beauty

May has been a very nice month. We have had such a warm and sunny spring, I am so spoiled. Today is raining, and I am loving it. The wonderful smell coming in my windows is so nice. Don't get me wrong, I do want more sunny days.. I am just glad that I can still appreciate the rainy ones.
Beauty in my life comes in many forms. Here are some of them:
My oldest boy, Jacob has moved into our basement. It is so good to have him back. :-)
My Erik was at the correctional officers academy for 5 weeks, and is now back. YAY! I missed you Erik.
I would put a picture of Tim and Katie here since they make me happy, but alas, they haven't sent me any.
Instead, how about some beauty that God made? Steve and I went to Home depot and bought some flowers for the planter box he built for our mailbox. Here is a gorgeous yellow gerber daisy followed by a red one.


And here is my sweetie making me window boxes. He is a real beauty.

Now this beauty is in the eyes of the beholder... not my David, he is a beauty, but the tattoo? He loves it, I think the colors are beautiful, but it's kinda big.
I finally finished a shawl that I started over a year ago. I love it and it makes me warm at the movies...which takes me to STAR TREK! Oh my goodness, it is such a great movie. Oh, and see what it's hanging on? It's the wonderful planter box Steve made for me. I can't wait till all my gerber daisys are in bloom.
Here's my Emmy girl. Isn't she pretty?These are some pretty flowers that Steve picked me at work. I've been looking at them for over a week. Steve is such a sweet husband.
Can I have a post about beauty without yarn? No, I can't. This is "Oh what a beautiful morning"
And these came today... Rosewood, cherry blossom, and mulberry. Sharon from Three Irish Girls is a genius.

This past week

My beautiful Auke Bay:

My life doesn't ususally change much, that's good and bad. I love the fun surprising good changes, but don't like bad ones. Who does? I've pretty much been spending the month of May sitting in my chair due to some herniated discs in my back. The good thing about that is I haven't been tired! The bad thing is it shows me that Joanna and Steve were right.... if I want my adrenals and thyroid to heal, I have to do nothing. How is that even possible??? I started feeling better over the weekend, so began cooking and picking up again, and had to cook for church this week too. Boy, I got tired and my temperature plumeted. ugh. I want to be the way I used to be, I want a nice clean house and to be able to cook and bake whenever I want. Oh, and my cat thinks she can pee on my carpet or clothes whenever one of the other cats have used the litter box. She won't share. BIG UGH. I have to get rid of her, but who will want a 10yr old cat who doesn't like other cats???? whine whine. Enough already.

Fun topics:
Miriah turned 21! I got to make her a cake and spend a little time with her. She is really great and I love her.

It's been sunny!! Steve and I went to Hot Bite last Wednesday and then walked on the docks. See:


I got more yarn and a wonderful new purse/knitting bag. I'm gonna make a sweater with the dark brown yarn, a shawl, and some various scarves, fingerless mits, and socks with the rest. My new purse is the olive green bit in the right corner. Namaste laguna.


The flowers are blooming at the Calvary house.. ( we are gonna plant some in our yard next weekend)

I finally finished Tim and Chris's baby blanket for Ezra: They liked it too. :-) I want to get a picture of Ezra wrapped in it.

Our appraisal on our house came back way better than we thought, and it will all be refinanced next week. Yay! The siding is up, some of the mess outside is picked up, but we still have more to do. We're gonna paint our front door red, and of course plant some flowers and shrubs. More yay! My kitchen cabinets look great, Steve did a fantastic job on them. I will post a picture of them later. For Mother's Day, Steve and I went downtown to walk around a bit, have some lunch and see the new Wolverine movie. Jacob had a nice frame with 3 of his pictures waiting in my room after church, and David bought me some yarn. Tim and Katie sent me a card and a cookie (yum), and Erik and Miriah bought me a lovely hanging basket. It was such a nice afternoon.