Weekend Celebrations!

We celebrated Lonnie's 68th birthday at El Fenix in Fort Worth.

We used to be four siblings.....now we are three.

This was our first birthday celebration without Nita and it was bittersweet.

And this was the last place we were all together last summer.

I remember her laughing and going from table to table talking to everyone.

Every memory of that day is a special gift .....

and we made new memories yesterday together.

Lonnie calls Michele his 'beautiful bride' and so she is.

She's also an angel and takes such good care of our brother.

I do love a good margarita and this was the first one I've had in a long time!

We shopped Tuesday Morning which was just around the corner from the restaurant before coming home.

I've been wanted to change out some of the white in our bedroom for soft shades of green.

I found a new comforter and some curtains and they go well with the rug I have in there now.

I LOVE this rug!

Instead of 15 or more pillows - I only had 4 plus 2 throw pillows.

However, if you want to prop yourself up in bed and sip coffee, read, pray and meditate - you need more pillows. 

So I cut the number in half and added two more which makes 6 bed pillows - and the 2 throw ones.

I can sleep with that - since I always have a couple on top of my feet when I go to bed.

We had meant to drive down to the ranch this morning but the rain has made for a mud event down there and the weather forecast is for cold and more rain.

So we went to church instead and Logan and Kailey came home with us!

Win! WIN!!

Logan helped  me get a fire going....

and then helped make lunch - Trader Joe's Orange Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice.

We watched an old Gunsmoke while we ate - at their request!

The new curtains were a little too long for the bedroom back door so Kailey hemmed them up on the sewing machine. I love that all my grands know how to sew!

Next up??

ART!!!

Kailey started a penguin -

Logan is painting Kona and Cash!

They each painted at home recently in acrylics.

Today they painted in oils.

They didn't get to finish them but I sent their palettes home with them along with a small bottle of turpentine.

We went over to watch Harrison's hockey game and Amber had brought warm coats and extra socks for the girls since they were still in their Sunday clothes and shoes.

It was really cold today!

Even COLDER at the hockey game!

Look how grown up Harrison is!!!

As football season is winding down, I am looking for things on TV that Louis Dean would enjoy.

Tonight we watched the first two episodes of Season 1 of 1923.

The way it's made with one scene morphing into another scene set in a different place makes it difficult for him to follow. He likes the western scenes and fight scenes, of course, but he can't really track the plot. 

Logan pointed out to me that Gunsmoke comes on back to back Monday - Thursday and suggested I record them for Granddad. She's so sweet and I intend on doing that very thing.

Louis Dean loves watching them because the good guys always win and there's a moral in every story.

While we celebrated Lonnie's birthday yesterday, his actual birth date is today - January 29th.

It was 4 years ago today that all of Mother's living children were together as we laid her to rest.

We often laughed about how happy she would be knowing her funeral was on Lonnie's birthday.

Mother absolutely LOVED a good funeral!

I was born in 1948 and half sister to all my siblings.

Deanie was born in 1951, Nita in 1953, Lonnie in 1955 - these three are full siblings.

We four grew up together.

Luann (to the left of Lonnie) was born in 1957 and Shari was born in 1958 and they are both full blood sisters. Shari was a twin and her brother died shortly after birth.

I love my Memories on Facebook!

This is June and Benjamin - whom she loves dearly - in 2019 at the funeral home.

You can see Sweet Summer just beyond Ben's shoulder.

Louis Dean is watching the Kansas City Chiefs' game and I already know they won!

But I'm letting him enjoy the suspense!!