Last Minute Christmas Crafts

     This Christmas season we were severely slacking on getting everything done on time, so like many of you all this week was cram packed full of last minute ideas and for me... crafts

This is what we came up with, a little help from pinterest on the snow globe and the mason jar with hot chocolate.



Mason Jar Hot Chocolate:
-Mason Jar
-Fabric
-Stamp
-Stamp pad
-Scissors
-Your favorite Chocolate
-Marsh mellows
-Peppermint candy
-Ribbon

We used Stephen's hot cocoa from Costco because there is a lot 

in the can,it was decently priced and it tastes so good!

Layer: hot cocoa, marsh mellows, and then peppermints

Cut Fabric into squares, put them on top of the flat piece of 

the lid, then seal them in with the screw part of the lid

Stamp the top with your favorite stamp. I chose Santa, 

Oh holy night, and star stamps

Snow Globe:

-Mason jar

-Super glue

-Cute toy

-Glitter

-Gift card

-Water

 Super glue toy to the flat part of the lid. We chose a 

Christmas looking rubber ducky. Super glue the gift

card onto the toy. Pinterest says use hot glue, but we

found out that it falls off fast. Super glue works

wonders!

Fill mason jar up with water and add as much glitters

as you see fit. We chose to do A LOT! Seal it tight

and enjoy.

This was a fun craft for my husband and I. We were sturggling with where to put all of our stockings so he thought of the clever idea to use a coat rack and have out stockings dangling from the top. What my husband did was cut wire hangers and twist them so they have a hook at the top and the hook from the hanger at the bottom ("S" formation). He did that 5x for the 5 stockings. We took $1 store garlin, and $1 store ribbon and twisted it around the poles, then we added our clearance red and green lights around the polls and that was it. The coat rack had a shelf on it so we added presents on the rack as well.

 Finished project :) turned out fantastic!

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas,

Christmas Decor

  It's that time of year again and MAN has time flown. Last year I was in NJ seeing white snow all over the ground, this year im in WA with  no snow on the ground. This past year I've lived in NJ, NC, and now WA...crazy. Last week we got everyone in our house downstairs and we pulled out all of our Christmas decorations. It was so much fun listening to music, laughing, story telling about our childhood memories and decorating our house.

            

 
                               

Christmas Lanterns:

 These are done the same way as

the Fall Lanterns but I added Christmas balls

and Christmas leaves

Or another way to do a Christmas lantern is fill up the 

lanterns with Christmas tree balls. Pick

two or 3 different ball colors and it looks very pretty

As you can tell we had an abundance of Christmas

tree balls so we put them everywhere :) This is a flower

vase and we added green balls to make it look

like leaves or grass and then added pretty gold and red leaves

The extra balls we put in a cute basket on our end tables

I saw on Pinterest people hanging their Christmas balls on their chandelier and that looked so cute, if we had a chandelier I would have loved to do that. I've also seen, if you take a cheap frame and paint it green or red or which ever Christmas color, take pretty ribbon and tie it to the top of the frame and dangle small Christmas balls down to the middle. such a cute idea!

 NOT MY PICTURES- found them off Pinterest    

Have tons of fun decorating
Love you all,

Fall Decor

   I am ALOT late on my fall decorations but I really wanted to get the blog post out. 

   Quick update on us: We moved to Vancouver, Washington in the middle of September. We moved in with our cousin Savannah, her boyfriend Brian, and our brother in law Jack. We have my dog Kiski still and our cat Taylor, we also have Savannah's doberman pincher Lucian and her cat Snow... so that's... lets count.... 9 mouths to feed in our decently sized 3 bedroom house! We love it. Our house is just big enough for all of us to have our own space and not feel claustrophobic. 

   

  For work I do marketing and customer service for a local Bread/Bakery company, its amazing; I love it so much and I am happy with everyone that works there. 

