My Poor Animals...

The things you find when you share a camera with your kids!  Not sure when they took them, all I know is they are super cute!!!!  Bobo is such a little trooper!! ;)

Yes, that would be bo's BFF!  Literally, they must be married in dog/cat lives and not know they are different species!

Massive Destruction

At 5:15 am yesterday morning we had 2 tornados touch ground in our neighborhood.  One touched down on my street, the other up the street.  I'm still so speechless, I don't even know the words to say to express the fear I had as I walked out my front door and witnessed a massive detruction such as this one. 

By the grace of god my family is unharmed, as well as the rest of my community.  Even though 32 homes need to be rebuilt.  So many of our friends & neighbors are suffering huge losses.  I can't thank those enough who called us continuously to check on us and offer any help needed.

This house was 3 houses down from ours, they lost their entire roof..it collapsed on them in bed but no one was harmed...its a miracle!

This house had the same thing, notice the garage is gone with the roof, they are lying in the forest behind the houses

This was walking up the stairs in our friends' house helping them get their kids' clothing, roof is completly gone

this was their kitchen entry...glass all over the floor

Their cars

This house was 2 houses down from me, total devastation!

This is my house! Someone was watching out for my family...thank you god!

Our backyard, the most of our damage...

I will never forget this day

End of Summer BBQ

As promised, I have some pictures to upload from our bbq.  We had some great people share the day with us, too bad I don't have a picture of Robin & Keith!  They are friends I met on a meetup group, I'm so glad to have met them because our kids are almost all the same ages and they get along so wonderfully.

Paige and her BFF Shelby upstairs being goofy

Kyla the diva...lord help us all!

Alexa and her sweet little friend Aurora playing grown-ups

Luv this girl, so beautiful!

The parents~

This is Shelby & her mom Loraine, they are so awesome!  I'm so glad Paige has made such a great friend!

My favorite friends~The Hoys!  Love these peeps!!



Time Flies!

Holy heck, can you believe it's already beginning of October?? My entire year has just flown by like a rocket! I'm going into my favorite time of year..hip hip hooray!!

It's been forever since I've blogged, but I have been extremely busy and overloaded with other priorities. This PTO position I'm holding seems to be taking a heck of a lot more time then I expected, but I still love it!
Kids are doing awesome and I'll blog updates once I have more time!

Heart-throb

Ugh...he still makes my heart go pitter-patter!

I have the best hubsters ever!! 

We had our first Morgan BBQ here last weekend with some amazing friends (more pics to come soon) and this great man cooked like a pit master ALL afternoon long!!

Ain't he so dang cute?!!

Goodbye diet...hello cakeballs

(I know these look like little skulls or something grotesque, but my lighting was horrible!  Don't let the picture fool you)

These are the most yummiest things I have ever eaten, so rich and delectable, I could hardly stand to eat just one.  I got the recipe from one of the other mom's in my PTO group.  She had brought these yummy little balls into one of our PTO meetings and all of us parents where in cake ball heaven!  If I could do one thing different, I would substitute the white chocolate for white almond bark, the chocolate is super pricey and SUPER sweet.

Here's how to make them:

1 box of cake mix

1 tub of frosting

1pk white almond bark (if you use chocolate instead, you will need 2 packs)

Bake the cake as directed

In a large bowl pour frosting in the bottom of the bowl

Once cake is done baking, pour hot cake into the bowl of frosting, mix well until it's one big gelatinous mess

Make bite size balls (should make 40-45 balls)

Place on a cookie sheet and freeze until well formed & cooled

Melt chocolate and dip your balls in the chocolate

Freeze again until hardened

I stored mine in the fridge but you can also keep them in an airtight container

YUMM-O!!

I'm in heaven...

with all these neat little treats I get from my bountiful baskets.  I can't believe how excited I get every second saturday of the month when it's my day to pick up my basket.  I'm not kidding when I tell you it's like Christmas morning for me, I never know what I'll be getting.  (or maybe it's like opening up a box of chocolates, lol)

Several people got me turned on to the bountiful basket program, for those who don't do it, you're missin' out on a whole-lotta goodness!

I was SO excited when I got my basket this morning I had to share, it was simply AMAZING!

We ordered 2 baskets this time around plus we ordered some of the extras and they were well worth it!

This was our salsa pack, I made some yummy salsa verde & red tomato salsa out of this.  I had to laugh at that tiny miniature garlic tho, I could use that all up in one dinner dish!!  (I've never bought the italian pack but after this awesome salsa pack, I will definetly buy the italian one next time around!)

This 9 grain bread is great!  Ty just loves it!  The tortillas smell so good, what a great bargain for 7 dozen tortillas.

This was our fruit portion of the basket, mind you, this is just ONE of the TWO fruit portions I got!  Talk about generous!

And my favorite, the veggies!!  For those of you who know me, you know that I could eat veggies all day long, I love them & crave them!!  Ya, I know, what happened to my kids?!!

This was the veggie portion of our basket, and yes, its just ONE of the TWO I received!  What you're not seeing is the other 3 packs of baby portabellas I got.  For the record, I received FOUR baby bella packs today...these alone are almost as expensive as the cost of 1 basket!  I was doing my happy dance when I saw all the corn (12 ears total) and the butternut squash, I have a new love for butternut squash and the kids could eat the corn raw! 

I also got a 36 pound box of apples!! 

This week was GREAT for baskets!!  Now I need to think of a bunch of recipes for the week with all this yummy food.