Egg String Molds

Source: craftyendeavor.com via Jenna on Pinterest

I want to do this and make it into a garland. Looks like it would be a fun little project to do with my little brothers and sisters when I head down there for Easter.

Easter Cookies

Source: bhg.com via Jenna on Pinterest

I really want to make these for Easter. They are fun and easy!!!

Hey you VEGANS!!!

My lovely roommate is a vegan and she has her own blog she just started. Go check her out!!!!

That's me in the pink and my vegan roomie Leanna!!!!

www.veganout.tumblr.com

She is awesome just so you know!!!!

English Muffin Melts

This is one of the recipes I got from my Pioneer Woman cookbook. I made it this weekend and omg was it delicious. Instead of english muffins I used plain bagels. I also cut the recipe in half. It made 4 halves of bagels so 2 whole bagels for the recipe in half. One of the halves was more than enough to fill me up. Here is the recipe.....

Here is a picture of how mine came out. They are on bagel halves. They were very tasty. I recommend making these for guests.

Another idea I had was to get mini bagels and make a bunch of mini ones for a brunch party. I think they would work just as well as bite size and not fill you up too much.

No Dye Egg Decorating

So I love glitter and I always love a new way of doing things. I found this really cool and sparkly way to decorate eggs.

Looks difficult but really it is so very easy. All you do is punch out cirlces from double sided adhesive and place it on your egg. Then you roll your egg in glitter. If you want more than one color then you put on a couple at a time and then roll in glitter. You then add some more and roll into another color of glitter. So simple and yet so pretty.

Don't like circles? Just put star or heart punches in your double-sided tape. It's that easy! I always love a new way to decorate eggs. Do know that I will always dye some eggs as its a tradition I always grew up with. 

No-Bake Energy Bites

So I babysat today and the mom said help yourself to anything. So while the little munchkin was having lunch I stumbled among these tasty looking balls. Let me tell you how yummy they were. Oh My!!! Well even more good news you do not even have to bake them. Thats the best part!!!!

Here is the recipe....

No-Bake Energy Bites Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cup (dry) oatmeal (I used old-fashioned oats)
• 1 cup toasted coconut flakes
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Method:

Stir all ingredients together in a medium bowl until thoroughly mixed.  Let chill in the refrigerator for half an hour.  Once chilled, roll into balls of whatever size you would like.  (Mine were about 1″ in diameter.)  Store in an airtight container and keep refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Makes about 20-25 balls.

I will definitely be making these for my roommates. I know that they will love these things as much as I did.

You can dress them up and place them in mini cupcake wrappers. You can also drizzle chocolate over the top of them to give them a little fancy look.

ENJOY!!!!!

Photo a Day!!!!

Here is something I thought would be fun for the month of April. Take a photo a day with your phone or camera if you have one. The idea is to take it according to that topic for the day. Here is one that I found on Pinterest. I plan to post my pictures each day and I will have a little story behind each one.

The Sun is coming Out!!!!!

So it is starting to get hot again. I am not a fan of the cold so the spring and summer time are my favorites. So when I stepped outside today and felt the sun it my face a thought to my self, "Jumping in the pool would feel so good right now." So then it got me thinking about swimming. Then it got me to thinking about how some people could not swim. Well let me just cut to the chase. Last summer my family went to Georgia and we rented a cabin in the mountains. It was absolutely amazing to say the least. Of course while we were there we decided to get out and about. We went to their version of downtown, Pickin' at the Park, tubing down the river, horseback riding, and then we decided to go White Water Rafting. Let me tell you how excited we all were. It was going to be too much fun I knew for a fact. Well at the end of our White Water rafting adventure fun was the last word I would have used to describe it.

Here are some awesome pictures from our adventure......

The first drop was fun. Not to bad at all. Looked scary though Huh???

Look at that. We are all smiling....not for long!!!!!

Nice and smooth down the white water.

Yes we are entirely submerged in water. But we did pop right back up!!!!

Our tour guides face is telling me bad news.

I would say we were airborne in this one!!!!

I posed if you look closely. I saw the lady taking pictures of us :)

