After seeing something about Reuben sandwiches on Mrs. Degenhart’s facebook… I got a hankering for them. So I did some research on Reubens and put the ingredients on my grocery list and headed off to the store to get them so we could have the delicious Reubens this week. I’m not sure delicious is a strong enough word for these sandwiches, y’all! Seriously these Reubens were like mouth watery! soo good! Doesn’t your mouth water just looking at it? Mine does!

Ingredients:

Rye Bread
Corned Beef
Muenster Cheese
Mayonnaise (you can use Thousand Island if you like that)
Sauerkraut
Butter
Iron Skillet

Directions:
Take your rye bread lightly butter one side, then on the other side put mayonnaise. Lather on as much as you can stand… mine was lightly. Then put the corned beef on the mayonnaised rye, then the sauerkraut, then the cheese. You can layer them as high as you want. Then spread mayonnaise on one side of the other slice of rye and put it on the sandwich. Butter the outside and put the whole sandwich in your hot iron skillet. Grill until the cheese melts and the rye becomes slightly brown.

That is totally it! Took me no time to make it and it was like phenomenal!

It’s kinda funny…  every time I hear “Reuben” I remember an old song I used to like and so I changed the lyrics to accommodate sandwich eating.The original goes: “Reuben, what does he thinkin’ he’s doin’?” and I changed it to “Reuben, its what I’m gonna be eatin’“. You have to hear the tune cause its hilarious… yes, I get a little crazy when there is food involved! shocking? nah

So yeah… umm… they are really good and everyone should love them.

©AmandaDixon2010

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It’s hard to believe another year has passed. I must say that I am very glad to see 2009 go. This year was full of hardships and growing and joy and sadness.

I try throughout the year to keep an account of happenings which is sorta easy to do with my blog, Twitter and Facebook.
Here is a little look at SuperAngel’s 2009 Year in Review:

`January 1st Saw the first sunrise of 2009
`January 1st What Happened In The Year 2008
`January 6th Amanda isn’t here right now…
`January 14th Living In A Winter Freezer Land!
`January 20th Met Miss Julia and Family
`January 21st What’s Going On With SuperAngel
`January 26th On Moi’s 2009 Book List
`February 2nd If You Give A Girl A Camera…
`February 11th La Bella Vita USA Nvey Organic Foundation Review/Giveaway
`February 14th WON AN iPod touch!
`February 16th Vostro falls off table!
`February 18th Learning about Hell
`February 18th Vostro is BACK!
`March 9th-March 18th Online Sabbatical
`March 18-28 Super Blogoversary Giveaway Bash
`March 30 Amanda Dawn
`April 2 What A Sweetheart!
`April 4 My Dude
`April 7 Sweetness’ 2nd Birthday
`April 9 Celebrating Pesach: An Old Feast and New Importance
`April 11 The Resurrection of our Savior, Yeshua!
`April 13 We Are The Dixon Chicks
`April 15 Along This Road Original Poetry by Yours Truly
`April 22 Sharing One Of My Loves!
`April 29 Amanda or Manda, Doesn’t Matter… This Is Me!
`May 6 Vostro Has A New Skin
`May 7Am I Narcissistic?
`May 10 MAMA, You Surpass Them All!
`May 13 My New Friend “Aflac” The Duckling
`May 18 They Really Are “Grand”!
`May 19 The Feelin’ Feminine Challenge Day Uno
`May 20 The Feelin’ Feminine Challenge Day Dos
`May 21 The Feelin’ Feminine Challenge Day Tres
`May 22 The Feelin’ Feminine Challenge Day Cuatro
`May 23 The Feelin’ Feminine Challenge Day Cinco
`May 24 The Feelin’ Feminine Challenge Day Seis
`May 25 The Feelin’ Feminine Challenge Day Siete
`June 6 Redecorated Mah Room!
`June 11-16 Lirettes Here!
`June 13 Blogger Bash
`June 20 Happy Father’s Day >From My Daddy’s Girl
`June 20 Dad’s 40th birthday
`June 22 We’re gonna have a NEW baby!
`June 30 Loving My Lillie Flower!
`July 1 A Farewell
`July 7 Chicbuds Are Cool Buds Review & Giveaway
`July 12 I Think I Can, I Think I Can, Wait… Yep, I Know I Can!
`July 14 You Know You’re Addicted When…
`July 17 Feeling A Bit Skewered…
`August 1 Learning to Wait…
`August 3 Girl Of Many Trades
`August 5 Looking To The Future
`August 10 A Heavy Heart
`August 26 In so much loving memory
`August 28 Rivers and Co. Review/Giveaway
`September 3 Blast From The Past!
`September 5 Keeping Hope Always
`September 7 The Results Of My Labors
`September 10 Uh! I don’t think so
`September 25 I Always Said…
`September 29 “Let’s put a smile on that face!”
`October 2 Feelin’ Feminine Wine Day
`October 3 Feelin’ Feminine Tan Day
`October 4 Feelin’ Feminine Black Day
`October 5Feelin’ Feminine Striped Day
`October 6 Feelin’ Feminine Pink Day
`October 7 Feelin’ Feminine Orange Day
`October 8 Feelin’ Feminine Supergirl Day
`October 19 Seeing the Beloved Dawn
`October 26 Happy Birthday 20th Amanda!
`October 26 Two Decades
`November 7 SAMUEL IRA IS BORN!
`November 8 Happy Happy Joy Joy, Here’s The Boy!
`November 11 I Got You Baby!
`November 13  “I Do” Forever
`November 15 Remembering… Great Grandpa Walters
`November 21 I Miss Him!
`November 25 Cheeky Sistas
`November 27 I’m Dixie-fied Now!
`December 2 On 3…
`December 4 Got A New “Do”
`December 5 I Am The Wretch
`December 7 Samuel is One Month Old
`December 14 In Love
`December 16 My Little Boy Blue
`December 23 Mini Me and Me
`December 24 Don’t Worry…
`December 30 My Wittle Samuel

What a year!

