My Thanksgiving Adventure

I know, I know! I'm just now posting about Thanksgiving. Give me a break though! I've been busy...busy...busy. No... really we Had a great Thanksgiving. We didn't spend time with family, which would have been great, but we did have a fun and adventurous Thanksgiving! We went to the Walters house on Wednesday and had a bonfire, in the process catching their neighbors tree on fire! Oh...it was fun and back breaking to be running from the house to the tree with buckets, trash cans, pitchers, Balloons (filled with water), Squirt guns, water hoses, tall cups and whatever we could get our hands on! Literally! I'm not joking! Oh and we were sort of panicking too. Well, maybe just us girls. The next day we went to the Allegrezza's house and had a great time there also! Not as adventurous though. On Friday we completed our Thanksgiving celebration by having the Walters come over to our house! We learned that the next day after the fire the neighbors had decided to just burn down the entire tree! Oh, all...that work for nothin'!!! Why couldn't we have just let it go. I don't know but right now I'm having a video come to mind that we watched in youth group, about some people actually "worshiping" trees! I know it's crazzzzy but it happens. One of the people in the video was saying "save the trees, save the trees"! No don't save the trees we learned our lessen from that! You'll get back aches and then learn that your neighbor just went ahead and burned down the stinkin' tree! Oh it was fun though, in the midst of the craziness! We thanked God that nobody got burned! Or at least I think nobody got burns...hmmm. P.S. We also played scum with the Walters so now I know how to play it!

Scumb...or...Idjitt

I bet your about ready to ask me, "What on EARTH is IDJIT"! Well, I'm not telling you right now,and the way this post turns out I might not end up telling you, you might just end up guessing. I'll just tell you about last monday night. OK, so my Mom went to a Mom's Night Out through the CHEC group, and we were left with my Dad. Which is not a bad thing at all. Usually some of the most interesting and fun nights end up being when my mom is gone and we are with my dad. For instance: playing hide and go seek (in the dark), having "backwards night" (eating your pizza backwards, wearing your PJ's inside out and backwards, eating desert first and then pizza, etc...), watching movies, tickle attacks,...you get the picture. So all this to say, that night, I called two friends to find out the rules on a game called Scum. I called the first person and then I explained the game as best as I could to my siblings who kept interrupting me and telling me "that's not how we played it at the so 'n' so's house" so I called the next person. This helped a lot, but all that work for nothing, because after that they didn't want to play anymore (they got tired of me being on the phone I guess). So my wonderful father came up with a wonderful idea (and off the top of his head like a snap of the fingers)! He sat up and said "OK, were going to play idjit". You should have seen our puzzled faces at that moment, asking, "What is idjit? Did you make that up?" The reply was just a geeky smile and a "you'll see". So we played the game, it actually turned out pretty good, making it up as it went along. If you would like the directions on how to play idjit you can call my dad. I'm running out of time now for posting and I'm tired so I need to say goodnight to all. How is it that I'm always posting at night?

What is a friend?

What Is A Friend?

A friend is somebody

Who knows you and likes you

Exactly the way that you are.

Someone who's special

And so close in thought

That no distance can ever seem far.

A friend understands you

Without any words,

Stands by you

When nothing goes right.

And willingly talks

Over problems with you

Till they somehow

Just vanish from sight.

And whether you're neighbors

Or live miles apart,

A word from a friend gives a lift

To your heart and spirit.

That shows you once more

Why friendship is life's dearest gift!

- Author Unknown

I'm so glad God provided us with friends. I have some awesome friends that God has given to me. He is so good to care for us in little areas like this. Only God truly knows our needs, and He knew that we need friends sometimes to laugh with or have a shoulder to cry on, or just a friend to talk to. Sometimes even your siblings are your friends. I'm still trying to be a best friend to me siblings first and then my other friends. :) There is just something different in talking to my sister vs. one of my friends.

Thank you God for giving us good friends to laugh and cry with.

Pictures of the last few months.

