PICTURES

Here is a few new pictures of the little one. Starting to smile and coo.

As you can tell big sister loves her to death.

When it is time to eat you better get it fast!

Soooo Precious

Aunt Becky and Makiya taking a little nap. My daughter of course had to take this one. Enjoy and have a great night.

THE WINNER IS!

First off thanks to every one who entered my drawing. I decided to go ahead and giveaway both afhgans. So I put the names for the orange afhgan in one and the scrap in one. As you can see above my daughter drew the names. She had so much fun with this so we will be doing another giveaway soon. The drum roll and the winner is for the orange afhgan blessings and the scrap afhgan c marie. Congratulations! Go ahead and send your name and address to my email which is on the side of my blog. I will get these out in the next few days. Thanks so much to all who entered or just left a comment. Have a great day! Rebekah

KASSANDRA'S 11TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

This is how we spent our Friday celebrating my daughters Birthday. We had family and friends over for cake and ice cream. She turned 11 on Monday. Notice the cake that is really her horse on it. A good time of fun and fellowship was had by all. Have a great night . Rebekah

PECAN BARS

CRUST:
2 c. all purpose flour 1/2 c. shortening
1c.firmly packed brown sugar 1/2 c. butter, softened
1/2 tsp. salt 1 egg yolk
1 tsp. vanilla (I always put two)
FILLING:
4 eggs 3/4 c.sugar
1 1/4 c. dark or light corn syrup
1/2 c. butter, melted
1/2 c.all purpose flour
1 tsp. vanilla (I use two)
2 c.chopped pecans

Heat oven to 350%. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off. In large bowl, combine all crust ingredients; blend well Press dough evenly into bottom of ungreased 15"x10" jelly roll pan. Bake at 350% for 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
In medium bowl, combine eggs and sugar. Stir in corn syrup and butter; blend well. Mix in flour and vanilla; add nuts. Pour filling over warm crust. Bake at 350% for 15 to 20 minutes until set and golden brown. Cool completely; cut into bars. Yeild: 48 bars

These are so good. I think they lasted all of 2 days at my house. Enjoy and have a good day.
Rebekah

GIVEAWAY AT ANOTHER BLOG

Giveaway at http://www.faithfulnessfarm.blogspot.com/. She is giving away some really great stuff and neat blog. Go on over and check it out.

FINALLY THE AFHGAN GIVEAWAY

The giveaway finally so sorry it took so long. Take a look at the two choices and scroll to the bottom for instructions.

As you can see the first is a orange and brown with green and orange trim. The second is what I call a scrap afhgan and is all different colors. Just leave me a comment and which one you would like if you won. Then I will draw a name on March 29th and post it here on the blog. This is my first giveaway so lets make it a good one everyone. If this giveaway goes good I would love to do more in the future. Thanks in advance for participating. Have a great day, good luck and God bless.

33 Miles- One Life To Love

GIVEAWAY AT BAKE IT AFTER ALL

Just letting you all know there is a great giveaway at http://www.bakeitafterall.blogspot.com/ The giveaway is for your choice of a bamboo cutting board, pizaelle maker or a wine rack. Great recipes and great blog go on over and check it out. Have a great day! Rebekah

THE NEW BABY

My new niece.

My beautiful trio of girls.

Well as you all see I was not able to get picture posted of our maple syrup operation. The time was so short this year. We only had a week of collecting sap this year. It got warm so fast and at night also that the trees just were not running. We tapped last Saturday and pulled them by Thursday. So it was a very busy week of doing syrup and other miscellaneous farm things. It seemed like the week had just begun and was already gone. I had my nieces again starting last week and oh it was so fun. The baby is so sweet and cute. her sister is just as cute and the stuff she says just cracks us up. The other day my husband told her he was taking her with him and she says my butt's not going nowhere. We have lots of mud here and I sure wish it would dry up. The animals are not liking it. Hard to work in also. They are saying we are going to get snow at the end of the month I sure hope they are wrong. We weighed the kids fair steer in Saturday and it all went well. My sons steer he is taking weighs 898 so that is a good start. The funny thing is our friends daughter who does it hers weighed exactly the same. My daughters weighed 682 so they both got a good start. We are off to a better start than last year. They are actually halter broke and walking somewhat. This time last year we could not have done that with my sons steer. I will be posting the giveaway soon so be watching just having a hard time deciding on what to give this time. Well that is about all for now. I will leave you with a neat little saying on the back of our bulletin.

When the day is done, do you lie in bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, "well do it tomorrow." And in your haste not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say Hi? When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift...thrown away...Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.

MAPLE SYRUP

Well it is that time of year at our house, time to do Maple Syrup. Here is a picture of the kids heading out to start tapping trees. I will add more pictures on the whole process as we get more into it.

I just had to add this picture. It is my daughters new baby duck. Don't know if you can notice it but he has a little patch of hair right on the back of his head. It looks like a mohawk. My husband said why do you always get the reject ones. I told him he is not he is cute. I like to get the animals I feel nobody else would want to give a home. Probably he would not of been picked cause he was not the cutest duck there. So he is ours and I love him as much as my daughter does. But the quacking is about to drive me nuts! Hopefully he will settle down after a few days. That is all for today. Hope everyone is well out there. Have a great day and God bless. Rebekah

HELLO FROM THE FARM

Hello everyone, Sorry I have not been posting my computer has not been working. Also just not much going on here. We are heading out to the weekly auction today. The guys are out trying to get the manure cleaned up while it is frozen before it turns to water. I have decided to have a giveaway trying to decide which afhgan I'm going to giveaway so be watching for it. Probably within the next week I will be posting it. Will share a great desert recipe I have found so easy and not many ingredients always a bonus.
Rhubarb Desert
4 C. Diced rhubarb
1 C. sugar
1-3 oz. strawberry jello
1-18 1/2 oz. box yellow cake mix
2 C. water
Put ingredients in order given, into a 9x13 pan. DO NOT STIR. Bake at 350% for 50 minutes. Serve with milk or ice cream. This is very good and easy! You can use any combination of fruit and jello to make it different. Have a great day and God bless Rebekah.