Living Life With 5

I am a SAHM to 5 handsome boys and a beautiful baby girl! I am a Titus 2:5 wife to an awesome husband! Some of my favorite things to do include: raising Dark Red Golden Retrievers, traveling with the family, cooking (specifically baking), having family worship and having my morning coffee. :-)

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Italian Cream Mini Bundt Cakes

Connor and I started a little hobby/homeschool project a year ago. We made a new facebook page: Cedar Hill Bakers, to show off all our baked goods. During this adventure, Connor learned that he still enjoys cooking/baking but is not a fan of decorating. So I believe he is leaning more towards becoming a chef! We are going to continue the Cedar Hill Baker page running since I really enjoy baking and are still getting requests. Above is an order we had for Italian Cream Cakes. They were a hit. I am going to post more of what we have did over the past year in the upcoming posts.

Enjoy!

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Fun day at the park with my girl Red!

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😂My girl Red!

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This is our beautiful Golden Retriever Family. Aren’t they Awesome? If you haven’t checked out my new Website, please do, and share it with all your friends that Love Golden Retrievers . We have a big year planned for next year and will be having lots of puppies that will need Loving, Forever homes. CHECK IT OUT and feel free to SHARE!! Thanks!! 

Companiongoldens.wix.com/companiongoldens 

~Kimberly

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Some Pretty Good Coffee!!!

This coffee is SOOOO good. I have started adding a little cinnamon on the top of my coffee before putting it in the Keurig. It takes away some of the acidity in the coffee, gives it great flavor and smells good too. Enjoy!! 

~~Kimberly

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✨🐾puppies in a basket✨🐾 We have 4 females and 3 males still available!! Share with your friends. We are letting people pick in the order we receive deposits so the sooner you can reserve your puppy the better!! 😊🐶 Visit our website to see our health guarantee and contract here: http://companiongoldens.wix.com/companiongoldens#!reserve-a-puppy/ej0tb

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We have collars!! They will be 1 week old tomorrow!! Dark Red golden retrievers are so sweet!! Facebook.com/GoldenWrap7 Www.companiongoldens.wix.com/companiongoldens

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✨Ruth has 7 females and 4 males. All are healthy, beautiful dark red golden retrievers! 😊🐾Too cute for words!

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✨My girl Ruth is in LABOR!!! 2 out and many more to go!! 🐾🐾

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✨Ruth is due any day this week. We are getting ready and so excited to see the new puppies. 🐾

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Snowman day in 70 degree weather at the end of December. Got to love the Carolina’s!!

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🎉Happy Birthday to our sweet, pregnant girl, Ruth! 🎈💖

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Nap time or date night. These are so delicious! Another Trader Joes favorite!!

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The BEST Grocery Store EVER!!

If you have been following me for some time now, you have probably found that one of my favorite places to shop for groceries is Trader Joe’s, hands down.  Well, my husband does most of the shopping nowadays since we had baby #5, which is a huge blessing. Trader Joe’s has the best prices for the best quality foods that I have seen. And they have the most unique and tastiest foods as well. When we first heard about them, we thought they were a bar. Until some friends who worked there informed us it was a grocery store and brought us a few goodies from there. One being their famous apple bars, where on the front of the package it states: “This apple walked into a bar...”. After that we had to check it out and have loved this store since. 

Yesterday while I was homeschooling and baking, he went grocery shopping for me and came back with a few surprises and things I have never gotten before. I will try and post my favorite things and new things I have tried from there when I can. Here are a few things I have tried so far:

First is their Coffee, which I had never tried before until yesterday. It comes whole bean, but you can grind it at the store, so it was fresh when he got home with it. I had my first cup last night and LOVED it. Highly recommend, so yummy!

Second, is their 1lb. 2oz. containers of blueberries. I have blueberries every morning and these are so big and plump. I have gotten these before, but I thought I would just share here since they are a favorite of mine. 

Third, is their very delicious and decadent Speculoos Cookie & Cocoa Swirl. It goes with just about anything. On brownies, crackers, by the spoonful. :-) 

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Pumpkin pecan chocolate chip cookies!!! So yummy! Recipe here: http://thecrumbycupcake.com/pumpkin-pecan-chocolate-chip-cookies/

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Celebrating Samuel

This week our youngest son Samuel turned 1 Year Old!! The first 2 weeks for Samuel’s life was pretty rough. And we are thankful that he is here with us today and is a healthy growing 1 year old. 

Samuel was born with a milk protein allergy. When he first came out, he was pooping and pretty much never stopped. People told me this was normal for breastfed babies, but after having 5 kids, I knew it was not, especially when he was going about 30-35 times a day. (YEAH, That’s ALOT). He was put back in the hospital at 11 days old and had lost almost 3 pounds from birth. Thankfully God gave the doctor’s the knowledge and discernment needed to help our baby boy and give him the nourishment he needed to thrive. They immediately jumped into action as soon as we got to Levine Children’s Hospital. 

Samuel is now a growing healthy baby boy. He has not grown out of the milk protein allergy yet, but we are grateful that his body can still take Almond Milk. 

Samuel loves to do nosies, snuggles, loves to be rocked to sleep with his blankey at night, and is enjoying exploring the world around him on all fours. We are enjoying watching him grow and seeing his personality come out every day. We pray that the Lord will one day bring him to Himself and use him for mighty things for His Glory.

We love you SamBam! 

Happy Birthday!! 

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Pecan graham cracker pralines

My grandmother makes these every year in the fall and winter. They always get gone very quick. They are so easy to make and everyone loves them. We made them this past week with the kids and they were gone in 2 days. 

Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 sleeves of graham crackers

1 and 1/2 cups of butter(3 sticks)

1 and 1/2 cups brown sugar

2 cups of roughly chopped pecans

Directions: preheat oven to 350 degrees. Break graham crackers in 4 pieces and line them all on a cookie sheet. I sometimes have to use 2 cookie sheets.

Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Add brown sugar and whisk until boiling. Add pecans and cook for 2 more minutes. Remove from heat and use a spoon to put the mixture on the graham crackers.

Bake for 12 minutes.

Let cool for about 15 minutes and break apart to eat.

Enjoy! Happy Fall Y’all!!