Horton Hears A Who!!

We took all 4 grandsons to McDonald's on Sunday. They each had a Happy Meal and they all got a Pirate hat inside. They looked so cute in their hats! What fun to hear them all saying ARGGG and acting like they were pirates. Wish I would have gotten a picture. After lunch we took them to see Horton Hears A Who. Of course they wanted popcorn and pop (even though ten minutes earlier they were too full to finish their lunch). Grandpa went to get it while I kept them in their seats. The question of the day was "When is the show gonna start?" and I heard it until the popcorn and pop arrived. Finally the upcoming features started and they were laughing at the new shows coming out this summer. They all enjoyed the movie and of course Grandpa took a nap! It was a fun afternoon and one we will repeat when those new shows hit "A Theatre Near You!".

Slow Day

I am slowly working on ATCs and not getting much else done. Hunter is still sick so we're at home again today. We looked at some scrapbooks and I realized that he was sick on Easter last year. I hope he feels better by the weekend. The sun is shining now and I wish we could get out and enjoy it. I know spring is slowly emerging. We have snow predicted for Saturday night though. How depressing!! I want to be on a river bank fishing and soaking up the sunshine. It will happen so I'll be patient. Gotta go now and give my little patient some grandma sympathy. He needs a hug quite often when he's sick.

Batter Bread

Almost forgot to post my latest recipe swap page. Batter bread is one of our favorites. How delicious hot from the oven with honey butter spread on top! I have done so many recipe pages and they all seem to look alike. But it's the recipe that counts right? A little history behind this recipe.....This one originated from our school. They serve used to serve it for lunch and my youngest daughter loved. She always wanted me to make it but I didn't have a recipe for it. A couple of years later I worked as a para at school I helped out in Kindergarten and the teacher let the kids make this using zip loc bags. They put all the ingredients inside and smooshed it around until it was blended. Then we put it in mini tins and baked it. They got to take it home with them that night. I copied this recipe from Mrs. Woodruff and have used it a lot.

Success

Our Piece Maker group decided to try a pie auction. We asked for donations a couple of weeks ago and hoped we would have enough for a successful auction. We are a small congregation and our Piece Maker group is very small also. Larry and I set up a couple of tables Saturday afternoon to hold the pies. I made 2 cherry cobblers and 2 Heath Bar pies. We put a starting price of $5. We were so happy to see those two tables fill up with pastries. We had a total of 32 homemade pies to sell!! It was a silent auction and we gave everyone 15 minutes after Sunday school to have fun bidding against each other. A few of the pies brought $25 each. We sold out in the time allotted and everyone was excited about their homemade goodies that they purchased. We are so happy that our church family supports these kind of fundraisers. When we counted the money we were thrilled to see that we had made $484!!! Don't you just love fundraisers??? You ask people to donate food and then ask them to buy it back. That is a perfect example of Grace....which happens to be our study topic this month. We are asked to catch someone showing Grace and then put it on an index card on the bulletin board. I think my church family is a perfect example.
Lucky for us, JoAnn's has fleece on sale so I will be shopping next weekend!

Piece Makers

Most of you know that my friend Jenny and I started a Piece Maker group at our church 2 years ago. We started out just making blankets for babies. Those were a huge hit at our local hospitals. Then we added adult blankets and donate those to Women's shelters, nursing homes, and a cancer center. One lady makes bears for the children in the women's shelter. Another lady makes pillows for them and also for surgery patients who need a tummy pillow. Now we have added hats to our list. These are donated to the cancer center for chemo patients. Hancock Fabric has a free pattern and these are what we make. I brought 4 home from our meeting last night and I hope to machine embroidery something on the brim. I am starting with a simple flower to see how it looks. We are making an assortment of colors. I plan to put a pink ribbon on the pink hats. I need to surf around and find a free online pattern for the ribbon. I haven't looked around for embroidery patterns for quite awhile. I have just been using the patterns that are already on my machine. I have the Ultimate Box and program to do all this but, haven't hooked it up to my latest computer. I need a refresher course to get this all up and running. I hope to do that this weekend. Wish me luck!!
If you have a loved one that needs a hat let me know. I hope and pray that you don't! There are so many of us affected by this horrible disease. This is just one small thing that our group can do.

Noodles anyone?

Crystal wanted chicken and noodles for supper yesterday. Of course the noodles have to be homemade. I was kind of tired after working all day but it did sound good. So Crystal and Hunter came up and helped cook. She mixed the dough and I rolled them out. We used Kelly's recipe from a recipe swap. The only thing we changed was the homemade noodles instead of frozen noodles (which I happen to like). Of course you have to have mashed potatoes with it. So I fixed those too. Yummy!!
Our Piece Makers group is having a Pie Auction at church this Sunday. I am making cherry cobblers and trying Noelle's Heath pie recipe. It sounds so good I may have to bid on it myself!
What a busy day I have today. I bought fresh green beans at the grocery store on Sunday and they need snapped and cooked. I also bought fresh peaches to make Larry's favorite pie. So those have to be peeled and a pie made. I am taking all 4 grandsons to Kids Adventure Club at church tonight. I also have 3 loads of laundry waiting for me to do. I am sitting here at work wishing that I could go home and get these chores done. Guess I will be working late this evening. Now I know why I haven't gotten any scrapping done the last couple of days. I like keeping busy so I am not complaining. Just found out that our fridge here at the office needs repaired. It will take a week or so for the parts to get here. So now I have to unload it and the freezer and take everything home. I'm sooooo happy the weather is nice! You can't be grumpy when the sun is shining and the temps are warmer.

Plain & Simple

Here are a few layouts that I've finally finished. I intended to do them a long time ago but they got pushed aside so I could work on swaps. They are very simple but I am focusing more on getting them in albums than doing a lot of details. So here they are.....plain & simple.

March 3rd Blog Challenge

Congratulations! You've won 50,000!Oh, but there's a catch. You must spend every penny of it within 2 days.What do you buy?
This is a no-Brainer for me....Yahoo I'm getting a new scrap room!! I would give the $50,000 to my contractor so I would spend it within the deadline. One large room added on to my house. One wall will be storage units. The second wall will have storage and counter tops with a sink for clean-up. The third wall will have lots of windows for lighting. The 4th wall will be home to a new large flat screen tv and space for my treadmill. An antique desk would be somewhere in the middle of the room. It's all about me right??? Don't I sound selfish??? But after all it's my dream.