Sweetest Picture Ever! Treasures & Trinkets Linky Party!

I took this picture in the hospital when our grand-daughter, Sweet Pea, was one day old.
It’s a picture of her grasping my hubby’s finger.
I decided it would be a beautiful picture to display the following verse on…….




Have you ever really thought about that verse before?  God said he knew us BEFORE we were formed in the womb..he knew we were going to exist long before we ever came to be.
BEFORE conception.  Amazing, simply amazing. 
Just thought I’d share my pic…I thought it turned out lovely!


Here is a new pic of Sweet Pea as well…she’s getting SO big!
She’s getting close to 3 months old! Yikes, time sure does fly!




Have a great, rest of the week!!
Don’t forget to link up something you love for
Treasures & Trinkets Thursday! Sweet Pea is my treasture!
Also, my giveaway will end the 14th, so be sure and go here to sign up!

Have a great, rest of the week!
Missy

Valentine Décor!

I’ve already shown you my Valentine Mantel…

But I have another place in my home that I’ve been beautifying for
Valentines Day….
it’s my foyer shelf that I showed you how
to make here.

I added some pale pink candles
that I bought from the Dollar Tree.  
The red heart is the bottom to a valentines box..
I used the top on my mantel with the
“Be Mine” vinyl on it.

Here’s my little yard sale greenhouse….

I filled it full of shredded paper for
gift bags and some  ornaments I got
marked 75% off after Christmas. (.50 a pack)
(just turn the hangers around and tuck them in
so no one knows they’re ornaments)

You can see some of the hangers here,
but you can’t from the front!

This is a gift box I got marked down after
Valentines Day last year.
It’s really cool, it has a magnetic closure.

I just tied a pretty silk ribbon around it and sprinkled on some heart-shaped confetti…

This is my most favorite wreath I’ve ever found!
It came from Tuesday Morning and it was on clearance  for $19.00!

I LOVE it!

Well, that’s it for the tour of my Valentine Shelf!

Don’t forget to sign up for my Scentsy giveaway HERE!

Hope you guys have a great day!

Hugs!

Missy

linking up to Just a Girl

I started out with  the three candlesticks that
I re-vamped back in the summer.
Remember them, they used to be brass?
(If you wanna see the tutorial..go here)

Giveaway!!!!

Hey ya’ll!  I told you I was going to have a giveaway to celebrate my 1 year bloggiversary and here it is!

I’m so excited about this giveaway because I know, first hand, what a wonderful product this is!
I have a local friend who has started a Scentsy business and has offered  a Full sized Scentsy warmer as a giveaway for you guys!


The giveaway is for this lovely
Nature’s Haven Warmer.
I don’t know about you, but I’m SO ready for
Spring and this little warmer just cries out ….

SPRING!
(insert birds chirping here)

You’ll also receive, a “My Wish” Scentsy Bar so you
can enjoy your new warmer as soon as you get it! For your 1st chance (you must do this one first before commenting for any other chances)you need to go here and sign up for the fun Scentsy newsletter and then come back here and comment and let me know you signed up. (easy peasy!)
If you don’t know anything about Scentsy….I need to fill you in!
They are the sweetest ceramic warmers, that use a light bulb instead of a traditional wick flame, to melt scented wax!
I got one of the plug-in ones for Christmas and have loved the way the smell just wafts through the house….oh so inviting and smells divine! OH, and during the month of February

Scentsy is offering 10% off almost
everything* in their fall/winter catalog! If you’d like to place an order, please use this link to get your 10% off! Go here. (* Sale excludes all licensed warmers, online close-out products, February Scent & Warmer of the Month, and the following Combine & Save packages: Perfect Plug-Ins, Perfect Scentsy, Scentsy Sampler, and Scentsy Companion System.)

Rules to enter the giveaway:

For your 2nd chance, you can tweet it or facebook it  and then leave a comment

For your 3rd chance, you can do a post about the giveaway and come back and leave the url and also leave a comment letting me know.

That’s all you have to do for a chance to win a great prize!  Just remember to sign up for the newsletter first.

The giveaway will be held open until Valentines Day..I’ll announce the winner on the 15th!  (nice little Valentines Day fun!)

Okay..it’s all up to you guys, now…enter, enter, enter!! :)

I LOVE each and every one of you and thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read what I write!  I’m still amazed every time I look at the amount of people that come here each day…YOU all just make me speechless!

Thank YOU!
Missy

Eventful Day! Postponing Treasures and Trinkets till next week.

Just a quick little post about our very eventful day!
This is my hubby…..

















Yesterday, my oh so sweet, hubby called me from work and asked (in a very apologetic tone!!) if I could come pick him up from work and take him to the hospital.  Panic!

He was having chest pains and his blood pressure was through
the roof.   I had just stepped out of the shower and was so worried about getting to him in a speedy manor.   He said he would get the nurse that works for him to take him on to the hospital and I could just meet them there.   I was relieved he would get there sooner. I threw on some clothes and took off to the hospital as quick as I could.

