christmas craft

Have you already gotten your front door wreath? If not, you will want this instead! Here is my Christmas craft of the year...the front door monogram. ORDER YOURS TODAY! No matter what your door color is, this is the perfect Christmas decoration! $40 ORDER NOW! Check out the one on my sister's door too...

thanksgiving

Oh my, what a start to the holiday season! We began the week at bingo, no "bingo" but a lot of laughs and memories of Gramma B.
For turkey I think we ended up at 29 adults, 9 kids and 2 babies! So yummy and so much fun, those not here were missed. We had my sister's gang at our gathering via computer, thank you technology!
Last but not least, "Black Friday," started for mom and I at 4:30 a.m., we actually arrived at Target at 4:24 and believe it or not, the big door buster was gone! They said the t.v.'s that were on sale were gone in ONE minute to the first 70 people that got in line before 4 a.m., crazy! Christmas decorations are going up as I type....yep!

ta da

Ta da!!! One log soon to be gone...

the process

Did you all really think that I made homemade strudel with a four month old on the counter and a 2 1/2 year old? Oh no, that was just the apple preparation that took us most of the day! Here I am in process of making the logs...and yes, for those of you looking at the picture closely, the wine is a necessity. My grandmother should have had wine while baking this, it makes it much more enjoyable. Final result picture will probably be in the morning, I am just hoping at this point not to fall asleep with it baking in the oven. Yes, it is 10:11...past my early bedtime, go ahead, laugh. p.s. don't worry, I am not going to blog every second of my Thanksgiving prep, I want to keep my readers!

apple strudel

It was my grandmother's tradition to make apple strudel at the holidays and I have carried that on, today I am making it with my girls...LOVE IT! Lucy loved working the apple peeler corer slicer and let me tell ya, anyone who bakes should have this, it cuts time in half...more than half! Apples are boiling, gotta go, hope you are all having a great start to Turkey week! GET COOKING!!

papa and power tools

My dad came over today, I called him in for an emergency crafting tool after spending an entire evening to wake up and find my craft had gone bad over night(that's what I get for trying to cut corners.) Lucy, like all the other children in my family are mesmerized when papa gets out the power tools. She shows my blood in her veins on these days, that's for sure. Lucy was right there with Papa, loving every second of being outside, sawing. The girl slept THREE hours after he left, yippeeee for mommy! My dad is truly and amazing master of all trades and it really comes in handy, since I am the master of inventing things in my head. We have now being "projecting" for 35 years, he can basically read my mind on what I am dreaming up, we are the best team. Today I intended on him dropping off the saw and spending time with the girls, but he could not resist and wanted to give my project a go, of course! He ended up having some awesome one on one time with Lucy...which also turned a 20 minute project into an hour and a half and neither one of them cared, they could have stayed outside all day, it was priceless. Some girls have fancy trips and shopping sprees with their dads, I have "projects" with my dad and I wouldn't trade it for the entire world, thanks for rushing to my project today dad, I love you. p.s. what Colts fan has Bears gloves?

6 years ago

Yesterday marked 6 years ago from the night Shawn and I met at the CF auction! Some friends met us out at Cancun(a mexican restaurant) for margaritas, it was a blast!