My Birthday was Great!

A few pictures of my birthday!  It was a great day with lots of phone calls, emails and texts.  No Big Party but lots of love.  It was perfect!  I had breakfast in bed, lunch with my daughter and her son at The Historic Mission Inn.  It's gorgeous this time of year with over one million lights, fabulous decorations and moving figures in every alcove possible. Then it was off to dinner with the hubby.  I was stuffed!  Lots of good food and a glorious day!

More to come...gotta run get the last minute things taken care of for the Women's Christmas Dinner I am in charge of tomorrow night.  It's going to be wonderful!  I will announce my contest winners on the weekend too!  AND thanks to all of you my bloggy friends for your kind words as I embraced 50!  I am doing okay just can't believe I've lived 50 years!!!  AMAZING!

**Getting multiple pictures in my post is the most frustrating part for me....so sorry they are out of order.  Gotta go...any tips for me, please let me know an easier way...and how you all can put so many pictures in and in the order you want them in.

It's My Birthday!!!

The day has come!! 

I am now 50!  

I am going to enjoy the day! 

It's my birthday!!

**Don't forget to enter my birthday giveaway here.  You have until midnight tonight to leave me a comment that you want to be entered.

Feeling Fabulous!!

Thank you Deb!

I'm feeling Fabulous and in OnE day

I will be 50 AnD Fabulous!

Deb the Lavender Chick has given me my first bloggy birthday present! Thank you so much! I love it!

So here are the rules: Copy and paste the rules and instructions in your post. When posting on receiving the award, make sure you include who gave you the award and link it back to them. Post five winners and link back to them as well. Post FIVE of your addictions. Add the award image. Let your winners know you gave them an award by leaving them a comment on their blog.

Here are my five addictions...in no particular order:

1. Sweets!~I love sugar in my tea, cream and sugar in my coffee and something sweet after lunch and dinner. M&M's or a butterfinger in the afternoon around 3pm is a must!

2. Pepsi~Coke will not do it. If I have a soda...it's gotta be Pepsi.

3. Hairspray~I gotta have it to make my fabulous hair stay in place. Ask my family.

4. Purses~when I found Kathy Van Zeeland purses, I was hooked. I never pay more than $100. I look at the fashion trends and find purses at Target, Marshalls, Ross, TJ Maxx or Macy's. I love a good buy on a purse.

5. My camera and taking photographs~With digital photography, I now take and save so many pictures of everything but especially my family. I nicknamed my self paparrazzi grandma because I have the camera out every time my grandchildren are around. I also study other photography blogs to learn how to take better pictures.

6. I almost forgot blogging...so had to add #6!

Now here are the Five Fabulous over Fifty bloggers I am passing this on to in celebration of my fabulous 50th tomorrow:

1. A new blog I've enjoyed is A Hint of Home. Please go over and check her out and tell her Connie sent you!

2. Another brand new blog I have enjoyed is Just A Little Something For You. Judy is encouraging and shares the best recipes with pictures. I just want to make everything she posts. Her daughter is in Pastry school and her desserts are to die for! Remember I love sweets! Yep...those desserts are calling my name!

3. For my decorating inspiration I visit Rhoda at Southern Hospitality. She is an amazing decorator. She loves antique stores and garage sales too! I wish I had an ounce of her talent.

4. For some real fun, stop by and see Diane at A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words.

She hosts Trash to Treasure Tuesdays. Again, I wish I had some of her talent and ability to see something for what it could be!

5. My last Fabulous 50 blogger is Cindy at Consider It All Joy. She is an inspiration to me with all she's gone through and where she is today. I love her story about how she named her blog.

These women are a few of my Fabulous Friends over 50! Thanks girls for all your encouragement and I look forward to exploring the 50's with you.

I've been thinking of putting this blog to rest and start a new one now that I have hit the BIG 5-0 tomorrow. I will let ya know what I'm doing. It'll take me a little while to get it all up and running so stay tuned for something coming in the new year. Gotta do something FUN!!

8 days to 5-0 and a Giveaway!

***I've decided to add an apron to the giveaway.  My mother-in-law makes the cutest aprons and I'm gonna have her make me one to give away.

In eight days, I will be 50!!  It's hard for me to believe.  I don't feel that old nor do I think of myself as that old.  I am really in denial BUT really it's JuST a NumBeR.  There really are signs all around me that I am aging.  I'm just not ready to believe it.  I feel a newness being this age.  I am in good health.   I am having a blast with my family and those darn cute grandbabies of mine.  Dwight and I are enjoying our freedom and have kept ourselves very busy with something happening all the time.  To celebrate with all my bloggy friends I thought I'd give you a present.  I am having my first give away.  

My family on my mom's side is German and my grandma passed on many  great recipes which are ALL very high in calories but oh so yummy!  All of my aunts and uncles are good cooks and bakers.  We love dessert as much or more than the main meal.  I've always said...."forget dinner~~what's for dessert?"   We've published two cookbooks of family recipes from my grandma, my aunts and uncles and all the cousins.  I have TWO of the second edition to give away.  The drawing will end on my birthday, December 2nd at 11:59pm.  I will draw a winner the next day.  Leave me a comment for one entry and post my giveaway on your blog for another entry.  Good Luck...you will not be disappointed!