Happy 11th Birthday D-bo!!

D-bo became a part of our family in May of 2005 and what a blessing he has been.
Everyone who meets him falls in love with him. He is the geniune jewel of a precious heart...very loving, so forgiving and a true servant even at his young age.





He's fun to play with and especially fun to get a laugh out of or play a joke on.


He has made a special place in his heart for his new siblings and gets along beautifully with them both.

D-bo is a big piece of this sweet family and seems to have the best time when he's right in the middle of everything going on.



He loves to go to the farm and I think he might even like spending time at Mamaw and Papaw's too.

So happy, happy birthday D-bo!!

We love you!!

Friday FAV

MEXICAN FOOD!!!

With good friends....this is one of my top favorites. We call these friends the M&M's because both of their names start with the letter M. I have to be their friend forever because they know way too much about me and I would have to commit murder if I couldn't be their friend. (Just remember that girls) They wouldn't let me take their picture at lunch today, so I had to draw from a stock photo I had. Elder M thought the outfit she had on today was somewhat Strawberry Shortcakish ...something to do with the baby doll sleeves and the latest hair coloring. But she looked smashing as always for REAL... They are both sweethearts and would do anything for me...I think, but might not after this blog.

Any way this is where we went. And it was very yummy. In my next life I will marry a Mexican man with a mother who can cook or that owns his own restaurant. Mexican food is by far my very favorite food. And as luck would have it I'm married to someone who as he ages is not doing so gracefully with this fine cuisine.

This is what we dined on... Fajita Salad

Plain Jane Nachos in the one size fits all portion.

And a dos lunch platter with a cheese enchilada and a beef taco.

A certain someone from the fine east Texas town of Gilmer enjoys a dose of the "squirt butter" as my family calls it. Although she uses it in the most peculiar way...I think. And no I don't want any, thank you.
Well, that's it for this weeks Friday Favorite...there's just one problem with this favorite...if I do it very often I'm definitely going to have to join this club.

Have a great weekend!

Weekend Part 1

On the way home Friday evening I paid a visit to the fore mentioned (previous blog) yard sale. After some digging I found several worthy items. All items were either one dollar, fifty cents or twenty-five cents!! Of course all of my items were $1, but looky, looky what a deals I got!!

The lady said I should paint it but I think it looks pretty good in it's weathered state....stay tuned as I have an idea in mind for it.

And then there was this little pretty. Suppose to be a plant stand but I'm thinking of using it for a bedside table in the "guest" room. After I get it all together I'll post that too.

Beside these, I got another corner plant stand for $1 and two pieces of vintage tupperware. I was already in my car with it started when the lady ran out to me and had this lovely box (all for $1). There are 3 metal shabby type nested baskets. Never used right out of the water stained and dirty box. Still wrapped in bubble wrap.


Then about 7 our babysitting client came and we had a great time with him. He has got to be one of the most pleasant babies I ever seen. So sweet and easy going.
Some of hubbies cousins (once or twice removed?) came by for a little while and I drug out the Lincoln Logs and at one point all the adults but me were involved in building.
Stay tune for Part 2 which will be the results of the rest of the weekend in the green room...

Friday Fav

My Town~
I live off Main Street but rarely do I take it when I drive to and from work. It just reminds me too much of "big city" traffic and I'm trying to pretend I live in a small town. The following are my sites yesterday on the way home from work....enjoy!
Ok, my kiddlings are having a stroke about now (well at least the girl child)....but this young lady was walking her goat down the road when I first saw her, but by the time I made a U-ie back to take her photo she had made it to her "barn" so I stopped and asked her if I could take her picture and she kindly said "Sure". Tell me just how often do you see someone walking their goat???

I see this all the time in my town and evidently he has some "regulars" as he goes to certain houses and rings his bell until his customers come out for his goodies. We also have an ethnic grocery store in our town that is quite interesting too. Uh oh, there could be a correlation with first viewing and this one....I'm sure they sell goat meat at their grocery store!! Maybe sometime I should blog about that too.

This house is quite interesting, the sad thing is it almost always looks like this and they ARE NOT having a sale. But yesterday afternoon there were some shoppers. Husband actually said "there is not ONE thing in there that is worth buying!!!" If you know Him this was a profound statement, coming from him. I may go back at lunch and take a closer look.

Now these are interesting. Girl child will have to explain them....something that some of the schools or school art teachers did for the City. I'm sure I don't have the story right she will have to do a follow up.

I have big plans for this weekend. Tonight I'm babysitting a friend's (well, really girl child's friend but I'll claim her as my friend too) 3 month old baby boy and tomorrow (and maybe the rest of the weekend!)
I plan to conquer this.....
Oh my goodness there is another correlation ~this and the third siting!!

WISH ME LUCK!!

Latest Project

I forgot to photo a step here as I spray painted over the hot pink dots.


This is the latest thing that I created for our darling daughter's classroom. She had a large space that was once occupied by a big television, but this year they removed the TV and so she needed something to go in that space. So what better than an blooming flower box with her name growing out of it.

Biggest Waste of Time...

Click here for the fun...

Funeral Food

My brother informed me yesterday that if you are going to have a blog you are suppose to put something on it everyday.... so this may get mundane as my life and my creativity does have limits on being entertaining. My second child informed me, when I talked about having a blog, that blogs were just for braggers... people bragging about their life. But, now middle child has his own blog so I guess he's changed his way of thinking or he's just bragging too. Well, anyway here are today's offering of my life from yesterday and yes, I'm probably bragging.

I was off work for the funeral and spent the morning preparing food for after the service. The first dish up for creation was banana pudding. The grandmother of the child that died requested it from me the night before and I just so happened to have a (blurry) recipe from her mother (Aunt Ruby to us). So here I am doing the Martha Stewart step by step for you today with my culinary skills in illustrations. Actually, I didn't photograph all the steps just some, so do not try this at home. First I put my sugar and flour in a pan and added milk to that as it continued to get warmer I gradually added egg yolks saving the egg whites for the meringue. Sliced up some bananas.When I do the bananas I slice them down the middle lengthwise and then slice them in fairly chunky chunks. It just seems like you get more bang for your buck this way...don't ask me why. Get your box of Nilla or Vanilla Wafers out and line the pan with them.

Now we're going to take the egg whites that we saved and beat the dickens out of them until they stand up for mercy!

Now we're talking! You also should always use a glass bowl or a copper one, when beating egg whites, but I don't own a copper bowl so it's glass.

At this point you add sugar to your meringue so it will be sweet.


Now we spread the meringue over the top of the pudding mixture.








Now pop that pudding in the oven.
And we'll go over the rest of the fixins I took...

This...

turned into this Easy peasy...just pick up several cans of beans and peas, cut up sausage, throw in some onion,garlic, brown sugar, mustard, catsup, liquid smoke and anything else you can think of and put it in the crockpot and forget it for several hours.

I also took a potato casserole, brisket, ham and a chocolate cake. Enough said here are the pictures....now I've got to start thinking about tomorrow's blog so my brother won't be disappointed.




Oh! I almost forgot these are the after shots of the carnage after I finished in the kitchen. Two hours from these photos I had 11 ladies at my house for Bunko...but that's a story for another day or BLOG!!








Later!