Who Am I... This is the best video ever!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7x3VnrqbA

A dear friend shared this video with my this week! This is a youth group doing a skip/mime with white gloves! I'm probably not explaining it good. Go see for yourself! It was so amazing! I hope that it blesses your heart like it blessed mine! Thanks Pam!

Butter Pecan Rum...Yummmm!!!!!!

The next time you go to your local grocery store you MUST pick up a box of Betty Crocker butter pecan cake mix! There is a secret recipe on the back of this box! Butter Pecan Rum....it is to die for! I have made it twice this week and it was a hit! Trust me on this one!

The only thing I did differently from the recipe was the icing. I never buy icings for my bundt cakes. I just use powdered sugar and pour in my liquid till I get the right consistency. ( Milk, rum, orange juice, lemon juice...whatever flavor cake I'm doing.) It takes very little liquid and a lot of sugar for a very stiff icing! So, for this cake I used rum!!! Yummm~O!!!!

Those of you who know me, know that I LOVE making things from scratch! I LOVE homemade! (Honestly, I like to pretend I'm a pioneer woman!) BUT, when I find recipes that are easy, beautiful, delicious and from a BOX....they're a KEEPER!!!

This cake is a KEEPER!

I hope you are able to add it to your recipe collection!

Happy Saturday to ya!

XOXO!!!

Do you see what I see????

This was our exciting morning!

Peyton went to put on his shoes and had a surprise in his shoe!!!

"Mom! Mom! Come quick! There is a HUGE frog in my shoe and my toes touched it!"

I spy something very camouflaged! I spy something with two eyes lookin back at me! I spy something green and slimy! I spy something that does NOT belong in a SHOE!!

Hee~Hee!!!

This frog will a little bigger than a tree frog! This toad was the size of my hand !

I'm so glad he camped out in his shoe and NOT mine!!!

Once the little toad was freed, he ran behind the fridge...around the fridge...into the case of DP...and finally out the door!

The toad was FINALLY freed after a WILD goose chase and a lot of laughs!

I just have one question.....

How did a freakin toad get INSIDE my HOUSE????????

Rrrribitttttt!!!!!

Being 4 is FUN!!!!

I must share a very cute story with you this morning!

Afew weeks ago, I took the boys to get snocones! We have the best little snocone stand here in our little town! We love snocones! The boys were sooo excited! It doesn't take much to excite us!

Well, we pull into the parking lot and the whole stand was gone! Vanished into thin air! Gone! There were tears...real ones! I thought..."What? Why would the snocone stand leave in the middle of July in Texas? WEIRD!!!"

So, off to DQ for blizzards we go!

This morning, we pass by the snocone stand! (She's been back for afew weeks, but Peyton is just noticing!) Peyton yells, "Mom!!! Look the snocone lady is back!!!! She must have ran out of SNOW and had to go to the North Pole to get some more! Yippeee!!!"

My heart just SMILED and I said, "Your probably right! She must have gone for more SNOW!"

I wish I could bottle this age up and hold onto it forever!

Happy Wednesday!

Girls just wanna have fun.....

These were the cutest candles I've ever seen!

Happy birthday Tyler! Thanks for inviting me to your slumber party! I had a great girly time!

Magnificent MaryKay makeovers!

I painted watermelons on their toes!

The girls made cute tye~dyed shirts! Didn't they turn out cute? Wild, colorful and crazy! The girls also talked me into doing some dance contest on the TV. You know the one where you jump around on the arrows to the music! I'm so glad I didn't get pictures of that! The girls whipped me and laughed at my moves! They asked why I had my arms in the air! I forgot I am not in the 80's anymore!

Peyton lived on the trampoline this weekend! He wanted nothing to do with the pool because he couldn't touch! So...he jumped and jumped and jumped some more!

Swimmin with our cousins!

We had a great visit with Auburn's family this weekend!

We attended their little Assembly of God church on Sunday! Woo~Hoo!!! I'm not making fun AT ALL! This little Baptist girl had FUN in church on Sunday! FUN, FUN, FUN!!!! There was dancing and bouncing going on! (Don't tell anyone!) It was a nice, refreshing time of worshipping my Lord who is soooo worthy of being praised! What a wonderful start to my week!

Saying "GOOD~BYE" is hard to do....

Friday evening, the MOFIA and their wives went to Grotto's in The Woodlands as a "farewell" dinner for JD and Allison! JD has been our youth minister for about a year and ahalf! They are moving to the Dallas area and we are going to miss them! We have learned so much from JD! We've laughed, we've cried, we've cried because we've laughed so hard!

What a great evening we had! Don't know who that dork is in the background!

I enjoyed homemade pasta stuffed with fresh spinach and fresh basil! Saundra's favorite! It was delicious!

Yummo at Gratto!

Good~ Bye for now JD and Allison! You will be missed in a HUGE way! We hope that God blesses you as you continue to be obedient to him!

My group shots didn't turn out! Saundra I need yours!

Happy birthday Tyler!

This is Tyler's cute bedding that matches her cute, new sign!

Ta dahhhh!!!!!!!

My niece, Tyler, is celebrating here 11th birthday this weekend. She just got a new comforter and I had my friend, Teresa, paint one of her adorable tiles for her room! Didn't it turn out so cute? I hope she likes it! Thanks Teresa....you are sooooo talented! I get to go to Tyler's slumber party and do GIRLY things! Things like arts~n~crafts, MaryKay make~overs, hair, manicures and pedicures, tell ghost stories till wee hours of the morning, watch girl movies, & eat junk food till I could barf! I can't wait!