Fond Memories, Old Bowl

My PaPa, Grandma, and Me

My Banana Pudding

I'm having a friend over for lunch today and decided to make a Banana Pudding. I have fond memories of making Banana Puddings with my Grandma. We lived across the street from Grandma and PaPa growing up and I would always go see Grandma during the day. We usually baked some kind of sweetness because my PaPa loved his sweets! I'm not sure how many Banana Puddings were made in this bowl...but it sure is special to me. Just having Luke get it out of the cabinet last night brought back a flood of memories. Grandma had a special red knife that she would let me use to cut up the bananas. We always used Nilla Wafers...that was a must. Cool Whip and Vanilla pudding had to be the staple too! I loved my Grandma so much! Even though she's now in heaven, I still have this bowl...and better yet the memories to go along with it!

Scrap Mania

Me & Kayla

The food spread

Margaret

Selena

Karen

Kelly, Carrie, Samme

Amy

Kayla

Our table

We had ScrapMania this past Friday night at church. What a great time we had! Our theme this time was a Pizza Crop. We were able to pig out on Pizza, Salad, and desserts! We had about 18 in attendance and everyone was working hard. Kayla even got to go with me this time...it was a lot of fun!

Prayer Shawl Meeting

Cindy and Bobbi

Jodi and the Envelope Pattern

Lisa and the Feather and Fan

Penny, Cindy, and Gladys

Bobbi's Camo Lap Robe

Melanie and her completed Purple Lace Shawl

This past Wednesday night we had Prayer Shawl Meeting. These ladies never cease to amaze me! We had several turned in and were able to pray over those shawls. The workmanship is so amazing to me! We had a great time of fellowship.

Treasure your loved ones

I spent the early hours of this morning surrounded by my best friends. Joe's Mom passed away about midnight tonight. As I sat there this evening with Joe, Nick, and Luke it reminded me again how precious loved ones are....whether they are your family or your friends. We must make a daily effort to tell each other how much we care about one another....because you just never know. My heart breaks for Joe, but I know "Mom" (as I called her) is in a much better place. She's with her Joe and is pain free and probably sitting at Jesus's feet right now!

It was a tearsome blessing for me to find out tonight that she wore the shawl I made for her everyday since last Friday. She truly loved all of us as each of her children. She always wanted me as a daughter in law...and she thought Nick and Joe always faught like an old married couple. She will always hold a special place in my heart.

A GREAT start to the day!!!

Luke and I have been walking Tyndall Park here in Benton almost every morning. We get there around 6 and are done by 6:30. Well this morning was fun to say the least. It was our second lap....we were talking...and BAM....I tripped and fell. I'm sure I did some amazing leaps and bounds and contorted moves on my way to the ground. I am nursing a HUGE scrape on my right knee and I think I majorly pulled my left hamstring muscle.

Luke was so sweet. We tried walking me back to the car....but by then my blood sugar was WAY low. I didn't want to pass out as I have before (back when I was on crutches), so we got me to a bench to sit while he got the car. We went to Walgreens for bandages and medicine. He doctored me up and here I am!

My leg looks lovely and my other one hurts! Any ideas for helping a pulled hamstring? I have already had 2 midols this morning which are supposed to help with muscle cramping...so we'll see!

Thanks Luke for being a wonderful husband, even when your wife is a complete klutz!!!

Hot Springs, AR

Hot Springs, AR

2 Lovebirds- Me and Luke

Luke & Kayla

HUGE onion rings

Our food at Jasons

Kayla with the King

Me

Luke

Me & Luke at the fleamarket

Me & Kayla at the flea market

Luke and I took Kayla today to Hot Springs. She's never seen it before so we thought why not! We stopped at the old schoolhouse flea market on the way there....long enough to look around and get some pictures. We ate lunch at Jasons....and even split a piece of pie. It was yummy! We drove around and showed her bath house row and even the lookouts. We were so beat from a late night or early morning...that we all came home and crashed.

Dinner Among some good old friends!

Checking out Joe's new girlfriend on Facebook....you never can trust his judgement! LOL!

All laughs.....Nick, Me, Kayla

Me & Nick

Joe & Nick

Luke and I had Joe and Nick over for dinner. Kayla was able to join us as well. She's been living with us for a month now and we are loving it. She eats about anything so that's wonderful...she'll even eat leftovers! Luke had to work last night until late, but we were all able to eat dinner together. I made BBQ Chicken, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and some fried okra. Luke and I even made a Peach and Blueberry Cobbler together. It was enough to feed an army.

Kayla was able to officially meet Nick and Joe. She has heard about them for a month now and bless her...she put up with them! We talked about old times, old girlfriends and new ones, and had some good laughs.

We left after supper to go visit Joe's Mom in the hospital. It was a good night for her and we were very thankful to visit with her. Afterwards, Luke went to work while Kayla and I went out with Nick and Joe to see Transformers 2. Neither one of us has seen the first one....it's basically a movie to see how much stuff one can blow up! We didn't get home til 2 am!!! Luke wasn't that far behind either! We aren't as young as we used to be!