Happy Go Lucky!!!

Happy New Year/Happy Valentine's day

2011-02-09T11:41:00.000-08:00

wow, I am so MIA lately and have been neglecting the blog. I wanted to go back to Typepad but, decided upon not too. I just think paying $4.95 per month is so expensive. I just need to learn more about blogspot since I have had this blog the longest.

well so much news to be share now. I have so many donations since my story for Project Flowers appeared again in the Arizona Republic. I have been picking up such beautiful flowers from so many generous people out there.

I have now completed two cemetaries and have a lady that is overlooking Mt. View for me incase flowers fall out or get emptied by the wind. That is so nice of Mary willingness to help me.

So, I am going to be starting Mesa's city Cemetary here soon. It has just been so windy lately.

well not much else going on. other then We had our 1st grandson born on the 23rd of Jan. I have to post this photos. So precious.

and again Juan passed his contractors test and so there has been such positive things going on in our positive life lately instead of so much negative.

take care all.

oh how I am so behind.

2010-11-26T10:48:00.000-08:00

It has been hard for me to blog since Sept 13th. that day felt like doomsday for all of here as that was the last time before the 17th that we needed to relocate all the chickens, roosters, turkeys and ducks before the county inspector came here. My neighbor 3 doors down called the county on 4 of us neighbors cuz he is trying to sell and mistakely thinks we live in Hamptons(scarascially speaking). We live on a county Island and it is just a place to live, no big deal for anyone else but, a big deal for us cuz we have a HOME!

I did call the county when I first started rescuing animals as my neighbors did care as I used to have 4 geese that layed in our driveway and they never said anything then. Geese can be loud but ours were so adorable and cute, friendly of coarse. Everyone had to get along to live here.

so, the animals are boarded at devitt stables in Lehi but, are coming back soon. My heart hurts with sadness as we do have 6 hens we left here and I really need them all to come back. We'll try it again but, we are trying to find a home for our two huge roosters, as I did have 21 total but, they never all crowed.

so, I will get caught up on here soon.

I hope everyone had a very happy thanksgiving and found ways to celebrate by being grateful always! :)

Creative Escape 2010

2010-10-06T10:01:00.001-07:00

Kellie Collins mirror

Pam Black's mirror

Amy totty's mirror

Margie Romney-aslett's mirror

Laurie Stamos M

Lynette Carrolls mirror

Mrs. Lesli Spafford's mirror

Claudine's Hullmeth mirror

Mr. Heidi Swapp's mirror

the End....................... till 2011!

Yummy Food!

2010-10-06T09:35:00.000-07:00

If it's Korobi beef from Panda Express

1 case of orange bell peppers from the Veggie Market
Or lemons that look like oranges from Friends

or pies from Village Inn via my sister

or chocolate cupcakes a plenty for a son's birthday party

or potatoe soup for a nice cold day

or my sister's mixture of fruits/veggies

or a beet found to make anyone's heart Beat. LOL

or a yellow squash in a summer time garden

or fresh eggs or geese, duck or hens

or the 1st fruits from a very different tree

or a case of apples for apple bread

more picked yellow squash from the summer garden

or a creative way a son makes a pac man pizza

or gifts of yummy bread

or huge lemons

or more yummy yellow squash

or green chili's from sister's garden

or radishes from garden and the 1st yellow squash

I just love taking photos of food, cuz it is so colorful, happy and fun!

September 2, 2010

2010-09-02T14:20:00.000-07:00

wow, I had not posted anything, I mean nothing for August. My online blog is empty. LOL

I have so much to say and say and do and download, like went to Ce and only took 181 photos for my 3rd time attending, but, wait I volunteered this year. It was so fun and I feel refreshed and ready to conquer the world.

Be back at your soon!

P.s. did some sneaky giving too and that was so fun!

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2010-07-30T12:31:00.000-07:00

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Creative Escape Charm and Page swaps!

2010-07-30T12:20:00.000-07:00

I just love the colors so much!

Tadom, I made these cute charms for the charm swap!

and this black beautiful paper

and these flowers a many

it all started with these fragments

we had to make 10 8x8 pages for the page swap. this year the colors are turquoise/black and white, demasked, and I love that!

more cards I made.

2010-07-30T12:10:00.000-07:00

this card is for Ginnie's birthday cute!
this is one extra on the left and one for Eric's birthday on the Right

this one is for Mommy Carol's birthday.

