Monday and we are home

I still don't have the pictures ready to post. We got home this afternoon late. Our daughter Christyn stayed and took care of Maggie. My house was spotlessly clean and fresh baked cookies on the counter. Now thats the way to come home. Bless her heart. She didn't stay here actually, she took Maggie to town with her and spent days here. I am so blessed by her.

We had a wonderful time with Nikki and her family. We didn't go anywhere or do anything. Sat around and ate and ate and ate. She is a marvelous cook. She baked 8 pies and most of them are gone. She baked a HUGE ham and a small turkey for me. I am not overly fond of ham and she knows that. I love turkey sandwiches. Not deli turkey but real turkey left over sandwiches. Plus she had tons of home made fudge and cookies. Nothing like a child decorated sugar cookie to give your heart a lift. Her raspberry, blueberry and apple pies were from home grown fruit and I think a good part of the fruit salad was home grown too. She makes crust from scratch too.

Its a good thing to get away from all of it though or my clothes won't fit. As I have shrunk to a size 12 from an 18 in the past couple of years, I don'[t want to go back BUT I love to eat. I will go walk tomorrow and get back into a routine.At least that is the plan.

The horses were all in good shape. Shannon, our neighbor, did the outside chores and we really appreciated her. Usually we get Katie to come stay but that wouldn't work this time. I will go give them hugs tomorrow.

The day after..................

We made it to Nikki's just fine. Clear and bright and dry roads all the way. I slept over half way so I was pretty chipper by the time I got here. Dinner smelled so good cooking. She baked a ham and a small turkey. I don't eat ham much so the turkey was for me. I appreciated it but not something she needed to do. She had invited a single mom from the neighborhood and her son Ben to join us. It was so nice. I ate so much I can't believe it. She had also baked (from scratch) 8 pies. She made a raspberry one for me. Oh was it good. So good in fact that is what I had for breakfast.

She and I ran some errands today and that probably is the only reason I got dressed at all. We had a good day just laying around for the most part. I have tons of pictures but they still are in the camera.

Have a great Sunday, we will.

Merry Christmas

Wishing each and every one of you the most blessed of days. Jesus truly is the reason we celebrate. No, he probably was not actually born on this very day, but this is the day set aside to celebrate His birth so he could come to this earth for us. For God so loved the world (thats us) He gave his Son....................Merry Christmas from Bob and I.

Christmas Eve

Our Christmas tree before all the packages got under it. It was so fun. Everyone got a couple of packages and had fun. A fun Christmas Eve. Bob's prayer before dinner was a sermon but that's OK. We all needed to hear it.

Our sweet granddaughter in law and our great grandson that is due in about 10 days. Heather is so uncomfortable. Sorry her eyes are closed but wanted the tummy anyway. She is such a tiny little thing. When she and Joel got married about 4 years ago she had a size 0 wedding dress and they had to take it in. they both look young. When she had their first baby they talked around both she and Joel. They thought they were still teens. They weren't.

Their daughter Lilianna. She wore out by dinner. She was bound all those packages were for her.

Isn't this what ones riding arena is for. Ice Skating. Well not with skates. Ryan Seth and Sheya got heely shoes (shoes with wheels in the heels) and they were using their heelys on the ice. The picture is of Seth and Sheya. A while later Ryan fell and cut his chin but just a lot of blood but not a big cut.

This is the latest addition to Toms family. It is Christy's Maximus Max AKA as Max. He is an AKC registered poodle - seven weeks old. He weighed 1 #5 Oz when they got him this past week. He fits in the palm of your hand. He is so cute. He should be about the same size as Skeeter. Skeeter weighs exactly 10#.

We had a wonderful day. We will leave in the morning for Nikki's. I will post a Christmas greeting if I can. May blessings fill your day.

Christmas Eve Eve

Wishing each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas. May your day be filled with peach and love and God's blessing in all that you do.

This tree is in Riverpark Square downtown Spokane, Washington.It is a beautiful tree and the Christmas music playing was wonderful. Bob and I had a "date night" this evening. We went down town and looked at store windows, Christmas trees, listened to music, held hands and walked along the sidewalk until we looked at each other and said "its cold out here" and went back to the car. All that was missing was snowflakes falling. But it was fun and we had a good time.

Ole Santa here is in front of O'Dougherty's bar. We didn't go in, just took his picture as kept walking. After we shivered back to the car, we drove around looking at the Christmas lights. Then we went back to the edge of downtown to Frank's Diner and had breakfast for supper. It is a railroad car made into a diner. They serve really good food at a reasonable price. Bob had his all time favorite, biscuits and gravy and I had bacon, eggs and hash browns. We were both stuffed but it was fun.

Now we are home, Bob is watching his usual old western movie on TV and me and my book are headed for bed. The kids will start arriving by 10 or 11 I would imagine. No snow for a sleigh ride as in some years. (I have a sleigh and a pony that pulls it) but we will find something fun to do. We are having lasagna, salad, garlic bread and cookies for dessert. No big stressing out over a fancy dinner.

Your gift to me is being my blogger friends. Thank you each of you.

Thankful Tuesday

Have you ever been hugged by a donkey. I have ,today. I went out to take some pictures this afternoon and Chemmy came up to me. He wanted me to to love on him. I petted and put my arm over his neck and Chemmy turned his head around and just hugged me. He let me rub his ears, his nose and just hug him back. He is so sweet. Aren't those wonderful ears.

And isn't this a sweet nose? I tried to take his picture and he kept trying to touch the camera so that is all I got That sweet soft nose. This wonderful little donkey is my Thankful Tuesday. I really needed a hug today and he gave it to me.

And this is Yuma. I think he was a little jealous but he wouldn't let me hug him. I did pet his face and that was OK. He just was a little stand offish today. He is a sweet boy too, just not in a huggy mood today.

My two donks. They were glad to get out of that mud pit. I did not blame them a single little bit.

These two guys in the mud pit. They were getting ready to go in to eat. This is Cody and Rusty. I love Rusty' mane.

This was our view on the way to church last Sunday. We had just come out from being in the fog to under it Usually there are deer or turkeys in the field but not that morning. I thought it was kind of an austere picture.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Monday

It rain all day. I mean rain like out of a bucket. The round pen is flooded, the arena is flooded, the donkeys pen is flooded. Cody and Rusty are standing in water. I will let them all out into a pasture first thing in the morning. This is terrible.

I could not go to sleep last night until sometime after 3 this morning and then had to get up at 7 so I am really sleepy and tired. I am going to bed in just a few minutes and no one had better wake me up until I feel like waking up tomorrow.

Had good news first thing this AM. My grand nephew came through his surgery fine this morning. He has a seizure disorder so even a tonsillectomy is difficult on top of his CP and all that is with that. This was good, he seems to never be able to get a good good report on anything and this was a good report.

Tomorrow will be a better day.