Making Your Home Your Haven - Week 3

Yay, it's week 3, but also sad it's almost over, I hope she does a Christmas Challenge too!!
So week 3 is Family Fun Night...so fun we have been doing this off and on. But this week I am going to make a point to do it. We usually do Movie Night on Sundays, or walks, Mondays is a busy day for me so sometimes if I go groceries late we can't do much. Some Tuesdays nights I'm not home, so it's a hit and miss for this, like this Tuesday I won't be home, family will be. Wed nights we either stay home or go to Church, just depends. So looks like Thurs or Fri night would be good nights for this. Sat eve's we have soccer games and Sundays like I said we do something anyway. I'm going to have to be creative this week. Let's see what we come up with this week. Do you guys have any suggestions, or what do you do?

Here's this weeks challenge:

Keep your candle burning, the music playing and plan a Family Fun Night. Have a pillow party in the family room and get out every blanket and pillow in the house and be cozy with the kids or your hubby! Even if you live alone you can do this. Enjoy a cozy evening of hot cider and caramel corn. Bust out some old fashioned games and take the time to savor these moments with your loved ones. Work on kindness and joy this week.

Her suggestions sound like so much fun!! Let me know what you are doing for family fun night.

Here is another suggestion for conversation starters for the dinner table. I might try these this week. I will let you know how that goes.

So heres her **Chime In**

How is the Making Your Home a Haven Challenge going in your house?  For the most part going well, I remembered almost every day. The days I didn't is because we weren't going be home. And on Sat mornings I do but not on Sundays. 

Here's what it pretty much looked like all last week, this week the same. But you get the point. LOL 

Do you have your candle and music going? Every morning except for Sunday, I usually forget after we get home for church. 

What is your favorite thing to do for fun with your family? Favorite thing to do for fun with family is anything. Anytime I'm with them it's fun making memories. Walks, movie theatres, outings, etc. 

What is your favorite board game to play with your family? Favorite board game is "Sorry", it's easy and fun and my daughter always wins. I love her face when she wins.

Share a special memory with your family, from your childhood. I will share when my dad would take us out Christmas Tree shopping and one year he added fake snow to it. That was the best I still remember the day it was a crisp December Evening at it was close to Christmas. So it was a cold one, and I remember the bright light shining in the lot and there must have been a fire going outside because I remember the smell of smoke, not cigarettes but wood burning smoke. And I remember my Dad saying "And add the fake snow". I was the happiest little girl in town that night. 

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Making Your Home a Haven: Fall Challenge - Week 1

I am so excited {{{Squeal, squeal!!!}}} for this Fall Challenge. I always look forward to doing this challenge every year. As I stated in previous post. So today is the first week....yay! {{jumping up for JOY!!}}

Here is this weeks Challenge info, please also click here to check out more of WLW's info on this week. 

Week 1 – CHALLENGE:

Go buy an extra large candle and light a candle everyday in your home. I will be starting mine in the morning but you can start yours at dinner time or whenever is convenient for you.  I will be placing mine in the kitchen – the main hub of my home.

Each time the glimmer of the candle catches your eye, say a prayer for peace and patience within your home.

You are an environment.

Let’s make our homes feel more like a warm hug than a cold shoulder for all those who find refuge under our roof this week!

So if you already have fall scented you don't need to buy a new. Also if your on a budget the Dollar Tree sells some for $1, they are cute and smell yummy. Another great store that sells amazing smelling candles is Bath and Body works. They are having some sales on their current Fall candles right now, and if you use your 20% you can get some on the cheap. 

She wanted us to chime in...here's some questions she asked. 

What type of environment are you? Here's a few examples she gave on her blog

 Have you ever considered that YOU are an environment?  What type of environment are you?

Are you the warm and hospitable type? I can be

Are you the cheery, sunshine type? Sometimes, not all the time. 

Are you calm and quiet? Most of the time

Harried and hurried? During parties with lots of people....working on this one. 

Irritable and angry? Sometimes, when I'm feeling rushed. 

Or perhaps tired and ticked-off? This past weekend I was due to lack of sleep, oh Lord forgive me. 

What type of environment are you? All of the above.

What gets in the way of your peace and patience in your home? Satan, my flesh, not relying or trusting in God first. 

Have you begun to light your candle?  What scent is your candle and does your family like the candle? I lit it this weekend, they love coming home to a nice smelling home. Today was cleaning day so I will be lighting one of our new ones. See pics below

Here’s a picture of what I’m using this week – I LOVE these scents from Bath and Body works, these I was not planning on buying but I took my daughter and her friends bday shopping. They wanted to go in and I just had to splurge with sales and coupons they came out pretty cheap. Yay!! 

