Jake's birthday # 8...what a MESS!!!

Take a good look at these nice clean-cut young men.




uh-oh, they are turning into party animals!!!




who are you rowdy hooligans, and what have you done with those nice clean-cut young men?





One last picture of the "little rascals"...Buds.

Thanks to my friend, Iris Wedgeworth, for the great ideas for making an 8 year old boy's birthday memorable.

Here comes our ride!!! YEEEEHAAAAAWWWW!!!

We took a day trip to Stillwater to visit my mom and dad.
what a thrill!!
Thank you, Thank you, Nikki and Tim!!!!!!!!!!!

These three busy girls decorated mom's house for Christmas and baked Jesus's birthday cake.







Even Aunt Phyllis got to come over for a while. An added blessing.

The party's ooover. just warm memories are left, and they make me smile. Christmas joy.

 

Cookie Party Day was cooooold and warm all at the same time

What a great day for a cookie party! No rain, 28 degrees all day, lots of hot chocolate and wonderful friends who took time to come and decorate cookies, catch up with each other, take pictures as their kids sat on the very fluffy and old Pebbles, sign the tablecloth, chase the deer, count the babies Jesus on the tree, and go on a "kitty hunt"...but, wait, there's more! too much to put here.

The final count was 33 kids and 16 adults...add me and we had an even 50 folks, from 8 months old to ???? here. That added up to lots of hugs and laughs and catching up!

Here is a before picture:



and Jaime (she is the one who taught me how to blog) and Christy and kids:

Beautiful, meaningful, easy for most ages to do, Christmas ornaments

Now you can keep those beautiful Christmas cards with the old master paintings of the Christ child. All you need is some craft glue (hot glue doesn't last past the first season) and some of those string beads that you can get at the dollar store.
If you want to watch while listening to Christmas music, go here: www.KSBJ.org

Three peas in a pod

This was taken at Dee Ann's recently and is on Tim and Nikki's 2008 xmas card. I think I need a fathead of this one or a wall size mural.
They remind me of the girls in "Little Women."

something special and old, and young..what is it?

It's little AJ in the outfit his mom and uncle Tim came home from the hospital in a looooong time ago.

riding Linus

such a beautiful day for a ride. Linus did great.
so, after spending a lot of money on his training, that ride cost me how much???????

thanksgiving weekend 2008

Look who's here!!

oh boy, oh boy!!
Aaron Joseph has arrived.
He made his appearance Nov 14, 2008 at 1:45 pm.
I know, I was there!!!! and I looked at the clock when he popped out.
and then I took a whole bunch of pictures. fun fun fun.

Here he is modeling his birthday suit. He's just minutes old.



Here is the proud dad, holding his little football.




The first family portrait.



Jake gets to hold him at home. He's looking forward to showing Little Joe all kinds of cool stuff....like fishing, sunrises, and how to make cinnamon apples?


this basket has been in the Hobart family (my dad's side) since his sister slept in it as a baby. That makes it about 80 years old. I slept in it, so did my brothers and sister, and their kids. Now, that is good stewardship!

6 hours of an all-girl Saturday afternoon

beautiful fall colors right at home

this was taken from the garage during late afternoon sun.
so easy on the eyes!




and along with fall season is TEXAS TECH football!
This has been a VERY good year for the Red Raiders, and there's more to come!

 

it's been a lot of years since I did a mosaic...about 30!
this was a fun project for my granddaughters. I had to hurry up and finish it before they outgrew it. Allisen kept asking "are those broken plates? why did you break the plates?"

a very fun weekend with 5 girls

Allisen and Loren learn the finer points of "mudding" from Kiersten. Kiersten learned these techniques at summer camp this year.

stay tuned for more fun activities filling up 6 hours yesterday afternoon.

Linus has graduated.

I finally got to ride Linus yesterday, after a quick turn-around trip to Caldwell. Holly met me there and we took Linus to her house afterwards. Linus will get some good riding time with Chelsea in the next month. Linus is Buff, with a few bare patches on his runp where his fellow paddock-mate (a mare) chewed on him. Linus is showing his back-up skills. I finally get on, after Linus is all pooped out. Finally, a drink at Holly's house. Linus was glad to be there. Picking Jake up from school is always fun. The dogs get to go.

Glen is showing off.