Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent Thanksgiving in Tampa this year. We are so blessed with sweet and wonderful family surrounding us!
Coloring at Mema and Papa's house on Thanksgiving morning.


Jeff and Randy carving the turkey.

Into The Woods

We went camping in Georgia over Veteran's Day weekend with Marmie and Granda. We stayed in FDR State Park and saw his house in nearby Warm Springs. We loved hiking, geocaching, playing on the camp playground and hanging around the campfire. But I think the high light was the Wld Animal Safari in Pine Mountain. I highly recommend that if you ever get the chance! SO MUCH FUN!!!

These are the pictures from the Wild Animal Safari. The animals stuck their heads right into the car trying to get food. You got to see so many wild animals up close. It was amazing. The girls weren't too sure about it. Kaylin stayed nestled between the driver and passenger seat the whole time. Annlee and Maryella stayed in the trunk part of the van most of the ride. But they still all thought it was pretty cool. There was also a walk about area with a few more animals to see.

The rest of the pictures are from all the other fun we had while we were there.

Happy Halloween!

While I'm not a fan of the ghosts, goblins and witches that you see around on Halloween, I do love an excuse to party and let the girls dress up. This year was an especially fun Halloween because not only did we have all the regular school parties and such, we also made our own hayride for trick or treating around the neighborhood! Marmie and Granda were even here to join in on the fun with us!

Always Room For Cake!

I just wanted to mention a huge thing that has just sort of happened in the last few months. I've always liked to make cakes and cookies and decorate them cute, but back in May, someone asked me to do it for pay for their son's birthday. I had fun doing it, so I thought, why not try to make a little $ on the side doing cakes? I made end of the year gifts for all the girls teachers (cookies on a stick) and I put some stickers with my name and phone number on the back of each cookie. I got several calls to do more things. From that and word of mouth, I have suddenly become very busy! I've been doing 2 cakes a weekend for awhile now and I'm having such a good time! I created a blog just to show off my cakes, so you can see that at www.amyleessweettreats.blogspot.com if you are interested. I'm going to look into creating a facebook page soon whenever I get a free minute (not that I know what a free minute is anymore!) I'm just so thankful that God is allowing me to do something I love to do and still stay home with my girls. I would love for it to grow into a steady business in His time!

Tea For Two

Kaylin and Annlee decided to have a joint birthday this year, which made things a lot easier on me! They wanted a tea party and we had such a fun time! We asked all the little girls to dress fancy and we made crafts (rings and picture frames) and ate yummy tea party food. And of course, they had tea (or lemonade) in tea cups! Everyone seemed to have fun and the party was a big success! They are already talking about a joint party next year at the skating rink (even easier!!!)