Our life beneath the Magnolia and Oaks

25 Random Things You Might Not Know About Me!

A friend of mine sent this challenge to me via email. After I filled it out I thought it might be nice to add it to my blog. It was really fun to do, but it did take some thought.

25 Random Things You Might Not Know About Me!!!

1. My Mom was a yankee and my Dad was a die hard southerner. Civil War discussions were always interesting! 
2. Genealogy is my passion. 
3. I am sensitive to a fault. 
4. I carry a tough exterior, because I’m very easily hurt! 
5. I’ve never felt as though I’ve fit in anywhere. 
6. I love doing photography, quilting, scrapbooking, stamping, cross stitch, writing and so much more.  
7. I’ve been published on 6 occasions.  
8. I am currently writing a family cookbook. 
9. I have a terrible temper. 
10. My mouth usually overloads my a**. 
11. I have a rank sense of humor and love to make people laugh.  
12. I absolutely hate a liar. 
13. Having children is the most important thing I will ever do in my lifetime. 
14. I will never get over my fathers death. 
15. The two most beautiful sounds are a baby’s laugh and the sound of waves crashing along the shore.  
16. I’m terrified of heights. 
17. I’ve never flown. Flying doesn’t bother me it’s the crashing part that is just too much!! 
18. I believe that when it’s your time, it’s your time. BUT, what if it’s the Pilots time and I’ve a victim of circumstance?? ……..see above.  
19. My greatest fear is the loss of a loved one, especially a child! 
20. I struggle with self esteem issues.  
21. I’ve always dreamed of living in a Norman Rockwell like village in

    Vermont

    .  
22. I believe age is a state of mind and lately I’m really feeling old. 
23. No one has earned my respect quite like my 10 year old, special needs, little girl.  
24. I have no patience for people who whine about being sick. Especially after watching my child over come massive health issues and daily pain. Always with a smile! 
25. Lastly, I wish I could go back in time knowing then what I know now. Then again…..Don’t we all!!

 

 

Sharing again.

I'm sharing the other few gifts that I made this Christmas.

Here is the teachers gift that I took to school. I did the same basic thing for the bus drivers, but they had the cocoa cones in them.

 

Here are the components of this gift.

 

 

 

The monogrammed stationery turned out really nice.

The blizzard bites, you can find that recipe here.

 

 

I really enjoyed making these gifts. It was nice to be able to get inspired again and have the feeling of accomplishing something different. I hope that I've inspired you!

Jordan and Randall's Birthday

Jordan and Randall share the same birthday. For Randall's 19th birthday he was given the biggest gift I'll ever give him anyway,  a baby sister! Now he's destined to celebrate with his baby sister every year.........uh, her way! This year she wanted the party at the Niceville Children's Park. The weather was beautiful and everyone seemed to have a blast!

Here are a few pictures from that day.

 

 

 

 

 

As I took this picture I realized I had blackmail material......If anyone recongnizes this woman, PLEASE call Crime Stoppers! LOL!!!

 

Take a good look at these pictures. You can see just how abused poor Landon is......... NOT!

 

 

 

   

You can see more from our day in the photo album in the sidebar. Thanks for looking!

Better late than never!

Ok so the New Year has come and gone and I haven't posted a thing in quite a while. I know this comes a little late, but I'm still getting requests on seeing this stuff so here it is. This year I went to the Jordan's school and made these as a craft project with the kids. We really had a lot of fun doing this. I also gave these out as gifts to some who hadn't seen what we had made. This isn't by any means new, but still enjoyable. These are cocoa cones. The tag is something that I put together on the computer and then stamped a small cocoa cup onto each tag. The white fluff at the top of the cup is Scribbles dimentional paint. So easy and so much fun.

 

 

Supplies:

The cone is actually a disposable decorators cone found in the cake decoration section at Walmart.

I used Walmart brand cocoa with about a cup of powdered creamer added in. Use 1/4 cup per cone.

Chocolate chips, swirl chips, andes mint pieces, etc. Any of these work really well and can give your cocoa different flavors to enjoy. Use about  1/4 cup.

Mini marshmellows to top. Use a double hand full if you have small hands like I do!

The stamp is by Lockhart Stamp Company.