Thankful Thursday: January 2014

January. Already. ALMOST February. WOW.  I took down all the Christmas.  (Amazing how much I put out.) And went ahead and decorated with hearts.  I'm trying get things that have a storage spot and are just automatic swap-outs.
Makes me happy. :)

Home-Sweet-Little-Home

We've had some nice weather days.  Mostly low 30s high 60s, and dry.

Donut goat planter, new Shepard's hook, patio, deer, windsock (really like this-need to find a replacement)

 I have a little planting going on.  Love how perennials come back.  Love their little 'peek-a-boo' new growth.

Clockwise: pinks, live oak, salad bowl; wine weigela, grasses, pansies; growboxes greens (dug up a couple of times from one on the dogs, I now have no idea WHAT is planted where); perennials: baby blueberry bushes, thornless blackberry, kale, pansies/asparagus,pansies, pinks, yellow bells, orange trumpet bushes/pansies; asters, weigela, Asian jasmine, pansies; sand cherry, elder Mexican tree, agave; goat planter: pinks, viola, sedums.

I'm experimenting with perennial greens this year.  So far I know kale can do our summer and winters.  Back home I want a place in the yard where I can just let these grow year round.

Lady, Mav, Reba, Molly

The pooches have LOVED our new fence and the warm days.  Officer Maverick is ALWAYS on duty.  Unless he is sleeping.  What ever he does, he does 100 percent.

 On the cold (FREEZING) days we had lots of snuggling inside.  Our little (camper) home stayed toasty with just two small electric heaters.  Still figuring out the best way to keep our water from freezing.  We have a new puppy, and since she is crate training, I decided Molly and Lildog needed a refresher course too.  They really aren't too thrilled about pupsitting, but it is what it is.

 We did some local road tripping.  Molly and Mouse (pup) went with me on a cold (FREEZING) night.  Pros.  Lady, Mav, and Molly went on a lovely day and we stopped and checked out some other RV parks (none offer what we have here) and the lake.  Lady and Mav got to go in Petsmart and Petco for the first time.  Lady was perfect (as always), and Mr. Maverick-who used to be the fastest leg hiker in the west totally controlled himself!!  (I was one PROUD mama:)

3 yro granddarling, Kale's other grandma has been watching him everyday, and we have him at least once a week.  Love this kid. 

I am thankful for my family.  Near or far words can't describe how much they mean to me.
I am thankful for our camper.  Safe-sound-and pretty.  Love it.
I am thankful for my hubby. What a gift he is to me.
What a lovely life we live.

September 2013

Not to much going on here this month.  It has been cooler and we did have rain. 

LOTS of rain.  The Dry Devils River had water for many days.  Its really just a run off, sure comes in handy.  This is a very dry area of Texas. 

 

Because of the soaking rain my grass seed took!!!  WOOHOO!!!

 

 

Because of the cooler weather the 'surviving' plants are now 'thriving'.  This false sunflower is a hitch hiker from home.  Gonna save the seeds to sprinkle in this yard. 

A friend gave us this kitchen island, we are going to try it where the extra fridge is.  Need to figure out some type of table to go in that spot.  This might work.

 Grandboy, Kale, is here most everyday, he loves the dogs.  And, most the time, they love him.  He is fun.

 The doggies are loving this inside living.  I know they miss green grass to roll in, but we are working on that.

DS, Taylor, brought up his half-husky, half-wolf dog Coon.  She fit right in.  What a lovely coat she has. 

 Because I now have a new lap-top, I can copy pictures posted on facebook by my far-away kids.  Ms. Audrey is now a 2nd grader. 

Granddarling, Aria, is now nine months of preciousness. 

I'm ready for a quick trip home to see my other granddarlings. 
Can't believe September went so fast, but I'm ready for some fall.
~God Bless~

August 2013

August was a wonderful month spent with wonderful people.

First, a day-cation with my bestie, Donna.  We drove up to lake Texoma state park.  And played in the Red River on the other side of the dam.  We went in both TX and OK.  Then to the LDS Temple in Dallas where the primary was having a special day, then to Mesquite, where Donna grew up.  Great memory lane with a great friend.

We got to pop in and see these grands, Jeremiah, David, and LauraJune.  June had her first loose tooth!

Then these people came back to TEXAS!!  DS Taylor and fam have been living in Maryland and now they are home!!  Grandgirls Katherine and McKenzie are just darling!!

Then Taylor's family came 'out west' to visit us!! 

Brilliant DIL Lindsey brought a water pad sprinkler thing and we had an afternoon of wet fun at my other DIL's tiny green yard (my yard has stickers). 

I just can't get enough of these people!  Katherine is almost 4 yro, Kenzie is 15 mos. 

Katherine helped her daddy hang some windsocks in my dead tree.  What a big girl.

Then back home to spend a day with these grands, June almost 7, David almost 5, Miah almost 4. 
They helped me wash the river rocks I brought home from Colorado, for Granny's rock bed, and replant her front porch planter.

Granny got to help me watch these two.  Fun.

 

Then I got to spend a day with my grandboys, David, Miah, and Kale. 

I guess all in all you could say my August was pretty GRAND.

