Babies--The Wonder of it All !!!

     My beautiful grandson at about 6 months.  He is now almost 19 months old, and will soon be welcoming home a baby sister in a few weeks. What joy! Here he is wearing an outfit that his dad wore when he was a baby 22 years ago. I carefully saved and stored some of my boys baby clothes hoping that their children could wear them. So I love this picture. I'll have to find and scan in a picture of my son when he wore this outfit. 

The Best Kind of Influence-My Mother!

I was in Wal Mart the other day picking up a few items when I saw these flowers. An image immediately came to mind of my mother. She used to wear a lipstick about this same shade. It looked wonderful on her. So as I stood there in the store going down memory lane it brought a smile to my face and my heart. Impulsively I had to purchase them. That's the best kind of advertisement, a happy memory.... :)

What happy memories do you have of your mother?

Oh! What A Beautiful Morning!!!

I stepped out my front door the other evening about 11:30 and a wonderful fragrance floated by. The scent of our lilac bushes. I stood still for a moment, breathed deep and took it all in.

I have a notebook I keep on questions for my Heavenly Father. One of these questions has been.

Q: Couldn't you have made the lilacs bloom for more than a few weeks?

Answer ??? I haven't received one.
But on pondering my question, I see it as one more lesson God teaches us. " Stop and smell the roses or lilacs" and to appreciate and show gratitude for what's right before our eyes--for soon it will be gone.

These pictures are not very clear, but it looks as if they have their lunch in their beaks. Compliments of our backyard:-)

Our pretty Iris bulbs we received from my sister Penny she planted them for us a few years ago. I love the color! Don't you?

Our new update to our yard. A kind neighbor who works in concrete is going to pour us and him a concrete driving area, here...,(see picture below) which connects our property lines. Now it will be a much nicer surface to get to the backyard through the gate with equipment and garden soil etc.

And now to close with this gentle song and evening picture taken from my bathroom window.
(Excuse the screen)

Now the Day is Over
Now the day is over; Night is drawing nigh;
Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky.

Jesus, give the weary Calm and sweet repose;
With thy tend'rest blessing May our eyelids close.
Text: Sabine Baring-Gould, 1834-1924
Music: Joseph Barnby, 1838-1896

Goodnight~

There Is Beauty All Around

A lovely tree in bloom in my front yard.


Mt. Timpanogos
The Legend of The Sleeping Princess Silver Moon
http://www.timpfest.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=6&Itemid=17
(Sorry! I could not make it a direct link-it would not work, so it will be "cut and paste")

I Love this majestic and inspiring mountain that I look at everyday right outside my window. I love it most with blue sky and snow still atop its peaks.

Here is a picture of the first full moon on April 9th (after the Vernal Equinox), which then determines that Easter will be the first Sunday after this moon. I love its misty appearance.
While I was taking the picture the song "I Only Have Eyes For You" came into my mind.

http://www.jango.com/music/art+garfunkel?l=o

My love must be a kind of blind love
I can't see anyone but you

Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
I only have eyes for you, dear

The moon may be high
But I can't see a thing in the sky
Cause I only have eyes for you

I don't know if we're in a garden
Or on a crowded avenue
You are here, so am I

Maybe millions of people go by
But they all disappear from view
And I only have eyes for you

Until next post:-)