Here is another candle, see pic below,  I will be using this week as well, I was blessed by a friend last week with this amazing scented candle.

So excited for this challenge! Thanks Courtney again, love you sis, you are such a blessing and Titus 2 Woman for all of us walking with the King!!

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Faith.family.fall.fun

**Updated 10/03/14**

Hi friends!!
How are you? So you all know, if you've been subscribed to me for awhile, and if your new you'll soon find out, that I love this season. Fall. Harvest. Autumn. Thanksgiving. Christmas. It's a time where we gather together as family, we do anyway, but it seems during this time there are more opportunities and things to do. In the summer...it's hot where we live, and going to the pool everyday gets boring after awhile. I don't particularly like the summer, besides get togethers and BBQ's and spending time with the family, but that's it,

As I did last year I will be sharing weekly outings, ideas, vlogs, and different things for this season. So if you are not subscribed be sure to subscribe to make sure you don't miss a post or video, you can also subscribe to my youtube videos on right top sidebar.

Last weekend we went to our local orchards Pumpkin Patch, we went on opening day, bright and early, it's a tradition we do every year. It was so much fun, they had a good harvest this year.  And they have the best Apple Cider Doughnuts with Apple Butter Frosting yummy!! That day was a busy one, it was also my oldest, daughter, first soccer game of the season. And they won, woohoo!! That was an added blessing (I didn't take pics though 😞)

I also added a Fall Home Decor Tour video {first time ever}. I decorated at the end of August, I just could not wait for Fall this year, Sept 22(?). Fall starts the last week of August for us.

Here's our pics/videos in review. Enjoy!!

Pumpkin Patch Trip 09/27/14

 Fall Home Decor Tour 2014

I served at, our girls private schools, Fall Carnival, along side a sweet sis, we had a blast putting it together! Here's some pics of that, it was such a blessing to be able to watch all the families and friends gather to take some silly, cute, interesting pics. I loved it, I was so blessed and had so much fun. I am so thankful for the school, at our church, that our girls attend. The teachers are AMAZING, the staff is AMAZING. We couldn' t have asked for anything more. 

I also did some running and walking last week! I love being out in the crisp mornings or evenings in the Fall.

We made for the first time, and added it to our tradition list for Fall, Candied Apple Slices. ok friends, these are by far, hands down the best thing ever. Let me know in the comments below if you want a tutorial. They are super easy, delicious and semi healthy. 

Another tradition we have is to grab a PSL {pumpkin spice latte} from Starbucks. I know they are bad for you, the air we breath is bad. But I have at least one of these a year, they are not my fav, but just the memories with my daughter sipping on one. That's what I love! Make sure to ask for extra caramel. I don't drink starbucks all the time maybe 1-4 times a month, if that. I make my own coffee, but every now and then it's a special treat. 

Here's a collage of the pumpkin patch...fun, fun, fun times. A friend came along who has never been and it was nice sharing in that memory. Love her!

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Faith.Fall.Family.Fun

Today, Sept 1, 2014, is the begining of Fall for me! My house is already decorated, no more signs of summer here. September couldn't have come any sooner!!! I like summer, and only if I'm in air conditioned room or in a pool. Other than that you most likely won't see me outside for long.

This month I will be posting vlogs, pics, and anything I can on faith.fall.family and fun, as I did last year! So be sure to come back weekly to see what I post. If you would like to be notified just subscribe to this blog and you will receive an email anytime I post something.

I am also doing Women Living Well's - 'Good Morning Girls" with my close friends {shout out! Love you mucho girls}. If you have not ever done this bible study, I highly recommend it.

The Womens Bible Study will be starting up soon, at our church, and I'm excited to be serving in the ministry this season {in quite a few places}. It's quite exciting for me because I've not been involved in a little under a year, due to being sick and prego and then baby and well life. So it's good to be back, thank you Jesus for using me in this way. I was in prayer about serving again and ladies as soon as you pray and let go of it....God answers. He opened up a few doors. It's the surrendering to Him, everytime without a doubt as soon as I let it go, and leave it in His hands... He answers. And boy does He answer, I was just overwhelmed with just feeling so blessed and being able to serve Him in many ways.

Ok, so with that being said I wanted to share what I've been doing to prepare and such.

Here's a wreath I made at the begining of August...can you tell I just couldn't wait to prepare. LOL

I will be posting more as time goes on and sharing some more videos!!



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Post Partpum | 4 Month Update

Here's my 4 month post-partum update. I skipped 2-3 months. Mostly because we've been so busy!

