After School Photo Shots

"Pretty Kate" and "Cutie Nate"

Andrew's after school entertainment--gee, I wish my stomach was that skinny.

It is tough to get a good picture of these boys---never still -- never smiling at the same time.

Not a bad one..........still not smiling at the same time....guess it is NOT necessary.

Josh has become a great babysitter.

Spring Inspiration

Katie,this is for you and me. I stumbled on to some old pictures on the computer this evening. What a garden we had that first attempt. This is to inspire us to get going this year. You look like the model of a "Happy Gardener". Little children jumping in on the fun and work. Speaking of little, can you believe how these boys have grown up? Looks like Josh was leading (bossing) and Andrew was doing the work...bless his little pea-pickin' heart.

Looks like Andrew has had enough here.

Look at those healthy, lush plants.

I noticed you browsing the seed catalog today....are you getting the gardening fever yet?

Recycling Chaos

I was inspired by a state trooper in our Sunday School class to start recycling. It started out simple. I bought two inexpensive plastic clothes hampers, lined them with large trash bags, and separated plastic from paper. This all worked great when I made weekly trips to Muskogee. I strongly recommend recycling. The past few months have been different. As I was confined for several weeks from my back surgery and the past month with David's illness and following bypass surgery, things started to pile up. I started to collect and gather the many bags to take to the recycling center a few days ago. I found a collection of old magazines David had decided to part with and I thought this would be a great project for Josh and Andrew. I always remove the mailing labels before recycling.....don't know why....just seems like the thing to do.

So, both boys were eager to accomplish the task of removing labels and bagging the magazines. Josh lasted a lot longer than Andrew.

But, as you can see.....they were both soon consumed with looking at the farm related magazines. They rapidly found several with farm equipment and toys and magazines they requested to keep. It is hard to get the "man" and "boys" to throw things out around here.

You just gotta' love em'.

Fun Photos

Cutie Pie has a new hat!

Nathan is so much fun now - 5 months.

His expressions just tickle me.

Another Background Change

You might have noticed that I like a new blog layout pretty often. I just think it is fun. I know I did it a little early....after all, Valentine's Day is not until tomorrow. Besides enjoying change, a niece wrote to ask me to change my font because she had difficulty reading it........I didn't have any trouble reading it, with the exception of the red letters I used to call attention to a note I wrote...but, anyway--here you go Angie. Happy Valentine's Day to all!

Phoenix , Arizona in January

Just in case you do not know, we did make it to Phoenix last week in spite of the weather. David serves as an appointed member of the National Cattlemen Beef Board representing Dairy. The convention was held in Phoenix and David had many meetings to attend, while I on the other hand was free to roam at will.

The picture below was taken at the Trade Show. A man and woman built all of these sand sculptures on site. It was truly amazing.

The sign below was the theme of the convention.

These sculptured cows below were on the beach....so detailed and funny.
The one close to the front of the picture had a sign : "Heifers Gone Wild".

I had the privilege of spending some time with Shantel who is Hada Tucker's granddaughter.
She has two beautiful little girls and they are so sweet, just like their Momma. We had lunch at an authentic Mexican Restaurant.

This pot of flowers/plants were out in front of the hotel. It just fascinates me to leave ice covered ground and dormant trees to go to a place with flowers growing everywhere. The Palm trees were beautiful too, but I failed to take a picture.

The buildings were enormously tall, but this one captured my attention. If you can see at the top of the building in the middle, there are men painting this tall building with famous people. I don't know the name of the one already painted, but Christine did...she said he carried a flag in the Olympics. The painting appears only about one third completed.....amazing...How would you like to paint those walls? It was really tall, at least 18 levels or more.

Christine is a young friend from our church now living in Phoenix. She is a busy young lady, but took time to spend with me one morning. We had a great visit at Starbuck's. I have know Chistine since she was born and I worked with her mother many years ago.

The view from the hotel room.....tall buildings and taller buildings.

Great trip and we were fortunate to make it out of Oklahoma to go, but I was just as anxious to get home as I was to go....Ahh......Home Sweet Home!