Happy Memorial Day!

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. It was a pretty nice weekend here until today. It started raining early this morning. It's a good thing we had our cookout yesterday.

I forgot to post this on my Mother's Day post. My hubby bought me 2 of these for Mother's Day. Aren't they beautiful?

These are the beautiful Iris' that Heather planted a few years ago. Purple is my favorite color! I love looking at these. I just wished they would bloom longer.

Here is a close up of one of the flowers.

Update on the birds nest. They are getting bigger. Pretty soon they will be flying away. The mother watches us any time we are back there. At first, we thought there was 3 in there but there is 4.

Brianna on her swingset. They put the swimming pool up this week, so she's been spending alot of time in it.

I had a friend come down from Michigan for the weekend. She got here Thursday night. Friday I had a Dr. appt. and then we stopped at Sam's to pick up some things we needed. We went and picked up Pizza from Pizza Hut. Mmmmm, that was yummy! We watched alot of movies this weekend. I made a sour cream coffee cake for breakfast Saturday morning and then I made lasagna for supper that night. Yesterday we had our cookout which consisted of hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, pasta salad, deviled eggs and sliced tomatoes. I made some chocolate chip cookies last night and then we sat and finished watching our movies. We watched The Secret Life of Bees, The Messengers, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, The Mall Cop and Milk.

I hope everyone has a safe week.

Hugs,

Kathy :)

Flowers & Bird Nest

Hello, Today was such a beautiful day. It was in the 70's with a light breeze. It was comfortable outside, not hot, not cold, it was just right, like the baby bear would say about his porridge. :) So, I had to get the camera out and start taking pictures. This is a purple iris that grows next door in my daughter's yard. I had to take two pictures of course. :)

Here is something else that is growing in her yard. Some kind of bush with pink flowers on it. I don't know what kind it is, but it sure is beautiful!

I noticed this the other day so while I had my camera out I decided to take a picture. The momma bird made this nest on top of the light that is outside by the back door. There are 3 little birds in there and they don't even have there feathers yet.

You can see in this next picture just where she built it. It amazes me how these little birds can build something like this. They are always in a nice circle and almost perfect little nest.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. And, I hope everyone is having a wonderful Wednesday.

Hugs,

Kathy

Recipes

Someone wanted me to post a couple recipes for them so here they are.

Stuffed Green Peppers

1 pound ground beef

1/3 C. finely chopped onion

2 cans(8oz.ea.) tomato sauce

1/4 C. water

3 Tbs. grated parmesan cheese

1 tsp. salt

1/8 tsp. pepper

1/2 C. instant rice

4 medium green peppers

Brown beef and onion until done. Drain fat. Stir in 1 can tomato sauce, water, 1 Tbsp. cheese, salt and pepper. Stir in rice. Let cook for about 3 min.

Meanwhile, cut top off peppers and remove seeds and rinse. Spoon beef-rice filling into each place in baking dish with a lid. Top with remaining sauce and cheese. Heat, covered, at HIGH in microwave 10-12 min or until peppers are tender. Let stand, covered, 5 min. before serving.

I like to add more tomato sauce than is required and you can add more rice if you like also.

Next recipe is for dessert.

Mini-Cheesecakes

12 vanilla wafers

2 8oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened

1/2 C. sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

Line muffin tin with foil liners.

Place one vanilla wafer in each liner. Mix cream cheese, vanilla and sugar on medium speed until well-blended. Add eggs. Mix well. Pour over wafers, filling 3/4 full. Bake 25 min. at 325 degrees.

Remove from pan when cool. Chill. Top with fruit, preserves, nut or chocolate.

Enjoy!

My husband is on vacation this week. So, we were busy today. We have a leak in our water line so he was out there digging to try to get to it. Hopefully, he will finish it tomorrow. Our water bill has been twice what it usually is for a few months now.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Mother's Day

I had a pretty nice Mother's Day. Jeff had to work. Heather and Brianna came over and we sat outside on the swing and watched Brianna rollerblade. She's getting pretty good at it. So after Jeff got home from work we had ham, mashed potatoes and green beans. And, he bought us some cupcakes with yummy frosting on them for dessert.

Today was so beautiful! There were hardly any clouds in the sky. There was a nice breeze. I think it was a perfect day. It makes me want to spend more time outside.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Hugs

Mothers

Hello,
I want to wish all the mothers a "A Happy Mother's Day".

A Mother's Love
There are times when only a Mother's love
Can understand our tears,
Can soothe our disappoints
And calm all of our fears.
There are times when only a Mother's love
Can share the joy we feel
When something we've dreamed about
Quite suddenly is real.
There are times when only a Mother's faith
Can help us on life's way
And inspire in us the confidence
We need from day to day.
For a Mother's heart and a Mother's faith
And a Mother's steadfast love
Were fashioned by the Angels
And sent from God above.
Author Unknown

Goodwill and ebay finds

Hello Ladies,

First, I want to say thank you for inspiring me to clean up my house and to get rid of a lot of junk. I'm one of those people that doesn't like to throw things away. I have a little black plastic piece of something and I keep coming across it and I save it because I might find out what it goes to someday. I'll throw it away soon. hehe Here is a picture of some of my Boyd's bears sitting in the living room in front of the fireplace.

This little rocking horse I found at Goodwill. Isn't he so cute? I didn't even have to do anything to it. I found one of my bears and she looks so cute on it.

Here is cute Boyds bear sitting on a nice little chair I got on ebay and it has some sweet annie hanging on the back of the chair.

I love this little swing! I got it at the Goodwill store. I love finding things like this to put my bears on, they just look so cute on it. Don't they?

This cute little arrangement I picked up on QVC. I couldn't pass it up. You can't see the bear too much but, he has a sleeping cap on and he's holding a little bear. Brianna likes to come over and play with them.

These are a few things I found at Goodwill. They were so cheap! I just had to have them. I'll have to see what I can do with them. Some paint and some sanding and they will look great!

Here are three sconces I found at Goodwill. These will also look good after I get some paint on them and sand them.

This is a cute little box I got at goodwill. This will definitely look better with some new paint on it and some stenciling.

This week has been pretty nice. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain with thunderstorms. I don't mind the rain, it's the thunder that makes me jump. I hope everyone is having a great week!

Hugs,

Kathy