Warrenton, TX NOW WITH PICTURES!

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If you live in or near Texas, please do yourself a treat and go to Warrenton and Roundtop for their semi-annual antique days. My sister-in-law and I went on an impulse on Sunday for preview weekend. I almost had a mini crazy fit when we drove up and had to grab Linda and squeeze the crap out of her to relieve SOME of my excitement. She didn't really know what to do with me for the first hour with my impulsive clapping and jumping up and down. This wasn't my first rodeo, but it has been about 5 years since I had last been there. If you love antiques, "junk", random items of loveliness or anything of the sort....please go!!!!! I wore my pedometer and we walked 10 miles. I had yard decor in mind and got some yummy stuff to jazz up our garden. I also bought a chaise lounge so I can lounge around sipping on a mint julep in the backyard. I am so happy just thinking about it. Billy is working tonight, so tomorrow he will get to see my lovely purchases. When I dropped off Linda, Robert (Billy's big brother) just started laughing out loud when he opened the door to my Suburban. He said, "My brother is going to LOVE this one!" (referring to my lounger) I think he was being sarcastic, but the funny thing is, his little wife was fighting me for it! So hah Roberto. I always enjoy spending time with my sister-in-law. We are so alike, yet so different. She has 2 boys, a Senior and a freshman in high school. I am not looking forward to subbing in my children's names to everything she was saying about them. They are good kids, but they are boys and their minds get very interesting to say the least! Warrenton/Roundtop Antique days are the first weekend in April and October, with their previews the week before. So head that way all my Texan friends! You won't be disappointed.

Here are some pics of my purchases:
HAD to have it! A.it was sprinkling off and on B. it had a cross on it in bling C.I loved it!
The antique chaise lounge with brand new cushions from Target. So if I get lead paint poisoning in the near future, you will all know what to tell the doctors. This cute little ensemble. Two of these for the front porch.
This, just because I love iron things. And finally, this antique stained glass. Now you all need to go because there is so much more than this! Wear your walking shoes.

Cooking Class

This summer, I am going to teach a cooking class at church. This is the first year that I have done this, but I have always been involved with the classes with enrollment and cookbooks, etc but never acutally cooked with the kids. I am so excited to do this! Here is one of the recipes that I tried out for the staff, Raspberry Biscuits with Vanilla glaze. Yummy! We take 10 kids and do kitchen safety, recipes and teach them how to serve God through cooking. We share with the office staff, we eat some for ourselves, we take some home for our families and at the end of the week, we have a luncheon for the staff and the kids serve them. It's such a great camp and I am so excited to do it! My only problem, I tend to sing, dance and be goofy in the kitchen. Do that with 10 elementary kids and they could get crazy with me. We'll tone it down....I hope! Here's to cooking~

Easter Photoblog

Our Easter was so much fun! Full of cascarones......


Poor Billy thought we were taking a cute couple picture and SURPRISE! I slammed one right on his precious little head.
Then there were the boys and their cascarones.... Tanner getting his 15 year old cousin, Cameron.
His retaliation!
Of course our boys are always up for a game of cascarones.
I love to see my nieces. I can't believe one has graduated from UT and the other one is graduating this May! They were just little peeps when I met them 14 years ago. They are so cool. They think of me as their big sister instead of their Aunt. I'll take it! The boys changed into their skate clothes because Cameron was there. Skate or die dude!
Oh, and the hiding and finding of over 100 eggs!




Hope you all had a wonderful day too!

Nana is a gameboy!

My mom plays heart games and not usually with boys. I realize that title sounds a bit like a Beyonce song waiting to happen, but quite the contrary. She's not dating, so no games with any "boys" or elderly men for that matter. Her heart goes into atrial fibrillation from time to time and she has to wear a portable heart monitor to measure her ups and downs, mostly ups. Anyway, Tanner just picks up the phone and calls his Nana all the time. Yesterday, he called her and I walked in on this: "I just want to come over so I can be the only child for a while." She always approves, no matter what the excuse of the day is for him to get some "Nana time". She literally lives right around the corner, so it's no big deal to take him there and they both enjoy their time together. She had just come home with her monitor on and she called me to say that Tanner was asking tons of questions why she had wires hanging off of her. She wanted me to know what she had told him in case I needed to add to her descriptions to our smarty pants 5 year old. That night, after he came home to be a sibling again, he told me that Nana had a heart monitor on that is kinda like a Gameboy. I acted surprised so I could hear his version of what she told him. Because he is my baby, I like to get real close to him, on his level and usually close enough to give a quick kiss on the cheek every now and then while he is talking. He said, "She sometimes has to wear a heart watcher to see if her heart does crazy beats for a reason or if she is just crazy. But it doesn't hurt and there is a memory stick in it so the doctor can put it in his computer to see what's crazy in her heart." How could I not give kisses for that? Then he said, "Now could you please get out of my grill?" Talk about "game boy". He's playing with my heart now!
I called her to give her his interpretation of the heart monitor. She was laughing so hard, I think her readings will be off! She politely told me that she never used the word "crazy" and she would have been offended if it weren't true! They are two peas in a pod for sure. You never know what will come out of the mouths around here.

Communion Meditation

Sunday was hectic with an extra 5th grade boy who spent the night and time change. That meant that we had to leave for church at 7:15 am. But we did it! Everyone was fed, clean and tucked in. My Tanner bear does NOT enjoy going to Children's church, so I have no problem with him sitting with his "sweet, sweet Papa" during church. Actually, I love it. Our whole family sits together with my mom and I love Sunday mornings. This particular Sunday, Tanner was drawing on the back of our attendance card during communion. He tapped me on the arm and showed me this.
His sweet voice whispered in my ear, "It's Jesus on the cross." As tears filled my eyes, he looked at me and said, "Why are you crying? He did it for us Papa." I seriously thought I was going to have to leave the auditorium because that "boo hoo slobbering ugly cry" was rapidly approaching. Then, out of the silence of communion and the subtle sniffing on my part, I hear another little one in service bust out with "We are the Champions. We are the Champions, of the werld!" I know I shouldn't laugh during communion, but that was funny. Sweet little Nathan's momma didn't think so. I love kids!