Big Apple Adventure

I've been in NYC all week long!! I might not have been in the REAL New York City, but i was surely on a "Big Apple Adventure"! Last week my friend Rebekah and I were busy teaching 3rd grade at Vacation Bible School at our church! We had loads of fun teaching our 12 kids and taking them to Worship Rally at 'Times Square', Bible Study at 'Battery Park', crafts at 'Crafts Central', 'Midtown Snacks', 'Music Backstage', and 'Missions Central'.

*The verse of the week was Romans 10:17*

So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Jesus Christ. — Romans 10:17

Enjoy some of the following pics taken this week at VBS. Thanks to Mrs.Kathy for taking a few of these :)

These are the 2nd and 3rd graders practicing for their singing performance that was held for their parents on Friday night!

 Notice I am sitting with the boys, I had to make sure they behaved during worship :) Lucky for me, they were such sweethearts!

 I love my Rebekah!!

 Here I am walking out of worship and heading to the fun that was about to begin during the last night of VBS 2011!

Have a FABULOUS week!!

-Lindsay



Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!!!

Today I am celebrating our independence at my grandparent's house! There is nothing better than being with family on a holiday! I am pretty excited I was off work and able to sleep in for about an hour this morning :) Last Wednesday at work we had a 4th of July lunch. It was so yummy! If you live near the Dothan area, you must try out Zach's restaurant. They catered our meal and it was simply delicious! We had some fried chicken, BBQ, baked beans, creamed corn, and a very good potato salad! (trust me it was good, i hardly eat potato salad, but i ate this kind!) We also had 2 cakes handmade and Gary made his famous "cornbread fritters"! I took my camera hoping to take pics of my co-workers for their 'blog debut' because they are wanting to be featured real bad! After they found out about 'Southern Cinderella', they now read it daily looking for new posts to read! Anyways, I totally didn't take any pics of our lunch..silly me!

However, I did take a pic of some 'Star Spangled Treats' I made for the girls and guys at work on Friday! I took 16 stars to work and 2 were left!!! Guess they enjoyed them :)

 Wanna know how to make these cuties?? When I got done making these, I couldn't help but think about other holidays I could make these for..then I thought "Lindsay, why haven't you thought of this before?"

All you do is make your Rice Krispy treats as normal. Of course with Rice Krispie brand cereal and large Jet-Puffed brand marshmallows :) Let the rice krispy treats sit in the 13x9 pan for a couple hours to "set" and harden a little. Then you get a cookie cutter (make sure it's a metal cookie cutter and not plastic) and cut out your shapes! I realized after about 4 stars that it was getting harder to cut out the shapes, so I got some butter and rubbed it on the inside/outside of the cookie cutter so it wouldn't stick :) Aren't I smart? Then I dipped the top of the stars in melted vanilla Almond Bark and sprinkled with patriotic sprinkles :)

I hope everyone is having a FABULOUS 4th of July! Maybe I will get some sparklers to make it official :)

-Lindsay

There's always reason for cake..

Happy 1st Anniversary

Kyle and Rebecca!

A year ago today I was in ENGLAND and enjoying every moment of it! As many of you already know I was in England on a 'va-cay' for my brother's wedding!! It was a gorgeous event! Today Kyle and Rebecca flew back to England and I was the lucky one who was picked to drive them to the airport in Montgomery :) Look how cute the happy couple is on their 1 year anniversary!

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL KYLE HE IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF A HAIRCUT :)

When Kyle went to weigh his luggage, his bag weighed 56 pounds. The weight limit is 50 pounds per bag. Rebecca's luggage was 44 pounds. Kyle had to transfer some stuff from his luggage to hers. He got a little embarrased that I took his pic doing this...hehehe! I just couldn't resist!

Last night we had cake to celebrate!! I ordered this 'smash cake' from Publix and let me say that this was SOO good :) Mom made sure to set the table with their wedding program and pics from the wedding and wedding festivities! Isn't my Momma the best??

Since I am SUCH a sweet sister, I made dinner last night for the happy couple :) A new recipe made from "Hungry Girls' 300 under 300" cookbook and homemade french fries! I even put them in old-fashioned baskets with liners I found at Wal-Mart recently :)

Here's the recipe for the burgers I made that were under 300 calories each! They were SOOO good too :)

Hungry Girl's Stuffed Bacon Cheeseburger

Kyle likes to call this "Burger Surprise"

These instructions are for 1-ONE burger.

Mix 4 oz. extra-lean ground beef (thanks to Ashley at work for explaining lean meat to me and telling me to use 93/7) with 1 Tbs. precooked crumbled bacon plus salt and pepper to taste; form a ball around 1 wedge Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss; flatten slightly into a thick patty; cook to desired doneness.

Have a GREAT week!!!

-Lindsay

"Crazy Fun-ness"

I don't know about ya'll, but for the past week or so I feel like I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off! By no means am I complaining! Those of you who know me in "real life" know that I love being busy and staying busy! I would rather have too many things to do than too little! Here's a lil' bit of what's been going on recently!!

