Myrtle Beach

This is where we stayed! Yes, it says a campground but it had campers, tents, houses, converted campers into houses, you name it! And it was HUGE! But it was super nice and we loved every minute of our time there! Zane's cousin rented a house for a week with all the amenities and graciously invited us up to stay! She had a come as you please policy so we were able to do a water park, play putt putt golf (twice), play in the arcade, ride in the golf cart parade every night, go to Medieval Times, play on the beach, play in the "kitty kat pool" as Lacey calls it, and all as we please! Ours is the second one with the flag. I hate I didn't get a good picture of it!Golf carts everywhere!
Golf cart parade every night! Reminded me of the strip at Panama City except everyone rode golf carts. (reminder to self: we are not letting Lacey go to the beach by herself until she's married!) The boys were hollering at the girls and the girls were wearing next to nothing and I just thought to myself, "God help us!"The Kitty Kat pool at the campground!The beach! Boy was it crowded! This actually doesn't show all the people! I'll post others later!Lacey at the beach. Notice the sand and water color. Much different than Florida!Sunrise over the Atlantic!Sunrise again!Ok, so I thought this was funny and a "heaven on Earth"! Who would have ever thought of an M&M vending machine? This is a chocolate lovers dream!Every day at 3pm they offered free fire truck rides with the lights and sirens! Lacey loved it! That's her, Jadee, Deborah, and Andrew on the top!

Zane teaching Lacey how to play putt putt golf!

Not quite following daddy's advice!

Sunset at Creek Rats in Murrell's Inlet south of Myrtle Beach!

Myrtle Wave's Water park!
Water spilling out of a volcano, Lacey is down in the purple and pink bathing suit!

I didn't ask her to pose, just smile!

Lacey rode this slide and loved it! She called it the toilet paper ride because you slide into what looks like a toilet bowl! I took several pictures to show how tall it was. The first time climbing up the ride, Zane and I caught Lacey praying! She had her hands together and was asking God to keep her safe and help her not be scared! Once down the slide it became her favorite ride!

Zane and Lacey climbing to the top!

the toilet bowl! That's Lacey coming out of the slide. This is Lacey coming out of the slide into the water 8 feet deep. She loved it and wanted to go by herself! Look how little she is compared to the slide!

I'm no where near finished posting pictures but I'm ready for a break and time for supper so I've got to run! I will finish later!

A days worth of work!

This is what kept me busy half of a day on Saturday! Mrs. Dean called me to help her cake decorator do these 3 cakes. I did most of the top one (the top 3 layers), all of the groom's cake, and only the square layers on the last cake. I'm not at all a fan of the last cake but it is exactly what the bride requested. I think it would have looked a lot better if they would have filled the layers between the cakes with lots of flowers but now a days brides like simple and plain cakes. Just thought I would share. These pics are from my phone, sorry about the quality!

Yard Sales!!

I know I'm corny that I took pictures of the items that I bought while yard saling but I had to show everyone the great deals I got. Lacey, my mom and I got up Saturday morning and headed out at about 6:20. There were 34 yard sales that morning (of course we didn't go to all of them but about 10 or 15 of them!). Only a few that we didn't find something! We gave Lacey $5 to spend and loaded the addresses into the GPS and went on our way to find some great deals, and we did. I'm going to post some of my favorite things but there are a lot of things I didn't take pictures of just for the sake of not over doing it! This is what I found that I didn't take pictures of....a rack that holds sodas in the refrigerator, a purse, a beautiful black and white skirt, several pairs of shorts, one pair of capris, a dance video and mat for Lacey, wire organizer rack, a $5 grill for Zane (it is the perfect size to take canoeing or on a small camping trip, his friend joked at him because he called it a "pink" grill...it's red that's been faded and only $5, you can't go wrong with that!), Lacey a brand new pair of Dora tennis shoes, some kitchen towels with the tags still on them, a necklace making bead set for Lacey, some books and various other things that I can't think of at the moment!
This is a picture I bought for $3. It is huge! That's an 8x10 frame sitting beside it. I got the other frame for 50 cents! I hung this picture up in my room. It makes me think I can walk out into a beautiful courtyard! Another large picture that I got for $3. A lot of my walls are bare so this will help!Ok, so I'm undecided on these curtains. I absolutely LOVE the color and that they are damask material but I haven't been able to find some tie backs that I like. Don't laugh at the cord I'm using now cause I'm going to find something else to tie them back. But I got these curtains for a dollar!! I looked at Walmart and they didn't have any this nice or the thickness but each panel cost $17-$30 each! These were so new they still had the wrinkle marks where they had been folded in the package! They must have not fit the window and the person didn't take them back! I'm still undecided if I want to use them in my bedroom too because I have 3 mini blinds but don't really know what to do curtain wise. If I don't keep them in my bedroom I will put them in the living room and spare bedroom. They will be perfect there, but still only a dollar!

I bought this shelf for 50 cents at a yard sale that upon first glance I thought "they aren't going to have anything"! This is the same yard sale I got the beautiful skirt from! Anyway, the shelf was black and I really don't have any black furniture so I had some stone spray paint and painted it. I think it turned out good. Once again 50 cents! Wow! (Dad and MaryLynne, I put your picture on there!)

As I stated in the last post, Lacey and Madison have had this thing with Batman ever since I had to make a Batman cake. Well Lacey found this costume at a yard sale for 50 cents. It's a little big but she loves to dress up in it and have the muscles! Oh, how I love those abs! Prettiest Batman ever!

Got all of this for $4 and would you believe that not a piece is missing from these games? Except the funny bone in Operation but I think Lacey lost that! Operation cost $20 at Walmart and so does the Whac-a-Mole game, so a steal in my opinion.
And this chair with the tag dangling from it. We have 2 of these already but Lacey wanted another one and had her money, so we got another chair to add to our collection. We will take it to the beach next week!
That was all of my yard sale stuff and now on to a different topic. This recipe is for Lynn. She is always asking me for something different and how to cut back in fat in her recipes so here is this one. I LOVE this soup and it was sooo easy. I found it in a Weight Watchers recipe book that MaryLynn gave me. It's called 5 ingredients and 15 minutes (my favorite!). All it is is turkey sausage (I'm sure you can use whatever but the turkey sausage was lean and had a good flavor), a can of fat free chicken broth, rotel tomatoes (I put mine in the blender a little cause I don't like chunky tomatoes), a can of black beans (rinsed), the recipe called for green peppers but I used an onion instead and I also added a half of a can of corn. I cooked the onion and sausage together a little then through everything else in a pot and heated it up, then grilled me 2 quesadillas using fat free cheese (I know, that part stinks, but you can use real cheese if you must). It was delicious! It has a lot of spice because of the rotel tomatoes so go lightly if you try to season it with anything! It really shouldn't need any spices but I did add some black pepper!

Swimming On Saturday!

Ivy relaxing on a float!

Lacey relaxing on a float. That lasted all of about 30 seconds! Glad I had my camera handy!

Zane relaxing by the pool!

Ivy laughing and having fun! Daddy throwing Lacey into the water!

Catching her breath after coming up!Ivy's turn to be tossed into the water!Playing Shark!

Ivy thinking about jumping in!

Silly face full of hair!

Going off the diving board. It's amazing how pool water can get in her eyes but she hates it when water from the bath gets in her eyes! Jim Ed, the host of the pool party. He grilled up some great food! Enjoyed every bit of it. Thanks Jim!

Lacey and Ivy enjoying a friendly game of pool ping pong. Don't think they fared too good though!