Spend Sunday with Us

I enjoy taking a peek at what others do so I grabbed my camera today and thought I would take you along.

Ready to hit the road?

On our way we passed a hay field that had been recently cut.


As a treat we stopped for breakfast.


Then it was on to church.


Due to late evening thunderstorm Megan didn't go to sleep until close to ten. She was then awake at 6 this morning. We were barely out of the parking lot before she was asleep.


We decided to take a little drive so she could get in a cat nap.

I am a country girl through and through so we headed away from town. Our first sight was a couple of old barns.


Silos standing ready for a new harvest.


We've had a really wet spring and I was happy to see the corn is coming up.


Don't you just love a little country church?


I always imagine that everyone is super friendly and close. I bet their pot luck dinners aren't full of store bought items!

On the way home we made a quick stop for milk and to pick up a couple of other things.


I don't normally go to Wa*-Mart on Sunday and was surprised how busy it was. It is rare that Chuck is at the grocery with me. It gave me a chance to browse the bakery section while he ordered some lunch meat. I was shocked by the prices. About $3.50 for a dozen cookies! Yikes!

We hit the gas station next.


It is sad when any price under $4.00 makes me happy. :(

Then it was time to head home where Megan helped me with a few things in the kitchen.


She was suppose to wash off the strawberries and hand them to me to cut. A bunch of them never made it to me!

Next I got things ready for dinner.


Note to myself... set the frozen meat out before I leave the house.

I took some time to catch up on a news program that I had taped. Clip coupons and then I finished this weeks menu.


While I did that Megan was out in the garage with Chuck.


She said that she was playing school. Chuck watched the race and worked on straightening up the workbench.


Chuck fired up the grill and started dinner. My mom finds great meat deals on managers special. She is generous about sharing her great deals with us.

Steak, baked potatoes, corn (that I froze last summer) and salad. You should have stopped by there was plenty. I didn't even eat half of my steak!

When dinner was cleaned up I stepped outside and blew bubbles with Megan. We then came inside and read some library books.


Megan ended the night with an ice cream cone.


Pink sprinkles made for a happy girl!

Vacation is over and tomorrow it is back to normal. I have Chuck's lunch ready and am looking forward to seeing the boys tomorrow morning. Megan has been talking all evening about what she is going to teach Abe tomorrow.

Megan is snuggled in bed sound asleep. I think that sounds like a great idea. I hope you enjoyed your peek at our Sunday.

I hope you are taking time to enjoy the simple moments!

Around the Yard

Today was a beautiful day. It was warm and sunny with no humidity. If it were like this all summer I would be a happy, happy girl! Other then a trip to the grocery and coming in to eat the day was spent outside. As I was sitting on the back porch sipping my tea I was taking in the beauty of the clematis.


Through out the day Chuck worked on the fence.


His little sidekick was always ready to lend a hand.

I went to check out the garden and took my camera along.


The green beans are looking great!


Cabbage are starting to develop heads and the leaves are huge. Bigger then I think they have ever been.


It had been a couple of days since I had been to the garden and I found that my head lettuce once again failed. The heads were starting to develop the last time I was up at the garden. Every year my head lettuce fails. I will have to do some research to see what I am doing wrong.


Zucchini blooming.


This is the first time I have ever grown peas. I was tickled to see that the pods are growing. I can't wait to shell some peas!

I saw this morning that my neighbor had put up a clothes line.


I noticed a few times that she was looking over while I was hanging out laundry. I am glad to see someone else enjoying the savings and the simple pleasure of line dried laundry. No matter what the laundry bottle says you just can't duplicate the smell of line dried laundry.

My silly girl is loving all of the outside time.


She was wearing Daddy's hat and added her butterfly net and told me she was collecting honey. I love that imagination!

I hope you are taking time to enjoy the simple moments!

My Weekend

Saturday I was up early getting laundry on the line and preparing for a busy day.

We were expecting some wonderful people to come work for the day. Figures that the day we plan to have help the themometer rises and rises.

With temperatures in the 90's the sprinkler was pulled out and the kids had a great time cooling off.

While the kids played the men worked really, really hard.


I tried to stay out of the way and only help out if asked. My job was to supply plenty of water and lemonade. Along with serving lunch.

All of the fence post have been dug and the post are in on the west side of our property. Thirty of them!


Today the post will be set on the east side. Only twenty-five of those! Thankfully my dad will be stopping by to help out.

Then we will be able to slow down some. Chuck will work on cutting all of the post to the correct height and then he will be building the fence panels himself. I see this as a work in progress for a while, as time and money permit.

The weekend ended with a refreshing splash at my parents.


Chuck is on vacation the rest of the week. We plan to stay home and work, play and relax.

I also wanted to mention that I am having a horrible time commenting on blogs. Especially those blogs that have the comment box at the bottom of their post. I am reading and really want to comment but am unable. Grrr! I hope that it is fixed soon.

I hope you are taking time to enjoy the simple moments!

Everyone Needs Beauty...

as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir

I took a walk around the yard the other afternoon and soaked up the beauty and rejoiced in the all the great things the Lord has done in my life.



Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun. ~Ecclesiastes 11:7

Notice how the flowers grow. They do not toil or spin. But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass in the field that grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? ~Luke 12:27-28


I hope you are taking time to enjoy the simple moments!

Birthday Celebration

Yesterday Chuck celebrated the big 4-0! I made his favorite dinner of meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans. After dinner we had a little celebration.


He received a few gifts.


I wonder what secret she was trying to tell? Probably what the gifts were! :)


Of course there was cake. Megan thinks that is the best part of celebrating someones birthday!

Saturday we celebrated with his dad and tonight we will have dinner with his mom. We decided to have a celebration with just us because the bad thing about divorce is that the complications never end for the kids. If we invite over his mom then his dad is jealous. If we invite over his dad then we feel guilty that mom isn't here. If we try to include everyone then it is awkward. We love them both and know they love Chuck. It is just one of those things where you feel you can never please everyone. Sigh!

I hope you are taking time to enjoy the simple moments!

Backyard Fun

I am a planner, but there are times when spur of the moment things can be fun! Late Friday afternoon my sister called to see if we had plans. The only plans we had were to stay home and enjoy the beautiful weather. She asked if we wanted to get together and cookout at our house. Sure!

The items that I didn't have she picked up and we got cooking. Simple stuff really. Hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, salad and cottage cheese.


After eating my niece, Lauren asked if we wanted to play a little baseball.


It was so much fun! We joked, laughed and had a great time.

Then we cooled off with a little ice cream.




A wonderful, relaxing evening spent with those I cherish. It really is the simple things!

I hope you are taking time to enjoy the simple moments!