RECAP of the holidays! Part 6

Christmas at the Henderly House. This picture is Jason,
his sister Kirsten and her youngest child, we call her "Peepers".

Jason and Peepers

Opening presents!!

Our cute nephew, Andrew who is smiling really hard!

Peepers, Kirsten, Abby and Grace.

RECAP of the holidays! Part 5

Christmas at My Dad's House was great! It's always good
to spend time with my Dad and his wife, Delma and
getting to see our sisters and step sister and brother.
This picture is Shelby, Lauren and my Dad.

Dad, Mary Fuller and Delma

Shelby, Jason and Morgan

Mary Fuller opening presents.

RECAP of the holidays! Part 4

Christmas with the Roseberry Family! A yullog from
a french bakery in Hattiesburg. It was soooo good.
I can still remember how it taste. My Uncle Robert
hosted us all and it was so nice. He did everything and it
was all beautiful!

Mom and Dad

Jeff and Jason with their hats Robert brought them from Ireland.


Jeanie and Lauren

Mike, Jeff, Jason, Becca and Claire waiting for lunch to be served.

This is Roberts bar, creatively place inside a closet
with a childhood photo hanging.

Jeanie and Jason. They love each other! I have a
million picture of these two!

Papa and Brooks

RECAP of the holidays! Part 3

The weekend of December 15th we had a family
wedding to attend. As you know I was the cake baker.
It was a busy weekend, but when the wedding came
I was stressfree and ready to have some fun. And
you can tell by the photos we all had a GREAT time!

Me and Jeanie holding some Peonies that our cousin
David took from one of the arrangements! They were
the most beautiful flowers!


Mom holding the first slice of Cake. It was soooo yummy!

Me, Amy, Grace, Lauren, and Jeanie all enjoying some
CAKE!! Amy and Grace are two of our sweet cousins.


Mom and Lauren peeking around someone so I
could snap a photo.

Cousins, Moms and Aunts all getting down on the
dance floor! Mom was loving it!

RECAP of the holiday Season! Part 2

Thanksgiving Day we headed to Sea Grove Beach to
celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas with Mom, Dad
and Jeanie. We had a great relaxing 4 days and
stayed in a beatiful house on the beach!

Jason opening his "Tom-Tom". This thing is great!

Aunt Jeanie and Mary Fuller reading a Madeline book.

The girls at the Seaside Christmas Parade.
The guys stayed home to watch football!

RECAP of the holiday season! Part 1

Thanksgiving- Wednesday night before Thanksgiving Day
Jason's family came to our house. Fun was had by all!

Jason and His Dad

My delicious Carrott Cake

The Henderly Family

My finest moment...in baking

I am still in shock that I actually created both of these cakes. I have to say that it took many, many hours of planning and hard work, but as you can see it paid off. Both cakes were beautiful and tasted heavenly. I'm so proud!!! I've made a lot of cakes in my short life but never have I made 2 cakes this big for one day!! The wedding was soooo fun and we had the best time. Me and Jason stayed till about 11:30, then went to a local place with some of our cousins. This is probably the most beautiful wedding I have been to and also one of the funnest. I'll post pictures of the other wedding stuff later. I just had to get these cakes on here!!

Ok, so I'm a bad blogger

Yes, it's for sure. I am not a good blogger. I have had the best intentions of course, but just have not done it. I actually tried to do a Thanksgiving blog but the pictures where all crazy so I gave up. Maybe I'll try again later. Lauren, I need your help! Many of you know me well enough to know that I tend to get overwhelmed sometimes. Even if it is just one thing that is overwhelming I am paralyzed and cannot focus on anything except obsessing over the one thing that has me so stressed. Well, right now that thing is a Wedding cake and Groom's cake for 500 +. I have spent the last two days baking non stop. 3- 16 inch round cakes, 3- 12 inch round cakes, 3- 8 inch round cakes, 3- 6 inch round cakes, 2- 16 inch square cakes, 2- 12 inch square cakes and 2- 8 inch square cakes. THAT'S A LOT OF CAKE!!! 18 cakes total. I have gone through about 20 lbs of butter, about 100 eggs, about 20 lbs of sugar, and about 30 or more lbs of flour. This has me a little overwhelmed! The work is 1/2 done, now I just have to get to Meridian, MS with the cakes and decorate and put them together!! I know this will be fun, its just I want everything to be perfect!! Which nothing is life is but lets get as close as we can, right!! Seriously, please pray that everything goes nice and smooth!!! LUCY

What a week!?