Upon my arrival they were admitting him and within 15 minutes were already talking about doing a heart cath. We were just so sure it wasn’t his heart that we questioned everything they said.  They did an EKG and it came back ok, as did his enzymes. They then decided to do an echocardiogram…















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This test didn’t come back normal….it said he had a leaky heart valve.   The Dr. came in (hours later..ugh!) and told us it could be nothing, but it could be something life threatening and he wanted to do the heart cath.  Our heads were spinning!  They took him to the operating room within 15 minutes of the Dr coming in to talk to us. 












This is what they do in the heart cath…they go into your main artery in your groin and insert a sheath.  They inject dye into your system through the little tubes and then take pictures.
This is what they were about to do to my hubs.
I won’t lie to you…it was super scary!  I was there alone, and they had just wheeled my hubby out to do, Lord knows what to him. They said if there was a blockage they would put in a stint, if there was nothing wrong it would be over quickly and if they found something more, we would be there for long time. 
I started to pray…then I put out a petition for prayer on twitter…I have some amazing blogger friends, as well as some wonderful “real life” friends too.  You guys just rock my world with your sweetness!  I can’t even begin to tell you what you mean to me!

I opened up my Bible app on my iphone and it immediately opened to Isaiah 26:4  it says, “ Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.”  Now that’s what I needed to read!



I started calling family and friends to pray.  I had a couple of friends ask if they could come up and one said, “never mind, I’m on my way”.   Thanks Elisha for coming! (and thanks Diedre for offering to turn around and come to my rescue!) 


God is good. 
Before Elisha could even get to the hospital, my hubby was back in the room, the Dr came in and said there was nothing wrong with his heart and we could go home it two hours.  By the time she got there, he already had a dinner plate and I was feeding him!

It turns out, some pain he was having in his back from degenerative disc disease, was radiating into his chest and also making his blood pressure spike. 

We are home now, and he’ll have to rest for a few days, but other than that (and some therapy for his back,  hospital bills and exhaustion) we are doing great!

Thanks for your prayers!
Love you all
Missy

PS…please forgive me if I don’t get to reply to your comments for a day or so….I’m playing nursemaid. :)

Giveaway!! ONE YEAR of Blogging Anniversary!

February 4th will be my one year anniversary of starting this blog!  I can’t believe it’s been a full year!






















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I spent the morning looking back at my older posts and got a good giggle out of my early pictures, or maybe I should say, the lack of pictures.   I have learned SO much over the last year. I can honestly tell you, before I started my blog, I had never heard of html code, hyper links, embedded video…and SO much more!  I still, however, have so much more to learn…so bear with me!

So, in lieu of this milestone, I’ll be posting a giveaway on the 4th, so make sure you stay tuned!
I’ll give you a hint….it’s gonna make your home smell Ahhhmazing!!
I’d also like to take a moment to say WELCOME to all my newest followers! (you know who you are!)   There’s been 49 new followers in the last week…I’m so honored and excited to have each and everyone of you!  HOW FUN!!  Won’t you leave me a comment and tell me something about yourself, I'd love to hear from you! 

Don’t forget to come back Friday to sign up for the giveaway!!

Have a blessed DAY!
Hugs
Missy

Baked Apples

I made this recipe last night for dessert…
so simple and so yummy!

Take as many apples as you have people…
we only had three last night, so three it was,
and give em’ a good wash!

You’ll need brown sugar, butter, ground cinnamon and cinnamon sticks.
(cinnamon sticks are optional)

Put 2 Tablespoons of brown sugar in each apple.

Cut up 1 Tablespoon of butter for each apple and put inside,  along with a cinnamon stick…

You’ll have a pan that looks like this…..

Now generously sprinkle the apples with cinnamon (forgot to take a picture of that..sorry) and bake at 350 degrees, until the apples
are fork tender…

Spoon pan juices over apples when serving…
also tastes amazing with
a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

Now ENJOY!

Have a great day!

Missy

Partially core the apples…
don’t go all the way through,
leave a well…about half way down.

The Bold and the Beautiful…. Be NICE! :)

I am so excited to be part of a very unique blog hop. Gail @My Repurposed Life and MeganDVD @ Beauty in the Attempt are hosting “The Bold and the Beautiful-your blog reviewed”.

Please take a look around my blog, check out the layout, pages, buttons,  sidebar and gadgets. I would love for you to gently critique my blog. I’m hoping you will leave me some positive feedback about my blog. It would be great if you could give me constructive criticism but be sure to tell me what you like about my blog too! Do you like my pictures? Does my blog load quickly for you? How about the font?  Is there something else you’d like to see that I’m not currently doing? All tips and tidbits welcome!

You are welcome to join the party, it starts Thursday night and is open for a week.

Hugs
Missy