-ending game of Four on a Couch. It really didn’t end; we finally had to call it a draw so people could go home. I was a little disappointed because I always want to WIN, but it was probably the right decision.
Saturday we had to be up early to start the Truth Project early – and with a baby in our family, we never get anywhere early! But we tried. After the TP, Aud came over to take a few pictures of our family for our Christmas card, and then I had to rush off to Heather’s shower. I had planned on stopping at Wal-Mart to get some wrapping paper because I didn’t have enough (and at baby showers, ALL the gifts look uber cute), but we didn’t have time. So I had to wrap some of my gifts in tissue paper. They looked pretty ghetto, especially compared to everyone else’s, but I’m sure that the only person who noticed (or cared) was me.
After the shower, I stopped at home briefly to pick up Tom and J, and we headed back out for Mairi’s birthday party. It was a Star Wars party, with real (costumed) Star Wars characters! Mairi was beside herself with glee, of course, and J even seemed mildly interested. She even played with a lightsaber. We stayed and hung out for a while, but then J started getting tired, so we called it a night. Truth be told, we were tired, too!
Sunday was our shopping day at the Galleria in B-lo. We go every year, and this was the only day that worked out. So we watched the Bills kill the Dolphins while having lunch at Jack Astor’s, and then wandered around the mall. It was really nice, and we got some of our Christmas shopping done.
And now…I stayed up late last night working on that project, so I’m going to bed. Very excited about that.
Ugh!
Wow. The Bills looked embarrassingly horrible tonight. It’s true that the Patriots are amazing, but the Bills were just awful. JP Losman and the entire offense…and the defense. This was the most points scored against the Bills in team history.
Blech.
It makes me wonder why I’m a Bills fan…
Dropping value
(I’m posting like crazy! I think it’s because I’m supposed to be working, yet I’m…not.)
I just have to express some regret about fantasy football. At the beginning of the season, I picked up Jesse Chatman of Miami because he was taking a lot of snaps and doing well. After the season started, he stopped doing much and Ronnie Brown really took off.
Last week Tom and I were chatting about which players to pick up from the waiver wire, and I told him what I planned on doing. We were having Bible study, and I forgot to get my picks in in time because I was busy getting the dessert ready. I remembered a few minutes after the deadline and flipped out (admittedly, not the best way to react, especially with other people around), so Tom got on my computer and picked up a player for me that we had talked about. I was freaking out and trying to take care of the dessert, so when he said, “You probably want to drop Jesse Chatman, right?” I just said, “Whatever.”
Then in Sunday’s game, Ronnie Brown tore his ACL and will be out for the rest of the season. Chatman is his backup, and of course he was on the waiver wire. Christy and Sarah picked him up, of course, and I didn’t. My team desperately needs another starting running back, and I could have had Chatman just sitting there waiting for me. But no.
I appreciate Tom’s effort in helping me get another running back, but in this case, I wish he hadn’t tried to help.
If I had done it myself, I would have dropped Sammy Morris, the Patriots’ backup, because he’s injured and not going to do anything else this season. But I wasn’t thinking about it when Tom asked me…I was distracted and unprepared. And I didn’t really want to pick up Priest Holmes anyway. But it just happened so quickly.
Sigh.
I’d like to feel sorry for myself and moan about how it isn’t fair, but that isn’t productive. So I’m blogging about it (probably secretly hoping that someone will feel sorry for my poor little team). I’m not sure what that will accomplish, but I think I’ll feel better if I get it off my chest.
Woohoo
Yay Bills!
Yay Trent Edwards!
Yay Tony Romo (for the sake of my fantasy football team)!
Yay…bed.
A football day
We hung out at my parents’ house for the Bills’ game and beyond…it was nice. The Bills lost miserably today, as we expected they would. More key injuries, although I was rather happy to see Trent Edwards out there instead of JP Losman. It’s really sad to see how badly the team is doing, though. I think they’re one of the worst teams in the NFL right now. I do think that the injuries from these first three games have played a big part, but they’re also just BAD. You can’t get around it. I’m emotionally disconnecting and looking for a new team to root for.
On the plus side, I think my fantasy football team might win. My running backs aren’t very good, but my wide receivers are…I think I need to work out some kind of trade. I have two solid WRs on my bench, plus the 3 solid ones that I’m playing. We shall see. I’ve also decided that Becky’s team is going on just keep on winning as long as the Patriots keep on winning. Go, Mad Dawgs! I just hope I don’t have to play them anytime soon.
J slept all night last night, for the first time in several days. I guess she’s getting better! I’m so glad. She woke up in the morning and was just lying there talking to herself, which is what she does every morning except for this past week. It was just normal and so good.
