10 things I know for sure…..

1.  That another year has passed by so quickly I am afraid to blink or I will miss something.

2.  I have green eyes, and I mean green eyes, not sort of green or hazel or blueish or brown but very green eyes….all the time.  

3.  I am a chameleon.  I change my hair and looks like I change my clothes.  Here are a few examples how I morphed over the year.

 

 

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4.  I am another year older and so is everyone else around me.  Kinlee’s BD is the day before mine, thank goodness for that, so I won’t ever forget it!

5.  It has been a cold winter for me and I have hated every single minute of it, other than the smell of rain which I love.  This I know for sure.

6.  I managed to get through last year!  It was a test, probably the toughest one I have ever taken, but I managed and I passed!  I passed the year mark of that radiation treatment.  That seems like yesterday…..but it was a whole year ago this month.

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7.  Taking a pill for this and a pill for that really sucks.  I mean, it really does, and this I know for sure, I will never get use to it.

8.  Having a bladder infection is not fun, especially if you have had it for over a month and antibiotics are rough on the stomach (TMI???) sorry.

9.  I am not usually lost for words.  But lately, I have been…what’s up with that?

10.  I love my family.  I think…..that they think (shouldn’t think for others but I do) that I ramble too much, but if they haven’t figured out that that will probably never change…then “that’s too bad”, because I will always ramble, always talk to much, always smooch too much and always, always love too much.  Nah, you just can’t love too much…..

11.   I am a procrastinator and that will probably never change. I cheated and put down 11 things because some day's are like that and you just have to add a little.

So there you have it.  I am not going to promise that I will post in 3 days, or next week.  Hopefully I won’t procrastinate again and just do it.  Post I mean.  I don’t want to be  a liar, so that is why.

And this I know for sure…………….I am so glad I got this post done! LOL have a wonderful weekend everyone!  Thanks for the kick in the pants sweet Lucinda!

Hugs and smiles across the miles!

PHEW! that’s a whole lot of meme’s for not having much to say!

PS (for those of you who are kissin and huggin and smoochin on your grandies and cooking up a storm of food (you know who you are…..)this weekend, I am jealous.  I better go visit Kinlee, Kolytn and Kyler….

“Stuff”

Well here it is, another week has gone by and by golly I am going to do it, even if it means that I am just going to ramble.

A couple of weeks ago the moon was so bright and beautiful so I grabbed my little Nikon CoolPix and took a couple of pictures of the moon.  For some reason this little camera takes better pics at night than my really expensive Nikon does (because I don’t know how to use the settings).

I thought it was so intriguing that the moon was stuck in the branches of the tree….

My son Mike found this little fella (hawk) in his chicken coop so he scooped  him up and brought him in the house for the children to see…..

 

 

Then he let him “fly”.  He was just a baby…probably thought he could either disguise himself as a chicken, or maybe wanted to see if he could have an egg or two for his dinner….

 

 

Koltyn (age 2 yrs 10 mo.) sits on his daddy’s lap and listens intently as he is told a story….the sucker(s) helps him to sit still and listen….well for a minute anyway…

 

 

 

Kinlee will be having a BD on Feb 8th and will be turning 1 yr.  I think it will be a while before she gets any hair…but that’s ok because…

 

 

 

 

 

those kissy checks and her snugglyness makes up for any hair loss…. Kinlee is the most snuggly baby EVER

 

 

 

Kinlee takes it all in when she is in her Papa’s arms.  She doesn’t mind his beard, and loves it when he kisses her neck.  It is a great place to take a nap…in his arms…in his rocking chair….

 

Your asking why am I showing you a picture of 5 gallon buckets of rocks…well each bucket has certain rocks in it taken from certain places that are getting a make over

 

it is just NOT RIGHT to mix up the rocks… Huh-Honey has cut out some concrete so that we can plant shrubs or flowers along this ugly back wall, it will  be green and lush and pretty this fall…

 

This ugly wall is the back wall next to our pool.  We have always hated it, we have tried to put pots and plants on it but it is still ugly…so we are going to do something  different…

 

It has been a huge project for Huh-Honey but he has busted out every brick and stacked them so that he can take them to our son to build a fire pit with them…

 

 

he tries not to waste anything…these bricks were expensive so now they can serve another purpose…

 

 

Huh-Honey has been busy…he built our neighbor a beautiful bookcase

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as for me…I decided to do something a little sassy, daring, edgy, something that is completely out of my comfort zone.  Don’t know why I did it…just did it and it has been fun so see the reaction of “people” or I should say NO REACTION, and I see a LOT of people every day….so maybe it wasn’t something that compliments me…but…I don’t care….Huh-honey likes it and I do to….hehehehehe for a while anyway.

this is me before…

it was pretty much all one length, and boring

 

 

 

excluding the blood shot eyes from staring at the computer all day long, it is very layered..blunt, edgy and has some STRIPES in it LOL, maybe the gray will grow in more gracefully……

 

ah who am I kidding, gray NEVER grows in gracefully!…….it must look really bad or shocking to some, because you know how if you like something new on someone you will usually tell them you like it?  Even if I don’t like it I will tell them I like it just to make them feel good even if they really look WEIRD, because I am a NICE person and want to make people feel GOOD…… Well….LOL not happening folks….so it really must look weird…….

