We celebrated Lucy’s Birthday. We had a wonderful time! We had a ton of fun taking pictures, as always. We had a delicious dinner at Olive Garden, all old-time favorite. Mmmmm Tiramisu! We stayed up late listening to the-good-old-times music. Songs like Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Blue Velvet, Night and Day, Close to You, Embraceable You, Something Stupid, Feelings, Forever and Ever and The Lion Sleeps Tonight. I gave a special performance of Firefly to Steven and Lucy. They loved it. We went to bed with music in our hearts.
We had a wonderful Christmas! We had artichoke spinach dip on Christmas EVE right before we opened gifts. The candle light service at church was beautiful. We had our famous all vegan lasagna Christmas Day! WOW, it was fabulous. Finger foods for New Year’s Eve that turned out a real hit!
We visited Grandbury. Lucy loved it! The weather has been fun to say the least. We’ve had 25 degree days all the way to sunny 80 degree days, with thunderstorms and rain in between. You gotta love Texas weather, not a dull moment. God is Good and has given us many blessings. Happy 2009!
Mom, Dad and Dan visited us in Texas for Thanksgiving this year. We had a delicious vegan feast and spent some time in the town of Granbury. Here are some pictures.
Well let’s see. Last month we went to the Benbrook Lake and watched a Kite Show. But these were not regular kites, they were kites for Pros. They were actually SURF KITES. We brought our own tiny kite. It was quiet a contrast. On that VERY windy that day we got to do some fancy freesbee tricks!
On October we added three members to our family. A golden delicious apple tree “Goldie” a large Crape Myrtle tree (white flowers) “Moses” and a smaller Crape Myrtle tree (hot pink flowers) “Tiny-Tot”. We were told we would need to hire someone to plant them because of the large white rocks found in this area. But Steven tackle the task himself and did a fantastic job. He made the holes, dug out the large rocks with his bare hands and planted all three trees. You would think he has been planting trees all his life.
We got rid of our Mums, who died prematurely. We had bought them at Home Depot and got our money back. Learning from the bad experience we returned to the nursery where we bought our Petunias last Spring. It is a family owned flower nursery that sets a shop on the street, on Bryant Irvin Avenue. They carry the best flowers. It is a very popular joint for flower lovers.
We bought 36 multi-color Pansies. Steven planted them on the last day of the month and made our garden, once again, beautiful. Our front and back yards now feel very much like home. We have given it our own special touch! It has become a real hobbie for Steven. He loves the feeling of dirt in his hands. I enjoy watching him. I am the official photo-journalist and car washer.
October was a great month for yet another reason, we have become world class entertainers. We had some friends of mine from the Seminary one Saturday over for a pizza party. We also hosted four “dessert nights” inviting couples from our street over on different nights of the week. They were all delighted with our invite and gadly agreed to come. Out of all that socializing, our neighbors Todd and Amanda had us over for a little party a couple nights ago. There are two more sets of neighbors still to come. It’s been fun getting to know them all. We are blessed to be surrounded by such beautiful people.
Steven spent 7 hours planting a new garden this past Sunday. We learned a lot from our first Pentunia garden. This time Steven meticulously installed a weed-blocker cloth. That took hours, because the cloth needs to be measured, cut, and stapled. Also, the cloth needs to go around the sprinkler system lids, not an easy task. We got some beautiful magenta mums. They had not bloomed when we bought them last week at Home Depot, now from my window I can see them and they are all opened up and happy! This garden is very different from the Petunia garden, this one is much cleaner and the colors are very Christmasy!
You will notice our American Flag theme. We are feeling very patriotic in light of the coming Election. McCain-Maverick insipres us to display our flag every chance we get. That is part of the reason why we chose red flowers.
Steven did all the work and hard labor, all I did was wash the car and take a zillion pictures. Good Job Darling!
We began the grand celebration Saturday morning. We headed to the California of Texas (not really), the great city of Austin. You will notice the third slide, it’s the summer home Steven bought me in West Austin.
We spent the day and night at Barton Creek Golf Resort. It was spectacular! We sat by the pool all day Saturday. Ate great food and enjoyed a strawberry smoothie in the kitty pool. The service was great, the view breath-taking and the weather glorious!
We ordered a delicious Kahlua Chocolate cake for two around midnight, it was “out of this world.” At around 4 a.m. I woke up feeling a bit chilli, soon we were wide awake and taking silly pictures by the mirror. We returned late last night.
Today we enjoyed a romantic dinner at home. My honey-chef made us Organic Pesto Tortillini. I got perfume and 2 dozen roses on top of it. We are happy and grateful for 5 years of bliss.
Still very much in love…
Today we celebrate Gm and Gp as well, today would’ve been their 67th wedding Anniversary.
Today is my birthday! My baby love took me to a place he discovered east of Dallas, called The Harbor at Rockwall TX. We ate delicious Italian food at the Valore Restaurant and were served by a real life Italian waiter that took our picture. We got coffee and white cake at The Celebrity Cafe and Bakery. The Harbor is truly a beautiful place! It made us feel right at home by the water. The weather was perfectly warm and breezy. O Happy Day!
A while back I told Steven that I wanted a tennis ball to hang from our garage as a mark for the car to not go further, not because of it’s practical use but because I always thought was a very “american dream” type-a-thing to do. I also told him I wanted the tennis ball to be pink instead of green, which by the way I never knew existed. So this morning I opened this little package and there it was my pink tennis ball.
Little things that say “I love You” are the ones that mean the very most.
This song by Amy Grant says how I feel today:
You can thank the Father
For the things that He has done.
And thank Him for the things He’s yet to do.
And if you find a love that’s tender,
If you find someone who’s true,
Thank the Lord –
He’s been doubly good to you….
We decided it was time to buy a nice little home of our own, so we did. Our neighborhood is called Hills of Whitestone Ranch and is in Benbrook, TX. We’re about 5 miles southwest of Fort Worth. It’s sort of a rural-suburban area so the street you take to get into our neighborhood doesn’t have a name, just a number: Farm-to-Market 2871. We see horses and a partial view of Lake Benbrook every time we come and go. We’re happy.
ATTENTION: Pictures of the inside of this house will not be posted. If you want to see, you must come.
We celebrated Lucy’s Birthday by going to P.F. Changs, our favorite restaurant since 2005. The food was succulent and fabulous! It was a beautiful evening. We discovered a very chic and exclusive orange-county-like place called Arlington Highlands. It was a very windy night, which made taking pictures a lot of fun.
In 2006 we got Lucy a Jeep for her Birthday. This year Steven and I decided to be a bit more bold and we got her a silver FJR Yamaha Motorcycle. She loved it!
