Grand Day Monday...Time Flies...

When your having fun!

Without the 'Grands', Bug and Button

here, my grandma days have changed just a bit.

Last week was our first week without them being around. But we are not forgotten...'Grand' Bug called me just the other night. Of course he had to check on Bella. We hear from them every day about their visit. They are having a great time, though they really miss their mom and Bella. VBS started this week so they will have a great time there. Their dad also has them signed up for soccer summer league, this will be their 2nd year participating and they really enjoy it.

Before they left and the day after we got home from our vacation, we began a week of Grandma Days...

That were spent in the pool...

...and playing some baseball.

Button had recital rehearsals...

There was even time for popcorn...

Our last day with them ended with 'Grand' Button's dance recital, "The Fairest of Them All"

But my grandma days do continue with these 'Grands'...

The Boy found bubbles last week during his visit.

While they were over, we had some excitement. Seems my well pump decided to go out. We had no water! Then when we got water it was orange. After about an hour flushing things out, finally we had clear water. Then we didn't again. We repeated the process and made a call to the well pump guy. We went through the night with little water usage so to not drain the storage tank until the guy came first thing the next morning. $1200 later we have a new pump. If I hadn't been on my way out to the doctors, I would have taken pictures of it being fixed. He had to use this high boom thingy that picked up the well pipe with the pump attached at the bottom. I guess it's normal to replace well pumps after 12 years. With the water we pump, which is why I have my own little water plant to clean up, they normally only last about 10 years.

Then Saturday we spent the day with our Fireson and a 1/4 of his family.

His other 3 children were with their mom.

I can't wait to see them again also. Hopefully soon.

While my Hubby and Fireson worked on this...

I got to spend time with the Little Man..

Last night The Boy was over swimming but I didn't take my camera out to the pool. Those memories will just have to remain in my heart. He was so cute...braving his new freedom from the swimmies. He can dive, cannonball, slide and swim without them now. I couldn't count on all my hands or feet the number of times he would say, "Watch this!" His mom was telling me that he now goes down the slide at the aquatic park as well.

Time sure does fly when your having fun. Now I must get ready for the upcoming, fun filled packed 4th of July weekend ahead. I am so excited my brother is planning to come down. I just love my 4th of July BBQ's. Each year it is different...I can't wait to see how this year unveils.

You Capture - Get Down Low!

It is hard for me to get down low and be able to get back up
so I only took a couple of pictures this week...

Hubby suggested I set the camera down n the ground and do what I do do best..

point and shoot!

I wasn't that far down for this one but this 'Grand' was laying on the edge of the pool playing with the hose as the pool filled.

Go check out all the other "Get Down Low" Photos at

Check Out What We Did!

Yesterday there was a baby shower for a very dear friend of our daughter. However her mom and I had met some 13 years ago when she interviewed us for a scholarship our daughter was receiving to Hope International University (formally PCC, Pacific Christian College). At that time her daughter was already off at college. Her daughter moved home when she battling breast cancer. Without our help, they connected a few years ago, and as God had planned, they are now raising babies together. Her mom and I hugged yesterday and gave praises for the growth of our children. He has surely rewarded us.

So what did we do for this special lady...

It began with this...

I removed the original drawstring and added ribbons the color of her nursery. I was going to stencil his name on the liner but wasn't to sure it would look nice. So, next time I make one of these I will embroider the babies name on the liner.

My daughter created these...

While I put together this...

Which all went in here...

She opened it like this...

The shower was so much fun. They had a candy bar which allowed me to fill my candy jar at home. I also won a center piece, good thing because our little group had been eating it.

I LOVE My Life!

How could I not!

I mean, I have like the best life one could ask for!

I fortunate to have this very loving husband...

For 35 years we have loved, fought, grown, expanded, disagreed, agreed, and explored a life together. The bumps in our road, the sometimes mountains of problems we have had to conquer, that could break most, just made us stronger. These things were just stepping stones to where we are now.

My life wouldn't be complete without these three wonderful adult children...

(Hint to my children-I need an updated photo and not one I took!)

Who continue to awe me as they build their lives. Even when the cards they were dealt didn't make a good hand, they grew in ways that God had planned for them. I see great things ahead for all of them.

And they have given me some of the most amazing grand children in the world.

Now how could one not just LOVE this!

And I have one more due in October!

These 'Grands' fill our hearts and many of of our days with their giggles and spirit. They are sure the most collective bunch of personalities that tend to fit together like a puzzle.

Hubby has built/remolded a very nice place I get to call home. I've talked of my journey through this before so I won't repeat myself except to say, I LOVE my life! I LOVE my new space! I LOVE my hubby for providing me with it all. Praise God! For it is with Him that all things all possible. 

I can't just take off on a cruise around the world on a whelm...but I can plan some of the most wonderful vacations and family get-a-ways. Even the most simplest outings can bring the most memorable memories to remember. OK, so the family trip to Hawaii had a few snags, but all in all, it was fantastic! I am so blessed. These are a just highlights of some of our many trips.


                                        Germaine's on Oahu                 Dole Plantation Pineapple Express

Rawhide, Chandler, AZ

Sea World San Diego

Phoenix International Raceway

Sea World again, in fact we bought season passes

so we will be going at least twice a year for a while.

(still need to make it over this year but we will)

It has been interesting trying to pull together some of our amazing gatherings. It's a bit tricky with all the different schedules and activities but I am good at comprising. So we might not get Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving, Christmas on Christmas, Birthdays on Birthdays but we sure do celebrate our time together. Be it once, twice, three or four times a week or a year, for the ones who live out of town, anytime with the 'Grands' is always celebrated and cherished.

So Yes!

I will yell from the roof top, from a mountain if needed, that I LOVE my life!

And you'll probably read about it a lot here!

If you have been following me for a while, you would know the changes and challenges we had endured this last year. Though at times the stress appeared it would never end, it has and it continues to be where it should, in the past. In a way, it's like a garden, our family needed to be tilled, plowed and replanted. The love, the support, the encouragment we received over this time nurtured us and helped a great deal in the healing and growth. We have always been a strong family and this last year proved that. But we can't take all the credit because without God providing that strength things could have been different. I will always praise Him for the life He has allowed me to LOVE! Sometime's I don't praise him enough but he knows. As my Aunt has always told me...

He know's all, see's all, and take's all into account!

So how can I not lift my life to God and shout out the LOVE I have for it.

So yes, I can say loud and clear....I LOVE MY LIFE! This is Our Journey Through It!

Hang on tight because the year is just half over and the second half brings just as much fun.