Book Club

I LOVE BOOKS!  Yep, I'm a bonafied book worm, and I happily admit it!  I love to sit with a good book, escape reality for a little while, and peek into other people's/characters lives:)  Especially in the summer...by the pool...with pink lemonade...or better yet, at the beach, getting a tan, with my toes in the sand!

I was sooooo sad tonight when I saw my friend Jenny's number on my cell phone and quickly realized she was at book club and I was not...I completely forgot:(  I was already in my pajamas and folding laundry so just jumping in the car and racing up there was not in the cards for me tonight;(

In honor of my Book Club, here are some of the books we've read the last few months and just for good measure I'll throw a couple of others in that I am personally reading myself!  In case you are getting your summer reading list going...ENJOY!

 This was our first book, a murder mystery - a great read, great mystery if you are "in" to that sort of thing, but a little sad.

 LOVED this book - laughed, cried, can't wait for the movie!!!  All about rich southern women and their maids (what they REALLY think)...Everyone should read this book!

 Totally fun read...Pioneer Woman's (do you know her blog yet?  You should!!!) love story with her Marlboro Man cowboy - laughed out loud reading this one - PURE ENJOYMENT, makes this city girl wanna spend some days in the country!  I hear a movie might be in the works for this one too???

 This is one I am reading on my own - a christian book that MOPS sent out this year to all MOPS members - makes me want to clean, decorate, and make my house all warm and cozy:)

 Great book, doing this with the women in my small group at church, highly recommend, especially if God still has some things to work out in you - which should be all of us right?:)

And last but not least...this is our next book club read, don't know much about it but... gonna see the movie when I'm done too, LOVE Reese Witherspoon!

Have any of you read any of these, what did you think?  What's on your Summer Reading List this year?????  Any recommendations?

Happy Reading!

This is YOUR LIFE!

Borrowed this from another blog...LOVE IT!  What's your PASSION?  Mine is living the best life I can according to what God's will is for me and hopefully shining His LOVE to others everywhere I go!  Have a great rest of your weekend!

Sand and Stain, Sand and Stain, Sand and Stain some more...

 We also did a little of this this past weekend!  Sanding...

 Staining...

Staining some more...

This was our first staining project - this furniture is for Kaden's room, can't wait to show you the finished product!!!

Easter 2011

 How was your Easter?

 Ours was good...

 We got dressed up and went to church - had an awesome service with baptisms, the true message of the gospel, etc.

 Came home, ate lunch, had a little Easter Egg Hunt

 Enjoyed hunting for baskets

 Checking out the goodies...

 And trying out these new cuties...

new bunny/frog slippers for all!!!

So thankful for a quiet, intimate, family Easter, even though we missed our big fam who were all in Galveston this weekend!

But even more so, we are super thankful for the Day the Lord Hath Made by his HUGE SELFLESS SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS!!!  Praise God  - we love that the one we serve is alive and well, already preparing a place for us one day in HEAVEN!!!!

Happy Easter to All of YOU!  May you know the true reason for the holiday and my prayers are that you get to spend some intimate time with HIM, bunny/frog slippers optional:)!!!

Lots of Growth:)

Remember the blooms from my yard that were just about to burst????  Well, here they are today...

in front of the house

front of the house - this bush had 0 blooms last year, I cut it back this year and voila!!!

 side of the house - this is the one I think we share with our neighbor, but I claim it as mine - since I take care of it:)  ha ha

 Yellow Irises by the pool

Bluebonnets 2011

The Bluebonnets were out in full force in my parents neighborhood the other day....so...so were we:)!

Happy Anniversary Barbara and Don!

Last Saturday I helped to host an anniversary party for this precious couple!  Barbara is one of my mom's best friends and she was like a second mom to me.  She used to pick me and my sister up from school, take us to her house, give us purple dinosaur grape Kool-Aid and snacks and watch us until our mom picked us up after work.  She also let us walk in her golf grass with bare feet, and cut gorgeous flowers from her flower beds to take to our teachers!  It was my pleasure to help celebrate 50 years of marriage to her hubby Don!

 The sweet couple renewing their vows!

 Little helpers in the church kitchen!:)

This was my job...BEST...JOB...EVER!!!!  LOVE making these!

 More of the help - Christiaan, Jenny, and Ashley

and more help  - Jae (my sis), Linda (another one of mom's besties), and Dawn (only daughter of the anniversary couple and sweet friend)

 Her job was to test the mics by singing cute little tunes while we worked:)

 Some of the food we prepared:)

 Yummy mini cheeseballs:)

Mmmm!