Sharing Sunshine....

Booksigning and a little catching up!

2012-02-16T14:27:00.000-08:00

Okay so I haven't been the best blogger the last few days, but the truth is I have been really sick. So since Monday I haven't been able to post things with a clear head!

So some of you may remember that last week we went to the Ranger's stadium for a tour and bumped into some of the players. Anyway Blair's favorite player was there but mine wasn't. So on Saturday my mom woke me up at 7 in the morning (no I am not a morning person and Saturdays are my days to sleep in) to tell me that Josh Hamilton (my favorite player) we having a book signing in a couple of hours and we had to get there early to get a spot in line.

If you haven't read his book, you really have to. His journey to faith is amazing, if he wasn't the greatest baseball player ever he would still be a hero just for his story.

There were more people there than I could have ever imagined! This is just the first part of the line! about an 1/8 of this line actually got their book signed in person!

The stragglers at the back of the line.

Blair and I were both bored, she was reading his book and I was taking pictures!

They let us come in and take pictures of him, but not with him. To be honest I don't really even care that I never to to take a picture with him. I was so close to him and I saw him in real life, that was good enough for me!

It was so cute! This little boy was caring a football and Hamilton played with him for a couple of minutes!

Signing away!

Posing for someone else, but I took the opportunity as well!

You may have seen I AM SECOND billboards around town, and if you are like me to wondered what it was all about and than totally forgot about them. Well one day someone on twitter posted that they were doing a challenge through I AM SECOND and that other should join. So I checked it out and although I didn't join the challenge I found Josh Hamilton on the site. I watched his film and you really need to as well! It is all about people coming through what ever problems they have with the lords help and really coming to know him. I would encourage anyone to check it out!

Morning!

2012-02-10T13:36:00.000-08:00

If you know me very well you know that I LOVE coffee! A perfect coffee drink is the best way to perk up in the mornings.

A good coffee drink can keep me going all day. It just puts me in a good mood to have coffee first thing in the morning!

This only thing that makes it better is to have a Root Beer Float before bed *preferably with friends!

Inspiration Workshop - Organization

2012-02-08T13:13:00.001-08:00

This month the inspiration workshop is all about organization. This isn't a topic that I am very good with but it is something that I really enjoy. I don't have to ability to stay organized but I appreciate organization! One thing that you may notice is that my organization is mixed. I ~~LIKE~~, ~~LOVE~~, ADORE vintage! But I really like all of the bright organization that I found! Here are a few of the things I came up with.

I love the vintage feel of these two ideas, one of the things I adore about vintage is all of the suitcases and trunks! And I really like the idea of being cute and organized with your embroidery thread and doing it cheap!

I really like how this is organized but not to much, I really dislike when organization is on the line of OCD.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the dark wood with the white, very clean and fresh looking

This bright and organized desk would make me want to work here all day!

I really enjoy being crafty, but it always end up being messy. This design might make a difference!

Back to the vintage! This is AWESOME!

I really think that I am going to do this in my room! Such a cool idea to keep your days straight

Again back to the bright! I don't think that I would ever have it on my house but it is a really cute idea!

I am linking up to:

Pillows

2012-02-08T09:22:00.000-08:00

Lately I have been on a pillow making free for all. I just come up with ideas and go after it....the bad thing is that not all of the pillows go with my room and I don't really have a place to put them. Maybe one of these days I will have a house to put all of them in and about 5 girls beds to fill up...well maybe that is a bit of a stretch but I have made a lot of pillows! Here are a couple of my favorites!

This is my all time favorite! It took me three partial days to sew on all of these circles! I though it would never be done, but now that it is I LOVE it!

Since I was making so many pillows, I decided to add a tag. Who knows one of these day I might make these babies to sell?

Close up with tag

This is another one that I made, although I have to give the credit to someone on Pintrest. I was in a hurry when I made it and it could use a few more ruffles, but overall I really like it!

Maybe I will share a few more with you...I don't know...I don't want to overwhelm the system! JK!

Ian Kinsler

2012-02-07T14:37:00.000-08:00

my sister got to get her picture taken with her favorite player Ian Kinsler. It really made her day to get to see him and it made my day that he took the time to take a picture with one of his fans!

A Tour of the Rangers Ballpark

2012-02-07T13:40:00.000-08:00

Today took a field trip to the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington TX. If you know me very well you know that I am a really big Hamilton fan, not because he is a baseball player, but because of his story and were he stands in his faith! If you haven't read his book you need to. How he let the lord help him with his addictions is truly inspirational.

Anyway I got off topic, I really enjoy watching the Rangers play so this was a big deal for me. Last year we went to the Astros stadium in Houston and took a tour their. The tour of our stadium was WAY better! They took us back to the batting cages and there were four of the players down their....Kinsler, Holland, and Beltre! Blair got a picture with Kinsler (Her favorite player). I wish I would have been in the first group because Hamilton was in there with the rest of the players but he left to hit the weight room!

This is me sitting in the Rangers dugout. They sit on the top of the seats because there is an AC unit up there and that is the only place in the dugout that they can get air. You can see that the seat is all banged up from their cleats.

This picture was taken on the wall of the media room. This is the room were they hold press conferences and press statements.

This was also taken in that room...Josh Hamilton just sat here days before to let the press know what was going on with his addiction problems.

There are all kinds of suites for people to rent for the season. They let us go in the one reserved for the city of Arlington. In these rooms you get treated like royalty, it comes with a small price.

There is a LOOOONG hallway from the locker rooms to the dugout, along the wall there were lists for different achievements. This was the MVP list I was excited to see Hamilton on the list!

Crapes

2012-02-06T08:30:00.000-08:00

Okay, I know that I wasn't the greatest at posting the last few days so here goes with a new post!

At December camp one of the meals was Crapes & Pancakes. They were simply Amazing! I asked the head cook how they made them, the secret turned out to be just really watered down pancake batter!

I stayed at S&C for the weekend and I made these on Sunday morning! Here is what they should look like!

A non-stick skillet works best!

This is a pile of crapes, not just one...there are probably 10 here.

Add fresh whipped cream and mixed berries! YUM!!! I want one right now!

Update

2012-02-01T09:30:00.000-08:00

Who remembers the post I did on the twix bars? Well I finally made them and they didn't turn out like I expected. Almost everything went wrong(my fault not the recipe) and the had to be salvaged by my mom. Anyway they did taste good they just didn't look the best due to burn chocolate. My suggestion is to get the short bread out of the pan ASAP and to cut them from the shortbread side and NOT the caramel side. My last suggestion would be to use Almond bark or to be an expert at chocolate. It was really difficult to get it just right.

A little while back my sister and I took a cooking class with a friend. In the class we learned how to make Oreos. Honestly they were disgusting, but it got us to thinking how we could make them taste good! So while I was making the twix, my mom and sister got to thinking that they could adjust the recipe I was using and make their own oreos. They were a huge hit! I am going to try to get my sis to give me her secret recipe.....maybe I will be able to share it with you!