Brians Preschool Graduation

Wes and I went to Alabama for little B preschool graduation ceremony and Jenna blessing. We brought all 3 boys back to Texas with us for 10 days for what they call Grandma Camp.

Miss Jenna Lynn Mitchell

Jenna Lynn arrived at 7:52 a.m. on Friday, April 29,2012. She was 9lb.-6oz and 21 in long. Becky and Jenna are well and will go home on Sunday morning.

On May 27th Jenna had her blessing at church and we were so blessed to able to attend.

Babysitting Caden & Calob

Happy Birthday Jim!!!!

Happy Birthday to my favorite Son in Law...We love you! I decided to think of something to make Jim work for his bd $ this year...Something inspiring..well I came up with a pin ball game money puzzle. He had to play the game to unlock it for the money to come out. Man oh man, he got it right away...gggrrr but I had fun planning it... :}

Easter Blessings

This has been a fun and busy week. It was Jim birthday and being a "Good" mother in Law I sent him a money puzzle.. He got it in time but was able to get the $ out pretty quick..oh man I was hoping like at least a couple of days. I had fun just thinking about it..Happy Brithday Jim...
It was Holy week and a church service at 6 different churchs...I only made it to 3. The weather was bad and had 16 tornado in and around Dallas area..Praise God that no one was hurt too bad and no died.
I made up 10 Easter baskets, 1 for Brooke next door, 3 for my AL boys and 6 for Danny brew...and filled 10 dz plastic eggs. Got a very excited call from little Brian, Lucas, and Jacob saying Thank You for their basket
On Sat. afternoon Amber brought the kids over and we colored eggs and then they had a great time playing out in the yard for couple of hours...
Dad and I went to a Robert Earl King concert, one of Wes favorite singers, Sat. night. Us OLD folks were still lickin up our heels after 11 pm.. well more like hobbling to the car to go home.:)
Easter was Awesome...so glad Jesus paid the price for my sins. AWESOME!!!!
Danny, Amber and the kids came over about 2:30...I gave them their basket filled with toys, and candy. I had to laugh cause first thing Danny does is cleared all the candy out of the baskets...he now understands why I did that.. Then it was out back to the Great Easter EGG Hunt... kids had a great time finding all those eggs. With baskets over flowing and playing I went in to get the finish dinner set out.
We didnt have much to eat,, 14lb smoked turkey, stuffing,12lb ham, augratin potatoes, yams,3 veggies, fruit salad, cranberry sauce, gravy, and rolls. For dessert I made Danny a cheesecake with strawberries, Amber made her jello and fruit cake and Danny brought in a Marie Calendars apple crumb pie.... It was so nice to send most of the left overs home with them.
We played out in front yard til the rain storm came in then we headed inthe house and seemed everyone had some kinds of electronic game to play or toys...
Something was still missing for me,, Brians family and Lara & Jim...:(
Glad I got to talked to both of them.

busy busy busy

Well this has been a fast month...
We had 1 storm come in and gave us 12 hrs of thunder and lightning and 5 1/2 inches of rain. The creek turned into a river and the stock tank on the property behind us overflowed and of course we had a huge Mitchell Pond in the front yard.... Great timing after we dry out for Wes to try out his new airater and dethatcher attachments for his mower. We are still working on big garden. Getting ready to put in tomatoes.
We got a box from Larry of some things of Aunt Kathryns..I put her cup and saucer right next to Marys.
I finished the Alabama baby cross stitch crib blanket and birth announcement. Now we just waiting for her arrival next month.
We had 3rd Sunday lunch and I decorated the fellowship hall in GREEN,, of course. This was my month to clean the church.
Danny has come over couple of times to set up the kids pool for the summer. We started going on Sat am to watch Ethan at his soccer games.
The youth boys from church delivered one of the old pianos from church. Its from the 1930/1940. Now I can learn to play...
Dad and I went to the official 1st Vietnam Veterans Day ceremony at the courthouse on the 29th.... then we went over to Blooming Grove, (pop 833)for the replacement of a POW flag..It was a long time coming for Vietnam Vets to be recognized for their service.. Thank you Vietnam Veterans, and Welcome Home...
And to end this month we went out, just to look at truck and see whats out there...
Wes came home in 2012 1/2 ton Silverado picked...Lots of bells and whistles. We got the running boards put on and Wes even has a built in phone...no more worring about him...
Well we might not have won the Mega lottery but we are very blessed....

Rose Garden

It took us a week to do this project. We pulled out the telepone pole piece border, till everything up,and kill those red ants. Wes measure and calulated how deep to dug for our double 25lbs. brick pavers. (Trinity Harvest color) Took us 2 trips to Home Depot to get them home with 3 exlarge bags of peat moss. Then we went shopping for the roses: bought 12- 2 of each: Double Delight is a yellow center with red tips, Mr. Lincoln is dark red, Montezuma is coral, Lowell Thomas is yellow, Paul Neyrin is light pink, and Queen Elizabeth is med to dark pink. (Would like to find a Cabbage rose- its purple). Got half planted late yesterday afternoon and the other half planted this morning. Went back to Home Depot for 10 bags of cypress mulch which we used one 8 bags. and then put out in our solar lights.
Looks great...now for the other side..Wes is growning....