Ava Camille

My first born~ the apple of her father eye~ Her fathers twin!! My little independent girl!



Ava is my independent, intelligent high energy, outgoing, outspoken, curious, loveable child. She is eager to do things herself, most children are but she always insist on doing things herself. She always ready to go out and do.. Always ready to go out and conquer the WORLD literally!! Outgoing, I think if someone asked me to describe her in one word I think outgoing would be the way to describe her the most. She is friends with people old, new and young.

Ava Camille

My first born~ the apple of her father eye~ Her fathers twin!! My little independent girl!



Ava is my independent, intelligent high energy, outgoing, outspoken, curious, loveable child. She is eager to do things herself, most children are but she always insist on doing things herself. She always ready to go out and do.. Always ready to go out and conquer the WORLD literally!! Outgoing, I think if someone asked me to describe her in one word I think outgoing would be the way to describe her the most. She is friends with people old, new and young.

Rough Side Of The Mountain

One of my FAVORITE things of yesterday!!! This song brings back so many, many memories from my childhood. I was raised on these ol' Gospel songs in the church I went to. Music my granmother listens to. WOW, and this one, is one of my favorites. I was so happy I stumbled upon this song yesterday while flipping thru the radio while on my way to do last min shopping. What a Blessing it was. Enoy, I know it's diffrent to some but it's a all time favorite of mine!!!

Things I'm looking forward to this Christ-mas week!!!

1. Aaron's sister comes to town with her husband and there NEW BABY!!! My first time meeting Baby Kelsey!! So excited.



2. Family Time with both sides of the family.



3.

You want to know why??? Because I do!!!

Well, I really LOVE my kids!! Do you want to know why??? Because I do!! I really, really do. No, this week I especially LOVE them because they took some delish treats off my hands and out of my way of tempting me every time I come into the kitchen. Aaron and I teach a Awana - Cubbie class at our church and around Christmas time as a way of showing thanks to us, parents bake us these yummy treats for me to take home and it causes me to gain weight just by looking at them. No, no- I'm joking, really but it sure does feel like I gain weight every time I look at something with the first ingredient being sugar. Well, my way of not gaining 20 lbs in a day is just not to keep those yummy treats in my house. So my kids loved me extra this week, because they helped me ....I mean I let them eat the baked goods I received this week. I took one bite of each thing and then I let them finish the rest and I had to get rid of it fast other wise....I'll be as big as a house. I'm very grateful to feel appreciated but I also have to make wise descions and not let some of that deliciousness stay in my house for to long. Well, downside of this story is I will be continuing today to bake my own cookies to give out by Sunday to all the LOVELY teachers who have been taking care of my kids this year. A way that I show thanks to them, I will be using splenda, if that helps!!! :) Let's see if my will power is strong enough to keep me from eating them all before Sunday. I will be needing prayer.

Ava got her ears pierced!!!

So when Ava was born, my mom wanted to take her to go get her ears pierced. Aaron was not having it. He did not want Ava to have her ears pierced. The thought was FAR............ and I mean far from his mind. Mainly because I think how he was raised. His sister's where practically teenagers before they had there ears pierced and his Mom, she was married when she had her ears pierced. I understood. I was completely fine with it. I thought my daughter was beautiful with or without them. I was a baby when my mom had my ears pierced and she also let me get my ears pierced 3 more times before I turned 15 years old. Aaron's descion was when our kids were old enough to ask...maybe like 12 ...13...they can get them done. So he said. Well, ffwd 5 years later and she is asking. She has asked about it for the last month. It took about a month for Aaron to decided yes or no. Well, I decided ;) we would go on a day he was off and my mother was off also, so we could all go together. It was quite a milestone for us....It was nice and it will be nice for Ava to look back on this day. To prepare her I showed her some youtube video's of other little girls her age who had gotten their ear's pierced. I showed her the good, the bad and the....no there was no ugly of the video watching, of the whole situation because I wanted her to be mentally prepared. After I showed her the video's she still wanted to get it done. She did amazing. She froze in the moment it happened but quickly bounced out the chair and literally started dancing in the middle of the mall. LOL. It was a day to remember for sure.






We arrive!!



Ava is looking at ALL the options.



Daddy giving Ava a Pep talk. He is telling her she is not allowed to touch, play or pull on her ears because they could become infected.






She quickly agrees.




Expressions change- in the chair.





They Prep her!




Prep Take 2





On 3...1...2...3!!!!






All done no tears, ALL smiles!!! :)



She was so Happy afterwards she could not stop dancing!!!

