An Excellent Wife, who can find?

Hey Everyone, Sorry there was no weekend roll out. Currently, I am sick and I want to die. However Brian and I did get to spend time with his family. Some much needed colligan family time.

ANYWAY

I am a very blessed girl. My engagement right is BEAUTIFUL. It is the exact type of ring I've always wanted...

Our culture has made weddings into a Billion Dollar Industry. Girls care more about the look of their wedding then they do anything else. We have theknot davidsbridal brides.com etsy. You can have two wedding dresses, you can have two cakes. You can have a wedding registry at target, khols, and bed bath and beyond. You can have you own personal website. You get engagement photos taken. You send out save the dates. You have to make sure those who come to your reception do not sit next to people they dont get a long with.

There is so much excitement and stress that go into preparing for a wedding. But why is it that we "prepare for weddings"? Shouldn'twe be training up our "brides to be" to be wives, not brides?

Think about it. I see SO many photos on facebook that girls post of their 'dream wedding'. We want this dress, this ring, this cake, these flowers and the list infinitely goes on. How many girls do you see studying the word of God to find out with HE says about marriage.

I did not realize the importance of this until a few months before the wedding. (If you know brian and I you're probably laughing because our engagement was just a couple months.)

The Bible doesn't say how to arrange the flowers for center pieces, it gives no advice on hair styles. It also does not say "Thou shall marry Brian on July 24". ( I don't believe in soul mates or "one person" but thats not important here)

Those of you who are married, we need to speak up! While yes, a wedding should be fun and exciting - If you are putting more thought into bouquets than you are your duties as a wife, than something is wrong.

We see Proverbs 30:31 plastered on every christian coffee mug. However, we totally end up missing the rest of the proverb. A mother is telling her son exactly what to look for in a woman. I could go into it, but this post would never get done. Maybe I'll save it for next time.

The Bible has this "cuss" word in it "Submission" 1 Peter 3. We as women ( or at least I do) tend to think of that word with negative connotations. However, I believe (just my false doctrine feel free to test this) that it's not JUST obedience it's obedience WITHOUT an ATTITUDE! !!

My friends, if you know somebody who is getting married soon, or plans to ever in their life. Encourage them. Encourage them to pick up the Bible and read through Scripture. If you are married, you know that marriage is hard, and is rough and you know that (maybe this was just me) you felt a little over whelmed at first.

Tell them to prepare their heart for marriage. Tell them to guard their hearts from the lies and misconceptions of marriage.

I was blessed to have the wedding of my dreams.

I was also blessed by the fact that I started praying for my MARRIAGE.

I pray you take this to heart all of you. Share with those unmarried.

Thats all for now

-J

Weekend Roll Out.

This weekend I will hang out with her

and other people. but mostly her. She is my bestie, or well one of them.

I will do nothing but hang out with her and look cute.

thats all for now

-j

Spa?

My bathroom looks like this

actually at the moment it looks worse because he's worked out a lot this week. There isn't anything I can do about it. I rather have a messy bath room than a smelly closet full of sweaty clothes.

However, I have this.

I know it doesn't look like much. But this is a Yankee candle in the sent of Pumpkin Spice. It's in a repurposed spaghetti jar. And it turns my bathroom into this

Sometimes you need to find the little things to get through.

Thats all for now

-j

Ministry Opportunity

Hey friends,

Are you interested in helping a ministry that could potentially (and already has) grow our church and our school?

The Branch needs your help.

We need adults to make meals and or donate money to provide meals for students.

We have students that wait all evening after school so they can come to youth group. Most of them play sports right after school and are starving by the time youth group rolls around. Also, most parents do not bring their child home before youth group starts at 6. These kids usually do not get home until after 8pm! That is a LONG time for a growing teenage to be with out food.

PLEASE help us. Even if you do not have the resources, we ask that you pray that God will provide.

* While the meals have been approved by the church, there is not a separate "meal budget" approved by the church. You can make a donation to the youth budget or directly to Pastor Brian for specifically youth meals.

Thanks for reading this and PLEASE pass this on.

thats all for now

-j

Weekend Roll Out

For those of you who listen to the radio, you know I stole that (Weekend Roll Out) from The Kane Show.

And I stole this Idea from a blogger friend.... But remember, I'm ok with plagiarism?

