COVER UP

I had these…..

Booooring!

I had this….

Cute!

I also had this….

 

Sooo, I did this…

That's better.

I put them up…

They match my spices.

And my clock…

And my knives…

I like them.

ALL SPICED UP

I had lots of these….

And one of these….

I had some of this….

So I did this….

I like it…

It goes nicely in my red and white kitchen.

Oh, and I also have one of these…

Don’t exactly know what I did but it started to hurt really bad while I was on vacation so I went to the Dr. and he said it is broken.

Now I have these….

It doesn’t hurt anymore!!  Nothing does!

ONE YEAR OLDER AND WISER TOO…

HAH!  Older maybe but not so much wiser.

This is my favorite birthday picture of all time…

My son sent me this picture when he was deployed to Afghanistan.

I just had to share it.

I WENT TO CALIFORNIA

for this…

and this…

and this….

and lots of these…

 

And lots more…

WHO ARE ALL THES KIDS AND WHY DO THEY KEEP CALLING ME GRAMS?

Christmas here was the usual busy time. We have 14 grandkids now with 2 more on the way. The oldest is 12! 

For some reason when I gathered them all into a circle to open presents, it hit me….

WOW!  THERE A LOT OF KIDS HERE!

Usually when we get together, they are all over the place and never in one place together.

 

They never were really still enough long enough to get a good picture. We are rather a busy wild bunch.  (Note the one standing on my table.)

I handed out the presents one at a time by age.

I was a fun time.

BET YOU DON’T HAVE ONE OF THESE IN YOUR BACK YARD

My Josh is bored. School is out until the 11th of January so his creative side is coming out.

This is still a work in progress but look at it so far.

This is the climbing tower we have.

It a big old cement thing with hand holds on it.

He put boards and sticks on the top to spread things out a little.

 

He’s hooked the hose with a sprinkler onto the tether ball pole and it sprinkles on to it all night.

He rolls the hose up and brings it into the house during the day so it can thaw.

It has caused all sorts of strand formations.

I think is is very beautiful and clever.

       

That’s my boy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I am such a blog slacker lately but I have been very busy.

Here are a few pictures of my Christmas house. I really went simple this year.

My dear friend Mearritta gave me this  old window so I hung it up and decorated it.  If you look close you can see that I added some white vinyl birds on it.

Just a few berries and snowflakes on the beam.

My glass snowmen I got at a garage sale a few years ago for $1.00

My tree and mantle.

My new shelves and carolers.

Up close

My Christmas China with big red balls in the tea cups.

I put bows on my lampshades.

My Santas above the pantry.

 

I put all my nativities on the bookshelves.

My favorite Nativity.

Snowmen in the dining room.

HO HO HO

The dining room.

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

PS. Our family ended up with 5 stitches in a chin  of one and one splinted splinted finger on another yesterday. Today one went to the doctor with a high fever and a goopy eye so yes, everything is normal here.