Green Thumb in the family

Chesley has worked so hard on our yard this year. Great job my green thumb husband. Above is our TX christmas tree that we see from our patio.

Side of the house has rich green bushes and flowers. Can you tell I know, no names and am yard illiterate along with a bad speller. I just love looking at the beautiful yard and feel blessed Chesley loves keeping it all up and looking beautiful.

I thought these were pink last year??? Do they change color every other year?

Beautiful big yellow flowers. :) haha. Really sad I know. 

Tomatoes. Next time maybe you'll see some red peeking through.

Last of the Pictures from May 2010 Memories

Chesley with his latest Great Grandson. Hunter.Sweet baby boy welcome to the family.

This is my cousin Sheri and cousin in law Fay. It was so so great seeing them both at my moms. What a surprise that they were here in SA babysitting Fay's grandchildren. Very enjoyable visit and hoping for more either in AZ or CA.

We finally have our back yard back. Beautiful green grass. Sure beats our muddy back yard. Tomatoes are growing and flowers are beginning to bloom.

Still green but when they turn red we have enough tomatoes to set up a stand out front and sell them. Might just pay for the cage we have them growing in.

This is our rain gage that we can see from the porch. We had it up to 5" already this year. Hoping for more rain.

That about finishes our 2010 May pictures.

Random Pics from my fun time in CA

Breakfast at Uncle Bills in Manhattan Beach. Yummy.

Scooter Rider all dressed for the take off.

Ready for swim lessons.

Arnold Media Room.

Secret reader for Malyn. "Mother Mother I Want Another Mother"

Third cupcake and she's.....

out.

Beckers Bakery. Best Cookies. Malyn's was gone before we got outside. Malyn and Stacy had a surf board cookie. Mattie Sue a butterfly and Nama a flower.

Mattie Sue's 2nd celebration on her actual birthday. At school where she gave out cookies from Beckers Bakery.

Third celebration for lunch at "Islands". We surprised Mattie Sue with the waiter bringing her this delicious ice cream cake and singing Happy Birthday.

Disneyland Pixie Hollow and Malyn dancing the fairy twirl.

 

Tinkerbell and the girls, after Tink sprinkled them with pixie dust. I have some other darling pictures but for some reason they aren't loading. I'll try later.

What a fun filled time we all had. I miss my precious little princess or fairies, which ever they want to be at the time. I'm so very blessed!

 

Happy Birthday Mattie Sue (5 days early)

All set up and ready for the kids to come.. Stacy did a great job of having candy necklaces and pipe cleaner crafts for the kids. Along with...

a castle jumpy. Just what the 5 year old ordered.

Before anyone came we all took turns. First Nama.
Then mom then dad. Oops, where did the picture of mom go? sorry.

Happy Birthday Mattie Sue

Finally the parents are gone............

Princess hopscotch and home made magnets.

Sue reading "Tea Party for Ruby" Darling book.

My little gymnastic girl. Is that Stacy? O no, it's her daughter, 30 years later. Don't play tricks on an old lady!

Glow sticks.

Mattie Sue with halo of the glow stick...

Malyn with glow stick halo..

Sometimes it's hard to stay still. :)

CA: Parks, Picnics, Pizza, ..

From the plane to Old McDonalds for chicken nuggets. Stacy had packed a chicken salad and crackers for our picnic. We met frineds and enjoyed the beautiful CA weather. Friends swinging here but Polliwag park is filled with fun things for the kids to do. This is one of their favorite places.

To the Arnolds house and the opening of the boxes that were sent ahead along with what was in Nama's suitcase filled the rest of the afternoon.These dolls are from Auntie Jenny from St. Martin. they love them Jen.

We walked to the outdoor Market downtown. And ended up at the "$1.00 night" Pizza place.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN

Early celebration for Ryan from Nama and Poppy. Ryan loves cupcakes and blowing out candles. So that is exactly what we did.

This is how old my first grandson will be Friday.

Toy Story, Cars, and Thomas the Train were all inside this bag just waiting for Ryan to finish studing the picture on the bag. He was a little overwhelmed with the surprise of a cupcake and the "Happy Birthday Ryan" song.

O what a boys dream.

We were trying to figure out how to get one of the Thomas the train engines working and so Ryan picked up the directions and is reading it to help  Poppy figure it out. Between the both of them they got it fixed.

Samuel was there along with mommy and Nama Dotty.

What a fun surprise party. Happy Birthday Ryan.

Happy Mother's Day

This year was a stay at home Mother's Day. Relaxing  with light lunch of chicken salad and fruit , chocolate covered strawberries, and brownies, and putting a puzzle together.. Laughs and golf  going on in the other room. 

Closer look of the strawberries, from Jenny. Yummy! Also I've managed to break our camera. The one we just bought last year. The cover won't open completely. :(  Again, maybe, happy birthday Pam. :( another camera. Hope not. We'll see? Murphy's Law, I'm heading for CA this week. iPhone will have to be my camera.

Jenny: "Don't worry dad, Father's Day is right around the corner". We'll get a smile out of you then. And the lunch won't be so girly.  ---Do you want a camera?