Happy Halloween 🎃

Just a witch and her familiar 

 

 Witching you a spooktacular Halloween! 🍂🎃🍭🍁🍬

 

Happy December 1st!

Welcome December!!! Wishing everyone a wonderful and blessed month!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing all a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!! We celebrated over at my sis-n-law's house again this year. The food wasn't bad, but I really miss the traditional sides that we used to have. When I say this, not instant mashed potatoes, or veggies poured out of a can. Fresh veggies that seasoned up and cooked just perfect! Yum! We decided to take a pumpkin pie. It's either pecan or chocolate and the little kids decimate them! This year someone brought one so we ended up just taking ours back to the house. The best dish of the night - my niece Bobby's hubby - excellent green bean casserole!!

Last year, we didn't really even put together a meal because we were all sick. LOL.So it was nice to be able to eat some turkey and ham, and bring home a few leftovers.

Memorial Day

It's three day weekend for me and I hope everyone is enjoying a great one! Not really a day of celebration, but remembrance for those that gave the ultimate sacrifice. Remember that Freedom is not free.

Happy Easter Day - worship service

 

Order of the Worship of God
— March 31, 2024 —
Resurrection Sunday

Pastor: Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of
them that slept. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is
your victory?
People: Give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; His mercy endures
forever.
Pastor: Christ is risen!
People: He is risen indeed!
Pastor: Christ is risen!
People: He is risen indeed!
Pastor: Christ is risen!
People: The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! (louder) Alleluia! (louder)
Alleluia! (louder still!)
Pastor: This is the Day that the Lord has made!
People: Let us be glad and rejoice in it!

Up from the Grave He Arose

Verse 1
Low in the grave He lay,
Jesus my Savior,
Waiting the coming day,
Jesus my Lord!

Chorus
Up from the grave He arose,
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes,
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever,
With His saints to reign.
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!

Verse 2
Vainly they watch His bed,
Jesus my Savior;
Vainly they seal the dead,
Jesus my Lord!

Chorus
Up from the grave He arose,
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes,
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever,
With His saints to reign.
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!

Verse 3
Death cannot keep its Prey,
Jesus my Savior;
He tore the bars away,
Jesus my Lord!

Chorus
Up from the grave He arose,
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes,
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever,
With His saints to reign.
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!

 

 

 

Late Christmas get-together

This afternoon we got together with my hubby's side of the family for a little late Christmas shindig. His brother and his wife came into town from San Antonio. Their kids didn't make it in with their families. 🎄 Some tasty food from Spring Creek BBQ and some sides. I always loved their rolls. Thanks so much for all the presents!!! 🎁 It was great getting together and seeing everyone!! Maybe it won't be so long next time. 😙 We will see I suppose. Sometimes it is so hard getting together, especially when everyone has their own families now. All the nieces are married, and most have kiddos.

 

This is my husband's amazing mother (Mom II is what I call her), with her kiddos - my husband (left) with his twin sister Nat, and baby sis and bro, Darla and Ronnie. They are twins, too! Yes, two sets of twins. LOL! I must have missed pictures, and yes, I 'jacked' this photo. 😂

 

 

A New Year Prayer

Happy 2024!! Can you believe another year has passed? I have so much I want to achieve that I honestly do not know where to begin!! LOL! 😃 I may have to start making better lists to accomplish goals. 

 

Happy New Year!

Cheers to 2024! Tonight we kicked back at the house, just like all our New Years Eve's the last several years. My hubby made a ham, white rice, cornbread and some veggies. We poured some sparking cider and toasted the new year. Well wishes to all for a blessed year!!!

Autcraft - Happy New Year

Hopped on Autcraft early to bring in the new year with our other Skylord who lives in the UK! 😀 Happy New Year to our friends across the pond!!! 🎊

New Year's Eve celebration takes places every hour on the hour with fireworks until everyone has brought in the New Year. This event is done with so much love because there are quite a few children, and adults, that cannot celebrate with fireworks because of sensory overload, etc. This Minecraft server really is special!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

As the day starts to fade, I hope each and every one of you had a very special, blessed day!! We celebrated a bit later than our usual norm around here, but we enjoyed a special day at our house. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our family & friends! 🎄 Here's a few fam pics and one I just had to share, which I didn't show off because it was before Christmas when I received it, and the first ornament on our tree. My niece painted this ornament for me with my favorite mob on MINECRAFT. So cute!!! Plus, my sweet daughter was creating with AI and this pic was imagined. Wow! I absolutely love it!! My favorite time of year, my favorite flower, and my favorite cat. 😁 What a shame my cat is not this sweet. 😂 I did not get my Christmas cards mailed out this year, but there is always next year! LOL! It's still a tradition of mine and I love sending out cards.

P.S. - Yes, I collage everything. Phototastic Collage is awesome! LOL!

 

 

Autcraft - Twas the Night Before Christmas

Attending Autcraft's Christmas event. Every year we log on in our pjs and sit on a little bed to little to Bessie read Twas the Night Before Christmas story. It's quite fun and we get a shulker box full of Christmas goodies!

December already?!

Welcome December and holy cow - Christmas is right before us!!! It's been 84 years since I posted. 😁 I finally updated my website and blog. My family is feeling better thankfully. I was feeling under the weather for weeks and my cough just lingered. We did get another possible diagnosis - RSV. Yeah, what the littles get. Anyway, I am just glad that we are all finally feeling well and can gear up for Christmas.

We didn't do much for Thanksgiving this year since we were all feeling blah. We didn't even cook a turkey. LOL. We had glazed ham, homemade mac n cheese, and a few other sides. We stayed at home and just chilled. I have done a bit of shopping online and we are really behind on getting stuff done. Hopefully we can get the tree up and decorated. T mowed the yard and my husband finally got the outside outlet replaced so we can get our yard decorations out and some lights up on the house. I really need to look into how much it would cost to have someone else put the lights on the house. I know their are companies and even individuals that do this, but we have never priced it. My hubby has no business even being on a ladder these days. My son helps out as much as he can. I almost have heart failure when attempting to get on a ladder. 😮

Happy Labor Day

Yep, I do indeed get Labor Day off these days. The majority of jobs that I have worked through the years never had holidays off. I remember working Christmas Day when I worked at the Fort Worth Zoo.

Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers. The holiday is rooted in the late nineteenth century, when labor activists pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions workers have made to America’s strength, prosperity, and well-being.