Ecclesiastes 3:11
“He has made everything suited to its time; also, he has given human beings an awareness of eternity; but in such a way that they can’t fully comprehend, from beginning to end, the things God does. ”

I really am looking forward to where God leads me this year and what he teaches me. I look forward to the good and bad of 2010.

©AmandaDixon2010

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Here I sit doing nothing in particular, (weird, huh?) on this Labor Day. I’ve never actually understood the concept of Labor Day. You’d think that Labor Day would be the day we all labor on which would be nice since it would leave us with 364 days of no labor, right? Yeah, I know… I’m a dreamer. Anyway, here I sit not laboring, looking for something on Vostro and came the the folder dubbed, “Construction” which has all the pictures of all the work we did in May and June trying to finish the addition. As I was looking through the pictures I remembered I never showed y’all the doors I labored on even tho I Facebooked and Twittered about them ALL THE TIME! So what a perfect post for this Labor Day, right? Well I think so… so here they are

I had 4 doors that looked like this:

that went from that to this:

to this:

I stained them first and was going to do another coat of stain, but didn’t need to since they were darker than we really wanted. So I stained once, but put 2 coats of polyurethane on all four doors. It doesn’t sound like much, but it was a took me about a week for all four of them to be complete. Plus it was kinda confusing because you had to let the coats dry completely before adding another and sometimes I forgot which doors I did and which I didn’t.

I also had to do all the frames around the doors:

And since those were already up, it was tedious standing there and staining/polyurethaning them. But they got done and they turned out wonderful!

Now… those doors were the easy part! I also had a set plus one of French doors with 15 window panes ON. EACH. SIDE. which equals to 75 window panes to stain! WHEW! talk about tedious! Word to the wise… Don’t buy french doors!

So this what they looked like in the beginning:

I ended up staining these twice because the wood was different than the other doors and took the stain differently so I technically stained 150 window panes! :O

After I stained them twice, I added two coats of polyurethane… which is another 150. LOL! very tedious, but the end result is worth it:

Thus concludes my labors. Even tho it was A LOT of work, I’m glad I did it and finished it and very happy with the way the doors look.

I also stained the dining room floor and the spare room floor… but that’s for a different time. I am really proud of myself for those floors. they are beautiful! I could totally get into doing this… I think!

©AmandaDixon2009

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One of my favorite things are earrings! I absolutely love earrings. I always make sure I have a pair in. Well a while ago, a friend suggested I head over to Rivers and Co. and check out some of their stuff. Boy! I sure am glad I did. Rivers and Co. has some really beautiful pieces and I was blessed to receive a CUSTOM pair of earrings!

These earrings have now become my favorite pair! Seriously… I wear just about the same outfit so I can wear them. lol! not only are these earrings gorgeous but they are so comfortable. They are lightweight and you don’t even feel like you’re wearing any earrings which is great because its not weighing down on your ear.
They are part of the beautiful PS Line that will be coming out soon and are beautifully crafted. Definitely made to last! R&Co. was super quick on creating and delivering the earrings too.  Rivers and Co. offers pre-made and custom made earrings which makes it really nice if you want a specific pair.

*GIVEAWAY CLOSED!*

Rivers and Co. has offered to give one Daily Planet reader this pair of earrings:

These earrings are made of Hematite rounds, Rose Quartz, Jade and Moonstone and are beautifully handcrafted!

To enter for your chance to win you MUST visit Rivers and Co. and tell me your favorite piece is. That is the mandatory entry in this giveaway.
For extra entries you can do any or all of the following (You must leave a separate comment for each extra thing you do!):

*Facebook this giveaway (leave facebook id in comment)
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Giveaway ends September 11 at Midnight EST.

I love my R&Co. earrings and I’m very excited that I get to giveaway a pair too! A big thank you for Collin and Rivers and Co. for sponsoring this giveaway!

©AmandaDixon2009

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Training Daughters, Teaching Wives holds Sensational Sunday Links so that you can share your fave links of the week. I don’t have as much time for reading sites as I would like and have even less time to comment on the articles I do read, but this week I read some really great articles and I really just wanted everyone else to be able to read them too!

Make sure to stop over at TDTW for even more SSL’s and lots more on the site!

Marshy shares about Mowing and Memories as we near the 1 year anniversary of Christian being called to our Savior’s arms. She has such strength and such encouragement even through this hard time.

Mrs. Leslie posted i believe. Can I get an “amen”?

Mrs. Raine shares about the Rock that is stronger than I. I’m so glad that ADONAI is a strong tower we can go to for refuge!

Holly is taking a look at the whether your life is Full, or Empty? So… which is it?

Mrs. McLean tells about how discipline is Empty Carts Or Empty Promises?

Mrs. Coghlan gives Facebook admonitions so encouragingly and gentle.

Brooke explains how Modesty is Part of Your Ministry and its important that you show the Savior through it all!

And finally some super articles on for the Waiting Gals…
Marian who was recently married (Yay!) shares about how we all have Great Expectations whether we realize them or not before we get married, so take some time to examine your heart!

My “Super” girlfriend, Ally, shares how in In Every Circumstance we need to stay focused and not lose our contentment… especially while we’re Waiting for Superman.

If you have any articles you’ve really loved this week, please share them! I’d love to read them. Be on the lookout this week for a special post that you will “win” just for reading!

©AmandaDixon2009

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