Yep, it's my birthday today!!! Pretty normal day for the most part... dishes, laundry and housework.. but I refuse to get out of my PJ's until much later in the day!
We DO have dinner plans tonight at a great steak house here called Penical Peak, just Michael, Keegan and I. I am So looking forward to it. I LOVE a good steak! Keegan is looking forward to getting his tie cut off (yes! It's that kinda of a restaurant!), Oh and he wants to tell them it's my b-day so they'll ring the cowbell... UGH!
I was blessed with some awesome gifts so far. Also with some beautiful cards from some of my fellow stamping friends! I am so lucky to call these talented gals my friends! I am anxious to open the two gifts on the table form my hubby and Keegan! All I know so far is they came home in a big Michael's bag!!!!! Can't go wrong there! My mom got me a food processor that I have really been wanting... Michael just doesn't understand why I am SO excited over it, LOL! She also got me a daughter bracelet with crystal beads and pearls. SO pretty!
Well I am off... the birthday fairy just reminded me to switch over the laundry!
Have a blessed day!
Amy
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
It's been tooo long!
Okay so I fell off the Blog wagon after our visit to Yuma! We have been kind of busy since we got home I guess. Michael's interview was great, and he ended up with two other promising leads as well! It's all just a waiting game...
I have been super busy making announcements for my cousin's new baby, invites to my mom's party and my sister's shower. I am also working everything else for the parties. (I am going back to Yuma at the end of this month and I will be throwing both parties on the SAME day- crazy huh?!). I have come up with some really CUTE favors for my sister's shower and some "not the same old baby shower games" game ideas! I decided on a nacho bar for the luncheon part of the shower (not my idea, my cousin had one at her baby shower and it sounded fun)! My mom's party has a "DIVA - girl's night" theme. We are having it at A friend's house there and she has been wonderful about helping with everything. Another gal my mom works with is taking on the decorating. I guess she is the bomb at party decor. What a belssing to have so much help. Oh, oh, oh and the best part is that we are doing a chocolate lovers dessert potluck, YUM! We have some other fun things planned for a little later that night! It should be a blast!! Needless to say, I am really excited about both parties! I will post some pictures of everything after all is said and done!
Not much else for now.
I hope you are all still having very blessed days!
See you tomorrow!
Amy
I have been super busy making announcements for my cousin's new baby, invites to my mom's party and my sister's shower. I am also working everything else for the parties. (I am going back to Yuma at the end of this month and I will be throwing both parties on the SAME day- crazy huh?!). I have come up with some really CUTE favors for my sister's shower and some "not the same old baby shower games" game ideas! I decided on a nacho bar for the luncheon part of the shower (not my idea, my cousin had one at her baby shower and it sounded fun)! My mom's party has a "DIVA - girl's night" theme. We are having it at A friend's house there and she has been wonderful about helping with everything. Another gal my mom works with is taking on the decorating. I guess she is the bomb at party decor. What a belssing to have so much help. Oh, oh, oh and the best part is that we are doing a chocolate lovers dessert potluck, YUM! We have some other fun things planned for a little later that night! It should be a blast!! Needless to say, I am really excited about both parties! I will post some pictures of everything after all is said and done!
Not much else for now.
I hope you are all still having very blessed days!
See you tomorrow!
Amy
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Need a refreshment?
This really speaks to me today... God is so good! I hope you know Him too!
I starting thinking, "Imagine if we gave this same promise to everyone in our lives", WOW! what a difference we could make!
A pastor of a church we once belonged to explained the difference between Mercy and Grace like this; Mercy is when you don't get what you do deserve and Grace is when you do get what you don't deserve. Something to ponder huh? Needless to say, that explaination made a huge impact on me.
Hope this refreshed you too!
Have a blessed weekend!
Amy
Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.
Lamentations 3:23 NLT
Lamentations 3:23 NLT
I starting thinking, "Imagine if we gave this same promise to everyone in our lives", WOW! what a difference we could make!
A pastor of a church we once belonged to explained the difference between Mercy and Grace like this; Mercy is when you don't get what you do deserve and Grace is when you do get what you don't deserve. Something to ponder huh? Needless to say, that explaination made a huge impact on me.
Hope this refreshed you too!
Have a blessed weekend!
Amy
Good News!
My sweet hubby has a job interview in Arizona tomorrow!!! It's with the
News Paper in Yuma as an Ad Designer. He is going to have to do the "I need
more money than that" dance, but I really feel good about this!
Everyone please say a prayer for us.
We will also be there to pick up Keegan.
He has had such a great time with Grandma...They are truly such kindred spirits!
Sure hope we can convince him to come home, LOL! It's been like Disneyland there!
And uncase you are wondering, he's still claiming that he's not missing us.... guess we'll see !
I guess I will be off the computer for a few days, but I will update you all
when we get back!
Have happy, happy days until then!
Amy
News Paper in Yuma as an Ad Designer. He is going to have to do the "I need
more money than that" dance, but I really feel good about this!
