Merry Christmas 2012

Christmas this year was not about buyin each other gifts but about spending the day together... cooking a great dinner, baking Christmas cookies and just enjoying each others company.... Love my family so much and I'm so thankful/grateful we all get along so good... Family means everything ♥

Love sharing the kitchen with my honey

 I had lots of helpers with gettin Christmas dinner together...

 Keyarra peelin potatoes

 My sister just stirring the mash potatoes, 

acting like she made them, lol

Our momma mixing up the glaze for the ham

 Kay and Mark snuggling on the couch wait for dinner

It was so, so good.

(ham, cream cheese corn, broccoli/cauliflower rice cheese casserole, sweet potato casserole, mac. cheese, mash potatoes and hm bread... dessert was Christmas Cookies, Peanut Butter Fudge)

...Cookie Time...

 Keyarra makin me a special rooster Christmas cookie :)

 They LOVED the Peanut Butter Fudge I made this year... 

**** ChRiStMaS  DaY ****

 Christmas Morning... 

No matter what day it is, gotta go out and feed/water/love on my barnyard babies 

Merry Christmas Boys

This year Christmas morning was different... Kaylin wasnt here, she had spent the night with one of her friends on Christmas Eve and then had to work Christmas day.  I know as the kids grow up and start their own lives things are gonna be different with the holidays... we gotta start workin on different traditions. 

 Christmas day at Memaw and Papaws... 

I really love this pic of them.

Our Christmas pic without Kaylin :(

To My Sons... 

You outgrew my lap, but never my heart. ~Author Unknown

 My Guys 

Alex loves his cousin Dylan

  Alex playin with memaws Christmas train

 Alex LOVES memaws dancing snowman

 Andrew

 ... and Miss. Natalie snuggling up to me... tryin to butter me up.  She wanted to come home with us for a few days since everyone is on Christmas break... how could I say no, lol.  

I didn't need anything for Christmas this year because I have the greatest presents already, a wonderful husband, three wonderful children who I'm very proud of and a kind, fun, silly, loving family... I love that we all get along and love hangin out with each other... So Very Blessed!

Pumpkin Scones

While browsing blog world last night I came across this scone recipe  Gingerbread Scones  on Heritage Schoolhouse blog and told my honey I was gonna make them in the morning... well its morning and I realized I didnt have any molasses so I seen I had a can of pumpkin in the pantry... so why not make Pumpkin Scones.  I searched her blog and found this Pumpkin Scones recipe.  

I actually started out with the Gingerbread recipe and then just added the pumpkin pie spice, 1 more Tablespoon of brown sugar and 1/2 cup pumpkin.  Then after the baked and cooled alittle I mixed up powder sugar, milk, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice for the glaze... So So Yummy!

Secret Santa Tradition...

 A very sweet friend of mine sent me this cute Christmas Goody set last December, I then send her some Christmas goodies in the biggest tin... little did I know then that we were starting a Christmas tradition with each other... Today I received "Our Christmas Goody Tin" in the mail, filled with wonderful lil goodies.  It really put a smile on my face, something so sweet and little can bring much joy to a persons heart.  

I just love this...

ps Dear Secret Santa friend be on the look out for your happy mail... 

Coming Soon ;)

Beef Stew and Cheese Bread

These are older pics. but thought I'd share what I'm cookin for the family tonight... This stew and bread is so good, I've been making for acouple winters now, its from Kraftfoods.com Perfect Winter Beef Stew and the Cheese bread is a recipe I tried and liked from Allrecipies.com and if I feel like it I might just bake some cookies today. I have not baked one single Christmas Goody so far this year... 

The Night The Lights Went Out...

Lord, you placed me where I am for a reason, but look at these people I have to deal with, and you want ME to be good? lol... I love my crazy family, they make me laugh so hard! The other night the powder went off for a few hours and this is the fun they were having after I went to bed...... did they really think I wouldnt share these great pics. when I found them on the camera?!?! LML ♥

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher

Happy "Birthday" Mail...

One of my dear sweet friends sent me not one but two birthday cards in the mail... thought that was so very sweet of her... see always finds the cutest, perfect, so me cards.  I love them and her. 

 Thank You Crazy Cat Lady ;)

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Good People Are Rainbows 

They Spread Their Joy

For Miles and Miles!

Good People Are Angels

Instead of Halos, 

They've Got Smiles!

Good People Are Sunshine

They Brighten Up 

The Darkest View!

Good People Are Blessings

How Blessed Am I 

Just Knowing You?!

Happy Birthday

To The Best Good Person 

I Know!

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You Know What They Say - 

If It Looks Like A Duck, Walks Like A Duck...

It Better Not Smell Like A Duck, 

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday To Me...

Today was my 37th birthday.  

I spent it at home in my bubble world (aka Our Little Farm), enjoyin the things I love, spent time with the family, sat outside this morning freezing my booty off with a mug off coffee watching my barnyard animals eat their breakfast, I played on the computer, worked on some crochet, didnt have to cook dinner, it was a Thanksgiving leftover night.  My honey bought me a cake and some goodies. A nice bag to hold my crochet stuff/projects, a few skeins of yarn and some hooks (you can never have too many, you never know when your gonna lose one, lol) and he even made me (us) some barn wood art to hang on the living room wall.  Also for a birthday gift I'm saving up my money to buy a purebred Nubian doeling this 2013 kidding season from my friend. 

 He knows I love yarn :)

Our old barn wood fence wall art... I love it!  

Hes gonna me me some picture frames soon too


Wouldnt this pic look so great hangin on the wall in a barn wood frame :)

Thanksgiving 2012

‎I'm thankful for my family far and near, for my husband & children that I hold dear, and though sometimes life gets me stressed, I thank the Lord because I'm truly blessed... 

I'm thankful Brian & I stay home on Thanksgiving Day.  I love that we spend the morning together in the kitchen cookin the feast for the family/friends that choose to come celebrate the day with us.  This is a very long picture post :)

2 Turkeys


Thanksgiving Stuffing

Cream Cheese Corn

Mash Potatoes with Real Butter


HM Noodles

...Time To Gobble Til We Wobble... 

...Time For Some Family Photos...

 The Gang This Year

 Gotta Take A Funny Pic

 My sister Crystal and her family

 They Love To Be Silly

 Love My Family

 Nephew Cody and his girl friend Kelly

 Kaylin and Abby

 Me, my sister and my daughter

 Cousins

 Kaylin and Mark

My sister & her oldest daughter

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart. ~Author Unknown — 

Momma teasing tryin to act like she can knit, lol

Hope You And Your Family Had A Very Happy Thanksgiving ♥