Good Morning World!...
    Hi everyone that I miss and love!   Just had my blood drawn at the hospital to complete the tests of my yearly check and had a good time catching up with several old faces that I knew through my old job at Raleys and TCF's, and my daughter Bonnie Jo--and also one of my nieghbors that was driving out of the parking lot as I was coming in...both of us enjoyed catching up.  Was a good thing to go get my blood drawn for the cholesteral check...which I do hate to get the results each time because it is usually borderline and she tells me it has to improve...THAT WAS 2 1/2 YEARS AGO...so hoping for better results in the right direction..  that is one of my reasons for walking on this 90 day challenge that we are on day 43 now.  LOL  funny how little things fill my life now...and I wonder how I ever really squeezed in working ever, ever, ever....but I do miss alot about the old routine of working...it had it plus's and minus's.....haha  but I know now that I had the right job for me..getting paid to talk to everyone in the checkstand. 
  

     Started cutting out my grandbaby's Quilt/Futon/bed cribsize creation...  It is about time I got to going on this project.  Nicole and Eric have picked out Navy Blue and Grey for little "Jase Douglas"'s colors...and so am trying hard to gather variations of that combination.  Of course he is gonna get a few from me..but this is the main one that needs attention right now.   So very exciting to even phamptom the thought of a grandchild coming into our mists for the very first time ever!!! I am still kinda in shock and feel it might be happening to someone else...not us. 

here is another one I plan to create also..

I have been making cloth coasters also and they are lots of fun and easy to do...need to make more of them!  here they are:

Almost have Lisa Elie's memory quilt done... Have to throw it on the longarm machine soon and get that project done...she is patiently waiting..and I have been not pushing as hard as I should be on that.  It is turning out so great..and I am really proud of it...

     My Daughter bought a new sewing machine at a garage sale this past week and it is such a great machine..we worked on it together to fine tune it and oil it up for her...she was so happy finding it..it is exactly like my old singer that I have had for years and years (bought it at a garage sale also) and she has been using it for the past few years..so now I have it back again and it will be my traveling machine for trips.  I just love my daughter so very much...and I am so very thankful that she is living nearby us now.  She and Mike are having a good life in Big Springs now and I have not ever seen her so happy in many many years.  God is So good to us...and we are all so very thankful to Him for being there for our family!

    Mack bought a electric bird feeder..haha...it shocks squirrels that try to steel birdseed...And it has a remote he can zip them with.. He thinks this is the best thing since biscuits and gravy!..LOL I feel for those poor squirrels...

     Babysitting at church has been such a fun event each and every week.  We meet til the end of May and then the summer off... The kiddos are so sweet and we have too much fun!..

This is one of Mack's banjo Students..she was playing in Chapel at her School last Friday and we attended and got the joy of seeing her do so well in the program.  It was such a blessing!

 

This is a quilt that I had half done 16 years ago..actually it was gonna be a jacket for Wendy and I totally lost focus and energy with it...and decided to pick it up and maybe do something better with a UFO project...it will be Wendy's when it is done no matter what! I like it!

 

This is a pattern I really like below...a future project!

 

These were the little kiddos at that Chapel program we saw also...they are so precious!

 

I have been making these star decorations and spray painting them gold flecks for decorations on packages...sure is fun and easy!

 

 

This is Dutchess,...my grand doggie!  I love her so very much!

 

This is my favorite mountian of all times...Drop Rock..or Indian Head mountian...looks like a Indian with a head dress laying down...I use to take the kids on a hike up there each years when we lived out there so they could see the valley below --called little shasta valley..or as the Indians called it long ago "Valley of 1000 hills"  it was a tough hike for TJ..she was only 3 or 4 when we started doing that hike..  it was in our neighborhood and we could do it in just a few hours! They all remember it well!

 

Our organized library Story time!haha!

 

This is my favorite flower "Shooting star" that is blooming right now this time of year in our yard.  not many of them but they are very fragile and yet so very hardy.  kinda like weeds but pretty ones.

This morning when we were walking at the bottom of the hill ....we came across a little sparrow that had been half hit/stunned  by a passing car and was sitting there on the road not able to fly away.. I saw him and scooped him up and put him on the side of the road in the grass under the fence so he might regain strength and fly away home again...but we continued walking and when we passed back that spot he was gone.. made my heart happy that he survived the hit with just a few minutes recovery to regain his life.  I hate seeing any birds or animals or people get hurt!   It was my good feeling for the rest of my week! 

