Postcard Friendship Friday #71

Last Friday, Good Friday, wasn't an appropriate day to post this card so I saved it for today.

Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted by Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

Wordful Wednesday

A few pictures from Easter Sunday...

Claire runs so fast hunting eggs that its hard to get a good picture.

I made her stop and pose for this one!

Nathan, who is 13, proclaimed himself too old to hunt eggs.

He is, however, ever too old to enjoy a chocolate bunny!



Before Church...


That afternoon I took Claire to see her first Broadway play...Beauty and the Beast.
It was FABULOUS!!!



Wordful Wednesday is hosted by Parenting by Dummies and Seven Clown Circus.

Postcard Friendship Friday #70

It's wildflower time in Texas!

I think I've posted this one before, but I couldn't do a Texas

wildflower post without bluebonnets!

This one is new. I love the windmill in it.

Ever since I was a kid I have loved windmills!

Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted by

Beth at The Best Hearts are Crunchy.

Hope everyone has a Happy Easter!

Wordful Wednesday

Some pics from our recent trip to the Dallas Zoo:

Tortoises...always my favorite!!

I'd never seen a porcupine this close before. He was cute!

Remember the bird on my head from Monday's post?
Well, we got him to pay claire a visit too!




This one liked Nathan!




My little Chimp:

A real little chimp! :)

They now have a great African savanna area complete with giraffe feeding!

What's your favorite animal at the zoo??

Wordful Wednesday is hosted by Parenting by Dummies and Seven clown circus.

What makes you laugh?

I'm having a rather challenging day with Claire today...very stressful! So, I decided to do a fun post that would make me laugh...just trying to lighten the mood around here a little! :)

A couple of weeks ago we went to the zoo. They have a walk in aviary in the kids area. My daughter just loves it. She was trying desperately to get a bird to land on her. She wasn't having much luck. I, on the other hand, seemed to make a nice perch for this guy...

He landed on my head, not once, but twice!

My kids, of course, grabbed the cameras and snapped pictures!

I was just thankful he didn't poop on me! I was rather worried about that!

I'll post more zoo pics later this week.

Ok, this is something that makes me laugh. What makes you laugh?

I'm also linking up with the L.E.N.S. photo challenge on Home is where you start from.

This week's theme is "This moment".

I think these pics are a good "right in this moment" example! :)

Tasty Dips!

You may remember I announced a couple months ago that I'm now an independent consultant for Homemade Gourmet. Well, I am just loving it! And loving the food! I wanted to share a couple of my favorites with you today. Its the Real Dill Dip Mix... Mmmmm! So good with potato chips or even spread on a sandwich! All you add is 8 oz. of cream cheese and 8 oz. of sour cream. Its so easy! Maria's Salsa Mix....

I'm not sure who Maria is, but her salsa is WONDERFUL! It has a very fresh taste...like something you'd find at a great Mexican food restaurant. I make this all the time. I don't think I'll ever eat jar salsa again! All you add is 1 can of Rotel, 1 can of stewed tomatoes and 1/2 c. of onions. Cilantro is optional and would probably be yummy, but I never seem to have it on hand so I always make mine without it.

Homemade Gourmet's special for April is 15% off of dips so if you'd like to try either of these or any of their other wonderful products click here and visit my website.

I'm working on my new consultant goal and I'm so close to acheiving free admission into the annual "family reunion" convention this summer. So thanks, in advance for checking out my website!

Keep an eye out...I plan to host another Homemade Gourmet giveaway soon!

Wordful Wednesday

A little bit of what we've been up to almost every day lately!

Wordful Wednesday is hosted by Seven Clown Circus and Parenting by Dummies.

If you'd like to help us out by voting for our diorama in our newspaper's annual contest click here. We really need more votes! Our entry is "Peeping Beauty". Thanks!!