Thursday, December 31, 2009

Christmas 2009

Just wanted to share some pictures with you gals. I have to say that I am so sorry that there are not pictures of my swaps in the blog this year. I took pictures of my book swap and my ornament swap and my stocking swap. I laid them all out and took wonderful pictures and sized them and put them all in order and when I went back yesterday to load them on to blogger they were gone, just gone.......... so I will just thank the gals via email and I will try to be a much better blogger in this new year............ Now on to the Christmas pictures..


This is the only picture that was left of my blogging pictures. This was the ornament that was sent to me by Mama Bear over at Bears In Exile. She is such a blessing in my life and I will keep this beautiful ornament for years to come.

This is the only picture that we could get of Zeke sitting still. He is our 9 year old Schnauzer. He is really beautiful and he loves company.

My son Chris. He was given this art work from his Uncle Paul. I wish I had taken a closer picture but if you click on it you will see it is a beautiful picture. It is wonderful to have an artist in the family. You are never lacking pictures for the wall.
(girls, Chris is still single)

Mom was intrigued with her cross word puzzle book. She is very very smart at cross word puzzles and I try to keep a stack of them for her. It is good for her mind to stay active.

PE and Dad digging into something. Not sure but they were enjoying their packages.


Dad was digging out his goodies from his stocking. I made them each stockings this year. I had pictures of them but they went into never never land along with my blog pictures.

PE was opening his M & M package. PE and Alpha both LOVE M & M's. When the get a bad they count them out so that each will have equal share. How funny is that. So I found these little round M& M containers and I got one for each of them one red and one yellow so that they could each have their own bunch. I think PE was more excited about that little gift than any other. I also got them a big back of Christmas M & M's.

This is Uncle Ed. He and mom had such a great day. It warms my heart to see them together.


My sweet DH having a peek at something in that bag.. He is such a hoot!

It almost looks like Chris is directing music or something...........hahahhaha Not sure but Mom is enjoying her new socks.

I put lots of things in mothers stocking so that she would have lots to see and unwrap. She was like a little girl and it was fun to watch her.


Now this is Tisha, she is my cousin, Ed's daughter. She and Harold have moved just around the corner from me and Dennis. I have several quilt tops that belonged to our Grandmother Potts, Mom and Edwards mother. I had delusions of grandeur that I would be able to hand quilt them and give them to each of the grandchildren but that is not going to happen, I will not live that long! hahah So I am having them quilted. I had this one quilted for Tisha this year. There are pieces of material in that quilt that she recognized from grandmothers house. She was surprised and she was moved. It is a beautiful quilt and I was so blessed to give it to her. I have a couple more that I will have quilted this year and give away next Christmas. I want to give a couple more away to those that will take care of them and enjoy the blessing of a quilt from grandmother.

She was so surprised.

I have kept it a secret from her for the past few months. What a blessing to give it to her.


My sweet DH was surprised with this tool box for his truck. Chris got it for him and had it customized with King Ranch stickers on both sides. It is very very nice and it now sits in the bed of his King Ranch truck. He was a happy camper.

Zeke was taking much interest in that tool box. Maybe because it was so shinny.

Now this is funny. My brother loves loves loves my cornbread dressing. He comes in every Thanksgiving and every Christmas and goes to my dressing. He always says that he hates that he only gets dressing twice a year. So this year I made a really big batch of dressing before Christmas and made him 18 small pans of dressing for him to take home and put in his freezer. He has always said that the dressing is better the next day than the first day. He was just tickled and it was a fun thing to do....... Home made gifts are always the best!


I have no idea what was in this box. I just love giving gifts. I always go over board and I have tried to stop. One year I did back off a lot and I was miserable! hahaha So I got back to my old self and I so love giving. He is 40 so we buy him lots of tools and things for his house. This year he got new curtains for his living room and power tools for his new air compressor. If he would ever get married his wife could spend her money and I could save mine! hahahah

While we were on vacation in Arkansas this past October I found this wonderful hat for mom. She loves hats and she has a closet full of them. It has beads all around the brim. I need to take her somewhere so that she can wear her hat.

Uncle Ed and Mom. A picture to treasure.

Tisha and her dad uncle Ed.

Mom and dad. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Christopher Dale my son. He is more a blessing to me than he will ever know.


Brother Paul and Chris. They are cut from the same pattern. They are both full of it and you not tell by those faces and they are very close.


Just a few pictures of some of my Christmas decor. I so love Christmas


View into the living room from the kitchen.

Across the dining room. Toward the front door. We are going to remodel the kitchen and dining room this spring. I am excited!

My husband was getting hungry.

A bit blurry and I guess it was due to his starving! ahhahah

Not sure what she was doing here but all her attention was on that one item.

Now you know that I do not put pictures of me on my blog.. I am so ashamed of the weight that I have gained and I AM going to loose it this year. ANYway, I was unwrapping my gift from Chris and the more I got the paper off the more I realizes what it was. It is a beautiful mirror from the Good Book Store where Tisha is the store manager. She and Chris conspired and she told him that I had my eye on that mirror for some time now. It is very very heavy and Chris had to help me hold it up. I was thrilled.


