This blog has moved!!!

Please visit our new blog and future website! THe blog address is suezqueathome.com/blog. Our website is still under construction- but we will have updates on the new blog! :-)

Tribute

Nannie Louise (Masey) Hollingsworth went home to be with the Lord on March 30, 2008. She passed peacefully into the next life with her family by her side. She was preceeded in death by her husband, Roy Edwin Hollingsworth, and a son, Roy Charles Hollingsworth. She leaves behind a daughter, Nana Diane Laboucane, of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, and a son Nathan (Glenda) Hollingsworth of Pueblo, CO; eight grand children and twelve great-grand children; and numerous family and friends. She will be sorely missed.

Update...

My mom called me around 12:30pm yesterday to tell me they were going to move Grammy. We went up to be with the family for the evening, and get her settled. Grammy has been moved from the hospital to a Hospice center. It is a very nice place, with room for all of us to be with her. It is quiet and peaceful, and the staff are such wonderful, caring people. The Lord has blessed them with a special gift. (I'll write about that more later) She's been taken off everything except the oxygen, and they are giving her pain medicine to keep her pretty sedated so that she is not having all the involuntary movement. They have told us it will not be long, her blood pressure is very low, and she is not getting any nourishment, no IV's or anything. She looks like she is in a peaceful sleep, and has been unresponsive since Tuesday. She is basically in a coma now, it's up to the Lord how long before He calls her home. We are kind of expecting it to be sometime Tuesday, since it will be exactly three years since my Granddad passed away on that day. My dad is taking this really hard. Please pray for us all...

More yummy food...

With everything going on, I hadn't had a chance to post these yummy looking pictures! MMM!!!

Chicken Fajita Potatoes...

& Carne Rellanos with Cilantro Lime Rice...

Some family pics...

We took family pictures the other day with my family, and thought we'd share some with you! :-)

Update

G took me to see my grandmother yesterday. She is in critical condition, is not good at all. She is not lucid, she moans and tries to talk, but much of it is not understandable. She did open her eyed for about 30 seconds the whole time we were there, which was about three hours. The doctors still don't know for sure what's wrong with her, they only have conjectures. They think that one of the blood clots may have broken up and a part of it made it to her head, too small for them to detect with the CT-Scan or MRI. She is not presenting with "classic" stroke symptoms though, all her motor skills are fine, it's just her cognisance that has been affected. And while she's "awake" she is in like a dream-like state, and has seizure-like movements constantly. It wears her out and then she'll still for a while, that's how we know she's sleeping. It is very emotionally draining to watch it. She would respond to my brother more than anyone this afternoon, but even that was minimal. My prayers are somewhat split at this juncture. One, that God would make her well, but two, that he would just end her suffering. Your continued prayers at this time are much appreciated.

Prayer request...

My grandmother (the only one still living) has been in the hospital since Thursday. The doctors don't know what's wrong with her. Most of the time she is very incoherent, not knowing where she is, or what day it is, and when she talks it's quite nonsensical. They have done a slew of tests, but they can not find anything wrong. They did find blood clots in her lungs, which are due to her inactivity (basically she gets out of bed and sits in her chair all day, only getting up to go to the bathroom or go back to bed), but that would not cause her current mental state, and there are no signs of any nerve or brain damage in any of the tests they have done. They are even saying she will not be able to live on her own anymore, that she will have to go, at the very least, to an assisted living facility.
G and I are going to go see here tomorrow. I don't want to look back someday and say, "I should have gone..." Even thought there are bad feelings and memories from a few years ago, she is my grandmother: the one I grew up down the street from; the one I ran away from home to (one afternoon my dad was mad at me and I ran down there to avoid getting a spanking :-) the one who I was close to; told my secrets to; and the one who taught me how to make pecan pies and apple crisp; and I love her still. And now that we live farther away I don't get to visit often. I pray the Lord will bless us with at least one more visit, if not many more for years to come. Please pray for her...

Getting fancy...

We though it was about time to update our site a little. Hope you enjoy it!