  Zack is pretty much liking his job as a recruiter. Hes doing so good and i'm so happy for him. He works a lot of hours right now, I never get to see him but that's what it takes to be a recruiters wife. At least for the next year he will work a ton of hours but I get to eat dinner every night with him, even if its at 9 or 10 pm and I get to cuddle with him every night, so i'm not complaining :)

 We're doing really well here. It snowed the other day which was cool, and today it was 25* so its a bit cold but our home is warm and cozy so I try to stay indoors :D

Now for the decor:

Fall Lanterns

What you need:

- string of light 100 bulb lights

-sissors

-Gorilla tape. 

-Ellen on your TV

(As seen in the pictures, I used electrical tape... doesnt work to well so I had to go back and tape Gorilla tape over the other tape.

Time it takes to complete this craft is the same time it takes to 

watch an episode of Ellen on the DVR :)

This is the top of the inside all taped up looks like. The easiest way 

I found was detaching all the sides, start at the top of the 

lantern and work your way down. 

 Add fall leaves and a pine cone or two. I got mine in the clearance

section of my local craft store. Lights were on sale for $4 and the 

fall leaves were on clearance for $3 so this hole craft cost me about $15 to do both lanterns

Added both of them to our book shelf and it looks fantastic if I do say so myself

OUR HALLOWEEN PARTY:

Dirt cups: Chocolate pudding, Oreo crust crumbles, and 

gummy worms. I wrote on the cups sayings like "Boo!"

"trick or treat" "R.I.P" and "Happy Halloween"

Mummy weenies- Hot dogs cut in half, croissant wrapped around the

weenie like a mummy. cook in the oven on 350* for like 15-20 

(until the croissant is golden brown)

Homemade bagel bits:

mini bagels, your favorite spaghetti sauce, cheese, pepperonis,

 and olives. I cut the pepperonis into a smaller circle and 

put olives on top so they look like a face 

screaming... creepy huh? 

Cooked them on 350* for 15-20 mins, until

cheese is cooked on top

Cupcakes from the store and the $1 store cupcake display

Punch: Hawaiian punch, orange sherbet, and eye balls that we got

from the $1 store too.

My Ariel pumpkin

 After I painted them, they looked a million times better

 Everyones pumpkins :)

Turkey day crafts:

Our nana made these cute turkeys with nuts, foe leaves, and 

a few googly eyes

Our Aunt made this paper wreath. Multi-color paper, calligraphy pen,

and needle pins. Pin all the cut out leaves onto a Styrofoam wreath,

write about 20 thing you are thankful for around 

the middle of the wreath. 

Love you all,

Leftover Turkey

Do you still have leftover turkey??? Throw it away because its probably bad :p If for some reason its still good here is a quick recipe:

Ingredient:
Stoffers Stuffing
water
leftover turkey
dried cranberries
gravy

1. pre-heat oven to 350*
2. Add stuffing into a oven pan
3.pour 1-2/3 cup of boiling water into the pan
4. add shredded turkey on top
5. sprinkle a handful or more of cranberries on top
6. Put in oven for about 25-30 mins
7. cook gravy

And you have yourself a wonderful play off of Thanksgiving dinner :) My family loved it! its quick and you only dirty 1 pan and one pot


I will be blogging within the next few days!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving
Enjoy,

Rollin' with the big Devill Dogs

Its official, my husband is in recruiting school now. He is doing SO well; He's getting A's on all his test and presenting his speeches with ease. I cant tell you how proud I am of him! On Thursday he found out where is RS/RSS is (Recruiting station/recruiting substation).

We got.... drum roll please....

Vancouver, Washington!!! We are so excited! All Zack's aunts, uncles and cousins are in that area, so we will be very close to them. Zack wanted Fairbanks, Alaska because that's where is family just moved to; Don't tell anyone but I was hoping that we didn't get AK. I love Alaska but Fairbanks..... it is WAY too cold for me, it not only gets 0* but it gets to like -20* or below and I'm not equipped for all that nonsense!

We started looking up houses for rent but we cant call around or really do any in depth, incase next week he gets switched to another station. He was told that after next Friday they will know for sure!

