One of My Favorite Things

All my life I have loved the aluminum cups that my grandmother kept at our camphouse. I would always drink out of one of them when we were there because they keep your drink so cold! Well, because we don't get to use our camphouse anymore, my grandmother gave me the cups but I haven't used them (some time I will have to tell you more about our camphouse and lake). For Christmas last year my sister (RDJ) gave me the pitcher and cups in the picture (they are from athomeamerica.com and are on sale for $19.99 right now!). I finally had an occassion to pull them out and use them. We celebrated my honey's birthday tonight (his birthday is tomorrow but we have church so we celebrated tonight). I made a pudding cake and my parents, grandmother and sister LEH came over. We had a nice time. We celebrated with my honey's family on Saturday. We ate a yummy lunch of hamburgers and all the fixins.

Work began on my parents house today. I was there this morning when the workers arrived and boy let me tell you, they didn't waste any time. They moved a bunch of my mom's plants and then helped us move some other things that were in their way. They seem to be a nice group of people. I just wish I could understand what they are saying! It is hard to believe that they should be finished in 7 days.

Well, I think that is all I have for today. I really hope that everyone is staying cool. I did outside work today and let me tell you, it was hot. So, if you have to work outside. . . .please be careful and make sure your kids are being careful when playing outside.

Happy Tuesday to you all (and you too Mrs. H's mom!)!

Happy Father's Day!

I want to wish a Happy Father's Day to all of those special dads. We were able to get both sides of the family together for lunch today so I got to eat lunch with three special men for their special day, one being my honey (I surprised him with a father's day gift because he does have a son who happens to be with our Father in Heaven), my dad who is the greatest dad ever and my father-in-law who is crazy! We had a nice meal and then we went home and took a nap.

Tomorrow work begins on my parents home. When we left them at around 7:30 this evening, they were going home to take up their wood floors and begin rolling up the carpet. They are staying in their camping trailer for the duration of this job. I hope they don't have to stay in there too long!

Well, I am gonna wrap it up. I have a really busy week ahead of me and I need sleep!

Hi Mrs. H's mom!

Happy Birthday

Today is my Dad's 64th birthday! Happy Birthday Dad! You are the best dad a girl could have! To celebrate his birthday, we went to see Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ( I have seen it twice) good movie, went to eat lunch at Fish Daddy's (yummy) and then b-day cake at their house. Good day! :)

Ok, now to catch up from the last week or so. Last Monday I did some tree trimming and received a gift. The gift of poison ivy. Well, it has been a week now and I am still itching terribly and it seems to still be spreading. Today has been especially bad because it has been hot. I am afraid that I am going to have to go visit the doctor to get rid of it. Oh, well.

As you can see I finally put up a profile picture of me, not some random thing I have taken a picture of. I am in the orange shirt/white sweater and the beautiful lady with me is my Mom. This was taken at our Ladies Retreat in April.

Two Saturdays in May, I spend time with my honey at his office packing. His school is building a new building so he is having to move out of the dungeon (I mean basement) to a temp. office until his part of the building is completed in a year or so. There is so much junk in a school's business office to go through and figure out what must be kept, logged and shredded or thrown away. That was not a whole lot of fun. He is almost finished which is good because they are moving his office on Wednesday.

Tomorrow I am going to try out a new Rachael Ray recipe. I will post the recipe after I try to dish. It includes shrimp, butter, olive oil and noodles.

Well, I am going to close for tonight. I have to go put clean sheets on the bed so we can go to sleep!!

Have a great week (especially you Mrs. H's mom!)!!

Happy Mother's Day

I just want to wish all of you wonderful moms out there a very HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! You have been blessed and are a blessing.

A New Week

HaPpY mOnDaY!!!! Can you believe that May is already here?

Monday addition:
I had a busy day of mowing and tutoring and not much else to discuss. I do want to remind everyone that this week is "Teacher's Appreciation Week". Don't forget to thank the teachers that you know for a job well done. It is not the easiest job in the world but it is rewarding! THANK YOU TEACHERS! YOU DO A GREAT JOB!