The Fence

Great Expectations Guest Post

2012-02-21T09:59:00.000-06:00

Ever since I met Greta over at Not Enough Patience and Never Enough Jewelry, I knew we'd be buddies. Greta's a SAHM of four kiddos... I'm a SAHM of four kiddos. Greta's got a husband who doubles as her BFF and partner in the battle of raising the four little cupcakes! I've got that in my hubby too! She lives out in the country. I love living where I can't see my neighbors. We've got the same

Sunday Funday #21

2012-02-19T14:18:00.000-06:00

Things around here are about to get really busy! Baseball/softball season starts in a couple weeks and so, our family will be spending a LOT of time outside! Even though juggling four different teams can be a challenge sometimes, you can bet that I WON'T really be missing housework. Yeah, laundry might pile up but, when does it NOT?! No one will die if dishes sit in the sink for a few more hours

Sunday Funday #20

2012-02-12T13:37:00.000-06:00

How can it possibly be the middle of February already? Am I the only one who feels like time is FLYING by? Sheesh! The good news is that Sunday is a great day to chill out from all the other stuff we have going on the rest of the week. While you're chilling out, come link up a post! Blog hops are a fun way to make bloggy buddies and meet some writers that you might not have found on your own!

The Littlest RiceCake Turned 6!

2012-02-09T10:56:00.001-06:00

We love birthdays at our house. We don't usually have huge parties but, we love to celebrate with our closest buddies. Joshua's birthday last week was no exception! Things have been crazy around here lately! Dave went to a 2 week Water Well Drilling School with the Air Force. We've been battling our home builder over a mold problem under the vinyl flooring in our house due to their negligence

Sunday Funday #19

2012-02-04T22:18:00.000-06:00

Time to link up for Sunday Funday! Hooray! This week has been really busy at my house. SO BUSY that I've hardly had time to write at all! Between Joshy's birthday, teaching chess, music lessons for 3 out of 4 RiceCakes, and having the floor torn out of all of the downstairs of my house... right now is the first chance I've had to be still! PS... HOW the heck can it possibly be FEBRUARY?!

Sunday Funday #18

2012-01-29T04:00:00.001-06:00

Hey all! After having a couple of Sundays away from the link up, I'm back! My gall bladder recovery had a few days of crappiness but, over all went pretty darn well. I'm feeling MUCH better. And good news, I'm now in the running for the "Fewest Original Parts" trophy at my next family reunion this summer so... HOORAY for that! ha ha! So... without further blabbing... here's the linky!! Please

Reading and Chess

2012-01-27T10:05:00.000-06:00

I fell in love with reading and chess when I was in first grade. I had pneumonia and pleurisy and missed a ton of school in the fall that year. My birthday is in mid-October and I was absent starting about a week before my birthday until almost Thanksgiving. (I totally missed trick-or-treating that year and was really bummed out about it. My Dad took me to Baskin Robbins for ice cream that day to

The One Where I FINALLY Get Stitches

2012-01-18T23:55:00.000-06:00

People who follow me on Twitter and keep up with me on Facebook know that I've been recuperating from having gall bladder surgery. Fun right? Yeah... my belly button looks like it went thru a blender. Be jealous! Of all the surgeries a person could have... gall bladder isn't the worst. It's certainly better than anything heart related... or of the transplant variety. They do it laparoscopically

Long Time No Blog

2012-01-09T05:00:00.001-06:00

I've been waaaay behind on blogging. The last time I told you a story and didn't post the #SundayFunday link up was a month ago! Sheesh! That's soooo 2011... I know! Things have been busy around here for the last month. The RiceCakes' break from school was great. Seriously WONDERFUL. It was awesome to have a bunch of days to sleep in, not have homework, and just hang out. We hung out in

Sunday Funday #17

2012-01-07T21:56:00.000-06:00

Yay! It's Sunday Funday time!!! Come hang out! Pull up a lawn chair, grab a glass of Grammy's World Famous Bourbon Slushie, and link up a post! There are a few SIMPLE rules: #1 Turn off your captcha (That's word verification for any newbies!) It sucks. It makes your readers NOT want to leave comments. Turn it off. If you need help, ASK! Remember, captcha = stabby readers #2 Please don't

Sunday Funday New Year's Edition

2012-01-01T11:38:00.000-06:00

It's the first Sunday of 2012!!!!!And that means... it's time for a New Year's Edition of Sunday Funday! This year, our family went to a good friend's house for a cookie exchange. The Glad company (the one that makes trash bags!) donated 10 cents for EVERY cookie exchanged in the month of December that you registered with them, to Cookies for Kids Cancer. So, last night, while hanging out with

It's Date Night and OWL's Well!!