*My sister-in-law Rebecca is in town!!! She arrived last Tuesday and I am so excited she's here! We were kinda bummed that my brother didn't surprise us and come too :( He had to work. Guess who was sitting on my bed Sunday when I got home from church?? KYLE was! That's right, that brother of mine surprised us all! I opened my door and there he was! I was unsure if it was really him or a cardboard cut-out!

-We had some family come over earlier this week for a homecooked meal and allow everyone to see Rebecca's lovely face once again :) RECIPE to come soon!!

 Heath came over too! Rebecca always makes a "clean plate" EVERY time we eat! I'm talking about a REAL clean plate! When she's finished with her meal, it looks like the dish is ready to eat off of again its that clean...well when Heath found out about this, his competitveness (sp?) came out and he just HAD to beat her and have a cleaner plate..he won :)

*Rebecca and I drove 11 hours on Saturday to Hattiesburg, MS for a friend's wedding! We had a lot of fun and picked up Brooke and her PRECIOUS baby boy Silas :)

 Sweet baby Silas is 8 months old! Isn't he a cutie! In the following 2 pics, I don't have my mascara on! I put it on in the ride to Mississippi :) So, don't hate!

Check back to see what else is happening!

Have a FABULOUS week!
-Lindsay

Birthdays and Bowling

This past weekend 2 special people celebrated BIRTHDAYS! My Sunday School teacher Neil and my best friend Rebekah! Last Wednesday night we celebrated Neil's birthday by eating at a local Mexican restauraunt, Rodeo's, and then going to Ft. Rucker for some bowling.




BACK STORY: Neil has had 7 speeding tickets in the last year...yes 7-SEVEN, that is not a misprint people! Surprisingly, he still has that good ol' Alabama liscense! You would think that by now Neil would have plenty of excuses he has told the cop or has "planned" to tell the officer that pulls him over...but NO. Everytime he gets pulled over he admits he was speeding and just hands over the liscense, insurance, and registration. Well, Neil got his 7th ticket the week of his birthday. The previous 2 tickets were within 13 hours of ech other!!! So, needless to say, we had to play jokes on him about his awful driving habit!....how do you like the cake?

"Speeding into your thirties, Happy Birthday Neil!"

-notice the cop car chasing the beetle bug?

Bianca and sweet lil' Courtney

 Heath and I! Can't you tell on this blog that I prefer black and white photos of myself?

 This is how Neil REALLY feels about those police officers who keep handing him those tickets!

 This is Justin and Marissa. I missed Erica and Josh and hate that they weren't able to come :(

Our group split up into 2 teams; Boys vs. Girls. Anyone wanna take a wild guess on who won?

 Here's Jaime's professional and personalized ball, I love this pic!

Here's Heath and Courtney showing off their skills!

 And...here's yours truly showing everyone how its done!

After not doing to well with the above technique, I decided to do a "granny" bowl...and what do ya' know? I got a STRIKE!

 O yea...the GUYS won, go figure! They were already playing their 2nd game while us gals were on our 4th frame of the 1st game!!! We all had a blast and enjoyed ourselves!

Saturday night after the lake I headed to Rebekah's annual Birthday dinner with her family! Rebekah's dad made some AWESOME steaks and her mom made some AMAZING spinach and bacon mashed potatoes (I'll have to get the recipe and share!). Rebekah's mom also made a very rich, yummy, and fabulous Peanut Butter Fudge cake!! In the picture with Rebekah is her boyfriend Jeremy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEIL AND REBEKAH!

Fun at the Lake!

Saturday was full of some much needed FUN in the SUN! A few friends and I spent the day at Lake Eufaula catching some rays and enjoying the company of each other while tubing, riding the boat, and just chatting!

Here's Ashley and I when we first got on the boat!

This past weekend I accomplished a mini bucket list thing.. I tubed!!! That's right! I've NEVER water-tubed before! I've snow tubed up in West Virginia and Pennsylvania though. Snow tubing and water tubing are TWO completely DIFFERENT things!! Ashley was the awesome photographer while Brittany and I were tubing and my memory card was full before we TOTALLY went 4 ft in the air...so needless to say there's no "air" shots of us, or any pics of the end of our tubing experience where we "butted" heads. We both are very hard-headed and had little headaches the rest of the day! Aren't we just the cutest tuber's? Is that even a word?

Hahaha! This pic cracks me up! Look at my face! This must have been when Kent, our fabulous boat captain (and Britt's beau), decided to take some fast turns!

I held on for dear life the ENTIRE time so that I would NOT fall in nasty lake water...no tellin' how many alligators were in there!

Here's Kent, our fabulous boat driver! Kent relly wanted his pic on the blog ever since Brittany showed him "Southern Cinderella", so this one's for Kent! Also notice the 2nd pic of Kent tubing, he was getting some air on that one!

Heath was able to come too! I was excited because this was his 1st Saturday off in the past 6 weeks! I'm glad we could do something fun on his off day!

 Notice Heath is about to fall off but is STILL hanging on...yea, that lasted like 15 seconds!

 The boys having fun!!!

I am always so thankful whenever I am able to spend time with friends! I know I had a great weekend and can't wait for more lake trips!

Have a FABULOUS day!

-Lindsay