In other news; My brother in-law Jack will be staying with us for a while. He will get here late evening on the 12th, and stay with us for our move to WA. From there, Jack will enlist to the Air Force and will continue to stay with us till he ships out! Zack's cousin Savannah will also be moving in with us, along with her Doberman pinscher named Lucian. We are very excited to have family living with us and expanding our in house family :D

We will be moving in the middle of September which is only a little more than a month away. I am super nervous because I know how stressful this is going to be, but I also know that Zack wont be deployed for another 3 years, so that makes it all worth it.

We are having movers that the Marine Corp provides for us (TMO) so they will pack up everything for us, deliver it to where ever we are moving to and they put it in a storage unit for us until we have a place to live. The only thing we would have to pack up is the items we will need for the drive up and a for a few weeks incase we cant find a house. We will pack it all in my tiny little Hyundai with 3 adults and 2 animals, not too hard... right?

No matter what, I am ready for this next adventure and I know that everything will go smoothly... it has too! Oh man I crack myself up!!!

Wish us luck

Love you all,

50 Random Facts About Moi

   I am trying to get more in touch with other bloggers out there and to get my blog out there as well. So I felt that I should do a "50 random facts" so my viewers and potential networkers can get an idea of who I am. So, here I go...

1. Hate my knee caps being touched while my leg is extended. Don't know why it just freaks me out or when people can wiggle their knee caps ::shiver::
2. Don't like being talked to before my coffee. I feel as if I cant function or be my happy self with out a cup of warm sugar-y coffee
3. Get grouchy when I'm hungry. Really only towards my husband or family, not sure why but I do. when I get mad at my husband he always says go get a snack and then we will talk haha
4. Don't like fast food, only Taco bell and Wendy's.  Since I'm going Gluten free I cant go to either one :/
5. Cant fall asleep without the sound of a fan or the feel of one blowing on me. I have to either have a ceiling fan on and a plug in fan or a ceiling fan on and the fan app on my phone going.
6. Favorite You Tubers consist of Jenna Marbles, Nat, and Shaytards!
7. Wear flip flops everywhere... even in the snow in Alaska. Guess you can call me a true FL girl
8. "When I know stuff, I say stuff" Kinda my catch phrase. I used to play trivia every Wednesdays at Applebee's  with my brother, sister in-law and some friends back in the day and most of the questions I didn't know the answer to, but when I actually said an answer without hesitation they knew to listen!
9. NYC is my favorite city. I wouldn't want to live anywhere close to it but I love love love visiting it!
10. Don't like when people tell me to "calm down". I very rarely get passionate about something or know enough about a subject to actually go in depth with it. When I do, let me go on because Lord knows when you know something you can go on for days. don't get me wrong I do know a lot of stuff and im smart I just don't like to open my mouth and debate about it quite often.
11. Love roller coasters... seriously, like, LOVE them! I cant go to a theme park and not ride every single ride one after another after another without any breaks.
12. Princess Bride and Labyrinth are my all time favorite movies. My family and I can quote both movies.
13. Lost my last tooth in the 8th grade, I liked to baby my teeth and never really pulled them out when they were loose
14. Favorite color is pink! My husband makes fun of me and says that Aqua and sea foam green are my "secret favorite colors" because I am drawn to them as well.
15. Don't like alcohol. Don't really like to be around it, or smell it. I don't like the way people act while drinking it, I could spend my whole life avoiding it and be perfectly fine. I actually don't mind going out to clubs or a bar with friends but I cant sit by the bar for long or stand to close to someone who is drinking if I can smell it. I used to do the whole "hey, I'm 21 lets drink" but that got boring extremely fast and now I cant stand it. Luckily my husband is on the same page with me and he isn't a drinker either, but every once in a while he will have Disaronno and coke at a party or something but that doesn't reek of the smell.
16. Love Tow Mater. I have  a plush toy of him on the top of my dashboard as my mascot :)
17. Had a job the weekend after I turned 14. I was a bag girl at Publix supermarket. Worked my way up to cashier, front desk, back office, pharmacy, deli, then to bakery where I fell in love with cake decorating.
18. To snowball after the last one; I have had many jobs since I quit Publix after 5 years. I've worked at Payless as a Asst. manager, waitress at Buffalo Wild Wings and a local restaurant, front desk at Quality Inn, a counselor at a year round camp in the Four Seasons of Palm beach. Same job as the counselor I also did face painting, juggling, air brush tattoos, helped out with their petting zoo full of tons of weird, creepy, cute and cuddly animals. I also participated at many dance parties and black light parties for after school programs with a WONDERFUL crew named Glass Productions or visit their website here! Amazing people!!! I also worked at subway and was a manager at the one in NJ, a floral and gift shop, a health food and coffee shop, a babysitter, a cake decorator at Food Lion  and as a promoter at a radio station in FL
19. And to snow ball after that one as well; I knew from kindergarten I wanted to be in broadcasting. I did the morning announcements from elementary till 8th grade. In high school I took journalism and photography and helped out friends who were in the announcements as a guest speaker a few times. After I graduated from high school I went to Connecticut School of Broadcasting (which was actually in FL) I graduated and from there worked (interned) at 97.9 WRMF of Palm Beach for about 6 months. I quit due to, they had "my" job as a paid position open up and they still wanted me to do it for free and not apply. They were wonderful people and I got to do a lot of amazing things, but I wanted to get paid, so we didn't see eye to eye :/