Sew much fun to sew!

this cute card that says; Believe, is for my Secret sister,

whomever she is. LOL

these cute cards with different titles, are for my August cards

for single folks, Priests, Deacons, widow and Widowers.

cute cards of strawberries!

these two cards were for Father's Caruso's birthday. So, many birthdays in July.

the one on the left is from the Parish council I made and the one on the Right is from our family!

Margie's CJ

2010-07-30T11:56:00.000-07:00

this circle journal for Margie was where you create.

since our son Jesus moved to Meliesa's room and I took over his room and now have a scrap room, I call it. I can't believe how much stuff I have collected in almost 12 years. yikes.

two more CJ's finished.

2010-07-30T11:25:00.000-07:00

this is Georgia's circle journal. I had no exotic place to say we visited as we do have a house In Mexico though.
so I thought I would say our 1st family vacation all together(even though, 6 years ago, our daughter and myself had been to disneyland many of times) that this was truly a great time for us all.

I got sick on that rollercoaster as it was HOt and humid that day in California adventures. I felt quizzy until most of the day till I went to 1st aide for a cool for my neck and some medicine.

we have so many babies born.

2010-07-30T11:19:00.000-07:00

it is so nice to see this life all the time. This is our 17th flook and I love the fact that the one black momma laid on eggs, waited till 2 babies hatched and broke the nest. then this other mom was laying in the back of one of the sheds on eggs and she hatched about 5 and then I moved her eggs with the other momma eggs and then she hatched a total of 10. we now have 10 babies total as one black went away from the momma with 2 and one yellow one is gone from the momma with 10. Love that there is always new life around our house!

School is stating in 1 month!

2010-07-13T07:21:00.000-07:00

yesterday I met my sister to pick up 7 hens and she is unsure if any are roosters though. I also brought her some books, etc.

she and her children had this fun package for Jesus and he was so happy. Filled to the brim with school supplies and fun!

in the cute painted bag came back the :that was easy button from office max. LOL I got it for him and she borrowed it and now it is back in his possession. LOL

then he got colored pencils, pencils, erasers, markers, a calculator, 4 soda cans, 3 packs of gum, animals crackers, tootsie rolls, nerds, gobstoppers, etc.

oh and for the 4th of July......

2010-07-13T07:15:00.000-07:00

I woke up and made Juan and myself these very yummy omelets before mass.
they had mushrooms, our garden yellow squash, garden onions, my sis's garden tomatoes, peppers, and pure yummiest!

our 1st garden onion was on July 6th. the omelets were made

with those onions from my sis garden.

on July 8th I ventured on over to Phoenix....

2010-07-13T07:09:00.000-07:00

to Fox 10 news to bring them this nice goody box of stuff, that I didn't get a photo of, cuz Jesus went to disneyland/Hungtingbeach for a few days, and had my digital camera. so, it was filled with garden tomatoes, zuchanni, crafts from the children, and cards. so very nice.

I also visited every station but, channel 8 to get some news story for my project flowers and about 3 radio staions plus the new times paper. I then went to McDonalds for lunch and this homeless man said something to me. He then repeated himself and wanted a meal. Awe, the look in his eyes was sincere and we are told to feed the hungry by God above!

so, I took him inside with me and got him a Big mac meal deal, yum! I love the Quarter pounder ones. He was happy, as his name was:"ED" and he thanked me and said: God bless you and that too me, was the best gift back ever!

I felt good as I make it a point each and every day to do good for someone. Amanda at the SBE store said Michelle, you are unique, you go out each day and just do it for someone. :)
Awe that was nice, I guess this is my calling and I know no difference to whom I am. :)

another CJ complete!

2010-07-13T06:45:00.001-07:00

this one is Carol's CJ and she titled it: The sisterhood of the traveling CJ.
cute. so, we had to pick where we wish to travel one day.
I picked Ireland and then Jamica cuz I am 1/2 Irish plus jamica seems interesting!

we had to decorate a nice luggage tag, anyway, we wanted too!'

this photo turned out a little blurry!

this was Jill's pages as she wished to travel to Alaska and that is one of my travel wishes too but, I just love Jill's work!

HaPPY 4TH OF jULY!

2010-07-13T06:42:00.000-07:00

since 4th of July was on a Sunday this time around, I am late on my posts and it was church day. then we made a nice lunch and

had yummy ice that is made of stars and went to go watch fireworks in Apache Junction!

I have a lot of REd, white and blue in the house as decorations but, really should switch that to my decor over all.

Happy Day America!

Jesus's year for packages!

