Bringing You...

Seriously.
This is the best tasting cobbler I've ever had and it is the easiest to make! There are only three ingredients! I said three! All you need is white cake mix, 1 can pie filling (any flavor), and a stick of butter! Just preheat the oven to 350 degrees, pour the filling into a glass baking pan, sprinkle on the cake mix, and slice the butter and stick on on top...bake til golden brown. And then you're done! Enjoy!

So, so worth it! So, so delicious!

Sassafras Lass Layouts

January {Scrapjazz} Blue Crew Layouts

This month I used Sassafras Lass kits. They're from Scrapbook.com, you can click on the links below:

{Sassafras Lass Daydream}

{Sassafras Lass Playtime}

I Looooove this layout!

My Day Today :-)

Mmmm...bananas and cereal!

This little cutie is here and I get to spend the whole day with her. :-) She gets to watch me clean the house and organize my scrap room! Lucky her! LOL!

And here are some other recent photos. It's been awhile since I've had a good photo post!

Our faux Christmas Eve...the only day that worked out was the Saturday before Christmas. I was pretty bummed that it wasn't on our traditional Christmas Eve at my Grandma's house! Had to have it in Milwaukee at my aunts house, so the Christmas spirit was truely altered this year...next year hopefully we can get Christmas Eve back to normal! ;-) That's my brother Patrick, his fiancee Shannon, me, and my mom.


All the ladies in our family...We all have White Chocolate Peppermint Martinis in hand... just missing my cousin's wife...in the front is my cousin's gf, my cousin's fiancee (wedding this summer), my aunt...and in the back my mom, Shannon, me, and my Grandma.


A sweet shot of my pooch in front our tree :-)

And some pics from last night...three drinks in I decided it would be fun to take a picture with the lovely Nutcracker. LOL.
And here I will conclude with a photo of the picture of Jaelynn that was included with my friend's Christmas card this year! So cute!!

Merry Christmas Grandma!

Idea from Keisha Campbell Her's is more elegant and mine is funky.

Had a heck of a time figuring out how to make the tree stand out. The back flaps are moveable as well, even though they look like they're just stuck on here.

My Saving Grace

Me = Loves

Journaling is from Carrie Underwood's "All American Girl" song:

Now he's wrapped around her finger

She's the center of his whole world

And his heart belongs to that

Sweet little beautiful

wonderful perfect

All American girl

A Cool Photo and Some Layouts

Click on this one and look at it bigger -- it's better bigger! This was fun to take ... gave me some new ideas for other photos...!

And here are a couple layouts.

Its Only Noon!

How can it only be noon?!

Ok, so I *did* get up at 4:45 am this morning to hit up some of the sales, but wow. I was shopping til 9, came home, wrapped all these presents, made Mac and Cheese (hey, it felt like lunchtime!), showered, made myself pretty, dinked around online, went to the post office, went to the bank, went to the candle factory, and then went and hung out at my old day care and held my {now huge} babies from the summer :-)

I got a good dent in my Christmas shopping list today so far, though.

Can you believe I am doing EVERY DROP of my Christmas shopping on ONE DAY? Yeah, me either, but I'm telling you ... it's pretty awesome to wake up in the morning not having ONE present bought, and then by dinnertime knowing it'll be ALL done!!

Turkey Day Must Have ...

Mixed itself up with Christmas Day!

Look what we woke up to this morning!

It's the first "real" snow....!

(accumulation-wise anyway)

Here's a look at my neighbhorhood!

And a cute photo from today for the road! ;-)

Looking forward to later this evening when I'm going to my grandma's for our Turkey Dinner!

I'm most excited about the stuffing, LOL!

Have a wonderful Holiday!

More...

I Scrapped!

This afternoon I decided to put my schoolwork aside and do something fun. So, I made a knockoff recipe of the Cranberry Bliss bars I talked about (thanks Amy for the recipe idea!) to take to my friend's dinner party tomorrow night, and I also scrapped a little:

Miss Jae

Sharing a few new ones of the world's sweetest little lady.

The last one is one of three all time faves I've taken of her!

*The Coolest Thing Since Sliced Bread*

Customized Starbucks cards!

Just in time for the Holiday Season!

I think these are so neat!

You can get the words on the cup changed to

whatever it is that you order! FUN!!!!

That's "my" drink!

Mmmmmm!

In Anticipation...

I don't know if its because I am getting older and value family time more, whether this semseter just sucks, or if I am just in a super creative mood lately -- I am *so* in the *Christmas Spirit* already!

I was so squirrley when I went to Walmart last weekend and there were HUGE Christmas trees all decked out in big lime green ornaments. So, ever since, I have been wanting to create, decorate, bake -- all the fun things that go along with the holidays.

So, instead of studying for a quiz I have today, I sat online and perused Marthastewart.com. I found some lucious ideas and just overall fantastic & inspiring images.

Gotta love my Martha!

...if that doens't put you in the Holiday Spirit, I don't know what will!

*47 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS*

Tuck this one away...

For next year...

*Home-Made Candy Corn*

Now *this* would make for a fun little kitchen adventure!

Here's the link for you:

http://noshwithme.com/2007/10/candy-corn/

Projects

Being Festive

Happy Halloween!

I hope it's safe and FUN!

Arrgggh Mateys

Went to a Halloween party this weekend. It was kind of spur of the moment, but viola! -- I found this pirate costume!

This is my brother; he and his fiancee were at my mom's this weekend. Its always nice to hang out with family.I got my hair cut and colored this past Friday, not sure if you can tell by this pic. New hair always makes me a little happier :-) It's the little things.

Hope everyone has a happy week!

I have big physiology exam Thursday...so that's where all my energy will be focused until then!

Very Interesting Indeed....

Go here: http://www.iwanexstudio.com/

Click on "Portfolio" at the top

Some Cali Pics!

So I totally forgot to bring my USB thing for my pics from my 30D when I packed for back to my apartment this monring, so all you get to see for now are a few photos from my little digital camera...grrr...most of the pics from my "nice" camera were so much better and exciting than these.

Anyway, here are a few:

Here we are! :-) Just before heading into Disneyland!

Disneyland was decked out for Halloween! Very cool!!

This pic was created per request of my Mom :-) I have a pic from my trip to Disney WORLD from when I was 4 years old, and I have a similar ice cream treat in that photo too. Silly Mom, lol.

Michele having some fun in Toon Town!

Here we are again, this time at the Mickey fountain.

Finally wearing some Mickey ears she wanted!

Santa Monica beach! This was the last stop on an all day tour around LA!

And just a little FYI I found at Disneyland...lol.