Lowe’s Creative Ideas…

I love getting my Lowe’s Creative Ideas magazine in the mail.  It has so many great project ideas and best of all….it’s FREE!  You can subscribe here to get  free issues delivered to your mailbox also.

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Lowe’s Creative Ideas…

Do you get the Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine they send out?  If not, you can subscribe here. And the best part is that it’s FREE!!  It always has the best decorating ideas for the holidays.  Look at this cute idea for fall- {all of the pics and directions are from Lowe’s website}

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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas {Cooking}…

I love Christmas and I love giving gifts.  The problem is not having enough money to buy those gifts with.  So this year my friends and loved ones will be getting homemade gifts from the heart….and my kitchen!  And if you didn’t know- Christmas is only 164 days away!!!  So you may want to get on the ball with your Christmas List…

First off I think I’m going to make some homemade vanilla extract.

Chickens in the Road has a great tutorial for making this.

And for my friends and family members with dogs maybe some homemade doggie treats. 

A Cozy Kitchen has a delicious recipe for these treats.

Cinnamon rolls always make a great gift.

I have made The Pioneer Woman’s Cinnamon Rolls twice as gifts on Christmas Eve.  They are always a huge hit.

Give these out on Christmas Eve so your friends and family can have them for Christmas breakfast.  YUM!!!

After all of that…how about some delicious peppermint bark?  Get the recipe straight from Martha Stewart’s website.

How can you go wrong with chocolate and peppermint??

Ok, are you as hungry as I am now??

Snake Bubbles, Cupcakes and a Ghetto Slip-N-Slide…

Happy 4th of July…  I hope everyone had a great day…  I know I did.  We had friends and family over for a cookout.  I absolutely love getting together with family.  When we get together its always a lot of fun.  We eat way too much, laugh too loud and have a blast!!  Here are a few pics of our 4th of July!!!

I started out by making tie dye cupcakes. Click HERE for a great tutorial at Skip to my Lou.

I frosted mine with a cool whip/white chocolate pudding mix instead of frosting.  I mixed white chocolate pudding with 1 cup milk and beat it with a mixer.  This will be thick.  I then mixed it into my thawed cool whip.  I refrigerated it after I mixed it until I got ready to frost the cupcakes.  I then decorated them with sliced strawberries and blueberries.

My cute niece, Makayla, thoroughly enjoyed the pinwheels on the cupcakes.

The cupcakes are a huge hit!!!

I found the tutorial for these water bottle bubble blowers HERE at How Does She?  These make the longest “snake bubbles” I’ve ever seen.  Jake and Sydney try them out with great success.

Chase entertained us with some tunes.

My niece, Kendall, gets the Ghetto Slip-N-Slide ready!!!

Don’t be jealous of our slip-n-slide…you can make one yourself.  Just lay down a tarp, turn on the sprinkler and find some kids that REALLY want to cool off!!!

This is how we spent our 4th…how was yours???

Easter Bubbles…

Easter was a few weeks ago but I just had to post these very cute pics.  My sister-in-law brought some bubbles to our mother-in-law’s house for the younger kids but after a while everyone was joining in.

Hip, Hip Parade!!…

Don’t you love small town parades?  The local high school bands, brightly decorated floats and the pièce de résistance..No not Santa, my son Tré marching with the Air Force JROTC.  This is his first year in ROTC and so far he’s doing great!  His older brother Chase was in it all four years of high school and now Tré is following in his footsteps. Looking good baby!!!

Tre’ and Grandma after the parade

Thanksgiving Eve…

Oh my gosh!!  Can you believe Thanksgiving is tomorrow?  I love Thanksgiving; it’s the cooking and prep work that I don’t particularly enjoy.  Well, let me take that back…I love the cooking but detest the clean-up.  Calgon, take me away!!!

After working all day, I am now busy making a Pumpkin Gooey à la Paula Deen, sweet potato casserole and a honey glazed ham!!  In the immortal words of Rachael Ray, “YUMMO”.

I have to work on Thanksgiving…cue the violins…but hopefully I will be able to scoot out early enough to go home and get my YUMMO dishes and head over to my mother-in-law’s house in time to fill my belly!! Then back home for a few hours of sleep before heading out with my cousin and sister-in-law to grab those Black Friday deals!!  Happy Thanksgiving Eve!!!

Where does the time go??…

Can you believe it’s almost Thanksgiving? Halloween was just a few weeks ago and there are only 37 days left until Christmas!!! I love Fall, it’s my favorite season but it seems like it comes and goes so quickly.  As soon as we start carving pumpkins and hanging cob webs it’s time to turn that pumpkin into a pie and stuff a turkey.  And then there’s Black Friday, oh Black Friday how do I love thee?…Let me count the ways… I love thee to the depth and breadth and height…ok girl snap out of it.  But if you knew me you’d know that I LOVE a great deal. Since Black Friday is only 10 days away…sit back and go to the following Black Friday website to plot your shopping day adventure!

Some of my favorite pics so far this season…