Sweet Gifts

The Lord has given me so many sweet blessings and one of them is the gift of friendship. Recently my sweet friend Paula sent me the most wonderful package! She has been redoing her home (check it out, it is sooo beautiful!!) and knowing my love for pink and that I was redoing my kitchen with more pink she graciously passed some of her pink lovelies on to me. Elissa and I felt like it was Christmas!! ;o) Here are quite a few pictures of the lovelies. In the next few days I will post how I have used them in my home. Thanks again sweet friend!!



Here is a group picture of everything.


The tags and cards. Paula has a gift for packaging!

A beautiful tatted hankie. I love hankies!! I think Tatting is so beautiful. I would love to learn some day.

A beautiful tatted hankie for Elissa!

I am hoping you all are having a lovely Autumn day!

Love, Heather

The Delights of Autumn

Momma & Seth at Apple Annie's pumpkin patch.

Autumn holds many delights for me and one of them is taking my children to the pumpkin patch and to the apple orchards. Today we headed an hour south to Wilcox. It is a big farming community. We went and picked up some things at the organic orchard and then headed to play at the other orchards. We all had so much fun! Seth did not like stepping in the mushy apples on the ground. It was a very gross feeling! ;o) The smell left a lot to be desired too! ;o)


They had a beautiful sunflower patch.


Elissa squatting down so I could get a picture of her.

I had to post this picture so everyone can see exactly how gray my hair is getting! ;o)

Seth helping momma pick apples.

Seth trying to reach the apples.

;o)

I hope you are enjoying the delights of Autumn!

Love, Heather

An Autumn Give-away

Good evening! I just wanted to let y'all know that Elissa is having a small giveaway at her blog. So head on over there and comment to enter. ;o)

Love, Heather

A farewell to Summer tea

Elissa and I had been planning a summer tea all summer, but with being sick and having no energy it kept being put off. Elissa thought she could handle most of the preparations so she began preparing. She did a marvelous job! She made the seashell candies in the centerpiece. The "sand" is a mixture of brown sugar and white sugar. She made the sugar cookies and decorated them all by herself. She tried a few new techniques she had been reading about in the book Cookie craft. I think they turned out fabulously! I made the cloth napkins and Steve tied the string around them. So it was a cooperative effort! ;o)

We decided since most people consider Labor Day weekend to be the last weekend of the summer, we would have a farewell to summer tea.
We had a small menu. We always (!) go overboard and have a ton of leftovers so we just made a few things and did small batches of each.

Our menu consisted of:
Chicken salad sandwiches on croissants
Mushroom turnovers
Cream scones
Sugar cookies
Earl Gray Tea

We are already planning our Autumn tea! ;o) We are taking reservations if anyone wants to come have tea! ;o) Here are few pictures from our tea. They are all clickable.
As a side note, I have also updated our craft blog with two posts.


Steve tied the knots on our napkins. I think he did a lovely job.

The sugar cookies that Elissa made.

Some of the seashells that Elissa made.

Enjoying our tea. Steve ate one of the candy seashells from the centerpiece. I told him "You might be a redneck if you eat part of the centerpiece!" ;o)

The lovely centerpiece.

Our lovely table.

~Heather

Happy Autumn!

Happy fall y'all! ;o) (you must read that with an Oklahoma twang to it! ) Today is the first day of Autumn and it is my very favorite season. I love the cooler weather, the yummy food, the changing leaves, the colors, pumpkins, apples, the different birds that are visiting our feeders. Well just about everything about this season! ;o)

Since today is Hobbit day and the first day of Autumn we had a special breakfast. Elissa made old-fashioned drop doughnuts, scrambled eggs, apple slices and a pot of Cranberry Autumn tea. Yum!

We are trying to finish decorating for Autumn and we have been planting flowers. My friend Jody brought over some yummy fall cookies, some pumpkin roll and an adorable pumpkin that has birds on it! What a lovely day. I am going to stuff a chicken with mushrooms, onion and garlic and roast it and we will have potatoes and apple crisp for dinner. I hope you are all having a lovely day!

Happy birthday to my sweet friend Paula!

Love, Heather

Where I have been.....

Crissal Thrasher seen in our backyard Saturday morning. (photo credit to Steve)

Hey y'all! Happy September! September is one of my favorite months of the year!! I love Autumn, falling leaves, cooler weather (well everywhere else but here), pumpkins, apples, cider, ok I think you get the picture.

Sorry I have been absent for so long. I have been ill. I am extremely anemic and it has been causing havoc on my life! Any energy that I have had has been used for my family. They are also testing me for several other things. I know that I owe several of you emails and some of you Hollyhock seeds. I am working on getting that done. Thanks for understanding. I am going to try to start blogging again. I updated delightful hands earlier. I have been cross-stitching alot since I have been sick and so I have a lot to post over there. Check back soon.

Please pray for me, I have some major character flaws and one of them is I have no patience! ;o) I want to be well NOW. But, God is faithful and completely trustworthy and it is so comforting to know that He is sovereign and that He is using all of this for my good and His glory!

See you soon!

Love, Heather

Happy Birthday Elissa!

Today is our darling girl's 17th birthday! We are so thankful to the Lord for his blessing of such a daughter. I know her brothers are also very thankful for such a sister! Elissa is the sunshine in our home. We pray that Elissa will continue to walk closely with the Lord each day and continue to strive to be a Proverbs 31 woman.

We have had a blessed day so far. We surprised her this morning with the fact that her Daddy had the day off. I think that was her favorite gift! ;o) So far we have had a tea breakfast, opened gifts and lunch, we are off to watch one of the movies that she received this morning and then we are going to play games. Then her favorite dinner and cheesecake for dessert.


Breakfast with Daddy.



Elissa and Seth. Seth told her she looked like a princess. ;o)

I love this look on her face! I think she was excited to get the Il Divo Cd!

Elissa with her gifts.

We love you Lizard and we hope that your day is special and blessed!

Love, Daddy, Momma, Bubba and Seth