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,

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,

Welcome home boys

  Yesturday, sitting in the Hyundai waiting room for 2 hours while getting our oil change and tires rotated, an older gentleman was in the room with us waiting for his car to get washed. When the service sales man came into the room to show us how dirty our filter was, I heard the older man smirk to himself as Zack sat back down next to him, and continued playing on his phone. The older man looked over at Zack and proceeded to say a comment which sounded like it was going to be on eof those "You know in my day...." converstaions *insert eye roll and awkward smiles*.  The man begun to tell us about when he was younger how he had "one of them pickup trucks" and said it was so funny that one day, he took it in to get it looked at and the repair guy said his filter was so bad that he had to take a vacuum to itand behind it just remove all the dust and junk that had built up. Zack and I just nodded and said the usual "oh really? wow!" Then somehow he started talking about WWI, WWII and Vietnam, like most of them do. After a long pause he says "From one veteran to another, Thank you.... I think that's why the older veterans are so focused on giving you all such a wonderful welcome home; Ya know?...they never got one...." That right there hit me!

 

  When we were in Alaska last month, we went to a movie called Honor Flight, its about sending hundreds WWII vets to DC on one flight, to see the memorial before they pass away. When they fly back to the airport, they walk into the terminal and see a few people with signs saying welcome home we thank you; As the walk further into the airport, they see more and more people all around. All these strangers begin hugging them, smiling at them, shaking their hands, until they walk into the middle of the airport where they are bombarded with smiles, tears of happiness, a loud band playing, confetti everywhere and their families; Its a real welcome home that they deserve. If any one wants to see an amazing movie, I would hands down recommend this movie by far! There wasn't one person in the hole theater with dry eyes! This is the Website telling you all about the organization.

 

 I decided to dedicate this blog post to all the men and women who came home from over seas; You all did a job well done!

 

 I know Zack got home over 2 months ago and this post is long over due but I think we had a great welcome home and I would like to share it with you.

My friend Kate and I did these one afternoon. I'm happy

 how they came out. My friend Denise and I put them up on my

garage with Justin Bieber duct tape lol



 

With window Chalk I wrote "Welcome home Sgt. Scribner.

I recommend using the window markers rather than chalk because

the chalk washes off with even the littlest rain (and it poured)

 

Welcome home event it was beautiful

 

The band was amazing and kept us busy because Lord knows

I was anxious as all heck :)

 

He's finally home! Excuse the hair... like I said, it POURED!

 

 

 

  My friend Denise came up a few days before they got home and she got to see her (soon to be) Husband come home from the same deployment. This was her first welcome home she ever went to so I came as support and as her "photographer"

 



This was the best experience that I've seen. I was so happy that

I was invited along to take pics.

  I believe that now a day we are truly blessed when our significant others deploy. Back in the day they had to write letter, yea I still ask for Zack to write me letters once in a while because its more personable, but I usually get them in like a weeks time frame; back then it would take longer. That's all you had to know your loved one was alive, a letter; No emails, phone calls, no pictures or even Facebook. I got worried when Zack took a few hours to respond to me, let alone if I had to wait weeks. I was just talking to Zack about that the other day, being a military spouse is hard, but I give props to anyone who had to do that without the technology.

One of my best friends greeting her husband in the Army coming home to HI

  Lets continue to help out or fellow military men and women; lets give them the best welcome home we can because not everyone gets one!

WELCOME HOME BOYS!

 

 

Love you all,

Thankful Thursday

I'm going to do something a little different. Every Thursday I want to do thankful Thursdays. I want to write every week of something I'm thankful for. There are so many blessing we come across every single day, and I just want to try and highlight atleast one every week.

This week its only right to Thank my dad!

My mom and father divorced when I was really young; when I was in 3rd grade she married a man named Robert, he was the best thing that could have happened to us; he is who I call dad. He gave us the life you could only find in fairy tales. My mom was a single mom when we were growing up so we only had what we needed, but then she found her knight in shiny armor. Without him, I wouldn't know what true love was, without him I wouldn't know how a man is suppose to treat a woman, without him we wouldn't know what happiness truly was. He made us all better version of ourselves; My dad was a blessing in disguise.

My dad took on vacations every year to Disney, allowed us to have the best Christmases anyone could ask for and the best thing if all... security. When I was 10 they blessed us with a little sister, now there was 4 of us kids and I wasn't the only girl anymore. That topped it all off for us, life couldn't be better.

Without having a positive male role model in my life I don't think I would have found someone even as remotely as amazing as my husband. My dad set a high standard for me and taught me by example to not settle and to be treated with nothing less than the best.

For all that and more. I am thankful for my dad

Another thing I am thankful for is my father. This last time Zack got deployed I got to live with my father in New Jersey, I had a great time. I lived there for 6 months and really got to know him; It was awesome to finally get to know him as an adult. We had a lot of good conversations and we really got to bond. I am thankful that I got to start building a relationship with my father and to connect the way we did.

Some people don't have a male role model in their lives and I thank God that I have two that love me very, very much! I am truly blessed!

Comment below of you have something this week to be thankful for!


Love you all,

This I believe

In class last year we had to write a essay called "This I believe"; We had to think of something we are so passionate about and write the essay explaining why we believe what we do. I wrote on Love and how people give up on it so easily on it:

It was 1917 when young men were drafted for WW1. Many young men left behind their mothers, fathers, siblings and wives to fight in the war. In the small town of Canandaigua, NY a mother kisses her son goodbye and lights a candle in places it in the window. Over 95 years later a candle still is in that window keeping her vow; the vow to keep a candle lit until your loved one returns. That brought on the tradition that families still use today, to show no matter how long it takes they will wait. It used to be commonplace to go months or even years without seeing your significant other. Today it seems that people break down and leave each other over something as medial as missing dinner three times a week. I believe, that if you want something you have to work for it, that if you love someone you have to fight for that love and that true love comes to those who wait.

            I met my husband in January of 2009, three months later he deployed to Afghanistan for a year where the only communication we had was a fifteen minute phone call once a month if we were lucky.  I knew that if I honestly loved and cared for him I had to be strong. Seeing my friends with their loved ones just a text away made things even harder, but I knew he was worth the wait. I also know that when you see them get off the plane after a long months of waiting is magical, and saying goodbye after a few months of spring love is heart wrenching, but the pay-off is well worth it.  I will take a few years of waiting, for a lifetime of happiness any day. Waiting is the hard part but as an old American proverb states, “absence makes thy heart grow fonder”.

            My husband has been on three deployments since we’ve been married and it never gets any easier; every deployment is just as hard as the one prior but being apart for so long allows us to treasure the moments we have with each other and build a stronger bond between us. We are not only building a stronger relationship but we are building trust and assurance in one another, knowing that no matter where life takes us we have a love that can withstand anything. Just like the house on the corner of Foot Hill and Main Street in Canandaigua, NY the candle in my window will never go out until my love one comes home safely. No matter what, I believe in waiting on the one I love and that true love comes to those who wait.

Sadly, The essay competition wasn't going on anymore by the time our essay were due so I couldn't enter it :( but I hope you liked it.

Click here to look at some more essays on their website Or order the book off of Amazon you wont regret it.

Love you all,