Music

I have two new favorite songs.  They are a little different than my normal.  I believe I first heard these songs on Glee. I will hear a song on the radio and realize that is where I first heard it ... Glee. 

The songs are:  Adele with "Rolling in the Deep"

and Bruno Mars with "Just the Way You Are".

Check out "Rolling in the Deep" music video.

Has anyone been watching "The Glee Project"?  I love the music videos they create with the contenders.  At this point, my favorite is Cameron.  I think I change my favorite week by week!

Fun Times

Our granddaughters spent the night with us recently and went to church with us.  We had a great time with them. They visited with my parents as well as played at a playground where I got some really fun pictures of Olive.  Olive really likes to get her picture taken -- so far!  Can't wait until we are together again.

Father's Day

I hope everyone had a great Father's Day.  We enjoyed time with our daughter and family.  Not only did we celebrate Father's Day but also my son-in-law's 30th birthday!

Here are some pictures of the fathers in my life.  My father at the St. Louis Museum, my husband with my granddaughters and my son-in-law fishing with Cora.

Steam Locomotive No. 844

Union Pacific's Steam Locomotive No. 844 stopped in my town recently.  I had voted earlier in the year for it to make its' run through our state and town and we won!  It is traveling from Cheyenne Wyoming, through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and back to Wyoming.  Here are a few pictures I took:

Flower Beds

We worked on our yard and flower beds on Memorial Day.  We try to keep it fairly simple.  Here is a picture of a cicada on our flowers.  They are everywhere and make so much noise.

We bought mulch and put that in the flower beds to help with the weed growth.

I need to buy a few more flowers to add to some pots for color in the front flower bed.  Also, maybe a hanging pot for the porch.

It was a beautiful day and fun to work outside.  After all the rain and storms we've had, it was a nice reprieve.

Here are a few more pictures of our flower beds.  We have a lot of hostas and they are really doing well this year.  When they do well, they are so low maintenance.

Now to find a way to keep the dogs out ...

Anniversaries

Celebrating anniversaries together.  My hubby's sister and husband having brunch with us at Les Bourgeois in Rocheport, MO.  It is a beautiful restaurant overlooking the Missouri River.  Their anniversary is a few days prior to ours.  Good food and catch-up time.  They are grandparents of two boys and we are grandparents of two girls, so many stories to share.

Turkey Hunting

Several weeks ago Cora and Olive visited Papa while he was turkey hunting and they went mushroom hunting. Papa and his friend Gary did get turkeys and they were very happy and proud.

Cora put on her boots and she was ready to go.  She had been talking about this for weeks.  They were very surprised to find so many mushrooms. They didn't even pick them all because they ran out of space in their containers.

The mushrooms were sliced and fried along with the fish for the evenings meal.  So good.