My distressed and antiqued coffee and side tables makeover
Looking around my living room and it’s brown, brown, beige and beige. I need some color in my life. How haven’t I noticed this before? My wore out coffee table and side tables, all dinged up, scuffed and brown, the ideas started flowing! I am really loving the distressed, antiqued look. I just knew I […]
Date Loaf
° Welcome to Holiday Treats Week on Newlyweds. I will be posting a new treat each day this week, and I hope you will share some of your favorite treats too. Link up below, or even share your recipes in the comments section. This recipe goes back 4 generations, from my Great Grandmother on my […]
Halloween Fun
I am a little late posting these, but I couldn’t not tell you all about my little Halloween Minions. If you haven’t seen Despicable Me, run out and rent it, buy it, whatever. It is an incredibly cute movie! Our favorite characters in the movie are Dr. Gru’s Minions. There are tons of them, they are […]
Almond Joy Cake
Pin It *If you like recipes like these be sure to stop by my new E-cookbook E-licious and use code CAKES50 to get the book 50% off ,making it only $2.50 for over 45 recipes!* Almost a whole year ago I made this glorious cake for my Granny’s birthday, somehow, between all the shuffle it […]
Continued from Post Molar Pregnancy
Continued from Post Molar Pregnancy ..I struggle as I try to figure out the lesson behind this all. What am I supposed to learn from this? Why did God test me like this? During Pop-po’s funeral services, I was utterly astounded by the love and support from so many that loved my dear Pop-po and us. […]
Easter fun
Easter came and went with tons of Easter egg hunting and family time. The boys really got into the hunting this year and couldn’t wait to get going. Hunting at Granny’s and they are off! Little H found the golden egg with 1 dollar in it, but Sam wanted to hold it. We also dyed Easter eggs […]
Forgotten Cookies
This recipe is from my paternal grandmother, Granny. Have I ever mentioned that I am blessed to have great cooks on both sides of my family? From just the two of them (my grandmothers) I could fill this blog with recipes. I love this recipe because it’s FAT FREE!!!! What?? Seriously, What holiday cooking treat […]
Witches, Monsters, and Cowboys.
Our Halloween started Saturday with a fun trip to the carnival. We played lots of games and visited with friends. We even ran into a super Witch! Little W was not to thrilled about this witch (Brooke) so she had to make a quick exit. Then for Halloween the boys dressed up as cowboys. They […]
Summer Garden week 1
For the first time I can say WE planted the garden this weekend, usually DT does it by himself but he forced convinced me I need to give it a go. So I did and it was actually kinda fun doing it together. Not that I’ve never planted anything before, just not our vegetable garden. […]
Easter Week
What a fun and busy Easter week we’ve had. Starting off with our playgroup Easter party. Yes that’s all 4 sets of twins and one singleton. All lined up, its a miracle. And the bounce house is a must. Later that day with our large number of fresh eggs, we had to dye some. The […]
