Life goes on.

Life goes on...YES it does!

And what a busy few months it has been! School, work, projects, house work it all still has to be done and usually with a deadline. So the things that don't have a deadline wait.
Here are a few of the things I have managed to get done ...


Ice cream with Claire
Ice cream with Morgan!

We have had snow!
We have had fires!
I made our church a cross. I also made my mom one for her birthday (that I still need to finish)
We planted our flowerbeds which we are going to finish up this weekend! We also planted a new tree!
We have seen amazing sunsets at lake Tanglewood!
Watched deer!
Enjoyed fun pontoon boat rides!

Claire has been preparing for a ballet recital on May 1st!
Morgan has been preparing for a piano recital on May 15th!

So as you can see we have had plenty of time for fun! haha!

I have also been planning our schools spring lunch and Morgan's 7th birthday party. (a Tangled Tea Party and sleepover/swimming party) Yup its gonna be a doozie!

I will leave you with a few cute pictures I have taken!
Claire in my heels.
Sweet Lily!
Durand and Claire= BFF!

....Today

I'm so tired today.

Morgan has been sick for 4 days and I thought she was better but they called me to pick her up from school... she had a fever. Claire had a fever for a couple of days but has not had one since Monday but now she has pink eye. Caleb has been feeling puny and I'm just tired.(I know there were a lot of run on sentences but I don't care)

I'm upset because I was at my moms house to eat lunch before the funeral when Morgans school called so I had to leave the family gathering.

Today is going to be hard. It already has been. I think I may fall apart at the funeral.

I think I may fall apart right now. :(

Grandpa

My Grandpa passed away last night, he was 99 and 4 months old! He knew times in his life that we cannot imagine. He lived through the Great Depression, and the Dust Bowl and lots of wars. He was a cowboy and worked on a cattle ranch that spanned between Amarillo and New Mexico. It was the largest working ranch within one fence at the time. He also worked at the stockyards here in Amarillo. He married my Grandma, Bernice when he was 19 years old, she was 15 and they had only known each other 2 weeks. They had 9 children and my mom is the baby!

Okay I'm going to list a few things I think of when I picture my Grandpa. Keep in mind I didn't know him until he was a Senior (he was 45 when my mom was born)

~The sound of a cow bell ringing when you open his front door

~Cigars

~Cowboy hats, boots, wranglers

~My Grandma (click to read about her)

~Bacon, crisp fried eggs, milk

for every meal for the last several years of his life/also the smell of it cooking when I'd wake up at his house in the morning

~ Pipes

~Chewing tobacco

~the Flea market

my grandparents had a booth there forever and I loved going to see them after church on Sundays! When Grandma couldn't go anymore we would go relieve him for lunch.

~Garage sales

~A purple van and driving in his 90's...that always made me nervous

~He loved my kids

I'm so thankful that my Grandpa got to meet my children because Grandma didn't. He would always talk to them and coo at them and even play with them.

I was so blessed to have him in my life for such a long time (the odds were against that)

He is the only Grandpa I ever knew, I will truly miss him.

His last words to me were "I love you too, darlin' "

wow a post

Its been a while since I posted. Well you missed Claire's 3rd birthday, Thanksgiving, and school Christmas parties. I'll pick up with Christmas in my next post....coming soon!!

Make Ribbon Woven Headbands (Part Two) by www.hair-hardware.com

I may have to try this! Make Ribbon Woven Headbands Part One

Tie Dye cake!!

Morgan's birthday theme this year was tie dye so I googled tie dye cakes and found this cool idea!! I used 2 box cake mixes whitish (I used butter yellow) and prepared the batter according to directions on box. Then I split the batter into 6 bowls 1 1\2 cups of batter per bowl. I used neon food coloring gel to get these bright colors! The gel only had pink, lime, orange, and purple so I used drop food coloring for the yellow and then blue and green to make turquoise. I didn't use a specific amount of gel in each bowl I just added color until It was what I wanted! After that is done I greased my pans and added batter. The first color needs to be 3\4 cup and every color after that needs to be 1\2 cup. One pan goes pink, yellow turquoise, purple, orange then lime and the other pan goes in reverse order!




Here is how it looks when both pans are finished.
Bake as directed on box and let cool completely! They look so awesome!

When they are finished cooling stack on top of each other and ice them! I used one big jar of icing but I should have used 2, it would have looked better. To get that pretty pink icing I mixed pink gel into white icing!


Here is what it looked like on the inside.


If you notice one of my cakes is upside down. I went to all the trouble of inverting the color order then stacked them wrong...lol so don't make the same mistake I did!

It tasted good too! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MORGAN!

Here http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake is the blog I found this cake on but I want to warn you the language is explicit, it was ok though because the cake is awesome!