~My Grand Daughter, Autumn Marie, And Great Grand Daughter Averie and Great Grandson Bhryce ~

They all our real precious! Averie, Autumn Marie, and Bhryce.

Hope everyone's Easter was a wonderful one spent with family and friends! Dan and I had a real nice Easter dinner outing with Daniel and his girlfriend Stacy. We decided to meet at Dong A's for lunch after church. Everthing tasted sooo good! (as it always does!)

I just got back home from staying with Jamie for a month out in Ca. on Saturday night and didn't have a thing at all planned or made for having an Easter together family dinner on Easter Sunday..so, that's when Dong A's got our vote for a restaurant to eat our Easter meal at! :)

I'm just in a wind down mode of sorts today... as I'm still in my jammies, and it's an hour past lunchtime and  I'm sitting here thinking that I must be having some kind of ~Jet Lag~!! No real git up and go whatsoever... Maybe tomorrow I'll find me some! It's been raining here since I got home, and it just looks totally blah outside, and is just a real good day for me to do some at home relaxing now, don't you agree? My body clock has gone through quite a few different time changes, that's for sure! You figure, I Started out on Oklahoma time, then went on California time, then onto Philipines time,  then back on to California time, and now... I'm back on Oklahoma time. Whew!! My body clock doesn't know whether it's time to be up or if it's time for me to be going to bed! No wonder I don't have any git up and go! I'm sure that I'll be fine and back on track with my body clock gizzmo tomorrow!

Jamie, Michael and Me

Here's a sneak preview of my vacation to the Philipines.. Don't mind the date on the picture, as it's wrong.. This was where we ate all our meals while staying at Boracay Beach... Sooo good!! Jamie and I loved trying out the different kinds of desserts that they had, plus all the different delishious tasting dishes they had set out for everyone there to try!

I'll share more pictures with you at a later time.. as I still have lots to download yet..

Have a wonderful day!

Blessings,
~Lynn

My Blogging Friends & Family, I'm Back Home From My Three Week Vacation In California!

Hello Everyone!
I had a wonderful vacation and time with my two adult kids who live in California! I had three great weeks of being with them and seeing and doing so many neat things together! Gosh, let me see, we went to see the Willie Wonka play in Carmel, Ca., we went to Capitola Beach and ate at a fantastic restaurant near the beach, Beverly and I went to Monterey Beach and ate at Bubba Gump's and shopped all the fantastic shops around there, went to Karaoke at Charles home, which was such a fun time and we also went to Karaoke in San Jose. We went to visit Jamie's High School for the day, which was awesome watching him being a High School Principal in action! Jamie and I also went to visit the Middle School where he was Principal last year and I saw the beautiful Garden Memorial for Larry Newman that Jamie had made in Larry's memory.. We went to the movie to see Eat, Love & Pray, went to visit with my daughter's and my friend Amy, went to Cohn- Stone Studios in Richmond, Ca, to a blown glass factory which was very awesome to see how they make all the beautiful glass wares! Everything was sooo beautiful in their shop!! We also visited Jack London Square, which has his log cabin home on its site, which was brought from Yukon. We also visited an antique bar called Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon that was in the Eathquake and the bar itself is slanted from the after effects of the earthquake and they left the bar in the same condition as it ended up having after the earthquake. It had alot of membrabrila for one to check out.. We went to Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz which was pretty neat to see! I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to walk up to the house that was built there or not.., but I did! Thank goodness for the hand railing for one to hold on to that's for sure! We went to see ~Meatloaf ~who performed at the Silver Legacy Cassino in Oakland.. He did put on a great show! We went to a fantastic BBQ pork rib cookoff in Oakland, which smelled and tasted delish! We went to a few great restaurants too which served fantastic tasting food! Michele and Jamie also had real delishious food that they served at their homes too! Sooo very good!! As you read, I had one fantastic time with Michele and Jamie and all their friends!! "Thank you" so much Jamie and Michele, and each one of your friends for the really fun and wonderful time that you all gave me!! Your Mom enjoyed everything sooo very much!! I will treasure these new memories that we've made forever!!

The flight back home went well.. I left San Jose airport at 11am, then went to LA airport and then went to our airport.. I had one full day.. The plane rides were good, and there was just a little bit of turbulance on the last flight, which wasn't bad really.. I got home around 9:15pm..

I've had a bit of jet lag these past few days... I'm doing much better today! Got to, as today I go to my cardiologist for my appointment at 2:45pm.. I feel great, and hope that he agrees with me on that one! He's probably going to be disappointed in me for gaining a few extra pounds since I last saw him, but, that's okay, I can get myself back on track, as I plan on going to my Weight Watcher meeting starting again tomorrow!

