Special Treat

Love the creamslushes at Sonic.  My favorite are orange and lemon berry.  So glad they have been half price lately.  Yummy!

I have started walking after work to get exercise and enjoy the beautiful weather.  Today I walked with my creamslush.  I have a feeling this is counterproductive to weight loss!  But ohhh so good!

Bible Study

Just started this book in my Ladies' Bible Study.  I haven't read Max Lucado yet, so I'm looking forward to this book.  We have a really great group of ladies that meet every week and are a great prayer support group as well as bible study discussion group.

What is your group studying?  Is this book a good study?

Crafting Again

I've been working on several different projects, but the latest has been getting ready for a baby shower.  My daughter's SIL is having a baby.  My granddaughters are going to have a baby cousin.

The following pictures are some items I made for her.  The baby's room is gray and yellow and has an owl theme.

It was fun to find material for the owl to put on the onesie and to make the reversible fabric shoes.  A tutorial for the owl pattern is at:  http://alisa-thesweetlife.blogspot.com/2010/02/sweet-owl-pattern.html   The tutorial for making the shoes is at:  http://www.maked.ca/tutorials.html.

I'd like to make more of the baby shoes.  I think they are so cute.  I need to look through my material stash and see what colors I have that would make cute baby shoes.

I need to be retired so I have more time to craft!

First Birthday

Olive's First Birthday is today.  Olive is my daughter's second daughter.  The party theme was Apples and held last Saturday.  My daughter decorated these beautiful cookies (notice a bite is out of the cookies) and made a small apple cake for Olive's first cake.

Olive is enjoying her first cake.  The red icing was everywhere!  She wasn't sure about taking a bite at first but after the first bite, she really enjoyed it.

Big sister, Cora, had a great day too at Olive's party.  She helped her eat her cake and open her presents!

Antique/Golf Outing, Part 2

This year's outing, we not only went to antique stores and golfed, but also visited springs and mills.  The picture to the left is Blue Springs near Eminence Missouri.  We took a trail back to the springs and they were beautiful and yes, very blue.  The mill to the right is Hodgson Mill near Gainesville Missouri.  Very picturesque.

The following are a few pictures from the golf part of the trip. My husband fit in two golf games, one 9-hole game and one 18-hole game.  We walked the 9-hole game in the late afternoon and then he played 18 the next morning.  I drove the cart and kept score.  I'm pretty good at that!

We had a great trip and really enjoyed being together.  Now to start thinking about where we should go next year.

Antique/Golf Outing, Part I

My husband and I take an Annual "Empty Nest" trip which consists of antiquing (what I love) and golfing (what he loves).  This year we went to Southcentral part of the state.  Beautiful ozark area.  Our first stop was this fun ol' time store in Caledonia.  They had over 200 candy choices on the main level and antiques on the upper level.

Our next stop was a quaint antique shop across the street from the candy shop.  I found a really pretty glass cake plate.  I would like to visit this city again.

Not only did we antique and golf on our trip but also visited some beautiful parks and springs.  The next place was Johnson Shut-Ins.  Several years ago, this park was totally devastated after more than a billion gallons of water from a breach of a reservoir occurred.  I grew up visiting this park and always loved it.  We were so glad to see the park reopened and the shut-ins intact.  Follow this link for mre information:   "New" Johnson's Shut Ins State Park incorprates changes caused by breach."

This park is always so much fun to swim down the cascading falls between the rocks.  Also, it is in a beautiful location.

The last picture shows some of the antique shops we stopped at in Willow Springs and West Plains.  My husband found several cow bells and old gas cans, but I didn't find too many things that I couldn't live without!  It still was a great time and I saw many items that reminded me of my grandparents and times gone by.

Friends at the Fair

I went back to the State Fair the next day with friends.  We had a good time checking out all the booths, looking at the cows and horses, and watching a draft horse competition.

That evening we went to the Sheryl Crow concert.  She is a Missouri girl and one of our friends grew up in the same city and knows her and her family.  It was a beautiful evening and a great concert.  Fun time with friends.