Christmas is finally here.......again

 

Christmas.........the most wonderful time of the year they say and I think I believe them. For some reason there's this warm and fuzzy feeling I get everytime Christmas comes around! I love the shopping and buying gifts for people, I love baking all the themed Christmas treats, I'm obsessed with ornaments, Christmas music makes me happy, I love sitting by the fire (In our case the heater inside the fire place lol) watching Christmas movies or reading Christmas books to my little Angel, but most of all I love sitting back and thinking of all the blessings I recieved the past year. All the things God has given to me! All the things I didn't and still don't deserve. God is an awesome God and I'm not worthy of his love or salvation, but he gives it to me anyways. It's really easy for us to forget about the reason for this season(especially me). When you think about it, this is TRULY the most wonderful holiday of the year because this is the holiday where our God sent his one and only son to earth to live and walk amongst us and to offer up his life as the atonement for all sin! What better gift is there!!!!! I can't think of one! Let us not forget WHO this holiday is about and glorify in every moment of it!

In the words of Veggie Tales.......
"I can love because God loves me, I can give because God gave. Jesus love is why I'm smiling, why I'm giving everyday"

Thanksgiving 2012

We had a great Thanksgiving day hosted by the Johnson's and we managed to get some family photo's for our Christmas card. YAY!

We had some yummy food and Mia really enjoyed playing in the leaves!!!!

WE had some great family time and now I CANT WAIT TILL CHRISTMAS!

Someone very special turned 1

My little girl turned 1 on the 4th of this month, but we celebrated her first year of life on the 8th so we could be surrounded by loved ones! I just wanted to share a few pictures and things we did! For those who couldn't be there and for those who could but wont to look back on the day. Enjoy!

 Aunt Ange started the day out taking some cute pictures of the little princess! She loves the balloons, just like her mommy did at her age.

The room was very festive and took ALL day to finish! It was fun though and Mia loved it the first time she saw it. I wish I could've gotten a picture of her expression when she first saw the finished room! 

Mia's little birthday outfit was so precious on her. We had to get the pictures and then take the hat off though because she pulled the string on the bottom and popped herself with it and just cried and cried. Poor thing :( 

 We had some yummy food and Mia really enjoyed her cake once she got over the whole "why are you people staring at me while I'm eating" thing LOL

We played "Pin the nose on Larry", played with friends, Opened presents( the new Cozy Coupe was a good idea!) and busted the pinata open. The kids enjoyed themselves and so did I.

 All in all it was a good day! And of course our family gatherings can never end without a healthy game of football!! ;)

New Blog Post

Wow, I haven't posted in such a long time. Sorry about that! Things got crazy busy here. Mia turned one and we changed Churches and all that jazz that comes along with it!

I'm super excited about the fall season coming up! Fall is my favorite! I love everything about it. Pumpkins, breezy weather, football, hot chocolate, hoodies, and Halloween. Not to mention my birthday is October 4th. The perfect time to have a birthday!

I will be doing a blog post really soon on MiaBella's birthday party! We had lots of fun and she got lots of stuff. I am so overwhelmed by how blessed my family is and by how many people love my daughter. Thanks everyone who showed up! We love you!

New blog post to come soon!

How to Make Banana Pudding From Scratch

So tonight for dessert I made Banana Pudding from scratch and it was REALLY good! I am not usually one to eat anything with Banana, but I ate this and enjoyed it. My husband loved it as well, and of course that all the matters haha

 Here's how it is made....
You will need....

1/3 cup of Sugar
1 Tbs of Cornstarch
1/8 tsp of Salt
1/4 tsp of Nutmeg
1 1/2 cups of Half in Half
2 Egg Yolks
1 Tbs of Unsalted Butter
2 tsp of Vanilla Extract
Nilla Wafers
Sliced Banana's 

Whisk together the sugar, cornstarch, salt, and nutmeg in a medium sized pan. Add the Half in Half and egg yolks. Heat over Medium heat whisking constantly for about 8 minutes or until the mixture hardens and starts to boil. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Place mixture in a bowl and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. 

Once it's done pick your serving dish of choice and layer the mixture with sliced Banana's and Nilla Wafers. Enjoy. 

Photo A Day June......

Here are my pictures from yesterday and today. Yesterday's photo was of a Hat. My new sun hat to be exact.....

And Today's photo was A drink. I chose to photograph my Mickey Mouse cup that I take everywhere with me and it is always filled with water...

