Better late than NEVER!! :)

I know it's been awhile...Hold back the negativity...HAHA!!  A little update on what the Yorkie Gals have been up to lately.  They sure are getting big.  My baby Sophia had the surgery of a lifetime.  She got spayed.  :((

Is this not the saddest look at a furbabies face ever??  I was at work and Joe sent me this picture.  Broke my heart to say the least.

When I got home that night from work, Sophia loved me up.  Joe said that was the most movement she had made all afternoon.  Atleaset she lets me know she loves her mommy.

One of the TV shows I wantch is called Bama Glama with Scott Wedgeworth.  He is a wedding planner.  My sister found out that he is a friend of our EX-Brother-In-Law, Lee.  Lee was hanging out with him in LA one day and he got Scott to call Jessica.  I was soo jealous.  Little did I know, one day while I was at work on my break I was gonna see someone walk right passed me...YES...U thought right. It was Scot Wedgeworth.

I ran up to him and took our picture together.  HAHA!!  I know I look awful in my bleached Walmart attaire, but I can't complain to bad.  I mean I just touched, and took a picture with SCOT WEDGEWORTH!!  :))

Valentines Day was a hit for some beautiful Yorkies named Maggie Mae and Sophia Grace.  Look at my sweet Sophia's long hair.  I am sooo sad to say that I got a notion to cut her hair and I jacked it up BAD!!  Therefore, I had to take her to groomers to get it fixed.  I will NOT be cutting her hair again.  lol  

Maggie is such a princess.  I just love her so much.  She's my big baby girl.

LOVE my sweet girls.

February...REALLY????

WOW...I sure can't believe it is February 2012 already.  Where has the time gone?  Sooo much has happend to my family in the past 2 weeks.  First of all, Im gonna start with my parents getting arrested.  January 19th, 2012.  It was such a beautiful day that day.  I got up early enough to go have "brunch" with my sister.  I had gotten a phone call from my mama but I didn't have good service so I didn't answer.  She left a voicemail saying that she had taken Ricky to the DR. and he has Pharyngitis and Bronchitis and they were gonna go home and lay down awhile.  So, I didn't worry with calling her back. 

The next time I hear from my mama was @ 2:05pm.  It was from a number I was hoping wasn't true.  She says,"Katie, what time do you have to be at work?"  I said, " 4pm,Y"  She said, "I need you to come to the police station and get my ciggerate case!!"  I said, "Y??"  She said, "We r in JAIL"!!!  Yes you read that right....MY PARENTS ARE IN JAIL!!!  :(((((  I said, "Y"  All my mother was allowed to say is there charge was manufacturing and the sale of precurser.  I knew what manufacturing was but not the other.  I was DUMFOUNDED to say the least.  I told her I would be right there.  I jumped up and threw my work clothes on, called Joe and Jessica, and we headed to Fayette.  When we get there, or course, police wouldn't let us see them.  :((  We did find out exactly what there charge was.  It was all ONE charge.  Manufaturing/Sale of Precurser which means they bought pills with the intent to sale to a drug dealer/maker for a large sum of money.  Officer informed us neither one of them were doing drugs, just they were selling the pills to make money off them because times were hard and they needed money. SOOO, this is all we have to go own because we can't talk to them to see what really happend.

I had to go to Black's Wrecker Service and pay $75 to get Mama's car out of the inpound.  I had to use bill money but I didn't care.  I was getting my Mama's car no matter what I had to do.  It was soo weird because she has NEVER allowed anyone to drive her car and here I am driving it.  It was bittersweet.  :((  All I could do was cry.  I had to go gather up Ricky's medicine at the Pharmacy and carry back to the jail.  When I walked in to drop his meds off there he is.  They had him in integragation and was taking him back upstairs.  He was there in his orange jump suit, handcuffs, shackles...Looking just like a criminal.  It was DEVISTATING and I broke down.  I couldn't talk to him and he couldn't talk to me.  Jessica and I just stood there, ALL ALONE, looking at our "Daddy" that way.  Were were horrified.  They finally took him upstairs and it was then time for me to leave and go to work.  Jessica had to get back to Berry to get her girls. 