Everyone please say a prayer for us.
We will also be there to pick up Keegan.
He has had such a great time with Grandma...They are truly such kindred spirits!
Sure hope we can convince him to come home, LOL! It's been like Disneyland there!
And uncase you are wondering, he's still claiming that he's not missing us.... guess we'll see !
I guess I will be off the computer for a few days, but I will update you all
when we get back!
Have happy, happy days until then!
Amy
Soda-pop cake!
Ugh, it's so warm here today! ( I know it's nothing compared to the temps some of you are dealing with right now, bless your hearts!)
I have such a sweet tooth today, and I am especially hungry for my favorite
summer time cake, but I just so don't t want to heat up the oven to make it.
So, instead, I thought I'd give you the recipe!
Soda-pop
one cake yellow or white cake (prepared to the directions on the box and cooled)
one large box of your favorite flavor Jello
one can of soda in a flavor matching the Jello-chilled
(lemon-lime soda can be substituted)
one large box of vanilla pudding prepared to the directions on the box
one tub of cool whip
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Cool the cake and then use the handle of a wooden spoon to poke
rows of holes in the entire cake (spaced pretty close together)
Prepare the Jello using the amount of hot water called for,
but them substituting the soda for the cold water in the directions.
Slowly pour the Jello/ soda mixture evenly over the entire cake
and chill for three to four hours until it is set.
mix the cool whip with the prepared pudding and frost the cake with it.
Chill for a bit longer, and then enjoy!
This is such a yummy cake anytime of the year, but especially yummy
in the summer because it's so nice and cold!
Let me know how your turns out and what flavor you picked!
Hope you are deel feeing Blessed today!
Amy
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
New Attitude!
I am a people watcher. That said, I was in line at Wal-Mart the other day, and there was a lady in the line next to me maybe a person ahead or so. She was older, in a wheel chair and she really didn't look well. She had two younger kids with her, maybe 6 and 8 or so (maybe her great grandchildren), and from what I could gather, I think she was raising them. From the over all picture, I would guess money was tight for her, her life was hard and her health was bad... As I found myself standing there thinking, "wow! what a sad situation"...I heard the cashier ask her how she was, and do you know what her reply was?? "I am BLESSED! How are you?"
I was amazed by that answer. I actually wanted to say "What?" Then I realized at that moment that often times I tend to answer that same question with some sort of complaint... "Okay I guess, just tried", or "I'd be better if I didn't have to go home and put these groceries away!" or "Just running ragged today"... you know, something along those lines. But after hearing her simply reply "I am Blessed!" I realized that her response was the best I had ever heard. It was really a wake up call for me.
So I have a new attitude! I am going to put my focus on all of the positive thing in my life. I am going to spend every day looking for all of the blessings God gives me, not just the big ones, but the small ones that I often miss because I am focused on what's wrong with my day... and just so you know, I will be counting you as one of those blessings!
How am I today? "I am BLESSED!" I hope you feel the same way today!
Amy
I was amazed by that answer. I actually wanted to say "What?" Then I realized at that moment that often times I tend to answer that same question with some sort of complaint... "Okay I guess, just tried", or "I'd be better if I didn't have to go home and put these groceries away!" or "Just running ragged today"... you know, something along those lines. But after hearing her simply reply "I am Blessed!" I realized that her response was the best I had ever heard. It was really a wake up call for me.
So I have a new attitude! I am going to put my focus on all of the positive thing in my life. I am going to spend every day looking for all of the blessings God gives me, not just the big ones, but the small ones that I often miss because I am focused on what's wrong with my day... and just so you know, I will be counting you as one of those blessings!
How am I today? "I am BLESSED!" I hope you feel the same way today!
Amy
Love you card
Copyright Stampin' Up! 1990-2007Ever make something to give away and then love the final product so much that you almost couldn't give it away??? If you are a stamper, you probably really know what I mean. This card was one of those "somethings".
I belong to an AWESOME on line group of stampers called ~We Stamp!~ The ladies on this group are not only seriously talented, but they are the sweetest sincere group of women you'll ever come across! One of the things the group does each month is host a one on one friendship swap. Every month there is three project ideas, and, whoever wants to, signs up. Then everyone is paired up and for that month you send each other one each of the three projects. Basically you get three amazing hand stamped projects in the mail that are guaranteed to put a smile on your face and brighten even the worst day!
So any way, this is one of the projects I made for the June swap. It had to be a masculine card. So I pulled out one of my old favorite Stampin' Up! stamp sets (All about U), tried hard to pick a "manly" color scheme and decided to finally use some of my new designer paper for Stampin' Up! (I tend to be more of a collector of patterned paper than a user... it's a sickness!LOL!) Anyway, here is the end result, and I really loved it!
...just in case you are wondering, my stamping friend DID indeed get it in the mail. Although, I do think I will eventually make a couple more!
Thanks for letting me share!
have a happy, blessed day!
Amy
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