As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. I have just the place for it in my kitchen when I get it painted.



We got Chris a set of Paula Dean cook ware. He mentioned a few months back that all his pots and pans were wore out. Sooooooooo we found this wonderful set of copper bottoms and stainless steel with copper tops and handles. Very nice. He cooks more than I do. He was thrilled. He will make a great husband one of these days. He cooks for us a few times in the summer out on the grill. In fact he AND my husband are good cooks.

He said that he was making scrambled eggs the day before Christmas and got so aggravated that he almost threw the pot in the trash. I told him he could do that now AND I told him he owes me and Dennis a meal.

Edward and mom again. They look a lot alike don't you think?


Tisha and Edward...


Mom was having a bit of a rough day. She did not even remember much the following day. Some good days some bad days. I am learning.

It was a good day. It was a very good day.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY PRECIOUS MOM

Today was mothers 90th birthday.

I cried a lot today. I am so sorry girls that I say these things to you and I do not say them to get sympathy. I do not have many people to talk to and we do not have a home church. My brother PE is so very helpful to me with the care of my parents but I am the one that see them day after day. Some days I am just overwhelmed. Today was one of those days.

Mom is leaving us every day and each day I see her leaving. Today she looked at me and I think that it took her a minute to recognize me.

This was her 90th birthday and Dad and I and Dennis bought her flowers and got her a little cake. We lite the two candles and she laughed and laughed as she blew them out. I gave her a new sweatshirt. She loves the applique sweatshirts that I make. She just went on and on about her sweatshirt. We sat and talked and then she asked what year it was and began again to try to figure out how old she was.
I had wanted to celebrate her 90th birthday with a big party with lots of people but she is just not able to do that anymore. Going out anywhere causes her much confusion and a large group of people sets her into a major meltdown.
Now, I say this because I know that I can just sit here and write and you will listen and you will understand that I just need to talk. I think after the first of the year I am going to see if there is a support group for ladies like me. I really could use a listening ear.......

Happy Birthday Mom...... I so love you.....





See the little bird sitting in her lap. His name is Dickens. He has bonded to mom and he so loves her and goes everywhere with her. He is such a joy.......


Now he has moved to her hand and looking for a Frito. He so loves Frito's.

New sweat shirt for Mom. It is a snow man and she loves the applique sweatshirts that I make. She looks real good in red.

She had on one of the red shirts that I made her last year. I love making her sweatshirts.


The birthday card.


Cake, flowers and balloon.

She loves roses... There is a dozen yellow roses in her vase. She just kept getting up and looking at her flowers. I need to buy her roses more often.


She got them on the first try. I love you mom.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

An Award

A sweet award from over at Adventures of a Jungle Tart.

Thank you girl. We always need to remember that our words sent out in the name of Jesus never returns void.
She was one of the first blog gals that I started talking to. Go over and tell her hello....

Christmas today was wonderful and I will post about it tomorrow... Tonight, I am tired and headed to bed pretty early.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

My Christmas Eve


Well, my turkey is in the oven and the dressing is ready and sitting in the fridge. The ham will go into the roaster in the morning and the gifts are wrapped and sitting under the tree. It is my Christmas eve and I am so ready for tomorrow.

We have all been gone in different directions and tomorrow we will all gather here. I so love Christmas and love the laughter and the fun. We again have put our Christmas off a couple of days so my Uncle Ed could be here to spend Christmas with my mom. They so enjoyed last year spending time together ...... it did our hearts good to see brother and sister enjoying Christmas after so very many years. Thus we decided to do it again this year. Mom will be 90 on December 30 and Uncle Ed is 87. I so look forward to watching them tomorrow as they share their memories of their childhood.


So as you go to church and have your quiet time and reflect on your Christmas I will be in the middle of mine. I think there will be about 12 people here so it should prove to be festive!

I promise to take pictures and share with you my day. But for now, I need to head to bed so I will be bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning! (where in the world did that statement come from) Oh well, it paints a funny picture don't you think........ !

Hugs .................




Denise



Thursday, December 24, 2009

Hallelujah



Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah

For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah

For the lord God omnipotent reigneth
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah

The kingdom of this world;
is become
the kingdom of our Lord,
and of His Christ
and of His Christ

And He shall reign for ever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings forever and ever
hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords forever and
ever hallelujah hallelujah
King of kings forever and ever
hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords forever and
ever hallelujah hallelujah
King of kings forever and ever
hallelujah hallelujah
and lord of lords
King of kings and lord of lords

And he shall reign
And he shall reign
And he shall reign
He shall reign
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings forever and ever
and lord of lords hallelujah hallelujah
And he shall reign forever and ever

King of kings and lord of lords
King of kings and lord of lords
And he shall reign forever and ever

Forever and ever and ever and ever
King of kings and Lord of Lords

Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
Hallelujah

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Merry Christmas



Joy to the World The Lord has come.

Merry Christmas to each one of you my dear friends......... Onward into a New Year filled with the joys that only the Christ can bring.
 
!-- gt;