2011-12-18T22:33:00.000-06:00

I've hit a bunch of animals with my Suburban lately. We live out in the country and it's not uncommon for all kinds of critters to run out in front of our cars in the dark. In the last week, I've hit a possum (who looked RIGHT AT ME before he went *crunch*... I still feel bad about that!) and 2 squirrels! But last night, on our way home from our Date Night to go see Sherlock Holmes, A Game of

Sunday Funday #15

2011-12-18T10:23:00.000-06:00

It's Sunday again and that means it's time for another #SundayFunday link up! This is a great opportunity to link up a post from the past week that maybe didn't get as much attention as you wish it would've. Remember the rules! #1 Grab the Sunday Funday button from the sidebar and place it in your linked up post! #2 Please don't link up any giveaways AND please turn off your captcha! #3

My Trick for Taking Great Photos of My Kids

2011-12-17T13:15:00.000-06:00

Anyone with a kid will tell you that it's hard to get a sweet photo of their little cupcake that is useable for Christmas cards. Anyone with MULTIPLE children will tell you that the difficulty of getting a great photo of all of them together multiplies exponentially by the number of children you have! I have a trick for getting cute photos of the RiceCakes... all together... and smiling like

Candy Cane Meringue

2011-12-11T23:16:00.000-06:00

All the holiday baking photo sharing going on around the interwebs had me feeling like maybe I oughta try something new in the Christmas baking department. I LOVE making holiday cookies. I love making the ones with a bazillion ingredients that turn out looking amazing. I love making really simple cut-outs with my kids and letting them go hog wild with icing and sprinkles. I consider myself to be

Sunday Funday #14

2011-12-10T22:15:00.000-06:00

Hooray! It's time for another Sunday Funday link up! This December has really hit the ground running! It's been a busy week in Lower Alabama! Matthew and Abi had a field trip with their gifted education class to the Exploreum in Mobile. There was a special exhibit about Australia that included live kangaroos, wallabys, and dingoes! The kids thought it was awesome. They had baby kangaroos and

Awana Grand Prix

2011-12-07T05:00:00.028-06:00

Our kids are involved in a kids' program at our church called AWANA. It's really fun. The kids have a blast playing wild games, hearing Bible stories, and memorizing Bible verses. It's similar to scouting in that you earn badges and pins for doing different things, include community aid based projects. They also have fun stuff like Bible Quiz and the AWANA Games where kids from our AWANA club

The Most Beautiful Heart

2011-12-05T23:28:00.000-06:00

My sweet friend Bruna over at Bees With Honey is hosting a new meme that involves writing about celebrating women's beauty inside and out. When she first announced her idea, I thought it was a great way to think positively about ourselves and what we're doing right... but I also thought it was a fabulous way to spread the love for other women that we really care about. The first person I

Sunday Funday #13

2011-12-04T01:26:00.001-06:00

It's been a busy week at my house! It's December and that means lots of decorating and crafting! The oldest two RiceCakes had a project for school where they had to recreate Australian aboriginal mimih art. Aren't they awesome artists? Dave and I hung up our Christmas lights. The kids decorated the tree. And I did this to my mantle: Garland makes me happy! I had Craft Night with my

Sunday Funday #12

2011-11-27T07:02:00.000-06:00

Well, Thanksgiving weekend is wrapping up and it's time for #SundayFunday! Our family has had a fabulous time together. The kids have been off school for 5 days in a row... which has been awesome! Dave's been off work for 4 days in a row, which NEVER happens! We hung out, watched some football (bummer than our Razorbacks lost to LSU! Rats!), snuggled up and watched a couple holiday movies, and

The RiceCakes are Talkin' Turkey!

2011-11-21T22:11:00.000-06:00

Hey! I'm linking up with the girls over at VlogTalk this week for their special holiday linky #KidsTalkinTurkey! The RiceCakes are super excited to have time off from school this week! They're also really excited about THE FOOD! ... and a certain Friday afternoon football game... Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Sunday Funday #11

2011-11-20T13:14:00.000-06:00

Well, I dunno about you but, I'm all jacked up on a Skinny Peppermint Mocha (with an extra shot!) from "The Bux"... you know it's BOGO on holiday drinks between 2pm and 5pm today right? YAY! I hope that you're having a great weekend. This one's been a busy one for our family. We've had LOTS going on and I'm totally stoked that the kids will be home for 5 days in a row next week! Hooray for fewer

Milk Chocolate Pecan Pie

2011-11-15T05:00:00.001-06:00

Thanksgiving is next week so, let's talk turkey! OK, actually let's talk pecan pie! Milk Chocolate Pecan Pie!!!! I learned how to make pecan pie when I was in junior high. It was my Dad's favorite kind of pie during the holidays but, my Mom doesn't like nuts so she didn't make it. If we ever had one, it was bought from the store. One year I decided to figure out how to bake it. It's really

Sunday Funday #10

2011-11-12T21:41:00.000-06:00

Yay! It's time for #SundayFunday! You know the drill! Link up a post from the last week. (No giveaways please!) Grab the button from the sidebar! While you're pasting it onto your post, go ahead and turn your captcha OFF! Then go visit all the other links and comment, Comment, COMMENT! :) And if you're on "The Twitter"... tweet about #SundayFunday and spread the word around! It's always fun to

Random Stuff I've Done

2011-11-08T22:12:00.000-06:00

A couple weeks ago, Mama Kat's writers workshop prompts included making a list of 22 Things You've Done. I meant to get in on the listing action then but, life happened so, I didn't end up writing it in time to meet the deadline. But that doesn't mean I can't list a bunch of random stuff I've done now right?! Of course not! So here ya go! 22 Things Random Things... 1. I took French for 7