My Birthday....

Hello friends...it has been awhile again since I have written here but not a lot has been going on. As you can see from the picture today is my birthday. I am not celebrating in any way. When you get to my age, you are single and no kids there really isn't anyone to celebrate with. I will be taking my parents out to eat tomorrow night so maybe we can say that is my celebration.

I am ready for fall...today the weather was a chilly 64 degrees and last week we had 2 days like that also so it really gets me in the mood for my favorite season. I don't think I should decorate my apartment yet so I just changed the look of my blog. I will be starting my apartment in the next couple of weeks though.

Our family all got together last month and had a vacation together Everyone was there except my niece and her fiance and my middle nephew Ian who had football camp.

We had beautiful weather and a beautiful place to stay by the water, it was fun just sitting and enjoying eachother and the view

One day we went to a children friendly zoo and Isaiah loved the animals he could feed, here are the goats that knew how to find food.

We also went to a fun place called Elmer's that had go cart racing, 

and a trail ride that Judy, Matthew and Ivan went on...

It was also a place that wore the little one out and he finally gave in to nap on Grandpa

This was my SIL Judy, my sister Tammy, my mom and I outside a restaurant we went to for brunch

And Isaiah enjoying those little merry go rounds...he didn't want to leave! 

We also had fun inside playing Yahtzee and just laughing and talking

It was great to be able to spend time with family and was probably the best vacation I have had in a long time. Nothing is better than spending time with family!

Well that is all I have for now. Enjoy the rest of your summer and if you are like me...BRING ON FALL!!  

                                                                                                                                   

Where does time go?

Hello everyone! I can't believe that we are in the middle of July already, where does the time go? We have had really good weather this summer not really hot until this last week in the 90's. I have been babysitting and spending a lot of time outside with Isaiah, helps a lot when the weather is nice. One day he stepped outside, stood there, looked at me and said "too hot" so that day we spent inside! LOL

Back when Minnesota only had a dome to play baseball in my dad decided to take us ti Kansas City to watch the Twins and Royals play outside We went for a number of years. Most years it was my dad, sister, nephews that would go. Some years we had other members of the family that would come also. There came a time when my dad got to where he didn't want to make the trip so my sister and I ended up taking the nephews. This July 4th weekend we took which will probably be our last trip. It was a lot of fun! The two games we went to the Twins won it was great weather and we all had lots of laughs. We also went shopping at Zona Rosa, went to the WWI museum and of course ate at a lot of fun places. Here are a few pictures.

Logan who will be a senior the first night sleeping in the window seat...he wanted to. LOL

 First night we had a little rain but we were prepared, sunglasses and rain poncho Ivan and my sister Tammy.

 Logan(17) and Ian(16) at Kauffman stadium Kansas City, great seats!

 The boys at a burger place that is also a sports museum Chapells

 Ivan (12) eating a triple decker BLT, he ate it all!

 The trip home.

Next week my whole family is going to spend some time at the lake, it should be a lot of fun and not so much driving. I will be back to share some pictures from the fun there. Praying for nice weather!

Enjoy the rest of your summer and thanks for stopping by!

June.....really?

Hello there to anyone that visits here. It has been awhile for a bog post again...it is hard for me as my life is just not that exciting. Well let me put that another way, it is great for me and so exciting to me especially the time spent babysitting but not that exciting for people to read about. I am going to write about it anyway...lol.

I finally got all of my flower containers planted. I was looking for an old chair to have out in the "garden" and also a wash tub but I didn't find either one. Well I did find chairs but they were expensive! I don't want to pay 30 dollars! I have to say that I didn't go to a lot of places so I will just keep looking through the summer. It gives me a good excuse to hit some antique stores and yard sales. I don't do real well at yard sales though because of my disability but if I drive by slow and something looks good I will stop! LOL

As I said I have been doing my babysitting. Isaiah is not a baby anymore. He is well into his "trying twos". He is a lot more active and definitely knows what he wants to do and what he doesn't want to do. I enjoy every second with him though and love to see him learning new things. Here are some pictures I took the other day when he was having fun with a pail of water and a cup.

Outside playing in his water table

 Always likes to build with his mega blocks.

Well that is about it for now. Have a great week everyone!

                               

May Day

Hello friends, happy May Day! I have such good memories of May Day from when I was growing up. My mom always had us make May baskets and we always took them around our neighborhood. It was so much fun. I don't remember getting them although I am sure we did but I sure remember leaving them on the doorsteps of our neighbors. I especially remember leaving them on this dear older couples door step. They were like the grandparents of the neighborhood. Such good memories. Seems like neighborhoods are a thing of the past, as are May baskets.

The weather this week has been great. I love being able to take Isaiah outside when I babysit and he loves it too!

We are trying to find an outdoor swingset but so far we haven't. When I go next time I will remember to have them leave me a carseat so I can take him to the park.

I am looking forward to planting my flowers in my containers. Tomorrow my sister and I are going to a spring craft show and I am hoping to find some containers that I can plant my flowers in. I would love some old pails or tubs but we will see what I can find. I see all of the neat idea on Pinterest and would love to be able to have them in my garden...some of my dream ideas.

We will see what I come up with. Have a great weekend everyone and Happy May!!

I'm Ready...

Happy Easter my dear blogging friends. I hope you all have a very blessed day. I thought I would share with you some of the decor I have for Easter and spring. I am getting better at getting more little things but my dream now is to get bigger pieces of furniture that are prim. I would love an old pie safe, some neat shelves and stools. Someday perhaps.

We have been teased with some really nice warm days the last couple of weeks but then they go away again. I am looking forward to when it is warm every day, just not too warm. LOL
Again I hope you all have a very blessed Easter!

Where did it go and swap box.

Well here is the view out my door tonight ad it is still snowing hard...where did my spring go? Last week we had temps in the 60's and the week before that we even got to 70 and now this tonight. I think it is worse getting snow like this after being teased with the nice spring weather. I am just hoping that it melts fast!

Now to a much happier part of my post...I got my swap box from the swap Amy from Bumble Bee Lane hosted. My partner was Becky from Ginger Creme Hollow. Becky and I were swap partners before so I was pretty excited because she is really talented, I was so not disappointed. For a huge surprise people that follow me are going to faint but look at this I finally got a picture of all my goodies all wrapped and pretty, I think this is the first time ever!

Here are the things I got, everything was so fun to open!

I really loved everything and can't wait to add it all to my decorating. I am doing that right now and hope t finish tomorrow or Tuesday before I go back to babysit my nephew. When I am done I will share more pictures.

Thanks again Becky for all of the awesome things and thanks Amy for another great swap!

Thanks to all of you that stop by and visit and who leave comments, you are all appreciated!