Time flies by

Wow, its been a busy few months, and time has flown!  Halloween brought us a new addition - my new grandson Sawyer Reagan. He came 5 weeks early and stayed in the NICU for 3 weeks, but he is doing great and enjoyed his first Christmas.

He started out like this....

Now he looks like this at 2 months...

And this is what he does when you don't hold him...he is a very cute and cuddly baby!

Christopher turned 8 in January, hard to believe he is that old!

Olivia came and spent a day with me at work, and had her dance recital in December...she is beginning to look like a little ballerina!

They also went to Big Brother-Big Sister class to prepare for Baby Sawyer's coming...Olivia wore her getup all over the hospital..but Big C was too cool for that...

Christmas was a sick time, I was sick and missed the whole thing, my youngest had to go to the emergency room and had a kidney stone, UTI and pneumonia, and the older one had to have surgery to help her incision from the C-Section heal...

Maybe we are all over that now and can look forward to a great new year..after all, it has started off with a bang...at the Cotton Bowl!

Later...

SG

 

Another snow day....

Well, we are having another snow day here in Arkansas.  This time it is from 10 to 24 inches.  I have never seen that much snow at one time. I'm just so over snow!



This is the pot on my porch, and it's under the porch roof!



This snow is so deep, its up to the bottom of the seat of my garden bench and it's still snowing. 

This is my lawn chair and the lawnmower on my patio...

And the trees...

These people were trying to get up the street, and it took them about an hour to go 2 blocks!

To see other neat outdoor shots, visit Susan at Southern Daydreamer

Enjoy!

SG

Fall, Thanksgiving and Outdoor Wednesday

The trees are almost bare now.  Last Saturday the grandkids came over and we played in the leaves.  They also filled a leaf bag and my 30 gallonyard waste can full of leaves.  Then they collected a dollar each and played in the rest of them.

The Big C buried his sister




When I told them I was going to have

to cut this little oak tree down,

they decided to try to take it down

 with their bare hands!

For more outdoor wonders visit Susan at Southern Daydreamer!

http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/2010/11/1110-outdoor-wednesday-96.html

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all.  The day after Thanksgiving, Alex's grandson Nathan graduates from boot camp over at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.  Congratulations to him!


If you are traveling this weekend, be careful and safe, and take a moment to count your blessings, number one being an American!


SG

Outdoor Wednesday - Fall trees

It's a strange fall this year.  Sunday we took a drive and the trees were just not in sync!  We have been having cool nights and warm, sunny days, which are supposed to be ideal for the trees.

So I took some pictures of the maple trees in my front yard which are doing pretty good this year with the colors.  Hope you enjoy them!

I haven't posted in Outdoor Wednesday in a while.  Join Susan at Southern Daydreamer for more outdoor shots.

http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/2010/11/1110-outdoor-wednesday-96.html

See you later!

SG

Wednesday

I don't have a picture today for Outdoor Wednesday, although my daffodils are blooming!  I did add some more pictures of some tags I made for a couple of friends. 

I'm now making tags for Easter and Mother's Day for my friends.  This is a creative outlet I am really enjoying.  I am going to try to make sure my friends all get one so they know they are special to me. 
Go under my "TAGS" page at the top of this blog to see the new ones.  For some reason I am too challenged to get posts on these, so I just update them.  If anyone has a suggestion, I am certainly open to them.

I am off next week for vacation and I hope to get out in the yard to do some work.  I"ll take pictures!

SG

Today's recipe

Here is my favorite recipe for Shrimp - a Low-country boil.  I don't have pictures yet, just the instructions. 

Louisiana Shrimp Boil  (Low Country Boil)

Fresh Shrimp with the shells on and the heads off, washed.
About ½ to 1 lb per person (depending on how much they like shrimp!)
2 lemons
2 white onions
Small red potatoes ( about 4 to 5 per person, depending on the size)
Corn on the cob
(break the ears in half and cook a couple for each person)
One package Crab Boil
( this is a small bag of mixed spices you can buy in the grocery)
Hot sauce or liquid Crab Boil ( if you like it spicy)
Optional - 1 lb. Smoked sausage sliced ( I like the cajun spice variety).


Use a big pot for this, and preferably out of doors. Fill about ⅔ full of water, slice up the onions and lemons and add to the water, along with the bag of Crab Boil. Bring the water to a boil, add the potatoes, cook a few minutes, then add the corn, let this boil about 5 minutes. Add the sausage( if you want to use this in it ) when you add the corn. Add the shrimp and let this boil until the shrimp turn pink and are floating. Use a big strainer and dip the whole thing out on a big platter or a pad of fresh newspaper and paper towels on a picnic table. You have to allow for some water drainage, so pad this with the paper. If you want it hotter, add the hot sauce or liquid Crab Boil to the water. You might want to cook one batch, then take it out and throw in another batch with the hot sauce. Be sure to leave the bag of spices and as much of the lemon and onion in as you can for the second batch. Serve this with hot french bread and a salad.