July 2013

{hubs bought me a new lap top (not the ususal hand-me-down) so I can now connect to the internet and blog blog blog!!}


July was a great month, hubby and I went to Colorado, where he worked on a family member's cabin.  We were there a week and LOVED the cool weather, running water, green trees, wildflowers, and pine smell.

hubby and I, 3 family cabins

Everyday was overcast and cool.  Just lovely.  We were able to go to IKEA, Camping World, The Container store, and a huge local nursery. 

When I told hubby these were on my bucket list he just laughed.  Then said Cabela's store is on his.  We will be going to this store later this year. 

 Back at our out of town worksite camper home, we saw a lot of grandboy Kale.  He is now 2 1/2 yo and has mastered coloring with chalk, washing his shoes, being quiet during church services, using his words, and is well on his way to being potty trained.  I love two year olds.

Mav can't figure out his reflection, Cuz Oakley, Reba, Naptime in the bathroom, Naptime with grandboy.

The pooches are enjoying inside camper life too.   

Life is good.  Very good.

Thankful Thursday: 5/23/13

What a great week!!

First DIL brought her 3 yro nephew, Nick, out to visit for two weeks.  Then SS, Mike, brought 2 yro grandboy, Kale.  Oh, the fun these two have. 

Kale (red hair) and Nick (brown hair)

Red pom pom bush blooming in goat planter, veg plants, asparagus shooting, rose cutting looking happy and green...

My little garden is a growing:)




Then, we found a 2000 fifth wheel to buy!!!!!  WooHoo!!!  With a BIG lot to rent!!!  Double WOOHOO!!

2000 King of the Road, Mulberry tree, and our view out the back

Of course I love our little 2006 Clavier, but wowzers!!  What a beaut!!
We will be fencing in our lot of the pups, and grands (when they visit), and some grass seed for the dirt.

 I can see two of my kiddos from our parking spot.

                                                          Around the corner another kiddo.

WOO...HOO...!!!  Ready for the tour????

On the left (and end of camper) the living room.  Two rocking recliners.  Heaven.

 Around to the kitchen, up stairs to bath and bedroom.

 Look at the counter space!!! Oooo-la-la!!  AND a sunny window for my plants!!!

Up the stairs into the bath, corner shower, sink... (my sweet, nosy, LilDog)

Potty room (with cabinets above toilet) and linen closet (with washer dryer hook up).

 Cabinets in bedroom.

Bed and full closet.  Snooperviser LilDog sitting on bed, pulling and spitting out her burrs from the yard...that's MY girl!!

What Lildog thinks of all this moving and traveling.  Poor LilDog...

I'm so thankful for work.
Thankful for all the work available in this area and how it is helping my family.
I'm thankful for little children, 2 and 3 are great ages.
I'm thankful for my hubby and my children and grandchildren.  They fill my soul.

Thank you God.  You are good ALL the time...

~God Bless~

Thankful Thursday: week of 5/16/13 in review

This week we got to go on VACATION!! To see our kiddos 15 hrs up north. We had been planning on driving up there sometime this summer, but when my SS, Aaron, called and invited us up for he and his new wife, Liz, were graduating college, we jumped at the chance!!
What a beautiful couple. SDIL, Liz, received her masters, SS, Aaron, received his doctrine, both in civil engineering. Wow. They were just too cute.

My SD, Tiffany, was there too, so we got to soak up our granddarling, 6 1/2 yr old, Audrey.  Beyond lovely.  When we see her we see her mother and smile.

Lots of picture taking.  Love these people!!

On the way there we saw some  LDS historical sites we decided to stop at on the way home.  Big smile:)

First Adam-Ondi-Ahman...

SO pretty.  And beautiful weather to be wandering around in!!



Then Far West...

This was SO awesome!!



Then Liberty Jail...

Intense.



Then a trip through hubby's grandma's home place where first we got a great start to his grandma's rose bush, and some bachelor buttons.  Next, we dug up asparagus growing in the fence row out in the country side.  

White bucket of awesomeness, Red Climbing Rose, Asparagus roots

Hubby has fond memories of picking the shoots in the spring time with his dad.
Now we'll have it for our grandbabies to pick:).


THEN we drove back to West Texas.  Home-sweet-temporary-home.
Gone only four days, but I missed my babies. 

Angel wing begonia, aloe, gold dust, and moses in cradle plants

 I'm so pleased to find my  little piece of moses-in-the-cradle has rooted.  I accidentally cut the one stem while cutting back some starts for a dear friend.  So happy it forgave me:). 

 My wee little veggie garden is loving these warm (but not hot...yet...) days. 




 My goat planter is in its spring glory...

sedums, small day lilies, local wild plants, and a powder puff bush

ahhh...spring...

Sunbathing: Reba, Lil-Dog & Molly,  Maverick, LadyBelle 5/13

And my puppies enjoy our return!

I'm  so thankful we were able to go visit Aaron and Liz and enjoy this big event with them.
So thankful Tiffany was able to bring grandgirl Audrey, and they both had time to spend with us.
I'm  thankful for the weather, the sweet hubby, and the safe drive.
I'm thankful of the church history and what others have gone through for my freedom to worship.
I'm thankful we were able to go down hubby's memory lane.  So good to enjoy his history.
Glad to come home and find everything safe and sound.
Thankful for the kiddos here that keep an eye on things for us.  
Its good to be me:).