Oh so yummy.....

I love Fall for many reasons one is all of the holiday baking that goes along w/it. I enjoy baking but confess I don't do it like I would like. One of the reasons is I don't have the time and then when I decide I want to try something I would have to buy a ton of ingredients because I don't keep my pantry stocked. I am going to try and fix this by buying ingredients little by little that I know I will need come baking time. Then when I decide to try something I either will have everything or just have to buy a couple of things.

Pecan Pie is a favorite of my husband and I have to admit pies intimidate me. I don't know why but then again a lot of cooking/baking intimidate me. Anyway my hubby loves his mom's Pecan Pie. At Tasty Kitchen I found this recipe for Pecan Pie Muffins. I thought I could do that! It was so simple and so yummy. They were a hit with the hubby and half the kids :) They have very few ingredients (which was a big turn on for me trying the recipe) and what it does call most I had except the chopped pecans. Check out the recipe here.

Take a look around at some of the other recipes too. There are many that I have printed out that I want to try. Now I have to conquer the fear and bake or cook! Let me know if you try them and what you think. Or what is a favorite recipe of yours? I love having new recipes to try! Enjoy your Wednesday :)

An Anniversary and Homecoming

Well, this post is a couple of days late but that just goes w/our hectic schedule these days :) On the 1st my hubby and I celebrated 5 yrs. We have been through many different things in these 5 short years but I am so glad that I had him by my side for it all. Happy Anniversary hunny and I am looking forward to many more.

On our anniversary this year was my almer mater also our kids school's homecoming. Now normally we would probably skip the homecoming for a date but this year our oldest was nominated for Homecoming Queen. The Tuesday before Homecoming the kids and I had fun dress shopping with her for the perfect dress. She found it too and on sale! It was her style and she is our bargain shopper which this mother loves :)

Although she wasn't crowned we would have voted for her if we could have voted. Here are some pics!

My hubby and I this summer on a float trip.

Our oldest before Homecoming.

Her and her escort
I just love this pic of her!

Our lives are kind of slowing down. Our youngest daughter's last day of tennis was today. They had the League tournament. She played great and although she would have liked to finish better she played great for being her first season. Our oldest has Regionals on Saturday! The tennis season is almost done. More updates to come....

Update

So, I have fallen behind on blogging once again. I tell you once we get through the middle of Oct maybe I will be able to catch my breath but then again then we will have the holiday season. One of the reasons I had been putting off blogging is because I wanted to post some pictures but I decided just to post and pictures may or may not come later.

On September 19, 2010 our youngest daughter made the most important decision of her life. She was baptized by her dad. It was a wonderful day and we are so proud of her decision. She had been studying for most of the summer w/her dad and on Sat night came to us saying she knew what she needed to do. It was such a blessing to see her make that wonderful decision on her own. Most of the family was there to witness it which was another blessing.

The month of September has been packed full of tennis especially now w/2 tennis players in our family. Our oldest has been doing well w/her doubles partner. They have only a couple of weeks left. Our youngest daughter has been doing great and enjoying it too. She just started playing tennis this summer and took some lessons. She has come a long way in short amount of time. At the middle school level they play both singles and doubles to get them experience. She has had her trials w/doubles but is making the best of it. Her season will be done next week.

I can't believe but then again I can believe that it is already the end of September. The month has flown by and I am sure this year won't be slowing down anytime soon. Hope everyone is having a great week!

Golf ball and baseball and softball oh my!

Well Wednesday night definitely had some excitement, not exactly the excitement I had been hoping for but it was something I had never seen before. A storm blew in and dropped some major hail. I have never seen this big or this much hail in my life. It was the craziest thing I have ever seen. At one point it sounded like bowling balls were being dropped on our roof. They would drop to the ground and explode into huge pieces. They started about marble size which turned into softball size in a matter of minutes. One of those softball size landed in our oldest daughter's back window shattering it to pieces. She had a lot of hail damage with a broken back window and cracked front windshield. The yard looked like a bad golfer had been through putting several divots wherever a piece had hit. While the storm was going our lil guy began to cry then the other kids started joking "we are all gonna die" and then our lil man said "don't worry God will take care of us." It was so sweet to hear him not fear the storm but say it's going to be ok because God will take care of us. Although our stuff is damaged we are all safe and that is all that matters. Here are some pictures:

The backyard.

Our patio table shattered.

One of the boys toy balls with the hail from the yard.

The once back windshield

A piece of hail buried in our yard from impact over an hour after the hail had stopped.

Hope everyone had little damage and are safe!

An ah ha moment

As we were driving to drop lil man off at school we were working on his memory verse John 1:3. He knows it very well but doesn't want to tell anyone. So, as we were driving he had said it a couple of times and then gone on to another thing. He was quiet for a few minutes then out of nowhere he says, "Mommy him is God and Jesus!" I thought about it for a minute a lil bit confused and then he started repeating his memory verse "All things were made by him." I asked him are you talking about your memory verse? He said, "yes! him is God and Jesus?"

It is so fun to see your children connect the dots! Praise God for hearts like children :)

First Day of School

Well, I know this is about a month late but that is just how my life goes sometimes :) We now have a home with a senior, 7th grader and preschooler. They are all enjoying school so far. Our senior is ready to be done w/high school but enjoying it as much as she can. Our 7th grader loves school and is having a great year. Although our preschooler had a tear jerker the first day he loves school now. On the first day when I took him he cried and didn't want me to leave. Now I drop him off and he doesn't even say goodbye before he is off playing with everything. I think that might be harder on me than having him cry but that is ok I would rather have it this way. So the school year is off to a good start with about a month under their belts, except for lil man who only has had a few days. We are looking forward to a busy year w/both girls playing tennis, having a senior and all the other things that go along w/having 4 busy kids :) Here are their First Day of School Pictures:

Senior Year

7th grader

Preschooler

(this pic was taken at work before school because mom forgot to take a pic at home)

Hope everyone is having a great school year so far!

ER what??

So, I know I haven't posted in a while and I have a lot to update with school starting and our trip to NYC. But this isn't that post. On Tuesday we were headed back home when I text my hubby that we are waiting in the airport. His reply was waiting in the ER. I reply what? Then he says lol....but seriously. That was it for about 20 min. So, I go about my business waiting for our flight thinking that was all a joke he was trying to play on me.

Wrong! He calls me a lil bit later and I ask what are you doing? To which is reply, "getting lil man ice cream for being such a big boy at the ER." I come to find out that while lil man was at his aunt's house he was riding the play horse in the play room when he was trying to get off he fell, hit a train set and cut his head pretty good. The lil man was a trooper and had to get a staple in his head. Let me tell you I almost started crying hearing my hubby tell me how big lil man had been w/the whole thing.

So, while I was gone we had our first trip to the ER and with these boys I am afraid this won't be the last. To be honest I am kind of glad I wasn't in town so I didn't have to see my baby go through getting a staple in his head. I think that would be harder on me than him. He is finally letting people look at it, but still won't let us take a picture of it. He has to have the staple in for 7-10 days and then we have to go back to get it removed, I am sure that will be fun. He is being a trooper about it and you wouldn't even know he hit his head. Right after they got back from the ER he was running around wanting to jump off things. As I mentioned in a previous post they are going to make my hair go grey early!

Hope everyone is having a great week and I will be updating soon!