Daisies-One Of My Favs!!

Container Garden

My White Knight!

My "WHITE KNIGHT" has finally arrived. That is what I call my new ride. After years of hand me down company vehicles, the silver "mini van" bullet's dashboard was like a video game. I was constantly grabbing the owner's manual to see what new colorful indicator symbol meant. The mechanics at the shop knew me by first name and when the driver's side window went down three inches and stayed that way for weeks, it was time to bite the "bullet" (so to speak) and find a new chariot for me. I love my new Honda Pilot. It is a totally different ride than the "mini" and cleaner too. The "new car" smell is heavenly and I think someone should bottle the scent and make it a perfume......ok...maybe not but ah....inhale...hold....exhale!!!

And The Winner Is........ME!!!

I don't post many pictures of myself on my blog. Probably because I am the one always taking the pictures. So....here goes!

I received an award at work for one of the seven keys we have adopted at our campus. The category I won was (ready for this) "Pay Fantastic Attention To Detail." My whole fam damily was there and I am sure they were thinking, "Guess they haven't seen the inside of our house or her closet!" Well, anyway.........I like my award and LOVE my job!!

Really?

What goes on in an eleven year old's mind at times? Well, let's see.......
11 year old brain: I'm jumping on my trampoline, shooting the basketball at the hoop. Up and down, shoot! He SCORES!!! HHMMM.....I should really have a mark on the tarp that I am bouncing on like a free throw line. (Hard, hard thinking) Light bulb goes off....I am off to dad's shop. Running, running, digging thru the shop shelf. HEE HEE!! Run faster legs....shake, shake, SHAKE.....point, point, POINT....I for sure will know where to stand/bounce to shoot the basketball!!
Yup-Florescent ORANGE spray paint.......gotta love an eleven year old's thinkin'!! Sort of McGuyver-like.

"We've Been FLOCKED?"

HUH? Yeah...that is what I said too last nite when Smack and Frick came and said "COME AND SEE OUTSIDE." One would think that with FIVE....FIVE (5) dogs, one of the four legged, man's bff would make a good watchdog. Dakota will start barking at a leaf blowing across the yard but NOTHING (NADA) when it is 9:30 pm on a Sunday, pitch black out does one hear a WOOF! So, out we ran and this is what we found. AAHHHAHAHAHAH!! Pretty funny!

EASTER 2010

Spring Clean Up For My Tiny, Orphan Garden

My tiny, orphan garden is my theory. I call it my tiny, orphan garden because it has many different, single plants/flowers. And as the garden grows each year, its colors, textures, size and fragrant blooms remind me of my boys. Just as they were babies, toddlers, boys and young men, as my garden grows, so does my crew. They seem to change overnite just as a flower starts to bloom and their true beauty is right there for all to see.

For some weird reason, I can't comment below the pictures. The first is the BEFORE shot. The second is the AFTER shot and the third is the TWO WEEKS AFTER shot. The very last picture is my patio table. It looks like someone grated up sidewalk chalk and sprinkled it all around. What it really is......POLLEN!!! You know that stuff that makes you go ACCHHHOOOOO!! Oh, bless me!! My eyes gets itchy, nose gets stuffy, throat tickles and you go thru a box of Kleenex in day. YEAH, POLLEN....I hate the "P" word!!!

Happy Birthday, Mama Cink!

I'll be the first to admit, I am not good at sending birthday, anniversary, etc..cards. So this is my birthday greeting to MaMa Cink. She will be 93 (I think)!! That is truly amazing!!!

Ah...Spring Break!

Day TWO of Spring Break-oh...I should back up and recap Day ONE.

Day ONE of Spring Break-took van into shop. Sweet talked it to keep running and not stall on the way. Made it to shop. Now it is the thermostat and water pump. Silver bullet spent night at shop...waiting on hose for water pump. Went thru some boxes of frames and decided Tuesday will be a fun day and work on pictures to print. Took a nap kinda. Between the lawn mower and kids in and out of house..well, you get the point. Then Nichol and I ran to Sam's Club for the basic staples that keeps everyone nourished. Frick and Frack had an away game but I stayed home since van was to be ready for pick up and then that changed. They lost 10-4-ouch! Smack played with neighbor kid. Then ate Alfredo noodles and watched Desperate Housewives from Sunday. And of course, did mountains of laundry.

Day TWO of Spring Break-still waiting for call that van is ready. Crew is gone to new lease and come back Wed night. Cleaned my bathroom, washed some blankets so they are ready for night or cold baseball games, had a little lunch and am thinking a nap is in order. But you know the minute I drift off to dreamland, the shop will call and say the van is ready. Need to stop at Sam's after I get van because, yes, there yesterday, forgot the dang bag of dog food!!! GGRRR!!!

Frick and Frack Baseball

A Little Baseball Anyone?

Random Pictures

My Brother and I

SIL and I

She so cute!

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!