Happy Birthday To Me!

Today is my 4? birthday....no the question mark is not a mistake.haha  
Hubby is out of town on business but my son and my brother's family has some things
planned.  Hopefully I can get some b'day pics taken today and posted tomorrow.  I also
need to take a picture of my shelves by crafty husband made me before he left.
Wishing all my friends a wonderful day,
Regina

I am still here!

Hi ladies, so sorry I have fallen behind in my posts, since we got back from vacation it seems we haven't stopped.  First of all, today my son had out patient surgery so we were up early and at the hospital with him. Now he is resting upstairs with his cell phone by his side to call me when he needs
something. Not sure if I am going to like that set up or not.haha   Next, my husband is leaving tomorrow for California, he will be flying back and forth for the next 4-6 months. For those of you that don't know, he worked in Canada from Jan - July last year so....I was not to thrilled about this news.  But we are thankful that he has a job, so many people are hurting right now.  And lastly, I am decorating a clients home and that has kept me extremely busy. So please keep us in your prayers that this journey that my sweeties job is taking us on will go by quickly!

Taken from the Oakville marina near Toronto Canada. The young man sitting at the bottom of the light house was playing the guitar. My husband of course had to meet him and play guitar with him. Needless to say they hit it off right away, both being musicians, and swapped musical ideas for a long time. They drew quite a crowd.

Some new things

Hi Ladies,  hope everyone is enjoying the last couple of weeks of spring, it feels like summer here, in the 90's, way to hot!  I have been extremely busy since we got home from vacation.  I am decorating a clients dining and living room, it's been really fun, she loves Tuscan and so do I, that makes the job very easy! Plus....I have a friend who is teaching me to sew, I have always wanted to learn but just didn't get it.  I even took home economics in high school and my Mom could sew anything, well...I made my first skirt, it's actually for my niece Andrea, how did I do?

 

Here is a shelf that my father in law made me a couple of years ago that sits at the top of our stairs. I added and took away a couple of things. Below are the before and after results. If you can see the tray on top, I mod podged napkins on the tray.  Sorry I couldn't get a better picture, it was the best I could do without falling down the stairs.

 

                                       This is a beautiful gift from my garden, I am going to try and                                          dry  it  so I  can make an arrangement with it.

              Well friends this is all for today, hope everyone has a beautiful and blessed day!
               hugs,
               Regina

Back from Montana

Hi all,
We are back from Montana. Got back last week and haven't had a chance to do any blogging this week. Here are some of the pictures that I promised of our trip. More will follow as we get them from my cousin who went with us. She has a much better camera that ours and her pics should be fantastic, but ours aren't so bad. Anyway, hope you all enjoy looking at them as much as we did taking them.

Here I am in from of the West entrance of Yellowstone in West Yellowstone.

Here is my hubby. This is the 1st day at the park.

This is the first picturesque view of the mountains as you get into the park from the west entrance. This is only the first of thousands of beautiful views like this.

This is the first of MANY buffalo we saw. The park officials said that they were unusually skinny due to the long winter this year. They had over 200 inches of snowfall. Normally they have around 150 inches.

Here is one that is scratching his head on this small tree.

One of several Elk we saw. He was right next to the roadway.

This is the Beehive Geyser near the Old Faithful geyser. What is so rare about this picture is that they say it only goes off every 8-12 hours and it is so hard to predict. My husband just happened to be looking that way when it erupted and captured this photo. He had to use the zoom because it was so far off. Still it is both a pretty good picture and we are very lucky to have captured it on camera.

Here is the one that everyone goes to Yellowstone to watch. Old Faithful in all it's glory. Take a look at the video we took. It was shot with our camera, so the quality isn't spectacular, but it is still pretty cool.

From what we understand, we were lucky to have captured this shot. The park rangers told us that this was the last of the elk who still had his antlers. All the others had already dropped theirs but this was the only one that was being a little stubborn about losing his. They think it is because of the long and harsh winter.

This guy is a young one. He crossed the road right in front of us, swam across the river and then turned around and gave us this National Geographic shot. We were not able to get a pic of him swimming across, but my cousin did with her really nice camera. I will put those pictures up as soon as I get them for your enjoyment. He must not have been more than 50 yards away from us here.

This is a shot of the largest waterfall in the park. It is at the grand canyon of Yellowstone. Notice the snow? Boy, we sure did. It was sooooo cold!