 

This could be me in 3 weeks helping a friend of mine move...LOL...Pray it all goes smoothly!

 

 

Gotta get my day started..much to do...and don't want too much time to escape me!..

Hugs & Prayers,  BJM

 

I want to make these for mothers day!

 

The True Easter Story with Ray Vander Laan

Butterflies : What Is the Name of a Yellow Butterfly?

Good Morning World!...
  Great Day to you this Saturday weekend...Today is Day 25 in my 90 Day personal challenge to either walk/run 3 miles or do 45 minutes strength training each day... I have been only missing  maybe 1 or 2 days each week...and feel so much better since I started this...and Sharon Hohberg, my neighbor, sister in the Lord, and great friend has come along with me on this Journey.  I am starting to enjoy the run/walking more than expected because I am not a runner...I love walking but only because it took me alot of years to quit complaining about how much I didn't like it.  God is good and he changed my heart and  with Sharon's persistence of needing a walking buddy..it has worked and taken ahold of my life in a great fashion.  ::)))

  The month has gone fast again since my last entry and will try to remember stuff that has gone on to fill you in on our life. 

• First of all...we are in the last Tri-mester of the new baby coming to join our family...Little "Jace Douglas Longhofer" is alittle over a pound now and is developing nicely from what Mom and Dad say...they are really good about filling in on pictures and notes so we feel like we are there too..So  much Love coming from this event!  

 

 

• Easter Dinner and Celebration last Sunday was so very special to me. I played a April fools joke on Mack and told him I had invited the whole neighborhood over for Easter Dinner as he was getting ready for work that day and he believed it...hook, line, and sinker...It was so funny, I have not laughed that hard in ages...  then I told him I invited Teresa Jo and Mike for Ham Dinner Sunday...he was ok with that!  Amen...I was so relieved to be able to enjoy their company for the afternoon/evening Easter Day.  I still am feeling happy about it.  Thank You Teresa Jo & Mike for being our guest and thank you Mack for agreeing with my heart on this.  Made me feel so free and fullfilled!  AMEN!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The cake looked great but wasn't that great tasting...I did try to make it look nice at least.  I colored 7 dozen eggs this year all by myself too...and donated 6 dozen to Greneda Egg Hunt, put on by Greneda Community Berean Church..my church.. At least I was able to help alittle. 
  

Made this card for my niece...turned out really cute!

This is my niece! so very pretty she is

These are 2 of her children..Piers and Jessica -10

Piers reminds me so much of Eric...and he is a Runner!

cute table settiing

 

• Story time at the Library on Thursdays has been going really well!  We usually read 2 or 3 easy story books and the sing a song or make up a song about the story and then a old friend of mine brings her grandchildren each week and prepares a fun craft for all of the kids to enjoy!  it really has been very rewarding for everyone! Was really special to start playing the guitar again! it has been so many years since I have incorporated my music into practicallity.  :))   

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
 
• Have been helping a dear friend--Debbie Lapham-- find a new home as she has to leave her home of 30 years which is being sold..  We are back and forth to town once a week or so and have been considering all the options...It is tramatic for her and she is all by herself.  I hope to just be able to come along side her to help her work through this tough tunnel of changes in her life.  She will get there...with alittle help.

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

 

• So guess that is about it...been really busy..occassionally babysitting for Mack's boss..little Arianna...yesterday...she is sweet...enjoyed the whole day!  

  

Arianna will be 2 in July

saw this sunrise about a week ago on our street while walking ... it was stunning!






Molly baby..she hides out in our closet during the day...and sleeps on her little bed while I sew! so sweet she is!



a beautiful Easter Sunrise out our kitchen window!



Sharon...keeping me to be persistent in getting in better physical fittness!  Guess you could say she is my own private personal trainer! 



A gift Kristen gave her mom this Easter Good Friday..after 4 years of silence!  God is Good!



A Manzanita wreath I made for our front of the house!



for not knowing what I was doing..it turned out pretty nice!



here we are not looking too bad!



another glimpse of our road one morning!



A man that came in to Hospice one day and I loved his shirt! need to get one for Mack! I volunteer each thursday morning before the Library in the afternoon.  Fun!
So that leads me to this Viedo about Butterflys...Our topic this next week for Storytime is Butterflys...Will be focusing on that Wednesday before and trying to think of a visual display for the kids...
What do you think?