Easter Munching

Happy spring this year - rain has made our countryside quite lovely and the weather is pretty perfect right now. We enjoyed a lovely three-day weekend that flew by and now Friday seems like a distant memory. I had a great time filling Mark's Easter basket up with treats from Lily's Cookies and Godiva. Went with that this year and he's sweet enough to share. I got a lovely spring bouquet delivered Saturday morning as I readied the bee suits for students. What a great surprise. Of course the ladies thought it sweet but assumed it was our anniversary or my birthday. They thought it extra sweet when I said it was neither. :)

General Thoughts for the Holiday Season

These are random thoughts I'm having as I have been so busy with life that I can't even post regularly even though I think about it all the time. Gotta prioritize which blogs get updated regularly. I wish I had more hours each day! This is me stretching out my right leg during our 7-hour drive from Ft. Davis. I think it's my sciatic nerve giving me the pain. Good news is that it is feeling much better as I take every opportunity to stretch it. Even during work, when I am sure I must freak people out by propping my leg up on my desk while discussing things. hehe


YAY, got to spend time with Luke and see where he lives and work now. Awesome visit. Can't wait to go back out there. It's gorgeous.


I found this metal tree at Hallmark's. A part of me probably knew we wouldn't have time to get all our Christmas stuff down from the attic this year again. So at least we have a little bit o' festivity around. :)

It's about that time...

There are 58 days until Christmas, which made me think of these pictures. I love it when we have been on beeventures - especially ones that involve moving bee boxes. Why? Because it's it's fun to see the boxes tied/wrapped up - they look like gift boxes. And they are Wolfpack colors so that rocks, too. :) Miss watching ACC sports still. These are boxes we moved last night from the Big Oaks Bee Yard to our new Capote Bee Yard. Kenneth is the son of a good friend and he's really interested in beekeeping so he's helping Mark out and learning at the same time. That's awesome because we need more beekeepers in the area. :)



These also reminded me of the original shot that first made me think the boxes look like little gifts. This is from our trip to Bolton, MS, to pick up Mr. Russell's bees that Mark had bought. That was a fun adventure.

Happy Year of the Tiger!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a great start to the new Lunar year! I, unfortunately, ended up fighting a bad headache that turned into a migraine so I could not post new year greeting until today. Nor did I make my round of calls to wish the family well. :-( Well, making up for it this evening.

This is a flower from the beautiful arrangement Mark gave me for Valentine's Day but the yellow is nice for New Year celebrations as well. I am very blessed to have such a wonderful husband and a great life. My goals this year include taking better care of myself physically and emotionally (stress) so that I can get better control over my health. Mark and I are back at it at the gym and we're very excited about goals we have set for ourselves! :-)

Here's to a happy, healthy and prosperous new year for everyone!

Hearts, Hearts, Hearts

Happy V-Day everyone! I am glad I feel much better today, though after this I think I need to take a nap. I feel drained and tonight we have a church banquet we're going to attend. I was asked to take pictures and family portraits so I'm looking forward to that.

Above is what I gave Mark for V-Day. The hearts each contain one or two coupons which he has a year to redeem. Everything from dinner to car wash and etc. You get the drift. The chocolate covered fortune cookies were from HEB (of all places!!) and they were too cool and funny not to get. I gave my teammates at work each one also, along with their card. We really needed some love there after the layoffs this week. I'm so happy I'm still there! Here are some of the cards I made for them:



Yea, those were a lot of hearts. I meant to count them to see how many I cut and quilled but I forgot. Oh well. I can take an estimate later. I crafted twenty of these cards and while it was a lot of work and took some time, it was also relaxing and helped me take my mind off work for a while. Mark gave me this awesome Vera Bradley Bowler bag --- can't wait to try it out after my nap. But it wasn't even my favorite gift. No. I also got one of the most wonderful love letters ever!!! I cried. I laughed. I think it deserves an Oscar! :)

Shopping at the Quarry

One of the things I miss about living in SA is the shopping. I love going to the Alamo Quarry Shopping Center. Mark and I went to do some Christmas shopping and when we left Borders, I looked right and really liked the sky backdropping the stacks.

Mark shipped off boxes today. Thanks honey! It's so nice to have him home this year (rather than his working 14-16 hours for city govt.). We got a tree up but only one ornament on it. LOL. My priority was the gifts and since they are done, I'll go unwrap ornaments I guess. It's been a crazy week. I can't wait to take some time off next week. I am going to relax and do some fun things. Like drive around taking pictures, make some earrings, read, and whatever else comes to mind. And I'm not even going to log into work email or chat. This will be something if I do all this. :)