The Art of my Three Year Old's Hearts

This picture was a request from my daughters to their friend, asking if they could come over to play.

Amber drew it.  Jane labeled it for her.

We can Turn to Him

"Jesus was a being of flesh and spirit, but He yielded not to temptation.  We can turn to Him because He understands.  He understands the struggle, and He also understands how to win the struggle."

"As we endeavor day by day and week by week to follow the path of Christ, our spirit asserts its preeminence, the battle within subsides, and temptations cease to trouble."

D. Todd Christofferson

Captured Guinea Hens

 

They would run through our yard.

 

A flock of 20

 

One day four of them branched off and stayed here.

 

We ate one.

 

They are tough.

 

The other three joined our flock of roosters.

 

They would fly into the back trees each time we went outside.

 

Slept back there.

 

Always returning after breakfast was served, and would chase away the Roosters to get a share.

 

We had to borrow traps to get them penned.

 

Flighty and nervous birds.

 

What will we do with them now?

 

 

Rooster in the Wind

He blazes

autumn year round.

A sunset fox on hilltop

A red coonhound.

aspens in the fall

and tiger's taunting call.


An Aztec golden god.


His stance would warns us all.

Tread softly in his pastures

He respects not your enthrall.

Frozen Cactus

My songbirds are hiding. 

No words immerge.


The symbols of warmness

Have frozen my nerves. 




If you touched this plant- would the ice protect you from the prickle? 


Photo by:  Mt Home TX by Fran Lane on Texas Hill Country Facebook Page  Feb 23 2015

 

 

A Little Ice

We woke up today to the sound of my phone alerting me that there was no school due to ice. 

This is a Texas icicle. 

These beasties are huge enough to shut down the schools here in Marble Falls. 

Oh- The Terror of it!  Will we survive??

Here is a photo (above) that my friend posted on facebook- to show the ice and the reason why she doesn't have to drive her school bus today.   No those are not drops of water- those are icicles!  Real and even Frozen!

Of course I grew up in Wyoming.....

These are about 3 feet long, most likely as thick as bar stool legs and hanging off a two story home and are a normal sight all winter.

School was NOT cancelled on the day I took this picture.

Let's compare, just for fun:

Cancel School!!!!                                                                                                                                So What???

With Friends

A bit of sweet
A simple treat
Fun to share
and fun to eat.








We went to visit friends and brought some Pink Lemonade Cupcakes.  My 5 year old decided to draw a picture of one of them.  It is my artwork today.

However I must say- the best part of the cupcake was the frosting:  1 package of cream cheese, half a package of Kool-Aid Pink Lemonade, 1 TBSP cream, and about 3 cups of powered sugar.  After I mixed it together, I put it in a baggie and squeezed it onto the cupcakes. 

The cupcakes themselves came from a box mix- Pink Lemonade cake mix- made with milk instead of water, butter instead of oil, and 3 whole eggs.  The milk and butter make the box mix taste a bit more homemade.   

The girls put on the sprinkles. 

The actual cupcake.  Nothing spectacular- but still fun.