Recipes: Spicy Fish Tacos and Cappuccino Cookies

These recipes were so YUMMY!!! Try them, you won't be disappointed!

Fish Tacos with spicy slaw and a sour cream avocado sauce!

Get recipe here

I mean...seriously...doesn't that look amazing! The spicy slaw is a must...my hubs who doesn't love cabbage was eating this up!!

And for dessert...

These cookies are amazing! Just enough coffee flavor to bring out the chocolate...I used semi sweet chocolate chips instead of white chocolate, because I LOVE chocolate!!! YUM!

Get recipe here

Great dinner recipe for the weekend!!! Have a great one!

Happily Ever After...

Everyone is abuzz with the royal wedding this morning...

She looks so beautiful! I'm in L-O-V-E with that dress!

I admit that I went online this morning and watched the highlights! It was incredible!

Talking with people this week, there was a sense of excitement about this wedding and people were making all sorts of plans for celebrating with the rest of the world!

It got me to thinking...

Why was I excited...interested...dying to see strangers take their wedding vows (oh...and the dress...I couldn't wait to see the dress!)???

I think it's because each of us are longing for the epic romance of Jesus. We are wanting to be chosen by the Prince of the Universe. We want someone to call us up and call us out from the crowds. To put a ring on a finger and a crown on our heads and pronounce us royalty before the nations of the earth. To embrace us and take our hand. We want to be swept away by a love that will never fail us!

As a girl, I want to be beautifully displayed by my Lover for all the world to see! I want His eyes to light up as He sees me walk towards Him. I want the whole world to fade away when we're together. I want a steadfast burning for all eternity kind of love not found here among the mortal.

It's not a an unrequited dream or fantasy. It's DONE. It's HERE.

The Bridegroom stands in waiting as the Beloved in made lovely.

We will one day be united in the greatest wedding celebration the world has ever known.

I can't wait.

Breaking the Mold

Heart Mold

Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to fit into a mold I was never created for. One forced upon me by the world and my own sense of expectations. I've had this restless stirring to break free from this mold...to find a new one...the one He wrote my name on.

I think often times I feel unsettled in my life because I'm being squeezed into a mold I was never meant to inhabit. God made me different...I'm uniquely formed and intricately designed. I was not made from the stuff of this world...I was intentionally knit together in the deep places of my Father. My place of home is within the confines He so graciously created me for. Within His fold.

I want to be shaped by my Crafter. Formed carefully into the fullest expression of Him that I was made to be. Every dimple and crevice is a reflection of the places I have poured myself into Him and allowed His goodness to rub me new. It's not always easy...this pouring out and being molded. It's stretching and sometimes I'm uncertain of the final result. 

I look at my children and marvel at how unique they are. Proof that their formation into something special was not my doing. They are the handiwork of a much larger conception. I would never want them to be anything other then what they are...I cherish that they are nothing like each other.

I wonder if God is saddened when He looks at all His children trying so hard to look alike. We put aside the "quirks" that makes us US and we squeeze ourselves into the molds of "comparison" and "perfectionism." All the while, we feel like misfits. Wandering through life feeling restricted and not knowing why. Maybe God wants to graciously shatter those molds that suffocate us and release us into who we were really made to be. We pour ourselves into His mold. He doesn't pour Himself into ours.

I'm asking God to make more clear to me who He has made ME to be. Not what others think I should be or who the world tells me to be. I'm a delicately designed and intricate piece of work. There is no other like me. The enemy would want me to waste my time trying to be someone I am not. To constantly feel dissatisfied and inadequate. To seek out the giftings of others instead of cultivating the ones that are mine. To forget my function in this Body He has crafted for His glory.

It's time to break the mold.

"Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous- how well I know it."

Psalm 139:14 (NLT)

"I want to live at the beach..."

Our awesome beach house for the weekend!

We just spent our Easter weekend with my parents in Galveston at a beach house! It was amazing! Our boys had only been to the beach once and that was when they were really little so they don't really remember it.

They loved playing in the waves...

Look how cool my BOYS are!!!

Sawyer ate his fair share of sand...EW!

And Gavin built sand castles only so that he could destroy them and say, "Hulk SMASH!!"

The pool was a bit chilly, but they still loved it! Especially with Dada!!

We especially loved all the great time with Nana and G-Daddy!

Sawyer catching a ride on G-Daddy's shoulders!

Nana and Micah on the train in Kemah!

And of course, we celebrated the death and resurrection of our Jesus!! We had the Lord's supper and Chris washed the boys' feet and Jesus was placed in the tomb in our garden. We lit our candle and then blew it out to signify His death. But, Sunday morning...the candle was burning bright and Jesus is alive!! Such a fun thing we did with the boys this year! We can't wait to do it again! The celebration is even more special with you see it through the eyes of your children! It's a beautiful thing!

Hope you had an amazing Easter Weekend!!

Silhouette Giveaway!

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Craft Night and Spring Wreath!

So, last night was our first official "Craft Night!" It was so much fun and I'm hoping to plan another one for some time in May...depending on what moving looks like for us in the coming months!! If you have any crafty/artsy project ideas put them in the comments! Maybe this time we can all work on one small project together that can realistically get done in the hour or two we have together...maybe hand stamped note cards?? What do YOU think??


I started this Spring wreath for my front door at Craft Night...it was a little more time consuming then I had anticipated, but here's the finished project after some work on it this morning! Thanks to Jones Design Company and the wonderfully creative Lauren for this great idea!

Love the ruffles and the little birds nest with an egg for each of our boys!!

A close up of the little bird's nest!

Hope you have a wonderful Monday!!


Christie

Oh...and also make these...

So, maybe you should also make these to eat while you do your Easter Garden thang...so yummy!


I found this original recipe from The Picky Palate and it's really good! Makes HUGE cookies! I'll be dropping our leftovers from craft night by the church tomorrow because if they stay around my house Mama is going to EAT THEM ALL!!

In the annoying words of Rachel Ray......"YUM-O!"

Yes, that's right...that is an Oreo cookie INSIDE of a chocolate chip cookie! Ridiculous!!


Have a great Easter week! I'll try to update the Easter Garden as it unfolds, so check back in!