2010-07-13T06:34:00.000-07:00

last year for Creative Escape, It was my year for packages. Now it is this guys turn. he is so happy cuz this is about this 3rd one this year.
he received these two wonderful shirts for school from my one sis in Wyoming for $.50 cents per shirt, they had JcPenny tags on them but, were so cheap that the thrift store.

the only hard part of the deal was the $6.50 postage to get them to him.

she didn't mind though.

Bingo

2010-07-13T06:16:00.000-07:00

I woke up the other morning, the day before 4th of July and Juan had put a bingo by my night stand, awe how tender. Simple things in life are what matters the most. He doesn't buy me flowers but, he treats me good and then this. So, sweet. Thanks Juan! :)

tag swap, recycle and squash

2010-06-29T08:44:00.000-07:00

these are from the tag swap for Shye's group that I was in again for the month of June. the theme was bridal shower/baby shower.they are all so very nice and we had a great time.

all loaded up for the City of Mesa Recycling plant. I am very over loaded this time cuz it rained towards the beginning of this year, so I had to have them dry. I really am so happy that I can do my part. I generally take it once per month.

Look how our squash had grown. Wow! I was trying to keep the one in the back on the plants to make it grow really big but, decided it was big enough. I love squash as it is very healthy for you.
We eat it in salads, plain with dressing, in eggs, etc.
Yum!

let the fun begin..........

2010-06-28T17:22:00.000-07:00

well to kick off the official CE(Creative Escape) season coming soon in August, we started the Secret sister swap. Today mine arrived! yippee!!!

everything was packed so nice in this pink bag

and everything on the outside, hinted to what was on the inside. :)

and so here is my grand prize especially waited for ME! LOL

Tim Holtz Fragments
37 blank manilla tags with strings
strong glue stick
1 donald duck that is very cute and I love him!
Disney bottle caps.
package of foam dots
mounting tape double sided tape
glue pen
and 3-100 counts of patriotic brads.
thank you so much from the bottom of my very grateful Heart for shopping, packing so cute each item wrapped with cute writing about what is inside and all in a pink bag, and for shipping for me!

I just found out............................

2010-06-28T17:20:00.000-07:00

that on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 that I, Michelle is going to be..................................

A grandma. yikes. P.s. How do you be a grandma??????????????? LOL

we have babies again!

2010-06-22T07:30:00.000-07:00

I love this part of life. this is our 16th time seeing this in the past 5ish years. I love babies of all kinds and so far this momma has had 2.

she just loves to have babies or sit on the eggs all of the time. I remember when she 1st had babies and she would bite my fingers if I stuck them inside of her nest. Sometimes when they start to get bigger, I take them and put them inside for safety. I have learned so much from this part of life.

awe I just love this so much!

how are gardens are growing so nice.

2010-06-22T07:19:00.000-07:00

I am purposely letting this large yellow squash grow to see how big it will get. It is doing great as Juan thinks if I keep it in there for a long time, the whole entire plant will die, but, it hasn't yet.

so far, we have been able to get 15 yellow squash off this huge plant. Luckily the radishes are over as the squash took over the left side of this part.
here is the fluffy lettuce. It is so neat how this part of it grows like stocks. I have been taking it off and giving it to the animals since it is more bitter. My friend Marilyn said that happens for summer time lettuce.

I love how this part as really grown so much as we had smaller patches up by themselves. in the background is cucumbers but, I think it is getting too hot for them now.

I love our tomatoe plants as they just smell so delicious. this one was put in by seeds

this tomatoe plant was put in by a starter plant for $.59 cents from the nursery. I am so happy how it has grown so much and there are some tomatoes on it now. Over to the right are some yellow and red chilis, were hoping will bloom soon.

I could just touch this as I have and got the scent on my hands and then it smells so good.

next to that plant in between both plants are some green bell peppers.

another donation for project flowers of these

2010-06-22T07:15:00.001-07:00

10 wreaths, so very pretty and I will either cut them in half and use them above everyone's grave stones to give me 20 flowers, or I will go and cut more in pieces to put in their vases.

these are all just so really nice and I love them.

thanks for your very generous donation, bevaqua family!

a couple of cards

2010-06-22T06:59:00.000-07:00

here is a cute little photo or credit card book I received in 2009 for Creative Escape in the form of a RAK, so I decided to use it for my cards and license, and embellish the front. Cute.