The NOW!! and I mean the what's happening as we speak.

Well, Eden is 4.5 months old and I'm feeding her applesauce right this second.I've been giving her table food for about 3 weeks at least. Gabrielle is repeatdely asking...no I mean begging Aaron, and I quote "Will you marry me?" in the living room while he watches television and I just finished watching videos with Ava on youtube of other little 5 yr. old girls getting there ears pierced. FUN TIMES we are loving every minute. It's not "EVERY" day you get to do/hear things like I'm hearing tonight. :)

New recipe- Chicken Marsala

This dish is yummm-o!!! Enjoy!! I will say that I subsituted the Marsala Wine for white cooking wine because it is easier to find in the store and that is what I had on hand. Also, I sub-ed the sherry for chicken broth. The same amt that it calls for, for the orginal ingredient.

This is what I added additionaly because I like my sauce thick, I will add either a can of cream of mushroom OR (not both) of a 1/2 cup of whipping cream and let it simmer until sauce thickens. You welcome to try it my way or follow the recipe as directed. The items I used are usually items you would have in your pantry and you can make a meal out of it if you don't have sherry or marsala wine.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken-Marsala/Detail.aspx

Here is the link copy and paste. ^^

Ingredients
1/4 cup all-purpose flour for coating
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - pounded 1/4 inch thick

4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup Marsala wine
1/4 cup cooking sherry
Directions
In a shallow dish or bowl, mix together the flour, salt, pepper and oregano. Coat chicken pieces in flour mixture.

In a large skillet, melt butter in oil over medium heat. Place chicken in the pan, and lightly brown. Turn over chicken pieces, and add mushrooms. Pour in wine and sherry. Cover skillet; simmer chicken 10 minutes, turning once, until no longer pink and juices run clear.

Time is moving F.A.S.T.

I know....I know.... I always go M.I.A. and then come back after weeks of not posting and say, " Life has been so busy". Well, it has, to be quite frank. :) Thanksgiving has passed and it was wonderful. We spent time with Aaron's side of the family. My mother is a R.N. in a emergency room and she had to work 12 hours that day so time spent with my family was pretty much out. The Holiday was very genuine and sincere. We had a blast hanging out with Aaron's side of the family. Christmas is just 2 weeks away and we will be spending time with Aaron's side and my side. It should be fun. I know it will be fun. :)

Things on my mind these days....organization; I've been researching how to be a "better" organizer of my home, family life, activities, marriage, parenting..etc.

It really will help the flow of my life go better. I know it is easy to alot of people but when you don't have a set of skills instilled in you from the beginning you are pretty much wandering in the dark just trying to figure out how to use a set of tools to help you manage your life a little bit better. A work in progress I am.........

Time is moving F.A.S.T.

I know....I know.... I always go M.I.A. and then come back after weeks of not posting and say, " Life has been so busy". Well, it has, to be quite frank. :) Thanksgiving has passed and it was wonderful. We spent time with Aaron's side of the family. My mother is a R.N. in a emergency room and she had to work 12 hours that day so time spent with my family was pretty much out. The Holiday was very genuine and sincere. We had a blast hanging out with Aaron's side of the family. Christmas is just 2 weeks away and we will be spending time with Aaron's side and my side. It should be fun. I know it will be fun. :)

Things on my mind these days....organization; I've been researching how to be a "better" organizer of my home, family life, activities, marriage, parenting..etc.

It really will help the flow of my life go better. I know it is easy to alot of people but when you don't have a set of skills instilled in you from the beginning you are pretty much wandering in the dark just trying to figure out how to use a set of tools to help you manage your life a little bit better. A work in progress I am.........

New Baby

I know. I know. Life is happening. But to catch up..We have a new niece. Her name is.................................................................Drum Roll..........Please.................................. Kelsey Victoria Austin. My sister in law was in labor for 3 days and she ended up with a c-section. Poor thing, I know, but all is well. They are home now getting adjusted to life as a new family of 3. So excited to meet her. The Button side of the family has had 3 babies this year of 2010 and they were all girls. This should be so fun seeing them grow up together. It's always fun seeing cousins grow up together.

I'm going to be an Aunt for the 10th time on the Button side within Hours......

Aaron's sister will be having a baby within the next few days. I am so EXCITED!!!!!!!! Her, Melissa and her Husband Gregg have been married for 10 years and are in their mid 30's and this is thier first child. A girl...I'm so excited...the whole family is so excited. I can't wait to see her, hear her name and listen to all the details of the labor. I will keep ya posted......

