Today, Momma would have turned 67! Wow, it's so hard to think that she left this earth at such a young age, and while she still had so many babies to love on! As we were all a bit sad today, I know that she was up in Heaven having the BEST birthday ever!!! Lil E said to me, "Mommy I hear the very loud drums from Heaven, they are at Mamaw's birthday party!" How sweet of her!!! I am sure there was lots of music going on!



I miss her terribly! Everything about her! Her beautiful blue eyes! The most beautiful soul and heart of anyone I have ever known! And all the fun!! She was lots of fun!! I miss playing cards with her! We would sit up late at night, while visiting each other, playing cards! It was so much fun!!! I am so much like her! I am pretty much just like her in the attitude department and so many other areas. I just hope and pray that I can be half the Mom she was and half the wife she was, and I will be doing something right!

Day 5 is a picture of somewhere you've been

These first group of pictures are from last spring.

If you ever are in that part of Texas, you really should stop and take a visit! It's beautiful! And these picture do it NO justice!

Today it's not my favorite topic.....

Today is Day 3. Yeah! It's a peaceful Saturday Morning here! I didn't have many pictures available to use today for this, the ones I had were pics with my cell phone of some pictures. So I am very sorry that it's not a good picture!

day 3 ~ picture of you from childhood

It's day 2 of my 30 Days of Blogging. If you want you may Check out Lovers in a Dangerous Time, for the list of other bloggers doing the 30 days of Blogging.


day 2- the meaning behind your blog name




For me this is very easy!! Blessings Beyond was the name I came up with, because I was truly blessed beyond what I could have ever imagined!!! Even in the hard times, I was covered by God's love and he poured the blessings down on me, my family, our life! So there wasn't anything hard about the name, it was just simply as it says.



So no matter what, I am thankful for God's blessings! He always pours them out and he never leaves or forsakes us!


Numbers 6:24-26
"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace."


Hugs and Blessings,

As I sat here this morning with some peacefulness, I thought I would check in on a few blogs. As I haven't been keeping up, near as much as I'd like to. So I hit my blogger reader and planned to just go down the list. I came across Just Me ~ Bobbie Jo's blog today, and that lead me to Lovers in a Dangerous Time, the host of 30 days of blogging. So I decided to join up!

Last night out of the blue, Lil E decided she wanted bangs again. We had decided that we were going to try and let her hair grow back out long, but without bangs. Then she decided she wanted bangs, so I took it upon myself to cut them agian!

WOW!!!! What an awesome give away!

For the giveaway, there are 2 wonderful prizes you will win!!!

The cookbook, and a coupon organizer! Isn't it just darling? I think so!

Hugs and Blessings,

And We have a winner! Congratulations to Jennifer ~ Comment number 2!!!! Hope you enjoy it! You have won the $30 gift certificate from CSN Stores!!!!!

Saturday night was our first date night in a very long time. By mid way into dinner, something hit me and it had me really hard. I wanted to just go buy some meds and head home. Sunday came, and I ended up in the ER. After some meds via iv, and fluids, lots of tests and x rays, it was that I had the flu and bronchitis. I was miserable! I tried my best to stay away from the girls, as I didn't want them to get this. Daddy did all he could to be the one to take care of the girls.

Tuesday morning, we awake and Lil E is crying with her legs and neck. By mid day, L K is sick and crying too. New in town, we head to urgent care! Both girls test positive for the flu! They were so so sick and it broke my heart! I know how bad I felt, so I didn't want them to feel this way.

It started on Feb 6 with several inches of snow, and then just a couple of days later it was more! Lots more! Another 8 inches, and drifts over 3 feet deep! The 2nd round of the artic storms, brought us much more snow than the first one!

Here's a few pictures of the snow and some fun! (very lil fun out though). And would you believe it, now our well is broke, so week 2 of no water! We had to bring in jugs of water! No running water! At least we did have electric, so we had heat.

The girls had a great time climbing the "Snow Mountain", as they called it. It was too cold to be out there for more than just a few though. Terrible cold!

Doesn't she look like a skier? I think so!

Round two of the Artic Storms wasn't as nice to us! We ended up with tons of snow, over the ice, and some really crummy weather. Then guess what took place around here, all 3 of us girls have the FLU! It's horrible bad! I will be around to give updates soon. Miss everyone and I hope yall are doing well.

Even though this major storm did cripple lots of the Nation, we were blessed! Thanks to the dry air, it dried out the moisture as it came through! We did get a few inches of dry snow, but that was it! And the HIGH winds keep blowing it away! Dry snow and high winds, living out in the open, left us with little snow to play in when the time comes to go out and play. So it's been super frigid cold, and little snow!!! We have seen highs in the single digits and the lows in the negative, not even counting the wind chill! Winds from 25 to 40 mph, with gusts more! It was nasty! The wind was actually scary!

The above picture was taken yesterday evening, looking out our front door!!!

Below is a picture of the girls yesterday! Once the wind let up, I bundled them up in layers and layers, to give them a brief 5 minutes out in the snow to play! It broke my heart, as it's never been this cold for us when we were getting snow, and so they are use to going out and playing and having a blast! And since Sunday they had not been outside, as the storm starting coming in Monday night.

Here's a couple pictures of the snow that didn't get blown away!!!