Women Walking with God Conference!

Alright ladies I have mentioned it before and now I am going to post about it. I have been blessed to be able to attend the Women Walking with God conference 3 out of the 4 past years. It is an amazing conference where women come together to grow closer to God! The conference will be April 15-16, 2011. Registration has begun online and the conference will sell out again this year so get your registration in early. There will be another set of amazing speakers from all over the country bringing us God's word. The theme for 2011 is Leaving a Legacy with the scripture Ps 78:4, 6.

Please check out the website Women Walking with God. You can find out more information on the speakers, entertainment, monthly devotionals and so much more. A couple of women from our church were moved to bring this before our congregation in 2006 and the ladies spoke. After much prayer the conference came about and will continue until God shuts the door on us. I pray that you will consider coming to the conference if you have never attended. It is such an uplifting 2 days of girl time where we grow closer to our Father. If you have attended before I hope that I will see you again in 2011!

"We will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord....so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn will tell their children." Ps 78:4,6!!

"Christmas Time is Comin...."

Ok, I know it is just November but before we know it Christmas will be here. It always seems that the holiday season flys by so fast and I am always hurrying to get everything done that I want done. One of my favorite things about Christmas time is receiving Christmas cards in the mail. It really isn't the card that I enjoy but the pictures that are either on the card or in the card. I love seeing friends and family, especially from great distances, share their family pictures. Although I love putting together Christmas pictures for cards, I don't enjoy getting the picture taken. This is where I usually wait until the last moment and throw something together that I am never really happy with. Well, this year I am going to try and be different. My goal is for my wonderful dad to take our family picture, some kids pictures and create a card like one of these. Shutterfly is one of my favorite picture websites. I use them to create photo books, calendars, all kinds of different gifts and just have prints made too. Their Christmas cards are wonderful. In the past I have used the folded cards and then also just the photo cards. They meet all your needs. Another great thing about Shutterfly is once you join they are always having sales on all your gift needs. Their current promotion is offering 25% off all holiday cards.
Just in time for the Holiday season you can get all the cards you need. They also offer address labels, gift tags, and so much more. They offer a way to put a personal touch on the gift you give this season.

So, do you send a card, newsletter or photo during the Christmas season. Head over to Shutterfly and check out their card selection then share what your card plans are this season. I already have an eye on the card I think I am going to choose, now I just have to get the pictures!

Happy Creating!!

Really??! 1 already!

Well, I guess it has been a year but I still can't believe it. My lil guy is turning 1 today! It has been a great year and it will definitely be very interesting to see what God has in store for this lil guy.

When he was born we joked that he showed no emotion. Whether he was happy, sad, mad, bored it was all the same straight face. He definitely shows more emotion and we are thinking he might be more of the jokester than we thought. You know the kid that plays it cool and no one expects to be the one pulling the prank. Yeah I have a feeling I am in trouble with my two boys. One thing hasn't changed since he was born he is picky about people. We aren't sure what it is because there is no rhyme or reason to who he doesn't like. Sometimes whether you are family, someone he sees everyday or a total stranger he might not want nothing to do with you. On the other hand he might go right to you open arms and amaze us all.

As for movement he has been on the move since he was about 6 mos crawling all over the place. Mommy was sure he would be walking before his brother did (his first bday) since he started crawling so soon. Well, he beat his brother but only by a couple of days, and although he can walk he still prefers his bear crawl or what I like to call Spiderman crawl. He gets where he wants fast, sometimes too fast for Mommy.

He is going to be my boy that eats me out of house and home I am sure. Right now he has decided that whatever you are eating is much better than my food so I think I will eat that. He tries everything and I don't believe he has turned down anything. If Daddy sits down in his chair to eat, lil guy quickly crawls over to his side to share whatever Daddy is eating.

It has been fun watching him grow and play with his siblings and I am looking forward to many more years with my 4.

Happy Birthday to my lil guy!! and Happy Halloween to everyone!

A Concert and pumpkins

Tuesday night was a date night with the youngest daughter. She loves Carrie Underwood and when she found out she was coming to town she begged to go. So, this was one of her Christmas gifts. We went to McAlister's and split the French Dip and then were off to the concert. The concert started at 730p and we left around 11p. I have to say that I definitely feel I got my money's worth out of this concert. There were two opening acts: Sons of Sylvia and Billy Currington. Billy was great! Then Carrie took the stage. She was amazing! She had a great set, several costume changes and a flying truck! I think my favorite was when she sang "Jesus Take the Wheel" and finished it with "How Great Thou Art". She is a very talented singer.

On Thursday lil man had his pumpkin hunt at school. When we had originally talked to him about the pumpkin hunt he got real excited and asked "do we get to hunt w/guns?" I think he was a lil disappointed when he found out that he just got to pick it out of the field and no guns would be used. Pretty cute though how he thinks. He had fun running to pick his pumpkin. I was able to be there to watch his class and it was fun watching all the kids. He has a couple of great teachers that are great with the class.

Here are some pics:

Before the concert.

Holding my girl :)

At the concert


In her Carrie shirt

Carrie and the flying truck

Running to find a pumpkin

Lil man and his pumpkin.

(His new thing is to mess w/his tongue ALL the time, and it drives Mommy crazy.)

Lil man and me.

It has been a great week with some Mom/youngest daughter and Mom/lil man time. I am blessed with my 4 kids.

What a weekend....

Well, this weekend definitely didn't go as planned but that is ok. We started the weekend on Friday with the State Tennis tournament for our oldest. Unfortunately it was a short weekend of tennis for her and her doubles partner. They were having an off day and lost both matches which sent them home. They were upset but made the best of it. Since we had planned on staying overnight anyways the other parents and us decided to go ahead and stay. The girls had some girl time and we all went out to eat. It was a good end to a not so good start.

The rest of the weekend went pretty well until we ended up in the ER w/our oldest. She had gone up to the hospital to visit her friend's cousin who was diagnosed with leukemia and is only 7. She wasn't there long when we got a call from her friend telling us that she passed out and they took her to the ER. We found out that she started not feeling well and went out to the nurse's station to ask where the bathroom was when she passed out. They luckily caught her so she didn't hit her head or anything. After being checked out down in the ER we figured out it was just the overwhelming of it all. We were glad that all the tests came back normal, better safe than sorry. She was feeling much better after she got to the ER and was ready to go long before they let her go. She is a lot like her dad when it comes to being a patient, not very patient :)

We did have some good things happen this weekend too though. We tried a new recipe Baked Ravioli from Tasty Kitchen. It was very easy with few ingredients, as I mentioned a plus for me. I did use 2 different types of ravioli in my recipe and it was a hit w/the whole family, an added bonus! Also on Sunday afternoon we had our kickoff event for our church's women's conference. I am so excited for this year, I know it will be another great year! This conference has been such a blessing to so many and brings glory to God. Without God this conference could not go on like it does. As soon as they get the website updated with this year's details I will post about it.

Then today we put our house back on the market. We are hoping it will sell quickly this time and that we will find the right move for us soon.

So although the weekend didn't go as planned, we had our ups and downs but everyone came out on top :) Now just cross your fingers and toes and eyes and whatever else that our house sells quick and we find a new home ;)

**Tonight my youngest daughter and I have a date to the Carrie Underwood concert so I am sure there will be pictures and another post update later this week.

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....