Trick Candles and The Crashed Cake

I'm not great with dates. As a matter of fact, I struggle remembering if my husband's birthday is September 29 or 30. It's the 30th... But it doesn't stop me from debating between the those two days constantly. So it works well for me that my dad and my father-in-law's birthdays fall within a day …

Strawberry Fields Forever: 101 in 1001 Update

A few months ago I created a 101 in 1001 list of all the things I would like to try/learn/accomplish in the next two and 3/4 years. One item on that list — Learn how to can Shortly after publishing said list, I text my mother-in-law (who will henceforth be known on HH&SS as 'Mama …

Janet, Miley and Rollin’ on the River

If you're a personal Facebook friend on mine, you might have seen me say something about a blog post I'd be doing today. Well, in typical Danielle fashion, I changed my mind, and decided to write this instead. So I attended my first Catholic wedding... I've always heard rumors, then when I started dating My …

The Daddy of Them All

Guess wheerrrrreeee I'veeee beennnnnn... Did you pick up on the excitement in that first sentence? If not, and if the title wasn't a dead give-away, well then I'll just tell you. This past weekend My Someone and I traveled out to Colorado/Wyoming to attend Cheyenne Frontier Days. CFD is the world's largest outdoor rodeo and western …

WW: A family that prays together, stays together

My parents have been abducted by aliens

I hear people say, "I can't have a Facebook, or Twitter, that's for the younger generation. I'm too old for those kind of things." To which I reply, "My great-grandpa is a World War II veteran, and has Facebook." (and he's a busy little bee on it.) That'll usually stop all the "can't" nonsense, because …

Blame it all on my roots, I wanted to show up in boots.

Making the decision to become vegan probably seems like a lifestyle change just for the person involved, right? I mean, I certainly thought so. However this past week has shown me just how much drastically changing my diet effects all those in my life. Despite being southern and heavily involved in agriculture, I wasn't raised …

Vegan Nazi and the Eating Out Chronicles

This past weekend My Someone came to Kansas. Yes, that's right my cattle ranching, chicken farming, cowboy boot wearing, team roping of a boyfriend came to visit smack dab in the middle of my vegan adventure. I'm pretty sure he had a good idea what he was about to get himself into though, because not …

Camo Friday: Cupcakes

A month or so ago I blogged about my Uncle Chris, and then yesterday I shared synchronized ATV's that occurred during my Grand-Dad's 80th birthday party. For this week's Camo Friday I wanted to incorporate how both of those posts are related. Originally when Grand-Dad's party was planned, it was supposed to be a surprise. …

We ride at dawn!

My family... (If you could see me as I'm typing this, I actually closed my eyes and took a deep breath.) I have to say, every night I when I pray, I thank the good Lord for granting me with such an unique, fun family who unknowingly gives me more potential blogging material then I …