I was an hr late for work.  I wouldn't have went in but I wasn't gonna leave Terrika there to close all alone.  It's sooo hard to close with to people let alone all on one person.  All night I was an emotional basket case.  I just couldn't imagine what my Mama and Stepdad was going through.  I went on break about 7 and I had a missed call on my phone from a number I had no idea what it was.  I called it back and it was busy.  I knew right then that my mama had tried to call me but I couldn't answer.  I was soooo upset.  I called my sister and told her and Mama had tried to call her to.  Since all either one of us had was cell phones we had to call and put a special program on our phones just to be able to accept there phone calls.  UGH!!  After I got off work at 9pm, I had to go to Mama's apartment and get Tiny, her dog.  Tiny didn't understand Y I was getting her.  She kept looking for Mama.  :(  Sooo sad.

The next day, I was off from work.  It was the day to take Hannah out for her birthday.  I posted about that on one of the last post you can read about.  :)  Soo, after all I just went through, I felt as if I wasn't gonna skimp from taking my Hannah bug out on the town.  While we were in town my phone rings and it's my Mama calling me from jail again.  I answer it and I hear her voice but it wont let me answer it.  UGH!!!  I was devistated again.  I imediately pull over on the side of the interstate and call to put that service on my phone where I can answer her phone calls.  It costed me $30 and that wasn't gonna last but maybe 2 calls.  WOW.  How expensive but I sure didn't care.  What made me soo mad was they said it wouldn't work until around 24hr.  WHAT???  Really???  I was soo mad.  That afternoon when I got home from town, Jessica called and they were at the jail house bonding Mama and Ricky out of jail. They finally got a bond set so I loaded Joe up and we headed over there.  When I pulled into the parking lot, out walked Ricky with his belongings.  He walked with his head held down and on out to the truck.  We had to wait on Mama.  All of a sudden, Jessica said, "Katie, look!!"  I looked and there came my mama in the dreaded orange jump suit that was 5 times to big on her, carrying a rubbermade toat with her belongings in it.  Her eyes were very red and swollen where she had cried for a total of 24 hrs.  She looked awful.  This was one of the most DEVISTATING times of my life.  When do you ever wanna see your mama in a jail orange jump suit???  We get them back to Berry and I go pick them up to bring them to my house to get there car.  Mama, Ricky, Joseph, and I all sat in the livingroom talking.  We now find out what REALLY happened.

Brother-in-law got a scare that his colan cancer was back.  Got results today its not back.  Praise God for his Glory.  :))

Our "Love Story"

I have saw on one of my blogger friends page where she posted there "love story" for Valentines Day.  I thought I would use her questions and answer them with my very own "Love Story!!"  :)

Here Goes.  :)))

1. How long have you and your significant other been together?

Joseph and I actually got together April 9th, 2003, engaged October 16, 2003, and married April 8th, 2006.  :)  I'm pretty good on dates.  :)

2. How did you meet? 

It's kind of a long story but the shorter version is Joseph and my sister's husband, Michael, were best friends growing up.  I fell in love with Joseph the first time I laid eyes on him.  When he walked in the door at my sisters house it was LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.  Yep, it was. I was only 12 years old and Joe was 23 so he didn't look at me that way at all.  I told my sister and BFF I was gonna marry him one day and I did.  :))

3. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding? 
Joseph and I got married here in Berry at the church he grew up in, Bible Missionary.  It wasn't nothing spectacular but it was beautiful to us.  :)) 


4. Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? Do share!

HAHA.  U just had to ask.  lol  I sometimes call Joe my Buggie Bear and he sometimes calls me his Buggie BooBoo Bear.  lol  Yea were crazy, BUT, CRAZY INLOVE.  :))

5. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.

His patience.  He used to have alot of patience with me BUT now it's not so good.  lol

His thoughtfullness.  He is always thinking of me and ways to make me happy b4 himself.

His spirit.  No matter what the situation is Joe is always in good spirits about it.  He is always trying to be the one to make things better instead of bad.  

