Farmer's Market time

It is time for our local farmer's market. Penny and I love participating in this wonderful community event. Here is just a glimpse of our booth today.

 My daughter Heather helped us today. Appreciated her!!

 Penny's hand painted and dyed wool yarn. Yummy stuff! More vibrant in real time. The sun was hitting that corner when I was taking pics and fuzzed up the shot. The booth beside us is the host tent. You can see their free coffee and water table. A great service to shoppers and vendors alike.

I am blessed. ~Angela

September Photos

 September is all about birthdays for us. My girl is now 24. Heather, how did this happen? Our Baby Shayla (niece) is now 8. And not quite a baby anymore. Cannot believe how fast the years have gone.

They shared a party this year. We never do themes, but this year I did an Alice in Wonderland tea party. Heather loves her some AiW!! I had the dining table set up with roses and cupcakes, cookies, cake, and other goodies. We had turkey and ham sandwiches on party buns with a bit more "real" food. The small photo is a treasure to me. It is of my girls when Heather was 16 and Shayla was 3 months. We had so much fun that day. Did you notice the googly eyes on the roses? hahaha You have to have googly eyes on your flowers for anything with Alice you know. It was a good day.

Then daddy had his birthday next. He and Jaidy were playing around. Daddy was getting ready to blow out his candles. He had a willing helper. A good pic of both their happy faces.

Jaidyn loves my wormies. Glad she is not too girly to get her hands dirty. She would carry one or two around and then trade them for others. Lots of worming loving and then hand washing.

This Little Miss LOVES my poor Timmy cat. They have a love/hate relationship. By looking at the pics, can you guess who does what? :o))) That is a very tight death grip hug she is giving him.

I am blessed. ~Angela

14 years ago my world changed forever

And in a very good way. I became a mommy.
To our Heather. Who was 8. 

We have come a long way baby! Love you.
This is one of my favorite photos. Her and my parents, Poppy and Granny.

The Birthday Girl

Mom loves you honey. I thank God for giving you to us.

Another gift

I received this in the mailbox today. What a sweet thing. I was told since I was proficient in needle tatting, I should move to shuttle tatting. That is hilarious to me! I am not proficient by any means. But I AM appreciative. The book includes a dvd. I will need it! :o) So this is something for this winter.

We will be having my dd Heather's birthday party tomorrow. We are doing a breakfast luncheon. All the favorite fixin's...biscuits and sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, pancakes, turkey bacon, sliced tomatoes, fried potatoes and of course birthday cake and ice cream. Will hopefully get some pictures to post. Her actual birthday is on 09-09-09. How cool is that? My baby will be 22. Don't know how THAT happened!

Our central air is out. Not very good timing with everyone coming tomorrow. The nights are cool, it is the day time that gets hot now. I am doing all the cooking and baking ahead I can. Then reheating some. Just will have the eggs and taters to cook tomorrow. Trying to not heat up the house tomorrow any more than I have to. We might should have planned a tropical themed party instead. hahaha But this was the birthday girl's special request. We let everyone pick their dinners and desserts usually. She choice a white bakery cake with buttercream frosting.

Wedding bells...

Or maybe it is just my high blood pressure? Either way probably. April 11th is getting closer and closer.

We got all the invitations for Heather's wedding completed and mailed today. Glad that is done. She is figuring out that weddings are alot more work than she EVER thought!!! I have got to get to the flowers and completing her veil now. A small amount of shopping needs to be done yet. I need new black shoes. I kid you not, my single pair of black shoes are 16 yrs old! And I love them, but yes. They are very outdated. Have a lil gold thingy on the top. But nice classic pumps. And I have worn them to death. The heals look great and so do the toes. I bought good when I bought these and they have been worth it. My mom told me to toss them as soon as I got my new black shoes. Cause she knew I would go back to them. LOL She is a shoes/clothes fanatic!!! Me, the polar opposite.

Prayers would be appreciated for my Aunt Geneva (late 70's). She is in critical care with pulmonary distress. A sweet woman, one of our favorites. Fighting for each breath must be so horrible. We love her and she is very close to our daddy. I know he must be hurting badly.

I am still dreaming of tulips and spring flowers. The picture is of the lil pile of mini daffodils by the back door. They always pop up first. They are the brightest yellow!

Birthday pictures. Fun day.

(All the lil holes on the cake are where the candles where. If I had put a candle on for each person's age, there would have been 100 even.)

So what's on your counter? LOL Mark got me all these gorgeous mums for Easter. I love flowers. They just make my heart sing. And Penny got me the hugest daffodils too. AND she got us the sweet bunny in the picture.

Here I am blog surfing. Lalalalalalala and what do I find? Sharon had posted a pic of a stitchery she did using MY pattern "A Lil' Birdie Told Me". How cool is that! I asked if I could share her picture with you all.

And this is a pic of my pretty girl Heather at Easter.

The snow missed us! The temps stayed too low and it was ice/sleet. Just a dusting of snow. Mark went into work on half day after waiting for the highway to clear. I am so glad we didnt get what they had projected! We have been very blessed this year.

Look who is growing up on me! Our Baby Shayla is becoming a Miss Shayla. Debbie commented she was loosing her baby look and become more a lil person. I cried out a big ole NO on that one. LOL Aunt Angie isnt ready to see her grow up. But I best be getting there cause she is! And so quickly!! Notice the crazy bangs? Well this winter she cut her hair! Needless to say she is not ready to start her own salon anytime soon! She cut them straight up in a V shape. Go big or stay home is her motto huh? It is taking quite awhile for them to grow and be straighten evenly. But they look so much better than 3 months ago. Little Stinker Girl.

We celebrated our Mom's birthday last Friday night at the local Chinese restaurant. Shayla did very well. I wasnt for sure what she would think of it all as she hadnt been there before. We love it there, but the food doesnt always settle well for me so dont go that often. It is a buffet style restaurant so she found lots to like and even ate some shrimp with Granny. Two funnies (And not meant to offend anyone please.)...I had taken her to the restroom and she was listening to the music. She thought they should change the radio station to country and could we ask please. LOL As we were eating she commented "it smells funny in here". Then asked if we had any air freshener in the car because she didnt want to take the smell with her. She was MUCH better than Heather was when she was young. Shayla said she would like to go back. Sis hated to eat Chinese and we had to order or carry in hamburgers for her. AND tell her to hush about fifty times each visit! LOL She likes it now of course.

Shayla loves helping with Baby Jaidyn. Here she is helping Heather give her the bottle. Look at all that pink. LOL