November, 2011

The last three weeks have been everything a Mother/Grandmother could ask for.  We spent almost a week in Seattle with our 16 year old granddaughter and from there, I flew to Minnesota for 2 weeks.  There is really nothing more special than spending time with dear grandchildren.  Justin was out of town for the most of those 2 weeks, so I spent my time helping Kathy with the children and doing just general help wherever I could.  After 2 weeks though, I realize there is a reason that God planned that we should have our children while we are young!  It is exhausting work being a mother to young ones!  Justin and Dave did some planning behind Kathy's and my back!  Dave flew in and surprised us for the last week.  What a surprise.  Kathy and I were upstairs doing something at about 10:30 PM when there was a knock on the backdoor.  It really scared us so we went down together and I suggested that she get the larger of their 2 dogs to go with us; but guess what the "big" dog had allowed Dave to come in and was standing beside him!

During my time there, we had to say Goodbye to a very favorite kitty.  She had contacted feline leukemia and there is nothing that you can do for them once they have it, and because it is contagious, they have another cat that they didn't want to get it, so unfortunately, there was only one thing to do for the poor thing.  To Furby, with much love~~~

A few of my recent cards!

It is time for an update!  I never thought that it would be so hard to keep a blog up to date, but, I was wrong!  Here are a few of my recent cards.

Happy 4th of July

I just want to thank the veterans as well as the service people that are serving today!
May you remain safe in protecting our great country and may our freedom continue.

June 18, 2011

I want you to see the beautiful roses that we inherited!  Enjoy them this year, because I am such a poor gardener that who knows what they will be like next year.  The ones that we took the pictures of today had rain drops on them and were just so fresh and pretty!

42 years of wedded bliss! Happy Anniversary to my dear husband

Thanks for the roses!

Thanks to our grandchildren for saluting Dave for his years in the service!

Thank you to every Veteran and every one serving in our military today!

Without you, we would not have the freedom that we do today!

May 17

Well it is getting to look a little bit like home!  Still too many boxes setting around and still lots of things to do, but..........the craft room is getting into shape! "smile"!  Took more pictures of the plants around the house today.  I will be glad when we can get them trimmed and a little more uniform in appearance.
This first picture doesn't do the color any justice as it is really a pretty orange.

This one is Dave's dream come true!  He has always loved the holly trees and now he finally has his own.

I really love this particular rhododendron.  It is so pretty!

Sunday, May 15th

Well the past 2 weeks have been rather busy!  We tried to move to a new house that we bought without anyone knowing we were doing it; then we were going to have an open house and invite our friends.  Well it happens that we bought a manufactured home in a park and once a month the park puts out a bulletin and in this bulletin it welcomed us to the park.  Very nice of them, but some of our good friends live in the park!  Guess what?  The surprise was out!  Oh well!  But that worked out okay, because it will be a year before I am recuperated enough to put together an open house!  Ha!

Here is the new house!  We are enjoying all of the room and will enjoy it even more when we get rid of all of the boxes!  I didn't know that I still had SO MUCH stuff or better yet, JUNK!!!

The flowers have started blooming already for us.  They need some tender loving care, but I am not ready to give it to them yet!

Can anyone tell me what this little lavender flower is?  It looks like it will be really loaded with blooms shortly! I got my answer!  This flower is an Evergreen Azalea!

Have a good Sunday!

May 1

Well we are still waiting for the beautiful flowers that April Showers are supposed to bring!!  It has been a long rainy winter and I am ready for a little more sunshine.  Today has been beautiful and it certainly makes me feel a lot happier!!!  Let's hope that it continues!  Here are the cards that I made last month.  Beings that April is my birthday, I had a lot of thank you's to send out.  I am not sure that it is that wonderful getting another year older, but I do have to say that I have some wonderful friends and family that helped me to celebrate.  Thank You to each of you!

April 16-18

We met Justin and Kathy in Seattle and had a "mini" family reunion.  We had not seen them since we were back to Minnesota last summer, so was especially nice to have some fun family time.  Of course, any family time is only complete with "The Grandchildren"!  So just in case you would like to see pictures of the "world's best".............................

Wyatt is now 7 and he loves Legos as much as his Dad and Auntie did.  He created the whole week-end.

 Little Miss Zoe is a small version of Kathy!  She is now 3 and a little ball of fire.  One day her parents are going to have their hands full.  She already knows how to use her big, dark eyes to flirt and wind Daddy around her little finger!

This happens to be the only picture that we got of Tiana that week-end.  She is going to be 16 in July!  Wow, where has the time gone since I got that phone call that told me that I was a "Grandmother"!  Anyway, it was a very nice week-end and we so enjoyed having the 3 "grands" together!

April 5th

We are so thrilled to have Tiana spending her spring break with us!  Perhaps you would enjoy seeing what happens when you have a teenager visiting! Shopping, texting and computing, what more is there to life?  Loving every minute of time shared with her!

April 4th!

Wow, where does the time go?  I do know for sure that the older that you get, the faster it goes or is it "the slower, you go!"  Anyway, not a lot of exciting anything to report.  Life goes on.  First of all, here are some cards that I made over the past while:  

Can you tell that not a lot happens other than creating when you are living in a 5th wheel?  Have a good spring, I think that it is on the way!

Happy Birthday to my dear husband, and also Happy Valentines!

Here is wishing Dave a Happy Birthday on the 12th of February and wishing all of my dear friends a Happy Valentines with love!

I promised that I would show you what I did most of December!

Going through my pictures I found these that just warmed my heart!

Papa and his other baby! Notice she had to have her "pillow"!

Papa and Zoe`

Proud of you, Melisa for pushing on ahead!

Inside it says: "Suck it up and Make it Happen"
"Nobody can go back and make a new beginning,
but anybody can start today and make a new ending!"

Melisa, we hope for a good ending for you.

January 9, 2011

Wow, where has the time gone? It is already 9 days into the new year and I haven't even wished all of you a happy new year! Now, I just did and hope that you have a healthy, happy year.

So far it has been a busy year and one of these days I will upload some of the cards that have kept me busy. Birthday, sympathy cards, and congratulation cards. Melisa has decided at 40 that it is time to go to college and become a nurse. Proof that it is never to late to better yourself! We are proud of her.

My goal this year is to get some scrapbooking done. I have Melisa's childhood album almost done and want to get back to work on it and then proceed to Justin's. It is always fun, but sad at the same time to go back and relive the memories. Thank goodness for pictures because to much has gone on in the meanwhile, that I have forgotten so much! Or is it age? No, I am not old enough to forget anything! A big ha on that one.

Enjoy this 2011!