Mother's Day!

What a great Mother's Day I had. This is how I spent the day...I started out having breakfast with all these cuties. I had all six of my grandchildren at the house and Beth and Carrie fixed us the best french toast with homemade syrup. It was yummy but the item that was the biggest hit was the chocolate milk. I think we went through almost a full gallon of milk. The girls couldn't keep it made fast enough.

After breakfast we started our wait...the wait for our missionary serving in the England Birmingham mission to call/skype us. The wait is a very stressing time especially for the mother (me), so while we were waiting we decided to go outside and do a photo shoot. Not often I get all six grandkids together at the same time. Our busy 13 year old Jessah doesn't get to come often so we all get excited when we do have her. We had alot of fun coming up with as many different poses as we could and of course everyone had to have his/her picture with one cousin and then another.

Finally we got the call. It was so fun talking to him. He even has an english accent. Apparently I am now a mum instead of a mom. Made me feel like the queen mum. Of course Matthew thought we talked funny too...so American he said. Humm...how things change and he has only been gone a year. He loves serving in England and loves his wonderful English friends that he has made.

The kids had a blast talking to Uncle Matthew. We didn't want him to forget the chaos it is when we are all together. He even tried to get his dog's attention but there was just to much noice and to much was going on here and Lily didn't catch on. He got to stay on the line for about 45 minutes. We didn't want to let him go but there are rules we had to follow. We are just thankful for the time we got.

My next stop was to the home of the "grill master" He treated me to the most wonderful, juicy steak. He knows exactly how I like it....rare. I had a wonderful day and was treated like a queen.

To end the day I went to visit my own Mother. She is the best but I forgot to take my camera snap a picture of her. Thanks Mom for all you have done for me and my family. We all love you.

Happy Mum's Day to all!

Birthday Girl!

Today is this cute girl's 10th birthday. It is hard to believe that Reagen, my granddaughter is already that old already. It seems like just yesterday that she was born. When she was born she was a tiny little baby and now she has grown into this tall beautiful girl.

Speaking of babies, she also loves them and has already promised to babysit her newest little cousin, Avery, when she gets a few years older. She enjoys getting a little practice now.

Here are a few other cute guys she got to hang out with this weekend, Hunter and Connor. She loves trying to keep up with Connor too.

Here she is with little sister, Faith and friend Sedona.

Happy Birthday Reagen, we all love you!

Party, Party!

I have the best family. This next week will be my birthday (Tues.) and no I am not saying how old I am going to be but to celebrate my sister Kathy did a birthday luncheon for the girls in the family. My Mom, sisters, sister in law (same as a sister), nieces, a cousin and daughters came to help me celebrate. We even had a couple of cute little great neices and 2 of my grandsons. My sister Kathy always makes things look so cute. It was raining outside so she cleared out her family room and set a big square table in the middle so that we could all sit together out of the rain and cold. This beautiful table setting is what we arrived to. Kathy makes it so fun. She had a little party favor for each of us under our napkins and 3 guest had fun little prizes tapped to the bottom of their chairs. Here is a picture of the food. We had crosiant rolls, chicken salad and strawberries with best fruit dip. It was all yummy!

ne I had to take a picture of these beautiful flowers and that little plate next to them had some truffles from See's Candy on it. We could pick from a lemon or raspberry truffles and let me tell you they were both good but the lemon ones were definately my favorite.

Here is a picture of our group. I had one neice and baby that had already left. We are so lucky, our family loves to be together. We try to find any reason to get together and have fun. Thanks you guys...love you all!

Party #2

Since Carrie was already in town for Party #1 the girls decided to do our family birthday party today too. Beth went all out with her decorating here at home. I picked Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner and this is how she set it all out. She always makes sure there are flowers on the tables. She loves flowers. These are the goodies we put on top of our haystacks. Here is our table setting. The picture really isn't that good. It looked really cute. It's hard to tell but the center piece was filled with pastel colored eggs and flowers. Great, I will be ready for our Easter get together. I can't leave these out, my favorite cake is Chocolate Coca Cola Cake. It is the best but has a pound of butter, chocolate chips...etc, not the best for you, but oh so good, so we only make it once a year for my birthday. This is the first time we have made it into cupcakes but it worked out great. They were sooo Yummy!

Here is the cute little bunch that came to help Grandma celebrate. I had run to the store and when I arrived home they had balloons and crepe paper streamers decorating the house too. Thanks everyone, it made the day great!

Aren't birthdays wonderful...now if we just didn't have to get another year older to have one!

New Yard Man

I have hired a new yard man...isn't he cute? After the several freezes we had here I had alot of dead leaves in the trees and bushes and then with the recent winds they have all ended up on the ground in my backyard. I can't believe I have 4 large trees in my small backyard, nice shade in the summer but the dropping leaves are out of control during the winter months. So this weekend when this cute guy showed up and offered to help me with the yardwork I decided to take him up on the offer. We ended up with 11 black bags of leaves. We trimmed a few bushes and got rid of alot of weeds that have sprung up now that the weather has gotten warm. I know ladies you all want to hire my new guy but sorry he is not available.

Of course little sister wanted to help to. We really needed some bubbles while we were working. Made for such a wonderful side affect to yardwork. She actually helped some to but was more into the break times.

Of course when you have hired help you always need to offer them some refreshments at break time. Juice boxes seemed to be the perfect thing. I wonder if I could get those "little" men on the table to help too?

Now big sister was another story. She wasn't really into helping so she stayed inside and watched the same movie twice before she came out and offered her help. We were just finishing up but I decided she needed her picture taken too.

I still have some leaves to bag up (we ran out of bags) and I need to spray so that the weeds won't decide to show up again before I am completely done. I will then be ready for the sprinkers to be turned back on after their winter break and the grass to green up again, maybe get some flowers planted and a small garden. I wonder how my new guy is with the lawnmover?

Thanks kids you were great help and remember they are not available to hire out.

This is a new adventure for me. I will be blogging about my passions...my family, friends, quilting, scrapbooking etc. Hope to see you often and I will show you all about me.