Happy Birthday Tara

This is my beautiful niece, Tara! Happy Birthday Tara!

I Blog because of Tara.

She is the one that turned me on to the whole blogging world.

And nearly 3 years and 1076 posts later I'm still blogging.

I love it and I love yall who come here and

visit and sometimes leave comments.

Tara has the cutest little family!

They are just precious.

This is Ali, Tara's sister and Grandma Griffis and Tara.

They came from Ohio to visit their Grandma,

a few days before Thanksgiving.

We had a wonderful day with them

on St. Simons Isl and Jekyll Island.

The temperatures were in the 80's the days they were here.

Tara is married to this Santa's helper, Ben.

He was such a good sport to bring his Santa's suit

all the way from Ohio so we could get

Santa beach pictures.

We think they turned out really cute.

We stayed on the beach that day until dark.

The kids didn't want to leave.

We finished the evening off with dinner at

Willie's Wennie Wagon. It was a Great day!

Tara, I hope you have the best birthday ever!!!

Love you and your little family.

How Are You Doing?

All Smiles

No Peeking

May all your wishes come true.

Merry Christmas!

Holding It Together

Merry Christmas!

Last Night

A good time was had by all.

Mama and daddy didn't make it up due to health issues.

They were truly missed.

More pictures later.

I've got a busy day ahead.

Merry Christmas!

The Crenshaw's Come Tonight!

I love it when my family comes.

Tonight is our Christmas celebration.

One Week Away

Take great care on this last Saturday before Christmas!

Not Necessarily True

Shop Party Tonight

I can guarantee that no one will be wearing a suit but it will be fun anyway.

I don't have to cook supper, yay!

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 :)

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