Lunch

Saturday we met Ashley and the grandkids at Cracker Barrel for lunch. The kids have grown so much.

Kaila gave Papa quite a run for his money in a lively game of checkers.

I think she beat him at least once!! Good job!!

Kaila will be in second grade. She is really a "girlie" girl. Her outfit was all matching, even down to her flip flops and the bow in her hair!!!

Bricen is all boy, through and through. He noticed that there was one hole with no "tee" in it on the game at our table so he just politely reached across to our neighbor's table and took one so that all the holes would be full. Then we had to explain to him that to play the game, one of the tees had to be missing, so that, like checkers, tees could be jumped. He understood, and he and Papa got a very good score on one of their games.

We had a good visit, really enjoyed seeing them all!!

Family

We stayed at Greg's mom's house and so did his baby sister and her two girls. We got to visit with them and totally enjoyed Kendall and Kate (and it IS Kate....if I called her Katie, Kendall was very quick to correct me!). The girls were such a joy to be around. They were polite, pleasant, happy, and well behaved. Their parents have done a great job with them!!

Millie worked hard on this cake for the "decoy" birthday party on Friday night. It was yummy!!

The reason for the "fake" party was so that the birthday girl wouldn't suspect anything about the "real" party on Sunday night. She was totally surprised when she saw everyone on Friday night and thought that was the end of the celebration.
Nancy, the birthday girl, and her son, Stosh, who was heading to a fancy dance later.

Nancy, Kristy, and Millie are acting silly!!

Uncle Pat making Alex and Dani take a breathalizer test BEFORE going to the dance. What is with that???? Aren't they supposed to do that afterwards???

And we thought flying would be quicker.....

We thought flying to Pensacola would be a good idea.....easy, quick, more relaxing than driving all day. Well, it looked like rain all the way to Fort Worth, then it BEGAN to rain. And it continued to rain, and thunder, and lightning......which keeps airplanes on the ground. No planes were going anywhere. Our 10:40 AM flight got delayed until well after lunch. DFW was PACKED!!

At one point, Greg was at the end of this line, until I was able to print our tickets at the Delta kiosk.

There were people everywhere. At one point, there was not any available space anywhere.

This was our view for most of the day.....sitting on the floor, waiting for the weather to pass.

At noon, it finally cleared and planes began to depart the airport. I think we finally left at about 4:00 PM.

Our connecting flight in Atlanta was nowhere to be found at that point. We were rebooked on another later flight. Which moved from gate, to gate, to gate. At that point, I just knew our luggage would never make it with us.

It had been years since I had flown at night. It was kind of neat. Greg let me have the window seat. Not the best of pictures since there wasn't much light.We finally arrived in Pensacola at about 10:00 PM. And to my great amazement and relief, our luggage made it, too!!! When I saw it, you would have thought that I had won the lottery!! Greg's sister and brother in law visiting from Kansas were nice enough to pick us up at the airport. We were very glad to see them and even more glad to see that someone had our bed turned back and ready for us!!

We've been gone.....

Been away since last Thursday. Had a great time. Will post more later......

Summertime

Barn swallows have built under the carport again. There are five in the nest. It will be quite crowded before they fly.......

Zinnias that I planted...

Our Jen-Aire grill from Craig's list.......

Haircut

Remember Shane? Morgan's date for the prom?

This is what he looked like on Monday night.......

He asked Greg to cut his hair and Greg was more than happy to oblige......

The end result. I think he looks great!! I know it will be much cooler this summer. ...

Day 3, Monday

End of the day on Monday. Making progress, although not as quickly as Mr. Kelly would like...

Thinking we may just round the corner with the rock and do the rest of the back wall in siding. No one sees it anyway......

Today, Greg got the day off from the garage. He had a dental appointment, bought two more new windows for the garage, took me to lunch, and ran some other errands. He officiated two girl's basketball games tonight and is now asleep on the couch.....

Concert in the park

Friday night, we rode the motorcycle to Indian Springs Park and the Brazos River. Once a month, the city hosts musical entertainment. On the way, we saw all these Model A's at the Hilton. The parking lot was full. They were having a rally.

These are pretty neat looking cars.

The music was provided by Ruthie Foster, a local gal that comes back home occasionally to perform, she has done very well singing blues. We had packed a blanket so we could sit on the grass, and the weather was great. We had a really good time.

Memories

My mom went through some of her parent's things within the last several months. There were just a few things that I requested. Nothing with any monetary value, just sentimental. I remember my mawmaw serving tea from this metal pitcher.

My Papa built this shelf for my grandmother. The picture isn't real clear but it is a small corner shelf made of very thin wood, and held together by metal rods that were run through wooden spools, with screws on the top. It sat behind a chair in her living room and when we were little, we were allowed to sit behind the chair with a dish towel and "dust" all the nick-nacks that were on it. We played with those nick-nacks while we dusted.

I have no idea where the nick-nacks came from, I suppose just collected over the years, and this one with the house and little dog I remember so vividly.

These are more things we were allowed to dust. Then, on the right is one of the goblets that I also remember so well. When we would all get together and eat at my grandparent's house, the kids and the men ate first, the kids at the kitchen table and the men at the dining room table. The women ate when the men were done, enjoying the time to eat and visit with each other while the men went off to watch tv and smoke. When there was a small group there to eat, we all were able to sit at the dining room table and when you ate at the "big" table, you got to drink out of one of the stemmed goblets. That was a BIG deal to me!!

The last thing was the button jar. I don't think this is the actual jar they were in, I am thinking they were in a coffee can. But we would spend many hours sorting the buttons by color, by size, by the ones we thought were prettiest.

These are all such good memories for me, a simpler time when we were kids and didn't have the worries of today. Where we could be entertained by a jar of buttons.....

Sunday - Day 2

We're rockin'.....

This was delivered a couple of weekends ago......

Then, Greg's first day off from school he went shopping.....and got this.....

And then this was delivered.......

We already had a mixer......

The garage was wrapped......

Then Greg went to work. The rocks have to be put together like a puzzle. Greg says there is a perfect rock for each spot....This was before the plumber's pants started....

First day's progress......

It is really gonna look nice when it gets done. Greg doesn't usually like the rocks I pick out to fit in specific places (I guess I can't find that perfect one) so I wind up being the rock mover/helper/clean up person. Mostly clean up person. I learned about keeping things picked up from watching my parents with their home projects. I am thinking as time goes on I may not be such a "neat" person....

Bird update

The doves seem settled in and content. I try to go in the cage every day so that they will get tame to me being in with them, hope to get them to sit on my finger.

I think the bird on the right (darker too) is the male dove. He has been wooing this little gal by cooing and sitting close to her but she has totally ignored him. He will scoot her all the way to the end of the limb, and when she has had enough of his attention, she will fly to another limb and he will usually follow her.I found this neat cage on Craig's for a great price. It needs a new floor in it and to be repainted. A guy at work has offered to give me a couple of pairs of lovebirds and I am thinking we will put them in this cage.

Congrats Katie and Lucas!!

Yahoo!!! Katie and Lucas graduated from Robinson High School last night!!
Congratulations to all!!!

I'm alive.....

Still here. Just been busy. Robinson graduation tonight. Will post tonight or tomorrow.