Cookie Swap - Orange Cookies

These are my absolute favorite cookies ever!!

1 1/2 cups Shortening
2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs
Grated rind of 2 Oranges
4 Tbsp Orange Juice
1/2 tsp Salt
5 1/2 cups Flour
4 tsp Baking Powder

Icing

Powdered sugar and Orange juice

Mix all ingredients together. Roll into balls and flatten. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Wait for them to cool before icing the cookies!

I will get some pictures of these soon. I need to go get Oranges so I can make me a batch!!

I hope you enjoy!!

Great Weekend

This weekend was really nice! I finally had a feeling of being whole. I received a lovely bouquet of flowers from GQ, and he surprised me by coming home a day early from a 3 week TDY!! Of course I was at a friends house having dinner since he wasn't supposed to be home yet, but that is OK. It was really great to have him home! Someone else to referee the fights!! We went to Crossfit on Saturday and then to the pool for the afternoon. Today we just hung out at the house. Now the kids are in bed - almost and I can wait for Army Wives to come on!

Oh and GQ is what I am going to call my hubby from now on. I will have to explain that at a later date! Night!

But, MOOooOOM!

I think I have heard that more today than ever before. All because I made the kids clean their room, and refused to let them have ice cream from the truck.

My son was even willing to throw ALL of his toys away rather than pick them up. So I made him clean them anyway. He still isn't finished. DG actually has a clean room - which is like amazing!!! Her room is always a disaster.

They were fighting...again, like they have been since about 2 weeks before school was out. When I asked them why today, DG says "That's what brothers and sisters do, Mom." She even managed to look completely exasperated. What could I say to that??

Oh and Trying! I am going to do the Cookie Swap, but I have to go get some of the ingredients! I am looking forward to trying your recipe!! I love pumpkin everything!!!!

A little of everything :)

So yesterdays workout tore my hands up! I mean I can't hold on to anything except withmy fingertips! Workout was 12 burpees, 12 pullups - 10 rounds for time! By the time I got to the 5th round, my hands were getting torn up! It tooks me 38:18 to get done! 120 pull ups!! I did them all kipping too!

Here's my hands now!

Speed also got his first trophy for playing lacrosse this evening! This trophy is the whole reason he wanted to play a sport.

I also got the dress for my sisters wedding too! She had given us a list of colors that we could pick from and we could get whichever dress we wanted. I found out today that my other sister (There are 4 of us) also bought the same dress today for the wedding! I love it and it is going to be great for any balls/dining ins I might need to attend in the future! This is the top of it, I could not get the full dress to come out right. It is floor length though.

So I still have to find a flower girl dress for DG, which I am totally using ebay, because everywhere those things are waaay to much for a one time thing!

The kids also start their own scrapbooking club tomorrow and I think they are really going to have fun with it! I can't wait to see what they make!

Brother in Law back at home!

Well my brother in law is back at home now and getting back into the rhythm of family life. My sister is very glad to not have to drive to the hospital - it is 2 hours one way. Thank you for all your prayers and please continue them as it will take him a long time to fully recover!

Marine Corp 10K

Okay, I am all registered for the Marine Corp 10K. This will be the first time I have entered into any thing like this since middle school!! I am excited!! I will be walking with LAW. I hope to meet Loquita as well!! I know several of my friends here will be doing it too!

Flash Burn

I need to ask for prayers from everyone. My brother-in-law was trying to burn some brush last Wednesday. When he tried to light the brush, it flashed back on him and burned him. He is ok, but he has alot of recovery ahead of him. They still have not released him from the hospital and he may be there for at least 3 more days.

My nephew, 5 months, really misses him, but he isn't allowed in the burn unit. Everytime he hears a male voice he turns to see who it is, then cries when it isn't daddy. My BIL will probably not be able to hold him for a long time. His burns cover his arms and his nose, chin and one side of his face.

He won't even be able to go utside without being completely covered for one year! I feel so bad for them!

I would love for as many people to lift him up to God for fast healing and for my sister's family to be ok financially after the care he received is complete. I can't even imagine what those bills are going to be like. Thanks in advance to everyone who is willing to pray for them all!