First off, my dear sweet husband has been out of town all week and will return home Friday night around 7:00 or 8:00! He hates traveling so it's not fun for him and I have to say I've missed him greatly and with the week I've had I'm really ready for him to come home. So let me tell you what has been going on.

Monday was a pretty average day, I really accomplished nothing around the house. I sort of took a vacation day!! It was fun but I felt guilty of course the next day.

Tuesday was pretty good! I did some things around the house that morning and around 2:00 I started cooking for the catered meals I had that night. At about 4:30 Lauren and her bunch stopped by to pick up some food they had ordered. Mary Fuller came in the kitchen and said that the puppy (yes, that's right, 3 weeks ago I brought home a new puppy) was "wet". I immediately knew that she has tee-teed somewhere. I walk around the house looking on the floor thinking "no big deal" then, as I walk in the den I see a puddle on the left cushion of one of my brand new couches and then see that there is tee-tee tracked all the way to the other side of the couch. I RIP the slip covers off the cushions and go into panic mode. I'm so mad at this point I can't think. Did I mention that I was trying to leave to deliver some food right as this all occurs. I put the slip covers off to the side and dealt with them when I got home. Thankfully, they are fine but the DOG at this point is only allowed on the couch when I am also on it.

Wednesday I'm doing odd end things around the house. Jason calls me and reminds me that some men will be coming by to work on the vinyl siding on the back of our house where are sun room is. This room has about 13 double pane windows that are 55 inches wide. During all the work we have been doing on our house 2 windows have had to be replaced. I was worried about something else happening! It did! While the men were working a 3rd window broke into a million pieces. Luckily it is tempered so it has not fallen yet. The man who broke it and the other men working did not speak English. Of course I call Jason and tell him what has happened. I left the room for the remainder of the time the men were working in fear that a 4Th window would be broken. I really had to go away and pray that God would help me not loose control and that the windows would be fine. No more were broken, thank the Lord.

THURSDAY! For the past few days my new puppy has been eating her poop. I know this is disgusting and believe me I'm totally grossed out by it. I'mcringing as I write. I've been a little concerned about it but I've only caught her doing it about 3 times. Well, as we are laying on the couch tonight, the dog jumps off and I begin to smell something horrible. I jump up off the couch and see a pile of something on the rug, then I step in a pile of something on the rug. I rip the blanket from the couch to make sure there is nothing on the couch. I did not see anything on it. Of course I begin cleaning up. I'm not sure if its throw-up or poop. It really doesn't matter because both are bad. I think my rug it ruined but thankfully it was a bargain find that I paid less than $100.00 dollars for, but still I'm sick over what has happened. After I clean up as best I can I pick up the blanket on the couch and see something in the blanket and yes there is a small amount of disgust on the COUCH!! At this point I'm laughing!

Its Friday morning and the men are back working on the vinyl siding. I will stay out until they finish!

I know that these things are really pretty stupid and in the big picture they don't matter at all. I think God is trying to tell me that he is in control of every little aspect of my life. Maybe today and in the future when things don't go as planned I'll be able to say thanks to the Lord for being in control of everything in my life. Even my windows, rugs and couches!!

Happy Birthday to me!

It was a great 27 Th Birthday! Thanks to Lauren and my sweet friends, we had a blast laughing and eating at Old Mexico on Tuesday night. For pictures of the get together check out Lauren's blog- thehaugefamily.blogspot.com. Wednesday was great too, thanks to the sweetest husband ever. He made a steak dinner, decorated a cake, and bought me some flowers. Since this was our first Halloween in our house we enjoyed giving the Trick or Treaters lots of candy. And as you can see in the picture the two cutest kids came by to see us, Madeline and a Rooster! It was a great birthday and I thank the Lord every day for wonderful friends, an amazing husband and all our loving family, without which life would not be near as precious!!