these are the Father's day Cards I did for our Priests. I like to make them and so this seemed fitting. I got these neat scraps of paper from Lesli's love notes class. I haven't taken it for awhile but, I since I make her a card and dropped it off each month, she loves to give me scraps. I love scraps so much, I have 2 big bins full. :)
here is a cute card I made for Marti the owner of Scrapbooks etc. for the album club party. I know I just like to make her a card in appreciation of doing this. We get all this free stuff to keep us motivated to create, if it is scrapbooking, card making etc.

here was my JUne card for the widows/widowers and single folks, teachers that I made this month. I try and take some type of theme as this has been ongoing for over 5 years. I know that some just love a simple cuteness in their mail box each month. :)

I also used this style for thank you's for my project flowers donations!

farmers markets,

2010-06-13T10:58:00.000-07:00

my niece and family are raising money for the Pig Santuary in arizona. they need jars of peanut butter for the pigs to be able to consume their medicine daily.

so my sister came up with this idea to make pigs to sell for any donation and donate to them.
this was the 1st time selling on June 5th and she made $154.00.

here is my sister nursery of plants and trees @ http;//www.lillysfarm.com

my sandalloons, headbands and fig cookies

this was the last one as I sell the 1st of each month at the Queen Creek library with my sister.
this time was fun cuz we ate sundae's and then I got to sell alot of eggs.

Album club party at SCrapbook etc.

2010-06-13T10:54:00.000-07:00

this is the cutest stamp set.

48 sheets of the cutest 12x12 paper.
another bag of nice embellishements

more great stuff I received, a bag full of embellishments.

more great stuff from the party.

after Andrew's birthday and party on June 10th, I ventured on over the the Scrapbook's etc. semi-annual party from 6:30-8:30pm, for those that makes pages and then check them in a for a stamp. You must check in 25 by June and another 25 checked in by December.

yOU get great prizes and a nice time. I have been in all of them since 2000 but, one I missed it by 1 stamp.

this a question I answer was for coming to the scrapbook store since they opened in 1999. Instead of them putting the left overs on the floor for everyone to grab, they put them in for questions to be answers and you win, after the raffle.

I won these two and then traded the flowers for the stamp set below as a lady has too many stamps, and so do I. LOL

I am so happy to always win the tools, from this party as I have won the eyelet setter, the ribbon setter and then now the grommet setter. Yippee!!!! $19.99 value.

this is what I won for guessing the name of the scrapbook owners daughter. I did this last year at CE, and it was so much for one of our projects, so i won another kit do do the project.

It is a $34.99 value.

some of the great 12x12 plain paper I received.

Tag swap for June 26th

2010-06-13T10:53:00.001-07:00

I am in my 2nd tag swap for this group of women on facebook. I am in shye's group since we both live in Mesa and ironically went to Mesa high school, are helping with CE and it is so much fun.

this months' theme is Wedding/baby shower.

I chose wedding shower basic tags. I have done several wedding shower cards and love the umbrella idea.

more donations for project flowers.

2010-06-13T10:51:00.000-07:00

Kelli donated $15 to me and I was able to purchase 15 bouquets of pretty flowers.

I cut them for 2 stems each so I can get these vases filled. I have a long aways to go and so far I am moving right along. Sometimes I feel like I am going to run out and then someone donates.

I was going to take any $$$ as this is my second cash donation but, I am, as I go right to the store for flowers. :)

great Buy

2010-06-13T10:47:00.000-07:00

I found these $12 new balance tennis shoes at the St. Vincent De Paul thrift store.

I really was happy as I needed something comfortable for my 4 mile walks per day.

Making Fig Cookies

2010-06-13T10:44:00.000-07:00

I went with my son Jesus and his friend quiqui and we went to Mommy Carols house to pick figs off her tree. they were really ripe most of them and ready to do something with, really quick. So, i started with this delish batter that was so sweet but, not too sweet.

then I boiled the figs with the skin but, i would recommend taking the skin off next time as it was good but, thicker.

then I mixed in the figs and made the most delish cookies ever.

guaranteed to make you regular each and every day. LOL

Andrew is 18!

