LdyMcBeth's Spot: Three Dogs and Corned Beef

I still have my sister's dogs, but she'll be picking them up this evening. I'm going to miss them, believe it or not. Tito is so sweet and Shelby is a lot of fun, she makes me laugh all the time. She's such a spaz. My Swiffer finally started getting used to them yesterday and will hang out with us until Shelby gets excited and tries to play with him, then he runs and hides. He's such a fraidy cat, poor guy. They did both sleep with me last night, but Swiff slept on the other side of the bed.

Travis' family does a St. Patrick's Day dinner and they all get together and eat corned beef. I have missed it the last couple of years, because the Hearts at Home National Conference has been on that weekend. This year, however, the conference was before St. Pat's so we decided to have it at our house this year. I've never done corned beef before, but it came out awesome! I used two recipes from foodtv.com: one for corned beef in the crockpot (I just put in the beef, carrots, rutabaga and leeks) and one for some garlic baby red potatoes. The beef came out tender and juicy and I even enjoyed the carrots and rutabaga, which is not one of my favorite veggies. The garlic potatoes were SUPER easy to make and delicious. I served it with the horseradish sauce from the recipe (not too horseradish-y) and a loaf of bakery bread. It got rave reviews...maybe I can cook after all. ;)

This is the layout I did today. I loved this kit and have been saving it for a couple months because I knew McKenzie's birthday was coming and she'd have a sleepover.