Mini Peach Cobblers.

If you have not made this.... Finish reading and then stop and GO MAKE THEM!!! 

For two years I saw this recipe and was like "Oh I am gonna make those".....

I NEVER DID and now I am soooo mad at myself!!!

HEAVEN in a little muffin cup and ONLY 100 calories!!! ;)

Mini Peach Cobbler Recipe:

Preheat oven to 350˚F.

Ingredients: 

1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
a dash of salt
3/4 cup milk
1 stick of melted butter
brown sugar
cinnamon
1 can diced peaches

Directions:

Put 1 tsp of melted butter into each regular size muffin tin.

Combine the first 5 ingredients by hand… sugar, flour, baking powder, salt and milk.

Put 2 tbsp of batter into each regular size muffin tin… on top of the melted butter.

Then put 1 tbsp diced peaches on top of the batter.

Sprinkle with brown sugar and then cinnamon.

Bake the regular size muffin tins for 12 minutes.

Let them cool almost completely before taking out of pan.

I do not know where this recipe came from or who to give credit to if you know please let me know it was a wonderful delight and PERMEANT part of my recipes now!!

I promise it won't disappoint.... GO MAKE IT!!!! :D

Lazy days.....

Ever have those days where you stay in your pajamas cuddled up on the couch watching whatever you can find and you don't even want to get up to go pee?

I've had too many of those in a row.... We enjoyed our break it was the best break we've had actually. We decorated, cooked, baked, made arts and crafts, played watched movies (two days in fact on the couch doing nothing but watching movies and taking breaks for tickle fights!). We played outside, we went places.... It's was wonderful, and then my husband went back to work and it rained the WHOLE day..... And now it's ice cold (or what I consider ice anyway).... It's suppose to get to 21 tonight and see we've lived here before, but we moved to Arizona for 3 years and although the 120 degree weather was hard to get use to it is now in my bones..... And with the cold or rain I want to stay on the couch doing nothing but drinking coffee and being on Pinterest.... That unfortunately can not happen any longer than it has. 

This weekend I have many things I need to do.... Hard things.... My husband is in the military and just recently we found out he is getting promoted and this will be my life for another 12 years. So, in my year of 2013 during soul searching and what not I realized I can no longer live like I own my house or will be in any one place for longer than a few years. So, now I have lots of organizing and purging to do. For me the purging is hard because I no longer live in either house I brought my boys home to or where they did all their first (one of them has actually been torn down!) I hold on to everything. It's my life so I've been slowly getting rid of things and taking slow because it hurts. Tomorrow I think is the last purging I have inside my house. It will be hard and long, but I know it will be worth it and I have found ways to keep those memories without keeping the junk. 

I also plan on sharing an awesome recipe or two with you guys and maybe a post on what I do to keep my memories without the clutter! ;) 

Mod Podge and DIY Canvas!

So, I actually got some pretty great photos taken on Christmas we were all dressed up and some were goofy and some were serious. I wanted to order prints for birthday (which is 4 days after Christmas).... I started looking and I decided Canvas Prints are better for my life. We move a lot and the glass of picture frames gets old after you've lost 20+ of them due to moving and no one understanding how you should pack a truck. Well, canvas prints can run you $70-$170 depending on what size and for a decent print. 

I headed over to Pinterest to find an easy cheaper way of making these great photos. Something that without a doubt will be able to live through my life..... 

I came across MANY tutorials and I combed through google and did lots of research before I dare to try it. I ordered my pictures from MPIX, they have wonderful quality prints for a decent price, fast shipping (if you want it) and you can choose to not let them edit your edits. 

I paid a little over $30 for a 4x6, 5x7 and TEN 8x10's. That included $14 for 1 day shipping, because I didn't want to wait 5-10 days and it was my birthday. 

I went to Michael's who was having a sale and got TEN 8x10 canvases for $12.99, Mod Podge for almost $9.00, but had a 50% of coupon for that.

I then went to Walmart and bought 3 2oz bottles of acrylic paint (black) I wasn't sure how much I was going to need, but they were .57cents a piece so it wasn't a big deal and I wound up using 1/4 of one bottle. A pack of 4 sponge brushes, for .97cents. 

My total wound up being- $57.03

For TEN canvas prints and two photos that I put in frames I bought at T.J. Maxx for $8.00.