This is the second of 4 grizzly bears we saw on our trip. He came within about 100 yards of us and them went over to check out a buffalo that down the meadow a bit from us. they circled each other for a while and then the buffalo came up to where we were and gave us a closer look at himself.

Here's the infamous standoff between the two that lasted for about 2 minutes.

This little creature is called a Yellow Bellied Mammoth. They live in the rocky areas scattered along the park. Not dangerous by any means, but still cute to look at. We don't have anything like that here in Georgia.

My husband and myself along with the Bar-N ranch foreman Ron. Yes he is a for real, bonafide, routin-tootin cowboy and helped make the trip one of a lifetime. The stories he told were amazing and he kept us amazed for hours while we were there. Thank you Ron for a wonderful experience.

Here we are at the top of the drive to Big Sky resort. They wouldn't let us go any further, thus the stop sign behind us. What you can't see is the guard shack and guard to the left of us.

This is the north entrance to Yellowstone. This is where they dedicated the park in 1872.

My husband at...well, you can read where we were for this photo.

Me at the same place but with the mountains in the background.

here is one of many shots of a baby buffalo. They are called "Red Dogs" when they are babies. This one is only about two to three weeks old. After they turn about two months old, they loose the red coloring and turn more tan. They turn darker as they grow older. Although it was really cold, it was a great time to be in Yellowstone because of the new borns.

Another red dog. They were all over the park.

I forgot the name of this small geyser, but it was one of the prettiest ones we saw.

Here is a bald eagle. We couldn't get a great shot of him because he was so far away and our camera wouldn't zoom in that close.

Two mallard ducks. Just more of the great wildlife there.

Here is a crane in the river. I didn't know there was any there in Montana.

I think the hubby liked the FJ Cruiser. Just take a look at the grin on his face.

This is a little close huh? The buffalo will walk right past your car door at times, blocking traffic for long periods at a time.

One of the many hot springs in the park.

Gotta go for now, but I will place more photos on as I get time.

Blessings to all,
Regina

Hello from Montana

Hi ladies hope everyone is doing well.  I am on vacation, we left yesterday and after changing planes twice and renting a car and traveling another 2 hours....we finally arrived in Yellowstone National Park, Montana.  We are staying at a ranch just outside of West Yellowstone called the Bar-N Ranch. I will try and post more pictures when I have time....it is so unbelievably beautiful here.

12 hours later...finally here we are!

This is the view that welcomed us to Montana. My husband took this when we stopped to take the picture of the welcome sign. What a breath taking view.

This is what was in our room over the fireplace...a little kitty. he's a little bit bigger than our cat at home but not quite as cute.

Wow what a fireplace huh?

This is the view from the back porch. There is still over 2 feet of snow here.

Here are the other cabins around us.

Cool cabins and WHAT A VIEW!!!!

Here are my two cousins in their room playing on the "secret hide out" as they call it.

Another view from the back porch

Well, it timeI to go and explore this new and beautiful world known as Montana. I'll be posting more pictures as I said earlier but until then...

love to all,
Regina

Mother's Day 2011

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Mother's Day. I know I sure did. My son took me out to a French restaurant for brunch and we had the best time together.

My son Caleb and I in front of the restaurant.

This is my best friend, also known as my husband Darryl.

Later on we had a late lunch with my husbands parents at our home on the back deck. We had homemade chicken salad sandwiches, mashed potatoes and Bush's baked Grillin beans and a huge salad fresh picked this morning.

My in-laws, Dot and Glenn also known as "Me-Maw & Pa-Paw".

Besides the Mother's day activites, I have also been busy with more crafts. Here are some of the things I've been working on this week.

This is my Dollar Tree "Lil-Roo" before and after.

Before

After

And here he is on the dining room table. (Told you he was little, but cute huh?)

I planted some flowers this week as well. Here is a picture of some of the flowers. I got the faux pot from Wal-mart. It just looks like a ceramic pot.

Geraniums, English Ivy and Purple Daisies

I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but I have small website where I sell what I call "Java Spirits". They are decorated wine bottles that light up and have flavored coffee beans inside and when they are plugged in, it smells like fresh made coffee. Hazelnut is my favorite. Here are some samples.

Well that's all for now. Let me know what you think of the wine bottles.

Love ya'll
Regina