Jewels: the Cute Frog!

I love my new background friend.
Occasionally, I minimize my browser just to look at her.
It makes me happy!
Crazy right?
You got to admit, this Frog is just adorable!

Amelie named her Jewels.

I asked her to name her because she is so good at naming things and pets. 

Amelie always has the cutest names for all her little animals, critters and toys.

1st Lonestar Diving Meet

Amelie had her first dive meet today.

She did a great job!

She did 10 dives total.

5 in Event 1 and 5 in Event 6

I posted some videos of her dives on Google +.

Her 2d place Silver Medal 1st Event

Her 6th place ruban 2d Event

Coach John

Tee-Shirt says:

Make waves without a splash.

Mike is Handicapped. Again!

This is Mike's 2d surgery this year!

And hopefully the last one for a very, very, very, long time...

This time he had a Slap-tear repaired on his shoulder.

Unfortunately, we don't know how it went!
Mike was too drugged up (of course!) and I missed Dr Labbe the Surgeon.
Yeah, I left to go to my Zumba class during the surgery...
They told me I had plenty of time!
We will have to wait for his follow-up visit on Wed

This time around I am going to be a better nurse!
No repeats of THIS

The recovery should be faster and easier too.
At least he can walk!!!

Oh, isn't my man stylish?
He got a new pair of Anti-Clogging socks and fancy No-Slip yellow socks as well!
Thank goodness he is not wearing the yellow ones this time!

Little BirthDay Present

My sweet Visiting Teacher from church brought me this today for my Birthday!

Bath and Body stuff and a cute handmade card!

I was touched...

Hand Sprained? My Foot!

Amelie came home from school today announcing:

"My hand doesn't hurt anymore! I can go to gymnastics!"

We took off her bandage and I had her do some pushups and a cartwheel to make sure.

She performed them with no problem or pain to my not surprise!

It kinda makes me wonder if that trip to the Urgent Care was really necessary?

And how competent the Staff is there?

It's a good thing our insurance paid 100% for that visit, 

otherwise I would not find this very amusing!

Huge Undertaking!

So now that I am caught up on my blog, 

I am going to start the huge undertaking of posting going backwards.

I sent 1000 paper pictures to a website and had them digitalised.

The quality is not the best but I am going to try to enhance them a bit in Lightroom.

I will start posting as I go along! 

I'm real exited about it!
Mission Pictures, Courtship, Wedding, babies, trips... Etc.
It will all be on this blog!!!!

I will post a link each time I do a few posts and see how it works...

Victory!!!!!

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I'm all caught up on my Blog!

Just enjoying it while it lasts!

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Hand sprained

Amelie fell off the Hammock!

She didn't remember I warned her not to use it as a swing!

One of those 'protective-optional-motherly-suggestions' that went ignored or was forgotten;

unfortunately, this time, it had a natural consequence...

It will heal fast, she will be back to her true active self soon enough!

She started a little Gymnastics class a month ago,
I guess that will be on hold for a couple of weeks.
She loves that class!
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Bday Flowers

I'm 45!
And I Love it!
(I can remember my age better! I forget when it's not a "0" or "5")

Orchid from my Man
Sunflowers from my awesome friend Sarah!

Thank you!

Love ya!

Had a lazy day enjoying
General Conference

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Conference Cookies

During the afternoon session of Conference,

Amelie and I made some Peanut Butter cookies -

some with Heath Bits,

some with mini-chocolate chips

and some with both.

She has a little swim-team girlfriend who moved-in on our street.

We took her family a dozen cookies to welcome them to the neighborhood.

Needless to say I will have to re-listen to that session!
Thats ok, cause I will be listening to all of Conference
on my phone during my walks with Chloe within the next 6 months...

But boy! Was that cookie dough YUMMY!

The Heath/Peanut cookies were delicious too!

I'm not a huge fan of Peanut Butter Cookies but these;
I really like!

Robin's Peanut Butter Cookies Recipie

(we made a double batch to share)

Awesome Find!

I saw something like this on Pinterest. 

And really liked it.

When I went to the Esty Website, they were too expensive!

So when I stumbled one this one at Ross for $25, I bought it and hang it up!

Love it!

New Dress

I got this dress at Kohl's for $15 in the Clearances a few months ago.
I wore it today for the first time...
It was a couple of inches too short to my taste.
So I bought a little black extension for $10.
I sowed it by hand during Women's conference last night.
It took me 3 hours to do it when it would have taken me 10 mn with a sewing machine!
Unfortunately my machine broke 4 months ago!
It had a pink ruban as a belt, I also changed it for a blue one.
I might wear the pink one too...
The Bolero is the one Justine wore with her Prom dress
where she is so gorgeous and lovely and beautiful!:
here

Last Pool day!

Some of the pools stay open on the week-end past Laborday! 

One of them is our Favorite the one with the lazy river...

We went almost every Saturday in September. 

We missed the last day... It rain all day! :(

My forest

Now that the weather is cooler in the mornings, I love my daily walks even more!

Sweet Potato Vine - It Grows Like a Weed

It's been a learning curve:

Knowing what flowers and plants can withstand

the Houston weather, 

my piney shady back yard 

and my dog who will dig up anything I plant in the ground.

Well, I know that Sweet Potato Vine loves it here and loves my back yard!

I also started planting stuff in pots, Chloe can't dig those up!

(I had tried covering new plants with rocks but it didn't work, she loves that tender soft dug up dirt) 

Oh by the way there are 2 growing seasons here! 

Spring and fall! 

Pretty cool!

    All that green vine on the ground in the middle of my yard 
was one tiny Vine planted in a big pot! You can't even see the pot, it's covered!

Date night

My Man and I try to date every week. 

I like to stay mostly in the woodlands, 

but once in a while I agree to go discover some of what Houston has to offer... 

This is City Center. 

It has restaurants, little shops, a movie theater,

an open area where families and people hang out with live music

 on the week-end, and sometimes, art displays from local artists...

Pretty Cool...

Oh! I got told by a security gard as I was taking pictures of this cool fire pit 

that photos were not allowed. 

This particular fire pits and water art are actually private!

I could take a picture of someone in front of it but not it by itself!

How could anyone know that?

Go figure?

Better to see through

The last full day Sarah was here, 

she washed all my windows and did some yard work!!!!

Oh and washed my tile floors

Thank you so much! You realy didn't have too...

But I'm enjoying it anyways, a lot!

On the Table:

Sweet Potato cuttings. 

Put them in Water and they will grow roots and keep growing! 

Cool and Pretty!

Friends!

So Happy My Friend Sarah is visiting from Cincinnati!!!!!

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We did our toes.

Watched a few Doc Martins!
Love that English show!

We did a little shopping, we found a used $30 Bike for me at Goodwill!

We did hair coloring and cuts.

We talked.

We attempted to go to the beach, didn't happen!

 We walked the spoiled dog...

Good Girl Times...

Can you tell who lives in Houston and who lives in Ohio?

Time Out For Women

This is the first time I attend Time out for Women here in Houston.
It waas held 15 mn from home.
At the Marriott downtown The Woodlands.
Sarah came and stayed for a week so we could go together.
Aude also came for 3 days.
That was the first one she ever attended.
We had a great time!

Hubble and Hudson

We like Hubble and Hudson! 

It's my replacement for Jungle Jim in Cincinnati.

Well... It's not as big, awesome and cheeper than JJim's...

But it has some yummy french deserts, and delicious soups, 

like carrot ginger and tomato-basil-bisque...!

That is what we had for lunch and desert during TOFW!

Yummmm...