Welcome Home !!!!

Welcome Home Miss Madison!!! And......welcome back to the blogging world MtnMama!! It has been a long time since I posted. I do think about it but let me tell you .....reinventing my life and world at 60 years of age is a full time task. In the last year I have moved from my home of over 21 years into a new home, gotten married, made plans to decrease my work load and semi-retire, and just had a new grand baby!!! That's a lot of stuff for this gal to juggle!!! My new plans do include picking up on cooking, quilting, blogging, spoiling grand babies and traveling!

Let me catch you up on the past six months in some pix:

Wedding January 9, 2016 to a wonderful, kind gentle----man!!

Icy, "Frozen", Winter wonderland!!

This is Madison's competition!!! They stole the show to say the least!!

And we are off to the start of the rest of our lives together!!

Group Honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas!!!

Honeymoon Cruise in Hawaii

Spring break vacation in Dominican Republic

Quilting project - TJ's second birthday quilt. He loves Mickey

 

German Chocolate Cupcakes

Lemon curd cupcakes with blackberry frosting

Easter Cookies

 

 

Monogrammed Baby Blankets

 

 

Best Banana Bread

 

Block of the Month from Craftsy

Madison's Quilt

 

Kristy's cookies

So you can see we have been busy around here in the first half of 2016!!

We look forward to many more exciting things happening this year and promise to be online to share cooking and baking tips, sewing secrets, and life in general as we move forward thanking God for His blessings. (Especially new life and Miss Madison!) Praying that He is Glorified in all that we do everyday in every Way!!!!

Happy Trails,

Mtn Mama

 

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A Gingerbread Village

A Gingerbread Village

Tis the Season for Gingerbread Houses!!!

                       

And what could be better than a Gingerbread House???

A Gingerbread Village of Course!!!

Auntie KK helped Ella with construction but the decorating was 

mostly Miss Ella's design.

Ella is patiently waiting for KK to 

"roof" the house with royal icing so she can put the junior mint "shingles" on the opposite side.

This is looking pretty intense.  Auntie KK graduates her Internal Medicine residency the end of December.  We are so proud of her!! Even so we think some of her best work is in the kitchen!!

Thus begins the wonderful baking season at the Smith household. 

I have moved into a new home with a fantastic kitchen so there will be lots more baking, pictures, tastings, and posts.

It has been awhile since my last posts....sometimes I do that!!!

Here is the "Cliff-note" version of what I have been up to:

                                                                                                                                                                                             

Since last I wrote 
I have moved.. 
bought a house.....
and sold a house!!!

Gotten engaged...... to a very kind and gentle man named "Cliff"!!

And will be Married on 

January 9th, 2016.

God is so Good!!  I am truly blessed !!

For now I am heading to bed....with visions of sugarplums dancing in my head!!!  Tomorrow starts the holiday baking season and I am so excited to see if my new kitchen can handle the "Christmas Baking Challenge"!!

Happy Trails,

Mtn Mama