6. Tell us how he proposed?
My father passed away when I was only 9 years of age.  Each and every time Joe and I talked about getting married and moving on to the next stage in our lives, I always brought up my daddy and how he won't ever get to be apart of my wedding.  It just really upset me.  Well, I knew that Joe was gonna ask me to marry him because he took me with him to buy the ring.  Since I'm a chunky girl, we had to send the rings off to be sized to my right finger size.  One day when I got home from school, Joe asked me did I want to ride with him to Fayette to pick up some paint for his mama.  I wanted to always be with him so of course I said I did.  We get to Walmart and Joe sends me to get the paint while he went to do something else.  We both meet up at the registers and head back home.  On our way home Joseph asked did I wanna ride by my daddy's grave since I hadn't been there in awhile.  I agreed to go.  When we arrived there we head on down.  Joe then brings up about how he's sad that I'm sad that my daddy wont be at our wedding when we did get married.  He said, "Baby, I wish your daddy would get to walk you down the isle when we get marred, but since he can't we come to him today."  I turn around and look at him and said what do you mean?  As I turned around I saw Joe was on his knees with my rings.  He said,"I just want you to know how special you are to me and how I plan to spend the rest of my life with you.  I want you to b my wife and share our ups and downs together.  I know times wont always be perfect, we will have some bad times but most importantly we will have some amazing times together.  I love you Katie with all my heart and I'm asking you WILL YOU MARRY ME?????"  I was in total shock but of course I said YES!!!!!  :))) I'm sure some will think getting engaged in a grave yard was crazy, but to me he couldn't have proposed any other way that would be as special to me.  :)


7. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day. 

I have to work tomorrow so we celebrated tonight.  I made a pot of chili and an Oreo Pie.  It was sooo good.

8. Are you asking for anything this Valentine's day?

I wanted to go to the movies and watch The Vow but we didn't have the money.  I don't care though.  Just a wonderful night at home with my love is enough.  :)

9. Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of love.
Marriage is work. If you expect to just go through the motions and keep your marriage fulfilled, it won't happen. Invest in each other and your marriage, whether it be through thoughtful actions, little gifts, doing a couple's devotional together, or attending a marriage seminar. Remember neither of you are perfect, and it takes compromise. 


10.  Show us a picture of what love means to you.

Love, to me, means happiness.  You have to have happiness to find love.  :)

I hope you enjoyed reading about my Valentines Day story.  :))

Happy 9th Birthday,,,

Happy 9th Birhtday, cry. punch, hit, to my sweet girl

 Hannah Grace Earls.  So glad you had a great time on our outing for your birthday.  :)

For this picture, Hannah and I were headed to eat lunch when we came across this huge train track.  I pulled over for us to take pictures.  Hannah was so very embarrassed because she thought someone was gonna see us.  lol

It's just so hard for me to accept that my baby girl, Hannah will b nine in 2 days.  :(  What am I gonna do about this?  

Just a few pics from the past few weeks. :)

Sophia Grace sleeping on Mommy.  :)

Maggie MaeMae.

Hannah at Kobe.

Hannah and Me.  :)

Catch-up time!!

Ok, so!! Got a lot to catch~up on. Ive started a new position @walmart. Actually it isn't new I'm just back in the deli. :)). Absolutely LOVING it is an understatement! :) I'm LOVING sleeping in passed 4am, I'm LOVING being at home during the day with my sweet girls, I'm lOVING that I don't feel like I'm always at work. I have a part-time job and I now feel it. :)). Yeah! Haha!

My husband is sooo wonderful!! I asked for a Cricut machiene or Christmas but wasn't able to afford it. Needless to say I got my Valentines Day preset early....A beautiful black Cricut expressions. :))) Boy am I on cloud 9. Joe played around with it last night and cut out a K for me! Isn't that sweet??? I am so inlove with this man. :). He's definitely a GOD sent blessing to me. :)

Even though Iwas so excited to have gotten my Cricut in the mail yesterday, it turned into an AWFUL day! I will go into more details layer but for now just know I'm devistated, mad, pissed, beyond heartbroken!!! Please lift my family up in your prayers.