20. Harvest moon and Sims are my games!!!! Love 'em
21. Don't like Chocolate, fish or Nutella.... yea I said it!
22. Very outgoing growing up, had tons of friends. As I grew up I got very shy and now only have a few good friends; I find it difficult to make friends because of my shyness. Once you get to know me I open up and im crazy but you have to really get to know me.
23. My height: 5 foot 2... yea... I'm short
24. While working at Glass productions I helped for a month as a farm hand. I had to feed and water all their animals, including the chickens. Now, I like chickens, I grew up with several in my back yard but not anything like "Diablo". I was feeding the chickens one day and I got attacked.... yes attacked, by a rooster. Not my proudest moment but it happened... and I cried, like a baby, to my manager and told him that I was never going in the chicken pen again... I was 19 years old :/
25. 1st concert I ever went to was in the 5th grade and it was a Spice Girls concert
26. I am a night Owl. I can stay up super late, but I cant wake up earlier than 10 am without being a grouch.
27. Hate hate hate casseroles! Nothing about them is appealing. Whose bright idea was it to take a good meal like meat, cheese, noodles and sauce and combine them all together in a nasty mix of nastiness and eat it? No thank you
28. Never seen... are you ready? Harry potter (except the 1st and last one), Star Wars, Star Trek, Godfather, Sopranos, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones (except that alien one because Shia LaBeouf was in it), Dr. Who, or Scarface. I know im not American but it happens :P
29. Hate doing the dishes. Something about old watered down food makes me want to puke. I will take toilets any day, which is kind of ironic if you think about it...
30. I sing everything I do, no matter if people are around or not... I have to make a song about it.
31. I talk to my animals about 90% of the time that im home. There could be people over or even my husband and I still talk to them. ::ashamed:: :)
32. Love Taylor Swift. I dont care what she does or who she dates/fake dates or what ever. I love her! The 1st time I heard "Tim McGraw" I knew she was going to be big! I went to her concert before she was well known and it was the best concert (besides Rascal Flatts, NO ONE is better than Rascal Faltts in concert)
33. Cant deny a good chick flick, especially anything by Nicholas sparks... he's my favorite and I don't care how cliché it is.
34. I never go a day without laughing. Laughter is the best medicine! They say that laughter is good for you and is a good ab workout.. well I should have a 10 pack by now! :)
35. Love dinner. My favorite time of day. as soon as I wake up, after my cup or two of coffee I'm already wondering what to have for dinner. I could go hungry all day but don't mess with my dinner
36. I like to try every food at least once, so when I say I don't like a type of food, I've actually tried it, probably many times and I just don't like it.
37. I sing LOUD in the car, and usually dance too
38. 74 is my favorite number. I have no idea why or how I got that number but it is!
39. Lacrosse is the only sport I will watch on tv. I only watch the super bowl if its at some ones house for a super bowl party, and I only do it for the commercials. I also played lacrosse for 3 years in high school
40. I randomly break out in a British accent, not sure why, but it started when I was obsessed with the Spice Girls and I watched Spice world religiously!  My dad would yell at me because it came to a point when I only talked in the accent so they sat me down and gave me an intervention. Yet, even till this day it comes out!
41. Never finish my whole sandwich. For some odd reason I always leave the last bite, even with a hamburger. Maybe its because its the soggy part..? I don't know.
42. Always in my pj's. When I lived in FL I even went out in jammie pants... I would live in them if only it was socially acceptable. I only get changed into normal clothes if I leave the house, and as soon as I come home I go straight upstairs and put them back on.
43. When I take a shower I have to listen to music
44. Never had braces
45. Have 7 dimples on my face. 3 on my left cheek, 2 on my right, and one on each side of the upper part of my cheeks (below my eyes) if I laugh really hard
46. Don't like swimming in public pools. I don't mind water parks, even though that's probably more gross. When I was younger I swam in the public pool at my fathers apartments and I put on goggles, went underwater and looked up and saw boogers floating everywhere... from then on I refuse to go in them. Luckily, my mom bought us a underground pool growing up so I never had to witness that again
47. Last year I went to the audition to be in a extra of Iron man 2. I didn't get a call back but I did meet two girls that were extras in the Hunger Games as one of the capitol people.
48. Growing up I watched Harriet the Spy... a lot. So much so, that I thought I was a spy. My friend and I went around her neighborhood and took pictures of "suspicious" activity and their license plates, so when we caught them, the police could find the getaway car when they tried to run away. Yup, I was a winner back then :D
49. I have 5 siblings but only grew up with 3 of them; The other 2 are my fathers kids. The youngest I saw often growing up but now I have no contact with her, and the oldest I never really saw but now we stay in contact a lot. While I lived in NJ for 5 months, I visited her 3 times and I am now a part of my little niece and nephews life :)
50. Last one... The past few years I have grown closer and closer to God. Growing up, yeah we went to church on Sundays and I loved God but I wasn't close to Him. Now since I've been on my own, I feel closer to Him. I need Him more and more; especially since my husband deploys a lot and I have been diagnosed with a few serious medical issues. I feel as if I was put through these difficult trials so I could grow closer to God and I thank Him everyday for that! I am much happier with Him in my life, and I feel more at ease in knowing that everything I go through, I just need to put it in His hands and He will take care of me. Now I have hardly any stress and no regrets.

