Super Tuesday!

Today is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it!

I hope everyone will vote today. Let your voice be heard!

Happy Anniversity to US!

39 years ago today, December 23, 1968, Kendall and I were married. We were married in his home church, Ripley Church of God buy Rev. W.O. Wilkerson. I wore a pretty pink dress and Kendall had on his nice black suit. Of course none of the pictures above are of our wedding, there were only 1 3/4's pictures of the wedding, lol. My best friend growing up, Judy, was my maid of honor and her boy friend, Bob, was Kendall's best man. There wasn't too many there - my parents, my aunt and uncle, grandmother and grandfather, Kendall's mom and dad, and a few people from church, it was as nice wedding. I love having our wedding anniversary at Christmas, it is so festive with the lights, Christmas trees, people are happy and the best movies come out at Christmas! Today we are going to meet our niece, Bridgette, and our daughter and her husband, Jennifer and Richard, at New China for lunch, then Kendall and I will do a little shopping and then we'll go to a movie. So, happy anniversary Kendall, thank you for marring me and putting up with me for all these years, I love you with all my heart!

MERRY CHIRSTMAS FROM UAT!

I WANT TO WISH EACH AND EVERYONE

A MOST WONDERFUL

MERRY CHIRSTMAS!

The Ice Storm - Winter 2007

They (the weathermen and newsmen) say it is the worse ice storm in recorded history of Oklahoma. We were very lucky that we still had electricity and heat, 1,000's of people were without in Oklahoma.

When I went out to the car Monday morning and it was encased in ice. I pounded and pounded but couldn't get the door open so back I went in the house to get Kendall out of his warm bed. Bless his heart, these are the pictures of him cleaning the car off for me. He is such a good husband.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

To Mom!!!

My husband's mom went on to be with the Lord this spring and because she wouldn't be with us for Christmas my brother-in-law want to do something in her memory. None of us knew what on earth he was up to. He said he wanted us all (his sister, brother and me, his older son and wife, along with his wife, my sister-in-law) to meet at a restaurant and have dinner together. After dinner he brought out a box of chocolate covered cherrys. We all busted out laughing.

You see, when my mother-in-law died, we found candy stashed everywhere, 2 boxes were the chocolate covered cherrys, one was opened and the wasn't. We were amazed at all the candy she had stuffed under the bed, in the closet, in the drawer of her night stand, in the kitchen (in different places). Bless her heart, we just figured she forgot where they were and she'd buy more or one of us would get her more, lol.

This is a picture of all of us, chocolate covered cherry in hand, toasting Mom.

So, here's to you Mom! I couldn't have asked for a better mother-in-law...no, strike that...I couldn't have asked for a better 2nd Mom, because she was. We all love her and miss her. But we'll see her one day and it will be like we had never been apart!

MERRY CHRISTMAS MOM!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

My Village. . .

Every year Kendall and I set up our little village, and each year we try to add something new like a tree or a person or maybe a building. This year our niece, Bridgette, gave us a new church.

The above picture is of our two deer next to the new church.

The above picture has a little man with a top hat and a cane, he always makes me smile when I see him because he looks so much like my father.

In the above picture, if you look closely, you'll see a man in a brown jacket with a small child standing next to him. This man makes me small too, because he also looks like my dad when I was a child.

The figure of the girl holding the child reminds me of our daughter, Jennifer, hold her son Jacob when he was a very small boy.

I always say that the figure of the couple skating is Kendall and me, even though we have never skated before....shoot, I do good to walk without tripping, lol.

This is a better picture of the new church that Bridgette gave us.

Tostada Dinner Time . . .

How to build a good Tostada.

1. Take the tortilla (fried, baked or raw 'as we call it')
2. Add the refried beans (it's the glue that holds it all together)
3. Meat (seasoned ground beef)
4. Cheese
5. Lettuce
6. Tomatoes
7. Onions
8. Olives (black/green)
9. Jalepino (fresh, chopped)
10. Taco sauce
11. Sour Cream
Now you can have all or some of the above, but I tell you, it is yummy! I think it is time for another family dinner with tostadas.

It's begining to look alot like Christmas...

It's begining to look alot like Christmas

Everywhere you go...

Just a few pictures I took this morning.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Thanksgiving & Black Friday...

Thanksgiving was amazing!!! We had so much family & food & friends at our house. Our grand daughter, Jaqulyn, spent the night Wen. & all day she & I baked. She (with a little from me) baked 2 pecan pies, a chocolate cake (it was her oldest brother's 17th birthday), & a cherry cheese cake. Thursday morning she & her Aunt Heather helped with the dressing, turkey, noodles, gravy & sweet potatoes, that is just was I fixed for dinner along with black olives & cranberry sauce. Others brought, mash potatoes, corn, rolls, ham, broccoli, green beans, cauliflower salad (that my oldest grandson made, yummy!),

The next day was Black Friday, we didn't get up as early as we have in the past, so we got to Wal-Mart about 6:15 and shopped, went and had breakfast then shopped more above is the fruit of our shopping!

When we got home we picked up more pecans, a few in the front yard but mostly in the back yard, just one bucketful, we are going to give those to Kendall's brother and his wife...we'll let them crack and pick the nuts, lol. Really, that is something I do enjoy during the evening, Kendall and I sitting at the card table with pecan all around us, with out heads down concentrating on picking each nut out of the shell, bits and pieces of shell all around out feet, lol.






After a couple of hours of raking leaves & bending over picking pecans off the ground we went out to eat, while we were at 'Ed Johnson's' it started to snow! I was so glad to get home and get warm I felt like I was chilled to the bone.

And that is how it was at our house Thanksgiving and Black Friday...2 wonderful, wonderful days with my sweetheart, Kendall, our family and friends.

I hope everyone is having a great holiday!


And now that Thanksgiving is over, I can now say...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Baking for Thanksgiving...

My pumpkin pies!

My cherry pie!

My apple pie!

My pecan pies!