Christmas

Again I'm still a little behind with sharing holiday pictures, but this is the last of them and then it's time to more forward with 2014. Haha!

This year we had 4 Christmas' you could say. We did Christmas Eve at our place with my sister and brother, Christmas day we went to Shane's family and that evening to my Grandma's and on New Year's Day my mom, sister and brother came over to do Christmas with my mom. We had a good Christmas this year and enjoyed all the family time we got.

Christmas Eve at our place:

We got Kasey a Vera Bradley purse and coin purse.

We got Brandon new shoes.

I made Kasey, Brandon and my mom each a memory frame for Grandpa. I made myself one too and it's already hanging up in the hallway. :)

Had to get a group picture!

Christmas at Shane's Dad house:

Sydney and the book we got her.

Erica was so excited we got her a Hello Kitty purse, she LOVES Hello Kitty. :)

We got Paige a personalized art set with paints, crayons, colored pencils etc...and her name was on the front of it.

Shane and I

Christmas at Grandma's:

Family pictures. I get one of these every year! :)

Heather, Me, Kasey & Brandon

 Me and Lexan. He's getting so big!

 Landon just hanging out. Isn't he the cutest!

 He was passed out cold and look he is posing for the camera already! :)

I didn't get pictures with the Christmas with my mom but it was a good year!

Looking forward to seeing what 2014 has in store for us!

 

Thanksgiving

I know Thanksgiving was a little while ago, but I never got around to sharing pictures from it. So, here we are January 6th and I'm going to share them. Haha!

We hosted Thanksgiving for the 2nd year at our house for Shane's side of the family. It turned out wonderful again and I look forward to doing again next  this year. :) This year we had 3 new family members join us and we couldn't have been happier to welcome them to KS and share a wonderful day together.

Isn't the veggie tray cute they made it look like a Turkey, so festive I love it!

All the yummy food! I just love Thanksgiving and the delicious food!

We had to have 2 tables for all the food. Haha!

This year we moved the dining room table into our Pub area so we could all sit together. We also had to have a kid table with adding 3 more people this year, but it all turned out great!

It was actually pretty nice weather outside this year again. I decided I wanted to take some family pictures this year so I could hang more pictures in our gallery hallway I have been working.

This is Shannon (Shane's Brother), Stefanie (Sister-In-Law), Sydney and Paige! I love this picture of them.

All us pretty ladies. :)

All the handsome guys. They are a little out numbered by all us girls. Haha!

Nieces & Nephew, aren't they so cute!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and had lots of yummy food.

After we finished with Shane's family we had to head out to my Grandma's house for Thanksgiving with my family.



Happy 2014 Everyone!!!

I hope everyone is having a fun and safe time celebrating the new year! Goodbye 2013 and Welcome 2014. Shane and I stayed in and celebrated together like we normally do. :)



Merry Christmas!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!!

Shane and I have a busy day today. We will head over to Shane's dad around 10:30-11am and open gifts and have Christmas dinner there. We are having Steak this year, yummy!!

After we are done there around 6:30pm we will head out to my Grandma's for more family fun. This year at my G-ma's we decided not to do a big dinner but just have desserts since everyone goes places during the day and is eating all day. I did make a festive dessert to take which I will post later.

Enjoy the day with your families and be safe if you are traveling!!!



Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!!

I hope you all have a safe and fun time with the kids trick-or-treating!

Shane and I will be passing out candy again this year, so we will get to see all the cute kids dressed up.

We passed out candy last night and with it be the first year in our house we weren't sure how many kids we would get. We bought some candy and made treat bags, but we did run out pretty fast. So, this year we made a bunch more, hopefully we don't run out again. Haha!

Here are the treat bags we made Monday night.



Happy Easter!!

I hope the Easter bunny brought everyone lots of goodies and the little ones have fun hunting for Easter eggs!!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter and have a wonderful day!!



Happy St. Patty's Day....

I know I know I'm a little late on wishing everyone a Happy St. Patty's Day. I have been side tracked with getting another project done for a friend. I'm making her son's Graduation Announcements/Party Invites. So that has been taking up most of my time when I'm home from work. 

I hope everyone had a fun and safe St. Patrick's Day. The day before Shane and I had a little get together with some friends. We hung out, played Rock Band and had some drinks. We had a good time hanging out and celebrating. 

These we the centerpieces in our Pub area. They were filled with Chex Mix and Popcorn. Both were a big hit! 

 I made green beer for the celebration. 

 I worked hard on making this homemade cookie cake. It turned out awesome! 

 My sis and I, aren't we cute. :) 

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I just want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you have a wonderful day with your sweetheart!

This year Shane and I didn't really do gifts if there is something we want we usually just go get it. So no need for gifts today. We will be going out tomorrow when we are off and enjoying some steak at Texas Roadhouse! Our favorite place ever!! :)

Peanut Butter Eclair Cake

This is another yummy dessert that I found on Pinterest! I made this for a dessert for my Grandma's house for Christmas dinner. It turned out really good and I can't wait to make it again! 

Ingredients:

• 1 box chocolate graham crackers (there will be a few leftover)
• (3 ¼ oz) boxes vanilla instant pudding
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 3 ½ cups milk
• 1 (8 oz) container cool whip, thawed
• 1 can chocolate frosting

Directions

1. Spray bottom of a 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
2. Line bottom of pan with whole graham crackers.
3. In electric stand mixer, mix pudding with milk and peanut butter; beat at medium speed for 2 mins. Fold in whipped topping.
4. Pour half the pudding mixture over graham crackers.
5. Place another layer of whole graham crackers on top of pudding layer.
6. Pour remaining half of pudding mixture and cover with another layer of graham crackers.
7. Heat container of prepared frosting, uncovered in the microwave for 1 min.
8. Pour over the top of the cake
9. Refrigerate for at least 12 hours. 

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

I hope everyone had a great time bringing in the new year!!

Let 2013 start out as a great year and I hope everyone had a great 2012!!

Christmas Time!!

Christmas Day has come and gone and it was a wonderful year!!! Now it's time to post about our wonderful time together and get back into a normal routine. LOL

We had 3 different Christmas celebrations. All of them were such a great time spending all day with our families. 

Our first celebration was on Sunday Dec 23rd with some of my family. Everyone came over to our house for gifts and chili. We had a fun time hanging out and enjoying the family all afternoon.

My nephew Lexan cheesing. LOL

 My sweet frame from my sister and her boyfriend. I can't wait to hang it up! it says "Wickliffe"

 All of us! Heather, Me, Kasey & Brandon

Shane and I did our Christmas, Christmas Eve night since we had a full day on Christmas Day. I think one of my gifts was too big for my stocking (it was slow cooker). LOL

 Kira loved all her gifts and she couldn't wait to get her treats out of her stocking. 

Christmas Day we got up early and headed over to Shane's Dad's house. We made dinner over there and hung out all day. 

The girls all snuggled up b/c it was chilly!

 Sydney checking out her awesome ornament we got her. 

Which was hand painted by Eileen's Hand Painted Gifts. She did an awesome job on all the ones I ordered!

 This was Shannon and Stef opening pictures of their girls. Shane and I took their girls out and did pictures at the beginning of Dec for gifts. They turned out so good!! (I will be posting on them soon).

After we left his dads house we headed out to my grandma's for more Christmas fun! 

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and got lots of goodies!!