Fishing Weekend

Heather and Stephen were in for the weekend. It was a great one for fishing. Heather caught the biggest.

Mine was pretty good, too.Come go fishing with us any time.

New York II

Rockefeller Center has NBC Studiothe flags the skating rinkand outside where you can be on the Today Show (unless they put props in front of you).Joe and I are standing on Madison Avenue.Wouldn't these guys look great in these Madison Avenue suits?!Grand Central StationWhat are we waiting for? Robert took Peggy shopping on diamond row
and he bought her one. It was gorgeous!
Enjoying the night on Times Square.

New York

What a miracle! Joe and I went on vacation to New York!
And on top of that, we went with Joe's sister, brother and their spouses.
We all had a wonderful time!

Don't we look happy to be flying to New York. Even though Joe and I only decided to go 6 days before, we were able to fly the same flight as Judy and Charles.

As the taxi driver was taking us from LaGuardia, I knew we were really in New York when I saw this sign.
Judy, Charles, Robert & Peggy stayed in The Crowne Plaza on Times Square. Notice the store right beside it. I can't believe we never went into the store.But we did go into the store across the street - the M&M Store. See all of them on the back wall.

Peggy and Judy are reading the tour book to tell us where to go. Peggy was a great tour guide.

Heather told me before we left that there would be people that would be willing to take our picture. She was right.

More later.

Another fine weekend

Daniel, Cornelia, Tyler and Carter came for the weekend. It was a great weekend for playing outside.

Little boys love dirt.



Little brothers.

Carter knows how the 4-wheeler goes.

Heather, Stephen, Cornelia and Daniel went coyote hunting. Stephen used his caller to try to call them up. They didn't hear any. But the girls had deer snort at them in the dark. The next evening Joe and I were sitting on the back steps watching the sunset. At 6:30 the coyotes began howling across the pond. Maybe they called some up after all.We sorted out our Jelly Belly Bean Boozled. Even though they look the same, they don't taste the same. Is it buttered popcorn or rotten egg?It may be rotten egg.This one could be moldy cheese instead of caramel corn. We laughed alot but it wasn't really funny when you got the bad ones.Cornelia and Heather are playing Wii - Just Dance. Notice how they are doing the same moves at the same time.

But when Cornelia and I compete, I think I must be behind. But we're both smiling.Tyler and Carter loved hot dogs and smores over the fire outside. Tyler said it wasn't a bonfire because there weren't fireworks (like at Uncle Billy's). Of course, he was right.

2 birthdays and more

My Sweet Heather and Sweet Carter had their birthdays yesterday. What fun!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday!

Joe and I started on a new project this weekend. We are building columns for our automatic gate.

We started by laying blocks

then began to lay the rocks.
You can tell it's going to take a long time.

Kitchen & Furniture

Over the weekend, I received requests for pictures of the kitchen and of my new furniture.

So............

White cabinets with cherry cabinets on the island and hutches in the breakfast area. Uba tuba granite countertops.Drawer microwave and mixer lift in center island.

This bar is perfect for laying out all meals in a buffet.

Glass front, glass shelves matching hutches. Great place for "pretties".

In January Judy took me to furniture market and helped me spend money. Everything has come in except the bedroom suite, nesting tables and sofa table.

I call this my mail table. We put the mail here so we always know where to find it. It's at a height that we can look through the mail easily and plenty of neat storage for stuff. Grandmother Hughes' mirror.

I got 8 dining chairs and 4 of the side arm chairs pictured here and in the next one

I hope to find a drop leaf table to go with these chairs in this spot

I love my pub/bistro dinette set. It can be a round table or a square table.Joe likes his new desk chair. It adjusts several ways as well as being attractive.A leather rocker recliner. Two sofas in a rich brown upholstery. And two taupe ottomans.

Lots of work to still be done and then the decorating.

I'm Back!

I'm sorry that I have been gone so long on my blog. It started with a computer in need of repair and ended with not knowing how to catch up on what I hadn't posted.

Thanks for interest in what's been going on.

As Jennifer posted on her blog, we all converged at Daniel's for Carter's second birthday. Isn't he so cute! Cornelia's family thinks he looks like Daniel.

Earlier in the day I had attended by brother's wedding. Allen and his wonderful bride, Linda.

And his super, special, successful children

Kyle and Jill, Chris, Kerri and Stephen, Bryan

A great weekend with lots of the family!

Love you all!

First Grandparents Day

Note: This is Jennifer. I'm posting for Mom today because her computer is not working right now. She came to visit us this weekend and I wanted to post an update for her.

Grandmother drove up to Oklahoma City on Thursday night so that she could go to Emily's school bright and early Friday morning for Grandparents Day.

The cinnamon roll and coffee breakfast was before school - starting at 7:30am. Emily's Nanny and Pops also joined us for breakfast along with Madison and Mason and Aunt Pat.


After breakfast, Emily took Grandmother to her classroom to show off her desk and all her friends.

It was a fun morning and I think it was well worth the drive for Grandmother to attend her first Grandparents Day breakfast at school.