mmm.

I am going out of town next week and my kiddos are staying
with my parents at my house!!  I decided to make their favorite
pizza/marinara sauce.  Then I decided to can it. I hope my sweet
boys enjoy it while I enjoy the beach!

shopping trip from kids perspective...

 silent Thursday...just made that up.  Don't feel like typing-too many dishes waiting.

recentness.

I haven't been blogging.  This is simply due to lack of motivation to be on the computer when it is beautiful outside.  Here is a long post about life lately.  Sorry to lump...better than nothing.

Trip to Wichita...this is a telling portrait of my hubbies Grandma Dee.  She is an amazing woman and has spent a lot of her life listening and nurturing in this kitchen!  We love you Dee. 

MY YARD!!  I have flowers and am in love with them.  Here is a small peek.

Last weekend we visited Marathon, TX.

our backyard at dusk...cool.

our home away from home

cool architecture

freedom song

I have noticed a theme in the songs I like.  They all have to do with some form of freedom.  Here are some examples from different times in my life:

Motorcycle Drve by by Third Eye Blind
(Here is the song)

Careening through the universe
Your axis on a tilt, you're guiltless and free
I hope you take a piece of me with you
And there's things I'd like to do
That you don't believe in
I would like to build something
But you never see it happen
And there's this burning
Like there's always been
I've never been so alone
And I've, I've never been so alive

Honey and the Moon by Joseph Arthur
(Here is a video)

We're made out of blood and rust
looking for someone to trust
without
a fight
I think that you came too soon
you're the honey and the moon
that lights
up my night


But right now
everything you want is wrong,
and right now
all your dreams are waking up,
and right now
I wish that I could follow you
to the shores
of freedom
where no one lives

freedom
run away tonight
freedom freedom
run away
run away tonight

Sigh No More by Mumford and Sons. 
This is my new favorite song, so I included all of the lyrics.
(here is an awesome video)


Serve God love me and men
This is not the end
Lived unbruised we are friends
And I'm sorry
I'm sorry

Sigh no more, no more
One ? one unsure
My heart was never pure
And you know me
And you know me

And man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing
Oh man is a giddy thing

Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you,
It will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be.
There is a design,
An alignment to cry,
At my heart you see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be (x4)


What is freedom to you?  To me...it changes.  Today it is spring and adventure.  :)

succulent garden

 Family Tree Nursery had a great succulent planting workshop this weekend!!  It was a fun family outing.  The boys both made a garden for their special friends!  Paul and I made one...actually I planted our garden and Paul fed the fish and chased the little dudes.    :) 

Good times.

  

2 things i like

I really like puffins (along with hippos and otters!).  They are weird and cute.  This print is from an artist from Texas.  Here is his blog...bee things. 

I also really like this artist from Cali.  Here is her blog.

welcome i-robot!

I have wanted an i-robot roomba vacuum for 10ish years!!!!  I found one at Target this week half off and couldn't resist.  I love it.  It looks so cute sucking up crumbs.  Here is a Roomba clip.  Hehe