PROM

Hello everyone, it's Prom week for Kelsea! We are so excited. Her prom is this Saturday and she is going with her boyfriend. They have been "going out" since this past fall, but have been good friends for a couple of years. Instead of going out to eat, Brielle gave Kelsea the idea to have a dinner at home. So I volunteered to have the dinner at our house. I got outside last weekend and planted flowers and weeded the beds. So everything outside is looking spiffy. Now I have to clean the inside, dust, sweep, etc. We are going to set up two long tables with white table cloths in our sunroom. We will have to take out two or three of our chairs in there. We will put fresh flowers on the tables. Oh and I am going to attempt to make an edible fruit arrangement. The dinner will consist of steak, chicken, baked potato, salad and rolls. Oh and dessert of course. My Dad has been called over to the rescue to grill the meat, because neither George or I are good at grilling out, but hopefully we will get better at it. George did grill hot dogs last night to get the grill going and he did a great job. Kelsea has invited three couples and a single person, so there should be around 10 of them. It should be fun. George is busy power washing our deck even as I type, then he's going to cut the lawn tomorrow. Needless to say we are looking forward to the "party", but will be relieved when it's over.

Plants

Hello everyone, so excited about the warmer weather. We went ahead and bought a tomato plant that's only because I spotted it in Sam's Club. I kind of cheated because it was already started, it's about 18" high. It came in the planter and has the little holder thing, I don't know what the real term is for it, but it has the fence like thing so that the plant can be held up while growing the tomatoes. I think I will still get two more plants and put them in the planters I already have. I just want some fresh tomatoes really badly. I don't think I will try to grow anything else though, if I do it will be cucumbers because I was very successful with those last year and they were yummy. Also a coworker of mine gave me two gardenia bushes and I am excited to get those planted. I love the sweet smell of the gardenia bush. I will have to wait until next weekend though because my sister is here visiting for the Easter holiday and she's not real big on planting, she would rather be shopping, so it's off to Raleigh and Chapel Hill we go today. It should be fun though. I hope everyone is enjoying this nice weather, I know I am!

Spring is Finally Here!

Well okay so I am loving the warmer weather, however it is supposed to get cold again this weekend. Not looking forward to that, but it will be better than the colder temps we were having a month ago, when they were calling for snow every week! I'm just excited because I am really looking forward to planting some tomatoes. I love fresh tomatoes, they are nothing like the store bought kind. I tried growing some a few years ago when I was living at home with my parents and the squirrels there would pick them and eat them right in front of me. One time one of the squirrels picked one then went underneath the front of my car and ate the tomato while looking right at me. The squirrel was holding it with both of his tiny little hands and took bite after bite, spitting the peeling out. That squirrel had some nerve. I just stood there gaping at this animal. I really wished I had had my video camera handy, because I would have loved to videoed that little incident. The squirrels would pick them while they were still small and green. Needless to say I was not very successful at growing tomatoes that year. I have grown them back in the past and I had great success back then. I sure hope I can get some good ones to grow this year. I tried last year with those topsy turvey planters, what a joke. That didn't work. I think it does work well with the cherry tomatoes but not the bigger tomatoes. I want the big beefsteak tomatoes. I hope to start my little garden in a couple of weeks.

Time Flies!

I cannot believe it has been so long since I have updated my blog! Well let's see what has happened in the past couple of weeks. No more jump roping, I'm sad, that was so easy, the easiest exercise I've ever done. However I am finally walking normal again. It really hurt my knees something fierce. I did get out my exercise mat and I will try that, I probably need new shoes, I have had these walking shoes for some time. I am excited that the weather is getting warmer, soon, and the time will change on the 14th of this month. I'm loving that. That means I can start walking again, in the neighborhood, I really enjoy doing that. Okay I can't think of anything that has happened that is significant, all we have been doing is school, work, school, work, for all of us in this house! My Uncle did pass away on 25 February, he lived a good long life, he was 82. This was my Dad's younger brother, my Dad is a couple years older than him and thankfully my Dad is in good health. Thank you Lord! We hope to have him around for quite a few more years.

I hope to plant some tomato plants soon, this year I want to have some real home grown tomato's. I tried the topsy turvey last year that didn't go so well. This year I will try a large planter.

Monday 15 February

Wow, I can't believe I haven't blogged before now! Time flies even if you are not having a whole lot of fun. LOL. Brielle flew out to Las Vegas last Tuesday at 6AM she arrived back at home Friday evening. She said it was fun but it was exhausting. She attended a white party that Paul Mitchell puts on and that was fun to get dressed up for. The only real famous people she got to see were Donny and Marie Osmond. I spent Tuesday off with Kelsea for her birthday, we went to the mall, she got to get all of her nails painted, on her feet and fingers, lol. We ate at Chili's for her bday and had a yummy chocolate molten cake for her dessert. We went to her school to watch their last home basketball game, they won their games. Then off to Cold Stone to get more ice cream. Thursday I went to the eye doctor got contact lenses so I can see at a distance without glasses, but have to use reading glasses again. But it's nice to be able to see afar without glasses again. Friday I went to see Dear John with a friend from work, we liked it. She had read the book before the movie came out, she said the book had a different ending. Then on Saturday night the family went to see Valentine's Day, and yes even George came with us. It was cute. A lot of good actors in it. Sunday went to Church then to Chili's for lunch, then home to do homework. Brielle put highlights in my hair while I did research on the Internet for a group project I have in another class. George got me a nice card and more candy! for Valentine's! I don't need anymore candy in this house. My sweet Dad got me candy too and Kelsea is selling "The World's Finest Chocolate" so there's more candy we have in the house and at work. There's chocolate everywhere! But I love it! Okay so I haven't been jumping rope anymore because I can hardly walk my knees hurt so bad. I probably should have stretched them some before I started that form of exercise. I'm trying to get them back to normal. It hurts every time I walk. I plan to go walking when the weather gets warmer. We walked last summer it was nice. I love walking in our neighborhood. It's the old part of Fayetteville where the homes are all original, most built in the early 1900's and up. Our house was built in 1949. Some around here were built in 1904. It's really cool to look at them all while walking. Well it's off to do more homework. Have a nice week everybody.

Saturday

What have I done today? Cleaned our bathroom, ran errands with Kelsea, ate lunch at Chick-fil-a, yummy, they have the best sweet tea ever, that's what I live for, then back home to finish cleaning, filing bills, doing homework. Now we are getting ready to go see Book of Eli, the movie. I have heard good and not so good about it, but mostly good, so we will see. I want to see Dear John and so do my girls. But George has had to put up with girlie movies the past couple of times so it's his turn. Oh and I am up to 80 jumps on the ole jump rope, and yes my legs and ankles and feet have been aching pretty badly, that just shows you how out of shape I'm am.

I have a brother and a sister that live in nothern Virginia and they got over two feet of snow between yesterday and today, boy am I glad I'm not there! I do not like the snow, I mean it's pretty, but I do not like the cold weather! They sent me pictures, it's pretty deep.

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