Amy...another favorite website, just for fun :)

 Click here for Mr. Phillip's Blog

 Click here to visit Vision Forum's online store

God has really used Doug Phillips and his ministry to bring new vision and encouragement to my family.  

We are so grateful for their profound influence and example to so many people around the world.

 

2 Timothy 2:22

"So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart."

Amy.....Marie-Madeline

Hello Everyone,

I have enjoyed this family's blog and shopping at their online store...so many pretty things to look through!  They have some free tutorials on their blog for several different sewing projects; they are very inspiring.  I hope you all enjoy looking at their blog and store!  (My sisters and I had the opportunity to meet one of the Long ladies at a conference several years ago).

 click here for the Marie-Madeline blog

  Click here for their online store

"But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
    which shines brighter and brighter until full day."

 

Proverbs 4:18

Fresh Modesty

Hello Ladies!!!
 When I found out what the theme is this week....I got SO excited!!!! I have been reading this blog, Fresh Modesty, for quite awhile now! It is so fun and has lots of helpful tips & tricks on dressing modest yet cute at the same time!  Hope you like it as much as I have!!

                                                     Click here to view Fresh Modesty!

 I pray you are having a slenderific day!!! 

♪♫♪~Kallie

Recipe...

Hanna~ Recipes From a Modern-day... 

                                               ~Pioneer WOMAN~

Peach Crisp with Maple Cream Sauce

Prep Time:

 20 Minutes

 

Cook Time:

 45 Minutes

 

Difficulty:

 Easy

 

Servings:

 8

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Ingredients

• 5 whole To 6 Whole Fresh Peaches (best When Not Overly Ripe Or Soft)
• 1 cup Flour
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar, Firmly Packed
• 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1 stick Butter (1/2 Cup)
• 1/2 whole Lemon
• 7 Tablespoons Real Maple Syrup, Divided
• 1-1/2 cup Whipping Cream
• 3 Tablespoons Light Corn Syrup

Preparation Instructions

In a medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, light brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt using a fork or pastry cutter. Cut butter into small pieces and gradually add to flour mixture until evenly mixed.

Peel peaches into a bowl. Add the zest from half a lemon. Squeeze juice from lemon half and stir in with peaches and zest. Add 2 tablespoons real maple syrup to peaches, stir well.

Pour peach mixture into a small pan (8” or 9” square) and cover evenly with crumb topping. Cover with foil and bake at 350ºF for 15 minutes. Remove foil and bake for an additional 20 to 30 minutes or until crisp and brown on top.

Maple Cream Sauce:

Pour whipping cream into a saucepan. Add 5 tablespoons real maple syrup, 3 tablespoons corn syrup and stir over moderate heat until thickened and reduced by about one-third, approximately 15 minutes. Refrigerate mixture until it is cold and thick, or set the saucepan into a small bowl of ice (the ice will melt and turn into ice water). Stirring your mixture, it will cool and thicken in about 15 minutes. Drizzle sauce over peach crisp. Serve warm.

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Her cookbook is great and her recipes are AMAZING!!

Esther - Cheesy corn!!!!!!!!

                                                                    (Cheesy Corn!)

Jack Stack Cheesy Corn Bake (Home Version)

Ingredients:
~ 2 Tbsp Butter
~ 4 tsp flour
~ 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder
~ 3/4 cup Milk
~ 4 oz Cream cheese, cubed 1 inch
~ 6 oz Sharp cheddar cheese sauce
~ 30 oz Frozen whole kernel corn, thawed (might need to get several packages)
~ 3 oz Smoked ham, diced 1/4 inch (we often don't use ham)

Procedure:
 1.In a four-quart sauce pan, melt butter over low heat.
 2. Stir in flour and garlic powder until well blended then ad milk all at once.
 3. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly to prevent scorching, until thickened and bubble.
 4. Stir in cream cheese and cheddar cheese sauce, and continue cooking until cheese is melted.
 5. Stir in corn and ham.
 6. Transfer mixture to a two-quart casserole dish.
 7. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

We love this corn recipe!  It is one of our favorites! Hope you enjoy! :)

Amy: Brown Sugar Biscuit Twists

As this week's theme is recipes, here is one of my family's favorites.  

I originally got the recipe from moneysavingmom.com.

We have made these often and really enjoy them!  

(We do like to add some cinnamon to the filling).

Brown Sugar Biscuit Twists

Biscuit dough:

• 3 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 Tablespoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 3/4 cup butter or 1/2 cup butter and 1/4 cup shortening
• 1 cup milk

Filling:

• 2 Tablespoons melted butter
• 3 Tablespoons brown sugar

Stir together dry ingredients of the biscuit dough. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and add milk. Stir just until moistened.

Turn dough onto a lightly-floured surface and knead for 4 to 6 strokes. Roll dough out into a rectangle (approximately 1/4-inch thick).

Add the filling by brushing the dough with 2 Tablespoons melted butter. Sprinkle with 3 Tablespoons brown sugar.

Fold rectangle in half and cut into about 1-inch strips.

Twist strips and place on a baking sheet. Bake at 450 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

While baking, mix together 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and a few teaspoons milk (enough to make the mixture of drizzling consistency). Drizzle over biscuit twists as soon as they come out of the oven.

You can freeze these fully cooked, or uncooked, or just make up the biscuit dough and freeze it to make these very simple to whip up when you’re ready to serve them!

 (Photo taken by my sister Kate :)

"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!  Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!"  

Psalm 34:8

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Oreo Brownie Bars

Hello all!
 This weeks theme is favorite recipes. I'm going to share my brothers favorite thing I make.
It is called Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Oreo Brownie Bars! :D Its defiantly not the healthiest thing in the world though!

