Simply Jaimie

Recycle Candle Holder First : Grab some candles. These are from Bath and Body Works but any glass candle will work Second : Use a knife around the edge of the wax. Then cut the wax into pie slices. Third : Start pulling out the chunks of wax More than likely, you will be left with the wicks stuck to the bottom Fourth : Heat up some water in the microwave and pour into the candle holder. This will loosen up the wicks, so you can remove them easier. Lastly : Give the candle holder a good wash with soap and a sponge. You will be able to easily remove the labels. Once they are clean it is time to fill them. I choose nail polish but you can use them to fill anything you like. : )

I am going to challenge myself to blog everyday in July.  Summer Blogging Day One : New Year's Resolution Update I can't believe we are half way through the year already! Here is a quick update on the goals I set in January Spiritual Goals 1. Daily Family and personal prayer and scripture study - while reading the scriptures I want to focus on what I can learn from the women in the scriptures 2. Weekly Family Home Evenings Family Goals 1. Get out of debt 2. Learn to save 3. Do more planned family activities - not just walking around target or watching a movie Personal Goals 1. Make working out and eating better a part of my everyday life 2. Stress less 3. Work on improving my blog 4. Read seventy five books Spiritually, I suck! I have been doing really well with personal prayer but that is about it. Time to get back into really studying the scriptures. I am so excited about the family goals! The Craig family is 100% cre...

COUSIN SLEEPOVER Friday night sleepover at Nanny and Pops house means one thing . . . . . . . . . . . .  Saturday Morning Pancakes!! The kids love having Pops make their pancakes look like Mickey Mouse : ) Click below for my favourite pancake recipe Martha Stewart easy basic pancake recipe

Hannah finally promoted to a big girl bed! I know you probably thinking that is a BIG bed for a two and a half year old, and I agree. :) I had no intention of buying a bunk bed, but I fell in love with it! I did manage to hold of buying it until I spoke to Aaron, and together we decided this was the bed for Hannah.  Hannah loves it too!  Especially the ladder. . .  I do keep the ladder in the guest room so she can't climb on the top bunk. At night, Hannah snuggles with her Daddy Doll : ) Aaron does the bed time routine when he is home. I know he is going to LOVE laying on the bed with Hannah, reading books.  I will point out that Hannah did pick out the bedding. It wasn't my favourite but she loves it. click here for the link to the bunk bed click her for the link to the bedding 

Book Thirty Five : Blood Promise by Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy Book Four) click here to read my review on book one click here to read my review on book two click here to read my review on book three There was a Strigoi there, tall and imposing, having sneaked up while I was distracted.  "No. . . ."  I wasn't sure if I said the word or thought it. It didn't matter. The only thing that mattered just then was what my eyes saw before me. Or, rather, what my eyes thought they saw. Because surely, surely, I had to be imagining this. It couldn't be real. Not after all this time. Dimitri. My stake was ready. All I had to do was keep swinging to make the kill. I had momentum on my side. . . But I couldn't. I just needed a few more seconds, a few seconds to drink him in before I killed him. And that's when he spoke. "Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent. . . . it was just colder. "You forgot ...

Yay!! We are getting so close to the end of this deploymnet!  Aaron : Aaron is doing well. His fingers are healing nicely, and he is back doing whatever it is he does. He has been working some long days but it keeps him busy.   Jaimie and Hannah : We are doing great! I recently hit this stupid wall, and I could not get my head around it. I felt like we were so close to the end but still so far away. I am so happy that I finally got over that hurdle. I am now just so excited!! Hannah and I are keeping busy with Mummy and Me Swim. She loves it! Hannah is quite independent and was yelling at me to let her go. . . .  yeah not gonna happen. I get asked a lot of questions that I thought would be nice to answer here : 1. When does Aaron get back? I have no idea.  I think the closer to homecoming the more details we get. I have heard rumors but until he is stepping of the bus, at Pendleton, I don't believe them. 2. Are you invited family and fri...

Book thirty one, thirty three, and thirty four : Sweet Evil, Sweet Peril, and Sweet Reckoning by Wendy Higgins “You told some human kid?" I coughed, buying time. "He's Neph, too." Jonathan LaGrey went rigid and his ruddy cheeks paled. I squirmed as his eyes bored into mine. "Which one's his father?" he asked through clenched teeth. "Richard Rowe. I guess you'd know him as Pharzuph." Oh, boy. He wasn't pale anymore. "You came across the country-" "Shhh!" I warned him as people looked over. He lowered his voice to a shouted whisper. "-with the son of the Duke of Lust?!" Embrace the Forbidden What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences? This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels. Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within...