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Its been a while since I posted. Well you missed Claire's 3rd birthday, Thanksgiving, and school Christmas parties. I'll pick up with Christmas in my next post....coming soon!!

Make Ribbon Woven Headbands (Part Two) by www.hair-hardware.com

I may have to try this! Make Ribbon Woven Headbands Part One

Tie Dye cake!!

Morgan's birthday theme this year was tie dye so I googled tie dye cakes and found this cool idea!! I used 2 box cake mixes whitish (I used butter yellow) and prepared the batter according to directions on box. Then I split the batter into 6 bowls 1 1\2 cups of batter per bowl. I used neon food coloring gel to get these bright colors! The gel only had pink, lime, orange, and purple so I used drop food coloring for the yellow and then blue and green to make turquoise. I didn't use a specific amount of gel in each bowl I just added color until It was what I wanted! After that is done I greased my pans and added batter. The first color needs to be 3\4 cup and every color after that needs to be 1\2 cup. One pan goes pink, yellow turquoise, purple, orange then lime and the other pan goes in reverse order!




Here is how it looks when both pans are finished.
Bake as directed on box and let cool completely! They look so awesome!

When they are finished cooling stack on top of each other and ice them! I used one big jar of icing but I should have used 2, it would have looked better. To get that pretty pink icing I mixed pink gel into white icing!


Here is what it looked like on the inside.


If you notice one of my cakes is upside down. I went to all the trouble of inverting the color order then stacked them wrong...lol so don't make the same mistake I did!

It tasted good too! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MORGAN!

Here http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake is the blog I found this cake on but I want to warn you the language is explicit, it was ok though because the cake is awesome!

My precious 6 year old!

May 24, 2004 we met the most beautiful baby girl ever born. Her name is Morgan Elise. Having a baby expanded my heart and I felt a love that i had never experienced! 1 day old

She is 1 here.

2 here

3 here



4 here
5 here

6 here


Happy birthday my sweet young lady. I love you so much!

Busy Busy!

The biggest news since my last post is that Morgan lost her 1st tooth on Mothers day!! Awww she is growing up so fast! The tooth fairy brought hr $5.00!

Today I worked on my end of year teacher gifts! They turned out SO great!! I must say!!

This one is Michelle's This one is Jenny's.
This one is Hilary's
I made this for my friends birthday!
This one is for my sister and i think it still needs something...
If you think you may want me to make one for you I will. Just pick your colors. The 16x12 double is $25.00 The 16x12 triple is $30.00 the 12x9 double is $20.00.

This one is for my new bathroom!! We have been working on it for about 3 weeks and are finally done! I LOVE IT! My husband did a fantastic job on the texture and tile (by the way this is the 1st time he has ever laid tile!)



Isn't it great!

UNreligion me Lord!

I was having a conversation with my husband the other day and here is how it went. We were discussing how religious people are and how to some its a constant struggle of am I doing my part or am I doing enough. Now a lot of people these days say they are not religious because in the world religion has put a bad taste in peoples mouth. Un~religion me Lord! I told Caleb that I am almost to the point that I don't even want to say I'm a Christian. Now don't shut me off here! I think I'm going to refer to myself as a "JESUS" person! I want to reach people and some have had such a bad experience with Christians that they won't have anything to do with us anymore...how SAD! Anyway I think you know the point I am making.

Ok back to the am I doing enough thing.

I have come to the place in my walk that I realise Its not about what I do but who I am. When Jesus was on the cross He said " It is Finished" and I don't think he was referring to the Crucifixion. I think he was saying SIN is finished! When you are born again you become a New Creation. You are COMPLETE the MOMENT you receive Christ! "It is FINISHED"! We are no longer sinners but saints! I am not saying we don't mess up from time to time but we do not "practice" sin.
As we begin walking in that new creation man our old ways of living just are not what we want anymore so in turn they start falling away. When we understand what He did for us we don't want to live the way we used to live! We want to live that new creation life!
Yes we learn and we grow in Christ but it is not something that is being added to us, it is all there when we are saved it just has to be revealed to us! A good example is a Map. It is all there it just needs to be unfolded! We are Complete and Jesus is UNFOLDING our completeness!
What can we do to aid in this unfolding process? Well there is that word do again. I think we just need to be who we were created to be. We were created for worship. As we take focus off of ourselves and what we need to "do" and focus on worshiping God in every aspect of our lives He unfolds us! We all know we cannot change ourselves no matter how hard we try so lets stop trying to "get there" on our own it just makes you tired. The New creation man is a gift not a struggle so lets rest in Him!
~Blessings as He unfolds you!

