April Showers

Today we have been in a Tornado watch all day.  I have been biting my nails all day.   With the Oklahoma weather one never knows if the tornadoes will come close to us. It’s very important that we stay weather aware on the days they call for severe weather days. Hope the storm bypasses us.

So here I am it's been forever since I have made a blog post.  I have missed talking to ya'll.  I have been busy with real life.  Working two jobs from 9 or 10 am till 9 pm.   My regular job at the flower shop and then in evenings I am sitting with Ms. Shirley.  I do a little housework and such.  It has made my life much easier with the extra money coming in.

I am way behind on letters.  So am trying to get caught back up.  My mail pile is about to topple over.  It's almost to the point of making me feel overwhelmed.  I am glad most of my pen pals are so understanding.  I want to get back to making cute envelopes as well.

I am starting two journal swaps.  One is for a month and the other is for 2 months or so.  The longer journal swap is with someone I consider my friend.  We have been exchanging journals for several years now.. It has been fun to watch her girls grow up.  Working in the journals is my creative outlet.

I am going to try to get back to blogging more often.  I have missed my blog.

New Years resolutions

Jessica Logan and Blake

Happy New Year! 

I've decided that I'm really not going to work on New Year resolutions this year.  Some things I plan on focusing on will be for me to be a better person. To love my family and to be a better partner, mother, sister, aunt, and great aunt and friend.

A few things I hope to accomplish is more handwritten letters to family members. 

Don't text and drive.. 

Work on getting organized

Save money for a vacation 

Keep things simple

Stay far away from drama

Live love and laugh

Find a new hobby

Did you notice I didn't put anything about losing weight, or eating better or no drinks..  Only because

what is the point in listing them when I know I should be watching what I eat and drink.  

What kind of New Years resolutions do you think is important to you? 

Long time no see!

I have no ideal where the time has gone! Can you believe it's nearly  Thanksgiving?  What is everyone's plans? I ordered our dinner this year. Yes I took the easy way out!

So I have been missing in action the last several months.  I have had some health issues that I am working thru.  Just not in a healthy place right now.  Keep me in your thoughts and prayers please.

Wish I was on here right now!  Loved being on a cruise ship.  Made wonderful memories.

Rainy Morning

This morning around 4:30 am I heard thunder.  Love to hear the pit pat of rain drops hit my huge window in the bedroom with the big ole' boom of thunder mixed in with it.. At 7am I really just wanted to stay in bed and read a good ole' book of some kind.  In the perfect world that would have happened for me.  Now days I have to drag my big ole' butt out of bed.  Sometimes being a working woman just bites! 



So off to work I head.  Although I have to say working in a flower shop can be a very interesting day.  I enjoy seeing the bright and beautiful flowers and smelling the sweet scents of the flowers.  It has been a wonderful job and I am sad to say we are going to be moving on to a new adventure soon.  More details on that within a month or so. 




I have been working on two journals over at Swap Bot .com   Wish I could say my journals looked as cool as this page.  I try hard but not quite there yet.   Although I have gone outside my comfort zone to try to make the journals a tad bit more visual this go around. 



Gosh I feel like I could take a nap right about now.  It's 3:20pm and I just have no energy at all!  I need to get my B12 shot asap.  Am hoping that will help me gain some energy.

What's for dinner tonight?  Mr. C. is cooking baked chicken and frozen veggies with macaroni & cheese.  Hurry up 5:30 pm so I can roll up to the house in time for dinner. 




Everyone have a great day!!

Visit to Chihuly’s Garden and Glass

 I was very fortunate to visit Seattle Washington with my Aunt Kathy, Melissa and Crystal.  I knew I wanted to see Chihuly’s glass works.  I was very impressed with all the beautiful exhibits. I had no ideal how massive his collection would be. I wish I had taken more photos while looking.  I think I got caught up in the moment.  The pictures I have are not the greatest.  

Alisha at OBU

It's amazing that Mr. C.s baby girl is going off to college!  This week she is doing cheer camp.  Then she moves into her dorm this coming week.  We are so proud of her.  I though I had photo's of her so I could show you her in her new cheerleader outfit. 


The Chapel is beautiful! 



Alisha's dorm is just to the right of the chapel.  So she is really close to it. 

Am hoping all Alisha's dreams come true for her.  We are so excited to see what this new chapter holds for her!!

2nd day of vacation

 

 

We get up and around and head back to Portland Oregon from Vancouver Washington.  First order of business is going to a food truck park!  Anyone who knows me knows I have a huge interest in food trucks.  I have dreamed of operating one in the past..  I found A South Carolina BBQ truck.  So I got me a huge BBQ sandwich and let me tell you it was amazing.  Although they don't believe in going heavy on the sauce.  Which was kind of a shock to me.  I also got a side of sweet potato salad which I didn't like as the color of it was a light pinkish color.  Uugh I need my potato salad to be yellow...

I ended up trying a bite of the funky colored potato salad and nope not what I like at all.  Insert a bit of bragging here I make a GREAT potato salad like my Grandma Pearl and mom made back in the day! 

After we all ate we then we went sightseeing.  Had to go into Flannigan Toy Store.  Sure was glad my little Logan wasn't with me.  He would have had a ball!  I bought several items in there and could have bought way more!  I just knew I couldn't go overboard because my luggage was already past full! 

 

Aunt Kathy and Me

 

 

 

Voodoo Doughnuts!

 

Have you been to Voodoo Doughnuts?  If you haven't you sure are missing a experience!  I really loved the décor as well as the yummy doughnuts.

 

Cute bike rack we saw on our sightseeing adventure.  How super cool is a big ole' wire whisk for a bike rack? 

 

Asian Market

So every time I would see my cousin post about going to her Asian Market I was like I so want to go there.  Yes we made it happen.  I spent quite a bit of money in here.  Wish I knew of one close to me.  Either at Oklahoma City or Dallas Texas.  I would make a trip every so often to go get some cool goodies. 

 

After a full day of sightseeing we headed back to the house.  Had a wonderful fun filled day in Portland Oregon.