Blessings abound in November!

I am so stinking excited today! I just heard back from button it and they are giving us a pretty fabulous giveaway! This giveaway ends on November 30th so get your entries in ASAP!

You can personalize the main pendant as is shown with the number of children you have, and the accent pendant can hold up to 4 names. It will come as shown, or the other option is for it to just be in black and white.

Please leave us a comment regarding Blessings and Thanksgiving and what/how you will be teaching your children this holiday. You can earn 1 additional entry by bringing signed Christmas Cards from your children for our soldiers and turning them into Michelle Bucholtz. She will make sure they get sent to our troops and your kiddos will surely be a blessing to the recipients!

Here is a little info on the cards and what they are for:

Holiday Mail for Heroes Program

The holiday season is just around the corner and it’s time again to start thinking about being part of the 2011 American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes. For a fifth year, American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are partnering to ensure all Americans have an opportunity to send a touch of home this holiday season to members of our U.S. military, veterans and their families, many of whom will be far away from home this holiday season.
Starting this fall and throughout the holiday season, the Red Cross is working with Pitney Bowes, a mail stream technology company, to collect and distribute holiday cards to American service members, veterans and their families in the United States and around the world.
The process is very simple and takes no time at all - All you need is a pen and piece of paper to share your appreciation for the sacrifices members of the U.S. Armed Forces make to protect our freedoms The Holiday Mail for Heroes mail box is open and ready to receive for your cards.

Good Luck Ladies and have a wonderful week full of joy!
XOXO
Amber

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Betty Crocker Wanna Be...

Thanks to Adventures of a Betty Crocker Wanna Be for a super cute fall treat for the kiddos at your Thanksgiving table!

These are super simple to make, and always a huge hit.

What You Need

Large marshmallows (I usually buy the Jet Puffed brand - the store brand ones seem to stick together more)

Melting Chocolate in your desired color (chocolate chips work well too)

Lollipop sticks

Your decorations of choice (ie. sprinkles, ribbon, etc.)

1. Stick the lollipop sticks into as many of the marshmallows as you are using, and set out on wax paper.

2. Melt your chocolate. You can use a double boiler on the stove, stirring constantly, or do it the easy way and use the microwave. Either way, the key is to stir, and not let it get too hot, as it will get thick and unmanagable. If microwaving, do so in 30 second intervals, sitrring every 30 seconds.

3. Dip your marshmallows in the chocolate, coating the marshmallow. Use a spoon to smooth, or run the sides along the side of your bowl to remove any excess.

4. If desired add sprinkes after each dip, because the chocolate hardens fairly quickly (if using chocolate chips, it takes a little longer).

That's it!

She added a green ribbon for the stem.

Have a Blessed Week!

XOXO

Amber

m2m this week!

m2m this week! Are you ready for it! Just a heads up for you fab ladies...we are implementing a "Take it Table" for December and possibly January. This table is a place to leave, new or gently used items for others to take! You can drop off toys, books, shoes, crafting supplies, purses, Home decor....as long as it still looks great, feel free to share the love. The table will actually be there this week for you over achievers in the group ;) Crystal Joyce has offered to be in charge of this table, but could use a few hands to keep it clean, and organized and to possibly take a bin home, and bring it back to the next meeting. Let me know if you are up to help.

A Duteronomy 6 House

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 says this:

 ⁴ “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! ⁵ You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ⁶ These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

This month our family is sitting down and talking about scripture, yes we talk about the Bible regularly, but we are picking out scriptures and making a list of our favorites. This list will be broken down to a select few that represent our family the best right now. It may be something we want to aspire to, something that we feel makes us happy, words of encouragement, words of wisdom. We have not yet chosen our "family verse," that is what will become our family creed so to speak. But our deadline is November 30th!

We will then take that verse and we will be creating a piece of artwork that we can hang in our home. This artwork will become a part of what our family wants to represent. It will be something to remind us of Deuteronomy 6 and how we should eat, live breathe, walk, talk, even dream the Lords word. This is especially important for our kids to experience. Right now those little bugs are craving knowledge and what better way to give it to them than by leading by example. You are their current #1 Hero, their eyes and ears are open to you more now than they ever will be. This will be a creative way to work with the kids and let them play a role in learning the word and applying it to their space and then seeing it daily.

I hope fall brings you and your family close together and that you stop and take the time to enjoy it and to have a few lessons each day using God's word to guide you.

Happy Fall & Many Blessings,
Amber

Mommy And Me Go to The Pumpkin Patch & A Fall Giveaway!

Hope you can join us at the pumpkin Patch!

Fall Give Away!

Our Fall give away is a fabulous orange and brown tutu with a ribbon tie closure! Fit Size 4-8! Also comes with a super cute pouf wand in the same colors!

To win this awesome freebie please leave a comment below by clicking leave comment button (use the anonymous drop down box if you cannot get it to work the way it should), and then give us some feed back about m2m! Good, bad, indifferent....things you love, and things you would love to see, or things you think need a little tweak. Be sure to leave your name and email address in the post so we can get a hold of you if you win!

Good Luck! The winner will be posted on October 26th!

m2m

It is that time again! m2m is this Thurday at 9:30 am. Join us for wonderful worship, amazing brunch and fabulous fellowship! We will be listening to our very own Joy Paul speaking on "grace based parenting". Joy has raised a few amazing kiddos and she has run the awesome childrens ministry k-5 at Cornerstone Community Church for as long as I can remember! In fact she recruited me into my very 1st ministry! I taught 2nd grade Sunday school and worked on curriculum with her way back when. She is a light and an inspiration and an amazing mentor. She will be talking about offering up more grace and forgiveness in our homes. You really won't want to miss it! What a blessing to get to have such a great woman come and share with us! See you all there!

A little fall freebie!

Hello to the lovliest ladies in the valley! So I have been taking it easy this week and hanging with my kiddos AT HOME! I feel like sometimes we get into the go go go of life, and we forget that some of the best days and the most memorable days are the ones spent at home rolling around on the floor with the kiddos, crafting, making old fashioned family treats like cookies, and applesauce. At least that is the way it works here. My 5 year old seems to have the fondest memories being in the kitchen with me or playing out back with his daddy. This family has been in hyperspeed for the last 2 months and I decided this week we were going to slow things down. Fall is just around the bend and you can feel it in the air. The air is just a little bit crisper in the morning and the evening, and the air conditioners in our cul-de-sac have been clicking on a little less often ;) Yeah, in California you can hear the AC units of your neighbors because most of our houses smooch! I am from Oregon, so this is a foreign concept...less than 50% of homes in the Pacific Northwest have or USE AC! Anywho, Here is a little fall freebie for you and your family to enjoy. It is a blessings board. Just save it to your computer, send it to (we use Costco) your local photo printing company and then pop it in an 11x14 frame! The glass acts like a dry erase board and you can write your families blessings for the week right on the board and then erase them and pick new ones for the next week!! My son loves getting to write on these and we have a great time talking about our blessings. I hope you enjoy your board as much as we enjoy ours!

Just click on this link to download yours!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/66184985

XOXO
Amber

Fire station tour!