Parents watch your children

Last weekend Caleb had our girls out in the front yard playing. Morgan will be 6 in May so we have given her a bit of freedom. She is allowed to ride her scooter about 5 houses down and back. She was down the block sitting on the sidewalk playing in front of a neighbors house when Caleb noticed a white 12 passenger van turn down our block. When the 2 men in the van saw Morgan (seemingly alone) they slowed down and looked at her. Then they pulled into the driveway next to where she was sitting. Caleb immediately started walking toward her and calling her home. When the men saw him they pulled out and drove away. Later Morgan said they waved at her.
Now if you know my husband you know he is very laid back and easy going. It takes a lot to worry him. He told me that this is the most nervous he has ever been. He felt like if he had not been outside those men would have taken Morgan.
I wanted to share this with everyone because I felt like it was important. Again it was a white 12 passenger van, very clean with tinted windows. The men driving were African American, in their mid to late 40's.
Everyone please keep an eye on your kids this summer, I don't think any neighborhood is safe. Another good think to do from time to time is plead the blood over your home and family.

While I'm sharing we also had our garage broken into. BOO! They took quite a few of Caleb's tools and yard equipment.
I think the devil has been trying to steal our since of security but we will NOT let him. The Malone family knows who our protector and provider is and we have NO WORRIES!
Blessings everyone!

St. Patricks day

We made these too cute cupcakes for St. patties day!

Here are the girls in their green attire!

Happy 10 Anniversary!

I love you Caleb!

Highlights

It has been awhile since I blogged so here are a few things that have been going on with us:


Morgan made her teacher a birthday card! She is so sweet!

This is the inside and the back said you are pretty! I'm so glad she loves her teacher.

The next cute picture is Claire putting on my lipstick! She is such a girly girl!!

This one is today, we are dressed wacky for Dr. Seuss birthday!

This one is at school! Durand, Claire, and Cade! All the kids were so cute today!
So those are the highlights of the past few weeks! Blessings from the Malone's!

I promise you will dance!

This is me and my girls favorite commercial! We love it so much that I actually recorded it and we watch it several times a day and dance around like crazy people!


Watch it and I promise you will dance!

go to www.youtube.com and search baskin-robbins valentine's day cakes

What a difference a day makes!

Yesterday! Beautiful day to watch the clouds!




Today! Great day to make snow angels!

And watch my Angels play in the snow!

ONLY IN AMARILLO!

Excercise

Exercise.

Everyone says that exercise makes you feel good, it gives you energy they say......NOT ME!
I hate exercise. I don't like to sweat and it makes me tired.
That said I am determined to exercise this year. not to lose weight but to get healthy and fit. I want my 30's to be better than my 20's physically. I have no more excuses for not exercising, I am done having babies and I don't work a full time job so I have lots of time.
I started exercising the day after Christmas and I have been faithful 3 and sometimes 4 times per week! I have lost 5 lbs, so I can see that my efforts are not in vain. Now that I am in a routine I DO NOT want to break it so maybe I will keep it up. I still hate it though, the only thing it gives me is a sense of "I accomplished my workout today! So I will take it " One day at a time" and hopefully 1 lb a week and a healthier body!

What are your goals for this year?
I hope you accomplish them!

Christmas catch up!

I'm so sad that our Christmas break is over, because we had such a great time! Caleb was even off for 2 whole weeks and I loved having him home! Morgan did not want to go back to school today but she must have had fun because shes at a friends house playing right now! Claire on the other hand wanted to go to school today and was disappointed to find out we don't go back until tomorrow!

Here are some pictures of our Christmas!