Another Birthday

Today is another birthday in our family to celebrate my sweet soul mates! next year we will be celebrating his big one! but for today
we are just enjoying and doing what he wants to do!

having what he wants for dinner and
watching him enjoy playing his new little video games we got him.


how sweet it is just to enjoy the simple pleasures that bring a twinkle to his eyes!

happy birthday my love,
from all of us!

70th

What a difference a year can make
last June we were all worried and concerned for our eldest sister
who had a seven heart by pass.
our prayers were answered for she is
here celebrating her 70th birthday
today! I am referring to the lovely lady with the white sweater and flowered dress in the middle.

she has come a long way since her
bypass, she has and is still learning to
take things slow and to give up things
she can not do. she is actually listening to her body. somethings however have still remained the same but that is why she is loved by the 5 of us and the rest of the family!!
so to my beautiful sister I wish you a very happy birthday!!

wii fit

In April we bought my son the Wii Game system
so he could play updated video games and to take with him to college
so that he could have something to help him de-stress, my son has decided he is not going to take this with him to college he is going to leave it here at home,
so the next thing I know is my husband came home with the newest game
it is the exercise game called wii fit. it is totally AWESOME!! I am so hooked on it. you can do
so many things with it and literally it is playing a video game. but man it kicks your butt!
it monitors your weight,your BMI , you can do yoga, strength training, aerobics, balance games,
and much more. I never thought since my youth that I could become so hooked on a video type game( yes, i admit it centipede was my game and of course pac-man!)

I have been doing this for about 12 days now and am so enjoying it, of course when the triple digit heat cools down in my neck of the woods I will get back to walking, bike riding.

but for know I will stay fit with wii fit!

sunshine

" If you carry your own sunshine with you
there will be fewer dark places in your life"

Patience

" Patience is a necessary ingredient of a Genius"

music saves

Last Summer my son took this photo
while he was on vacation with his Aunt
and well today I have had it on my mind Music does Save, I have been blessed that my son is very talented in teaching himself how to play many instruments. he has several of them
but I am grateful that both of my children appreciate music from all walks of life.

music is many things it is the sweet
sounds we hear that when put together with words become a popular song. It is also medicine for some people, and it can give one such a soothing feeling. it can bring you joy, make you weep, dance, and just transform and paralyze you with it's glorious harmonies. and more importantly it is good for your soul!!

I find it such a shame that music is becoming another obsolete subject in schools due to budget cuts and they wonder why the youth of today is always getting into trouble?! well ok there are many social reasons that some youth take a wrong turn, I have been so fortunate that my kids
stayed on the right path.

I believe the saying in this photo

MUSIC SAVES!!!!

Angles Calling A.K.A. Voices in my Head

For the last few weeks I have been feeling the presence and hearing the voice of my angel brother EVERYWHERE!,( in my sleep, in the day time, literally, it is an eerie yet soothing feeling. I don't know what he is telling me exactly all I know is that I am hearing his strong
sweet whispers which is funny because my brother was not one for whispering!( at least I don't think so!!) anyway I have been trying to make sense of it.
This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened to me, I hear the family angel voices of my mother, father, and my eldest brother from time to time. in the past I have been able to understand and make sense of whatever I was hearing, but lately this is quite unclear I know when he wants and needs me to understand the message I will hear it clearly. so until then I guess
I will be listening profoundly to the voices in my head and ears!!!

Family Tree

This photo is part of my husbands
ancestry. They are my husbands "Granny's" great grandparents and
as you can see this photo was painted and is quite an antique!

when ever I see this photo and others
like it when we visit Granny, I wonder
what they're lives were like? what they went through? and what they would be like had we gotten to know them. Family history has always been interesting to me, and to my son perhaps that is why he is going to major in the study of anthropology.

I know a little bit about our granny's
family history. so I thought i would share. Granny's family hails from Colgate Oklahoma, as did Daddo's ( my husbands grandfather) and Daddo's family ran the cemetery and there is a whole lot of family buried there because of the small pox epidemic. Granny's family ran a ranch. as a young girl granny would go squirrel hunting and fishing for dinner with her father. when she grew up and later married Daddo they would all go hunting and fishing. Granny tells us many interesting facts of her life growing up. ( in a future blog I hope to share!)

so my new project for myself is to put copies of these wonderful photos we have in a scrap book
I will let you know how it turns out.

life

" Life is not how you survive
the storm





but how you dance in the Rain"

something that struck me

" Charm Can mislead
and beauty soon fades
The woman to be admired and praised
is the women who lives in the fear of God"

Proverbs

I was reading something a friend of mine wrote and this quote was on it
and for some reason it stuck in my head so I thought I would share.

taking it line by line- Charm can mislead that is a true statement so many times weather a man or a woman we fall to charm, Beauty does fade on the outside but I always believed that beauty was really on the inside and thinking about this yes, a person's inside beauty can fade quickly when they fall into the wrong path. The woman to be admired
well that is an absolute believing in GOD you can never go wrong his grace proves that each and everyday .
though I may be out of context here after pondering this a bit I feel for my self
that I will try not to let charm mislead me, I will let the inner beauty grow gracefully and the outer beauty will fade with age, but I will always be a woman who will be charmed, letting beauty fade and hope to be praised and admired for my belief in our Lord for he is the light in all that I see.

Sweet 16!!

Today my sweet little girl ( ok she is not a little girl
but my baby she will always be) has turned 16!
sometimes it's hard for me to believe that she
is only 16. she has a maturity about her that I never had at her age and I am thankful for that! she also amazes me with her love for the Lord. she has great
loving friends and she is my chick flick buddy!

and she has dreams that I know she will achieve on her own terms.

today she is celebrating the way she wanted to we are going to make what she wants for dinner one of her favorite dishes is shrimp kabobs and then
of course instead of a birthday cake she had me surprise her so I got 4 really great gourmet Cupcakes and we placed 16 candles on it! ( she did not want us to sing Happy Birthday she says she is to old for it I informed her it is tradition in our little family so we sang it rather fast! and her gift she wanted from us is an airline ticket to visit a friend in Texas next month.

She took a variety of Cheese Cake slices to her girls
small group tonight.



she got her driver's permit and will be taking the behind the wheel class so she can get her license before the summers end( part of me is ready for that the other not so sure!)

the photo down below is her dream car that she says one day her dad and I must buy for her!
I keep telling her none of us had a brand new car at 16! ( I still have never purchased my own car!) but someday she will get this car for whatever she is determined about she usually finds a way to achieve it one way or another.


anyway , here is wishing my little girl
okay, my beautiful 16 year old daughter a very happy sweet 16th birthday.

a loaf of bread

" Life can be like a loaf of bread....
it just depends on how you slice it!..."

My Favorite Guy

My Husband had Shoulder surgery
Friday due to shoulder impingement that was caused by some jerk of a co-worker. he has been in a lot of pain from this and even though it was inflicted at work , he was denied workman's comp so he has taken a different route and well needless to say has a lawyer involved.

The Doc said everything went well
they had to shave 4 Cm off of a bone that was pressing down and hopefully that will relieve the pain he has been in. he was told he would be off for at least 12 weeks but hopefully it won't be that long. he will begin physical therapy next week. he has been uncomfortable since Friday but that is to be expected after all he is sleeping with a sling on! and he can't wait to take a shower on his own and not have me
give him sponge baths one more day then he will be able to!

we ( the kids and I ) are taking care of him the best we can, I know this may sound cheesy but from the day I met my husband, I knew he was my life soul mate. This feeling has only gotten
stronger over the last 25 years. I know it will remain the same for the next 25 years!

after all he is my favorite guy!!