 

Anti Procrastination Day 6

Today my challenge to myself was to Clean off my dresser in my room. It always collects so much stuff but I got it cleaned off and everything put in its proper place. I will also be going through my utensil drawers in the Kitchen and getting them all sorted out!

Photo A Day: Day 5: Sign

 So today's photo was to take a picture of a sign. I took a picture of the VBS out in the front of our yard advertising our upcoming VBS in July at Seman Baptist Church! 

Come Join Us!

Anti Procrastination Day 5

My task for today was to pick something on Pinterest that I had pinned and do it. I chose to look under my Cleaning Up Board . 
I found the 40 Bags in 40 Days program and I decided that my house was really cluttered and it is definitely something I have been putting off doing so, I just got up and did Day number 1. I had to clean out my junk drawers (and boy were they filled with a lot of unnecessary stuff). It was so fast and easy though and after it was over with I was so happy and I don't know why I didn't just do it sooner. Here is my finished work.......

Photo A Day: Day 4: Close Up

Today's photo was a Close Up.....So here is my photo....

 

Photo A Day: Day 3: On My Plate

Yesterday's photo was ON MY PLATE. This is what I ate for supper last night! It was yummy!

Anti Procrastination Day 4

My Task was to finish mending, sewing or knitting something from start to finish. Well I decided instead of doing something from start to finish I would finish the scarf I started in January to give to a friend and I never finished. Well yesterday I finished it. So she will be able to use it this coming up winter. Here is the finished product...

 My task for today is to pick something from Pinterest that I pinned and do it! I will be posting about it later on.

Photo A Day: Day 2: Empty

Sorry I didn't get around to posting this yesterday, but I had a very busy day. Day 2 was Empty. This is my photo......

 We went to Logan's Roadhouse to eat last night and I had still figure out what to do for my photo and then I looked at my glass of water and realized it was EMPTY so I just took a photo of that!

Anti-Procrastination day 3

My goal for yesterday was to print and fill out the form for my last will and testament. This was something I had been thinking about ever since I had Mia. I kept putting it off and putting it off because I did not know how to go about getting it done. This blog tells you of a website you can go through and that site gives you step by step instructions. It was very helpful and I was able to get it done! I decided to go through the Homeschool Legal Advantage. I was satisfied with the site and the help. You can find complete blog post at the link below.
 http://imperfecthomemaker.blogspot.com/2012/02/anti-procrastination-challenge-do-you.html

Anti procastination

Sorry I didn't post yesterday about my anti-procrastination task. Yesterdays task was to write down and figure out what gifts I was getting for my Dad and Husband. I have already done that so i took a day off and just cleaned my house up REAL good! Plus, we had movie night. So Later I will be posting about today's task once I have completed it!

Photo A Day: Day 1: Morning

So today is the first day for the photo a day challenge in June. You can find the complete list at the link below. I thought I would share my photo for the day with you on here.....

 http://www.fatmumslim.com.au/search/label/photo%20challenge

2nd day in my new goal

 http://imperfecthomemaker.blogspot.com/2012/02/anti-procrastination-challenge-your.html

 So I have completed my 2nd task in the Anti-procrastination challenge. Today's task was to sort through all my coupons and receipts. I got them all sorted out and put in their proper place. 

So I feel better and more organized. Now I know where everything is so I can just go and grab the coupon I need it!!

New Goal

 http://imperfecthomemaker.blogspot.com/2012/02/anti-procrastination-challenge-your.html
So I have taken on a new goal for the year. Starting today and ending next May 30.  I found it on the wonderful blog in the link above. I am such a procrastinator on the little things so this is going to be a real challenge. I have done the first task today which was to sweep/vacuum out from under your living room furniture. It wasn't to bad under there though because we recently got new furniture so it was cleaned last month. I am ready for tomorrow. Please join me in this goal and share how it is coming with comments. You can find all the tasks that are up above in the link. I would love to have someone to do this with!!!

Bake Sale Sunday!

So the Bake Sale was a HUGE success. Way better outcome than we had expected. We ended up raising somewhere between $430-$450. It was awesome! Everything looked great and went great. Here are a few pics..................

Even my daughter enjoyed some baked goods lol

 

Graduation Party

We had a very nice time at Wesley's graduation party tonight. The food was great

The fellowship was nice.....

And lastly Mia made a new friend. His name is Brendan.

God is so great!