OH WELL!

Hugs and smiles everyone….because I am SMILING!  Even if I look WEIRD…

Happy Birthday to my beautiful Natalie

I was in labor…in the hospital for 3 days.  The doctor was trying to stop you from coming.  But you wanted to be here.

General Hospital was on the tv in the room and I was hurting.  I remember your daddy holding my hand….we were both so young.

Then they took me into the delivery room.  I wanted to stay and watch General Hospital on the black and white tv but you wouldn’t let me.  That’s ok…even though I was really scared, I was really excited too.

At 5 lbs. 2 oz  and 18” you were so tiny and cute.  I didn’t even get to go to my one and only and very first baby shower because you were born 5 weeks early, so the family put a shower together while we stayed in the hospital for 3 days.   I was ok with that….I had a new baby girl, and back then…we didn’t know what we were getting until you were born!

 

 

You were your daddy’s princes from that very first day!  and still are to this day…

 

 

 

 

I guess baby’s eyes were always blue, but yours….were bluer than the ocean…I’m glad they eventually turned green like mine…

 

 

 

Everyone always told me how beautiful you were and that you looked like Cindy Brady on the Brady Bunch!  You took forever to grow any hair….I did what I could with it

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some days I couldn’t do a thing with it!…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were days when you wouldn’t let me do anything with it.  You were very strong willed….and still are……

But those curls….oh how I loved those curls!  Even though you hated them…

You went through lot’s of stages……….we all did…and still do…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Remember the “Glam” shots?  No one could make you more beautiful than you already were, your skin has always been like a porcelain doll..

 

Sometimes I wanted to scream when you did your make-up and hair…but it was the 80’s and we got through it…

High school…ah the good ole days!

Just try and remember that when Madi puts a little toooooo much on….hehehe

 

 

I remember how you seemed to grow up overnight…and became my friend and not the alien from mars that I thought I had given birth to….with a teenager of your own, I think you know what I mean right?

 

 

 

It seems like forever since I have seen you.  I look at your picture every single day.  I look forward to our phone calls almost every single day.   Last year’s visit seems like forever ago….yes…you are even more beautiful today…

 

 

Even though you will turn 40 tomorrow January 29th, you will always be your daddy’s princess……….and my baby girl….always have been, always will be.  Thanks for the picture (above) that you sent me today….you look so happy….

Happy Birthday Natalie

I love you……..

We miss you……….

Can’t wait to see you………

Love always

Your mama…

Good morning sunshine!

The “Little Rascals” came this past weekend while my son went to a “geek” electronics convention  in Las Vegas.  His friend had tickets so Mike, Camille and friend drove down to St. George on Thursday, dropped the “rascals” off on Thursday night and headed to Vegas.

My husband is such a good sport…either that or crazy, probably both, but he would never say no to me…so he watched the “rascals” on Friday, (while I was at work) then  brought them to my office so we could have lunch together, after lunch I went back to work and Huh-honey took the “Little Rascals” to the playground at the park.  This helped to take in some of the day and wear them out (a little)(actually he was the one worn out). When I got home it was dinner time, bath and jammies, it had been a busy day for them.   It didn’t take them long to fall asleep.

We had a great couple of days together.  It was short but sweet.  Mike, Camille and family friend returned to our home Saturday evening.  The “rascals” didn’t get in bed until after 9:30 …. they needed to leave our home by  8 am.    Camille had a Sunday School class to teach and needed to be home before 1pm.  It is normally a 4 1/2 drive so they needed an early start.

Lauren was up at right after 7 am and I was waiting for her on the sofa.  She immediately announced she was “starving” so I quickly fixed her some cereal…

As we were sitting at the kitchen table the sun was starting to come up and the sky had a beautiful orange hue with blue background. 

Lauren:  “Look at the sunshine  waking up this morning Oma!  It’s like giving us a hug…..It’s like a breath and light”….

“Right Oma?”

(sigh…..BIG sigh)

Me:  “Right princess”……….

From the mouth of babes….it keeps me in perspective….

This is why I miss them so much

Ryan

 

 

 

 

                               Owen

 

 

 

 

 

Lauren and Bob

she is still small enough to be held…

 

 

I am glad they live within driving distance…

My “Little Rascals”