♥ Happy Anniversary! ♥

Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary to my Mom & Dad!!Sometimes they made marriage look easy and other times they showed that it takes work, but it's worth the struggle.  I am so thankful for the examples of real love that they've been to me.  Thanks for showing us how it's done, Mom & Dad!

Love you!! ♥

This guy looks like I feel...

HaPpY InDePeNdEnCe DaY!

♥ God Bless the U.S.A!! ♥

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

And the winner is...

Sherry from Blessings From Our Nest!!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to enter
AND for all of the birthday wishes.
Hope you'll come again real soon!

Grins & giggles,
Julie xoxo

BiRtHdAy GiVeAwAy!

In celebration of the Twice Remembered Cottage's blogwide, 4th Annual Cottage Charm Giveaway AND my soon approaching 39th birthday May 21st), I'm giving away this

Birthday Cupcake Kit!

Contents:

1 small polka-dot mixing bowl

1 mini-wooden rolling pin

50 pink polka-dot cupcake liners

6 vintage inspired clown cupcake picks

6 vintage "Happy Birthday" cupcake picks

1 bag of jewel-tone jimmies/sprinkles

Pink tissue streamers
BONUS:

1 Raspberry scented Cupcake Sleep Mask

for sweet birthday dreams!

There are a few ways to enter:

#1. Simply leave a comment. Make sure to leave your blog address or email address.

#2. Follow my blog.

#3. Visit my other blog, Hey Cupcake!, then come back here and let me know your favorite cupcake flavor I've listed so far.

#4. Become a follower of Hey Cupcake!.

* Please make sure to make a separate post for each entry.*
**Due to shipping costs, this giveaway is only open to those living within the continental United States.**

Giveaway ends May 29th!
Don't forget to stop by and check out all of the other fantastic giveaways !

xoxo,
Julie

GIVEAWAY!!

In celebration of the Twice Remembered Cottage's blogwide, 4th Annual Cottage Charm Giveaway ANDmy soon approaching 39th birthday... I will be posting mygiveaway later next week. Come back by and check it out!

xoxo,
Julie

Coo Coo for Coconut

I've been baking cupcakes like crazy!!

Happily, the orders keep coming in!

I call these cupcakes, "Coo Coo for Coconut".

They're chocolate almond cupcakes with a mini Mounds bar inside, topped with coconut buttercream and toasted coconut.

Mmmmmmm.....

Wanna see more? Go to: Hey Cupcake!

xoxo,

Julie

Our DC Trip

Heights Christian Junior High 8th grade at the White House

It's hard to believe that a month ago today, we were on the last leg of our AMAZING 12-day Washington DC/East Coast trip! We started in Virginia and went to places like Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg. Then, we went to Washington DC and if you've never been there, I suggest you go! Pictures just don't do justice to the majesty of the place!

Me and Matthew @ the World War II Memorial in DC

We saw pretty much everything we could see in DC (even went over to Annapolis in Maryland). After that, we stopped at Gettysburg and then Philadelphia. You can really appreciate this country and all that was done to make it what it is today when you visit all of these places.

Me, Matthew & the boys atop the Empire State Building.

We ended the trip in New York City - Lion King, Ground Zero, pizza, shopping @ Times Square, the Empire State Building, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Awesome!

Thanks to everyone for their prayers and support. I will cherish EVERY memory of the trip - especially because I got to share it with Matthew and some other really special kids!

xoxo,
Julie