about me

As I sat here this morning with some peacefulness, I thought I would check in on a few blogs. As I haven't been keeping up, near as much as I'd like to. So I hit my blogger reader and planned to just go down the list. I came across Just Me ~ Bobbie Jo's blog today, and that lead me to Lovers in a Dangerous Time, the host of 30 days of blogging. So I decided to join up!

day 1- recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself

So there you have it, a recent picture of me. It was taken while we were sitting out on the back of hubby's truck, while he was busy busting his butt on the race car!

My facts ~

1) I love sweet tea and Dr Pepper, and no not together.

2) I always wanted to be a race car driver! Now I'm just an owner for a Saturday night Local Dirt Track Car, hubby will drive.

3) The only other thing I ever wanted so much, was to be a stay at home Mom, just like my mom!!! I thank God for this gift!

4) I'm the youngest sister of 3, and we all have daughters only, no sons!

5) I'm a forever die hard Dale Earnhardt fan!

6) I love car racing, but my favorite is truly the modifieds on the dirt!

7) I suffer greatly from Psuedotumor Cerebri. It has wrecked havoc!

8) I will be having bariatric surgery to help with the ptc! Hopefully to cure it! I can't wait to feel good again!

9) I'm pretty old fashioned, just ask my sisters, who think I make my girls way too old fashion!

10) I love hair bows and custom clothes for the girls!

11) my favorite colors are purple, and pink, and RED!

12) I sale Scentsy and The Gourmet Cupboard.

13) I am not a lover of summer! It's just too hot for me!

14) We are renewing our wedding vows this year!

15) I love pictures! Taking them, seeing them all around, frames for them!

So there you have 15 interesting facts, not sure if it's all stuff you didn't know or lots you probably did already know. Either way, hope you enjoyed it a bit.

I am looking forward to the 30 days of blogging! Maybe it will get me back to it blogging more!

Have a beautiful day!

Hugs and Blessings,

What a difference!

Last night out of the blue, Lil E decided she wanted bangs again. We had decided that we were going to try and let her hair grow back out long, but without bangs. Then she decided she wanted bangs, so I took it upon myself to cut them agian!

Sorry the the cell phone crummy above picture. But you can kinda see..... Then below is two pictures without bangs.

I can't believe how different she looks, but I love how it makes her look younger!!! Maybe because it takes me back a few years!

Hope yall are having a great week!

Hugs and Blessings,

Gooseberry Patch Giveaway at Prairie Flower Farm

WOW!!!! What an awesome give away!

Click on the picture above and it will take you right on over to, Prairie Flower Farm! The gracious host of this giveaway. Take some time to check this wonderful blog! She has the have one the sweetest souls I have ever seen. I am really looking forward to getting to know her as I continue keeping up with her blog!

For the giveaway, there are 2 wonderful prizes you will win!!!

The cookbook, and a coupon organizer! Isn't it just darling? I think so!

Hugs and Blessings,

CSN Stores Giveaway Winner!!!!!!

And We have a winner! Congratulations to Jennifer ~ Comment number 2!!!! Hope you enjoy it! You have won the $30 gift certificate from CSN Stores!!!!!

Thank you all that signed up!!! I wish I could have given each of you a certificate!

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Hugs and Blessings,

CSN Stores Giveaway! ~ Closed

I am hosting a giveaway! The prize is a $30 gift certificate from CSN Stores. There are so many GREAT options of many things to purchase like a new swing set, furniture for any room in your house, kitchen gadgets of all kinds, and much more!

If you want to enter, let me know by leaving a comment, and telling me something you might like to you use the gift certificate for. So by CSN Stores, and check them out! Also, if you want to blog about my give away, please leave me a 2nd comment for a 2nd entry.

You may enter until Tuesday morning! Drawing will be on Tuesday Feb 22, 2011. Winning Certificate is good through March 31, 2011.

Bold is with great CSN Stores links... If you do not have a blog and wish to enter, be sure to leave me your email address, so that I can contact you about winning.

Good Luck to all!!

Hugs and Blessings,

FLU

Saturday night was our first date night in a very long time. By mid way into dinner, something hit me and it had me really hard. I wanted to just go buy some meds and head home. Sunday came, and I ended up in the ER. After some meds via iv, and fluids, lots of tests and x rays, it was that I had the flu and bronchitis. I was miserable! I tried my best to stay away from the girls, as I didn't want them to get this. Daddy did all he could to be the one to take care of the girls.

Tuesday morning, we awake and Lil E is crying with her legs and neck. By mid day, L K is sick and crying too. New in town, we head to urgent care! Both girls test positive for the flu! They were so so sick and it broke my heart! I know how bad I felt, so I didn't want them to feel this way.

We leave there, head to wal greens, to get their prescriptions filled. Then I learned something really big! I love drive thru's! We are now in a big enough city to have the advantage of many different drive thru places! So we get our meds via drive through, pick up dinner via drive thru window, and even do drive thru of this neat place that you can get drinks from. I could get 12 packs of sprite, and large deals of gatorade. How awesome!!! I know many will say that's lazy, but when you are sick with the flu and bronchitis, and have 2 precious sweeties that are so sick with the flu, why drag them out to get things, and why spread such germs either! It made life so much easier!

We get home and how I wish we had been home to stay. Lil K couldn't stop vomiting and wouldn't drink, so with this and the high fever we headed to the ER, just like instructed to do.

It crushed me to watch the girls so sick and all. But we are so blessed with a great hospital and was able to take such great care and as gently as could be with the girls. Finally I get both girls resting.

