Mother's Day 2023

 I have the best kids. Alex called Terry and the two of them got a little family gathering together. Terry bought Little Caesers and we had pizza and salad. Bren and Lyndie brought me these beautiful roses.

Alex got me a smart ass cup. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, does it?

He also knows me SO well with the Trek stuff!

It was a great day. Tim and Toph said that as soon as they got paid, they would get me a gift, but I just love that they were there. I sent my mom and grandma gifts via Amazon. I am just to ill to make any visiting trips. Boooo. I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day! 

Plant Update 5-18-23

 I just wanted to post pictures of all of my plants as of 5-18-23 so I can go back and look on them at a future date. 

This is the fig tree that Peama gave me. It was from Steve's funeral.

I was taking pictures of the new growth so that I could show her. She gave it to me because she was moving to Virginia with Kasey.

Here is the bay window in the kitchen. I should have taken the pictures at night so that the plants stood out clearly instead of just their shadows.

Here is the East wall in the living room.

Here is the picture window on the west wall.

Here is Topher's old game room, or the Plant Room as it is now being called. I want to move out the drawers that are left in there to the new spare bedroom, and then add a chair so that it can be the Reading Room. I probably should start calling it the Conservatory. 

I bought some eucalyptus from Smith's. Very thirsty, better smelling, and twice as many as Succulent Studios $20 bunch for only $7!

It will be fun to look back on this and see what ends up happening.....

Terry Turns 50!

Terry turns 50! Alex said, Happy Birthday you old bastard! Tim suggested we make pizza pasta, so I bought all of the ingredients and Tim and Toph cooked it. 

We also found this DELICIOUS peach ice cream

Alex, Brendon, Lyndie, and Ashley helped me decorate the garage

We didn't make the birthday sign...it came with the "a" and "y" transposed...

Here is Terry opening his present from Gina. It was a whole bunch of money, mostly $1 bills taped together and coming out of a money box. We took video, but it wouldn't attach here.

Here is the card she gave him. 

He picked out (and paid for) his own birthday "cake". It is a raspberry Boston cream pie. I got these really cool gold colored candles for the top. 

Here are some of the decorations...

I bought a crown for him, but totally forgot about it for the party. About a week later, he asked me about it because he saw it on the Amazon order summary. When I got the crown, I put it somewhere so that he wouldn't find it. I hid it so well, that as of this writing, I STILL don't know where it is! Hopefully I will find it for his 60th birthday. Happy birthday, T, I hope your day was special!

 

Easter and Alex's 32nd Birthday

We celebrated Easter and Alex's birthday on Easter Sunday. As is tradition, I got an Easter Lily. This was a good one, all of the trumpets opened.

As always, they smelled SO good! 

Happy Birthday, Alex! 32 looks GREAT on you! 

I was so busy enjoying my kids company that I forgot to take pictures! 

I hope everyone had a GREAT Easter!