Thankful Thursday!

This week I am thankful for the Sun! I am loving that I have had the sun in our little rainy PNW.  I love the fact that the bright sunshine and the blue skies with the fluffy clouds.

I love my backyard! If I could have one birthday wish it would be a Hammock for the back yard.

To lay in and to read all of the summer books I would love to read. 

I am thankful that I have the love of my friends and family.

I am thankful that its summer because this weather has made me feel

kinda sad. 

There are days when I can be in a crowd and still feel alone.

Very

  overwhelmed.

At this point in my life I feel like my life is so complicated.

 I don't know what I can do to change that.

I need to slow down. 

Summer is when you should take it down a notch.

I feel like its when I am running the most.

I get this way when it is close to my Birthday.

I second guess everything I have done in my life.

So with that Said I have to say. 

I am blessed that I have so many friends

& a close family 

to make me know that I am never alone even when I feel like it

& for that I am Thankful!

Wordless Wednesday

Tempt my Tummy Tuesday.

Camp Kabobs

Camp Kabobs are easy and mess free. The kids like eating them too, because they're fun to eat. Bake potatoes directly in the fire, add some bread and you've got a meal.

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 2 lb. sirlion tips (can use beef stew cut meat)
• 2 bell peppers
• 2 large onions
• lemon

Preparation:

Simply cut chicken and beef up into pieces, slice up onion and bell peppers, place on kabob sticks and squeeze lemon over kabobs right before grilling.

Servings: 8

Campfire Corn on the Cob

 It is so easy and the corn will be really tender. It is a cheap and easy side dish for a campfire meal.

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

1 bag frozen corn on the cob

Toni's Cajun Spices

butter

salt and pepper, to taste

Preparation:

Place individual ears of corn, still frozen, on a piece of heavy aluminum foil. Top with Toni's, salt and pepper, and a pat of butter. Wrap each ear of corn with foil and twist the ends. I then place the individual wraps right on an open fire, but I have placed them on the grill too. Takes about 5 to 10 minutes. Enjoy!

Servings: as needed

Preparation time: 5-10 minutes

Dirt Desert. 

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

Oreo cookies

Cool Whip

Gummie Worms

Gummie Critters

Preparation:

Crush Oreos and mix with Cool Whip and Gummie Critters. Serve chilled.

Servings: varies

Meet me Monday!!

1. What is your favorite thing about summertime?

The late night light, camping, roasting marshmellows, Watching Big Brother, swimming, laying in my back yard and reading a good book, BBQ's, pedi's, birthday cake, starting Christmas shopping and crafting, family time, my yard and garden, trips to the beach, collecting sea glass. Now if us in Washington could just get some darn Sun I would be so happy!

2. What is your ideal retirement location (if money didn’t matter)?

I would have to say that I would want a cabin at the Ocean near Cannon Beach. I would also have a house September thru May down in AZ/NV/ Or in Palm Springs or San Diego. But for sure somewhere near my parents so I can take care of them. 

3. Do you live in the same town you grew up in?

Not in the same town but in the same county. I have always wanted to have a new life somewhere else but I am such a family person that I can't ever see myself leave until my family is smaller.

4. What nervous habit did you have as a child that you kicked to the curb before becoming an adult?

Biting my fingernails but I still have to bite them all off if I break one. Yes bite them off. I dont’ know why. Probably some deep seated stress?

5. What is the one era would you want to be a part of?

You mean I have to pick one? I don’t know, I would have to say I would love to have lived in the 1930's and I would love to have lived in the Tudor years. I think that I would have been a Queen!

Grad's

It seems like just yesterday I was walking down to graduate. 

All my thoughts and dreams were right there. 

I thought I knew it all and I thought that I was an adult.

I was 18 & I wanted this part of my life to be done...

well that was then and this is now.

What I would give to go back and do it all over.

I would so be a better daughter, 

I wouldn't be into boys...I would study!

So with those thoughts I thought I would share my pics of

my class photos of 1996

My Dad, Me & Mom ( Wow we were young)

Grandpa Elmer me & Grandma Aggie

Grandma Mom, Me & Grandpa Ed

 

My Grandma-Mom and I 

This weekend two of my girls ( One a Niece I adpoted :) The other is my Cousin Maddy.) that have been my world for the their entire lives. 

both different but none the less loved then the other. 

Kaley is the reason I have always wanted kids & why I have always wanted a little girl. Her parents are two of the best people I have known. They were like the sister and brother I have always wanted and needed growing up.

Suzie, was my true first best friend. She shared her children with me and let me be a part of their lives. 

Kaley and I have always been close and the love I have in my heart for her is beyond any bond that I have shared with anyone. 

Yesterday it hit me how time has just flown by. 

But now I get to look forward to all the great things to come. I get to be friends with Kaley as an adult not just as an auntie. This makes me feel good. 

That I will be important to her like her Mom was and still is to me. 

I love you Kaley Marie V

Then there is Maddy. 

I found out that my favorite Aunt was having her when 

I was in 8th grade at the Kingston Jr High 

in my 3rd period class. 

 My Parents came and got me and 

away we went to the hospital,

 Holding this little girl I just new how much I would always lover her. 

She was so much younger then the rest of us cousins so we were into our own things but I always tried to go above and beyond to try to protect her. 

We became really close a few years ago.

We were at the ocean and I looked over at her, 

it hit me that she wasn't a little girl anymore.

We laughed and told stories and I was a part of her life.

I feel like now as she gets older we get closer.

 I just love the women she has become. 

When Kaley & Maddy were about 6 we all went camping

at Kalaoch together and they became friends played and enjoyed their summer camping trips. Not seeing each other for a few years they went to Jr High together, then they became friends.

Friday Night when they did their graduation walk

the two best friends "My girls" walked together. 

This Auntie couldn't be more proud. 

I love you girls 

Thankful Thursday!

There are so many things that I am thankful for this week.
BUT I will be talking about                
Date nights.

We ALL know life can get pretty crazy. We fall in love, get married and think we are going to live happily ever after.

Then comes the careers, meetings, yard work, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning the house, bills, friends, illness, stress, ( kids for some of you)etc. 

We forget to slow down and count our blessings and focus on the person we decided to spend the rest of our lives with. We forget to continue dating our spouses.

Making our significant other a top priority.

I love and enjoy our date nights....

We do a lot of date nights in at the house!

We are going to do a cuddle and Netflex movie night tonight. 

We are going to join the 

Project 52 date nights.... 

we will keep you up on all of our  dates and ideas....

 

Wordless Wednesday