We say goodbye to one of the best Kitty's of all today

With aching hearts this day we say we love you and we will miss you very much Mr. Lily! He was one awesome kitty! I love you mom and I'm so sorry!

Spinning tree

I'm so excited!!!!!My new spinning tree stand came in today! I took the whole tree down and redecorated it. I'm crazy so my hubby says. I hope you guys enjoy the show.
You'll have to turn my music off because the tv music is playing in the back ground and it may get crazy...sorry.

Almond Toffee Bark...YUMMY!

Okay ladies here in the latest candy making adventures in my kitchen: Almond Toffee Bark and chocolate covered pretzels.
Almond Toffee Bark

Ingredients
3 cups (10 ounces) sliced almonds
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/3 cup water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 c.semi-sweet chocolate chips(not sweetened)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a large baking sheet with veggie spray. Spread almonds over sheet and bake until golden brown, about 7 to 10 minutes.



In a 3 quart heavy saucepan bring to a boil: butter, sugar, water,vanilla, and salt over medium heat. Stir with a wooden spoon. Once a roaring boil happens don't stir any more. Swirl the pan occasionally, until a deep golden brown color appears. about 12 minutes.









Remove pan from heat. Immediately pour toffee onto baking sheet and with a spatula spread into a thin layer.



Sprinkle toffee with chocolate chips and let melt.(about 1 minute)Then spread chocolate over toffee.







Next sprinkle almonds over chocolate and let cool. About 1 or 2 hours.



Cut toffee into 2-inch pieces of "bark". Layer bark between sheets of wax paper in an airtight container. Keep at room temperature or chilled, last about a week.



And last but not least the pictures of the chocolate covered pretzels.





These make great gifts and look awesome on your Christmas desert table.

I hope you enjoy!
DeAnne

***Almond Toffee Bark recipe from the Kitchen of my Aunt Jacqueline(Jacky)Barker. I was named after her. Jacqueline DeAnne Williams DuBose. She is a very special lady and I love her dearly. Thanks Aunt Jacky for the recipe!

Awesome Family Game

If you love Monopoly but hate the mess and hassle of getting the board game out and setting up the pieces or you don't have anyone to play with....Well this is just for you! It is available for the X-Box 360 and Wii.


That is my advertisement for the day...LOL

A Few of My Favorite Things at Christmas

I normally put the tree in front of the window in the living room, but our new love seat doesn't allow it, so I moved it between the living room and dinning room. You can see three sides of the tree now, so this may be a permanent place for the tree from now on




These are all of my favorite ornaments!
This one is from my friend Paige. This ornament was the one that inspired me to do candy and snowmen on my Christmas Tree.


This one was given to me by my friend Stephanie. She knows how much I love cow noises.

So to go along with the set of cow bells Steph gave me I found this singing cow. It moos to the song of Deck the Halls.


Warning...
(For those peeps out their who are looking for me a gift this year for Christmas, I don't normally collect cow items. This was under special circumstances)

This one was given to me by my friend Jennifer. We have given each other an ornament for X-mas almost every year.


My mom gave me all of these.







The were all given to me by Paul's Mom.




I bought this for our first year of marriage Christmas ornament.


Of course I have a few manly ornaments for Paul.What is a tree with out the leg lamp from A Christmas Story and a Guitar for Paul's love of music.



I hope you all enjoyed a few of my favorite things at Christmas. More to come as Christmas draws closer.

Meet my Nephew

Well if you read my last post Sara isn't having a girl. It's a boy!Here our some of the 4d pics they took. Sara and Mike don't have a clue what to name him. She has been calling the baby Scooter since she found out she was pregnant.So, for now it is just Scooter. Baby and mom are doing well. My mom and I are going today to take back all the little girl clothes and toys and exchange them for little boy items. We are just glad we all found out now and not when this little blessing arrives in March. Sara will now have time to prepare and change the little girl items that have been given to her already. Mom has to start over on the scrapbook she had already started. This is just too funny.We all have laughed so hard about it.

News at the DuBose house is... The tree is up and the house is decorated for Christmas. Work has been slow so I've had plenty of time on my hands to decorate. I'll wait till after Thanksgiving to do the out side. Trying to not to rush the seasons. Plus, I need to pressure wash the house.(I'll put up pics later I don't want to take away from Scooters pics this post) Paul is back from his business trip. The trip went well and he learned a lot. That is about it our way.

I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving week! So I will leave on this note.Our family is truly blessed and thankful to God for all of the blessing He has given us. What are you thankful for this season?

Crazy News!

Well, my sister just got home from having her 4D ultrasound and it isn't a girl! It's a BOY!! Baby is growing and doing well! Mom is getting use to the idea of a boy. We are just as happy as before but have to take back a lot of little girl clothes and buy little boy clothes and toys! So that is the lastest news our way. I hope everyone has a great weekend.