Over Capacity

I feel like my blog should have the Twitter Over Capacity page showing right now. As in, I am Over Capacity.

Thus, my blogs mostly being auto-posts lately.

I will be doing some updating soon when I get around to it (for my benefit of recording our way too busy life through my blog scrapbooks).

In case you were worried.

Or not.

Wedding Reception

This week, Kelly's "Show Us" is Wedding Receptions and Honeymoons.
I'll post honeymoon pics next week, as we went to Hawaii and it is one of my "favorite vacations" (next weeks post!).

We had our reception 30 miles away from our church because in our small town, there aren't a lot of options. We had it in the ballroom of Lakeside Casino.

We opted to not do a "head table" and instead sat at our own table with our wedding party and their guests at the tables around us.

Grandma Kathryn made us a beautiful quilt that we used as our guest "book."


Neither of us are huge cake people so we had cheese cake. We had about 15 different kinds of cheesecake.

Along with the cheesecake, we had a groom's cookie cake, a "mother's cake," a birthday cake for my uncle, a candy buffet, homemade ice cream, and of course a chocolate fountain. Oh... and we had "real food" too. Sort of. We did an appetizers buffet of some of our favorite foods. YUM.

I'm not sure the DJ liked the caricature (because he gathered the bigger crowd) but everyone else seemed to love it. We love going to visit family/friends and seeing their caricature from our wedding hanging up.
Some of the kidlins that were there.

Off to the casino. We didn't want the day to ever end. I wanted to wear my wedding dress as long as I could! ;)


Just in case you aren't sick of our wedding photos yet, you can check out a book I made on shutterfly here.

Banana-Oat Muffins

Banana-Oat Muffins




1 (6.4 oz) pouch banana nut premium muffin mix (Pillsbury)
1/2 Cup water
1/4 Cup quick oats
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 egg
24 milk chocolate chunks

Gently stir muffin mix, water, oats, oil, and egg.

Fill 12 lightly sprayed muffin cups 3/4 full.

Lightly press 2 chocolate chunks into batter of each cup until they disappear.

Bake muffins 18+ minutes at 350.

Your Best Life Now

Finally finished another summer read. Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now. Have you read it?

If not, I recommend it. With caution. There's a lot of good info.

But.

The first half was hard for me to get through. It may have been the "Never be satisfied with where you are." (That may be a loose translation)

Definitely not my typical light, carefree, beach day read. That may be why it took me so long to get through...

But.

There is a lot of good/motivational ideas about personal growth. If you are looking for some motivation, read it. Or just watch some of his Lakewood services online or on tv. Much easier to get through in the summer. :)

$5 Couch Makeover

Technically, less than $5 because part of the fabric was used for Ang's Wuvit.



Loved the fabric so decided to make pillow covers and a new smaller pillow for our couch.


And those buttons I love? Yup, they are on the pillows. Well some of them.

Crafty

Found some cute fabric this weekend so got the sewing machine out for the first time this summer.



And some buttons. Because I love buttons.



I finally made a heat pack (think Wuv It) for Ang's back (which is hopefully no longer hurting, but she'll now have it for future use).




And a magnetic picture frame for baby Jett (no, that's not a picture of him, it's his cute brother Drew).



And a picture frame for Jaden & Isaiah to put their Go Fish picture in (yup, Drew again. isn't he a good model?).

And now I'm remembering I have to finish (okay start) the Cross Country sweat pants before school starts.... Better get the sewing machine back out...

Farmer's Market Breakfast Burrito

Weekends that start with a trip to the Farmer's Market are always good weekends.