Betty's corner of the world: December 2009

Saturday, December 26, 2009

New Dishes

I just had to show you my great new dishes I got for Christmas ...The mugs are from my grand daughter Natalie and the dishes are from my daughter Julie ...

"I LOVE THEM"!!! ..

Can't wait to have my Cheerios and coffee tomorrow morning. :^)

Christmas at my house 2009

I know Christmas is over ..and as usual I'm a little behind ...lol

But I thought I'd share a little bit of my decorations before I pack them up.

My living room is decorated in reds with lots of Santa's and Snowmen

With lots of silver and white in the dinning room.

Some soft toys for the babies to play with are always a good idea.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas full of lots of family, friends, food, love and laughter ...
And I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year.
:^)

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

I found this cake recipe in a 1997 Country Living hard cover Christmas book that I bought for 50 cents at a yard sale a couple weeks ago ... This has to be the best cake I've ever made ... White chocolate with lemon filling ... the frosting is white chocolate and cream cheese and a little lemon juice and lemon rind .... yummy! ...."BUT" ... In the picture of the cake in the book the 'snow flakes' (made of white chocolate) there are silver dragee balls which really makes it beautiful .. But to my dismay they are ban from California and no company from out of state can even mail them to me ... sad face :^(

We can live a few miles from our local nuclear plant but we can't buy these little silver balls. ... Also I couldn't find my cake decorating tip to make the 'snow flakes' prettier ... I'm sure the one I make for Christmas will be better since I found the tip. ... This cake was my prototype.

BIRTHDAYS

January, February and March are our "birthday months" ... We have so many birthdays at this time of the year that it makes your head spin ... Although every single one of them is so important, we sometimes just can't celebrate each one like we should .. But we all know we are special and that we are loved by our big family.

There have been all kinds of parties and celebrations, some are big and some may be having pizza at our local pizza place ..but we always have fun.

One of the celebrations that stands out in our family memories is the one where my son-in-law invited about 20 people over for an early brunch since my dauther Jennifer works nights he knew she would be sleeping ... he had us all stand around her bed and outside their big picture window were everyone could look in and she could see everyone outside. ...Well, she woke up to a bunch of "fire crackers" that he lit outside the window... Oh yeah! ...It was not pretty when she jumped up out of a dead sleep ... Saying .."what the hell"!!!! along with a few other words #@%$$#&**##@!!!! .. especially when she raealized that there were 15 people standing around her bed.. she wanted to kill her dear hubby ..but she laughed and has never forgotten her 40th birthday ......So that tells you what kind of a family we have ... there's always something that is good for a laugh ...and it makes for great dinner stories.... So I am saying ....* HAPPY BIRTHDAY* to all of us who will be or has been celebrating a birthday .... I love you all ..and I am blessed. :^)

So that gives you an idea of what kind of a family we are ...

A Birthday Gift From Louie & Yoly

A GIFT FROM RITA

What a wonderful surprise I got today when the postman left a package at my door! .. I was having a regular day doing what I do ..then I found a package on my porch .. I had no idea who it was from .. then I saw that it was from my niece Rita Reade ..I can't tell you how thrilled I was shen I saw what she had sent me ..."A beautiful bag full of trinkets" ....I just love every single thing in the bag and the bag is a treasure in itself .. and guess what? .. It's not even my birthday!... I don't think I've ever gotten a gift in the mail for no reason at all .. and don't you just love getting packages in the mail? .. Thank you soo much Rita for all the beautiful things and for making my day soo special... I love you ... Hugz ...Tia Betty

Yard sale weekend

Last Saturday was a city wide yard sale in a near by beach town called Morro Bay ...it's about a 15 minute drive from our town ...I went with two of my daughters, Julie and Jennifer. ..They picked me up at 6:30 am ...we wanted to be the "early birds" so we could get the best "prizes" ..of course everyone else had the same idea ... Tina, our oldest daughter also followed in her car with cousin Pam ... we had to take two cars to have enough room for our treasures ... good thing we did take two cars because they were both 'packed' when we came home ... It was such a fun day. One of the things I bought was a service for 12 set of Spring looking dishes .. but when I put them on my table they just 'didn't work for me' ..so Tina is going to try to sell them at her yard sale next weekend.... You can't win them all.