Some Days...

Mother,  I am missing you a lot today.  It seems like life is just complicated and you helped me keep it in prospective.  So, I am missing you today.  Some days I feel lost and alone and wish you were here just to hear your sweet voice and hold your strong hand.  I know you are far more comfortable and would never want you to come back to your broken body.  I'm trying...I love you!

We Celebrate Our Firstborn

The firstborn, daughter number 1, will be celebrating a birthday.  Here is a tribute to this amazing daughter!  We love you!  Enjoy the walk down memory lane.

There you have it.  There are TONS more but I will save some for another tribute.  Daughter,  I love you dearly!  I look forward to living near you!  I hope this next year is the best you've had, so far.

Big Happenings...

This week is the beginning of some big changes.  I leave soon to go to OKC and celebrate the first daughter's birthday.  Then we will be packing up her little Civic and driving to Colorado.  In the next 2 weeks we will just settle in here then we will fly to DC and pack up the MIL's furniture and drive to OKC and pack up the daughter's furniture and drive to Colorado.  Both are SUPER excited to join us in Colorado.  We, too are so excited to have almost all our family here with us.  Hopefully the weather will cooperate with us as we travel cross country.  Thanks to a friend of the daughters, I will not be making that drive from DC to Colorado.  They are actually looking forward to the road trip.  I am glad to be flying home.  But not before the daughter and I have a day in Annapolis.  Could be our last trip back east.  That's OK, we have been going for years.  The loved ones there will be in Colorado!

More From Our Sunday Adventure

The Sunday adventure was so fun.  Here are a few more pictures from that.

Last Day of September

Nothing significant about the last day of September.  I just wanted to get one more blog post in before a new month.  I am trying to stay up with my blog even when I don't have much to blog about.
I did finally upload all the pictures from the big birthday party this summer.  That alone is a couple of days posting.  I will start with the real birthday dinner.  It was to be only the MIL and the husband and me.  But I knew that the firstborn red-haired angel girl was in town early and was going to surprise her grandmother by joining us for dinner.  It was great.  Just the 4 of us at one of our favorite Italian places in Rockville.  Amalfi's is some amazing Italian food.

Sunday Adventure

After a GREAT service at church today, The husband and I took a picnic up into the mountains.  Can't live this close to remote and not visit it occasionally.  After all the saying,"The mountains are calling and I must go," is true.  I took pictures with my camera but have not uploaded them yet so here are a few from my phone.

I Love IKEA!

I needed a new desk area that could include my sewing area.  I started looking at other people's creative areas and realized that IKEA was an option.  I first had planned to make one whole side of my office/sewing room tables with drawer units.  But we decided the corner piece would make the room.  So, the husband and I went to IKEA in Denver and along with hundreds of other people that saturday, we wondered through the store going up and down all through all the areas.  It was not our first time, but our first time when we lived close enough to buy big stuff and take it home, YAY!!!  One of the things I was looking for was chairs for the son and DIL's new place for their dining table.  They have them!  LOTs of them!  I found the best ones and was able to afford to buy cushions to make them comfy.  But of course they had to be put together.  No problem.  The son and I put them together with NO problem.  That would be the first of many pieces of furniture I learned to put together.