I started by painting the edges and a little on the front of the canvases black. I let them dry for 24 hours and this was before my pictures got here because I didn't want to wait lol 

The next day after they were dry I cut my pictures just a little because the prints are just a little too big to fit perfect on the canvas, then I put Mod Podge all over the canvas, laid the photo on it and made sure there weren't any bubbles or anything. Then I Mod Podged all over the front of the picture.... Deep Breath your beautiful prints have creamy white Mod Podge (Matte kind not glossy) all over them..... It dries clear so don't worry!

After letting them dry for another 24 hours they were not creamy, but looked amazing and were sealed and glued..... I couldn't wait to hang them up.... So I did!

This clock I already had and I bought the "decal" when we moved here in July. I placed all the photos around the clock and the decal and we LOVE IT. It's a beautiful feature wall in our living room and really captures what I have tried to do with my family! I have BIG plans in the future to make these as Christmas gifts and more. It's so easy and not expensive at all. I could make TEN gifts for $50.... You can't beat that! If you have any questions feel free to comment and ask! I hope you will share pictures of your DIY Canvas Prints too! :)

Happy New Year!

So, 2013 is gone and yet another year is upon us. 2014.... sounds weird and I still can't get over that I was born in one century and I will die in another. The picture above I found this morning someone had posted it on Facebook, I think my mother-in-law and I stole it! ;) I learned this last year, somewhere through the mess and the chaos of 2013 I found myself. Who I am, what I want, what's important to ME and it didn't matter if ANYONE liked it. We get ONE life in which we will do everything we will ever do.... I do not want to get to that point where I'm dying and reminisce on all the things I did because I thought I was SUPPOSE to do them. I want to die knowing I did everything I wanted to do and all that I believe I should do. Like I said in the last blog though I am not making resolutions, I'm making goals..... simple sentences on small sheets of paper that are attainable and nothing I don't want to do. More on that in a moment though.

We went to a little New Year's party last night, I had fun, but the kids and the husband had more fun. We go home around 10pm and my oldest went to bed! I rang in the New Year with my hubby, my fur babies and my youngest baby. It wasn't the most fun or exciting, but it was what I wanted. We have agreed though we are going to have to start trying to go home on New Year's. It's not the same without family and we usually spend every New Year's with his side of the family. I didn't have but one or two drinks and that was fine. I didn't have a hangover today either. I was tired, but that's because my bedtime is closer to 9 or 10 not midnight haha

Now, back to the goals. I want to loose 60 pounds, I want to become pregnant again and get ready to welcome the madness that I LOVE back into our world. (It wasn't until last year that I realized what makes me crazy is exactly what I want and love.) I want to build many things a HUGE farm house table is first on the list hopefully to be built in February. I want to go places and see things (we have plans to go to DisneyWorld towards the end of this year). I want to be actively involved in my life..... Present.... Not always worrying or looking ahead.... Be here right now in this moment. The laughs and the cries will not always be here, I will not always be the one they want to tell the great moments to, and I will not always be the one who can fix the boo boo's. They tell me they are going to live down the street from me and come see me everyday when they get older, but I know they won't. If they do fantastic, but I want them to grow up and find love and have their own family and I know once that happens they will be busy. 

Being here and being present is the greatest gift I can give them, I will stress and worry when I sleep because they are sleeping and so I'm not missing anything but their beautiful and not so beautiful dreams. 

I want to take a picture everyday this year a good wonderful perfect picture of everyday of 2014. I will have it turned into a beautiful book that I will call 365 moments of 2014.... One year. It's so long yet so short and you don't realize how short until you have children. Then you start to see the moments pass and somewhere between the good, bad and in between they grow up. I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old (he will be 4 in 3 months and 9 days). I believe it's all went so fast that we've had so many wonderful and heartbreaking moments in the short 7 years I've been blessed enough to be a mother. 

So, I guess what all this nonsense is about is being present. Try it to actually live in the moment everyday or even for just a couple hours everyday. I've noticed so much in the 3 weeks I've made an effort to do it. And I never realized how much I missed and how much I can see when I'm quiet and I pay attention and listen. 

I also did a project the last few days of last year (still weird).... I will post all about tomorrow! 

Happy New Year everyone!