Celebrating Pink and Peonies ~

I woke up today to a sink full of beautiful peonies!!

 Hubby kept trying to lure me out of bed this morning by
saying that I better pick my peonies before it rained and I just kept laying in bed. When I finally
decided to get up and plodded to the kitchen my eyes lit up when I saw these beauties!!  He had
gone to our local town {3 miles away} and picked these on the way home. {they were in a ditch of all
places!} How does that happen! Not by a house, but just growing in the ditch. We saw them last
 night, but didn't stop. I whined around a bit when we got home for him to go and pick me some,
 but I told him he didn't have to. I was tired and so was he!  HA!

I had forgotten all about them!! SO... I was thrilled when I saw
 these this morning. {along with a maple frosted cinnamon roll with nuts on top}

{He picked the ones in the large white vase and the others are from our bushes here}

Who wouldn't be thrilled to wake up to these beauties??!!

This is a table on my front porch. Sorry for the "slant" of the pic!

I have fun moving things around all summer long out here.  I need to put something
in that birdcage yet, but not sure what. Maybe some ivy...I do have some that I
haven't planted yet.

I just noticed I haven't gotten rid of the pinecones from over the winter!
Guess I better get right on that. :)

I took photos of peonies inside and outside and every which way while they still look nice.

I love them on my pallet tray, don't you?

In my humble opinion I think everyone should have peonies growing in their garden.
They don't last long, but they are so worth the show they put on for a brief time.
I love them!

Happy JUNE everyone!

Just a little grass fire

This is what happens when hubby sets fire to the trash and then goes back in the house
and watches TV.

It just wound it's way all over...here and there and everywhere.

Very thankful we have a hydrant close by or this could have had very different results.

yes we know we are in a drought, but we did get some rain...

I had spent most of the day at my parents house to sit with my mom while my dad ran a few
errands.  I left to come home about 5 pm and returned home to this mess.

I guess it shows how tired I was because even driving in the driveway I did not notice that the
yard was on fire!! I noticed smoke and thought *ahhh hubby finally burned the accumulated
trash*. I pulled into the garage and when I got out of the car to walk in the house I realized
it wasn't the trash but the yard! EEK!!  Hubby said there wasn't even the slightest breeze
when he lit it...things sure happen fast.

 So thankful I got home when I did or we may have been homeless today or at the least
lost our outbuildings. Dad and mom had told me I should stay for supper and help them
eat their food that others have brought in for them {or dinner depending on where
 you are from}, but I just wanted to get this tired body home and I am so thankful I did.

{mom came home Friday and is doing well, but please continue to pray. Thank you
so much for all your good wishes and prayers. I can't even begin to respond to each
of you individually}

Ups and downs of life...prayer needed

I rarely share the not so nice part of our lives on here ,
but I wanted to ask you to pray for my dear husband.

I can't go into the details,

but please pray for safety at work and for peace.

He so badly needs people to bombard heaven on

his behalf right now.

Also needing prayer for a family situation and

we lost a church member this week.

I will be helping with the funeral dinner today.

*Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen

us for the journey ahead*

-George W Bush

Exhausting, but fun weekend and giveaway cont...

We had a exhausting weekend, but it was fun too!

It started on Friday with me driving two hours one way

to pick up oldest granddaughter, shopped a little and

then drove back home. {It becomes an all day event

when I have to drive that far}

Then we had made plans to go to the Toledo Zoo on

Saturday with our youngest son and his family and the

rain

did not deter us at all! We all ended up buying

and wearing plastic ponchos, but it was so much fun.

Here is little Annika in hers. She kept pretending she was a ghost.

She kept holding her arms out

and saying, *BOOooo*.

Hubby and son in their wonderful statement making

gear! lol.

Sweet grands Allysha and Annika having so much fun! They got soaked crawling up on these animals , but

you would never know it by the looks on their

faces. {we hadn't purchased ponchos yet at this point}

Then Sunday after church was putt putt golf and go cart fun. I think this adorable little face says it all. About the 14th or 15th hole she was tired! Poor little thing!

Oldest GD Allysha driving a go cart for the first time.

She was apprehensive at first, but then really

enjoyed it and did great at driving. She needs to get out more!

Look at little Annika's tongue! Too cute!

Now I am telling you we had the most fun a family can

have, but this is wearing me out! lol Then today I had to go to my booth because I didn't

make it at all last week so we hit the road again.

I am staying home tomorrow and resting...

that is the plan anyways.

Then Wednesday I have to take Allysha back...

more driving. I will need a two day nap when this

is over. :)

Hope you are having a wonderful Monday! Blessings~

PS Giveaway continues...you can enter by clicking here.

The Cookie Man ~

I have a cookie story for you today

and my hubby is the main character~

{whatever you do, don't tell him that I said he is a character...lol}

A few days ago he wanted to make oatmeal cookies.

{I think this is the 2nd time in over 32 years that he has made cookies}

So he starts the process and doesn't ask me one thing.

Next thing I know I am looking out in the kitchen and

he has all the dry ingredients in the mixer first.

{I really didn't want to say anything, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut}

I said , "hon, you are supposed to start with the sugar , butter

eggs and liquid ingredients". To which he said, "oh, I didn't know".

From that point on I left him alone.

Unbeknownst to me he had picked out a huge recipe.

It took 5 cups of flour and 5 cups of oatmeal etc.

Get the picture?

I wandered out in the kitchen a while later

and noticed there were cookies in the oven,

but there was also a bowl of dry ingredients

on the counter and a bowl of mixed wet ingredients so I

had to ask him what was up.

It appears everything would not fit in the bowl so

he mixed up all the wet ingredients, took 1/2 of that

and added 1/2 the flour mixture! (as best he could eyeball it)

I said, "You can't do that"...lol

Cookies from one batch were wonderful...

the others were flat...literally.

We had cookies running out our ears!

We ended up with three large tupperware containers

full of cookies. And I must confess,

two different days he took his "flat" cookies into work

and they loved them.

{but I think guys will eat most anything...lol}

He now thinks he should open his own business.

What do you think?

Blessings~