Happy Birthday Mama!

Yesterday was my mom's 78th birthday. Some ladies from church took her out to eat so there went my idea! When she got home Rebecca and I went over to her house and took her gift to her. Mama and I love Rebecca so much. Here are some pictures I made while we were there.
My beautiful Mama:

I tried to get a picture of her and Rebecca and the cat, Tippy. But Rebecca was hid:

This is one of the mama cats that adopted Mama as her pet:

She got $10 from my cousin:

Opening the card we got her (no money inside) Looks kinda disappointed:

She loves tiered skirts:

Guess she had to hold it up to see if it would go around her:

Mama with her first great-grandchild, Rebecca:

And again:

Birthdays

Friday was Billy's birthday. He turned 4 years old. He's getting to be an old man now. His birthday party is at 5:00 today. So we'll be partying with him and Shelly in a little while. Yesterday was Rebecca's birthday. She turned 9 years old. Man! Doesn't seem like it's been that long since she was born and weighed in at a big 4 lbs 6 oz. She had to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks. I used to go to the nursery and feed her on my breaks at work. Rebecca is with her dad this weekend and will be home at 7:00 tonight. She asked for a skateboard for her birthday. So guess what she'll have here waiting on her when she gets home? That's right! A skateboard. But you won't see me out riding one with her. I'll ride a bike or something like that. But I'm not into broken bones.
Here are my birthday babies:

Rebecca's having a sleepover next Saturday at my house instead of a party. We'll see how that goes. I'll make pictures of the girls and post them if I'm still living.

I WANT A TOILET!!!

Man! Am I tired! And I still have about a week's work to do tonight. Doug decided to put ceramic tile down on the bathroom floor. So he took out the toilet, sink and cabinet and started it. But did he finish in one day? You guessed it...NO! I've been having to go next door to my mom's to use the bathroom. I'm determined the toilet will be back in tonight. I just finished gluing (concreting) the last of the tile. Now we have to wait on all that to dry and then put the grout in. Then we have to let that dry before we can put the toilet back. I'll stay up all night if I have to. It's going to look pretty though. We put up shower doors, painted the bathroom blue (kind of aqua), put up a new blue curtain, and the floor is kind of cream colored. I don't really know what color you'd call it. IF we ever get it done, it should look like a new bathroom. Right now I don't care how it looks, I just want my toilet back! Doug's not really having a problem with it being out, but then he's a man. ;) We are now official rednecks. We have a john in our front yard! LOL At least I haven't planted flowers in it...yet.

Easter Egg Hunt

Today is Easter, the day we set aside to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. To kids, it's a day to hunt eggs and get candy. Until they're big enough to understand, I will continue to hide eggs and buy candy. I think I kind of burnt them out on hunting eggs though. Before they went home, they didn't want to look for eggs anymore. But it was fun while it lasted. When I got up this morning, I couldn't find my phone. Doug said it was a day for hunting things, and I would have to find it. He had hidden it on top of the shift robe. And I found something outside besides and Easter egg. I was sitting on the porch where there is a flower box with no flowers in it, but it still has the dirt. Here is what I found:

It's still there. I think it must be laying eggs in the dirt. I didn't bother it, I hope it's alive. It doesn't look dead. Here's a few pictures of egg hunt:












Sorry, but I don't know how to make the pictures smaller. I used to but I forgot. Anyway, Billy and Shelly had to pose for a couple of pictures, so here they are:


I don't know why I didn't get more pictures of Nicholas. Normally, I get a bunch of him.
So that has been my day so far apart from going to church, which I'm getting ready to go back for the evening service. So maybe I'll be able to post more later (hopefully something more interesting). Have a very happy Easter!

Okay, after going through my pictures, I found that I had made more pictures of Nicholas. So I'll try to update now. Here's Nick finding eggs:

Here's Nic with all his eggs:

And just hanging out:

Here he is with the neighborhood cat, Peanut Butter:

And the frog IS alive. He's still in the flower pot but has turned around but still has his butt in the dirt:

So maybe we'll be having baby frogs soon! How cute!!!

Justin

Yesterday I had a rare visit from my sister and great nephew. Of course I went wild with the camera. I think he looks alot like my grandson, Nicholas. We took my mom out to Texas Roadhouse for lunch. We all had a good time. Of course, Rebecca went with us:

Gerry really loves her only grandchild. She has him spoiled rotten:

Of course, I kinda like him too (more like love):

He pushed the plastic picnic table all over the dining room:

It appeared that he and Rebecca were having an intense conversaiton:

And the dog, Troy, who likes to eat human body parts, has found another friend:

As you can see, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Justin's appetite:

He went after the food like he was starving:

We all had a good time at the restaurant:

When it was time for them to leave, Justin was tired and wanted his "Nana":

I really enjoyed their visit. I wish we could spend more time together.

Bubble Bath

I don't usually let the kids have bubble baths, too many medical problems from that if you catch my drift. But this night Bambi came up to give Nic a bath as she only has a shower and she brought...you guessed it! Bubble bath! Shelly was in awe of all the bubbles so she had to get in the tub with Nic. Poor Billy didn't get in til they got out so he didn't have as many bubbles and nobody to play with. I wouldv'e gotten in with him, but then we couldn't post pictures. LOL! Plus the bubbles were about gone.
Shelly and Nic looked like little naked Santa's with all the bubbles on their faces. Shelly was actually saying "ho, ho, ho" because I told her she looked like Santa:



Needless to say, a good time was had by all:


After the bath was over, Nic and Shelly didn't want to put on pj's. We had to chase them to put clothes on them. Even though they're potty trained, accidents still happen, and I didn't want that on my carpet or hardwood!

Well, here I am again. I think I posted about my new car late last year. If not, here it is:

I really liked that car when I bought it. But I wasn't happy with it. I thought it would grow on me and I would have some cheap transportation that was new. Well, that's exactly what it is: cheap. As far as the running and operation of the car, it was great. But the paint was chipping, the clock wouldn't keep time, and I got tired of a straight shift real quick. SO...I went car shopping yesterday. There was a car advertised in the paper pretty cheap, so I went to look at it. A Suzuki Forenza. I've never had a Suzuki before. Turns out it was a 5 speed. And it didn't have all the options that I wanted. So needless to say, I paid extra and got the car I wanted. And the color I wanted, too. I also paid extra to get a fantastic warranty. It has bumper to bumper warranty for 7 years or 100,000 miles. It even includes gaskets and belts and stuff like that. So now I don't know how I'll pay for it since I'm going back to school next month. But I WILL pay for it and I WILL go to school, even if I have to work extra hours to do it. Anyway, here's my new toy:
The first 2 were made this morning while it was still wet with dew:


It has AM/FM/casette/CD player with 8 speakers

The rest were made this afternoon. If you look close enough, you'll be able to see the birds have already discovered the front of it:

I'm going to have to put a different color ILY magnet. It's the same color so you can't hardly see it. But I proudly sport the ILY sign