Week 6

Win or Lose the SuperBowl  we will be Steelers fans for life!  Go Steelers! 

Week 5

This week we took our picture after going with my Uncle Pete, Cousins Drew and Jake, Papaw Lester, Nanny Peg and My Mom to look at some wood they will be cutting down.  We thought it was a good time to take a quick shot!

Week 4

This picture was taken in honor of the Steelers making it to the AFC Championship game earlier today! I wasn't allowed to turn on the computer during the game so I just now got to upload it. The Steelers did win the game and are headed to Super Bowl 45 in Texas. This is their 8th appearance in the Super Bowl and they have won 6 of them so far. We are going back to compete for #7 against the GreenBay Packers. GO STEELERS!!!

This is also the 3rd time the Steelers have gone to a Super Bowl since Chad and I have been together. We started dating in Oct 2004 and They won #5 in 2005 which was the year we got married. They won #6 in 2009 the year we had Nisee. SO If they win this year I guess something big is going to happen for me and Chad ... personally I am hoping for us to win the lottery! LOL'

GO STEELERS!!!

Week 3

This weeks post is going to deviate from the 52 week project a little as most people know my parents house caught fire this morning.  I had planned to take our family picture after church when we were all still dressed up but we never made it to church.  Their furnace caught fire and it ran under the house. The fire followed the duct work and broke through the floor and really burned up the underside of the house. The entire house filled with smoke. It went up the walls and you can see where it was coming out at the top of the house.  At first glance the house doesn't that bad but when you look closer you can see how bad it really is.  Even stuff that doesn't look burned is covered in smoke.  All you have to do is pick it up and you can see the black on your hands.  The main thing is that my Mom and my Dad and Nisee are alright. Yes, Nisee was spending the night with them last night, of all nights!  

Smoke alarms woke my Mom and Dad up before they could even see smoke.  My Dad found it at the furnace and he ran to his boat to get the fire extinguishers he had there.  He emptied 2 of them right into the fire location, it slowed but didn't stop.  My Mom took Nisee to the van and kept her there.  They grabbed a few pictures and some clothes but then they went outside to wait on the fire department who arrived very quickly!  It was during this time that the smoke really filled the house and my Dad inhaled some smoke.  Center, County Line, and Harmony VFW responded and put out the fire.  MANY THANKS go to all of those who helped!  They credited my Dad's quick thinking of using the fire extinguisher in slowing the fire which bought them enough time to get there and was probably what saved the structure of the house. Later I had to take my Dad to the ER because he was having problems breathing but good news was that after a breathing treatment and some oxygen he was feeling a lot better and they let him go home! 

So this week my picture is of some of the damage to their house where the fire started and I am also including another picture but the 1st one is my official post.

Hallway on the other side of furnace

Another shot of the Hallway

Please make sure your smoke alarms are in working order and a fire extinguisher is always a good thing to have around.  I thank God that my parents had these because if they didn't this could have been a much worse story!

Week 2

I decided to try out my tripod and we got some great shots shots so here is one of them that we really liked.  We are all smiling in the picture which is hard with Nisee so we loved it!!!

This next picture is not really a part of the 52 week project but I took some pics of the family today.  We were missing Tara and Heather.  I had planned to do this on Christmas but since the weather didn't allow for it we had to do it today and unfortunately Tara had already gone home.  We made a ton more pics but this one shows my Dads side of the Family! I love it!!!

Week 1

This picture was taken January 1st, 2010 during the Winter Classic!  I was trying to take a picture of me and Chad and our Pens shirts but Nisee wouldn't go to sleep so shes in the picture in her mermaid pj's!  I love this picture of our little family even if it wasn't a planned picture.  Sometimes those are the best!!!

