F is for Food, Fun, Fellowship and Friends!

Day 6 ~ A to Z Blog Challenge

F is for Food, Fun, Fellowship and Friends!!!!

Food

I enjoy cooking

as long as I know what to fix.

Last summer I was blessed with an

electric pressure cooker, like this one,

and I have made some delicious dinners

Chicken dinner

Another chicken dinner

I have also made spaghetti, chili, ribs

What is your Favorite Food to cook??

Fun & Fellowship

We love to have Fun 

and Fellowship with others is one way we do it

   

  

and most recently at

Open Door Community Church

Celebrating Easter

  

  

and 

FRIENDS

And everyone needs a BEST FRIEND

Here I am with my BESTIE

and I can't wait to see her in just a short six weeks!!!

And two more of our many friends,

Mike & Chris!

They are in Texas right now

but we hope to get to see them soon!!

and 

FAMILY

Our son, Brandon, his sweet wife, Danalyn

from left to right - Christopher, Treyson, Alexander and

Max standing to the right of his mama!!

Our oldest son, Jamie, his sweet wife, Suzanne 

and granddaughter, Opal!

And my Bestest Friend in the Whole World

My Hubby

Ron!!!

And that folks is a snapshot 

of 

Food, 

Fun, 

Fellowship, 

Friends 

and 

Family!!!!

E is for Eye

Day 5 of the A-to-Z Blog Challenge

E is for Eye

I know everyone has two right?

Well it may look like everyone has two

and yes I guess I do too,

Except

One of mine is not real.

Well wait a minute, it is real

I just can't see through it.

Here is a picture of 

an artificial eye

And this is me

Can you tell which eye I am not looking at you with?

I get many compliments from people who are 

surprised to find out I can only see 

out of one eye.

Now you are probably wondering  how did 

I end up with an artificial eye?

One evening, when I was 10,

I was playing with my little sister and my dad's 

girlfriend two kids

out in the barn,

we were playing hide-n-seek

and I crawled into a piece of baling wire

and it scratched my eye.

Twenty three days in the hospital,

104 shots in my thighs

and the doctor came to my mom

and said he was sorry but he couldn't save it.

At age 16, after having a summer of lots of 

headaches the decision was made that

it was time to remove my eye.

In the hospital I was put in pediatrics

and I woke to see this on the wall

Yes, a pink elephant

and lots of other cute

animals and little kid things.

Let me just say it was not an easy time for me.

But there wasn't anything I do but move on

and so I have.

I have met some great people,

Todd Cranmore  & Christie Erickson, of 

Erickson Labs Northwest

I have been a patient of theirs since 

the early 1980's.

I have given them

and as a joke I have put a 

jar full of these great chocolate eyes on my desk

with an artificial eye in the middle.

Can you say 

Surprise???

I have made the fact that I have an artificial eye

a fun part of my life.

I have worn them as earrings by putting double sticky tape on them,

I have given them as gifts at white elephant Christmas parties.

Be ware of any small package 

you may receive from me.

I have lots of stories 

where this one came from,

so if we ever meet just ask me

and I will be happy to share an EYE experience with you.

So 

Have

You 

Figured 

Out 

Which

EYE 

I'm Looking At You With???.\

.

.

.

.

It's the Left :)

D is for ????

Day 4 - A to Z Blog Challenge

D is for Don't know

And when I Don't know something

I have learned to search for 

things on 

and I still couldn't come up 

with a word that started with

and none of them 

tickled my fancy

but I did find this

.

I like word searches and hope you like this one.

I am Dumbfounded 

that I can't think of words that begin with

So if you come up with any words that begin with 

D

feel free to leave them in the comments.

C is for Caution

Day 3 of A to Z Blog Challenge

C is for Caution

Last night was a night of storms,

we had Sever Thunderstorm warnings

and then a Tornado warning so off to

the A-Frame which is an actual building on the property.

