Ashley just sent me this via picture text, and I had to share it. It's her latest project for art class. I'm so glad she decided to pursue a degree in the arts (interior design). Her work just gets better and better.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Ashley's Latest
Ashley just sent me this via picture text, and I had to share it. It's her latest project for art class. I'm so glad she decided to pursue a degree in the arts (interior design). Her work just gets better and better.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Spring Camporee Cochiti
Dustin went on his first overnight campout with the Boy Scouts this weekend! He had a great time. When he came home Sunday, he couldn't wait to tell us about all the fun he had, from making pancakes without water (they used orange Kool-Aid) to lighting a fire using a stick and a rope. Now he can't wait for summer camp!
Mom looks a little apprehensive at the sendoff, doesn't she?
Dustin and a few of his friends!
Cooking Breakfast
You can see Dustin just isn't having any fun, right?
Friday, April 2, 2010
Happy Easter!
Sunday it will be Easter! Although spring is not my favorite time of year in Albuquerque (too much wind, and dust that gets in your eyes and your teeth if you have to venture outside), I have such wonderful memories of this season growing up in NY. We always spent Easter in Lockport, my mom's hometown. Mass was always at St. Pat's, and dinner either at Aunt Clara's or Aunt Frannie's. I'm sure we had a great meal with ham and all the trimmings, but what I remember is Aunt Clara's jello salad with carrots and maybe pineapple that I loved. Being a finicky eater, it was probably the only thing I ate!
I remember one Easter back in the days when Lent ended at noon on Holy Saturday, and my cousin Keeta and I went "downstreet" (meaning to town) and stopped at every candy store we passed in anticipation of ending our chocolate fast. When we got back to her house, we piled it all on the floor and waited until the stroke of noon and then dived in! Wow! Was that ever a feast!
I also remember one cold Easter morning as we walked to St. Pat's for Easter Mass, stopping on the way to pick up my cousin Marion and her kids (I think she had four at the time), and they were all dressed alike in outfits Marion had made. So cute, but it was SO COLD.
My last memory of Easter in Lockport was shortly before I was married. Jay and I were staying at Aunt Frannie's. She tells me it was a wild weekend as she had several guests, including Father Simons, I think, but I don't remember that part at all! I do remember we were celebrating and she gave us some champagne and told us not to tell my mom! I think I still have the bulletin from that Mass stuck in one of my old missals.
How I wish I could be in Lockport for Easter this year!
I remember one Easter back in the days when Lent ended at noon on Holy Saturday, and my cousin Keeta and I went "downstreet" (meaning to town) and stopped at every candy store we passed in anticipation of ending our chocolate fast. When we got back to her house, we piled it all on the floor and waited until the stroke of noon and then dived in! Wow! Was that ever a feast!
I also remember one cold Easter morning as we walked to St. Pat's for Easter Mass, stopping on the way to pick up my cousin Marion and her kids (I think she had four at the time), and they were all dressed alike in outfits Marion had made. So cute, but it was SO COLD.
My last memory of Easter in Lockport was shortly before I was married. Jay and I were staying at Aunt Frannie's. She tells me it was a wild weekend as she had several guests, including Father Simons, I think, but I don't remember that part at all! I do remember we were celebrating and she gave us some champagne and told us not to tell my mom! I think I still have the bulletin from that Mass stuck in one of my old missals.
How I wish I could be in Lockport for Easter this year!
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