Valentines Day... and Christmas 2015

Up early...hanging out with the girls.

Kenneth cut me a bouquet of daffodils from the garden.

He's thinking of growing a handle bar mustache...What do you think?

CHRISTMAS 2015...

the mantle for 2015...

opening presents from family on Christmas Eve...

Daisy's had enough fun...

Christmas morning... It's too early...

 they open presents from Santa...

They were all in the Church Christmas Program...

Megan was Mary...

Leah was an Angel...

She was happier here...

Emily had a talking part and also part of the choir...

also Leah was in the school program... She was an Elf.

Blogging...

I just went back and looked up when I first started blogging.  April 28, 2008.  So almost 8 years.  Since I missed most of last year there will be some times I will just go back and post some photos from the past.  I hope you enjoy.

October 2015...



October Kenneth turned 60 years young and we went to Great Wolf Lodge with the Granddaughters, and their parents, and had a wonderful time...






the girls room looked like a little log cabin...



they do a "story time" in the evening and all the kids wear their pajamas down to the main lobby...



It's part animation and part real people...







they also got to trick or treat...



They were Maleficent, Aurora and the Green faerie..

August 2015...

Emily is in 1st Grade



Leah is in Kindergarten...



Megan is staying at home taking care of Daddy while he works...




Emily and Leah are also in American Heritage Girls...



Emily bridged over to the next level...





and Leah joined for the first year...




and have both started in gymnastics this year.

Away too long...

When we got new phones and I was taking almost all my pictures with my phone, I have had a terrible time trying to figure out how to get the photos off the phone so I can blog about what we've been doing.  Well we now have switched carriers and once again I'm trying to get the photos off the phone onto the blog.

But, I am more determined this time.  So wish me luck.



January 2016...
Is birthday month...




Kenneth bought me a Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake, It was very good.

The girls got me a light up solar bird feeder...



Do you see the lime green lettuce growing in the herb bed, I planted that last spring!  It tried it, it was very bitter.

The month of January I follow Apartment Therapy and do whole house cleaning.
This prepares the house for the month of February and Megan's birthday party.



She likes "green", and Dinosaurs, So Her Mamma made a Green "Good Dinosaur" Cake.  It had chocolate rocks and graham cracker mountains, It was very good.



She had a good time...



This month we have also been working on some of the small touch up remodeling we didn't get finished last year, Got this sign hung up...
"Grow Old Along with Me the Best is Yet to Be", It's from Magnolia Market, Chip and Joanna Gains their show on HGTV "Fixer Upper".  Just love everything they do, they are wonderful people.  Hope to visit the Silo's in Waco soon.



We built the DVD cabinet,



I designed it to match the fireplace mantle and Kenneth finished painting the top trim and Utility room walls, I picked up all the silver frames from a thrift store for $7.00 and Amanda helped me lay out a design for the living room walls.



I still have spaces left for things we collect along the way.  I also need to replace the pictures with some of our own.  I made the Cork "F" from corks I collected from people I worked with for about a 2 - 2 1/2 year period.  NO! we didn't drink it all.



a close up of the little sign Kenneth bought...



I have finished designing the stained glass pattern for above the kitchen sink



and we've worked outside one day cleaning the flower beds.  It has been a mild winter so far, we're planning on transferring the lantana from the south bed out to the front yard. It just grows wayyy bigger than I ever thought it would and ends up taking over the whole bed and path way.



Daffodils are starting to come up and we planted 50 tulips this fall, so hoping they all grow also.

2015 Garden...

 In the back yard this year I planted Sun flowers and morning glories...
we also feed the birds sunflower seeds...
this sunflower and the one below are from where the bird-feeder is, this sunflower is 7 FEET tall!  Just beautiful.

Next year I'm just going to plant the bird seed...

This one is about 4' with multiple blooms...

the lace hydrangea in the back.

the 4 o'clock from Oklahoma

here are my sunflowers...I bought special seeds this year to be able to grow GIANT 12" Sunflowers, But, as you can see, even though they are pretty they weren't GIANT.

Two yellow roses and some marigolds, these are 36" tall.

our red onions... Hello Lilly, there is Sue over on the patio (to the right) and MoMo was here visiting too (on the left)

The south bed in the front, Daylillies and Lantana are blooming...

Looking North...

On the end bed I started some Lavender...

and we have okra...

Some of the Perennial seeds I started in the clay pots and then have finished transplanting all of them.

 
Some more sunflowers which I started in the back and thinned out and moved some to this front yard bed.

three different varieties of cherry tomatoes, we went out and tried to corral them a little, they have just gone crazy this year, and more marigolds, these are about 24" tall. (the marigolds were all started from 10 cent seed packets from WalMart)

there's yellow summer squash in the middle beds...

this hydrangea makes the BIG ball blossoms...

Looking South...

***Just a note...we started redoing the front of the house Spring of 2004.
I can now say that it's finally done.  Even though it requires constant weeding, this is what I had envisioned all those years ago.  With just a few tweaks here and there.  I think it turned out even better.

This is my big cauldron I brought home from Momma's our last trip, It will always remind me of someone special.

Kenneth and I were both watching the plum tree this year we had 4 perfect plums, what we didn't realize was the birds were watching them also.  We only ended up with one.

I redid our headboard with a quick fix by just covering it up with a quilted bedspread we weren't using.  Now I need to make a new top top for the spread on the bed...  I think I'll just do a quick simple cover with an extra sheet or something to make it one color.