Friday, November 30, 2007
The tree is up!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Pecan Coffee Cake
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tbsp melted butter
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350. Grease & flour a bundt pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in sour cream, sugar, and eggs, then stir in the vanilla. Fold in the flour mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Spread 1/2 of batter into prepared pan.
To make the Pecan Topping: In a medium bowl, mix together brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon. Stir in melted butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over cake batter in pan. Pour remaining batter on top. Careful to keep topping in center of batter so it doesn't spill out and stick to the pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
It's beginning to feel...
We have been invited to a free dinner/theatre performance at our local dinner theatre this weekend. I'm SOOO excited. It should be a lot of fun and the performance is Christmas themed. Our town is also having their Christmas parade on Saturday which Joshua enjoyed last year so I'm sure he will love it this year...hope it's not too cold.
Finally, Joshua continues to surprise us everyday as we watch his mind work. Yesterday at about 6pm, he decided he no longer wanted to wear what I put him in and wanted to wear a particular outfit - his dinosaur PJs which were dirty. We put on other dinosaur PJs hoping to satisfy him...but NO, he wanted those particular ones. So he kept taking his clothes off. Oh boy!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Our Holiday
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!!
- Psalm 106:1
T - Is for the Tons of Blessings that I receive each day.
H - Stands for these Hands that fold, when I begin to pray.
A - Means all the Awesome powers our Lord has from above.
N - Stands for His Never ending patience and His Love.
K - Is for the Kindness and forgiveness He has shown.
S - Stands for the Sweetest gift of love we've ever known.
G - Means the Amazing Grace that God bestowed on me.
I - Says I can't imagine, without His love, just where I'd be.
V - Is for (Victory in Jesus), just like that song of old.
I - Means I'll do my best, to lead lost sheep into His fold.
N - Is for the nails driven through our Savior's hands.
G - Stands for God's Greatest Gift, His Son's life for mortal man.
Many Blessings and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
~© 2002 by Vickie Lambdin~
Monday, November 19, 2007
Mary or Martha Thanksgiving?
Saturday, November 17, 2007
A fall stroll...
Friday, November 16, 2007
My Thursday Morning...
I was on the phone briefly and thinking, "My, isn't Joshua playing wonderfully by himself." So I walk over to where he was at the window and notice that there is frosting all over the air vent cover on the floor. Which means, that he has squeezed his little cinnamon rolls that he had for breakfast all down my air vents. So I pull the vent off to find that this apparently wasn't the first time he thought it would be fun to put things down the vent. There were 4-5 handfuls of food, several toys, and lots of dead bugs. Yay! So I get the vacuum to stick down the tube to suck anything else that might be down the tube that isn't within my reach...when I turn to see that apparently my dog was trying to get my attention unsuccessfully because he pooped ALL over my family room. JOY! So I run to throw the dogs in the garage and in the meantime, Joshua has fallen into the open air vent - just one leg - but he was stuck - which is a blessing really...because that means he wasn't walking in the poop. So I put him in his crib so I can clean everything up and thankfully he played very nicely in there the whole time without crying once. I'm very thankful that I was able to laugh about the whole thing and hope you get a good laugh too.
P.S. I had to buy 2 new air vents because apparently he was using the other one in the kitchen too and they were so sticky and yucky so I decided $12 for 2 new ones was well worth keeping my sanity.
I won!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Peace
"Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Growth Spurt
Monday, November 12, 2007
Pictures
Hotel Cleanliness
No Sew Blankets
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Praise!
"The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him." Nahum 1:7God is so good! Baby Noah is going home on Monday. Just wanted to share this awesome praise!!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
What happened to Thanksgiving?
"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever." Psalm 107:1
I can't believe Thanksgiving is 2 weeks from today. I think I'm really having a hard time believing it because it seems like all the retail stores have just skipped right over it.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Operation Christmas Child
Monday, November 5, 2007
The Mitford Series
P.S. Is this considered starting a conspiracy theory? Ta hee hee.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Memories of my mom
Anyways, my mother gave me the gift of loving to read. It's something we shared. Along with being mother/daughter & best friends - we were avid book swappers. We enjoyed reading the same type of books and would trade books back and forth almost weekly. Until experiencing a loss of this magnitude, I had no idea how much I would miss the every day moments of life my mom and I shared. The joy of simply finishing a book and putting it aside to share with my mom is now gone. I miss calling my mom to tell her about a new author I found. It's all the small, everyday moments that I will never be able to share with her again. I lost so much when I lost my mother. But there are other moments still happening in my life that I try to now stop & treasure. I hope you too will stop & appreciate all those simple things in life before they are gone.
P.S. Along with books...my mother loved bookmarks and would always buy 2 - one for me and one for her. The picture is just a small sample of some of my mom's bookmarks - can you tell she also loved butterflies?
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Joshua Video
Awesome Brownies!!
Awesome Brownies
1 box brownie mix & ingredients to make
1 container of coconut pecan frosting
1 small container sour cream
1 c chocolate chips
1 c chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350. Grease 9 x 13 pan. Mix brownies per instructions for cake-like brownies - 1/2 of the oil called for. Add frosting & sour cream. Bake for 35 minutes. Spread chips & pecans across brownies and bake for 5 more minutes. Use a spatula to spread the chip/pecan mixture and let cool. Yummy!!
Coconut Pecan Frosting
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 stick butter
3 egg yolks
1 c flaked coconut
1 c chopped pecans
1 tsp vanilla
Stir milk, butter, & egg yolks in saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly till thickened - about 10 minutes. Take off heat - add coconut, pecans, & vanilla.
Enjoy!
Cozy Sister Swap
Friday, November 2, 2007
Unauthorized Activity
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Fellowship & Chicken Enchiladas
Chicken Enchiladas
(this recipe is to make one for now & one to freeze for later)
4 cups cooked chicken - shredded or cubed (about 4 breasts)
1 container sour cream
1/2 c diced onion
16 - 8 inch tortillas
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp butter/margarine
2-3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 350. Grease 2 - 8 x 8 pans (make sure one is freezer/oven friendly). Mix soup & sour cream - set aside. Saute chili powder, onion & butter till mixed. Add 4 tsp chicken soup mixture & chicken. Warm tortillas in microwave for 1 minute. Spread 1/2 of soup mixture into bottom of each pan. Roll 1/4 c chicken in each tortilla & place seam side down. 8 tortillas per pan. Spread remaining soup mix on the tortillas - top with cheese. Cook one for 25 minutes. Freeze the other for later. To cook the frozen one - place in pre-heated oven frozen for 35-40 minutes.