post of the year

No one ever said why the first year of marriage would be hard. I assumed it was because we were learning each other and learning how to live together. That was not the case with Coy and I. Our year was rough, lots of ups and downs. We've grown stronger this past year, more than I can even put into words. When my Uncle died, he was there to hug me and my family, even willing to postpone the wedding if necessary. When my Uncle Alan had a heart attack, he laid in bed and prayed with me and went on some hospital visits. And when my grandpa, which I will talk about in a minute, had his heart attack a week and a half ago, he rushed to the hospital right when he found out. He held my grandpas hand and told him that he loved him. If that's not a real man, I don't know what is. I love him more than anything and I love that he loves my family through the rough times and the great times.

On Monday, December  19, my grandpa was having chest pains and had my grandma call my dad to come and take him the the hospital. My dad, just losing his brother to a heart attack in May, rushed to my grandparents house and rushed him to the hospital. He had to bang on the emergency room doors because they only opened from the inside. They needed to find a wheel chair but couldn't. So, my dad carried him in. 

When they got my grandpa on the table, he flat lined. My dad left the room and went into a private waiting room with my grandma, step brother and his wife. My mom called me not long after that and I rushed to the hospital. Right when I got to the private waiting room the doctor came in and said that my grandpa had died three times and that they needed to rush him to Sacramento. He didn't give us hope when he said he wasn't sure if he would make it to Sacramento. I think we started to mentally prepare for life without my grandpa because we all cried and promised my grandma we would always be there for her. 

Finally, my mom and our pastor got to the hospital. The pastor took us into the room with my grandpa before they were going to take him. We prayed with him and he opened his eyes and squeezed our hands. For some reason I felt like it would be okay if he could just get to Sacramento. I feel like, even though he didn't know it, he was reassuring us that he would be okay. Well, we called our family to let them know that he was on his way to Sacramento, my sister left work and rushed home.

We left for Sacramento not knowing if my grandpa had made it. When we got there he was getting checked out, he had made the trip. They put a stint in and removed the clot! The doctor said the next 24 hours were crucial because we didn't know if he would have brain damage or kidney damage from such low blood pressure for so long. My sister looked worried, she said most of the time they do have some sort of damage. We got to go see him even though he was sedated.

The next morning he was awake and we got to talk to him. He understood us and tried to talk to us but there was a breathing tube down his throat. He was so alert, and wanted to talk to us so bad but he couldn't. Later that night they took the tube out so we could finally talk to him. He was so thankful we were there and told us all how much he loves us. They found pneumonia on his lung and pumped him full of medicines to get rid of it. The next morning it was gone. 

The doctor told us that he is their Christmas miracle! He didn't have ANY brain or kidney damage, didn't have ANY broken ribs from the CPR. The doctor from the Woodland emergency room, we were pretty sure he was Muslim, called my grandma and told her that it was "your prayers and your God that saved him." We really thought that was powerful and God was so evident.

On Christmas Eve, my grandpa got to come home to be with his family for Christmas. He is so strong and such an inspiration to us all. God's not done with him yet and neither are we. I'm so proud of my grandpa. He's one of the most Godly, humble and giving man I have ever met. I'm so thankful for God's evident hand in this situation. I don't think we could go through losing this wonderful man, not yet. :-)

december 13

I have a wonderful friend named Tabitha who likes to craft with me. We share our crafts and teach each other how to make them. Oh, she's a new mommy and I love my (kinda) nephew Jonah!

  

And this is what she taught me to make!

Here are some things Tabitha makes! All of it is for sale. 

Head bands ^

Hair clips ^

Feather Hair Clips

Earring holders ^

 Christmas Art^

 

Earring holders ^ 

 

 

Craft Fair things

 bow bookmarks

magnet clothes pins

a lot of bobby pins

potted vanilla candle

 

 

Orders

other things I have made

skipping rocks and leaving footprints.

hello my lovelies. it's been wayyy too long. i've missed you all. but here are my crafts and boy do i have a lottt! so buckle up cause this is going to take a while...

1. hairpins

Tanya's Order!

Jessica's Order!

Celena's Order

2. earrings/headbands

Danica's Order

Shelby's Order

Elizabeth's Order!