Monday, January 23, my sweet baby bug Hannah will b 9 years old! WOW...Where has the time gone?? I remember Mama telling me that when school was over that day for us all, Granny, Bit, Cricket,Jason, and I to come to the hospital. Victoria and I called Granny to check us out of school that way we could leave earlier to go to the hospital. She did. Needless to say my mama was sooo mad. Haha! She got over it real quickly. :). For the past 2 years, Hannah's request for her birthday was to go eat Kobe, Japanese, and to go shopping at Justice. This year Hannah's request was to go eat Kobe and go to the movies and watch the newest movie, Joyful Noise. So that's where we're at! Yes I'm sitting here during the movie writing my blog. I can multitask. Lol. Also today, we went and took some pictures at a railroad track and at the park where the Bama Belle boat is. Good pics. :). Will post sometime soon. Hope u all have a great day!

Strawberry Banana Pizza

Strawberry Banana Pizza
Spread out sugar cookie dough on a pizza pan and bake.
Mix 2 pkgs of cream cheese and 1 cup of sugar (or more if you like it sweet) and spread on cookie once cool.
Slice strawberries and bananas and spread on top and then top with cool whip.
Easy and yummy!

Sausage Balls

Sausage Balls

1 lb sausage (Jimmy Dean in the tube)
2 cups Biscuik
10 oz shredded cheese

Put everything in a bowl and mix well. It's easiest to do with your hands. Roll into balls. Bake at 350 for 20-30 minutes (or browned well)

Beef Enchiladas

                                                                           Beef Enchiladas

1 lb hamburger meat
1 small onion, chopped
1 can of chopped black olives
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of Enchilada sauce
8 oz of shredded cheddar cheese
6-8 flour tortillas

Brown the meat and saute the onions in with it. Once that is done, add in the olives and let it heat and then add in 3/4 of the cheese and let it melt - mix it all together. Fill tortillas with the meat mixture and roll up. Combine the mushroom soup and enchilada sauce and pour on top. Top with remaining cheese. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes.

How do you make your burgers?

My favorite way is to take 2 lbs of lean ground beef and mix it with a package of Onion soup mix and a few tablespoons of worchestershire sauce. It gives burgers such a great flavor. 

Do you have any great BURGER recipes or ideas????

Chicken Enchilada Ring

Chicken Enchilada Ring

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked chicken
1 cup cheddar cheese
1 small can chopped chilies, undrained
1/2 cup sour cream
1 package taco seasoning
2 rolls of crescent rolls
1 small chopped tomato
1 lime (juice)
2/3 cup finely crushed tortilla chips


Directions:

1. Chop chicken and add cheese, chilies, sour cream and taco mix. Seed and chop 1 tomato and add 2 tablespoons lime juice; add to chicken mixture. Reserve 2 Tblsp. crushed chips and add remaining chips to mixture.


2.Unroll crescent dough and separate triangles. Arrange on round baking stone or cookie sheet making a circle with wide ends OVERLAPPING in the center and points toward outside. ( I did lightly spray oil on the cookie sheet I used). There should be a 5 inch diameter opening in the center.

3. Spread chicken mixture evenly onto widest end of each triangle.

4. Bring points of triangles up and over filling and tuck under wide ends of dough at the center of the ring.

Sprinkle with 2 Tblsp. crushed chips. ( I put shredded cheese all on top!)

5. Bake @ 375 for 20-25 minutes. Garnish with tomato and serve with salsa and sour cream.

Coconut Cake..

I have found a new found love for a Coconut cake.  YUMMO!!!  Here is a recipe a friend has given to me.  


Ingredients:
Yellow Cake Mix

2 cups of sugar

8oz sour cream

lg tub cool whip

lg bag of coconut

Bake the cake mix according to the box. Mix the 2 cups of sugar and sour cream together and set in freezer until everything is done.  When the cake is cool, mix cool whip and 1/2 bag of coconut with the mixture in freezer.  Spread mixture over cake.  Keep refrigerated. SO, SO good!