If you want to know anything else about me I have a link on the side, at the top with the title "About me" just click on it and you can know a few more things :)

I hope you have enjoyed and now you know a few more things about me and my "corks" :)

P.S My husband just informed that I need to tell you that I have an obsession with Swiffer ( I have every swiffer that was ever made), that I have to eat popcorn almost every night, and I love kitchen appliances... that is all :D


Love you all,

Pizza bites

  We got a Fry daddy from my friend a few months back and I absolutely love that thing. We loved going to Buffalo Wild Wings but it cost a lot of money to go, so this is the easiest way to get good wings. At the commissary 12 wings cost around $3, potatoes and a mix of gravy cost a little more than $1.50 and we have tons of different flavor BBQ sauce. We have a hole meal for under $5; you cant even get an appetizer for under $5, plus since we use fresh oil to make the wings.... the wings taste so much better :)

 

  I was telling this to my friend the other day because we were having wings at her house and they asked if we ever put Pizza Rolls in the fry daddy

 

  MIND BLOWN!!!!

 

  So for lunch the other day I made them for Zack. He loved them... it taste like pizza sticks that you get at the gas station here on base.

 

 

  All I did was pre-heat the fryer for about 8-10 mins, put 12 rolls in the microwave for a minute just to defrost them, and then put them into the fryer for about a minute (until they turn a nice golden color). Take them out of the cooker as fast as you can because they cook really fast, put them on paper towels to remove the excess grease and WA-LA a quick lunch or snack :)

 

 

 

Yea its unhealthy but its beats going to McDonalds or another fast food restaurant and spending $10 for one lunch :) Just eat a salad after then go to the gym :p

 

 

Love you all,