Yummy Recipes

Here a copule of yummy, easy dinners we've had lately! Thought you'd enjoy- and I even have pictures to show you! :-)

English Muffin Pizzas
Pretty much what they look like, put sauce and your favorite pizza toppings on top english muffin halves and bake til cheese is melted!


Hot Roast Beef Sandwhich
This was something new that turned out pretty good.
I cooked the beef roast in the crockpot all day on low (added 1 can of broth), it was falling apart when I got home from work!
Then I took about 1/2 cup of the broth and about 1 cup of milk and put in in a pan on the stove, started heating it. While that was heating, I took about 1/4 cup broth, 1/4 milk and 2-3 tablespoons of flour, combine to make a thin paste. Add some of the paste to the heating broth/milk in the pan. Let it come to a boil, it will thicken, if not thick enough, add a little more of the paste. If it gets too thick, add a little broth or milk to thin out. Salt & pepper to taste.
Then I toasted sliced bread, put it on the plate, put some of the roast on top and smother it! I served it with green beans- you could also put mashed potatoes on the "sandwhich" before smothering it.

New Arbonne Promotion!

Check out our "Guestbook Giveaway" on our Arbonne website! Click here to see what it's all about! :-)

Cheesburger Rice

One of our "new year's resolutions" has been to plan our meals out so we can better plan our shopping trips. We are trying to do one big shopping day in Pueblo (Sam's club for better prices) and just supplement a couple times a month for fresh produce & such. We got of to a rocky start, mostly because we haven't been home to use the menu :-) but I think I'll get the hang of it.
Anyway, we forgot to get a main ingredient for our planned meal on Monday, so I had to pinch-hit, and came up with this recipe. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! :-)

Cheeseburger rice:
1lb ground beef
2 cups cooked rice (your favorite variety- cook according to package directions)
1 can tomato sauce
2 tbsp yellow mustard
1/4 cup + 1/2 cup ketchup
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/4 to 1/2 cup crumbled bacon (I used the Hormel packaged bacon crumbles- they are pre-cooked- if you use fresh just cook it first and then crumble it on top)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown hamburger in skillet, drain. Combine tomato sauce, mustard & 1/4 cup ketchup. Mix rice, hamburger and tomato sauce mixture together. Put in oven-proof casserole dish, cover with remaining 1/2 cup ketchup. Top with shredded cheese and crumbled bacon. Bake in oven for 20-30 minutes until cheese is melted and bacon is crisp. ENJOY! :-)

New Beginnings

“Tell us, Tomorrow”

Two wise men were walking down the road of Time, saw Tomorrow approaching dimly in the distance. They shouted, “Tell us, Tomorrow, what are you like? Shall we fear you or feast you?” And Tomorrow answered, in tones that sounded clearly through the mist “ Come to me neither with anxiety nor procrastination, but with faith and hope and with Today’s work well-done. You can not know ahead what I am like, but when you reach me, you shall see me through the eyes of what you are.”
Esther Baldwin York

"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful." John 14:27 (NASB)

Happy New Year!!!

We are looking forward to all the wonderful possibilities the Lord has in store for us in 2008! It is not without its anxieties, as I face another surgery (which even with insurance – we aren’t quite sure how to pay for it) as well as countless medical bills from my previous surgeries when I didn’t have insurance at all.
But we are both blessed to be able to work and have good jobs (even if there are days we don’t want to go back there for anything) the Lord gives us strength to get through it. :-)
We have also been blessed to launch our own Arbonne business, and are anxious to see it grow this year. We hope to be able to get to a point where the Arbonne income will allow me to quit my job and stay at home when we start our family.

For now though, our family consists of two wonderful “puppies” that keep us occupied at home, and we are looking forward to some fun weekend excursions this spring and summer to take them on!
And we are looking forward to visiting family several times this year as well!

We have had a good start to our lives together and are looking forward to our first wedding anniversary in April. We are especially thankful that we found each other, and are looking forward to strengthening our relationship together and especially strengthening our relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Our prayer for you, our friends and family, this year is that you too will find a stronger relationship with those you love, and with Christ Jesus- our precious Lord. He has given us another day, another year to be thankful and to worship Him! What an Awesome year we are going to have!!!