2010-06-13T10:33:00.001-07:00

It all started with this nice mixer that was my mom's over 30 years ago that made the most dreamy cream cheese frosting!

and then for the children's birthdays I like to make cupcakes for some reason, so I asked Andrew what flavor he would like and he said strawberry! Then I frosted them with sprinkles and put them in like a number: "18 formation".

he wanted his birthday this year at his group home as they can invited other group homes to come over so he can have more friends at his party. This is when we were eating pizza from Domino's with his brother Jesus.

here is his group home Director Melinda and he was happy she came to the party.

time to open up the gifts.

then his 1st gift was a $25 gift card and a nice card from his agency.

he loves to open gifts and so therefore he is so excited opening this one from another group home.

he received the movie Avatar but, already had a burned copy but, was excited to get this brand new one with the cover.
then he opened our gifts as his real gift from us is a bike but, the one I wanted I am waiting to get for him. so, he opened this Leapfrog globe and he really like it as it does about 14 different features and music etc. Great learning tool.
then he got 2 bags of candy from us and two shirts as I have a tradition to buy them candy.LOL
he got some nice sandals, the Alice and Wonderland DVD and a nice wallet from the group home.
then it was time to watch some movies and enjoy some cupcakes.

after I got back to pick up Jesus, I saw they purchased him another yummy chocolate with filling.

he had a very happy Birthday.

how are gardens are growing.

2010-06-13T10:19:00.000-07:00

our 1st harvest, Radishes

and yellow squash, yum!

yellow squash

tomatoes that came from a little starter plant and the one next that is hard to see on the right, is a bunch of seeds and is just as big.

here are some photos of our Gardens!

yellow Squash

fluffy lettuce

green onions

cucumbers with fluffy lettuce that spread from it's original spot.

we 1st started planting gardens in april 2010, or say i was since Juan had no time. his are 10 times better then mine(hehe) but, aleast I tried to get them going. I just put the seeds in and didn't pay any attention on how they spreaded out or anything. Juan would've of seen to it that each one had it own spot and made them very straight. LOL I had lettuce in my cucumbers etc.

I planted cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, yellow squash, tomatoes, one from a plant starter and one from several seeds, amazing to see how they both grow just the same, then I planted red and yellow chili's, bell peppers and green onions.

Oh how I just love fresh veggies right from our yard.

Project Flowers

2010-05-11T11:18:00.000-07:00

this is an idea I came up with about 2 months ago. On my daily walk I would find some vases at the Mountain View Cemetary, 2 blocks from my house, that there were lonely vases.

I would try and bring other flowers or take my dad's used flowers out of his vase and put those on the one's that didnt' have any at all. So there it kicked off. i called every East mesa or Mesa Area Cemetary and got permission to place flowers in the vases. My one sister came up with an idea to put tags on each one that she made for me that said; Donations from Project Flowers". this is so families that come back to visit the gravestone of their deceased relative, will see we are also helping them out. Some can't put any flowers anymore and some have died and can longer do this.

I am contacting every faith based church, the veterans and every organization to get the word out.

Someone joked and said one day i shall be on Oprah! wow, that would be incredible

donations piled high I picked up on May 10th, 2010
donations that came via Minnesota. so pretty!

donations from churches.

Me at the East Valley tribune article meet.

My niece on the front cover of the East valley tribune.com article.

crafts

2010-04-23T15:35:00.000-07:00

I am in a charm swap that has been going on since August 2009, then stopped for Sept, picked back up in September and now we have it till June. So, this is my charm that is titled: Tim inspired. It is after anything that Tim Holtz.com sells. I decided to paint grunge board, put these Heidi swapp and Making Memories clock on top, then a tim holtz (ranger spinner) then a brad to hold it on and then my jump ring and lobster claw. Very simple and cute.

it all started with me using glimmer mist on these grungeboard pieces as I was unsure they would work but, they did. cute!
this I made this card for Steve as he is leaving our church and moving.

then my lovely lesli card teacher, gave me some cute as can be scraps. i put a verbal request out to teachers that if they throw out their Scraps, I would either buy them or take them for free, or at least try and take for free. LOL

in my last flower swap on of the girls made an acrylic initial with a flower on it and bling and I really wanted to try and see if I can make this. I made this for my niece. Cute!

Creating Keepsakes Convention was held in Mesa

2010-04-22T20:28:00.001-07:00

So, the convention was April 16th-17th at the Mesa Cenntintial hall. I volunteer now for about 8 years now. This year I helped on Thursday the 15th in an album class from 1:30-5:30pm.

