May 8, 2008

I'm thankful for a lot of things. Since today is my birthday, I guess I'll start with that. I'm thankful that I'm alive and that God has given me yet another day to be with my family and those I love and care about. I'm thankful for the wonderful, Christian man he has brought into my life. He's an amazing husband and daddy. I'm thankful for our precious almost 3 year old daughter that God gave us. She's the joy of our life.
I'm thankful for my salvation, for Jesus dying on the cross to pay for my sins.
I'm thankful for my parents, grandparent and my mother & father in law. I'm thankful for the friends I have.
I'm thankful for our church and the ministry God has provided for us there.
I'm thankful for a lot of things.
To sum it up, I'm thankful for the life God gave me and I'm just trying to live it for him and serve him. I'm thankful for all the blessings around me.
Today, it is actually trying to be sunny instead of raining like it has the last couple of days, so I'm thankful for that!
I'm thankful for all my blogging buddies and for having a place like this that I come and share my life stories, vent when I need to and meet great women online.
Thank you God for all you've given me and blessed me with!

Wordless Wednesday

I know we're not supposed to write anything but can you guess what it is?

Thankful Thursday

My mother in law does a Thankful Thursday post every week and I've decided to start one too.

I am thankful first and foremost for God and Jesus. For Christ dying on the cross to pay for my sins. I'm thankful for my salvation.
I'm thankful for a wonderful Christian husband that God has blessed me with and our beautiful daughter he has given us.
I'm thankful for my parents and growing up in a Christian home.
I'm thankful for wonderful in-laws. I have a wonderful mother in law whom I share a lot with: the love of scrap booking, crafts, and photography but most importantly-the love of Christ. We attend church together and I love that I get to worship God every Sunday with family.
I'm thankful for all my family and friends.
I'm thankful for a nice house to live in, food and clothes. God has provided my family with our basic needs.
I'm thankful for our finances getting better. We've paid off so much in the last couple of years.
I'm thankful for Spring-the weather has been so nice lately-today it is raining but not much. I know we need the rain and come July and August, we'll be wishing we had rain, so I won't complain!
I'm thankful for the life God has given me and for another day to wake up, live my life and be with my family and those that I love and care about the most.
Last, but not least-I'm thankful for all the friends I've made through blogging and I look forward to making more friends in the future. All you have blessed me in some way each time I read your blogs. I'm blessed to know you and I'm thankful for you!
God bless you all!

My first Blog Award!

I have been given my first blog award! Yea! In turn, I am giving the award to some of my favorite blogs to visit. Thanks Sue for making my day! I hope I can do the same for others!

And the award goes to......

Junebug
The 3 J's
Alpicks Treasures
Daughter of the King
Nin
Utah Grammie

Thanks ladies for having wonderful blogs! I try to visit your blogs as often as I can. I sub a lot, and that doesn't always allow me to get on the internet. Anyways-enjoy your award! Keep on bloggin'!

My own twist to Chocolate Chip Cookies

Rob's dad came over today and we had a BBQ tonight. We grilled hamburgers and hot dogs. They were yummy! I made some chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for 2 tsp of vanilla extract and I accidentally goofed and put in 2 tsp of maple syrup extract but it actually tasted really good. I also substituted wheat flour for regular flour so here is my chocolate chip recipe with a few changes. Enjoy!


Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Maple Cookies

2 1/4 cup of wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tsp maple syrup extract
2 eggs
1 pkg chocolate chip cookies

Stir in all the ingredients. Microwave for 45 seconds to 1 minute to soften the mix. Drop balls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

This is how I make my cookies. The actual recipe calls for mixing a couple of the ingredients together and set aside while beating other ingredients and then adding them all together and putting on a cookie sheet. I do it all together so save on time. Prep time for this is only about 5 minutes. Serve warm and enjoy!

Family Times

Since this blog is called Family Fixin's and we've been doing a lot family things lately-I figured I'd blog about it.

We enjoyed a big Easter dinner at my grandma's house on Easter Sunday. She made this bunny cake in the picture above: I will have to get the recipe from her and post it sometime. We were to go to Rob's mom's for dinner but only he went b/c Chloe was fussy and crabby all that day and I kept her home. She had a big day.

I've been subbing a lot the last 2 weeks, so that's why I haven't posted in awhile.

We had a family BBQ at our house over the weekend. Rob's parents and his brother and sister in law and their kids came over Sat night for a BBQ. The kids played outside all afternoon with Chloe's new kitten, Max. We grilled burgers, brats, hot dogs and had chips, dip, cheese, crackers, baked beans, corn on the cob and shells and cheese. Mmmm Mmmmm good! My mother in law made a lemon cake for dessert. That was delic!

It's been nice weather after 2 weeks of almost non-stop rain-we got like 16 inches I think over the course of 2 weeks. It was nice to have a warm weekend and be able to be out in it and enjoy the day with family.

Now, there is rain in the forecast almost everyday this week...bummer....Spring is teasing with us. Of course, as the saying goes...April showers brings May flowers...but still...I'm ready for it to be warm everyday not just here and there with rain in between.

Anyways-we had a good weekend and got to enjoy warm weather and good food with our family so I thought it would be nice to post that on this blog since it's a family oriented blog.

Have a good Monday and enjoy your week!

God bless!

In Memory of Boomer

I just read at my mother in laws blog Country Pleasures about Boomer. He's a 3 year old boy who drowned sometime this past week. His parents are the new youth pastors at Brin's church. Visit her blog http://www.messythrillinglife.blogspot.com/ for more on Boomer. The family just had a baby girl and with hospital bills and funeral expenses they need all the financial help they can get. If you feel led to help, please donate $5. Brin has a paypal account set up to do that. The details are on her blog. Let's keep this family in our prayers. I have a daughter who will be 3 in July-I'd be completely devestated if something ever happened to her. She's my life-my world. I will be keeping this family in my prayers. Sometimes, we don't understand why things happen and might even question God, but somewhere down the road someone who is not saved will come to know Christ as their Savior because of Boomer. We also have to realize he's in a better place now and we should celebrate with him bc he's with Jesus! I wish I were there now. God bless you all and may peace and comfort rest with Boomer's family.