Making Sausage...

 When I was little one of my favorite family events was "boucherie", or butcher.  We would make sausage, boudin, cracklins, wrap the meat.  The kids would run around my grandparents farm, playing on hay bails, riding four wheelers, and pretending to drive the tractor.  It was a blast!

We don't do it anymore, but we do still make sausage.  We made it a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to share some pics.  It's a ton of work, but still fun.  The family gets together and works together on something, while the kids are playing...brings back a lot of memories watching the kids play.  

One of the things we still laugh about, is when I was about 5 we were "making butcher", and they would always cook some of the meat for lunch, so I was eating and someone mentioned something about the pig, and I dropped my fork and said, "This is PIG?!?!?"  So my mom goes, "No, it's pork." And I was like, "oh, okay"  And just went back to eating.  lol 

Seasoning the meat...

This is ponce...basically sausage meat stuffed in a stomach...yeah, I don't eat that...lol

They made me try to sew the hole up...yeah, I don't think sewing meat is my specialty...I kept ripping it...

My grandpa had to take over for me...Stacy laughed at me and said, "I can't believe your grandpa can sew better than you!"

Love this pic of Sophie

Delilah...isn't she pretty

I gave up on sewing meat and went for a ride...I haven't ridden a horse in forever!  I was so afraid she would start running because she isn't 100% broke yet.  But it was really funny, she just wanted to stay by my sister!  She kept walking up to her and following her around...I guess it's because Olivia's the only one who really rides her.

We make little hamburgers out of the meat and cook it so we can test the seasoning before we put it in the casing.

Going to my grandpa's house to hang the sausage in the smoke house...Ian was so excited!  He had been waiting to go all day!  lol

Every girl is a princess...

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A while back I decided I wanted to do a boudoir shoot for my hubby and for myself.  I just thought it would be a fun experience and something nice for my hubby, so I started researching and I found a few photographers, but none of them felt right to me.

Then, I asked on a message board for local moms and was introduced to The Boudoir Vixen.  This woman is incredible!  I absolutely love her blog and FB page.  She is always posting little reminders to see yourself the way God sees you, and to do fun little romantic things for your hubby...not to mention, she shares some incredibly gorgeous pics of REAL women!  I read this great post on her blog today about why she does what she does, and just wanted to share it with you guys.  She really is such an inspiration, and I highly recommend exploring her blog and website!  Even if you have no interest in doing a boudoir shoot, she just has a wonderful outlook. I wish more people had her attitude!

Here are a few of her amazing photographs (shared with her permission, of course)...Her talent for "Unveiling your Beauty"  is incredible!

I'm dying over this outfit!!!  I seriously have to find it!  

I so admire her bravery and spirit.  You really have to read her story!