• Package of Brownie Mix (+the eggs, oil and water needed for that)

• Package of Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix

• Package of Oreos (regular or Double Stuffed – you choose!)

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9x13 baking pan with wax paper or foil and spray with cooking spray.
2.  Make your cookie dough whichever way you like and spread in the bottom of the pan.
3. Cover your cookie dough with Oreo cookies. (I like to crush mine)
4. Whip up your brownie mix and pour evenly over the Oreo cookies.
 5. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
6. Cool for 5 minutes and then enjoy!

Tip: We almost always have vanilla Ice-cream for the top because this desert is SO rich!

  I didn't have a picture of it, so here is one I found online. :)


 May God bless you richly!
 ~Kallie

Esther = ready for summer (not summer heat just summer fun :)!!!!!

                                                 (Me getting soaked with a water balloon :)

I was looking through my photos and found this one!  Here is the story......

We were having a family picnic and there was a contest for who could catch a  water balloon that my Dad would throw as far into the sky as possible!  So we lined up and a few minutes later I ended up being soaked, literally SOAKED!!!  Hey, it was really fun and everyone got a good laugh out of it! 


Proverbs 17: 22a says, "A joyful heart is good medicine."

Give all the Glory to the Lord!

"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."                                       1 Corinthians 10:31

"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."                                                                            Colossians 3:17

 "Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,  and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."                                Philippians 2:9-11

Amy......seek first the kingdom of God!

Matthew 6:27-33

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 

yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

These are from our front yard...it is beginning to look more like spring around here!

Amy..........

 ^{I was reading this in my devotion time today and it was very encouraging to me.}  

^{I have heard that Psalm 119 should be called the "Delight" chapter and it is true....this my prayer to the LORD that He would be giving me this kind of heart.}  

 ^{Psalm 119:9-16}

How can a young man keep his way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.
With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not wander from your commandments!
I have stored up your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you.
Blessed are you, O Lord;
    teach me your statutes!
With my lips I declare
    all the rules of your mouth.
In the way of your testimonies I delight
    as much as in all riches. 

I will meditate on your precepts
    and fix my eyes on your ways.
I will delight in your statutes;
    I will not forget your word.

 

 This photo was taken on my birthday (& my brother Andy's 18th birthday) with all my siblings and my Aunt Mary too.  I am officially 23 now :)

'Yet not what I will, but what You will.'- Mark 14:36.

 I don't know the topic for this week, but I really felt led to share this with you girls in hope that it would encourage you!

I want to share a little testimony about what the Lord has been teaching me lately.
It's kinda , you could say, a weird topic to have a testimony on, but anyhow, its has been something the Lord has been teaching me!

You see, I have had this problem. A busy-body problem. I constantly find myself wanting to go to everything that goes on around me. I had this attitude of 'I CAN'T miss it'.

For the longest time, if something I was looking forward to got canceled, I would get depressed, sad, and sometimes I even noticed a smidgin of anger rise in me. You could say, I had a case of "Way to 'busy-body'-isum.'

In September of last year, God really started, 'poking' me in this area. 

Lots, and I mean LOTS of stuff started not going my way.
Many, Many activity's I looked forward too all year long,  began getting canceled.

So as big, exciting things, in which I was excited for, got canceled, my eyes got open wider and wider to the fact that I was spending to much time dwelling on things that really didn't matter. Of course, don't get me wrong, friendships are VERY important. But what about my personal relationship with  family, and most importantly Christ! That should be the most important, special thing in my deepest desires!

This past weekend, (3-24-13) something big happened. For a long time, I had been sooo looking forward to visiting with a young lady, whom has been a dear, Christ-like example in my life. She had moved away last year, and this visit was really special to me.

I was sooo excited! And then, ''tragedy" happened..........OK, it wasn't "tragedy ", but you get the point.
It was really sad.
IT. STARTED. SNOWING. Church got canceled due to weather conditions, and my chance to see Maurya fell through. I felt so discouraged, and I'm not even the one that doesn't get to see her church-family ever. Maurya must have been devastated.

My friends, I had made a huge mistake. I didn't lay my will into the Lords will. I didn't give Him all my desires and say 'Yet not what I will, but what You will.'- Mark 14:36.

I really felt like the Lord was telling me it's time for my will to be fully His.

(And this is the amazing part!)

I sat down and prayed. I told my Savior, whom I owe everything,  'not what I will, but what You will'.

Not minutes, more like seconds after I laid my disappointment down before Christ..... God opened an opportunity for me to see Maurya!

God does amazing things when we submit everything to Him!  

I'm reminded of the verse Mark 11:24 'Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.'

I fully desired Gods will, and God blessed!

I feel refreshed and encouraged that Gods will IS, in fact, always the best, even when we don't understand why. I mean, maybe God didn't want church that morning so we wouldn't get in an car accident on the way there. 
Maybe He simply wanted us to concentrate on Him that morning, alone, as a family.

Now here's the thing... Not every time you lay something before Christ and ask Him to let His will be done will you receive what you desire. But the good news is, His will, will be done NO MATTER WHAT, so if you have already excepted Gods will as the best, it makes it easy to accept.    

Sometimes the Lords answer is, YES! Sometimes it is, NO.
But other times, it's a simple 'I have something even better planed.'

My prayer for you, dear sisters, is that you would desire with all your heart, soul, and mind to make your will in your life, totally His!

Maurya and I. Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times

 I love you, dear Sisters in Christ! May God's blessings be rich for you!

                                                  Kallie Michelle