November, the end of Cheerleading and the beginning of Soccer.

Well, not Soccer games or practices, conditioning, but it’s still an every afternoon till 5 thing. ( Oh how I can’t wait till she drives, BUT oh Yes I can!)

We went to the Alabama Auto Show this last weekend and let her and Kory “dream” about cars. It was fun, until, I was getting into a BMW crossover car and hit my heading getting in. “Man, that hurt!” as I sat there I really could see “co-co birds” circling my head. Leave it to me… I had a knot on my head, a TERRIABLE head ache and was sick to my stomach the rest of the day and the next. I can laugh about it now! I must have looked like a fool!

I have some pictures of Kory and Alyssa in cars, but they are on my phone and I can’t get them of there right now. But I’ll share. 

October…

October came and went, faster then ever!

  

A fashionista!

People say it all the time, you can have 3 girls or 3 kids and they are nothing alike! Well, that is so true in my house!

Meet Miss Fashionista!

 

She tells me she is going to be a “fashion model”/”cheerleader” when she gets big! 

Anytime she gets clothes we have to come home and have a “fashion show”. When my sister sent her some clothes in the mail, we had to have a “fashion show” and take pictures to send to her.

And every morning getting ready for school is fun too! Not! She wants to wear a skit or dress everyday to school! And she has her own opinion as to what is cute or not! 

I can’t imagine what life with her as a teenager will be like!

I do need to say I am very proud of her! She has changed so much in the last year! Many of you know we decided to hold her back in school because of her reading skills and I think it was the greatest thing. I was SO worried about it, and I prayed about it, shed some tears over it, but it really has been a great thing and school has just started! She has come out of her shell, and her confidence level is up. Plus in reading she has come up 3 points just since school started! I have no doubt that by the end of the year she will be right where she needs to be!

Sweet Sixteen

Then September came and someone turned Sixteen! I still can’t believe it! My sister’s came to help, good thing cause I don’t think I could have done it without them, well I know I couldn’t have!

Friday night, September 10th, Alyssa’s actual birthday, we all went out to eat at the cheesecake factory. We had to call around town finding a place that would actually sing to her. Yes, that is what she wanted! So, all of us went to the restaurant with balloons, presents and her in her “Sweet Sixteen” crown.

 

Saturday night was the party. I know Alyssa had fun! She was on cloud 9!

   

My big girl is 16 years old!

yes, she did change dresses, just like on “my super sweet sixteen”. She had asked about that before hand and I had said no way, we can’t afford two nice dresses for that night, we are not super sweet sixteen parents. Then we went to David’s bridal looking for a dress and their sale rack is the greatest! We got two dresses for the price of one! I love a good deal!

Birthdays, school and cheerleading

Yes, August and September are busy times for us! School starts, cheerleading starts and it birthday time at my house.

Sara’s second year to cheer. She LOVES it! I few of her friends aren’t cheering this year, so I asked her if she really wanted to do it again and she said, “YES?, (like crazy mom) I can make new friends!” I said, well your right Sara.

Then we had a birthday party for this sweet little “Diva”. I can’t believe she is 7 already!

Need to catch you up on Dinners!

Kory’s been on vacation so we have been busy around here!

Well, yes Kory and I had a wonderful dinner Wednesday night for our anniversary. Nine great years! We will have been together 11 years in January. It sure doesn’t seem like it’s been that long, I guess with all the moving we have done, time is flying by!

Sara and Alyssa, the first day of school.

My first grader!

My tenth grader! This is hard for me to believe, Where has the time gone? and Emma, my 4 year old. One more year at home with me.  This time next year, I will be crying about sending my youngest to Kindergarten! Oh my, where has the time gone??

Thursday night was the first day of school for Alyssa and Sara. So, I wanted something fun and easy for dinner, plus the girls got a special after school snack, since it was the first day of school. (Something my mom use to do for me, so the tradition lives on!)   I chose #17 Honey Nut Chicken Sticks. They were SO good! Everyone loved them! We had a few left over and Kory and I ate those for lunch yesterday, the Turkey Noodle Casserole leftovers are still in the refrigerator. Guess that’s telling me it wasn’t as good as I thought it was.  The chicken sticks  are really a good recipe, so I will share it. 

Friday night, I need something easy and fast. We had a lot of contractors in the house fixing different things. Yes, already in my brand new house. We have two hair line cracks in our tile in both the kitchen and master bathroom. They were able to fix the kitchen floor yesterday, laid new tile, but the master bathroom replacement tile didn’t match the tile that we had put in. So, that I guess we have to wait for another day when they can replace the entire floor. One of the gutters needed to be fixed, and the alarm system never has linked to the monitoring company. So, yesterday, the tile guys were there, the plumber (Sara and Emma’s bath had only cold water), the gutter guy and the alarm system guys were all here, all at the same time! It was crazy! They all finally left about 2:30, just in time to go get in Car line. That’s why I needed something easy yesterday. I had some ground meat, so we had Ranch Burgers. Easy, you put the ranch dry mix in your ground meat and make patties. I toped them off with bacon.

I won’t be cooking tonight, Kory is working, but he is off tomorrow, so I’ll start again then!

5 down and 360 more!

Night 4; Sloppy BBQ Chicken Pan Pizza

It was really good! I don’t think I put enough BBQ sauce in it, it really need more to really be a GREAT sloppy BBQ Pizza! It was super easy!

