Happy Thanksgiving!

Flop your dough on floured surface
Fill 'er up, Roll 'er up!

Let rise & then bake

Ice!!!

Finished Product!

So for some reason I decided to be Betty Crocker for my co workers & friends. I came across a recipe for Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Coffee Icing & thought that would be nice to make & bring to work & deliver to friends for the Holiday. Ha Ha Ha! I have never made anything breadwise that required rising, punching, rising again & finally rolling! It was actually quite fun-the punching part that is! So I made 7 pans of these beauties and did not make it to bed until 2am! I may expire from flour inhalation, but it was worth it!!

Pioneer Woman Comes To Town!

My new friends!

Nina & Ree BFF!!
Marlboro Man-a nice surprise!!

This post is a little late in coming but I'm still excited to write about it! A few weeks back my idol Ree Drummond (aka Pioneer Woman, or PW) came to Little Rock for a cookbook signing, I wrangled my fellow PW Fanatic Cindy & her daughter Madison into coming with me. We had NO idea what we were getting into. I guess the greeter at WalMart (yes it was at WalMart) laughing hysterically when she spotted me coming in the door with my cookbook should have tipped me off. It did not. Cindy is thinking there will be MAYBE 50 people there, I'm more optimistic & am thinking MAYBE 100...Uhhh, yeah right!! The line was all the way to the back of the store! It looked like we were going to be there a while so I quickly struck up a friendship with those surrounding me, I must say it was the best time I've had standing in a line for almost four hours.

Do NOT try this at home!

Cooking for four hundred is NOT as simple as it sounds. This is what happens when the waist high stand mixer vibrates off of it's stand!! HORRIBLE night!!!

Redneck Wife?

Okay so Andy has been working like 70 hours a week. In a unguarded moment I felt sorry for him, so I endeavored to think of a way to cheer him up! Since he was working 4-midnight I had plenty of time to think on this. What I eventually came up with was to make him a pot of deer chili. He LOVED it! I LOVED it! What I'm worried about is does this now classify me as a "redneck wife"?

If so I'll wear the title with pride!!!!

Alarming Muffins!

We had a MAJOR problem with our home alarm system earlier in the week. Long story short our alarm malfunctioned & called ER personnel to our home. I opened my front door to find (keep in mind siren's are BLARING) a firetruck, four police cars & an ambulance!! I couldn't explain myself for laughing hysterically! So anyway my good friend Dave (shout out to Alarm Systems of Arkansas) comes over last night to fix whatever ailed my alarm, it turns into a long drawn out process so I wound up cooking dinner. We had Spaghetti with creamy tomato sauce with Artichokes and for dessert I made Pumpkin spice muffins with cream cheese icing! They were probably two of the BEST things I have cooked in a while!! I'm obsessed with anything pumpkin right now.

Speaking of being obsessed visit http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/ for yummy meal ideas & MUCH MUCH more. I LOVE Ree Drummond!! I can't wait to meet her in November!!!

Vivianne

A couple of Sunday nights ago one of Vivi's friends was praying down front at church, I went & asked Vivi if she would like to go up there, of course she said yes. When we got down front there were a LOT of kids around Ollie & Vivi seemed a little hesitant, finally she inched her way forward & it wasn't but just a few minutes & her little hand went up & I could read her lips saying, "Jesus I love you!" That's when she started REALLY praying. I love that God can touch anyone, even a little child with a sincere heart!!

Acts 2:39 (Whole Chapter) For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.

God Bless America!

First of all I apologize to all two of you who check this blog that I have not updated sooner. Things have been super crazy. I normally update my blog during downtime at work Weeeell, since my two wonderful docs have decided to go paperless we have been inundated with (of all things) PAPER! Ugh!

Many, many new things going on, Andy has been working a few days in construction & all of a sudden is finding me "great deals" on tile, sinks, ceiling fans etc. Never mind that they are ugly & cheap quality he can get them at a good price! I try telling him that there are other ways I would like to spend money on our house (hello, curtains?). He just tunes me out. Vivi & Aidan have started school. Vivi is in kindergarten & Aidan is K4 and blessings of blessings they both seem to enjoy it! I'm sure Lori is relived. I'm not sure I like how independent they are growing, even though Vivi assures me she is still my buckaroo!

I can NOT post a blog on this day without mentioning what a GREAT WONDERFUL country we live in and how I am THANKFUL everyday to be a part of such a great nation. I will NOT forget 9/11 and how ultimately good overcame evil. Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.