Milestones

I'm so pleased that before Eden's 3 month old birthday she was able to roll from stomach to back, look from side to side, follow voices and people in the room. Lift's head with control, sit's up with some supervised help. She also is trying too sit up by herself....trying to pull herself up. She is sleeping 6-8 hours at night, in her own bed, in her own room...... I might add. :) She is just a sweet mild mannered baby. I'm so pleased with her development..I seriously think she will be walking before she is12 month's old.

Mommy and Daddy's favorite things to do

So Aaron asked Ava what was his favorite thing to do? She said " sleeping and working". Aaron is not a workaholic but I think they just miss him. Aaron also asked her,What was mommy's favorite thing to do? She said, spanking us and cooking...and I honestly don't spank as much as I should. No I'm not a child abuser either...but I do discipline my children and spanking is last resort for me. Anyway, I thought the things she thought was our favorite things were quite funny.

Quotes

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.—George Whitefield


Robert M. McCheyne quote--"If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet, the distance makes no difference; He is praying for me."


There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears." ~ J.C. Ryle











"People don't necessarily want to know what we believe about the Bible. They want to see if what we believe makes a difference in our lives.



Our actions either bring honor to God or misrepresent His truth.



"If the LORD be with me, it matters little who may desert me. If the LORD be with me, I shall conquer in the battle of life, and the greater my trials the more glorious will be my victory.



How can I be sure that the LORD is with me? For certain He is ...with me if I am with Him. If I trust in His faithfulness, believe His words, and obey His commands, He is assuredly with me." C. Spurgeon



"FRIENDSHIP" isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who came along & NEVER left your side....



Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.-- Lewis B. Smedes



You have to give something to get something!



"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."



"To those of you I have offend your welcome, to those of you I have not, I 'll get to you later I promise".Wilson Monk



Hold a true friend with both your hands. * Nigerian Proverb



Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. * Elbert Hubbard



The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. * Mark Twain



"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you." -- Dale Carnegie



"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." -- E. M.

Forster



"Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others." Philippians 2:3-4



Job 5:6for hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the groundYet human beings are born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.



"But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him.



You have lost control when you have to threathen punishment or remind them of your poistion. - Aaron Button



I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher



Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." Alvin W. Bryant, Jr.

I will have to add speaking when you are stupid will get the same results!



Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Admiral Hyman Rickover



"Expectation is the root of all heartache." William Shakespeare



"To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men." A.W. Towzer



People are like a stained glass window...thier true beauty is revealed only of there is a light within. Elizabeth Kubler- Ross



Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain



- Col 3:23 When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what is has found. John 16:33

Life~

I've been lacking seriously on my blog. I've just been sooo extremeley busy being a Mother,Wife, and Daughter of God the best that I can be right now. Just staying busy, I find moments where I have the chance to blog but I'm usually pulled away suddenly by the sweet sounds of children: Asking to be tucked in for the 3rd time. Or, the moment where I lay my precious baby girl down and soon as I tip..toe..out of the room she alerts me to come and continue to comfort her. I'M LOVING every Minute.

I feel extremeley BLESSED to be in this season of my life. I know NOW it does not last FOREVER and this time is to be Treasured immensley.

Well, I'm sure since I last wrote, I've been the birthday party planner. Everyones birthday in my household has passed, so I have not had time to think about my upcoming celebration. Which is in fact in 2 days. I actually mentioned to my husband last night that I felt in that moment that since I've been so wrapped up in planning his birthday, Gabrielle birthday and just recently Ava's birthday, that my birthday just seemed like another day. Suddenly in the moment I said " I shouldn't feel that way." I should feel excited..it's a time to celebrate MY LIFE. My life that THE LORD has blessed me with. So with that in my mind, my husband and I are planning to go out to dinner and I like/haven't been to the gun range so we have that planned for my birthday. YEY!! So I'm excited to have another year to celebrate. A time of reflection for me really..on how much the LORD has blessed our lives and time to reflect on my life.

my little Ms. Ms......

I.am.ABSOLUTELY in LOVE with Ms. Eden Olivia Button. She is simply the BEST. She lets me sleep for the most part. When she wakes, she crys to let me know she is hungry for a min or so and once I pick her up and she is searching to nurse she is also smiling. SHE is such a HAPPY BABY!!! So content and laid back. She will do whatever you are doing with no complaints. She just likes to be with you and we LOVE to be with her.

