First Time for Everything

Hey y'all, there's a first time for everything. Today I tried my hand at brownie pops and amazingly they came out great! I was little scared to make them since I'm an amateur baker. But with a little help and a whole lot of patience I was able to make a fun lil treat.

I had a little help from my good ole Boy, Pillsbury and everything was alright!

Here are a few few pics along the way.

Here's to conquering your fears! You can handle this!

Fancy Smancy! Creamy Tomato Bisque Soup.

I'm a HUGE fan of tomato-basil or tomato bisque soup. Bisque is just a fancy name for this soup. The taste is to die for. And this recipe fits the bill.

Creamy Tomato Basil Bisque 

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes

Ingredients:

1 large yellow onion, chopped
1 sweet red pepper, chopped
2 (14 1/2 oz) cans diced tomatoes
2 medium plum tomatoes, chopped
2/3 cup basil, chopped
3 tbs sugar
1 1/2 cups cream
Salt and pepper

Preparation:

1. Cook onion and red pepper in butter in a stew pot until soft.

2. Add diced tomatoes and fresh tomatoes. Stir and reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 40 minutes.

3. Remove from heat. Add sugar, basil, salt and pepper and stir.

4. With an immersion blender, blend ingredients until smooth. While blending slowly add cream.

5. Return to heat until heated through. Do not boil. And you're DONE! Yep, it's that easy!!

Serve with a dollop of sour cream and Parmesan bread if you like.

Enjoy my Friends!

November, A Time to Give Thanks.

It's November already? Where has the time or year gone for that matter. This month I will be kicking off my Thirty Days of Giving Thanks! That's not to say you shouldn't be grateful EVERYDAY for God waking you up with a sound mind, healthy body, food and shelter.

So, throughout the month I will be writing down my daily devotion of what I'm thankful for. It's the little things. Things like family, goods friends and laughing at yourself when no one else is looking.

I invite you to join me and write down what you're grateful for too. You just might be surprised with the many blessings you have. I always like to remember this quote, "Someone else is happy with much less than what you have." Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. For what good is a home if it's not filled with laughter or BOYS jumping off the rafters (Oh, did I say that)?

Stayed Blessed, my Friends!

Las Vegas, Baby!

This past weekend we visited our home away from home Las Vegas! We went with my husband's family to celebrate his cousin's birthday. This was our first time staying at this hotel and I'm glad we did. We had such a nice weekend filled with laughter, food and good ole fashion fun!

 Here are a few pictures to capture the moments. 

We stayed at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa. (Def a 5 star hotel)

Look at my relaxing view.

The hubs and the kids.

Boys will be boys...check out their human tower.

The pool area was fantastic.

Check out our Cabaña for the day. 

Time for a little drinky drink. Ahhh!

Beckham stuntin' in his shades.

And here he is with the Birthday Girl. 

All in all we had such a good time. In fact, we had such a nice and relaxing time we plan on going back. If you're ever in the Las Vegas area and looking for a nice family-friendly hotel with superb accommodations check out the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa

Breast Cancer Awareness

Today is National Awareness Day. The third Friday in October each year is National Mammography Day, first proclaimed by President Clinton in 1993. On this day, and throughout the month, women are encouraged to make a mammography appointment. So today, October 18th, we celebrate breast cancer awareness.

Please support this very important matter and encourage your loved ones to schedule a mammography appointment and/or perform a breast self examination.

Here are a couple pics showing support.

Limited Pink Ribbon Bagel at Panera Bread.

My son's school showing awareness.

What are you doing to show your support. 

Photo Booth Fun

What better way to celebrate our little one's birthday at his 'Mustache Bash' with a custom-made photo booth.

We made this photo booth from a few simple materials and it came out great. Materials used: foam core, masking tape, adhesive glue and letters. 

Here's Beckham with his Auntie Tonya!

Doesn't it look like he's having fun!! Lol.

Can't wait to use it at our next event for more photo booth fun!

Beckham Turns One

This past weekend we celebrated our youngest son First Birthday!! We are so blessed that he made it through his first year. Since this is our LAST I decided to pull out all the stops! The sky was the limit for our little man and we threw the bash of the YEAR!!

Here are the pics from Beckham's 'Mustache Bash'

Sir Beckham Cole Williams

The Registration Table... Welcome Ladies & Gents!

The Spread included 'Manwiches' for our Lil Man.

Wet Your Whiskers!

The Dessert Station filled to the brim with candy and sweet treats. It also included milk bottles too!!

"Before You Dash Staché Some Candy"

The Birthday Cake.

Check out these mustache cookies. They were almost too cute to eat.

 

And then there was...Photo Booth Fun!

We played 'Pin the Staché on Beckham'

Chase was busy at the Mustache Station "Go Bruins!"

The Smash Cake!!

And the Birthday Boy had a smashing time!

And no party could be done without party favors! We had kettle corn popcorn bags to go!

Well I hope Beckham had as much fun as all his guests. Here's to the big ONE!!