This weekend I will watch my husband coach for this school:

I will made this:

I will do more of these: Because they NEVER END.

I will try and rest. But I doubt it. sundays are not our day for rest and today wont be either.

I need a break

thats all for now

-j

whoopie pies take 2

Ok, So I tried Making whoopie pies again. and this is what they look like

YUMMY

As soon as they started baking my whole house smelled like pumpkin.

Now for those of you who actually read this, you know that last time I TRIED to make Chocolate whoopie pies with orange food coloring. This time I just ended up making Pumpkin Spice ones.

They are pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies with Cream Cheese Frosting.

HOLLA!

Here is were I got the recipe

I did however change it up a bit.

For the Cake part: Instead of Ginger I added pumpkin spice, and a little bit of nutmeg. I probably could have used more nutmeg and maybe a little bit of all spice. They are Spicy but not enough to be like, "OMGSH These are SO good" Just. "Oh, these are good" But I also like spicy things.

(Hence me wishing I was hispanic.)

ALSO.

For the Icing, I cut back on the butter and added more cream cheese. I added a little bit of milk in the beginning I mean like 1/4 tsp. and The icing came out running. It's different consistency than regular whoopie icing. But I guess thats ok because it's cream cheese frosting. I also added more sugar than it called for. Dont judge me.

Lastly I piped leaves and vines and use pits of pretzel for the stem. SO cute.

For those of you who are familiar with REAL whoopie pies. These are a little different, (mainly because of the cream cheese frosting) They are more like a pumpkin muffin sandwich with icing.

Now.... This is what's left. Would you believe me if I told you I did dishes in between baking and icing?

Happy Friday

Thats all for now

-j

Check it out!

Today I'm over here. Check it out!

"Harvest" Pumpkins

Did I mention I love fall? Like really love fall.

Did I also mention that I go through periods of time of when I build up blog posts in my head because I don't have time to post them? This is one of those times. Dont Judge me, I'm Part time student, almost full time worker and overtime wife.

ANYWAY

I love fall. And I madethis

I'm not a big fan of halloween decorations, or halloween for that matter. But really Buttons and a bow? Could it be cuter?

I THINK NOT.

Heres what you need

1 Fake Pumpkin

Why you ask? well my dear. so you dont waste good buttons on a real pumpkin that will go bad. you can put it in storage and take it out next year!)

I got my pumpkin at Michaels for 6 bucks.

A Various assortment of black bottons

I got mine at Michaels for 1$ a bunch. I spent 3$ (one bunch for each letter).

1 Spool of ribbon

ok you actually dont need a spool just maybe a foot and half to make a pretty bow. I bout this at .... you guessed it MICHAELS for. A BUCK!.

HOLLA!

So cute non-scarey pumpkin? 10 Bucks. I know. I'm awesome.

Ok I can't lie to you, I found it in a Magazine and just copied the idea. I'm Ok with plagiarism.

Thats all for now

-J

Orange Whoopie Disaster

Ok so I'm addicted to this new site; cookiesandcups . The person who writes it is pretty funny and she usually has good recipes.

I.

Love.

Whoopie.

Pies.

I mean I love them. So when somebody posted on my wall I thought I would give them a try.

Look at how cute and perfect these are. Perfectly pumkiny orange. They are actually Chocolate whoopies just dyed to look orange.

Did you know there is a difference between liquid food coloring and gel food coloring?

Me either.

Did you know that if you put enough food coloring in, it'll mess with the recipe?

Yeah, I thought it might. But I wanted to take my chances anyway.

Last night (after i added almost all of my orange food LIQUID coloring) at 9:30 Brian and I went to safeway to find Orange Gel food coloring. Praise the Lord we found some.........But they still came out like this

They look more like Potato Shaped window clings than they do pumpkin shaped whoopie pies.

needless to say they were a fail. They are rubbery and gross.

I may try this again tonight. Or I may give up, it depends on how tired I am.

And if i do try to make these again. I am going to use my families whoopie pie recipe. Cuz well, it's awesome. For now I am just going to stare at the picture and dream. Less calories this way.

Thats all for now,

-J

The County

Fall is always the worst season for me as far as getting homesick. and yeah, I get home sick. But you would too if you're home town looked like this.

HAPPY FALL EVERYONE!

thats all for now

-j