Ohhh, my goodness what a long time it has been since I've posted. I feel kind of bad because I haven't been keeping people in touch. :( It's funny though I 'll take pictures at different places and be thinking in the back of my head I'm going to put this on my blog when I get home. Then It just gets busy or I forget to do it. So if you don't mind I'm just going to put a bunch of pictures on here and explain them!

This one was taken on our way back home from Uvalde (90 mi west of San Antonio) when we went to see my Mimi and Paw-paw.

This is my Mom's mom. She is the best Mimi in the world! Love you Mimi!

This was also from the same trip. Its a cute little cottage, I just had to take a picture!

Sorry this one might be a little gross, but, we all thought it was interesting. These are baby spiders.

These were taken at my quilting class last month.I'm quilting at the Jarvis' house and I'm having so much fun and it has been a great skill to learn, very difficult, but fun!

This is a beautiful quartz rock that came from a much bigger one that was about 10in. in length and about 10-20 pounds. I went to a friend's house and we smashed the rock into smaller pieces this one was my favorite one. She kind of pulled me out of my comfort zone (My friend Mary is working on turning me into an outdoorsy type of girl).

This is the last picture and one that I actually took today. This is what I did today at the Jarvis' house. I hope to have a picture of my progress with quilting each month. Well goodnight to all. I'm getting sleepy. =o 'Tis time to go to bed. Hope you enjoyed the pics. I will work on updating my blog more often than once every few months. :)

Have you ever canned peaches?

I hadn't, untill a week and 1/2 ago. :) My sisters and I went to some friends house and canned peaches. We had fun boiling the peaches. We boiled them for about, 1 minute. Then we let them soak in cold water for about, 10 seconds. Then we did the fun and slimy part of getting the bad parts and the skin off.Then we cut up the peaches and scraped some of the red stuff out of the centers. It was so much fun canning peaches! This was my first time. I hope I'll remember how to do it, because this would be a very helpful thing to do in the future when I have a home of my own. Well, goodnight, It's getting late, I need to go to bed. Bye.

Loco means crazy!

I'm just about done with the hallway!!! It does get tiring sometimes but as I have said, it is fun! We finished up with the garage sale. I despise east TX humid heat. It was 102 degrees here and we were outside! I think we all got a little dehydrated. :( I'm sorry, I am thinking on the negative side of things, maybe I should be thinking on the positive side of things, huh? We did make some $$ (it was all donation). It was hilarious to see my mom try to speak Spanish! She would say "everything is donacion. Me and my sposo (hand motions during the hole thing) have ocho ninos! response from some "oh oh oh". One couple that had one child walked off laughing saying something like "blank blank blank blank loco" (I couldn't understand everything but my mom and I busted out laughing because we both new what loco meant (it means crazy). So that was our garage sale experience. He, he, he. P.s. I barely now Spanish myself.

Sticky Feet

Finally, I've had this blog for what, two weeks now and I'm just now blogging. Julia told me that when I post, she'll comment. :) So here I go! Today was a busy day for me. I painted the hallway ceiling and tomorrow I'll be painting the trim, doors, and walls (maybe it will take a little longer than that). It took a lot of patience and thought. You'd think that painting would be a breeze, but, it wasn't. It was a lot of fun though and it gives you a great sense of accomplishment. We had gotten the paint a couple weeks ago and haven't finished yet.

My feet got sticky with the paint and so it was sticking to the plastic drop cloth. That felt kind of wiered on my feet. My dear, sweet, Mother went to Lifeway to use a gift card and brought some quarters to get me a frosty (mmmm....), because I was working so hard. Oh, and it was chocolate, which is even better! I took a shower after that and had to wash paint out of my hair and off of my feet! It was funny, when I was cleaning the paint brushes and rollers outside with the water hose, I made the water hose spin the roller so that the water and paint would splatter every where. It was getting me all wet and Matthew came outside and said, "hey Beks you're getting all wet". I said "I know but, this is the day that I'm getting 'dirty' ", (my mom has a hard time getting me outside often enough). Matthew said "huh" (I just knew that he was thinking 'She's getting wet with paint all over'?) Any way it felt good to accomplish something great for my family and have fun. Now I can go to bed feeling like I did something great today!