Back from the Lake

Hello Friends!  Hope all is well with you and yours...I've been G-O-N-E.  Yep, we took off for TableRock Lake last Saturday morning and came home Thursday.  Beautiful time, Beautiful Lake, Great friends and Good Food.  Been really busy since I got home...laundry, helping f-i-l move, life in general...trying to get back to the real world :)  LOL

Traveled lots of these roads...

and these turns

to arrive here.  Well worth the trip.

Our view off our friends dock.  We stayed with them

at their lake house this year.  JB wasn't up to

pulling the trailer and boat, etc.  It was nice.

I will have more pics to share...need to get busy before it

gets TOO HOT here.  Thanks for stopping

by to visit.  Have a wonderful Day!

Wordless Wednesday

Recipe Share

I told you I would share the recipe for ZB's Birthday cake..this is SUPER easy and DELISH!  I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

KANSAS DIRT CAKE

1  16oz pkg of OREOS
1  8oz. pkg of cream cheese-softened
1/2 cup butter-softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 carton Cool Whip-thawed
2 boxes instant vanilla pudding
1 Tbsp. vanilla

Crush cookies--(I sometimes just use my hands or put them in a baggie and use the rolling pin on them)Put half of the crushed cookies in a 9x13 baking dish.  Mix your cream cheese & butter with mixer, add powdered sugar, mix until smooth then Fold in cool whip.  In a separate bowl, mix pudding as directed on box and add the vanilla.  Fold pudding mix into cream cheese mixture.  Spread over your pan of cookie crumbs...put other half of crushed cookies on top.  Freeze or chill.  This is a great summer dessert...enjoy.

A Good Word and Lots of Pictures

Good Friday Morning to All my Followers/Readers!  I hope you are heading into a GREAT weekend.  I have lots of pics to share but first...a good word for you~and me :)

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.  Colossians 3:2

What a great reminder...the things here on earth are exactly that...just things.  They continue to cause us to miss out on many blessings God has for us.  Let us seek HIM and be BLESSED and lay aside our worries about the things of the world.  Have a Blessing Filled Weekend Friends!!

ZB (middle) showing his Grand Champion

Suffolk!  WHOO HOO :)

CB~My Junior Grand Champion Showman

Another WHOO HOO!

ZB~The now teenager with his bday cake,

Kansas Dirt Cake.  I'll share the recipe

sometime.  I promise, it won't disappoint.

ZB and the Grandmas at Bday supper.

My mom and the left, JB's mom on the right.

Bad Mutt...digging under the shed in the

back yard. 

Beautiful Kansas sunset...with a storm brewing

T-storms moving in Tuesday night

but a beautiful sky-looking west

Looking north, can you say 4-6 inches of rain

north of us?  Can you say, No cutting wheat

right now?  :(

Meet Nelson, my mom's new pup. 

Oh boy....he's a doll baby.

Nelson is just exhausted after running thru

the yard.

ZB is LOVING Nelson.  You can't tell

though can ya?

Oh Me Oh My

I have so much to say and many pics to share...WARNING!  This could end up being a HUGE, rambling, picture extravaganza!

Hubby:  Doing G*R*E*A*T!  Praise God for that..today has been 4 wks since surgery.  He saw the Dr last week and got a good report-he also got his "bone stimulator".  It's a very simplistic piece that cost as much as a car.  Anywhoo...it promotes bone growth and stimulates red blood cells...the recovery rate of people wearing it = 92%.  Recovery rate of people that don't = 67%.  Thank God our insurance covered it.  He wears it 4 hours a day for 6-9 months.  He is finding it to be more of a hassle than the back brace he has to wear all the time.  He has gone to work 3 days this week---I would say he's overdone it...he disagreed...until tonite.  He's flat out exhausted and doesn't feel too great.  He will figure it out...eventually :)

Oldest Son ZB:  Doing great too!  About to become a 13 yr old on Monday(sniff, sniff) Mom is a bit sentimental and struggling that my firstborn is growing up way too fast.  He's been working alot since school got out...helping out at the Sale Barn, helping Grandpa John at his new farm and helping me out as well.  Getting his lambs ready for the first show...day after tomorrow. 

Youngest CB:  Doing great, still my little buddy...gives me lots of hugs lately and I love it!  Working with his sheep and also helping out at the barn and at Grandpa's.  He's actually helped Grandpa John ALOT.  Grandpa says he's working hard.  He hates being the youngest...he claims "it's not ever fair".  Life is hard isn't it?  :)

Me:  Well, I'm still running like a wild woman~enjoying the fact that my husband is gaining every day and getting back to his ol' onrey self...even though being on the receiving end of that is not always a funny for me (lol).  Loving my boys and lovin watching them grow into young men.  Wishing at times I had more hours in the day~taking care of my flowers, garden, yard and just life in general. 

So thankful that the life I live is VERY BLESSED. 

I also want to update you on my cousin's daughter, KINSEY.  She is home~FINALLY~ and so happy to be there.  She does NOT have leukemia, PRAISE GOD.  She did have osteomyelitis(bone infection) in her heel, it's still healing, but she is gaining.  I want you all to know that Kelli(mom) was overwhelmed with the power of prayer for her sweet baby girl.  She was so thankful.  And so was I. 

Well, I must post pics now...have a wonderful and blessed weekend.  Remember to give thanks in all circumstances and no matter what your situation is.....GOD is BIGGER than any of it. 

ZB and Mr Ben

I have a Hummingbird, so now I have

a Hummingbird feeder~I love

Hummingbirds!

Husband...finally out amongst

the living!

Nephew, Rance playing some T-ball and

doing good at First Base.

Fun picture of CB with my new camera

This little peanut...is too darn cute!