Land of the Free...

I know I have been awful at keeping this thing updated. I've had good intentions, then life comes rushing in! Last week was busy with me being out most of the week. I had to go to central Texas for a funeral so that took up most of my week. No complaints here, though! I got to drive through some beautiful country and stop at a couple cute antique shops! Plus, I got to hang out with my sweet niece and make her giggle! I love sweet Gracen giggles!

Now a disclaimer: I didn't take these photos. I just stole them, but she is too cute not too share!!

Redneck Swimming Pool/ Feed tub

I got home on Friday evening and then had all weekend to get some projects done. {Which is always great!}
Even though I did do a little house cleaning, I mainly got to mark several things off my lists!

One thing I did while I was "dusting" was take down Spring decorations and put up Summer. Since I hadn't shared my latest Spring decor, I took a couple pics! Now, you will have to excuse my awful photography skills. I just used my phone and they didn't turn out very well, but you'll get the idea!

 

I got me an old branch and made me a 'spring bloom tree'! I think it turned out so adorable!

These are my spring blocks... I change them for every season. Bobby gives me heck and says that he thinks it funny that I have that up there as if we might forget what season it is... Well, I like it! So there!

I got many ideas from my creative mom over the couple days I was there, and so I had to put them into action once I got home. Of course, I stopped by Michael's on the way home and picked up a couple things!

I made the bunting to go with my new American flag my mom quilted... I told you she was good!

 

And since I had one, might as well make 2! Maybe I will sell one!

 

This cutie was an idea off none other then Pinterest! I have it on sale on my etsy shop if anyone is interested!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/texascottontales

Check it out! My sister has some cute stuff on there, too!

Here is me telling everyone it is SUMMER! I know it is obvious, but there it is!! And I'm loving my red, white and blue this year... we can celebrate all year!

 

This was another idea off Pinterest. A girl actually makes them and sells them on Etsy. you can check out her shop, she does any state and and color I believe! I decided to make my own! Didn't turn out too bad, if I do say so my self! This also go along with my red, white and blue!!

I have a couple other projects up my sleeve... or in my head, I should say, but I have other things I need to get done! Like yesterday I cleaned the mud room and touched the paint up in there!! Go me! And praise the Lord we have had rain to make mud and make the "mud room" useful!!

Speaking of rain... I have pictures from weekend before last of our garden. Not much has changed since then... except the weeds are doing well off the rain! We do have a couple blooms on some squash and cantalope, but that's about it. After you see the pictures of how enormous our garden is, you can imagine why I don't want to make it thrive. This was the guys {Bobby and his boss, Dennis} idea, so they can take care of it. If I had it my way, it would be WAYYYY smaller!!

 It might be hard to tell from this picture, but that is the garden. Well, there is still some to the left you cannot see in the picture. From here all they way to that big barn in the back. Yep... it's huge! Most of it is supposed to be corn, but it's obviously not doing too well!

Green Beans

Squash

 I borrowed the 4 wheeler to take out the trash since the pickup was hooked up to the trailer. It's about a mile down to the trash pit... I made them run!!

 But, they got a ride back!!

 Then I hauled some rock for another flower bed on the south side of the house. Moving rock is as far as I've gotten! Hopefully I'll get around to it soon!

Hope y'all have a wonderful week and a cool SUMMER!!!

M

Friday Photo.

Just a quick pic. Will update soon, but wanted to share this cutie!! Have a great weekend!

Fishin'

While we were in Central Texas this weekend, we went fishing. Bobby has had the itch to go fishing for some time now, so it was a good thing that we finally did!!

He only ended up catching 1, but his brother {who doesn't like fishing at all, because he never catches anything} got enough for dinner!

We feasted the next day on fried fish, fried pickles, french fries and hush puppies! We like to eat healthy!!
 

Happy Hump Day!

M

The Great Escape.

Well, Bobby and I got to escape west Texas for a nice long weekend at his parents. They have been getting some good rains and it is a green drive most of the way there. That is a nice change since the past couple have been so dry. Saturday morn I got up and went for a big ole long walk with the dogs. They had a blast (until I had to put Sage on a leash due to the fact she can't listen!!) running around chasing rabbits and birds and what not. Sage actually caught a jack rabbit. I was freaking out cause I thought it was a neighbors kid goats, but thankfully it wasn't a goat!!

Since it was perfect weather I had to take some pretty pictures. Thought I would share. Hope everyone has a wonderful week!! 

 

*** I decided to upload these to the computer and put them on. They were very grainy when I just loaded them from my phone. That being said, they are just phone pics! That's about all I take!

M

Friday Photos.

So this is really late, but technically still Friday. It's been a real crazy week, but I still managed to get some pics taken. Monday set the tone for how crazy a week can be. A good friend of mine(s) husband died of a heart attack. So that makes prep for funeral, prep for Shattered Dreams, bible study at my house {which means i have to clean and have something cooked} and then just work and life it's self makes for a crazy week. All that aside, I made it to Friday and praise God it's a long weekend. 

Also, praise him for the wonderful rain we got last night. 2.4 inches!!! 

I'm just going to post a couple pics of projects I did and things I saw. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

M

Photo Friday!

A sweet blog friend of mine did a Photo Friday a while back. Since I have been really lame about keeping posts up, I decided this would be a good way for me to get a post, and not have to write much. Plus... I would love to share my life through pictures, then you can draw your own conclusion.

With that being said, I haven't taken very many pictures lately, so this will also be a very boring post! I failed to get any pictures from our trip last weekend. I was having too much fun I guess! We went to the Western Heritage Classic in Abilene on Friday. It was so much fun and we shopped til we dropped. This had a fabulous time at the Ranch Rodeo that night.

There was an excellent performance from a horse trainer, Bobby Kerr, and one of his mustang makeover horses. This video will show you pretty much what we got to see. He had Pancho with him. The video shows 2 of his mustangs, though. And since I have now idea how to just put the video on here, I will give you the link. Take time to watch it.

We also got to see the Budweiser Clydesdales. One of my favorite things in life. I will own a Clydesdale one day!




Then on Saturday, we made our way to Stephenville to watch my youngest sibling graduate from college. I stole a couple pictures my mom took from Saturday!

Mollie, the graduate, and I!

The whole family.

I just have a couple other pictures. I made some coasters for our living room. I love how they turned out!

And last but not least... Bobby and Sage. She had some parsley stuck in her teeth!!

Have a blessed weekend!!
Mandie