We were in there from 11:30 PM till just after 2:00 this morning.

Once back in the rig we found out the 

bedroom window was open,

NOT good, that meant changing the sheets and 

crawling into bed just after 2:30 AM

Was awakened a few times due to heavy rain

and finally rolled out of bed just after 10:30 this morning.

Just in time to head out the door to run into town 

to run a few errands.

On our drive we saw 

this big ole guy in the road.  

A big truck had just driven past and he sucked 

his head in.  

As the truck was passing I was thinking 

"don't hit the turtle"

 I was able to get a bit closer after the truck passed and

his head was starting to come out.  

He looks fairly old to me and he was huge!

 After we turned around to go back to where we were headed

I was able to get this picture of him as he was starting 

to make his way to the other side of the road.

And then we continued on our way into town.

We usually turn down Brace Hill Road as it saves us about 

1.5 miles but today this greeted us as we turned onto the road

But Ron being Ron he wanted to see if we

could get through so we went down the road till we couldn't 

go any further 

 We saw this car coming towards us so we waited till 

he got up next to us, the guy rolled his window

down and said nope, can't get through up ahead

so Ron being Ron we drove further

 The water is now almost half way across the road

 Beautiful waterfall that just a few weeks ago was

an icicle frozen solid.

And then we saw this

 This is looking across the creek

 And once we turned around we noticed this

car had been following us and had 

already turned around.

And so my advice is 

when you see signs like

or

then don't go there.

Are you like Ron and likes a 

Challenge

when he sees the word

Caution

or are you more like me,

I would have just have stayed on the 

road and not turned?

B is for Boys & Blessings

Day 2 of the A-to-Z Blog Challenge

B is for Boys!!!

And I think I am one of the luckiest mom's around

as I have two of the best BOYS in the world,

well at least that's my opinion and I am sticking to it.

Jamie on the left and Brandon on the right

But see there should have been 3 boys

Royce & Jamie are twins,

some days it is difficult not to ask the 

what if questions?

what would it have been like to raise three little boys?

would all three of them like sports, 

like Jamie who played soccer or

Brandon who played soccer and basketball

or would Royce have liked football which his Dad played?

No one knows,

but this mama knows the heartache of losing one of her boys

but she can't dwell on it too much cause it causes her to cry

So this mama focuses on the good things

Jamie & Brandon are 

super duper daddy's

Here is Jamie with sweet Opal.

We are so glad to have her in our life.

And she is definitely all girl...her favorite color is PINK!!!

And these four boys are Brandon's children.

Max holding Alex

with Treyson & Christopher in front.

B is for BLESSINGS!

Our BOYS have 

BLESSED us

with FIVE wonderful grandchildren.

BOYS are a BLESSING!!!

What about you ~ do you have BOYS in your life?

What about BLESSINGS?  Do you see them all around you??

A Day Late...but What's New?? And A is for Appetite

I was asked today by a friend if I wanted to join the

which obviously started yesterday.

But since I am usually 

So here goes
the beginning of the
A-to-Z Blog Challenge

A is for Appetite

Appetite can be related to many things:

Food is probably what first comes to mind

but what has been on my mind lately is 

building up my Appetite for the Lord.

I have been told many times that once you start doing something like drinking water,

your appetite for water grows and I am finding that to be true the more I get in the Word.

I am finding that I like to look up things and for me going off on a rabbit trail

is easy; I will start with the devotion from my flip calendar

reading the daily devotion, then I look up the scripture and then I find I am wanting more,

my Appetite is growing more and more to be in the Word.

 I will read the scripture for the day and then maybe look up some of the words that pick my interest or 

looking for scriptures related to the first scripture and then before I know it I have read the complete chapter

or even two or three.

It is like whetting my Appetite for more,

the more I read, the more I want to read,

the more I want to learn.

Appetite not just for food;

it can be for anything.

What about you...

What whets your Appetite...

Do you give in or deny yourself.