Happy Ground Hogs Day and Happy Birthday...

Unfortunately he saw his shawdow so 6 more weeks of Winter. Yuck. But today is a special day in my family I have an older brother, a nephew on the Gebel side and two friends who are ALL celebrating their Birthday's today.

Flashback--Friday

What is this you might ask? Well, for Flashback-Friday I am going back 2 years or so (shortly after my mom passed on) the family was together at the Farm and my sisters and I where preparing a salad of some sort and behold I cut the green pepper open to find a face smiling back at me. It was a simple way that my mom was able to let me know that she is in a better place. For these where peppers that she had planted in the Spring!!

The Family...this week

On Saturday night Malissa preformed in a dance routine at the high school with all the cheerleaders. It was a cute dance to a song called "Peanut Butter and Jelly".


The sun was shining yesterday afternoon so the "BOYS" thought they should play with their toys.

R.J decided it was time to learn how to jump something other then ditches...

Randy's new skid loader...

And me sitting on the Harley just a wishing that it was nice enough to take it for a ride.

Worldess Wednesday

Ten Things Tuesday...is BACK!

1)I am so glad XBOX is back and everything is ok.

2)That my gas bill was only $200.00. December was so cold and we received 22 inches of snow and the below zero temps. The insulation in the attic must be helping. Plus the new thermal heater. Years before it would run over $400 and we never hardly had the house above 65 degrees. This year we are closer to 70.

3)I figured out "Twitter" so now I can keep up with MckMomma all the time. If you have Twitter let me know.


4)I was able to vote for our local Country singer Shawn Mayer...in hopes she gets enough of her fans to vote for her so she can open for Little Big Town...see post below for more info.


5)For the spaghetti supper we had on Sunday night with 6 other friends...it was the best. Salad, garlic bread, the biggest meatballs, and jello cake, mmm,mmm, good!


6)My friend had a health baby boy. Welcome Nathan. He is so sweet.

7)That we where able to figure out a time to have a baby shower for this cute lil baby!

8)For a DVR...I was able to watch the Bachelor and record Jon & Kate plus 8.

9)That my life is a little less hectic this week. Since my trip I haven't been able to get caught up...Are we ever really caught up?

10)That it didn't take very long to come up with these Ten Things. If you want to read more thoughtfulness words click HERE.

Shawn Mayer...Please take a moment and Vote for her...Again!

Shawn Mayer was on season 6 of Nashville Star once again needs our votes. She now is wanting ALL of our votes to help her to win a contest so she can open for the music group Little Big Town. So please click HERE and click on Demand and place your vote. Voting ends Feb 27, 2009.
This is what Shawn posted on Facebook...Click on her name and go to her page and become a fan.
Shawn Mayer ~ Please go to my music myspace page and click on the demand button.. the winner gets to open for Little Big Town.. THANKS YA'LL.

This is my daughter getting her autograph at the Clay County Fair in September 2008.

Mexico 2009

Here they are...Finally some pictures of our Vacation

Air view stolen off the web of the Sandos Caracol, Riviera Maya, Mexico
See the square building in the picture above? That is the Spa, (front view down below) Anyway our room was toward the top of this picture so we had quite the jont to the beach. We had a hot tub out on the balcony, Should have been very romantic; however if the neighbors were on their balcony they could see us, so sad to say with the rainy weather and neighbors able to see we only sat in the hot tub one night in the dark and in our swim suits. :)

This was the view from the balcony...such pretty tree tops. Where is my ocean view and in room Coffee? :( Nope not either on this trip.

This was the little building we lived in for the week. No elevator...but got the exercise. If you look real close, Randy is on the top floor.

One day we had a pretty peacock made out of towels on our bed.

The resort itself was beautiful to walk around. The trees, birds & iguanas where fun to look for.

This is our Friend and next door neighbor enjoying the water looking for shells.

The view from the beach...on a clear day you can see Cozumel.

An other couple with us. I love this photo of them.

Front of the Spa...This was really pretty but the water was freezing in the pretty pool. We did spend one afternoon here in a huge Jacuzzi kind of hidden in the back. It was only luke warm but was fun.

Birds on the ocean every day.

Awe...look what Randy wrote...He does still Love me!

So the vacation wasn't has fun as we all anticipated since the sun forgot to shine, but I was so glad to get away with some of the best friends I have.