Bannana Pudding Pie

Banana Pudding Pie

 

This recipe is so EASY!  I can not take the credit for this idea I have to give it to my wonderful husband who LOVES Banana Pudding.  You will need to gather:

- Banana Puddin (I just used the Jell-O Banana Pudding dry mix)

- Graham Cracker Pie Crust

- Vanilla Wafers

- Cool Whip

1st Pour the Puddin into the Pie Crust

 

Next, top the pie with wafers.

 

Then Pour the Cool Whip evenly over the wafer layer to top it off. 

After that I just took a spoon and gently spiked the top.

 

Hope you enjoy!

 

 

"O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His loving kindness is everlasting."

 

1 Chronicles 16:34

 

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving Indian Vest

    So we had a Thanksgiving party at the beginning of this month and we made some Indian Vests out of paper bags.  These can become so complicated to make on your own but I found some simple instruction online.  So here I am passing them on. 

You will need :
   - A Lg. Paper Bag - If you are having trouble finding paper bags try the older grocery stores.  Down here in the south we have Piggly Wiggly and that is where I found mine.  I believe they sold them to me for only .10 each so I got 10 for $1
   - Scissors
   - Markers
   - Feathers
   - Glue
   - Stickers
   - Anything you want to decorate you Indian Vest with

1st turn the bag upside down and find the triangle on the bottom.

 

Cut the a little "V" out of the triangle

And your bag should look like this at this point.

 

Fold the bag and put it back on the table.

Cut a line down the center for the front opening.

Fold in half

Cut out a semicircle at the top.

Then add fringe to the sleeves and the bottom.

And to give it a worn leather look crumple it up and then uncrumple it.

 

Now your vest is ready for some embellishments!

 

This is the one my 2yr old made. They really had the best time with this and we actually add to it every now and then.  On Thanksgiving day we dress up and eat our Thanksgiving meal in our hand made Indian costume.

 

 

 

 

 

 "I will praise the name of God with song, And shall magnify Him with thanksgiving."Psalm 69:30 

 

 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween

 

   In today's post I thought I would just share some of the highlights of our Halloween this year. 



Of course one of our favorite things was all the Halloween movies we watched. Our favorites were "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!"

 

These were our favorites for this year.  I am sure they will change over the years as our children get older.

 

  






One of my favorite things to do for the holidays is DECORATE!  Here are some of my favorite decorations.

 

The Jack Skellington Jack o Lantern that my Husband and the kids made.

The set up on the porch I thought was very adorable this year.

We made this pumpkin last year with a crafting pumpkin.  I hope to add to this next year. With a "Welcome To" pumpkin to place on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To kick off our Fall/Halloween Season we went to Mike's Farm.   This is one of our FAVORITE holiday spots.  They have an AWESOME restaurant with a family style meal that will leave you stuffed.  They have a great hayride with great looking tractors, different shows and a petting zoo. During the fall they have all kinds of different activities from school tours to a haunted hayride.  This year we did a school tour with a group of our home school friends.  We take a hayride to their small pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpkin then we go back to see a demonstration of how thing were done on the farm in the days of old.  You learn how apple cider is made and get a free taste of some home made cider.  And then they have the cutest Magic Show this side of the Crystal Coast.  It was a great day for learning in the fall with our little ones. 

Ready for the Hayride

 

Little Pumpkin Patch

Jesse with his Pumpkin Pick

Apple Cider Demonstration

 

Granny Mae teaching about the old ways of farming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also LOVED checking out Halloween books from the Library.  Here were our favorites

Zoom Broom By Margie Palatini       

 Witch Mamma by Judith Caseley

Crafts for Halloween by Margie Boss which we used to make our Owl Pencil Holder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I saw a real cool post on Pinterest of a Halloween manicure.  So I messaged my dear friend Jen who used to do nails, because I'm frightfully terrible with doing my own, she agreed to try out the style on me.  She did a great job!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last but not least I think one of the coolest things that I made this year was Cecily's Costume.  Since she is only 2 it was very easy to convince her to be spider girl.  We already have two Spiderman costumes and all I would have to add to her costume would be a toole skirt which turned out GREAT.  Click here to learn how I made Cecily's skirt.

 

Spiderman with his Spider Sister

Candy from a pirate

Crossing the street with Daddy

Spider Girl in the Pumpkin Patch

Spider Girl and Spider Boy

 

 

Well I hope you and you family had a very Happy Halloween!  Today we are resting and filling up on candy.  And will be getting ready for our next Holiday... THANKSGIVING! 

