Home Again and Back to Work!!

Oh, Wherever You May Roam. . . There is NO PLACE LIKE HOME!!





Oh, so wonderful to be back home. It was high 70' s yesterday and high 50's today. But. . . I'm not complaining at all!! Actually, I'm loving it after last week!


My little embroidery machine workhorse is going as I type. I'm embroidering the items for the basket I'm donating for Relay for Life's Silent Auction. I'm donating this basket on behalf of our 9th grade Cheer Team. I'll share pictures when my embroidery projects are completed for the basket.


In the meantime, here are some towels that I embroidered for part of our 14 year old's birthday gift. She asked for them for her bathroom. Now, if we could just keep them hanging up and not on the floor!!

Blessings. . . until next time,

HOT, HOT, HOT!!

Just a quick post. . . and a promise!!

We visited the Natural Bridge Caverns today. Very interesting caves here near San Antonio. We all enjoyed our tour very much. Now, I'm beat and back at the hotel. My hubby and our youngest are off to Six-Flags of San Antonio. Don't know where they get their energy!!

It is sooooo hot here in San Antonio!! Over 100 degrees and humid! The temperature in the caves was about 75 degrees with 99% humidity too!! Yeah, I got back to the hotel and showered. . . again today. Oh, I'm feeling so much better now, thankyouverymuch. Too crowded at the pools and too many little ones (and you know what they do in the pool ;) I can do hot, but not along with humid, sticky, icky. Yucky!! The earlier part of the week wasn't as hot as the past two days have been thankfully!!

. . . now here's my promise. . . "This Michigan gal shall never again complain about our Michigan cold and snow. I repeat, I will never again complain about our cold and snow!!" There, enough said!!

We're heading home tomorrow night. . . late. Monday should be high 70's back home. Aaaahhhhh, can't wait.

Blessing. . . until next time,

Remember the Alamo!!

HAD to visit the Alamo!!!!

Couldn't come to San Antonio, Texas and NOT make a visit. Of course, our youngest didn't want anything to do with visiting the Alamo. . . too much like school for her. But, we (& she) went anyways and enjoyed it. I was surprised that this historic spot is right smack dab in the middle of town. Kind of different. We walked to it from our hotel, so that was sure convenient.

Here it is. Just like I've always seen it in pictures!

Tongue and cheek smile from our youngest. She would have rather gone "shopping!!" Of course, I didn't know on our first trip to the Alamo that it closed at 5:30!!!! (that's probably why she's smiling) . . . but it was all good. . . we just went back the next day : )

Different day, therefore, different clothes!!

Yup, Crockett, as in Davey Crockett who fought and died at the Alamo. This sure was one hot piece of property!! We also saw his memorial in a church on the other side of town, but were unable to take pictures inside the church.

We took a river boat ride down and around the Riverwalk. Beautiful ride. I couldn't understand a "word" our driver was saying though. Talking too fast and I don't speak Spanish! I sure wish I did though. We enjoyed it very much anyways.

Along the Riverwalk in the boat.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend!! We are staying in San Antonio until Sunday night then heading back to Michigan. One thing that I know for sure. . . when I get home. . . I don't want to see that bathroom scale until I can fast for a week or two first LOL!!!! Oh, my, Gosh. Excellent Mexican food. Everywhere!!

Blessings. . . until next time,

San Antonio - Beautiful City!!!

San Antonio, Texas. . . What a Beautiful city!!

We're here in San Antonio, TX. What a beautiful, beautiful city!! My youngest and I are having so much fun!! Shopping, lounging by the pool, visiting the sites. The Riverwalk is breathtaking. That's what the above pictures are . . . the Riverwalk. We stroll it each day and always see something new!!

. . . and the food. Awesome. We LOVE Mexican food, so we're in heaven here!!

Blessings. . . until next time,

Hello Dear Friends in Blogland. . . I'm Still Here. . .and On The Road AGAIN!!!

Hello friends. . . we've been busy. Very, very busy!! This above picture I just LOVE because it is actually of my husband relaxing for a change and not DOING SOMETHING! We went up to our little cottage Friday evening of last week to over-seed the grass, fertilize the perennials, holly bushes and evergreen trees and put down a new layer of mulch. Then it was back home late, late, Saturday night so we could fulfill our greeting obligations for the Sunday worship service at our church followed by dinner out for Mother's Day with my hubby's family. We had to stop at the funeral home on our way home (our neighbor's mom passed-away - - very sad, she passed on my neighbor's birthday too!) It was a CRAZY, BUSY weekend.

This weekend our youngest is making her 8th grade confirmation on Sunday at church and then we leave for San Antonio, Texas - - Sunday afternoon!! I think another CRAZY, BUSY weekend is upon us :) At least I'll be able to rest in Texas. My husband has to teach at a conference for his company and our youngest will join me in sight-seeing. If any of you know some "must-see" stops in San Antonio, PLEASE TELL!! I know of the River Walk, the Alamo, Sea World, Six Flags and that's about it. But, I may just have lucked out because our 14 year old told me she just wants to layout and tan, rest and go shopping. AAAAHHHHH. . . that, I can do my friends :)

Blessings. . . until next time,

Mother's Day Presents!!

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there in blogland!! . . . And some monogram towels for gifts!!

I'm sure you have all noticed that monograms are big. I mean BIG!!! So, I thought I would put my new (having oh, so much fun with it thankyouverymuch) embroidery machine to good use for Mother's Day presents.

Each mom will receive a personally embroidered, by yours truly, set of monogrammed hand towels for their guest bathrooms. My maiden name and my married name both begin with the same letter. . . so I didn't even need to change the letter. The towel in the middle is mine. I'm keeping it for our guest bathroom. I tried something new with this towel. It's an embossed monogram. You use the same color thread as the towel and it actually looks embossed. It is a little harder to see than the black lettering so I thought the moms would prefer to have something that "pops" like the black lettering.

Here's a close-up of the embossed monogram. Very elegant, don't you think?

. . . next, I'll be working on monogram towels and pillowcases for Cancer Relay for Life. I'm putting together a Paris flair bed/bath basket from the 9th grade cheerleaders as a donation for their silent auction. I'll share pictures when I am finished with that project.

Blessings. . . until next time,

Meet the Family!!!!!

My mom took this picture for us. . .right after my hubby and I got back from Grand Cayman before mom and dad left to go back north. You can always tell when my mom takes a picture ;) some one's head always gets chopped off (like my hubby's head!! ) Oh well, I like this family photo anyways! Top of heads or not. From left to right. . . me :), hubby, our youngest (14 next week aaauuuggghhh) and our oldest, 20.

Things have sure greened up here in Michigan since this photo two weeks ago. Thankfully Spring has sprung!! My perennials are popping, trees budding and grass is . . . oh. . . so. . . green!!

Blessings. . . until next time,