then on Friday from 12-4pm in the heartstrings designers class and then also for Queen and Company, for his adorable Magic Moments class and then the crop from 5:30-9:30pm. But, I didn't leave until 10:30pm cuz I wanted to watch the singing competation this year with words they needed to use like saguaro, CK, hot peppers, and something else. It was the neatest time this year! fun

then on Saturday the 17th, I helped for all 3 classes of S.E.I for and we got to purchase all of her 3 kits and 1 album for $1.50 for all of them cuz she can't give you kits as you are already getting compecated from the CK staff but, she wanted to makes sure you would get her kits, so she sold them to us for $.50 cents per kit.Wow, so very nice of her. then after her classes, I rushed to get sonic, and then to the S.E.I magic Moments class to make these two disney adorable pages as seen here. So, very cute!
I just love this page so much as that will help me do my disney albums eventually.

this is the $150 dollars worth of supplies I received plus my S.E.I free kits for helping for the CK convention. Alot more in those boxes also. I received $30 in vouchers per shift, as I had 5 shifts.

wow, thanks CK, I will see ya next year 2011

two more entries

2010-04-22T20:17:00.000-07:00

This is Barb's CJ cute! I did this first cuz I knew exactly what I wished to add but, need to find my 2nd page on the Right and add the photo on my blog. but, the next one was supposed to done 1st as they both arrived at the same time to my house. I did my animals since we have so many and that is what I like to do, is
celebrate the moment with them alot!

this is Ashley's CJ as this was my families 1st trip for us all to attend Dineyland and Calfornia Adventures in July 2006. I have been alot and my daughter was there now 2 times and at the time Juan and our boys had never been before.

I was very fun as Juan really like California Adventures alot more then Disneyland and I could not wait to go back to Disneyland after being in California Adventures for the day!

This was her theme; I was here and sign in page and cute folded album.

different crafts.

2010-04-20T11:06:00.000-07:00

Tag Swap!

TAg Swap. I am on the FAcebook tag swap with a few ladies and this time we needed to make 19 happy Birthday tags that are so cute! Mine is the cupcake one. I am not going to use them to give away but, for sample to re-create!

these are two cards I made for sympathy's.

these are the most yummiest cookies from Shye from our tag swap. I was a good little mommy and split them with 4 other family members. LOL

Tag Swaps.

2010-04-19T08:01:00.000-07:00

this are the different flower charms from the March's flower swap. So darn cute!

these are the many tags that I made for the "Happy Birthday" tag swap that I participated in. So, cute of the ones that I made. I always get worried that they are nice enough but, they are cute!

Happy, 39th Birthday to Juan!

2010-04-19T07:56:00.000-07:00

On April 15th, Tax day Juan had his Happy Birthday. I volunteered at the CK convention and was down by our favorite Chinese food placed called Autumn moon, then I called Jesus and asked him to make a quick cake for his dad. he made rainbow chip and since Juan doesn't care for frosting, we decorated with my nieces embellishments from the cake decorating class and I put almost 29 candles. I had 1 full box and two semi boxes. I guess as we age I really need to stock up on boxes of candles. LOL

flowers and food

2010-04-09T06:41:00.000-07:00

on the R is an onion that was actually starting to grow in our refrigerator as well as L is a garlic that was trying to do the samething, so I planted them outside. I like the plant, so pretty. The garlic looks for delicate though.
these are some flowers popping up that I don't remember putting in the ground.

just really pretty wild flowers I did plant in Oct. 2009

the roses are in bloom and ever so pretty. They generally start all white, then all yellow or those colors are the most domainering colors. then we get a red and a pink here and there. this rainy season that I was getting tired of but, now really am thankful for, made everything flourish in color and bloom.

these are wild flowers I planted in October and all this rain really brought them out. Pretty!

Tis the Strawberry Season as it is so nice and I love them. Just last week, we went through eating 6lbs. Now I got 6 more for this week. It is wonderful to make smoothies of Blackberries, Blueberries, Strawberries, Bananas, ice and apple juice. My friend Marilyn uses spinach also.

these beautiful flowers were donated to me from Minnesota from Else for our Project Flowers. they came unannounced to me to help with my project to fill the lonely vases at the Cemetaries wtih flowers.

Easter Sunday, Christ has Risen!

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we got up on sunday and I made a really good breakfast, then we all went to church, Angeles and Jose Manuel joined us, andrew ended up staying outside cuz he said it was so crowded and he didnt' want to try and find us. so, we went to Walmart and they made us 2-6 foot subs, as one was for Tammy and her family, we came home and ate. Juan had to drive the van so he ate seperate. the sub had roast beef, turkey and ham and it was very good with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, mayo, chips and soda on the side. Yum!

Andrew coloring Easter Eggs. What fun we had cuz Jose Manuel really wanted to do this as we did after church.