 

 

 

^"22 When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some." 
1Corinthians 9:22 

Questions about Christians Celebrating Halloween?  I would like to encourage you to read this Article "What does the Bible Say about Halloween?" by Mary Fairchild  Feel free to comment bellow.

Owl Pencil Holder

Here is a cute craft that the kids and I put together.  We found it in a cute book that Jesse decided to check out of the library.  It's called "Crafts For Halloween".  If you have this at your library check it out it's simple and cute and has very understandable directions for little kids. 

 

 

We ventured away from the book a little and added our own little twists to it.

 

 

 

 

 

Our List of supplies includes:

• Clothes Pin
• Paint Brush
• Orange Paint
• Black and White Scrap Card stock
• Googly Eyes
• Creative Memories Circle Punch
• Tin Can
• Hot Glue Gun
• Popsicle Sticks
• "Crafts For Halloween" Book

 

 

 

1st Hot glue the Popsicle sticks to the can.  Be careful not to overlap them at the bottom it will make your can wobble if they are not even at the bottom.

 

2nd Punch the white card stock with the large circle punch, then punch the black card stock with the smaller circle punch.  Glue together the card stock circles with the Googly eyes on top.

 

 

3rd Paint the clothes pin orange for the owl's beak. After dry, glue onto the side of the can with the pincher part of the clothes pin pointing up. 

 

 

4th Glue on the eyes right next to the beak.

 

 5th break about 5 Popsicles in half and glue in a row on the side of the can for the wings.  Then break 4 more in half and do a layered row.  Then you can add 3.  We trimmed the broken ends with scissors.

 

 

 

You can now add a little note.  We hold our pencils in ours so we made a pencil note.  And since it's Halloween we made a Happy Halloween note too.

 

 

Hope you enjoy!

 

 

"When I am afraid, I will trust in you.  In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?"  Psalm 56:3-4

 

 

 

 

 









Long Time No See

    OK WOW!  I know I have been away for a VERY VERY LONG TIME!  I can't believe it!  I think it's almost been a whole year!  The truth is I forgot my password  to my Google account.  I know, I know .... LAME!  But it's true!  More Bad News is, I didn't make 365 Pinterest projects, but I'm sure I came close so I have some photos I need to catch up on to show everyone. 
    Some new things in my life are, well, several!  I suppose the biggest is that we are homeschooling this year.  I know I may seem crazy and out of the norm but after much prayer and support from friends and family I have decided to try it this year and see how it goes. So far so good!  We are participating in Classical Conversations basically we meet in a classroom environment once a week and a tutor teaches the class the curriculum we will cover during the week.  The children have a blast and the parents get to sit in the back and observe cool fun ways to teach their kids at home.  So far we are having fun and both Jesse and I are learning a lot.  Cecily is laid back just watching and observing it all in. 
     Jesse has started Upward soccer.  His first game is this Saturday.  Which should be interesting to see a bunch a 4yr olds running around on the field.  So excited!

Here of some highlights of my year so far!

Trip to England and Ireland Where I got to:

 

 

Visit my Brother Gavin

 

 

Watch the London Marathon,

 

 

Ride the London Eye, (That's my mom, myself and my hubby to the left)

 

Swing by and catch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace,

 

Rode a double decker tour,

 

Visit where the kings and queens of old stayed (My mom and I at the Tower of London)

 

Experience GMT Time at Greenwich

 

 Watch "Wicked" in London (Awesome show by the way!)

 

Shop around at the Brighton Lanes

 

Play around down at Brighton's Beach

 

 

Visit with Cousin Josie and her family in Mayo Co in Ireland

 

 

Find a great fixer upper Cottage in Ireland(yeah right in my dreams)

 

Climb part of Croagh Patrick

 

Visit exclusive Ashford Castle and had tea inside!

 

Explore the Cliffs of Moher

 

Celebrated Jesse's 4th Birthday (Back in the USofA at this point)

 

 

We had some family photos done by a pretty AWSOME friend of ours from

Anything Special Creations

 

 

This one is of Cecily in my wedding gown. 

And her special "Doggy" she take with her EVERYWHERE.

 

In these last 2 photos she is in the

undergarments of the gown

 

We took these photos in hopes that they would make

a great album to show at her wedding.