Happy 1st Birthday Owen!

Happy Birthday Sweet Owen. What a wonderful day 1 year ago when you blessed us all!

Happy Birthday Jason

32 years ago seems like just yesterday. You blessed our lifes then and continue to bless us everyday. You are an awesome son, husband, dad, brother, grandson, and friend. We love you!

My Christmas Thoughts

I am just going to say it. I don't like drawing names because I like giving gifts to everyone. You guys know how much I like giving you people things and now you are taking it away :(

Okay, but in reality I can really appreciate the money saving value of picking names and with the money we all spend traveling it really does help.

So here is my proposal and I call it the Santa Clause "If you want to MAKE a small gift for everybody, then that is okay and if you don't want to make a gift then you don't have to and nobody will think less of you."

It doesn't have to be crazy crafty but you could make a mixed CD with way sweet music or a dozen yummy cookies for each family or an updated family photo with a magnet on the back.

So that is what I think.

Remember the Alamo

Some pictures from our trip to downtown and the Alamo. This is called the river downtown with shops and lots of places to eat. We took a boat tour on the river it was really fun.

Visit To Austin Texas

I got to spend a week with Becca and Steve in Austin. Thought I would start out with some pictures of their beautiful house. Of course I never did get any outside pictures but just a few from inside. This pictures is from when we went out to dinner in town and got to eat looking over the river. It was so fun.

Christmas Thoughts

We thought we might draw names again but do it this way--
Jason & Camila--draw Edwin & Jessi
Kasey & Eric ---draw Jason & Camila
Becca & Steve--draw Kasey & Eric
Edwin & Jessi--draw Becca & Steve
Mom, Dad, and Santa fill the stockings


next year we just move up one more name so Jason & Camila would do Becca & Steve in 2009 etc.
Let me know what you think
Love and miss you all-Mom

"My baby brother is getting married"

It is kind of a bad pic, but I think we all remember...

My weekend projects

About 5 years ago I made some of these cute pot monsters for some friends of the family. I have since lost the pattern and had to do these by memory for my grandsons. he is such a cute monster I plan on delivering him before Halloween to my guys. Of course he has my favorite candy in the top.
Then there is this fun new recipe. Well when I was looking for my monster paint pot directions I found this brownie recipe I had saved and wanted to try. So Grandma and I baked it and was it good--called Chocolate Crunch Brownies. Would love to share the recipe and the calories.

Quiet lonely weekend

Grandpa and I were really sad because there was no one to play with at our house. This is the lonely picture of our back yard without our grandsons.

My Misty...No My CZ!

I have a horse. Okay the guy we rent from has a horse that I like to pretend is mine. His name is CZ and he is a palomino stud horse. Everyday I save my apple core from lunch and feed it to him when I get home. Now when my car pulls up and I get out CZ comes to the fence to get his apple. If I don't have an apple then he smells me to see if I am hiding it. I use to feed him whole apples but Eric got mad because he said I was wasting money. I don't think you can put a price on friendship so I still sneak CZ a whole apple every once and a while. Yesterday I told Eric that I needed a horse brush for my horse, he cruelly reminded me that CZ is not really my horse but I am still putting "horse brush" on my x-mas list.

Did I mention that I also have a cat. Eric gives her left over cereal milk every morning, so she hangs around. He also gives her geese insides. It was pretty gross.