Jesus coloring his eggs as we decided to do duck eggs this time.

the children's little bunny and egg sucker for a gift. We used to do baskets and put them outside, wake up the children and then they would go outside all grouchy and get their basket and now as all teenagers, it is fun but, more conservative.

this was our morning breakfast. I made bacon, eggs, and these yummy danishes from Angeles.

Jesus turns 13 years old~!

2010-04-05T09:40:00.000-07:00

March 24, 2010 at 6:10 a.m.

Jesus was so happy cuz he got $100 from Aunt Lori and Family for doing so well
13 cupcakes, thank God I got the count right. last year I did 11 accidently when he turned 12.

these yummy chocolate/yellow cake mix cupcakes were filled with vanilla frosting and decorated on top with rainbow chip vanilla frosting.

he was so happy cuz this child loves frosting!

*pretty* cupcakes of 13

he was opening this stop light that is so neat. and he got 5 big bags of candy to enjoy

he received 1 movie and 2 games from his brother Andrew.

having fun in the streamers hung from the Ceiling fan.

andrew, Jesus and Kiki posing before the fun starts.

mom's decorating before Jesus came home from school.

My new 13 year old Son Jesus as we ate Barros Cheese pizza, cupcakes, soda and played.

fun decorations.

I took him to Bookmans on Saturday march 20th cuz earlier in the day I found an Xbox for only $50.00 and asked him later on if he wanted 1 gift today. I am so bad about giving early. LOL

he was so surprised as I layed it on the chair and he passed by after I paid for it and he was shocked that was for him. LOL

Spring has sprung over here!

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these adorable 10 babies were born on March 22, 2010. She was laying on 11 eggs and only 9 Made it as 10 eggs/chicks were hatch. I was so happy. as this was the 2nd time this month.

this yellow one is the 1st born of the 10.

cutest baby chicks!

Charm Swap for the end of march

2010-04-05T09:31:00.000-07:00

The Theme for march is Flowers. I did the swap in Feb. and it was titled: black and white and I put some flowers so this time around, I wanted to do something different and out of the box.

I had a flower charm I purchased from Joann's and then I put another pin with some seed beads in it and hung it on the jump ring, cute!

St. Patrick's day cards and Bargains

2010-03-15T10:20:00.001-07:00

I made these cards for my card club people that I send them to each and every Month.

the two teachers whom gave me over $1,000 worth of stuff to create, well she gave me some of this green paper that is so darn cute. It has a bug on it with a mushroom. since I have been scrapbooking for almost 12 years, I always love the looks of the paper, before I go to the name. LOL I can't get used to saying the names.
I purchased this cage from the Kawanis club to help the Apache Junction Youth for only $1.00. I like this one better then what the two little turkey babies was in before. I have about 4 cages as I need them when I rescue and go and pick up the animals.

I got these at a yard sale for only $.50 for all 5 of these Pottery Barn plates. So, darn cute.

for some odd reason I love saucers.

I have a strawberry kitchen but, anything goes in the cupboards.

I am some what of a brand name collector and it is so fun

to see what I can get for a buck, in my simple-conservative life! :)

Food.

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another hen is laying on these eggs. Hoping to have more babies. yippee!!!!!
this yummy Chicken and wild rice salad and later on, I added Cranberries.

I made these gordita's on Saturday and then again

on Sunday night for our dinner, with steak and seasonings, beans,

cheese, lettuce, tomoatoes and sour cream. yum!

Goose Egg appeared......

2010-03-09T10:28:00.001-08:00

Pickle our lonely goose that has hens, roosters, and duck friends, had an egg. Yippee. I was thinking what in the world is that laying outside in the straw. I was so happy as since Pepper died she hasn't layed any since July. 2009

New Life....

2010-03-09T10:22:00.001-08:00

We got these two new turkey on March 5, 2010, from Superstition Feed store. I rescue animals form them when they call me from others that need to find them a new home. I also give them roosters at times and then I wanted to trade on 3 roosters that I gave them about 1 month ago. I have been waiting on these two for quite sometime as my sister's turkey had babies and they all died.

Christmas is on the Right and thanksgiving is on the Left.

thanksgiving is on the left and christmas is on teh right.
No I don't eat my farm animals as I just love their names.
they were born on February 16, 2010.

gifts for my sis birthday.

