Monday!

I wish I could get into telling you about the amazing Easter at mychurch, but that will be another day.

For now, I will share about some recent changes in our home have been LIFE CHANGING.
Sounds dramatic, but it is true.
When we first moved into our home, I begged my husband to extend our fence so that it would include our back door. This enabled us to install a doggie door and have the dogs go in and out as they please. This would hopefully solve the pillow chewing problem. Well, it has, I am pleased to announce! Thanks to some awesome and wonderful men who came to help, our fence is extended and we now have a doggie door.
I took some photos as Brandon cut a huge hole in the door and then went to the store to get some 'materials'. The dogs were scared to death and very confused. It was very fun to watch!

Some people think it's weird...I give my dogs a voice on occasion.
"Hey Buoy, why do you think we have a hole in the door? Do you think I can go through it?"

Mom, I'm not sure how I feel about this...or all the sawdust on the floor...

This is now filling the hole!

And then Bella again, "Please, please, let me run back out. You don't need to vaccum up the sawdust, I will drag it through the house for you.."

And then there is some straggler photos of Emma Jane.
She turns 11 months today. It feels like I just went to meet her in the hosptial. I was pregnant with Briar. And feeling like it was the most amazing moment ever. It was my first friend to have a baby where I got to be a part of the pregnancy all the way through.






What an amazing Easter weekend too.
Finally got some Belly pics too, kind of.
I will try to show them to you soon!
HAPPY MONDAY!

The best cookies EVER? Quite possibly...

This pumpkin shows very well how I feel about chocolate chip cookies. The pumpkin feels my joy :)

I found out that a million people on the web make claims to have "THE BEST" chocolate chip cookies. So, naturally, I had to figure out the winner. Obviously, when I hear this claim..that someone has the "best cookies ever", I look upon them cynically. Very cynically. Cookies are not something to joke about. To lie about. To mess with. I take them seriously. Well, as seriously as you can take several sticks of butter, lots of sugar and some eggs and flour. I have tried them all, and I can tell the difference between full fat and a cookie made with substitutions. I can see a good 'undercooked center, but crisp on the outside" coookie a mile away. I don't settle for a so-so cookie. So, I am always on the lookout for the ultimate YUMMY cookie recipe. i have tried oatmeal chcolate chip. I have tried several of Hungry Girl's recipes...(She is AMAZING)...but nothing could satisfy. It's like the urge to have these awesome cookie just could not be satisfied by anything else. Aren't I supposed to feel that sort of unabashed love for my savior alone? Imagine, meeting the Lord and saying...well, "I loved you, and I loved cookies". Seriously, not that great to joke about ...since it is pretty true :)

I digress. This cutie blogger claims to have THE BEST chocolate chip cookies. I think, "Okay, I've heard this before". Then I read her post and realized she is pretty awesome and admits all this up front. Does it get any better? it does. I made the cookies. And she didn't lie!! They are the best! Not just good. or great. But THE BEST. Read her post, then get yourself out to make these. They ROCK.

This is not a joke. Go into your kitchen now and make them. SO GOOD.

Then, write about it on your chalkboard..in your kitchen. I like to write menus there. Or fun quotes. Inspired notes to my spouse. Sometimes Brandon gets inspired...as you see in these lyrics he wrote. This is mine..

You don't have one? It truly is SUPER easy. My hubby framed mine in with molding, but Martha Stewart painted a whole wall. .Sometimes it's fun to just do a cabinet. Make one! Check out these fun inspirations at design sponge. If you've never been there...there are ALWAYS fun inspirations there!! Then there is Martha...you just can't ever leave Martha out.

I better go to bed. Long, fun day ahead tomorrow!

Ciao!