Easy Peasy

I bought several flats of strawberries this past

summer and I saved these little baskets for a craft of some sort.

At the time I didn't know what I'd use them for.

I ran two rows of ribbon.

You could do all three rows.

If you can melt a bag of chips and crush some

candy canes you can make this wonderful Christmas bark in 3 minutes flat!

Really, it's that easy.

Over on Prudence Pennywise blog she had two different

step by step blog posts on how to do this and

just how easy it is to make.

Check it out here and here to see for yourselves!

I'm filling the little baskets with that wonderful bark.

It will make nice little gifts for teachers, neighbors,

Home and Visiting teachers or anyone you

need to remember this Christmas season.

Or just eat it yourself.

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Tasty Tuesday

Vanilla Wafer Cake
or Coconut Pound Cake
6 eggs
2 sticks of butter
2 cups sugar
2 cups coconut
1 large box Wafer
1/2 cup milk
2 cups nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter and sugar together.
Beat in one egg at a time until smooth.
Add vanilla, wafer crumbs,
pecans and coconut.
Bake one hour at 350*

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The pictures really doesn't do it justice.

This is a really old recipe.

I remember my mama making this cake at Christmas time when I was a child.

It was always one of my favorites.

Still is.

It's a really moist cake and no need for any icing.

YUM!

Funny Kid

Shelby informed us tonight at the dinner table that

we weren't having hot dogs we were having "meat sticks"!

Hope you had something a little better :)

My Favorite

Happy 1st Birthday Bentley

From this sweet little puppy.

And look at his ears they are both laying down.

To this huge handsome guard dog.

And like everything else in this house

the Sweetheart has managed to spoil him rotten.

I look forward to many years of loving Bentley.

Merry Christmas From The Beach

I took these pictures 2 days before Thanksgiving.

It was 81* that day and we stayed on the beach until dark.

My niece Tara and her family were down from Ohio

visiting and took their pictures too.

Santa is Tara's husband Ben.

She made his Santa suit and I think she did a great job!

I'll show their pictures soon.

Brunswick 1st Ward Christmas Party

The Red Chair

The Red Chair Revisited.

When the Sweetheart was in the hospital

I talked him into getting a new chair for

him and the kids and the animals to share.

They all love to sit on his lap and his old

chair just wasn't big enough to share anymore.

It is so big that he and I can both sit in it together.

I ordered it on line, and they call it " A Chair and a Half".

It is a recliner but not a rocking recliner.

It's GREAT and we all LOVE it!

The GRAND~girls can lay down together in it.

Plenty of room for 65 pound Bentley.

After a few days of being in my house

the chair got cold and got it's on blanket.

Walgrin loves the chair and sits in one corner.

Dawson lays in the other corner.

Sometimes they share it.

Even Mo, the fat cat can share it with his Sugar daddy.

I get to sit in it when they let me :)

A Great Christmas Cookie

Check here for other Ruby Tuesday pictures.

Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies

1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese

1/2 c. butter, softened

1 egg

1/4 tsp. vanilla

1 Red Velvet cake mix

1/2 c. powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in egg and vanilla. Add cake mix & stir until well blended.Powder sugar your hands well. Roll into 1" or 2" balls and dust balls in powdered sugar. Place 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheets (Siplast and parchment paper work well too) . Bake for 10 minutes. Leave on cookie sheet for 3 minutes or more before removing to cool on wire racks.

The original Gooey Butter Recipe, I posted here.

Hooked?

My brother sent this to me this morning and I thought it was cute.

Tis The Season, Cute

Party Time

Brunswick 1st Ward Christmas Party tonight 6:30 at the church.

33 Years Together

December 3, 1977

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Harry Griffis

For my anniversary present, he shaved and when back to a goatee!

It looks so much better.

I'll try and get a new picture this evening sometime.

Also, all I wanted was to have all 3 dogs wash by some one other than myself.

I'm easy like that.

We had them washed yesterday and they smell and look so good.

I love them again.

I love my Sweetheart even more after 33 years.

He's a keeper!

Date night tonight!

Have a great weekend yall.

Have You Heard This Before?

I just LOVE it!
I hope you do too.

This is the first year I've heard it.
Do you have any favorite Christmas songs you would like to share with me???
Give'em up!