Fun filled day!

Yesterday we took the girls out to a park for a picnic and well, just to let them run, get tired, so we could go home and take a nap! Yeah, I know it sounds bad, but we like our nap times! The park is pretty big, with a small lake, a playground area, picnic tables throughout. We brought some kiddie fishing poles, but my DH rigged them and we did not want to look too redneckish (there was lots of other families there, guess they had the same idea as us!) so they got left in the car. I recently found out that my camera can be programmed to take black & white shots, so I had fun with that! Thanks Kris!

We didn't do too much else this weekend, just kindof took it easy. We did rent a cute movie for the girls to watch on the "big screen." Ya'll would laugh, promise we don't rig up everything, but hey whatever works! We have a projector screen, but it's not big enough for DH (it's like 60-70 inches) so he had me make a really big one out of a king size sheet, the picture is flawless though and the girls LOVE IT!!! Oh, the movie we watched was "flushed away," I had never heard of it before, but it really was cute, and the kiddo's liked it, so now it's on the list of things we need to get!

Lily starts school (kindergarten) next week, so I took her up to the school today to take some pictures marking this BIG event, I will publish those at a later time, working on something!

Hope ya'll had a great weekend too!

Bodacious Blogger Break '07 and Friends!

This past weekend was one truly wonderful experience for me. I met some of the nicest ladies from all over the country, and one "Foreigner." sorry Catherine, couldn't resist! Love you!

I have been reading all of their posts about this party, and been racking my brain to try to put into words my feelings for my new friends.
Well, I received an email from my mom today, and after reading it, well, this pretty much sums it up!

When I was little, I used to believe in the concept of one best friend, and then I started to become a woman. And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up, God would show you the best in many friends.
One friend is needed when you're going through things with your man. Another friend is needed when you're going through things with your mom. Another will sit beside you in the bleachers as you delight in your children and their activities. Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be. One friend will say, "Let's cry together," another, "Let's fight together," another, "Let's walk away together."

One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish, another your love for movies, another will be with you in your season of confusion, another will be your clarifier, another the wind beneath your wings.

But whatever their assignment in your life, on whatever the occasion, on whatever the day, or wherever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair pulled back, or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself .. those are your best friends.

It may all be wrapped up in one woman, but for many, it's wrapped up in several.. one from 7th grade, one from high school, several from the college years, a couple from old jobs, on some days your mother, on some days your neighbor, on others, your sisters, and on some days, your daughters.

So whether they've been your friend for 20 minutes or 20 years, AND ONLY IF YOU'D LIKE TO, pass this on to the women that God has placed in your life to make a difference.


Nuff said?

Love ALL MY FRIENDS!!!

Old and new! Thanks Tracy for putting this photo montage together for us all!!!

Little fur baby!

O.K. peeps! This little fellow has been seen umpteen times in my backyard! Is he not THE cutest little thing? And I say HE, because I looked (my SIL asked) and he looks just like a male kitten, so I assume it is a he. Yes, I did look!

He's been in my garden too, there are bite marks on my cantelope. That's the only thing he has nibbled on, so I may not actually get to eat any this year. I'm planning on planting some sort of greenery (spinach or lettuce) for him, so maybe next year he'll stay out of the veggies!

He tried to get away at first, but calmed down when I started petting him. Love little babies!

More to come from the PAR-TAY, promise!

Fuzzy, Furry, Fun! Past life???

You Were a Rabbit

You are fast thinking and tend to live by your wits. Getting over fears is important to you, as is strengthening intuition.

What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

Recipe!

O.K. first of all, I have not downloaded any pictures yet from the BLOGGY BASH 2007, so bare with me. After having many people requesting the recipe for my cheesecake here it is! Make it, and enjoy!!!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Crust:

1 1/2 Cups graham cracker crumbs
1/3 Cup Sugar
1/3 cup butter

Melt butter, then mix in sugar and cracker crumbs, press into the bottom of a greased 9 inch springform pan. Stick in the oven for just a few minutes.

(We like it thick, so instead of making it with the measurements above, I doubled it, plus I mixed chocolate graham crackers with cinnamon ones)

Filling:

4 boxes Cream Cheese
1 1/2 Cups sugar
3/4 Cup milk
4 eggs
1 Cup sour cream
1 Tbls. Vanilla
1/4 Cup flour

Mix softened cream cheese and sugar, add in milk.
Add eggs 1 @ a time.
Mix in sour cream, vanilla, and flour.