Eating this good every night isn’t going to be good for me!  Plus with Sara’s cheerleading practice (MTThF) starting at 6 and ending between 7 and 7:30. I really have to have dinner fixed at 5, so we can eat before we go, because after is just too late to be cooking and eating for us. It was way after 8 before we ate last night. That will just be too late once school starts tomorrow.

What’s for dinner tonight? It’s our anniversary, so NO cooking for me tonight. It’s date night!

Night #3; Turkey Noodle Casserole

Kory helped by taking Sara to her cheerleading practice, so I got to spend some time cooking and enjoying this dinner. It was good! But, how could you go wrong with melted cheese and bread crumbs over noodles!

Tonight? it’s BBQ Sloppy Chicken Pan Pizza!

Night 2, Last night’s dinner?

Well, last night I cooked Beef Fajita Burgers and baked fries. Let me first say, I LOVE FAJITAS!, but the fajita burgers weren't that good at all. I’m not sure what it was, but it just didn’t WOW me or the hubby, or the girls. 

Night 1, Dinner #174 Chili Dog Bacon Cheeseburgers and Fiery Fries

 

IT was good and EVERYONE, even Sara and Emma liked it! AND it was FUN! I’m trying to make cooking fun, if not it’s just boring old cooking “dinner every night”. 

Basically it was hot dogs diced up, with ground beef made into hamburgers toped with bacon on a Kiser roll. I would be happy to share the recipe also, just let me know. Next time I’ll take pictures also.

Tonight!? Well, Kory is working, so it’s a “catchers, catch can” night  for me and the girls.

Tomorrow night? I’m not sure, still trying to pick which one I want. I’m not doing the book in order, (recipe #1, 2…) There are “master recipes” and then she builds on those and I thought we would get tired of the same meal with just different meat in it. So, I’m jumping around for now. Before I went to buy groceries yesterday I picked 9 meals that I’d like and brought the stuff for those meals.

1 down 364 more to go!   

Another new adventure

Yes, I’m starting tonight Rachael Ray 365: No repeats. It’s a year of Deliciously different dinners in 30 minutes or less.  I’m not that great of a cook, and Kory gets tired of eating the same old things. So, I ordered the cookbook and promised him and the kids I would do it. It has some “master recipes” and then she adds some different variations  to that master recipe. Then there are some other recipes also.

Tonight what’s on the menu? Chili Dog Bacon Cheeseburgers! I’ll keep ya posted!

August already?

Well, I can’t believe it’s August and the kids are about to start back to school. We moved into the new house on June 30th and I’m still unpacking boxes. I think this has been the hardest to unpack because, life still went on. Any other move we didn’t know people so we didn’t do anything but unpack, now the kids on in to things and we do things with our church, life moved on.

I have finally gotten into my craft room and started unpacking and putting things together.

Our newest adventure!

We are putting down some roots! It’s exciting and scary all at the same time.  The Lord has blessed us all along the way, and I am SO thankful!

We bought our first house! Soon it will be a home, and I can’t wait.  The girls are excited too, they will all have their own room and I have will have my own craft room . 

From this….

to this!

We are SO excited. Just a few more days and it will be home!

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A crazy month!

It all started the first weekend in May when Kory and Alyssa went to the “Crawfish Boil”.  It was at night and there was lot of people and smoke. Alyssa came home not feeling well. On Monday I took her to the see the our family Doctor. It was her asthma. The first time in like 7 years. She ended up going to the doctor twice that week.

The next week for Mother’s day week, and Emma fell and hit the fireplace on Sunday morning. We spent the day in the ER. On Tuesday it looked like it was getting infected, so I took her to the family doctor. It was, then had to go back on Thursday of that week, because it wasn’t any better.

Two weeks= four times to see the same doctor!

The next week Sara started running a high fever Saturday night. Our family doctor was out of town on Monday so we waited till Tuesday for her to see the doctor. Strep!

Three weeks=five times to se the same doctor!

Last Saturday Emma started running a high fever… can you guess it…..

Four weeks=six times to see the same doctor!

She laughed when she saw me walk through the doors. She said “we just need to get a “Foster Room”!”  

More projects!

Square candle holder.

New tile. This could be made for any school…War Eagle, Geaux Tigers, Who Dat, Go Bulldogs, Go Eagles!

May is a very busy month!

May is the busiest month of the year for me, beside December! Emma’s Birthday is the 19th, mine is the 21st and Kory’s is the 22nd. I also have two nieces with May birthdays, then there are end the year programs and everything else.

We had Emma’s birthday party last Saturday. She wanted a Thomas the train birthday party. It wasn’t very easy to make it look like a girl party, but I think I pulled it off! She loved it, so that’s all the mattered!

This “jumpy” was great! They came to put it up at 9 in the morning and didn’t come get it till 7:30 that night. The kids played in it all day!

Also Mother’s Day weekend we decided to adopt two new puppies!

Roxy and Rintoo, our newest family members!

Just finished…

I love the way this turned out. I love the big bold “S” on this vase. I know it will look great with some Mother’s Day flowers in it!

Loving what I’m doing…

I have been SO busy and I love every minute of it! I worked on Teacher appreciation gifts the last two weeks.

These were for Alyssa’s teachers.

These were for a friend.

This is a checkbook cover I did. I won the plastic blank cover off a blog give a way. My first thing I’ve ever won!

I did this travel mug and I really love the way it looks. It is really a bright blue and with the white monogram. It looks great!

And finally I had a chance to get caught up and I was able to spruce up my craft/work room!

This is on the door coming into my room. 

and this is on the wall!

If you need a personalization gift or even just something for yourself, just let me know.

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