halloween treats

so here's some pictures of the halloween treats i have made. i was up until 3 a.m. doing them only to get up and 6 to start baking cakes because i have 5 cake orders that i haven't even started on!! omg. it will all work out. i think the cookies have come a long way from last years cookies which you can see on my previous post.

halloween week

i love love LOVE this time of year. from october to december, other than the freezing cold, it is my absolute most favorite time. holidays and family and baking for my family during the holidays. this is halloween week which means parties at school and halloween cookie orders for me! i love decorating halloween cookies and coming up with new ideas. i wish someone would give me a reason to make a huge haunted house/anything goes halloween cake! maybe i'll have to have a party myself next year to do just that. last year i had 7 dozen cookies to decorate. i don't have that many this year but i have other orders. by the end of this week i'll be stressed and tired but i will enjoy every minute. i love getting to be creative. i never knew that i liked being creative or even that i missed it. i'm so grateful that i have a medium to do just that. i think that i have come a long way since last year being my very first year to ever decorate cakes and cookies and such. so here's a picture of my halloween cookies from last year and when i'm done this week i'll post the comparison and see if there's a difference!

family trip to the plex in wichita falls

kollin in a clown car

kamryn and me after driving the go cart

it's a hole in......25!

the girls playing putt putt

kamryn, kynlee and kollin waiting on the go carts

kollin and daddy gettin ready to ride the go carts

kamryn and daddy playing a game

kynlee driving a flintstone car

we went to the plex for my niece's birthday party. we had fun but there's not a lot for the kids to do since they are so young and most of the arcade games took all of our tokens because they are so old i guess. regardless it was a day we got to spend together as a family and that's always good. you can't ever take spending time with your family for granted. so all in all a good day!

why can't i always be right?

wouldn't we all love it if that was the case? of course its not and if we were all always right we would never learn anything about life.

abram has this crazy ability to be completely stressed out from work(he works with his family for 10 hours a day) and could've had a horrible day but will come home and you would never know it. now he tells me this made me mad or i was really pissed about that, i mean i know what happens at work but he it never shows in his attitude. it's not just with work either. life in general. he just doesn't dwell on things. i'm not saying that he is always cheery but i think it could be way worse than what i've got it. i just don't know how he does that. i mean when i've had a horrible day at home with the kids he definitely hears about it and gets some of my anger and frustration thrown at him. it's not fair it's just how i deal with it and i'm trying to work on it but it is sooo not easy. even when we fight we'll both come to a point where we know we are fighting about something so ridiculous and he'll say lets just drop it. i of course say ok but inside i'm just in knots trying to keep my mouth shut. i always want to have the last word and i always want to prove that i am right and if we "just drop it" then i never get that chance and it tears me up.

abram and i have been married almost 5 years and i'm just now learning that its not about always being right. i think i'll be forever grateful to him for helping me learn that. and believe me these last 5 years have not been easy and a big reason is because of my stubborness. we love each other now just as much if not more than when we got married but it has not been easy.

this issue i have is not a simple one to overcome. it is so hard for me to let go of hard feelings towards other people and of opinions that i have that are based off of those feelings. so i think i will be attending a birthday party this weekend that i do not want to be at but i know its the right thing to do. i will make the best of the situation and be the bigger person.

don't be a crybaby woman!

these are words from my loving husband. i had just gashed my hand pretty badly and was crying when he said this. he does love me he just doesn't handle crisis well. in the grand spectrum of things this incident was not a crisis but at the time i was in some pain. i was trying to fix a loose towel bar, which happens pretty often without incident, and it slipped and gashed my hand. you know when you're a kid and you stub your toe you can cry because you know your parents will scoop you up and hold you until you settle down. when you're an adult and you stub your toe you mumble a couple of explicits under your breath and keep on going. that was my plan until i saw the gash and i started crying like a baby. that's when abram's concerned comment came in. he said you've had 3 kids and this is what you're crying about! i told him if i was giving birth simutaneously to having a gash in my hand that i would rather have the gash but this was not the case and i can cry if i want to! i love him he really is a sweetheart but it freaks him out when he can see that i might not have control of things. he and my sister forced me to let them call my stepmom who is a great nurse. my sister and i have 6 kids between us all under 6 so she is always on call with us! i did not want to call her because i knew that she would have to clean it and do all that nurse stuff and that meant more pain for me. of course i knew i had to and it was super painful. this morning is much better and my hand is on the mend. i'm sure decreased functionality has got to be a fear for all moms. this could have been worse so i'm very grateful.

weekends are supposed to be relaxing??

to most weekends are supposed to be relaxing. mine was filled with decorating cakes. not a complaint. most of the time i'm done with cakes by saturday morning. i was still doing cake at 2 a.m. saturday. had a little less time with the kids but the kids had a little more time with their nina(my mom). i'm very grateful to all the people that ask me to make cakes for their special occasions, i'm glad to be a part of it.

sundays are about family time and football

in our house sunday is the only day that dad has off so we try to spend as much time as possible together as a family. church, grocery shopping and football watching. abram's cousin plays guard for the chicago bears so we are always rooting for them. i love the cowboys and abram cheers for whoever the cowboys are playing against :) we also watch desperate housewives which abram would not admit(he's really obsessed with it) and sometimes a family movie with the kids. all in all it's definitely my absolute favorite day of the week

be patient i'm new at this

so now we have a blog for our family! i'm excited! maybe i'll get the hang of this...... right now its almost bedtime and the kids are watching a movie since its the weekend i will let them stay up until daddy gets home. more posts and pictures to come!