a Year of flowers

Husband (at my suggestions) purchased me  Flowers for a Year.
I am so lucky to have him.   I get a dozen roses every 30 days.  

Enjoy August

Blast from the past

Blast from the past,  went dark for a year.  I will attempt to do better.

Well lets see, its late summer 2013     A lot has happened since I posted summer 2012

Mother and niece came to visit fall 2012 -  Meranda from Louisiana, Mom from Florida -  scheduled flights 45 days in advance and a hurrican plans on hitting the coast the day they fly out.   Well we got them out and to Utah.   Meranda met her Poppy and Nanny Wags.  Poppy being her paternal grandfather and stayed an additional week with them prior to flying home.   During their visit we went to Moab Utah and Arches.

Lizzie turned 9, October 2012.   We had face painting and poppy was painted as Batman,  and Lizzie was a kitty.   Pat McDermott in Sandy Utah is a fantastic face painter.  Plan to use her every year!  Lizzie loves it.

Christmas, hmmm thats a blur.  Laughing... when I can access those memories I will let you know.

Pictures and more details to come later.  Thanks for reading.

some days hard than others

Recently, aside from having a wonderful daughter and looking at her and feeling such emmaculate love, its hard to find things to be happy and joyful about.    Some days are good and some days, not so much.

Kitty n Lizzie

Relaxing, less thinking found!

Hmmm

So this past week we lost our cat. And he then chose to come home 4 days later. Wow we're we sad, very happy to have him home. Other than that, everyone is healthy and happy. Lizzie last day of second grade was June 6. She is excited for summer fun. Planned and registered for summer camp at a historic farm she goes to sometimes, that's later this month. Need to line up some other fun activities as well for her little buzzing 8 year old brain.

Ready for less thinking and more relaxing.

Oh before I forget! Fingers&toes!!!
Lizzie painted her toes and fingers at Wednesday nights activity, So pretty

Memorial day weekend 2012

Memorial day weekend - for the most part, weather sucked! brrr howdy.   Friday weather started to come and temperature started to drop.  Mid day saturday it was raining and mid 50's - brrr.  

My fantastic hubby got me a new motor for my Lockerbie Pottery Kickwheel.  I havent used the lockerbie that much because to center larger pieces of clay you have to keep the speed up manually (your foot/legs).  Now that I have the motor assist,  I use the motor to help me center it and kick the rest when I am shaping etc.   Oh yea,  I throw pottery - been doing it about a year now.  So got this new thingy - want to use it right? too cold outside to throw (400 lb wheel  or so...)  so we let the ramp down on our toy hauler trailer - and wheeled it up into it, shut the door and turned on the heater, he he he!   was great, so while the weather was yucky I was able to throw clay for a bit.  Will try and take some pics.

Sunday the weather improved and we enjoyed a portion of the Hill AFB Air Show at my parents home.  Thunderbirds were impressive.  The most enjoyment was having lizzie run back and forth on the porch spotting planes and yelling "...that was AWEEESOME!!!"   emphasis on the awesome of course... with her fingers in here ears when it got too loud.   Enjoyed a nice visit and good food.

Mondays weather was fabulous, mid 70's - ran some errand and took a long drive in the 86 Wagoneer, doggies in back - to utah lake to let the pups jump in.  Sun felt really good.   Grilled steaks for dinner.  Was an enjoyable extended weekend.  Good nights sleep for monday night, prep for the week of work.

Life is Good.

Chocolate!

M&Ms   separate by color?  or just munch them all at one randomly, num num num

Normally I separate by color, throwing care to the wind today and just munching.  LOL