God speaking!

After listening to this song, "God Speaking" I started to try to see where I hear "Him" speaking to me! You can find it all over the place if you take the time.....I can hear him often in my children, in the seasons, at my bible study that I love, through my husband, through even the bad days.....how often I get too busy or clog my mind up with clutter and then I can't hear Him so well! There's a line in the song that says "Who knows how he'll get a hold of us, get our attention to prove he is ENOUGH, He'll do and He'll use whatever he wants to, to tell us I LOVE YOU ..... he is enough! I hope he doesn't have to work hard to get my attention! Look for him speaking to you today!!!

It's raining acorns!

It's raining acorns here these last few weeks.....we can hear them hitting the roof in the night and we are now used to it. If someone is over, they can't believe the sound! If you take an acorn to the top of your head it's NOT fun! ha Here's Mike and Jordan cleaning up 4 days worth, the barrel on it's side is FULL of them! we try to clean them up every few days! You can click on the photo to see it larger! Luckily they are almost done falling because it's like walking on marbles sometimes!! I know my friends and family who don't live in Michigan will laugh at this! Jordan gets paid to shovel snow so I guess now we'll consider it for shoveling acorns! They have never been as plentiful as this year! We stay out from under the trees in October! haha Next it will be the leaves we will be cleaning up! Enjoy this beautiful Fall day all!

A Fall wedding!

My cousin is having an outdoor wedding tomorrow, luckily our weather is going to be lovely! I was lucky enough to be asked to make the cake so I thought I'd share! Of course I never like how any cake I make turns out, we are hardest on ourselves I suppose! The fun part was she asked for "Fallish" decorations and colors on the cake. I found these miniature pumpkins, nuts and acorns that were fun to work with! The topper will be put on at the wedding! I'm glad I don't get asked to do this very often! It was fun, and my first wedding cake and I think my last! It's too much pressure! haha Hope you are all enjoying this gorgeous Fall weather!! The wedding is at a campground and the cider mill is on the way so we plan to make a stop for some cider, apples and DONUTS of course!! Can't enjoy Fall without a crunchy, warm, cinnamon donut from the Cider mill!! ENJOY!!

Cookie Monday!

On Monday's we usually bake cookies to enjoy through the week.....but we haven't made them all summer so today's the day! Grace and I have a date to make them this afternoon after school! Of course I'll have to email my friend Leanne and tell her I ate too much dough and have a belly ache....(she is a fellow cookie lover!) It's a perfect weather day for baking cookies! I hope you all have a tradition like this to pass on to your kids! I think we'll add Fall sprinkles this time too! yumm This song is one of Grace's fav's!!

Family shows!

We love this show.....and we always love the music. We have been playing and putting some of the background songs from some episodes on the blog for fun! We've enjoyed walking around the house singing "CANDY" and what a voice that gal has(2nd. song)!! See if you recognize which show the first song is from! Hard to find good quality shows to watch as a family....glad they play these! My father in law used to say "every channel you turn on the Cosby show is on!"

Weddings.......

We went to a lovely outdoor, Fall wedding last night for friends. Instead of a unity candle they had a beautiful engraved glass jar with hearts and their wedding date engraved on it, and two jars on either side of it. One with red sand, and one with black sand.(Their wedding colors) As they poured the sand into one jar the Pastor gave a lovely talk about how only this couple can make this one design and how God designs marriage to be this way. Two people coming together to make one beautiful design! It was really touching and a neat idea!

Cakes!

I was lucky enough to be asked to make a Pool Party Birthday cake for two friends this past weekend, so I made the exact same cake for both! It was at our new YMCA and it was so much fun! I had fun making the cake. I got the idea online for the Teddy bear cookies wearing bathing suits! that was fun and the lifesaver life preservers! A gum stick diving board, a candy necklace pool rope and I tucked a few of the Teddy bear cookies into gummy lifesavers so they looked like they were floating. I had blue glitter to top it off and it was SO much fun!! If you click on the photo you can look up close at the little Teddy bear swimmers! haha