Last night and the night before we worked on our pathway I am wanting to build. First step was clearing out the grass and digging down in the ground a couple inches! Believe it or not we actually got it all done in two nights! Well.....that is Sam got it done in two nights! HE did all the hard digging work. :) Superman he is for sure!

Well, the yard is coming! :) I am gonna make it absolutly amazingly beautiful! :) Maybe I should do landscaping as a business too! LOL I can't wait to get it all changing the way I visualize it. It just takes a LOT of work and a lot of hours and it is so humid hot in Texas too!!!

I still have a few things I want to do with the flower bed here but this is a HUGE start don't ya think! :D What is so funny is we put up a bird feeder in the yard a few days ago and we hadn't had any birds on it yet! Then after I finished this and went in I was fixing supper and glanced out the kitchen window and counted 13 little birds all over the ground and bird feeder! Even a Cardinal of all things was there too! :) I was jocking with Sam that it is all because I made it a more attractive place! :D

I am having fun on Lowes.com getting ideas and planning my next moves! Tomorrow we are spending the day working together, Sam and I, which is gonna be a big soul lifter up for me!

OH! This is my little friend ummm.......Larry the Lizard! :D Well, I rescued him so it was like he came back to thank me! He was trying to get away from me of course when I started moving his playground of dead logs and sticks. He got stuck in between two logs and it was quite funny actually. His back legs and tail was the only thing sticking out and wiggling back and forth 100 mph! Grin. I moved the log and.,.......he was GONE! Then a little but later I spotted him on the concrete ledge right by me as if watching my every move and thanking me for not squishing him! :D

Okay, well I am quite sure you guys REALLY do not care about all this! lol I was just proud of myself and quite excited to be making the backyard a tasteful reminder of country beauty. It shall me my getaway place when I am all done with it! :D

Last Saturday was not only Sam's birthday but his brother Guy and Scarlett's wedding! It was a crazy busy weekend with all his family from all over coming in. A big family reunion you know! :)
Rehearsal Dinner Decor....




Rehearsal At The Chapel...



The other big thing was it was Grandpa James Shepherd's 90th birthday and his big surprise was his new fiance Mary! (That is her third person from the left in the pink sweater next to Grandpa!!!!!)

Yes, Grandpa James is getting married again July 12th as a matter of fact! I wish I had gotten a picture of them together because It was so cute to watch them together. I do have to say she is very sweet. *laughing* No one can believe all these Shepherd marriages that are all happening at once! :)



One bug highlight of the birthday party was Uncle Roger got the helium balloon and was letting people put on a show for G-pa! Of course G-pa went first! We got quite the laughs with that! :D

"Innocent" little JoJo was NOT supposed to be in the cake! :)

My family came down for the day and brought my dear friend Julie too and of course I bawled like a big baby when they arrived and left! Hey, they cried too! :P *laugh* It was so nice to see them again and I cannot wait until Mothers Day weekend now when we go up to Oklahoma!


Last Thursday I had Sam and little party ready for when he got home from work! :) That proved to be a lot of fun! The bad storm and siren warnings made it even more exciting! :) Thankfully we didn't get hit bad. The hail we got wasn't much to talk about. Just heavy rain and bad thunder! Lots of fun! I love storms like that! :)

Sam wanted pizza for his b-day dinner so I went creative with it! :D

He got his own little b-day cake for his lunch at work. :D

He was a little bit......surprised. :)

A few pictures of our house. I'm put pics up of the main parts of the house anyway! What I have together so far! :) The spare bedroom will NOT be shown! *laugh* Actually I have my creative memories set up in the spare room right now so hopefully noone wants to come stay the night because the bed kinda is out of use right now! *grin*