Musings

OK, one of my best buddies takes great joy in reading this darn thing everyday... (please pray for her)... if I do not update this daily I'm in for an ear full.  So, here are some random things...

Thought #1
I just got through reading this on my daughter in laws blog.. she is talking about #1 grandboy here;

Church  

We started taking Jake to "big" church before Christmas and he's been doing a great job. This Sunday, at the end of the service, Pastor Brent said "and Tony Rader's going to come forward and pray for us." Jake looked up and put his arms up for me to lift him up. He said, "I want to see. I want to see." He still couldn't see so I creeped to the edge of our aisle so that he could see all the way to the front and then Jake said, "I want to see that Tony Rader pray."

It was too cute!

this is the culprit... and we were worried he wasn't going to talk much.

 

 

Thought #2
Shoes, watches, purses.... I love these things... however can't afford to get the ones I want so I dream...

oh man, love these

mmmmm for work

I really really want this purse.....

or this one

I did buy myself this watch last week... not the Toy but it's a trend.

How cute is this????

Need these for my trip coming up!!!!

ok, love me some Yurman

and these are to die for. I just sit at my desk all day... I can handle these!

I'm still wondering who the shoes were that Carrie Underwood was wearing with her "Elvis" outfit at the Super Bowl...

OK, speaking of the Super Bowl, loved the Doritos/Dog commercial and I always love the Etrade babies.

This is my favorite Etrade commercial out right now.  https://us.etrade.com/e/t/jumppage/viewjumppage?PageName=etrade_super_tv_ads  It cracks me up every time I see it.

And the best part of the game was this

This weekend we are doing a Valentines dinner party with all my husbands cousins. We never get  a chance to hang out and maybe this will be a new tradition for us. Should be fun. 

Next week - Las Vegas baby!!!! may have to find me some hot shoes to wear!!!!!!!!!!!

Catching up

Still running low on energy but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Last weekend was very, very busy. Cooking class, chores, church,learning to edit music on line from a really really good teacher,  my #1 son!, cooking,  lunch with grandboys along with their parents Tony and Leslie. All in all tiring but fun. Here are a few pics.

The beginnings of homemade chicken enchiladas.  I may try this one again this weekend to get the sauce perfected.  They were oh so yummy.





Here is the finished product too.

When Clay came over Saturday night to help me with the music, he brought over our newest family member.... grand dog Maggie.  Maggie is a white boxer who is deaf.  We weren't real sure how our big ole Rebel dog was going to handle the puppy but were amazed!  They played and played and played.  So cute together and Rebel was very tolerant and patient.

Aren't they adorable!  Here they are waiting patiently together for treats.  Rebel even showed Maggie how to sit up and be pretty!



After the treat, it was time to brush Rebel.  Ray wanted to make sure he would still be submissive even with a "toddler" pouncing around all over.  It was hysterical.  Rebel looks like a mad dog in this pic but was very very good through the whole ordeal.

Then, when all was said and done, somebody was just plain worn out!

Sunday brought the grandboys... Jake was a Train Conductor most of the day....

Luke likes to throw and catch!Or play with Pops!

Jake loves it when I do this.... no, really, he does!POPS JUST CAN'T HANDLE IT!

hmmmmmm

I started getting sick right at Christmas this year and as of 1/15/10, I'm just getting over this mess. Coughing, sneezing and then no voice. The voice still  makes me sound like a cigarette smokin old woman and I hate it. The cold/bronchitis, whatever it was sapped all my energy and creativity as well. The creativity still is lacking. So... here are some pics to fill the void.  I'm not going to even do captions. I'll let you make up your own.

The Decades

As 2009 comes to a close so goes my 50th year…. Wow. Being born in 1960, it was always easy to track my age…. 1969, nine years old. 1978, eighteen years old… 2000, forty years old. And then there’s this year.

As 2010 looms ahead I’m finding myself very reflective as this milestone gets closer…. 50
Fifty
Fifty Years Old
FIFTY YEARS OLD!!!!

How the heck did that happen? And what have I been doing or what have I accomplished in the past fifty years?

Decade One –
• For goodness sake, the first decade was probably the most eventful for just me… I learned to walk, talk, grew a full set of teeth, lost those and got a whole new set!

• I learned to ride a bike
• I became an aunt
• I learned to roller skate
• I broke my arm
• I learned to water ski
• I learned to snow ski
• I learned to plant sod, yes I did.
• I became a Christian
• I made lifelong friends.. Friends I’ve lost and then found again. Some friends, never really lost but now “reclaimed”… how much fun has that been.








Decade Two –
• I learned to play the clarinet (really, I did)
• I left some of those lifelong friends. Moving to a new school, in a new town I thought my happiness had ended… But, I made more of those lifelong friends
• I watched my father battle cancer and WIN
• I learned to drive
• I performed on stage
• I met husband #2 (yes, before I met husband #1)

• I graduated high school



• I GOT MARRIED!!! (#1)









Decade Three –


• I had a baby
• I divorced and started a long chapter in my life as a single mom. The most rewarding, unsettling, scary, happy time. All of decade 3, my twenty’s was spent single.
• I got a passport and traveled out of the country, on business even!
• I learned to country dance (and did this a lot!)

Decade Four –
• I moved a lot
• I got fired
• I was on Food Stamps
• I went back to college (not for long)
• I got a great job



• My son started high school


• My son learned to drive and got his license

• I got that first phone call…. “Mom, I had a wreck…..”
• I took my son to California for Graduation, all on my own.








• I had lots of bad dates
My son Graduated high school
• I got married (to that guy I had met in high school before I met husband #1)

• I got 3 more kids!!
• My son moved off to school, and I cried.


Decade Five -
• I had too many surgeries
• We bought a house
• We bought house #2
• I buried my dog, and I cried, a lot

• All our kids got married





• I lost my dad and I cried


• I left that great job for what I thought was another great job
• I was wrong about the job thing

• We became grandparents




• And we became grandparents again



Decade Five is just about over.

I have 7 months until I have lived half a century. I still have many of those friends I made back in Decades #1 and 2.



How amazing is that. My heart has been broken and healed too many times and I’m sure that will happen again. By the time the end of my fifth decade rolls around I’ll be grandmother again and hopefully (if news is good over the next couple of weeks) another will be on the way….

I just wonder what can the next decade hold for us, for me. What will I, what can I accomplish… shouldn’t things be slowing down…. Seems like everything is speeding up! I know there are things I want to accomplish. Can I do those things in the next seven months? There are things I need to do! How can I be NEARLY 50?

Boys and Leaves

I had to post more of these pictures. My g-boys were just having so much fun and it was so fun to watch.