While I was away, my youngest son Daniel and my Hubby got me a 23.6" wide screened monitor, which they said was my birthday present, that was late.. which is soooo very awesome indeed!! I love it!! My other monitor was a 15", so this one really looks huge to me!! I'm so excited and  tickled!! Thank you both so much!!  I can't express enough what a wonderful and loving family I have!! Thank You Dear Lord Jesus for giving them all to me!!

You all take care now, and it's great being back blogging with you all again! I will share pictures with you all real soon!

Blessings,
~Lynn

New Veggie Steamer And...

Hi Everyone!
I've had a really good day! First of all, since it's Tuesday, as most of you probably already know from me mentioning on my blog, that I went to my Weight Watcher meeting this morning, and found out that I had a .2# loss!! Whoo Hoo!! How bout that! I was soo tickled, as I had thought for sure that I'd gain some weight while visiting my daughter Michele for the almost 3 weeks! Hey, all the walking that we did sight seeing, and the eating of delishious steamed veggie's, along with the other delishious food we had to eat along with the steamed veggie's, and our delishious meals when we ate out, and playing Michele's Wii games together was a real good thing in more ways than one!! Thank you Michele for keeping your Mom on track!! Now, I've got to stay on that right track being back home now too!

I loved the taste of Michele's steamed veggie's soo much, that I knew that I just had to have a food steamer here at home to use along with our meals too!!

I hope everyone has had a great Tuesday!

Blessings,
~Lynn

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jog!!

Good Friday Morning!
Well my friends, I made it back home Wednesday from spending almost 3 weeks with my daughter Michele and seeing and spending time with our son, Jamie for a couple of days while he was out in Phoenix! I had a really, really wonderful and fun time!! I got to see and go to so many neat places, and do alot of neat things and also got to try my hand at shooting a handgun at a shooting range there in Phoenix, which I've shared pictures of on my sidebar.. I didn't do too bad for being my first time shooting a gun! My daughter, both sons and husband have all been after me for sometime now to go to a shooting range with them and learn how to shoot a gun. I always shyed my way out of doing so.. Michele finally held my hand the whole way to the shooting range and got me to finally decide to do so, which, I'll never regret doing, that's for sure! I only wish now that I had gone to one sooner, but am glad that I have now and I am looking forward to when I can go again with my family. I think it is very important for everyone to know how to defend themselves, as one just never knows if and when that time might come that they'd have to do so.

My hubby picked me up from the Will Rogers airport on Wednesday and then we went out for supper at our favorite Chinese restaurant and then we came home. Then yesterday, we needed to do a couple of errands and then we had lunch at our favorite Mexican restaurant! It's amazing how one can miss their favorite restaurants they like to cater to a bunch while they are traveling away.. I definately love my favorite Mexican and Chinese restaurants here in OKC!

While being with Michele and with Jamie, we went out several times to really neat places to eat too! Whether we went out to eat or ate snacks at Jamie's motel or ate meals & snacks at Michele's, or ate at restaurants while traveling to different places with Michele, all the food was sooo good no matter where we were at when we ate it!! Michele and I did eat at a wonderful BBQ place there in Phoenix called BobbyQ's. Talk about delish!! This was the first time that I've ever ate BBQ and didn't leave with a real heavy BBQ taste throughout my mouth! I highly recommend this place to everyone!! The atmosphere was real pretty and the waiters and waitresses were very nice too! Thanks for taking me there Shel!! I loved it!!

Now, to get back into the swing of things..which has already been hard for me to do. I did get my two suitcases all unpacked and the items all put away, which is a real good start! I told my Hubby that I must be having jet lag!! Wonder how long that lasts??? He did a real good job at holding the fort down, and keeping it cleaned and neat while I was gone too!! I like that, as then I don't have to jump right into lots of things needing done when I first get home, which means a whole bunch to this lady!

I had a good flight home too! I met a real nice lady named Maggie, who lives in California, and who was flying into OKC and then was going to pick up a rental car and then drive to Kansas (4 hr. drive) to see her Mom. She was going to visit with her Mom till next Monday. She was soo sweet! Maggie was very understanding too, when I had those big 'ol teardrops falling down my cheeks while the airplane was turning and getting ready to leave the Sky Harbor Airport. It was hard for me knowing that I was leaving my daughter behind there, and especially when I'm not sure when we'll get together again!! It had been eight months since I last saw her before this last time here. That's a long time! I'm hoping to make it not quite that long in between times that we see each other the next time we get together if I possibly can! With her being a traveling nurse, she doesn't get any time off to go visit with her family at all really, unless she is working someplace close to them, like she was when I visited both her and Jamie when they both were in California..Jamie was living in Soledad, and Michele was working & staying in Fresno..

I tried downloading my pictures to my computer, but...for some unknown reason it wouldn't work. I will have to check with my son Daniel and see if he can help figure it out for me. Hopefully we'll be able to get together sometime over the weekend here if he doesn't have to work.

You all have a great weekend!! Take care now!

Blessings,
~Lynn