State Fair :)

A few pics from the state fair last tuesday :)

We met Mandy there and waited for a while...


Then we tried some apple cider for the first time when Mandy got there


She didn't like it too much!


Auntie M showed M.E. the Goats in the FFA Children's Barnyard


We walked around for a while and found a funnel cake!!!


Then we watched people milk the cows :) I was so temped to pay the $2.00 to do it, just for kick. But figured I'd done it before, didn't need to pay to do it again


I don't know about everyone else, but I ALWAYS make it a point to go by the pickle place and buy a pickle! Well, M.E. LOVED it. LOVED it, I say! She would eat any I would give her. She hated the apple cidar, but loved the pickle. HAHA.


After the pickle, we walked around for a while, and finally decided to get some "real" food. We got a hot dog from the Methodist Church resturant. M.E. slept almost the whole time we were in there. She got a good little nap in. When she woke up, we took a few pics:




After walking around much more, it was about time for Auntie M to go to work, so we headed out. This pic was taken outside the entrance at the 4-H displays.


Then a nice man, who parked beside me took our picture when we got out to my car!


After leaving Auntie M, we went to Babies R Us, then dinner with Aunt MeMe and Uncle Jake
I love this picture of them!




It was such a great day! Enjoyed it soooo much!!! Wish every weekend was that good :)

Thankful Thursdays

I'm thankful for my sister! She's an incredible person who loves the LORD with her whole heart. She's SUCH a kind person! I hope she can find a guy who will treat her how she deserves and more!



She's always been there for me and I KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt, she'll always be there for me. Love you Mandy-man

Project 365...10/20/10

A Birthday Cake a baked for one of our Employees Ron!!!

Notice my wonderful decorating technique. lol. Hey- I tried!

Project 365...10/19/10

Auntie M and me and M.E. (haha that was funny) went to the fair yesterday! We had a blast. This was right before we left in the parking lot. A nice man who parked beside me offered to take our picture. Notice M.E.'s tired face! She had a ball tho. Will post more pics of the fair shortly!

Project 365

A girl I'm friends with on FB posted this up.



I think I'm going to do this. For M.E. I may not post it up on here every day. May post a couple days at a time, but I'm def. going to take a picture every day! :D

Here is my first picture!

M.E.

M.E. usually means my daughter, Mary Elizabeth. But in this post today, I'm posting about Mary Engelbreit.

I have loved her artwork for years. My mom got me a desk calendar for the past 2 years. Just wanted to share some of her stuff!

Thankful Thursday!

I'm thankful I have a job where I can bring my kid to work with me when I have to and not feel guilty!

I love this!


And I'm very thankful for my Mother In Law's help :o)

Every Traveled Road

So, ovbiously, I changed my blog and URL.

I bought the new Amy Grant CD not too long ago. The name of the album is Somewhere Down the Road. I LOVE this CD. LOVE LOVE LOVE. I listen to it over and over again in my car and could listen to it 1,000 more times. I usually don't buy CDs and havn't in years. But the 1st song on this album is called Better than a Hallelujah. I heard it on KLOVE when it first came out and fell in love with it. The first lyric goes like this :

God loves a lullaby
In a mothers tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes.


Talking about straight to the heart! I could SOOO relate. I had bought Amy Grant's cracker barrell CD a while ago. Several years ago. Its a CD of Hymns that she loved growing up as a child. I play that CD over and over and over again. So I had a feeling I was going to love this CD as well. Well, I was right!

One of my favoriate songs on this new CD is called Every Road. Here are the lyrics:

There you go makin' mountains out of such a little hill
Here I go mixin' mortar for another wall to build
There's a struggle in this life we lead it's partly you it's partly me

But every road that's traveled teaches something new
And every road that's narrow pushes us to choose
And I'd be lyin' if I said, "I had not tried to leave a time or two"
But every road that leads me, leads me back to you

Here we stand in the middle of what we've come to know
It's a dance, it's a balance, holding on and letting go
But there is nothing that we can't resolve
When love's at stake, when love's involved

'Cause every road that's traveled teaches something new
And every road that's narrow pushes us to choose
And I'd be lyin' if I said, "I had not tried to leave a time or two"
But every road that leads me, leads me back to you

Every road that's traveled teaches something new
And every road that's narrow pushes us to choose
And I'd be lyin' if I said, "I had not tried to leave a time or two"
(Time or two)
And every road that leads me, leads me back to you

Every road that leads me, leads me back to you
Every road leads more, leading me back to you
Leading me back to you

I kept wanting to find something to name my blog. I thought and thought and though and just couldn't come up with anything original. But this song just touched me. Every road we travel teaches us something new. But it keeps leading me back to you (God).

I highly recommend this CD to anyone who need a little bit of God touching them in a song. Its so powerful what God can do.

Loosing Faith

I hate loosing faith in someone I once trusted.

Someone I enjoyed. Someone I trusted. I hate discovering that they did something to loose that faith and trust. Ugh. She may even read this, and that is ok.

This situation completly changes the view I have on her. I used to feel sorry for her, to a certain extent. But I have no sympathy for people who steal.

I was raised to be honest. Completly and totally honest. And I try everyday to be honest. If I lie, it eats me alive! I can be nothing but honest. Something that is not mine, I do not take! Period! It just really frustrates me that someone stooped that low to steal something that was not theirs, more than once, right under my nose. Because I trusted them, I didn't see it. I did suspect it for a long time. But I do not dare accuse someone of that without proof. Without being 100% sure. Well now I'm 100% sure and do have proof. But, what is done is done. And I don't have to deal with that person anymore, thankgoodness. I don't want to be associated with someone who makes those kind of choices.

Ok. Vent over. Thanks for reading!