Happy Birthday Jill

Happy Birthday to my "baby" girl! I can't believe it was 26 years ago that God blessed me with you. What a wonderful day........you are such a treasure....you were a beautiful child and now a wonderful friend. I thank God for the gift of you every day. I love you!

Hilton Head

Here at Hilton Head with my closest high school friend, Laura. It's been a lot of fun helping her decorate her new villa. Finally got some sun today. I've posted a few pictures on picassa. Fill all in more later.......

Shopping

Yesterday was a blast! I have no idea how much money I spent but I kept it to a minimum. I only bought one non-essential - some Brighton jewelry for me. It was at a great discount so I did it. Kinda nice to treat myself every now and then. The girls all got along really well. We're already talking about doing it again. Jill Irwin and I knew our daughters would get along. It just took us to get them together in the car for 6 hours! :)
Today Kim and I have been working around the house. He's been painting the hallway and I've been trying to balance bank accounts. What a dull job! I just finished washing the kitchen floor and now I'm back to the computer room to continue to organize. I still haven't even walked into the sewing room. I will do that during Kim's games this week though. Probably all day Thursday too since he'll be fishing with Dan.
S till waiting on the bee man. He's supposed to show up today. The swarm fell out of the tree but now the bees are on the ground and back inside the cable box!!! Beeman told us not to go back there until the bees were settled down. Well, they never left!!!!! We'll see what he has to say today.

Spring Break!

I love spring break! Of course, I spent yesterday cleaning the pantry, doing laundry, and starting to do some organizing. Had to be done! I'm hoping to get some spring cleaning done and a quilt top finished. We'll see! Of course, today was wasted. I tried to pay bills and the printer broke. So Kim and I went off to Fry's and bought a new printer. YUCK! Gotta do what ya gotta do! Going shopping with Jillian, Jill Irwin and her daughter Stacey tomorrow. Getting excited! Jillian just told me that this is the first trip she's taken with Curtis since he was born 2 years ago! I'd say it was about time!

Still have bees. The bee guy was supposed to come out on Friday but it was pouring. Hope he comes when the rain stops cause they're still here!!!

Love to all!

Kaylee's Baby Dedication

Yesterday we saw Kaylee dedicated to our Lord. She looked so cute in her white dress with little blue and green dots. Dan and Kaylee put on a great barbeque spread afterwards at their house. It was a wonderful day! This is a picture of Kaylee being held by her Godmother Ashley, with her Godfather Matt, Dan & Kristy. More pictures on picassa.

They're back!!!

Yup....we have bees again! Kim and I couldn't believe it when we looked at the tree and they're back in the same spot. The beekeeper is coming back tomorrow morning to see what's going on. I think he may have been more surprised than we were. His wife actually said "They can't be back. I have them in the pillowcase right here!" I actually found myself apologizing! "I'm sorry but I'm looking at them". DUH! Check out the progression of pictures. I'm starting out far away and then coming in to give you perspective on the size.

In like a lion....

It's been so windy here the last few days! Hard to believe that February has come and gone. This month the weather usually changes quickly to summer-like in Houston. I actually turned on the A/C on Saturday only to need the heat on Sunday! Strange.

I had THE BEST DAY yesterday! Jill, Jacob and Curtis came over Friday night and we all went to the fish fry at the church and then to Stations of the Cross. They spent the night so they didn't have to drive back and forth to Pearland since they taught NFP Saturday morning. I had so much fun with Curtis! He got upset and wanted Jillian after they were gone about 10 minutes (he had bumped his head on our "fort"). So I took him to the park with a bag of old bread (for the geese) and his bike. He had a blast! Some of the geese actually scared me - but not him! He's not afraid of some big old goose - just don't turn him loose around a butterfly! HAH! When we came back to the house, Kristy and Kaylee came over. I swear that little girl gets cuter everyday - inside and out. She is really reving up her motor to crawl. That is just the cutest thing! She'll let you know she's tired of the floor too but arching her back as if to say...."OK - time to get me upright!" I only heard her fuss for about 15 seconds and that was when Kristy put her in the pack-n-play for a nap. Then she was out! Amazing! What a wonderful baby!

Check out the pictures on picassa....lots of the kids but then again, something scary. I was sewing in my room this afternoon and just looked out the window. We still have some dead branches in the trees from the hurricane (hey - it's been winter!) and I was looking at the brown when I noticed that in the middle was the biggest bee hive I have ever seen! This thing is immense! I've posted a few pictures of it too. Kim thinks he can take care of it.....scares me to death with killer bees in the area now!

Missing dad........didn't talk to him yesterday since the kids were here. I'm amazed that the pain from mom's death can still feel so fresh. They say time will heal....I can't imagine. I picked myself a book on coping with a parents death. I still find it hard.......people tell me that I'll never be the same. I'm not sure I want to hear that. Time will tell......