Friday Fill-Ins!

And...here we go!

1. I knew it was love when...I heard those first little cries!
2. My heart can be broken but you always know how to make me feel better.
3. A dog is unconditional love.
4. My how you have done a great job on the bathroom remodel.
5. Can you see all the changes?
6. And the job is almost done.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to reading, tomorrow my plans include maybe scrapbooking but I'm not sure as I don't have any real plans yet and Sunday, I want to hopefully go to Lori's and let her cut & color my hair.

June Updates

Owen Randall Lucas

Well, as you can see our 5th grandchild has arrived and it's a boy! 

Owen Randall was born May 15th weighing in at 9.5lbs!

He's just a little doll as you can see. We were in Lubbock for 2 weeks, 

well I was there 2 weeks, we went the week before Owen was born 

thinking he'd be born any day but as the weekend neared Rick decided

to go see his mom in Oklahoma for Mother's Day and then he came home 

on Monday, then Owen made his arrival on Tuesday so Papa stayed home 

a few days and then came on the weekend to pick me up.

I enjoyed my whole 2 weeks getting to spend time with all the kids.

They are growing up so fast! Molly had her ballet recital on May 19th 

and I got to attend that, it was a treat and she did an awesome job with her part!

I did some cooking while I was there and Molly & Matthew helped me bake

a cinnamon roll cake one day, that was fun. 

Molly, Nene & Matthew working on the Cinnamon Roll Cake

 It was nice to get to spend Mother's Day there too.

And while we were there Callie celebrated her 3rd birthday, we celebrated

by going out to eat and they invited her best friend's family.

Callie eating some birthday cupcake

Matthew celebrated his 5th birthday on May 25th, wish

we could've stayed to celebrate with him but we really needed to get home.

Now for other updates...

I only got 1 layout scrapped in May but there just was too much other stuff

going on to have time for scrapping. 

I finished the Mockingjay book, I really enjoyed The Hunger Games trilogy. 

I was able to finish the book while we were driving to Lubbock since it's an 8 hour 

drive for us. 

I read another book during the 2 weeks I was gone, it was Leaving Before It's Over by

Jean Reynolds Page. It was pretty good, a quick, entertaining read.

I am now reading a book that Randy gave me for Mother's Day - 

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, it is very long and I am 

halfway through. So far I'm liking it. Randy says it's his favorite book and

I can see why a guy would like it that well because it's a story by a man about the 

friendship between these 2 boys growing up as best friends. I will have to wait until

I finish to give my overall opinion of it.

Rick is back to working on the bathroom remodel, he still hasn't put the grout 

on the shower tiles but he's been working on repairing some places he messed up on

the wall when he installed the new bathtub, and he has to repaint some areas. I will be

SO glad when he's finished, this has been months in the works now. 

I made some yummy Chicken Fajita Pizza for my dinner last night, Rick prefers 

Tombstone frozen pizza - I can't even imagine that compared to a homemade pizza!

Today I am trying a new recipe in my crockpot, one I pinned from Six Sisters Stuff - 

Slow Cooker Cheesy Chicken Quesadillas, I think it will be yummy too! It's so easy - just

4 chicken breasts ( I used 2 very large ones), a can of rotel or diced tomatoes, a small can

of green chilies, an 8oz. pkg. of cream cheese - put all that in and cook 6-8 hours on low,

then shred chicken and mix with the juices and cook until ready to put the quesadillas

together, then take a tortilla and put some of the mixture on one half, put cheese and fold

spread tortilla with some butter or olive oil and brown on both sides and serve with your

favorite toppings. I can't wait to try it!

Well, this is a really long entry so guess I better get up and moving, I really want

to spend some time in the scraproom today!

Friday Fill-Ins

And...here we go!

1. Hallelujah! It's the weekend!
2. Right here is where I wanna be!
3. When I was walking the dog this morning, I saw a handful of goose feathers in the road and I thought there must've been a coyote in the area.
4. The alarm clock was ringing and that's how I knew it was time to get out of bed.
5. What were once vices are still things I sometimes struggle to overcome.
6. Fruit & cereal is what I've been having for breakfast lately.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to reading, tomorrow my plans include more reading, posting an update here on the blog and if I'm in the mood some scrapbooking and Sunday, I want to go to morning worship and in the afternoon, maybe read, watch a movie or more scrapbooking!

