HAPPY ALMOST 2010!!

WOW!!! Can you believe it's already almost 2010??? Happy almost New Year!!!! :) May your almost new year be filled with joy!!

Greg Is Home!

Dear Girls,

Thank you all for your prayers! Greg just got home tonight! We are thankful to the Lord that he recovered so quickly! Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know, and thank you again for your prayers!

Hello Girls,
Hello,
I'am sorry I (Hannah) haven't been updating lately. Today we called Greg and he said he was doing better then yesterday. But he did say he was tired and weak though. :(
Thank you again for your prayers for him. I hope that you all have a WONDERFUL week.
Sorry this was short but it is a start to a long post, Lord-willing. I hope you ALL have a Blessed rest of the evening and may God Bless you and Bless your week and the things ahead of you.
Here are a couple pictures before I say goodbye.
#1 this is our Christmas dinner Mom made the Ham and Amanda made the salad.#2 this is me, laying on the grass. Emily took this picture on her new camera.

#3 this is the last picture for tonight. Amanda was cooking beef and Peanut whined so she picked her up.
Love you all.
Have a Blessed Joy-filled week,
God Bless,

Update on Greg

Hello All!

Thank you for your prayers for Greg! Mom had to take him to the ER last night. He was really dehydrated and just not doing well at all, but they gave him antibiotics and had IV's in him, so Mom said he is looking 100% better! Praise the Lord! Hopefully he will be home tomorrow. If you could continue to pray for his healing, that would be wonderful!

Thank you all!

Please pray for Greg

Dear Girls,

I just wanted to ask you all to pray for Greg. He has been really sick the last three days and is not getting any better. He has been having a lot of stomach and head pain, has had a fever, and is throwing up. We don't know what is wrong, but if you all could pray for him, that would be wonderful.

No Pictures :(

Hello Ladies,
I would LOVE to post pictures, but for some reason, our computer is refusing to load them... so maybe I can post pictures of our dinner yesterday, later! :)

Love,

Last Perm Pictures!

Finally one of Dani! :) Isn't is SO pretty??? I think the girls are beautiful in them!!! :) What do you girls think??

More Pictures of the Perms!

Hello!

Well, Dani got a perm too! I think the girls are both so pretty in them! As a request of Raquel's, and something we thought we would do, here are some pictures! :)Amanda's hair, pretty in a ponytail flip!

Amanda's hair - all dry! She's very very beautiful!! Please tell us what you think!

This is how it looks partly dried and not combed. I don't really like this picture of me, but oh well! :)

More pictures.... =)

More pictures! :) For some reason, I could only get Greg's picture and Dani's to upload... maybe later it will decide to be better!! :)

Oh, I just thought...

I just thought I would post some pictures... I'm in the mood! :)
Here are some perm pictures! If you all didn't know, Amanda got a perm! :) It doesn't look quite like this, because it was wet here! They are soft curls, and VERY pretty! :)Before.... :)And after, sort of! :) It looks VERY pretty! :)

"The" Happenings!

Good Evening Ladies!
Well, here are some things that have been going on here! :) Well, the bake sale was a "smashing success"!! :) No, it actually wasn't. We did pretty bad - in a sense! I understand that no one really did all that well at their booths. But, here are some pictures!! :)

Here are before and after pictures!

Before we re-arranged! :)And after we re-arranged... looks a little bit better! :)

And there was another important thing that happened last night! :) Just take a look at these pictures!! :)



Samuel lost 2 teeth! :) Yippee Samuel! It was lots of fun! :) He did very well, and received $2 in the morning! :) Yay, Samuel! :)

Love you all,

Preparing for the Craft Fair

We have had another busy day, baking and crocheting for the craft fair that is being held in Rosalia this Saturday! I just wanted to share a few of the recipes that we have used for our cookies!

Snickerdoodles

1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups unbleached flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
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CINNAMON SUGAR COATING
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamonAll the ingredients you need to make these yummy cookies (other than the cinnamon sugar topping! :)

Mix together the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients and mix well. Chill dough for a few hours.



The dough before it was chilled.

Roll dough into walnut-sized balls, roll in cinnamon/sugar coating, and then place on greased cookie sheets.

Rolling the dough in cinnamon-sugar

Bake at 400 degrees for about 8 minutes.

Mmmmmm.... Emily's Snickerdoodles turned out really well!

Meanwhile, Dani was making Ultimate Double Chocolate Brownies

3/4 cup Baking Cocoa

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
2/3 cup Butter, melted, divided
1/2 cup boiling water
2 cups Sugar
2 Eggs
1-1/3 cup All-Purpose Flour
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips

In a large bowl, combine cocoa and baking soda; blend in 1/3 cup melted butter. Add boiling water; stir until well blended. Stir in sugar, eggs, and remaining butter. Add flour, vanilla and salt.Meanwhile, Leah enjoyed a few chocolate chips we gave her...and helping us clean up our mess! :)Stir in chocolate chips.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from the sides of the pan. Cool.
I enjoyed making "Yummy No-Bake Granola Bars"!
5 cups crispy rice cereal
4 cups quick cooking oats
1 cup raisins
1 cup honey
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 cup peanut butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips

Combine cereal, oats and raisins in a large bowl.
In a small saucepan, heat the honey and brown sugar to a boil, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla extract and blend until smooth.
Pour this over the cereal mixture and mix well. Add chocolate chips and mix thoroughly.
Divide up and press into two ungreased 9x13-inch baking dishes. Cool. Cut each pan into 24 bars.May you all have a blessed, Christ-filled day!

A Busy Day...

Hello All,

Ah.... today has been busy! The house has been filled with wonderful smells of baking, and cooking. Here's a quick sneak peek of what we've been doing today!

Wonderful smelling cookies Dani made today... :)
Some colorful, scented rocks I am making for the craft fair...

And another view of the delicious cookies Dani made!!

Amanda made peanut butter cookies, but she put them in the freezer before I could get a picture of them!! :) I also made soap today, so that should be fun to sell! :)

Love you all,