Cousin love ....

Declan loves playing and hanging out with other kids

but he especially loves playing with his cousins

here he was just having fun climbing all over Gabe....

 

 

this next one is blurry but I still love it

 

later.....

Jacquelyn's birthday ....

Our sweet daughter Jacquelyn had a birthday

on April 13th

We were able to pick her day of birth and purposely picked

the 13th so that she would have a few Friday the 13th

birthdays.....and she loves that!

 

 

 

She is so sweet and caring...a very thoughtful daughter, loving wife, caring sister and a most excellent mother! We are just so proud of her in her job and how she cares for her family. It's hard to explain how much it means to Johnny

and I how her and Bucky love to hang out with us. We love it!!!

We do so much together and it sure is fun!!

 

We had taco night at the house for her birthday.....she wanted to have

something everyone would love...so typical of her to be always thinking

of everyone else!!

 

I used the same chalkboard from Declan's party to do one for her

I think I'll do one for everyone this year!!

 

 

We usually just give the kids cash for their birthdays but

Jacquelyn and I went shopping together and she picked out

some new clothes......so yay, she actually had a gift to open this year!

 

 

I may have already posted this picture before but it's such a sweet picture

I just had to put it up for her birthday post!!

 

 

later......

 



Fresh flowers .....

I have always said that should I ever hit the lottery

my big splurge would be fresh flowers delivered

for every room in my house every single week!

yeah...I'm pretty easy to please

 

well, I didn't hit the lottery but I do buy fresh flowers every

Saturday for my house now. I shop Trader Joes and not only are their

groceries great prices, their flowers are awesome prices!!

 

Jacquelyn and I usually do our grocery shopping together

on Saturdays and now she does the same as me.

She says fresh flowers on her fireplace mantle are now just

a part of her décor.....haha! She is so much like me!!

Below are the ones I bought this past Saturday.....a vase full

for the table and another vase full on the counter

 

 

in another month or so my hydrangeas will start blooming and

I'll have lots of fresh flowers throughout the house!!

 

later.......



April ....

It's been a long time between post because I had

a bad virus on my laptop....unable to even access my blog to post!

A friend of Johnny's at work said he could fix it and fix it he did!!

thank you!

 

here's my chalk board for April, I don't think I ever posted that......

 

 

I started the month by having some minor surgery on my foot

it was a simple surgery but just a very annoying recovery because

well, it's your foot. And it's hard to do anything when you

have stiches on your foot.

So thankful that I work for a company that allows me to work

from home.....and that I did for 2 weeks. I kept my foot elevated

all that time and my reward is it healed up perfect.

Now I'm wearing a compression bandage with a very fashionable

boot....lovely. But it's the end of April and I'm almost to

the point of wearing shoes, almost.

 

 

Declan's birthday party was March 8th and these dang

balloons are still hanging around.....they have now floated their

way to the back staircase which is 2 story so they are still

there, really up high!! At times they startle me if I catch them

just out the corner of my eye. I popped them about a week ago.

 

 

 

here's my Bradford pear tree that I photograph all of the time

a few years back she lost some big branches from a big snow/ice storm

so that changed her perfect shape, but still pretty

I was stepping out to go to work and she caught my eye.....with the fog

pretty......

 

 

 

later.....