52 Week Project

So after reading a friends blog recently and heard about her plan to do a 52 week project I decided to do one too!  I tried a 365 project last year and made it about 3 months but then stopped.  I am hoping that I can do this 52 week project.  The 52 week project that this one person did was a picture of herself each week.  To make this fit into our Family blog I have decided that my 52 week project will be a Family Photo each week!  I have a tripod so we can get creative!  I think it will be a fun blog and project!  So check back each week to see our weekly family photo! :) 

Christmas 2010

This Christmas was great except for a few things.  Nisee and I went to see Brittany and Brayden on the 22nd.  Normally we all get together but things were just so crazy this year so we decided to do it with out Michael and Chad as they were working.  On the 23rd we did Christmas with Matt, Stephanie, and Evans!  We went to see the Tanglewood Festival of Lights and to eat Mexican!  It was a blast and there were unforgettable experiences!!!  Christmas Eve was at my parents house.  We exchanged gifts with my parents of course, Tara, Justin, Dusty and Heather.  Mostly it was gifts for Nisee and she got great gifts! Christmas Day we did Christmas at our house that morning and then Christmas at Chads Mom's for Lunch.  Then we normally head to My Nanny Peg and Papaw Lester's for Dinner but this year we didn't get to go because of the snow.  This was particularly hard for me to handle because this was the last Christmas I was going to have with Papaw Lester and the 1st Christmas without Mamaw Evalene.  I spent a good part of that evening crying my eyes out and being mad at the snow.  We made the decision not to drive for Nisee's saftey (and ours).  We would never forgive ourselves if something happened to her and Nanny and Papaw completely agreed and understood! Once I talked to Papaw it made me feel better about not being there.  My brother had already at 4:30pm wrecked his Jeep.  Luckily he just got suck up really good when he slid off the road in a curve and both him and his jeep were fine.

The day after Christmas we woke up to a blanket of white (we had gone to bed to one too).  We got about 6 inches of snow and while the roads while the snow was falling were not good they seemed to get much better by lunch time that day.   Last year we had a huge snow and the end of our driveway is shaded so there was about 4 feet of ice and snow at the end of it and it made it horrible to get out of the driveway.  I ended up in our ditch 2 times and it was all we could do to get me out of it!  So I pledged that this winter I was going to make sure I cleaned off the driveway so we didn't have that happen again.  So about 10 am I started clearing the drive way and I cleared the entire thing! AND it was so worth it!  By the late afternoon our entire drive way was almost dry!    Around lunch time we headed to Nanny Peg and Papaw's to spend a few hours and do the Christmas that we missed from the day before!  It was great !!!


I love working with chocolate now!  Chad's sister Carrie and her husband Roger love chocolate dipped Oreos and so I decided that since we weren't exchanging gifts this year (we are all broke) that I would make them some and well I kind of went over board and made enough for the entire family!  I took a few pictures. Towards the end my green got a little hot so it looks a little funny.  MY TIP for making dipped Oreos is to use only the name brand!  They taste so much better than the generic!

Below are some pictures from our Christmas!  Enjoy!

 

Cake Balls galore! Oh and Cake Pops too!

So my Mom asked me to make her some cake balls for a Christmas Dinner she is going to and I was already making them for my team and for a dinner I was going to so I just made enough for all 3.  We went with red velvet with cream cheese icing dipped in white chocolate and chocolate cake with chocolate icing dipped in chocolate.  The red velvet are great!  I am partial because well it is my favorite cake, and I heart white chocolate and well I did make them!   The triple chocolate are good too.  VERY RICH but very good!!!

I also made Cake Pops a few weeks ago just because I wanted to.  I was going to make them for Thanksgiving but that didn't happen.  They were butter pecan cake with cream cheese icing dipped in white chocolate.  These were also great (again see I made them so I love them)!  Chad really liked them too!  I let most of my family try them as well and got good reviews from everyone. 

Here are pics of the Cake Pops:

Butter Pecan Cake Pops

Butter Pecan Cake Pops!

Butter Pecan Cake Pops

Here are the pics of the Cake Balls I made today for Christmas:

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Triple Chocolate Cake Balls!

Mama's Tray I made her

YUMMY!

I have come a long way from the 1st cake balls that I made.  The thing that made the most difference was using my double boiler!  Its so much easier than using a microwave for the chocolate and to think I have had it since I got married and just now started using it! HAHA

Nisee is 19 months old TODAY!!!

Today Nisee Turned 19 Months old!  I snapped a few pictures this morning and Chad shot this video this evening! Shes growing so fast.  Shes no longer our baby anymore shes becoming a little girl!  

Nisee and Mommy and the Christmas Tree

Our Beautiful Baby Girl!

Nisee and Mommy

Such a Big Girl!

All her hair went into 1 pony tail today! Shes growing so fast!