As I sat there, and they were finally resting, it hit me! I had been in urgent care and the ER, and they were talking about admitting my baby, but we know what is wrong with her, and I know she will be ok. I sat there, and started to cry. One for if we were hurting this bad, oh my goodness, how bad did my sweet mom hurt! Unreal!!! Then it hit me even harder, as I was praying over my girls and crying for missing my mom,for her pain, and all that. I was like how do all those parents with terminally ill children do this, and they have so much faith. How? So I sat there and hugged my girls tighter, and thanked God that their illness was temporary and minor in the realm of the big picture, and I prayed for all those children sick and hurting, and for every parent of these children, especially for those who were sitting with terminally ill children! It really made me so thankful that even though I was sick and so sad that my kids were sick, we were so blessed and lucky!!!!

Please send some extra prayers for those parents and grandparents with little ones that are terminally ill or in the fight for their life! They need all our love, support, and prayers!

Hugs and Blessings,

2nd round of snow

It started on Feb 6 with several inches of snow, and then just a couple of days later it was more! Lots more! Another 8 inches, and drifts over 3 feet deep! The 2nd round of the artic storms, brought us much more snow than the first one!

Here's a few pictures of the snow and some fun! (very lil fun out though). And would you believe it, now our well is broke, so week 2 of no water! We had to bring in jugs of water! No running water! At least we did have electric, so we had heat.

It's so pretty! I just love how pretty the snow is!!!!

The girls had a great time climbing the "Snow Mountain", as they called it. It was too cold to be out there for more than just a few though. Terrible cold!

Heres the drifts out in our front yard.

Doesn't she look like a skier? I think so!

So we sent this past week, stuck in the house, bringing in jug by jug of water, very little outside time, as it was way to cold. So it's been hard, living like they did back in the old day without running water. But we did it, and managed as a family! And made some great memories too!!! Will have to download the pictures from my camera really soon and will even have more pictures than these to share with you. Better ones actually.

Hope you stayed warm and healthy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Round 2 and the Flu

Round two of the Artic Storms wasn't as nice to us! We ended up with tons of snow, over the ice, and some really crummy weather. Then guess what took place around here, all 3 of us girls have the FLU! It's horrible bad! I will be around to give updates soon. Miss everyone and I hope yall are doing well.

Hugs and blessings,

The Massive Storm of 2011

Even though this major storm did cripple lots of the Nation, we were blessed! Thanks to the dry air, it dried out the moisture as it came through! We did get a few inches of dry snow, but that was it! And the HIGH winds keep blowing it away! Dry snow and high winds, living out in the open, left us with little snow to play in when the time comes to go out and play. So it's been super frigid cold, and little snow!!! We have seen highs in the single digits and the lows in the negative, not even counting the wind chill! Winds from 25 to 40 mph, with gusts more! It was nasty! The wind was actually scary!

The above picture was taken yesterday evening, looking out our front door!!!

Below is a picture of the girls yesterday! Once the wind let up, I bundled them up in layers and layers, to give them a brief 5 minutes out in the snow to play! It broke my heart, as it's never been this cold for us when we were getting snow, and so they are use to going out and playing and having a blast! And since Sunday they had not been outside, as the storm starting coming in Monday night.

Here's a couple pictures of the snow that didn't get blown away!!!

All in all, it was beautiful! And we can say we finally did get some snow, but I'd be so happy to not see the super cold temps again! They were terrible! So bad that the water pipes froze down in the ground!!! Yes in the ground is where it froze up! And this happened, Tuesday, and they are telling us, it is likely to be Saturday before our temps are high enough to thaw them out. Our temps were single digits on Tuesday and yesterday in the high. Today we are suppose to get to 20, and tomorrow a bit above freezing, just not long enough to help us! Today I'm so thankful for the wind settling down though, it has made a big difference. And I'm thankful that it was water pipes freezing instead of loosing power for all those days, as we have a total electric home.

So we have been in the house and taking it easy! Not been doing to much of anything. Even took a break for unpacking, now I need to get back to it!

Hope and pray all of you are doing well and staying warm!!! That is what is important!

Hugs and Blessings,

Molasses Crinkles

Click on the Cooking Thursday Banner, to be taken to Diary of a Stay at Home Mom, our awesome host of Cooking Thursday! You will find many other GREAT recipes!!!

This week, I am sharing a special recipe to me! I know it's the 2nd time I have shared it for Cooking Thursday, but with the new cookbook and all, I wanted to share again. Hope yall don't mind. It's a cookie recipe that is passed to me from my Mother in Law. She has made these since she was a kid. Her and I use to make this while we were making all our Christmas cookies to share with others!

Guess what arrived to my house! It was one of the first items to arrive in the mail at the new place! What a treat it was, to get last week! (The first piece of mail was a letter from GBP saying another recipe was being featured in a upcoming fall recipe book!) My free copy of 101 Cupcake, Cookie, & Brownie Recipes! My Molasses Crinkles are published in the cookbook!!! I am so excited!!! (I have 2 more free cookbooks coming in the coming months, with 2 other awesome recipes!)

Molasses Crinkles

3/4 c. shortening

1 c. brown sugar, packed

1 egg, beaten

1/4 c. molasses

2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour

1/4 t. baking soda

1 t. cinnamon

1 t. ground ginger

water

garnish with sugar

In a bowl, mix shortening, brown sugar, egg, and molasses. Stir in remaining ingredients except garnish in the order listed. Roll dough into one-inch balls. Dips tops in sugar and place on ungreased baking sheets. Gently press a thumb print into each. Sprinkle one to 4 drops of water in each indentation. Bake 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Makes 4 dozen.

Hope you enjoy!!!!

Hugs and Blessings,