Car

I love my new car. Well, not new new, but new to me! It's a 2010 Kia Rondo. Even though it looks like a SUV, it's actually considered a station wagon. It's perfect for toting KD around, which is really the reason why I was looking for a certain kind of car. Dad worked his magic and negotiated to where it was doable! And then mom, dad, my father-in-law and myself drove to Puyallup to pick it up. It was definitely a family affair.

Tulips

My tulips have bloomed!

I got this lovely bouquet a couple of weeks ago and took some pictures. I love the apple green color of the mums.

new prints

I bought some prints from the Emily Jones blog and already have them in frames. I just love her blog! I also bought her valentine cards.

baking

I did some baking today with a friend of mine. We did cream cheese cupcakes.  They have a graham cracker crust on the bottom and you put a sliced strawberry on the top just before eating.

This was my attempt at making chocolate covered strawberries.  Not as easy as it looks.

Trying to keep it all in perspective.  Most of you might ask me to embellish but I will just keep it at that and may have another post on this later on down the road.

missed

I thought about grandma this evening as I took my walk.  I miss her still to this day.  I thought about how I lost all of my grandparents by the time I was 30.  Then I read my friend Krista's post on her grandmother and it made me cry and think about grandma and grandpa Panther.  All the memories, all the time spent together as a family, how big I thought our family was when we all got together.  I just miss them. I miss grandma. I miss grandpa. I miss their laughter.  They are loved and missed terribly.