Weekend #16 - Johnny's Family Reunion

Friday, April 18th

I do some grocery shopping (twice), make brownies, and pack up the car for the weekend. Then we head out to my mom's to await the arrival of Johnny's son, wife, and 3 kids from New Orleans. They have a one year old and 3 year old twins. We spend the night there.

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Three car seats!

Saturday, April 19th

We all head out bright and early for Milano for Johnny's family's reunion. There's still some wild flowers in bloom, so the ride was nice. We had a good time visiting with everyone.

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We did some......

Eatin'Fishin' Ridin' - A happy grandpa!
More ridin' - Johnny loves that tractor!Boatin'
Reflectin'
Marshmellowin'
Full Moonin'
Sunday, April 20th

Clean up and pack up to come back home. We stopped by Johnny's cousins house on the way out so the kids could see the cows, but they were in another pasture so we visited with his horses, Joe and Blaze.

Feeding Joe

An Erin sighting - very rare on my camera!
Driving down the road, Johnny spotted some people he knew going by in this mule drawn carriage, so we stopped to chat with them. That thing has a bathroom inside and a bbq pit that hangs off the back that they can fire up as they go down the road when they do trail rides. Then when they stop they can pull down the sides and sleep in it. Now, that's the way to do a trail ride!

Monday, April 14th - Tuesday, April 15th
I went with my mom and Johnny to Milano, Tx. Johnny and his sister have 50 acres there that had belonged to their parents. This weekend we will be having a family reunion there with Johnny's family, so we went to fix up, clean up, and get ready. Over time, Johnny and I have been working on replacing the flooring in his trailor, so we did a few more sections. He claims he can't cut a straight line, so I do most of the cutting. This is fun for me, because I do so much enjoy using power tools! Plus, it's good father/daughter bonding time! Since it's been a while since anyone has been up there, we had a lot of cleaning to do! Between the cleaning and washing my hands a million times, my hands got so dry I thought they might bleed. Booo! I have since, lotioned them up and they are doing much better now. Yay! And here's a fun little story.......Monday evening I was walking from the kitchen to the living room in the trailer and I see something move across the floor. Now my first thought is very large roach and it's no secret that I have a very large fear of roaches. But it took only a moment to realize that this was no roach. It was a mouse! Eeeek! This is were I start yelling "Mouse! Mouse!" and mom and Johnny come running. I would have loved to have gotten a photo of the little fella, but that would have required me to come down from the furniture my mother and I were standing on top of. After running around a bit, it climbed up inside of a chair. We stood there watching the chair to see what was going to happen, then all of a sudden, it popped up from between the cushion and was sitting on top the seat, which we had to admit was pretty funny. Then it went back inside the chair and would not come out. Soooo, what do you do when you can't get a mouse out of your chair? Well, you roll that chair right out the front door, that's what you do! And now there's one less chair in the trailer.
Here's one of the sections of floor that we pulled up. I forgot to get an "after" photo.

Just sitting on the dock of the pond, wasting time....
Enjoying the reflections on the pond
Gradient of blue from the reflection of the sky

Which way is up? - I posted this picture sideways because if you tilt your head either direction the picture is nearly the same!

Babies, babies everywhere!

Friday, April 4th
Lisa and I finished getting everything together for Becky's baby shower and went over to Becky's mom's house to set up. And....well....when there's a dog around, I tend to get distracted....and played around with the pup using our cowgirl shower decor. That look of quiet despiration...

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Saturday, April 5th - Becky's shower!

Today we hosted Becky's Baby shower at her mom's house. Lisa and I picked up the cake and went to finish setting up. Everything was coming along quite nicely until we realized that I forgot the punch bowl and had to go back home to get it. Oops! I missed the first few minutes of the party, but we had punch!

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cake topper

Becky, her mom (R), and her mother-in-law (L)
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Thursday, April 10th

This week I have been getting my house straightened up for Lisa's shower on Saturday. Today I finished up the cleaning and framed a drawing I did for Lisa.

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Friday, April 11th

Becky, her mom, sisters, and Kelsey came over to my house with a bunch of cupcakes for the party and we put icing on them. There were a lot of cupcakes! Then we finished setting everything up. We're ready to go!

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Saturday, April 12th - Lisa's Shower!

Becky, Kelsey, and I hosted Lisa's baby shower at my house this afternoon.
The cake Kelsey made! Lisa

Ok, so you've heard of the movie "Three Men and a Baby", well I call this picture "Three pregos and an Erin" hehehe Later this evening while B was still at his brother's house (where he was hiding out while the women filled our house) I met Micah, Lisa, Glenn, Becky, Chris, and Kelsey at the park for a dinner picnic.

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Sunday, April 13th

After church, we met my mom and Johnny for lunch. Then my mom and I went the the Woodlands Art Festival. It is one of the four yearly Woodlands events that I really look forward to. The others being Mutt Strutt and the 2 big Woodlands garage sales in the Spring and Fall. I've missed the past 2 garage sales because the one last month was when we were at the Round Top Antique Show and the one this past Fall happened to fall on the same day as Mutt Strutt.

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Doin' some whittlin'

The brightly colored streamers on this tent caught my eye
Here's a closer look

9999

So, after we got back from Round Top, we sat down to look at the pictures I had taken. When I opened up the file I was confused because the pictures from the second day were before most of the pictures from the first day. "Huh? That's strange!", I said. Then I realized what had happened. My camera keeps a running number every time I take a picture and once it reaches 9999, it starts over at 0001. So, I've had this camera for 15 months and I've taken over ten thousand pictures! Ummm.....I guess that's a lot....ummm....I think....I kinda like to take pictures.....

Now I'm on 0450.

I have to say that I often will take several pics of one thing using different modes and keep the one I like best and delete the rest, so I don't actually have nearly as many pictures as I have taken.

Weekend in Round Top, Tx

Friday, March 28th

B's grandma, and his aunts Mindy and Becky flew in from St. Louis.

Saturday, March 29th

Me, B, his grandma, and his aunts drove to Round Top for their huge antique show. It was fun! And a bit overwhelming because there's so much to see. It would take all week to see most of it. Talk about sensory overload! So many cool things to take pictures of. Here's a few from day 1.

And the Best Sign Award goes to........."Dead People's Stuff"!

And the Creepy Award goes to.......Table Full of Old Doll Heads!

We spotted this place while driving. It was really cute!

We spent the night at a Bed and Breakfast with a beautiful field of bluebonnets in front of it.

Shhhh....Don't tell Harley that another dog got in our family pic. The B & B owner's dog jumped in.
Sunday, March 30th
We headed out for some more shopping.

When we were driving home I had B pull over cause I spotted a bridge I wanted to take a picture of. And we also got in a group photo. We put the camera on the hood of the car and took one with me in it as well, but I like this one better.


I like the reflection of the bridge in the water.