Bringing in the new year with my sister and her family. :)). We had one delicious meal. Brother~in~law cooked ribeye steaks, twice baked potatoes, stuffed jalapeño peppers, bread, and a good ole diet mtn dew. :)). I'm posting this blog from my iPhone 4 and for some reason it won't let me add pics/videos. :(((. I will add those later on tomorrow. I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful New Years. :))

The end of 2011....WOW!!!

The end of 2011....WOW!!!  Who would have thunk it would have happened soooo fast??  I can't believe it.  Today I was off work..YEAH!!! I received a disturbing phone call from my youngest niece Hannah.  She was telling me her mother had just been attacked by their English Bulldog Sam.  She was hysterical screaming come fast KK.  I get up and get my clothes on and off I go.  I get there and both girls are standing outside crying.  Jessica is in the den in the floor crying.  She goes into telling me the story of what happened and then shows me the damage.  Her legs were scrapped up pretty bad and her hand looked as if it had a hole in it.  Her husband returned home soon and thought she didn't need to go to ER.  When Mama got there she thought she atleast needed to go for nothing else but a tetnis shot.  WOW...This day started out pretty rough.  lol

On a brighter note, Jeslyn and Hannah came home with me as planned.  Jeslyn cooked us some pigs n a blanket for lunch and Hannah baked us some sugar cookies.  Of course I helped a little but they done the majority of the work.  :)  My babies are getting WAY to big.  :(  Girls and I laid around and watched tv and ate all day.  Nothing but making small talk and memories.  What a way to spend the day.  The girls and I decided to go outside and clean my car.  All 3 of us got a bag and got all the trash out then brought other stuff in the house.  I pulled it around to the water hose where we could hand wash it.  Hannah got inside armoralled  the interrior while Jeslyn and I had a bowl of car wash and went to town on the outside.  Bout half way through their parents came to pick them up.  Needless to say I had to finish it all by myself.  BOOHOO!!  HAHA.  Oh well.

After cleaning my car, I decided to come in, dress my girls up, and take them for a walk.  We didn't get to walk much because it was to cold but they got a little excercise and fresh air...which is the point!!   :)))

You know I couldn't take a nature walk and NOT take a picture of these beautiful girls.  RIGHT???  HAHA!  

Look at that look on Maggie's face..She looks pretty pissed.  lol

When Joe got home this afternoon it was time to tackle the tanning bed bulbs again.  In the midst of putting the acrilic back in Joe accidentally cracked it.  :((  Hurt my feeling but accidents happen.  He didn't mean to and felt really bad afterward.  Oh well....Atleast it was the top and not the bottom.  If it had been we would have had a problem.  lol  

Here is a picture of my new blue bulbs.  ALL 24 working like a charm.  :)  I'm sooo excited. :))  Idk why it shows lines in the picture.  

Happy Hubby...

My wonderful hunny got his late Christmas present today.  It's a yellow DELL laptop.  He has been wanting one for some time now where we will both have our own.  I found this on the Tuscaloosa Trader for VERY cheap.  Bought it and surprised him.  Boy was he a happy camper.  :)

CHRISTmas 2011.. PT. 2

After Joseph and I gave Maggie and Sophia their stockings it was then time to clean up and start cooking for the gathering at my sisters that afternoon.  I made stuffed eggs, strawberry dessert, and pumpkin bread.  Yummy. 

Recipe:

1 frozen large pound cake

2 (8oz) containers of cool whip

2 cans of Strawberry pie filling

Directions:

Layer in a beautiful bowl as much as you would like.....ENJOY!!

Pretty simple but elegant looking and full of flavor.  :)

Finished masterpiece...HAHA!

When we got to my sisters house the girls couldn't wait to get into their gifts.  :)  Mama and Jessica were in the kitchen cooking so we had to wait on them to find a stopping point.  :)  

This is a pic of my sisters tree and the gifts Joe and I bought for everyone.  :)  We were so blessed to have been able to get everyone something.

Jeslyn got the first gift.  A towel to go with the new bathroom set they were about to open.