So looks like a lot of fun. And don't get me wrong it was a lot of fun. It would be fun for anyone. So as the camera turned off we were headed towards another  rapid. The Flipper. We all laughed and asked if it was named that for any specific reason. Our tour guide of course said nope. Funny because our raft did the name justice. We flipped. Mind you my 11 year old sister and 9 year old brother were aboard this raft. I literally thought I was going to die. Imagine being stuck in the rapid or under the raft or floating down stream. Well my dad, 1 of my brothers and my little sister got stuck under the raft and my dad tried to push it off but another raft was heading down the rapid as that was happening. They finally flipped the raft back over and only my brother and sister got back in my dad chose to float down river to look for my littlest brother. Well my littlest brother went floating down into the calmer waters so he was fine. Me and my other brother got kicked out of the rapid and were floating in roaring waters. At the beginning of the tour they say if you happen to fall out you point your nose and toes up towards the sky. Easier said than done just so you are aware. I would say this river is about 25 yards wide. I chose yards because I am a football girl and I can picture that distance :) So I was just about in the middle of the river and the nose and toes up thing was not working. I was getting water shot up my nostrils gallons at a time. So i flipped over and swam harder than I ever have swam in my life to the banks of the river where it was the calmest. I reached for a rock that was in about 2 inches deep of water and it was covered in algae so my hand slipped right off. As you might have guessed I am balling in tears freaking out for me and my family because I dont know if they all got out ok at this point. Well i finally got a hold of a rock and that algae was not gunna beat me. I held on to that rock like there was no tomorrow. So i got stable in looked around. The oldest brother that was on the trip pretty much did the same thing I did and he was clear across the river. I saw him and waved. My dad had gotten on one of the other rafts and my little brother had gotten scooped up by another raft. So we were all accounted for but in 4 different rafts. We finally all got back in the raft we originally started in and finished our little trip. I seriously was beyond terrified the rest the the way. I wanted it to be over sooooo bad. The tour guide had told us that the rapids were ranked in numbers of severity. A 6 is not humanly possible to ride in. A 5 is what professionals would attempt and we were doing 3 and 4 level white waters. There is a scale of intensity for you. And we then found out that we went on the roughest day there was.  The damn opens every other day and we went on the day that it opened of course. 

So that is the story of my 2nd and LAST white water rafting trip. I will forever be way to nervous on any raft that is in white waters.

He's Alive!!!!

Easter is right around the corner. I love Easter!!!! The bright colors and fun times with family. Most of all I love what Easter stands for. The resurrection of Jesus Christ. I grew up in the church and I can always remember learning so much about Easter. It has to be one of the most exciting holidays in the Christian religion. It is the symbol of life after death. That heaven is our hope for the future. I pray for each one of the viewers of this blog and that this Easter you find the true reason of life after death.

I am excited to bring to you fun and creative Easter decorations and activities for all!!!!


Stay tuned!!!!!

Couch to 5K

So in the recent months I have gained a little too much weight for my liking. One of my roommates is an avid runner and she wants to do a 5K. So I decided that I would join her. I found this really cool way to go from a couch potato to running a 5K in no time. Well 10 weeks that is. If your 5K is in less than 10 weeks then you can simply skip over every other week and eliminate your rest days. I will be doing couch to 5K in 5 weeks. I will post what my schedule and what the 5 week version is in my eyes!!!!

5K = 3.10685596 miles

I will be running 3.10685596 miles without stopping. This is my goal for the 5K.

Here is how I am going to do it.....

I found this on the oh-so-famous Pinterest. Yes I am a pinning fanatic. So what if I don't use all the pins that I repin. Here is one that I will use though!!!!

Feel free to join with me in this fun adventure. There are always 5Ks going on in cities for great causes. Look up what 5K is coming up next that is near you. I am sure that this will be an awesome accomplishment for me and hopefully you too!!!!

My New Favorite Cookbooks

Last weekend I went how to visit my family. My mom had just got these 2 new cookbooks in the mail. She got all excited because she had been waiting for them to come in the mail. Well she of course gave me an overview of why she had bought these cookbooks before I was allowed to open them and look through them. So later that night my mom and I read through the cookbooks. I have to say it was one of the most fun cookbooks I ever read. It not only had recipes in it but it had tons of pictures!!!!

So without further or do may i introduce to you my new favorite cookbooks......

This is Ree Drummond, also known as The Pioneer Woman. She has her own blog and you can find it at www.thepioneerwoman.com. I have used a couple of recipes from her books and they have all come out amazingly good. One thing about her cookbooks is that she gives a picture for each step of the way. She is a very good photographer not only in the kitchen but on her ranch as well. I encourage you to go visit her site. She is a very awesome woman and she is a true inspiration to me as I start this new blog of mine. 

And just so you can know how amazing my mother is....she gave me her 2 new cookbooks that she had been waiting for. She saw how much I enjoyed them!!!! That is how amazing my mama is :)

Just the Start

Well I am VERY excited to start this new blog!!! I love reading so many other blogs that I decided it is time. Time for this girl to get her own blog and share some crazy and fun ideas. Take a moment and read my about me so that you can learn a little more about me and where I come from.

Please enjoy every bit of this and please comment on any posts you feel your little heart desires. I also would love to know if you try things that I post on my blog and whether it worked out for you or not.

Enjoy and I shall be starting to post things out the wazoo very shortly.