2010-03-05T07:34:00.000-08:00

Today my one sis turns 49 years old. I got her these cute fun rug that we grew up with and it is funny for her to see tomorrow. then I made her this sugar shaker and filled it with different kinds and colors of ribbons and tied a cute happy birthday embellishment to the bottle.
then I saw this cute fly swapper and since she has a farm, I had to get this as it is a goose.

cute gifts.

then I made her this really cute Cupcake chipboard book with photos when we were children.

I tied ribbon to the latch and then put cute paper and stickles, crimpted paper for the foil part of the cupcake in various colors and then brads or buttons for the cherry on top.

we have new chicks yippee!!!!

2010-03-05T07:07:00.000-08:00

These Nosey hens are trying to figure out what is behind door number 3. LOL

I had to transfer these adorable 8 babies from the shed where the mom hatched her eggs in this bucket. She was so nice to me when I had to lift her up first and then put her in her seperate cage. her name is Mommy as this is her third flock, the 1st one was 14, the second one she hatched 5 and now this one she hatched 8 babies.
she is safe and sound now in the hen house.

oh she has 10 more eggs to hatch if she does

she is laying on her eggs in the shed.

Aren't these so darn cute, as this is when I first saw them. oh my I was so happy!

this si when I first saw the baby chicks as they must of been born on the 3rd of march.

cats in the mesquite

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cats in the tree. I was so surprised when I woke up to find them perching like birds oh wait maybe they were, looking for birds on the hunt. LOL
we hae 6-7 strays that we adopted and feed but, I think most of them our the neighbors as they two black ones, 1 orange one, and 1-2 stripped ones, and one tabby cat. Whew!

so darn cute getting up once they saw me.

I really think that they love it in these trees!

the more I got closer, the more others wished to jump off scared but, I just loved their intentions of climbing these trees. So, neat the way the photos turned out.

black and white charms.

2010-03-03T08:52:00.000-08:00

oh so pretty charms of black and white. this month by the end of Feb. we were to make 20 charms of this theme. I made a little card to place them on in their baggies.
I used a flower of black & White or just black and a jump ring, then a cute crystal charm on a pin then a jump ring on a lobster claw. Very easy and something I just thought of doing. by the end of march I am too make 16 flower charms of some sort. Gotta get thinking of what I would wish to make.

cute charms.

today I made biscotti

2010-02-24T15:00:00.001-08:00

since I bake every day pretty much but, Sunday,
I thought I would try out Jessica's recipe for double, chocolate
biscotti. I really wished to make orange biscotti, but, since I don't drink
alcohol, it calls for orange liquier and I was wondering if I could use
orange extract with 1 large orange(that it calls for)
so, I might try that and make it another day.
I am always trying to decide what to bake for the farmer's market.

we went to say: Good bye!!!!

2010-02-24T14:09:00.000-08:00

we came over to say goodbye to three of these kiddos
cuz they are leaving to Mexico come Sunday, Feb. 28th. wow
the last day of February! So, there is andrea, little new baby Stepfany,
carla and Jose Manuel(isn't leaving though)

and Juan holding stepfany that is 1.5 months born on Jan. 6th
with Andrew and Jesus.

and tia Angeles whom adores all of these little girls
whom she lives with, as their dad is already in Mexico since Sept.

and we brought them all a balloon!

cute Jose Manuel with stepfany!

and I have seen them all since birth also as this one little
girl surely looks like the dad. the dad is my husband's nephew,
his oldest sister son and then Angeles is the sister of him.

Juan is trying to leave to go to Mexico to see his family and his house

sometime this year as she has not been there since april 2006, and used to go every year, but, since the economy is so tough and he is the only one working, it is harder now.

we will see them all again sometime soon but, they will all grow up. I know the rest of the family plus the dad is so excited and especially to see his newest little girl.

Father Doffing's 50th anniversary to the Priesthood!

2010-02-24T11:02:00.000-08:00

these photos were really neat to look at from his life, ordination and when he was a teacher. he winters at our parish from minnesota and so he is one smart Priest. He knows your name once and will never forget it at all.

Laura the photographer and gordon the graphic designer makes these lovely canvas boards as we have one of us and Monsignor McKay on it holding each others hands. so, cute!

going into McKay hall and I love those things.

Andrew was bored while mom was serving with other ladies in an assembly line of mini pizzas, quiche's, cordon blues, pigs in a blanket, cake, cheese balls. about 400 people attended this fun party from 1-3pm.

all this balloons on the tables as we took some to Juan's relatives.

cute photos.

my most favorite photo is the second one from the right on the bottom as he said he was in 2nd grade then. the next ones are from school, and he said that two of his classmates came.
Wow!