Hannah opened the soap pump and the tooth brush holders.  

I made them open this bag together.  They were both sooo excited but Hannah was most excited about it.

My happy Baby Bug.  :)

Next came the BIG kids.  lol  Michael got bath stuff, razor, shave cream set.

Mama loved her coffee cup I had made for her.  It was pictures I had taken of all the grandkids.  It was so pretty.  She also got Tupperware salt and pepper shakers, and a set of Tupperware bowls.

Ricky got bath set.

Jessica got 3 Home Interriors pictures, Tupperware Salt and Pepper shakers, Tupperware Colander, and a ser of candle stick holders.

After  we opened gifts it was time to GRUB.  HAHA!!!  We LOVE to eat.  We had cajun fried turkey, baked ham, peas, turnip greens, mac n cheese, stuffed eggs...I don't even remember what all but it was a bunch.  lol  While the "women" cleaned up the kitchen, Hannah and I took off on an adventure to take pictures.  On the way to our destination, we about got attacked but a huge dog with broad sholders.  Needless to say I FREAKED OUT!  lol  Hannah started to run and I was scared the dog was gonna go off after her.  I am so glad to say we freaked out for nothing because the dog was inside an underground shock fence.  I didn't know that until the neighbor came out and told us.  lol

We went on to take pics.  Here is just a few I snapped.  I put them in a collage for her.

She done a great job posing for these pictures.  My hannah bug used to be such a tomboy but has recently turned into a little young lady.  :)  Boy do I miss the baby bug though.

This is just a little to what "CHRISTmas 2011" was like in my world.  I would like to read about yours aswell.  

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a Happy New Year!!

Love The Tanners.  :))

CHRISTmas 2011.. PT. 1

Gonna update you on what's been going on here since my last post.  Several friends of mine got me a little gift for Christmas this year.  One of which I'm soo excited about was these precious little ornaments made for my sweet girls.

How adorable are they.  She wrote on the backs of them to.  Very sweet and thoughtfull of her.  Also, another one of my friends gave me a beautiful T ornament and a Celebrating Homes Baked Apple Candle.  :) I love it.

Maggie and Sophia got a new outfit to wear for Christmas.  Maggie got a dress and Sophai got this adorable sweater.  It's got a santa on the back.  So cute.  

One of my best Friends little girls 3rd Birthday was on the 18th.  She is just adorable.  I got the honor of taking a few pics of her during her big day.

Happy 3rd Birthday Ella Grace.

CHRISTmas EVE....

It is FINALLY  CHRISTmas time for 2011.  WOW am I wore slap out. Joseph and I went to his brothers house to have Christmas with them on Christmas eve.

Joseph and I got his son a Xbox 360 with Kinnect.  He was super excited to receive this.  I love this little boy more than anything else.  He's the spitting image of his father and I love it.

Chase and Joe talking. I love to watch them to together.  :)

The Tanners

{Joseph, Me, Zoey, David, Chase, Dub, Hailey, and Carolyn Tanner}

Me on Christmas Eve.  :))

CHRISTmas Day!!!!

I know it's sad, but I didn't dress up for Christmas day.  I was just sooo sleepy and tired and since this was my only day off work for Christmas, I played it LAZY...HAHA!  Joseph and I got up and went over to my sisters to watch Jeslyn and Hannah open their Christmas.

Hannah and Maggie.  I love to have my Yorkie Gals involved in as much as possible.

Jeslyn and Maggie.  To sweet.

Earls girls and Tanner girls.  :)

My favorite picture.

My angel baby Sophia.  This is her 1st CHRISTmas.  My baby is getting to big.  :((

Sissy and her Yorkie Gals.

One of my Christmas presents. My honey got me this ipod dock radio, replaced my tanning bed bulbs, and I shopped at Lane Bryant. :"))) I have a wonderful honey. :)

When we came home from my sisters we gave our Yorkie Gals their presents.

They got toys, clothes, scarfs, pearl necklaces, treats, etc....

Gonna break this down into 2 post.  The next post will start with my family Christmas gathering.  I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL Christmas.