I pulled off a Thanksgiving Feast

Terry and I decided to have Thanksgiving this year at our house with just a small crowd the kids and my Mom,Step Dad and Sister. I did everything except for the Turkey and Stuffing. This is how it all went for me for the last 2 days. First things first I started my 13 layer rainbow jello on Wednesday morning while getting Tycee ready for Dave's,Tripp crying at my feet and the wash piling up to the ceiling in the laundry room. The jello took me yes pretty much up until about a few hours before eating, its a long process not hard just very time consuming. While the jello is setting in the fridge, I needed to make a NY Style Cheesecake for Terry since he doesnt really like pie all that much.
Me at the beginning of the of it all

So here it goes I found a recipe for the cheesecake and ran around town tracking down a Springform pan for the cake to set in, lucky for me my neighbor had one. The Cheesecake wasn't too difficult again just time consuming but I did it and I made it all from scratch. After making the Cheesecake I started all the crust for the pies. I also made the crust and pie from scratch as well. I was up until 3AM baking Pumpkin, Apple, and Banana Cream pies.

Terry's New York Style Cheesecake

Before baking the Apple Pie

Me waitng and waiting for the pies to come out of the oven

After baking the Apple -looks good huh!!

Finally when I was about to settle down and go to bed Terry jokelingly said,"what if the mice get to the pies" I panicked a bit but was so tired I didnt really care. By the way we dont really have mice Terry just likes to say stupid things like that to get me all worked up however, I did check on them a few times during the night just to make sure.

This is how my pies looked when I woke up to check on them during the middle of the night
BEAUTIFUL!!

On Thursday morning I made rolls, yams, green bean salad and a few other a little things and did the final touches to all my pies and yummy food. By 2o'clock everything was set and ready for us to eat finally!!
The Dinner table all set

I must say so myself I was pretty impressed with all the baking and cooking I have just done and you might be asking yourself now,"what the heck I didn't know Tiana can cook" well...Its true very true I can cook and I can actually cook pretty well too so I was excited to show off my cooking/baking skills. Everyone was impressed and I got lots of compliments about how yummy the food was.

My cute family

BYU/UTAH GAME DATE

Terry and I had tickets to go see the BIG GAME Saturday night. We had amazing tickets and we had so much fun on our little date with no kids it was such fun!! After going to the game of course we had to hit the EL CHIHUAHUA Resturant for some fabulous Mexican food!
Thanks T for taking me out on the town for a fun date with you!!

Emotional and Inspiring

This is how it all started and ever since then I haven't been able to get this family out of my thoughts. I think about this family quite often. A few weeks ago T's alarm clock went off and Terry doesnt have his alarm set on the annoying beep, beep thing he has it set to some news station that is almost just as annoying to me but this time when it went off at 5AM I couldn't help but listen to the news that morning. All that I can remember is that were talking about some Nie Nie Blog and some plan crash that had happened in August, I couldn't figure out what the blog had to do with the plane crashing. I got right up and went to the computer and here's the news article and then I read her sister Courtney's blog. I read this blog and the watched the news clip and it was very emotional for me but very inspiring on the sisterly bond and what a amazing family. I want my sisters to know that if anything ever happened to them that I would not only take care of them, but, if they had a family I would take care of the family too and that everything will be ok. I hope you all take the time and read this amazing story but be ready get the box of tissue's out because this is a tear jerker.

Home made bread

I made home made bread for the very first time it was AMAZING!!Thanks Emily for sharing your yummy recipe and maybe next time I can teach you to make something. Or... maybe we can have a round bush learning session!!


Check out my rolls and bread loaf

Tycee having a bite of of the finished goods

Our first day going to Church

So, Terry and I have been talking about going to church for quite some time now and there was always some excuse for us not to go but we finally went for the first time on Sunday. We have lots of friends here in our neighborhood that have always invited us to go with them but like I said we always had some lame excuse or I always had the excuse it usually went something like this: I have nothing to wear, its too early, or, I dont know anything about the church and what they believe in. Finally I made the decision I was going to go give it a honest effort but first I had to make a quick run to Nordstroms for the "church apporiate clothing" After 4hrs of trying on clothes I walked out of Nordie's with 6 new outfits and 2 pairs of Naughty Monkey heels!! Of course shopping was really what I was looking forward to and now that I have done that then I guess I have no more excuses not to go because Church started at 1pm so that was a good time for us and after the shopping spree I had to go at this point plus I wanted to wear my new clothes!! I do feel this is a good thing so hopefully we will continue to go and I will learn more.
Me on the first day of church

My two guys first day of church

Tripp and I ready for church

Halloween

Ok, so Im kind of late on posting pictures from Halloween but I have been without a camera so I have had to steal a copy of my dads pictures from his camera of our Halloween. This was a fun year for Tripp he was so cautious and curious is to why he looked the way he did. "Hannah Montana"Tycee and "The Gothic Witch" Paige were at the "other parents" for the weekend so I dont have pictures of the girls this year but next year for sure.
And he's off...

Roaming the streets for more candy!

I think I will have one of each please!!