Better late than never!

Tagged by Janelle almost 2 weeks ago! I am sorry Janelle I didn't see the tag until just now!!

So here goes:

A- Attached or single: Attached
B- Best Friend: Lori
Cake or Pie: Pie
.D- Day of Choice: Saturday
E- Essential Item (s): Family, Friends and Diet Dr Pepper
F- Flavor of ice cream: Butter Pecan
G- Gummy Bears or Worms: Bears
H- Hometown: Danville Arkansas
I- Indulgence(s): Internet, chocolate
J- January or July: June! ;) June not quite as hot as July not cold like January
K- Kids: 3... Caneron 20, Ayden 2, Rylan 8 months
L- Last movie seen in theaters/DVD: Theaters-honestly cannot remember DVD We Own the Night
M- Marriage Date: August 1 1992
N- Number of Siblings:1 sister, Angela, 3 brothers, Ricky, Paul and Blake
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges
P- Phobias or Fears: Death of a loved one
Q- Quote(s): "No one is a failure if they have friends"
R- Reason To Smile: See K above
S- Season: I love them all, and am happy to live where there are 4 distinct seasons.
T- Tag others: will have to think about who
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I have played the piano for 34 years
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I love meat so sorry.
W- Worst Habit: Procrastinating
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I've had several of both!
Y- Your Favorite Food: Chocolate!!
Z- Zodiac: Taurus

Blog Challenge #19

This is a 2 part challenge.
The first is to make a mosaic photo layout. The second part is to make a layout inspired by it.


Mosaic
(These are photos I have taken recently in my yard)



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Blog Challenge #20

Per Katie's instructions:

To blog a list of 5 or more things. It can be anything you like to-dos, items on your shopping list, things you did today etc etc. Just get to list making.

Easy enough!

My Wal-mart list! Funny enough, it is 5 items, weird for me, usually it is more like 50!


1. Gain Detergent
2. Scrubbies for dishwashing
3. Paper towels
4. Diet Dr. Pepper
5. Light bulbs

Happy Easter

We got to spend the weekend with all 3 boys until about 3 pm Sunday. We went on egg hunts with Donald, Angela and the girls on Saturday, kept it low key Sunday and just ate a late breakfast and enjoyed the beautiful albeit a little windy/cool weather. But the rain forecast was cancelled and it was a beautiful sunny day!
I have tons of pics but picked some of my favorites.

The White Stuff

1 a.m. nothing. No freezing temps, yet it was cold, the bullfrogs in the pond were singing like it was a nice Spring night.


6 hours later we awoke to this.

My hubby had to literally dig his car out to go to work this afternoon. I am glad I got some pics this morning and later when the sun was out, because he rutted and muddied up the yard but good. ARGH!!

I lost big chunks of both of my Magnolia trees and also my big Blue Cedar that shades our backyard (and more importantly, my bedroom) in the summer. I had tulips starting and hundreds of daffodils whose life was cut short. I also have lots of blooming trees and Forsythia bushes. I hope they made it. We lost a lot last year to a freak frost so we didn't get to see the full effect of what the realtor said "was the most beautiful yard in the county".

If it weren't for those things I could enjoy it more, now I worry about the mess I will have(as if we don't have enough around here). 2 steps forward 3 back it seems since we bought this place. Also have shingles to replace from the tornado a few weeks ago.

Home Sweet Home? Where art thou? LOL I am very appreciative of what we have, is it just too much to ask to enjoy it for a little while without having some kind of disaster? Pretty please? With snow sugar on top?

Ayden-isms

Just documenting so I don't forget. I know I have left out so many. He talks so much and very very well it is hard to keep up with it all.


At 25 months old.




"Nana I wanna hold your hand." Sometimes when he is tired he gets his blanket and sippie cup and just says "Hand".

"Don't tell me no." (no explanation for that one)

"I hold you" (pick me up, recently he said Hold me then went back to I hold you.)

"Get home now!" (told this to Papa last Thursday night on the phone)

"MM's" M&M's there is no and. We bought him some last week and he picked out the yellow and said yellow, orange, red and blue then he picked up a brown one and said "this one chocolate!" So the M&M's all have colors but the brown. It is just chocolate apparently. I haven't the heart to tell him.

He came into the kitchen the other day with a Wal-mart sack full of toys, newspaper, junk mail etc.. I said what is that for? He told me. "Going bye bye in Nana's big truck (my van)."

Blog Challenge for week of January 17th

Blog challenge from Katie


This winter I will...

Scrap more!
Get my house ready for spring remodeling!
Dread the summer (Cam leaves for BT in June!) :(
Stay inside and keep warm
and lastly...
Dream of Spring!!

Here is a layout for Lexi's album. I can't bring myself to do many more just yet, it is just too raw. I miss her so much!!!