Cristina's Order

3. random

Crayola Mess

Record Bowl

Big Crayola

Vase

Amanda's Order

Woodland High Craft Fair

Cookie Sheet Magnet Board

and that is all she wrote. :-)

lifelately

I know a lot of beautiful people, on the outside. I also know a lot of beautiful people on the inside. I've seen beauty and I've seen ugly. I want this quote to be what people will say about me. One time I was asked to write what I want my headstone to say. I said I want 1 Corinthians 12:9-10, His strength covered my weaknesses.

It's been 6 months today since Uncle Steve passed away. It's still hard. Every time I think about our wedding day I wish that he could have been there and could have taken those family wedding pictures with us. Just one last hoorah. I'm so thankful that all of my family could be at the wedding even under the circumstances. I wouldn't change a thing about our wedding except to have Uncle Steve there. I think that it made beautiful people out of my family, not that they weren't already, but made them even more beautiful.

On to a happier thought, I have a lot of orders and I'm so thankful! I'll post pictures soon. Thank you all so very much! I appreciate you all!

thank you

Here is Cody's order! He is into green, yellow and red. I think it turned out awesome. I'm really liking all the colors. It will go great in his office.

Down below is Danica's headband! She has a few more things on her order but this is what I have done so far. Hope she likes it! 

I will be adding a lot more stuff in the next few weeks so please stay tuned. See anything you want please let me know! I'm a little backed up with orders but I have a lot more time coming up to get them done! 

Everyone that has ordered things or taken an interest in my things, thank you so much. You are all a blessing and keep me going. You are all awesome and I appreciate you!

UPDATE!

WE GOT A TRUCK!!!!

Praise THE Lord. We got an awesome deal and we are so thankful. Thank you all for your prayers.

Here are a few pictures...

It's red, not Coy's favorite but I'm not allowing him to be THAT picky. :-) So excited about the new adventures and memories with a new truck. Coy misses his old truck but only good can come out of what happened. We were getting dicouraged with finding anything. I found it on Craig's List and sent the guy a e-mail and let Coy handle it from there. The guy we bought it from was really nice and wanted to help us out. He had to get it smogged a few times because it just wasn't passing, so, he took it into the shop and it was just a hose that came out of place. FINALLY, it passed and now we have it at home. Thank you again for all your prayers and support! Love you all.

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Crayolaaalala

I really like the Crayola art so I switched it up a bit. Here is one thing I experimented with. Hope you like it! I'll add more another time. :-)

CAKEPOPS!

Anyone else dig cake pops?! Well, here is the recipe... 

What you will need...

1. One box cake mix (pick your favorite!)

2. One tub o'frosting (you won't use it all, don't worry.)

3. Candy coating, I found all colors at Michael's!

4. Lollipop sticks

5. I also got little bags at Michael's to cover them and ribbon to tie it all together!

Here is how it works...

Bake the cake according to the directions on the box. Easy so far... right?

Once it is done, let it cool for about an hour.

For the white cake I had to peel off the top, the bottom and the edges so it would keep the same consistency. crumple up the rest in a large bowl in as small of pieces as you can. Then add aboue 1/3-1/2 the tub of frosting to the crumbs.

This is where is gets fun... Get your hands in there and mush it all around! Make a ball of dough. It will look like uncooked bread dough. You want it to be sticky but not mushy. 

 (Kinda blurry but get over it...)

Now make balls about an inch thick and throw those suckers on a cookie sheet and put them in the fridge for a few minutes. This will allow you time to get some dishes done. :-)

Now take them out and have your candy coating melted according to directions. Stick your lollipop sticks into the candy coating and onto the bottom of the cake ball (it will be a little flat from where it was sitting on the cookie sheet, that is where you want to insert the stick.) And don't freeze them because the candy coating WILL crack. After you have all your sticks in the cake pops, dip those babies in the candy coating and try to coat them evenly. I used a spoon to help, use your imagination for this part. Now, before the candy coating can dry you need to put those sprinkles or whatever topping you have on them so it will stick.

As you can see in the picture below, i used a box lid to stick the end of the sticks into while they were drying. Then I stuck the entire lid, with all the pops on it, into the fridge and it took 5-10 minutes for them to harden. Then walahhh!!! Wrap those pretty little things up and share for the world! Super easy and fun just time consuming!

If you have questions about them e-mail me! Marcieeee1824@gmail.com 

Oh, send me pictures of your little pieces of art so I can share your creativity with my readers.

"to live and to love will always be dangerous but it is better than playing it safe."

--word.

Erin and I took them to our work dinner party last night and EVERYONE loved them and wanted to recipe so I am bloggin this sucker to share with you all.