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Coralina's Birth Story

Coralinas Birth Story Jan 02 2014 from Adrienne Reina on Vimeo.

I got a new camera for CHRISTmas and using WMM for editing, not sure if I like that. It only lets me download movies to Vimeo..which is weird. I like youtube better. But here is the long overdue Birth Video.
Hope you enjoy, thumbs up if you like.

***Updated 02/13/14***
I found these that my hubby took too...enjoy {they are hilarious}!!!

I was having a contraction getting an IV at the same time
{ Can I say that it was painful} Oh my honey he is funny!

My hubby's expression during my c-section {LOL!!}

Welcome to the world Coralina!

i'm just a peanut

such happy sisters!!!

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Update!!

Well Helloo there bloggie friends!!! I have missed posting on here. As you know I have been busy with a newborn, healing from a c-section, holidays, birthdays and more. It has been a new season in my life and it has taken some time to adjust and prioritize. I'm still learning but for the most part I'm dealing.

So I wanted to share some pics from Dec - until Now, so we can catch up.

December Pics in Review:

Our lovely Christmas Tree
I always let the girls decorate it. It's a tradition, and they love it
Memories, memories!!

Close up of our tree....isn't she a beauty?

Christmas morning tablescape

Tablesetting

Christmas Centerpiece

Nativity Scene Vignette

Ribbon of Christmas Pic Cards

Christmas Tablescape Centerpiece (close-up)

Christmas Hutch

Tradition: Christmas Eve gift opening at my families house

Grandma Irma saying "Hi!!" and my lil bro in the background

girls on Christmas morning in their Christmas pj's
another tradition we do, we let them open up their christmas
pjs on Christmas eve. 

Elvis, our doggie, and helper!

My beautiful girl, my oldest 2014

Breakfast for champions on Christmas
only the best....lol!! We had hot cocoa and sparkling grape juice
We sugar them up before the new year. lol

Jan Pics in review:

Here are just a few pics of the baby and family

My Vero, Grandpa & grandma and baby Coralina

I love this pic..can you see the love in their eyes?

and here is the last thing we did in Feb, plan for my oldeset sweet 16. I had lots to plan and didn't get to half of it, planning with a baby is so hard, but God saw me through it. There was somuch more I wanted to do for her, but I forgot alot of things and got tied up with baby. But my sweet had a blessed birthday and it was exactly how God wanted it to be. I'm so blessed by my precious Toria, your amazing just the way you are!!

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I want to say a special thank you to Pastor Rudy & wife, Denise Ashurst @ Pride in Purity (go here to her website). And to Sarah Hardy and Fiance for taking the pictures, we are so blessed by them. And to my mother, mother-in-law, sisters for helping with food. And most of all for Hubby for allowing us to bless Toria with the party. But most of all God for blessing with her, she is the most amazing daughter anyone can ask for, we are so blessed by your heart mama, and how you love the Lord and others. Love you mucho!!

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Back to School 2013

It's that time of year again...that our children go back to school!! I don't know about you but I am excited for them. So are they, however, I do miss them dearly during the day. It's a blessing though because my husband is there with them all day. He's on staff...so I feel very greatful and blessed for that.  I love doing special tradition's its a fun way to make memories and to look back and see their growth.

Last year both of my girls were blessed to be able to go to our church school and again this year. It was my oldest second year going and my little ones first. We had homeschooled previously for a couple of years. So, I wanted to keep some fun traditions going. I did it with homeschooling but some years I forgot. Here are a few things that we do

Here is last years pic's {2012}.....they were so little.

Here are this years pic's {2013}...aweeee how they have grown!!!! {wwwhaaaahhh!!!}

My girls started school last week, so on the first day of school I made them a special breakfast and then took their pictures with their first day of school sign. My oldeset, I think, is starting to grow out of it. I told her I am going to do it until she goes to college and then gets married. LOL!!!


Here are just a few of the traditions we started last year. I just printed out some lunch box notes, I found on pinterest {totally addicted!!} and they even had scripture lunch box printables. I put a napkin, utensils {if needed} and I will sometimes put a very small treat {none in this one} in a baggie.

I also make the teachers gifts as well {if I have time}. Here is what I did this year. I actually printed out another tag from pinterest {you are the write teacher for me}. And on the chalkboard label I printed out "PENS"{on my label maker} to attach to the chalkboard label so it would be a little bit cleaner looking {not pictured above}. I wanted the chalk writing look but it was coming off , as you can see below.

So have fun with it, I don't do it all the time or put the notes everyday {I try to if I have time}. It just makes it special.

I would love to hear what traditions you do for the first day of school?

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