Friday, March 11, 2011

It is happening…

It is happening all around me.  Blossoms, buds, finally the sunshine FINALLY! 

I don’t know if Hunny Bunny is related to Lucinda…could be (hehehe) you know how everyone is related somehow somewhere, but Hunny Bunny has been at it again.  Hiding those delicious wonderful Cadbury Carmel Chocolate EGGS throughout the house. 

It happens as soon as the stores decide to put out the Easter candy, you know, before Valentines is over…the shelves start doing there transformation before you even get use to the idea that Christmas was just over with before you even put the turkey on the table for Thanksgiving!  Anyway, I always have a good time, putting out the eggs….I mean Hunny Bunny has fun putting out the eggs. DSCN7720 I have to be careful and not do a lot all at once because my honey has a good sniffer…he can sniff those eggs out LOL and every once in a while….he forgets a place they might have been hidden in the year before…Nah, they are always found…except last night, I couldn’t believe that this one was not spotted for over a week. march2011 023 I felt sorry for him cause he just had a hankerin for a chocolate caramel egg, told me he hadn’t had one in a day or so and wondered if Hunny Bunny had forgotten about him…so, I actually gave in….and had to POINT IT OUT!  OH DEAR……how obvious was this one?  Do you see it, the golden egg just sitting beneath the lamp shade?  I need to get more creative I guess. LOL  I am not done…I have until EASTER to keep a stash always on hand, and then he will be CUT OFF for another year because these only are sold once a year. LOL

This made me smile, my sweet Ryan got off the school bus (it drops him off right in front of his house, he still had his back pack on!) and my son Mike had a kite….ready to go!  Ryan was thrilled…..the condor landed on the roof once but eventually soared, along with his little sweet spirit!

Camille my DIL made another beautiful cake, this time for a friends little girls BD party.  She is incredible and so amazingly talented!camilles cake

this time last year we already had started planting in our garden.  I know because I took pictures of it.  Not this year.  I think we will wait another month.  I just don’t trust the weatherman just yet.  We have had so much rain the dirt is still pretty heavy and muddy.  Not to mention that Huh-honey is working hard on another project he started….”the wall”.  It really will be nice when it is finished.  There is still a lot of work to be done.  He is pouring “the wall” a little at a time.  Then there will come the dirt.  Not just any dirt.  He will find some really nice dirt, then put it through is home made sifter, to make sure there are not any large rocks in it, then add his own little secret ingredients to the dirt to make it just right for planting and producing beautiful plants and foliage…..

when the wall is poured and the dirt is in, and the plants planted he will finish the outside by adding some nice stone.  It will be beautiful and will make that ugly plain boring red brick wall so much nicer to look at by the pool.  We did not put this red brick wall in…the builders of the planned community put the walls in all around to divide the lots….they did a very poor job….not one wall has rebar or cement in them to stabilize them, they are just shallow empty bricks, pretty scary for such a big wall…it is hard to find good quality workmanship now a days….or that the builder got away with it (probably not inspected).

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I snuck up on Mr. H when he was done for the day and he was just “thinking”.  I love to catch him when he is just “thinking”.  He usually has a smile on his face…I know how hard he works around our home to make it beautiful.  He always puts in a good days work whatever he does…he should be satisfied, he deserves to smile.  He makes me smile……

Know that is why Hunny Bunny puts those delicious caramel chocolate eggs around for him to find…..

Friday, February 25, 2011

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 orDSCN7682a 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.

 

 

 

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! feb 2011a 004

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.

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….

Thursday, February 3, 2011

“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).

DSCN7568 I thought it was so intriguing that the moon was stuck in the branches of the tree….

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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…..

 

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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….

 

 

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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…

 

 

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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…

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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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….

 

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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

 

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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…

 

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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…

 

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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…

 

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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

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.

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this is me before…

it was pretty much all one length, and boring

 

 

 

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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……

 

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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…

Friday, January 28, 2011

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.

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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!

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

Age 2

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

age 5 my sweet gir!

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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…..

Love the dance!

Love the hair!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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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

 

 all grown up! and BEAUTIFUL!

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?

 

 

 

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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…

 

 

Natalie 40th BD 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

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Your mama…