First time for everything

So Aaron and I have been married for 7 years and tonight is the first night that I've ever made Chicken Marsala. Good thing I decided to cook it this 7th year of marriage and not the 1 st it would have been a disaster.

Heehee! :)

Here is the recipe:

1/4 cup all-purpose flour for coating
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - pounded 1/4 inch thick
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1/2 cup Marsala wine
1/4 cup cooking sherry


Directions
In a shallow dish or bowl, mix together the flour, salt, pepper and oregano. Coat chicken pieces in flour mixture.
In a large skillet, melt butter in oil over medium heat. Place chicken in the pan, and lightly brown. Turn over chicken pieces, and add mushrooms. Pour in wine and sherry. Cover skillet; simmer chicken 10 minutes, turning once, until no longer pink and juices run clear.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 448 | Total Fat: 26.6g | Cholesterol: 99mg

Nutritional Information
Chicken Marsala
Servings Per Recipe: 4

Amount Per Serving

Calories: 448

Total Fat: 26.6g
Cholesterol: 99mg
Sodium: 543mg
Total Carbs: 13.3g
Dietary Fiber: 0.5g
Protein: 28.8g
I actually used 1/2 cup of white cooking wine instead of the marsala wine. I did not use any sherry. I used 1/4 cup of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream.

SIMPLY DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!

I smell something tasty....

is precisely what Ava said when she came down stairs this afternoon. We are making banana bread with Chocolate chips in it. Yummm...I will post a recipe in a bit....

Here it is.

1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon of salt

2 eggs lightly beaten
1 cup of mashed bananas
3/4 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of cooking oil~ I use veg. oil


In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour,baking powder,baking soda,cinnamon and salt.

In a large mixing bowl stir together egg whites,banana,sugar and oil.

Stir flour mixture into banana mixture just until moistened. I also add about a 1/2 cup of applesauce just so the bread will be a bit moist. I think this is what makes this recipe actually. I normally also put either raisins, choc. chips or walnuts. YUMMM.

Spray a 8x4x2 inch loaf pan with non stick spray
Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 in oven for 45 mins~ or until middle is firm and bread is golden.

Cool bread for 10 mins or like my girls like, they like to eat it straight out the oven.

Bon Apetite~

Eden Olivia

Well this post will be trying to catch up on my life as of today. Almost a year ago I found out we were expecting our 3rd child. It was actually a week exactly from Thanksgiving. What a way to to celebrate Thanksgiving. Being Thankful for the gift of life the Lord Blessed us with.



I was actually looking back on my older post of the trouble I "felt" I was having trying to get pregnant. I would like to partially recant how I was feeling. Partially meaning because with the first two girls we had little difficulty getting pregnant and I expected the same to happen the third time around when in reality we had little difficulty the third time around also. So I totally understand how much more difficult it is for other women to conceive.

Chuck E. Chesse

So, Aaron and Gabrielle birthdays are 7 days apart and so there birthday celebrations were celebrated together, so to speak. We have been so busy these first 2 weeks in September that we could not just do cake,ice cream and make sure every one we wanted to celebrate with was joined together all at the same time. So with this in mind, we tend to break up the activities. Aaron's first available day off to take Gabrielle to Chuck E. Chesse just so happened to be on his actual birthday and so Aaron and Gabrielle both got to spend /celebrate thier birthdays at Chuck E. Chesse.We had a blast..Everyone would ask Aaron what he did and he would tell them he went to Chuck E. Chesse for his birthday. No, we did end up doing something with friends for his birthday later on in the month. A month of memories!!!

Some of my favorite things.....

I Love my 3 little girls.
I LOVE MY MAN!!! :-)
I Love Big Earings.
I Love High heels.
I love to go out but I also LOVE to be at home. I'm a homebody. Although my husband refers to me as a hermit from time to time. As a joke~ so he claims.
I LOVE that I can talk to my mom about almost anything. I LOVE that realtionship we have.
I LOVE that there is no place I rather be but in the arms of JESUS, I don't know how I could emotionally conquer this world without him.
I LOVE Simplicity
I LOVE my LIFE!!

The need to catch up.....

Well, by the looks of things it has almost been a year since I actually made a post. Why is that? Mainly...just life. Raising kids,aiming to be a good wife and maintaing my realtionship with God.
What I need to catch up on my blog and what is happening in our lives right now:

The Birth of our Daughter
Soccer for both girls
Homeschool
AWANA
College Course
Birthday- for Aaron and Gabrielle

To be continued in more detail later............