Spring Break

I totally got these pictures out of order. This was the end of the beginning of my spring break on Wednesday. The day started with the last picture. So I guess you can start there and work your way up to this picture. Bed after bath. Rod, Jess, Jen, Lola and I watched TV. Great Wed. spring break. Watch for Thursday's spring break day.

Ryan and Auntie Jenny playing free fall.

K Bobs for dinner at the Tootles. Jenny and I called at just the right time wed. night. Jess and Rod said come on over we have plenty, the meat was on sale and I cooked it all. Rod made the marinade and Bob Evens made the mashed potatoes and green beans. Thanks guys, it was a wonderful dinner. Lola waited outside for us to finish.

One of the high lights of lunch with Jessica Wed. was filling out Ryan's first fundraiser. I helped him get the prize, a screaming monkey. !!!???

Met Jessica for lunch at a sandwich place near her work. We had to take this ourselves. But we wanted to capture the moment. Picture is only my arm length away so it's a little to close for me but what a fun lunch break. Jess, perhaps your arm will reach further away.

A day at the Loft

Thank you Jenny. I had a fun, relaxing day at the Loft. I actually didn't get as much done as I thought but sure had fun watching my daughter work. ha. We also had some time together since it was sort of slow with spring break going on in Texas. See the bag of projects next to me. Next time I'll go upstairs in the quiet work stations if I really want to get anything done. It was so much fun seeing old faces that I hadn't seen for a while. It was nice to be a visitor instead of a worker although I did enjoy helping out when I was there. I was so surprised to see the deliveries coming in. They were about 4 times larger orders then when I was there. The Loft has grown soooooo much.

Spring has sprung

Ohio family and friends come and visit us. We are warm and sprouting.

Hoppy Easter

Position set for evening.

Chesley working in the yard. Notice the sweat print he made on his shirt. What a great husband. Now how do you think he managed that. For those who don't know me, I collect hearts.

Yes, they sleep in the master bedroom and they have a sofa for a bed. Chesley fixes the sofa up for them each night. I got up early and took this picture of them sleeping. Actually they woke up just as I was taking the picture.

Mitzi and Maddie, this is for you Malyn and Mattie Sue. They say woof woof.

Baby Sitting

OK girls, just this once, I'll throw you a kiss. Now I must get on with my exploring Nama's house.

Relaxing at Nama's house.

Ryan turns the truck over each time he gets it and checks out the wheels before he drives it. Must be a guy thing.

Ryan is trying to whistle to the music of the MP3 player.

Familiar faces? Ryan stared at this picture a long time. Think he recognized his Nama, mom, and auntie Jenny and auntie Stacy?

Ryan picking out a book for me to read to him. Time to put the diet books away and get children's books to replace them. I'm sure a bunch of dust come out with that book.

That's all folks! His final song on the MP3.

Austin Overnight

This is how we started the trip, after arriving in Austin. Shopping. Name of store was Uncommon Objects. Nice way of saying antique store. As I walked through it I saw may things that I remembered in my younger days. Like 50 years ago! Of course the high light of the store was the game we played (Guess What the Card is Saying).

Book Club, minus one (very missed) at dinner. Now it was very good and very garlicky. There was a pizza that had a sunny side up egg on it. Along with other things. But I was told it was wonderful. Voted best of the pizza's at the table.

Only in Austin the "hey cupcake!" trailer.

The Cupcake group. Leader, front and center introduced us to this place. They actually injected the cupcake with whipped cream. Now why hasn't this been on Oprah?

We played cards until we couldn't keep our eyes open and brains working.

Our Banker. Well actually I think we had two bankers. I don't know, I never needed a banker. I never won. And I could take care of my own money because I sat on the large sofa and had plenty of room.

Our dancer of the group. She got up and danced each time she won. (We've signed her up with Dancing with the Stars).

And finally the reason for the overnight. We went to a fundraiser for Caritas in Austin. The speakers were Ron Hall and Denver Moore, the authors of our first book we read for our book club. "Same Kind of Different as Me". We loved it so much that we named our club after it, "Same Kind of Different Book Club". We realized that the authors were going to be speaking in Austin Feb. 28 so we quickly got the information (not me),other members of the club, got on the ball and arranged the wonderful fun filled shopping, dinner, overnight and got tickets for the luncheon featuring the authors of the book.