A CONTEST!

No, not here but my friend Janelle is having a month long contest on her blog over at www.blueskybigdreams.blogspot.com
Please go check it out and you could win some free books for your kids/grandkids, but even better than that you will discover a really cool place where there's always something fun for the reader in you or your children/grandchildren!

Happy National Scrapbook Day & Cinco de Mayo!

Another week has flown by. We are still waiting on the grandbaby to be born. 

I decided to play around with the new blogger layout/templates and boy did I get this page in a mess last night! Still don't know how I got it straightened out. I sometimes don't know why all these entities have to change things but hopefully I will get used to it in time, I did like the way my previous blog page was set up and this one is similar, I should've left well enough alone I guess. 
The photo at the top was taken by my daughter in the fields surrounding her house, so beautiful!
 
Rick got the shower tiles up and next he will have to apply the grout, then we can shower in there! It looks amazing so far, I just love it. I hope I can talk him into working on the guest bathroom in the near future. 

I have been plugging along on Mockingjay (Hunger Games book 3), I think I am liking the way it's going now, I'm not even half way through it though, it's been a busy week and I try to read at night and then I get sleepy and don't get very far!

I haven't done any scrapbooking this week, as I said it's been a busy week but I am going to go in a while and start working on some Mother's Day cards and maybe a layout. I mean it is National Scrapbook Day! I must do something scrappy!

For Cinco de Mayo I meant to make something Mexican in the crock pot today BUT the new recipe I meant to try has diced tomatoes or Rotel which I had planned to use but I have neither! I can't believe it! I was at Wal-Mart yesterday and could've picked some up. I must stock up on Rotel!

I am planning on baking something sweet today too. I found a recipe on Pinterest for Pumpkin Blondies and also Cinnamon Chex Mix, I plan to make both. I may make another recipe I found on Pinterest, I made it last week and the family really likes it, Rick ate several pieces and I took some to Lori and she liked it and has been feeding it to Kique for breakfast. I have just enough buttermilk to make another loaf so probably will do that too!

Tonight is a SUPERMOON so maybe that will trigger my dauther-in-law into labor! We shall see.:)

Friday Fill-Ins

And here we go...

1. After a while, I have to take a break and rest.
2. While I take a break I can read at least.
3. Well, anyway, life if full of ups and downs.
4.  My husband is so good to me.
5. I always crave ice cream in the afternoon.
6. My faith in God keeps me going.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to relaxing and reading, tomorrow my plans include maybe some scrapbooking and cardmaking since it's NSD and Sunday, I want to RELAX!

April Update

This is a photo of my Freebies from the contest I won at www.scrapbook.com. I entered their Pin It to Win It Contest a few weeks ago and to my total surprise I was one of the winners, they gave 5 - $100.00 Gift Certificates. I'm one of those people who never seems to win anything but looks like I can't say that anymore! It was so much fun to open this box of goodies yesterday, I was stalking the UPS man because I'd been tracking this package and knew it was due so all day I kept a lookout for it!
I'm looking forward to some fun hours of using all these great products!
On another scrapping note - I completed another 8x8 album last weekend, a baby boy gift album.
Here's one of the pages:

What else have I been up to? Well, last week we babysat our 21 month old grandson while his mom & dad went to Las Vegas. We had an awesome time! And here's our little Kique enjoying some outside time at Papa & Nene's!

I've been reading too - The Hunger Games Series! I read the first book (The Hunger Games) in about 3 days, then started reading book #2 Caching Fire but it took me longer since I had to break for the babysitting, and now I'm on book #3 Mockingjay. I loved the first book, the second one wasn't quite as entertaining but I still liked it a lot and I'm looking forward to the rest of the story with this last one.

We are now anxiously awaiting the birth of our 5th grandchild, the baby was due a couple of days ago so it could be any minute now! Can't wait to meet the little one - not sure if it's a boy or girl since my son and his wife decided to let this one be a surprise.

One more thing - Rick has been working on our bathroom remodel, it's coming along nicely, he is almost ready to tile the shower surround and then it will be just some last minute/touch up things to be completed.

Well, that's it for my April update. :)