Fall Goodness : ) and an angel....

Well, I couldn't stand it any longer! This morning I got up and made some ooey, gooey, yummy goodness!

Don't tell anyone but these are not the four hour recipe I was talking about last post....but they are just as good if I do say so myself!!!

They may be hard to spot but they are in there amongst all that yummy icing.

And this here is what they look like on the inside....they aren't as neat as I would have like for this picture but they were just packed so tight and "cozily" in that skillet that I had a hard time gettin them out....but I did......and we ate....and they were YUM!

My goodness gracious....like I have said before, food this good should be illegal!

and I couldn't help but add one more picture that'll make you smile  :)

It kinda gets me teary eyed . Some people think that you should get kids to quit suckin their thumb for different reasons: it'll mess up their teeth or habit forming....yadda yadda yadda....that's what braces are for and how many adults do you see walkin aroiund suckin their thumb? But I know the day she stops sucking her thumb, she is no longer my wee bitty baby  :(

She is my angel though......as long as she's sleeping anyway  :)

Happy Day!

CRAVINGS!!!!!!!

Why is it that this time of year I get the worst craving for these two things!!!???

I am sitting here posting this and hoping that my husband will not argue when I tell him I want to go to Starbucks for one of these when we go to Tifton....

I mean, I don't have to have one everyday.....or even every week for that matter but right now I am seriously lickin my chops........this is the first one I'll buy this year that my best friend won't be with me :(     but I'm still so happy that she is too!!!

and really, who  in their right mind could turn down something this ooey, gooey, doughy and delicious?

I just discovered a new oxymoron on pinterest today...."healthy cinnamon rolls" which I think can be translated into "don't even bother"

and p.s. the ingredients for Suetta Bechtel's Cinamon Rolls (out of my Amish cookbook) are on my shopping list for today!!! YAY!!! and FYI, these babies take 4 hours to make!!! so go ahead and start slappin ya mama in advance  :)

Normal?

BTW: this was supposed to be posted last week!? have no idea what happened!

NORMAL: adj. conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; regular; natural....Dare I say        things are getting back to that? May Be!

Today we got 'em up got 'em goin' and got our school work on! We have been on hold for about a week and a half with all of the things we had goin on and on top of weddin-ing, two of the babes got sick and MAP got staph!!! Talk about a full plate! BUT, I am woman and I totally tackled all of it!!! The babes are well (as of now) and MAP's foot/toes are on the road to recovery without amputation, hallelujah! And in the midst of it all, Jake pulled another tooth.....and tried to pull another one over on the tooth fairy.....by hiding it on top of his "Tony" cabinet...she totally only left him two dollars for all the effort she had to put into reaching the tooth  :)

family photo numero uno!!!

YAY!!! WE DID IT!!!

FAMILY PHOTO NUMBER ONE!!!

OF FIFTY-TWO!!???

OH DEAR!

.....and yeah, I did wait til the last minute of the end of week number one to take this.

May be midnite next week until we get used to doin it  :)

ta-ta.

(yeah, I know the pictures are uneven!? do I care? no.)

love  <3

Goals.......

Goals.....I like goals.....well, as long as they're "do-able". Goals are like plans, right? I like plans, although I have finally realized that after you "get God", YOUR plans don't matter so I'm gonna call my plans "goals".

I had a pretty neat idea the other day to take one family picture EVERY single week for an entire year. Not gonna matter where we are, what we look like (? not too sure of this one) just whenever I think, "Hey, time to take our family picture"......I'm practicing my self timer on my camera...not really swift at it so whatever it looks like is gonna go.....hopefully everyone will be in the picture. The last time I did this was at Easter this year and I had to sit it on the lid of the garbage can outside and it ended taking a picture of the lid of the can and cutting off two of the kids' feet!

She's Married!!!

Well, she did it! She married her prince charming and I do believe seeing how giddy she was the night before and the day of the wedding, that he was worth the wait!!!

She was probably the most beautiful bride I have ever seen! And even at our age (which is NOT that old, we actually joke about it), she was ROCKIN that straples wedding dress!!!

This is the new Mr. and Mrs. on the back of her surprise entrance for the guests...LOVE!!!

I thought this cake was gonna be the end of me. I was so afraid it was gonna be in the floor when we got up the morning of the wedding.....everything was perfect! It was a first for me   :) and it was soooooo goooooooood!

After the wedding, they lit a HUGE bon fire together and the bride had made up these neat little individual s'mores for all her guests. AWESOME!!!

This is a more closer look at the cake...did I mention how good it was!?

Here's the bride and her parents before the wedding. Everybody looked so good!

This was the outside in front of the plantation house.

This was the food table arrangment I whipped together. It was so tall. The whole place is HUGE...and beautiful!!!