Patio Pleasures

Random Thoughts

1. 32-90 in a week. We had snow last Friday, May 9 and today we are supposed to hit 90. It's beautiful weather and with all the rain and snow from the week before it's so green here. The flowers are in full bloom, families are out walking together, kids are riding their bikes, birds are singing, and you can smell the fresh cut grass! Yeah, spring is finally here!

2. I had a Pampered Chef party last night in my new apartment. It was fun to have a get together of ladies from church, school, and both of my jobs. While my apartment is small there was just enough room for all of us and it was a great motivation to finally get everything put together. Pics to come later, my camera's at school.

3. Why is our society so scared of people respecting other people? While I knew this was the case before, it is even more apparent within the last couple of months. I watch our students at school and wonder why they think they can back talk a teacher, walk out a door without permission, draw on other students' work, throw away or tear up papers given to them for assignments, and expect everybody to step aside even though they are on the wrong side of the hall way.

4. New exercise - My chiropractor http://www.gislasonchiro.com/ gave me a new exercise routine that I'm really enjoying. I still can't do my Tae Bo or Dancing with the Stars routines yet but the new routine involves an exercise ball and some funky weights. ProBodX short for Proper Body Exercise, http://www.jumpusa.com/probodx.htm.

5. Gardening and sanity - One of the things that I really miss from my childhood is having a large garden. I miss walking out the back door and picking fresh cherry or pear tomatoes, blueberries, corn on the cob, watermelons, zucchini, cucumbers, and green beans. I also miss having a large flower garden. Living in a city limits what you can have. Since I don't have the large plot of land that's needed for the large garden I did what I could do on my patio. Digging in the dirt, watching the flowers grow and bloom, enjoying the beautiful colors that God has created, and rocking in my porch rocker. Now that's heaven...and to think the true heaven is going to be so much more!

Current Projects

Here are some of the current projects I'm working on. It has been fun getting my sewing machine set up in the new apartment.

Jean quilt that I've been wanting for a long time and finally found the colors I wanted.

Jean quilt for the wall between my kitchen, bathroom, and livingroom.

Baby Blanket

Pillows for my nephews.

Finally Here

Here are the pictures from around Christmas that I promised.

Ashley and I building our snowman. The first to ever be built in the Dustin's yard. The completed snowman. As soon as we turned our backs, Katie the dog in the picture before took the arms to play fetch. Thankfully she didn't knock over the snowman.

The snowman lasted until about 2 weeks ago and we built him on the 24th of December. At one point he looked like he was mooning us after he had gotten snowed on. He was kind of fuzzy too.Making snow chairs.

Testing Cammy J's new bench and opening presents on Christmas Day.

People I Admire...

My Mama! She is such an amazing woman. She is a single parent who always told us we could achieve what ever we wanted. I can look back at my past and she is there whenever I needed her, no complaints.