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Well it's about time huh! the holidays are finally over and i am oficially back into my routine. |
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So yesterday I turned a year older (24).
Now I know 24 is not old, but considering being married going on 5 years and having 2 kids and with Nick going to school to become a preacher, knowing what God has in store for our future I feel old having accomplished so much already!
I spent the day cleaning and doing laundry. My 3 year old built a block birthday cake and kept singing happy birthday to me thru out the day. Then put on my daisy shirt and went to teach my daisy class at church. After church my friends surprised me by singing happy birthday and they had made me a cake!! YUM-O strawberry!
Having friends is such a blessing! |
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Ok so i know i haven't been on for awhile but i have been sick, so i am going to catch up.
On Saturday we had a birthday party for Will at the church. We had a great time. Here are a few pics from the party.
This was the set up, we also had ice cream.
This is the cake i made, it was one yellow cake beside one chocolate cake then i put blue food coloring in white frosting to make the cake blue.
Presents!!!!
Alyssa, he has got his eyes on you!
Alyssa wants a cowboys jersey tooooo! by the way he would not put down that phone and keys that he is holding, we had to open all the other gifts while he was holding that.
Thomas!!!!!
We were singing to him and when we clapped so did he!! cutie pa tutie!
Alyssa licking the cars, she actually had been waiting a while to do that, that morning when i put them on she asked me if she could.
UUUUMMMMM CAKE!!!
isn't it funny when they are the dirtiest thats when they want you!
Happy birthday my big one year old!
some of the birthday crew having cake and ice cream!
good thing the church had a deep sink! check out my shirt its a natural modesty blocker! lol!
This is what daddy did, he was so sick, but he did help set up and clean up, so he sat over in the corner so not to spread his germs.
It was a fun party! |
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Today Alyssa and I wanted to do something in the kitchen so we made cinnamon rolls! Here are a few pics and the recipe we used!
I thought about adding this post after we had already mixed everything together, but here we had just rolled out one part of the dough and started to add the filling.
Alyssa, hard at work.
here is the log before we cut it into rolls.
cut rolls ready to rise again....
waiting.........
Will is waiting to.......
ready, you can see that this is an after shot, we had to eat first, after adding the icing.
YYYYYUUUUUMMMMOOOOOO!!!!!
Alyssa loved them!
And well Will he really enjoyed his very first cinnamon roll!
the recipe: Cinnamon Rolls (out of the newest Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook)
4 3/4 to 5 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 package active dry yeast 1 cup milk 1/3 cup butter 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 eggs 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1/3 cup butter 1 tablespoon half and half or cream 1 recipe Vanilla Glaze (to follow)
1. mix 2 1/4 cups of floour and yeast. 2. in a saucepan heat and stir milk, 1/3 cup butter, sugar and salt just until warm. add to flour mix along with eggs.beat on low for 30 sec. scrape bowl then beat on high for 3 min. adding as much flour as you can. 3.knead in remaining amount of flour until smooth and elastic. shape into a ball place into a greased bowl turn and cover for 1 hr. 4.punch dough down and divide cover and let rest for 10 min. 5. grease two cookie sheets and set aside 6.filling: stir together brown sugar, the 1/4 cup flour and cinnamon cut in 1/3 cup butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. 7.roll each half of dough into a 12X8 inch rectangle. sprinkle filling over dough. roll up each rectangle, seal seams, slice each roll into 12 pieces. 8.cover loosely and let rise 30 min. 9 bake at 375 for 20 min
Vanilla Glaze: stir together 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon light colored corn syrup and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. add enough half and half or light cream to reach drizzling consistency. |
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We have been gone this weekend to south Texas to have a small b-day party for Will.
We normally have a small one there for my family and then a large party up here for all of our friends and family up here.
So fair warning there will be another bunch of pics from the next party in few weeks.
here are a few pics from the party.
This is Alyssa, Will and my Aunt Barbara in front of the cake!
This is Will and my Grandma, he gave shuggers all weekend!
This pic is after he had gotton the cake off of the plate.
This is one of my favs, Alyssa screamed at her 1st b-day she did not want any part of her cake, so it was fun to see Will really get in there and have fun with his cake. Course he really goes for anything that is edible!!
This is me and Will on the way to the bath tub!
This is Will and my Grandpa, Will has only seen him twice in his whole life but from the time we got there to the time we left Will was glued to his hip, THAT IS HIS PAPA!!! |
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This is Alyssa Grace at 3 1/2
This is Will at 11 months
This is the two of them, she will not let him do much without her, he is "her baby" |
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Ok so my son Will is almost 1 and is still not sleeping through the night. alot of factors are the cause of this. -my husband is going to school to be a preacher and he wants to go into the ministry debt free his parents have a pretty big house so they said that if i cook dinner for everyone every night we could live here for free for a year or two. but until december they also have a girl living with them as well so my two kids, my hubby and i all share our room the crib won't fit so we still co-sleep with our son. -everytime he wakes up to turn over or whatever he can smell my milk and wants it to go back to sleep
well i am almost scared to say this out loud (well you know what i mean) but for the past few nights he has only woken up 1 time so maybe we are on the road to all night sleep!!!!! |
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Well, tonight was my first night to teach daisies at my church!
My girls did so good, daisies are all kindergarden age and so cute. it is so fun to see what Alyssa will be doing in a year or so.
Our badge that we are working on is Creating this is what we did tonight:
- i took plastic ware full of water, leaves, grass, carrots and rocks b/k God created all of that - we prayed - we cut out the pre made creation wheels and reveiwed them - we then started our paper mache worlds - we reviewed our wheels again and went over our memory verse (Genesis 1:1) - prayed again then went out to play on the playground
I had such a great time teaching, and am really looking forward for next week!! |
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Well I have finally done it, the whole blog thing! alittle about me and my family:
I am 23 and a complete regect for my generation, i love cooking, sewing, gardening, cleaning, scrapbooking, homeschooling, reading the bible, playing with my kiddos and just doing anything with my husband.
I have two wonderful kids: alyssa grace is 3 1/2 and will will be 1 at the end of this month (October).
I am married to a firefighter who is also going to school to become a preacher so i will soon add preachers wife to my list as well. |