there's a new kid in town...

get ready to fall in love...

you all remember Chrissy?  

Bebe's old friend who lives across the street?

well, she got a new sister last week...

and Bebe and Snikki play so well together...

Snikki is still a puppy with puppy energy...

awe...

in love, yet?

Craig sat down on the grass and tried his best to get some good shots of her...

she just doesn't sit still...

and she likes to lick the lens....

but, they played and they played...

Craig and I looked at this and we both said...

Never Ending Story...

one of our favorite movies of all time...

she came from Columbus, Ohio...

a fellow buckeye...

;)

there are going to be so many more days like this one...

she likes biting Bebe's tail...

he's not too sure about that...

she loves chewing up the clover...

I think we had better get Bebe some doggie vitamins...

she is just adorable...

Craig wants one so bad now...

I told him when he gets a job and moves out...

go for it...

welcome to the neighborhood, Snikki...

more fun in a can happenings...

the croquet set is almost ready...

painted the birds that go on the bird bath...

I had them blue, but they were too bright...

the little chair that I got off of Rebecca was white...

not anymore...

;)

I am going to use this with my potting bench...

the 3 corner shelf that Doug found in a dumpster...

it was dark blue...

it will go on the new deck...

and the 3rd metal garden chair is celery green like the other 2...

 this one belonged to my father in law...

I am sure he would like it...

now, the carrier for the croquet set needs painted on the bottom side...

it was a deep red before...

we are in the final days for the columbine and iris...

they have been so pretty this year...

Craig is really getting into this painting, but we are about finished..

it has been fun to take something that we already had and make it fun again...

and to find something and give it a 2nd life...

in this case, it may be the 3rd or 4th...

meanwhile, on the other side of the house...

the lilies are blushing...

and the washtub is full of blooms...

and DH had to shimmy a few old fence pickets in the old wicker chair to hold the new purple pot of petunias...

this was going to go out in one of the front beds until I found the ladder...

so now it sits by the back steps...

keep my dad in your prayers...

he was in the hospital for 10 days...

his kidneys are failing again...

but he did this last year...

and they had him already gone...

but he's still here 15 month later...

so that just shows you that we do not pass from here until God says its so...

I just pray that God calls him soon...

he is so tired...

its a little warmer here today...

and I have been a little sick to my stomach since lunch time...

but I did get it down...

I haven't had any IBS problems for months since I went off of dairy...

but the last 2 nights I have had one little scoop of ice cream...

dumb me...

when you refuse to forgive someone...

the only one you hurt is yourself...

forgiving frees you of the ugly that you can never hide away...

its a black spot that shows through whatever face you put on...

let it go...

God can handle it...

so you can love more deeply...

and the peace will swallow you whole...

it was a good day...

what's left of the flowers Craig got me for Mother's Day...

of course we worked in the yard this weekend...

trimming limbs and taking out a small walnut out of the shrubs...

things are still blooming...

DH and I worked on this Saturday morning first thing...

it was so full of tiny weeds and little maple trees...

we have more to do, but around the tomatoes is done...

Craig picked out petunias and begonias for me...

so I put some in here...

these petunias are Plush...

I love the deep color...

and here are the rest of them with one of the pansies in the middle of the pot...

we also painted and this is the new yellow color I got...

rose moss is growing well..

and there is one more color to go...

yellow...

its still a work in progress...

but here is what we have so far..

these take the longest to open!!!

still waiting...

this bloom opened up on the new climber...

the bud had damage to it from shipping, so I can't wait for it to bud and bloom some more...

it was a good weekend...

Doug didn't come up, but the rest of us had a good time...

my guys never buy me flowers unless it can be planted or potted...

which is what I really want anyway...

the deck construction should begin in a couple of weeks...

so kind of just waiting on that before we tackle anything else...

planning for what is going on there and then down around the front...

of course, I will probably have to rearrange many areas after that...

but we have all summer to play around out there...

Craig made spaghetti last night for supper...

and since I cannot do pasta anymore...

the carbs are just too high...

we used egg noodles and it was great...

I even had it for lunch today...

so between all of that and I had to place a walmart order...

that was my Mother's Day...

(had to buy new bras)

lost 6 inches around the middle and the old ones don't fit anymore...

so I told the guys that that was enough...

someone else I know got bras, too...

but I won't mention any names...

wink, wink...

I didn't model mine either...

LOL

you all have a great day...

got more inside stuff to get caught up on...

cause I kind of didn't do it over the weekend...

and sooner or later I will be around to peek at what you all have been up to...

to our moms in Heaven...

Patty and Catherine...

we love and miss you...

and to all of my blogging friends...

hope your day has been as special as you are...