Pour into pan, bake for one hour. Turn off oven (do not take a peek, do not open the door!!!)
cool in the oven for 5-6 hours (that's the hardest part!)

For the toppings, I used Mrs. Richardson's Butterscotch, and Hot fudge, but stores down here don't carry it, we got it in Wisconsin, I also crumbled up pecans. But I made it before plain, and it is quite yummy that way too!

Yummy, yummy, YUMMY!!!

Over a month ago, I attempted to make my first ever Cheesecake. I found the recipe online, and needless to say, it did not last very long!

This weekend I am attending a (much anticipated) girl's party, and I planned on making

the same cheesecake, except this time I made the crust a little different, and it is a turtle, meaning it has yummy butterscotch, hot fudge and pecans drizzled all over it, and man it was so hard not to go ahead and dig in!!!

For those of you that will also be attending this PAR-TAY, get ready to indulge in a little piece of heaven!

Side note to myself: Man, I hope this thing is good, or else I will never hear the end of it, these girls can be brutal!

It's a small world!

Wow, it really is a small word after all! Well, it all started a couple of weeks ago. I was out walking Jack (he's a little overweight, so he's on a diet) and a couple drove past us in a car and waved. By the time we got around a curve in the road, I saw their car sitting in the driveway of this house that I just love the color of, we are eventually gonna paint ours, and I REALLY like this color, so anyway, I decided to go ring the door bell, to ask if they knew the name of the color. Really nice lady, but they are renting the house, and so have no clue about the color. They have since moved out, there was a FOR RENT sign in the yard for only a short period of time. Saw the moving van, with some folks moving in, nothing exciting, just stuff! We go walking every night, so no I am not stalking people here!

Fast forward to yesterday, Lily was with me walking Jack, and I was (trying) to walk Dakota, when we got to the end of our street and turned, we could see a guy with three little kids, two blonde headed boys, and a black haired little girl. Well, I thought Hum! I wonder, so we took a little detour and took the dogs to the park to get a closer look. Sure enough she was Asian, so I asked if she was from China, and the guy says yeah, so I proceed to tell him about us adopting too, and we talked for a few minutes, then his wife drives up in the car, and I talk with her for a few minutes too. Buy the way, cutest little thing EVER! Her name was Alice Ann, and she is about two.

They said that they just moved here, and have not joined the local FCC group yet. Well, the dogs are getting restless, and so we start to walk again, and the wife drives up the hill, and the guy starts walking the kids back home, going the same direction we are headed, so we kept talking. And I almost flipped when he stops in front of OMG! THE HOUSE with the color that I love! I am still thinking some sort of sign here! And I was just wondering if there were any adoptees in our neighborhood. And you can see their house from our backyard, the are so close. I sure hope they are still living here by the time we get our little one!

Sorry, I know for some of you I have just been rambling on, but to me it was amazingly weird!

Howdy!

Well, well, I've been having some fun! A little over a year and a half ago, my DH's sister and her husband got two yearlings, one filly who's name is Trixie (pictured above) and a stud colt who has been known by many things, starting with Hank, they did not like that name, so when they brought them home, it changed to Sampson, but was called all kind of things one of them being Satan. Believe it or not they got these two beauties from a lady who breads Paints, in Mississippi. When solid foals are born, she automatically decides to take them to auction when they are old enough. Well, when she met my SIL she told them, if they drove all the way to pick them up, then they could just have them!!!

Trixie was actually the troubled one to begin with, it took them around 6 hours just to get her on the trailer, then she was so skiddish, they could not get her halter on when it fell off. But now she's a really sweet horse, she's easy to work with, and is just BEAUTIFUL! she started out being a Bay, but it looks like she's more of a Buckskin.

Now Sampson ( known to family and friends as Sam) has always been a bit of a bully, not in a mean way, but well, he's just got too much hormons running through him! If he sees you with food, look out, he'll push you over to try to get it. They are planning on getting him gelded sometime soon, if they decide to keep them. My sister in law is the one who just had her SECOND set of twin boys, and she pretty much has her hands full, not to mention the chickens, dogs, cat, and garden, to have to take care of. So any way, for now they are here, and I will take full advantage to be able to play with them. They will be three years old next April, so are not quite old enough to break yet, but they have been able to put the saddle and bridle on them a couple of times, and my BIN has gotten up on Trixie several times, and Sam a couple. I was down last weekend, and got up on Trixie (not gonna post those pics!) she's really not gonna be that hard to break, but Sam, well, again, something's gotta go!!!