We are back home

I am hoping everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did in the desert. Thanksgiving day we had a few sprinkles of rain about the time dessert came along. Nothing to much to stop me from eating lots of good pie!

I have a bunch of pictures to post of us in the desert. Steve crashed (rolled) the jeep so I have pictures of the damage to the Jeep. He and his brother were fine. But I didn't bring my camera card with me to work so maybe I will post pictures of that tonight.

I also have our Christmas pictures that were taken with Chase and Cody's cousins that turned out wonderful. I will have to show you some of those also!

We are also going out of town again this weekend so I am getting ready for that. I have a tag or two to get too also. I haven't forgotten.

I Did It!!

I posted everyday in November. Thanks for putting up with some of my lame post's to get through the month.

I will probably deviate back to posting a few times a week. Even though I have liked some of the new things I have posted about. I will see where it takes me now for December!!

Cartoon

The cartoon says it all. Cody is always saying in the morning on the way to school "The sun in my eye's."

In the Desert

Today we are in the desert. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving - I hope you all did too. More on how the weather treated us when I get back.

We have planned today to go Jeeping and Rhinoing. (Two words that I probably just made up but that's what we call it.) We will go and find the goat trails that we can climb on and jeep. Now sometimes these goat trails lead us to places that make the Jeep go up in the air only on two wheels. That's when it gets fun!

This is my husbands fun. He loves it and so do I. We did the fast buggy thing in the sand and I don't like going fast. This is at a snails pace even though you are on two wheels sometimes.

Now that we have Chase and Cody I take them out in the Rhino (which they love) and tootle around with them. I will have to get some pictures of us in the rhino because I don't have any. So more too come on that.

Happy Thanksgiving

What I am Thankful For:

1. Thankful that my kids and family are healthy.

2. Thankful that I have a bunch of people that love me.

3. Thankful for the men and women that protect and serve this country.

4. Thankful for the freedom that this country gives to me.

5. Thankful that I have memories of the loved ones that I have lost in the past years.

6. Thankful for the beautiful sunrises and sunsets that I wake up to and go to bed to.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving spending it with family and friends.

Going to the Desert

Today we are on our way to the desert to spend Thanksgiving. We go out the day before Thanksgiving and spend the weekend. This has been a tradition that Steve and I have done since the year we started to date. We have friends and family that come out and spend the weekend also. On Thanksgiving, we have a potluck Turkey dinner. This year Steve family will be camping with us also.

So to continue on my posting everyday promise, I will schedule some posts, since I won't have the internet in the desert. I know I don't know what I am going to do without my interent extended family for 5 days, but I hoping I will survive.

Making a Cake

On Friday evening, the boys and I made a cake for Grandpa Dennis' birthday on Saturday. We had fun licking the spoon and eating the cake batter.

I made a ice cream cake with ice cream sandwiches, oreo cookies, hot fudge, pudding and whip cream. It was such a good cake. The boys loved the cookies, pudding and whip cream mix as you can see from the pictures.

The Reciepe:

1/2 cup hot fudge ice cream topping, warmed
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided
1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
8 OREO Cookies, chopped (about 1 cup)
12 vanilla ice cream sandwiches, unwrapped

How to Make It
POUR fudge topping into medium bowl. Add 1 cup of the whipped topping; stir with wire whisk until well blended. Add dry pudding mix; stir 2 min. or until well blended. Gently stir in chopped cookies; set aside.
ARRANGE 4 of the ice cream sandwiches, side-by-side, on 24-inch-long piece of foil; top with half of the whipped topping mixture. Repeat layers. Top with remaining 4 ice cream sandwiches. Frost top and sides of dessert with remaining whipped topping. Bring up foil sides. Double fold top and ends to loosely seal packet.
FREEZE at least 4 hours before serving. Store leftover dessert in freezer.

It was so good. Great and easy receipe!