Friday, May 27, 2016

I love to see the temple
and I went there today.

I was up at 5:30 this morning and left for the temple by myself at 7:15 for the 8:30 session.  Brother Peeler from our ward arrived at the temple the same time that I did.  He is a temple worker but today he was a patron doing an endowment session just like me.

I went through for Margaret Eaton and the name of the officiator for our session was Brother Eaton.  Also, I saw a friend from high school working at the veil, his name, Alan Frost.

After the temple I stopped at El Cupido's for a drink and a bacon breakfast burrito.  I ordered it to go and my next stop was at the Taylor Walmart where I shopped for groceries and Emmy's birthday.  On to Show Low for gas and a carwash and to pick up Emmy's ice cream cake at Dairy Queen.  The only problem with their cakes is, they don't have any cake, just ice cream.  

When I returned home I unloaded the car, put groceries away and sat down to rest and watch an episode of "Chopped."  James was outside putting a door on his shed.

 It looks so nice!

Now all we need to do is plant some grass or build a sidewalk so our floor won't get so dusty.

I couldn't resist taking this picture of the birdhouse.

He made the birdhouse for the humming birds,

so the hole is a little small to get inside.

James says we have apples growing on one of our trees.

 Does that look like an apple to you?

It looks more like a pomegranate to me.

This afternoon I made a meatloaf to go with our scalloped potatoes.  Just as we sat down to eat, Jared and his kids arrived with an Arby's bag.  All the kids are here except Anna who went to Disneyland with Tricia.

Earlier this month Trina and Stacy both killed spiders.  Trina's was in the garage and Stacy's was in the house.  Which would you rather face:

Stacy's

Trina's

Sorry Stacy, put Trina wins this one for the grossest looking spider!

 

Thursday, July 30, 2015

National Cheesecake Day 2

My personal favorite right now:

Lemon meringue cheesecake.

 

Vickie came by this morning for a visit.  Jenifer's daughter Amanda has been here visiting and she took her to the Amtrak train station in Maricopa to catch a train back to Texas.  Vickie was here for a couple of hours.  It was so nice to see her and visit with her.

 

After Vickie said goodbye, I went to the Hobby Lobby in Ahwatukee because I needed one more hat for my tea party.  I also went to Walmart to pick up a prescription and then James and I left for the cabin around 2pm.  Of course we stopped at Burger House for our green chili mixed burros, one for today for each of us and one more for James and one for Jared.  We arrived at the cabin a little after 5.  I knew Trina and her kids wouldn't be here until later this evening.  I didn't think Jared was going to leave El Paso until 6pm so we weren't expecting to see him before midnight, but to our surprise he arrived at 6pm driving a white rented van filled with his kiddos.   It was a pleasant surprise.  James wanted to sleep downstairs and Anna in my office.  I setup the air mattress for Anna and put the new 1600 thread count sheets on for her and she was happy.  Jared and the little girls will be in Sheri and Ian's room.

 

When Trina and her kids got here it was a happy reunion for the cousins.  James and I went to bed around 10pm as did Lola.  Everyone else stayed up until 2am playing games.

Emmy and Molly playing chess

These two were so happy to see each other!

Lola after her bath and ready for bed.

Lola and Addy.

Everyone loves Lola!

Most of the gang pictured here.

I even got Anna in the picture!

 

 



 

 

 

 

 



 



Friday, May 24, 2013

James chased the cows for me this morning.  I let him take over that pleasure when he is here.

We took a trip to town today.  James stopped at Horne's for less than ten minutes.  As we were going back towards town we saw a four seater Polaris Razor for sale.  The guy wanted $13,500 but James got him down to $13,000.  It's a 2010 but only has seven hundred miles on it.  It's exactly what we want.  Before going home for the checkbook we stopped at C-A-L where James bought some more primers and a "chimney" for our dutch oven.  We had lunch at LaCasita.

 James finishing off his green chili chicken enchilada

I bought lots of groceries at Walmart in anticipation of Jared and his kids coming tonight.  James did some shopping at Home Depot and then picked me up as is our usual habit.

After putting groceries away, which took a long time, I went in to figure our finances to see if we could afford that Razor.  Well it didn't take me long to figure it would not be a wise decision to buy it, so we didn't pursue it anymore.  I have to just put it out of my mind.  

I spent a couple of hours cleaning the bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs for Jared and his family.  They arrived around 10:30 and went straight to bed.  Molly wanted me to polish her nails but Jared said she would have to wait until tomorrow.