Makin’ Memories for Memorial Day

We had an old fashioned Memorial Day get together this year complete with BBQ, barefoot kids, mosquito bites, and Nascar/Indy Car!  (Not proud of that last category, but it’s my husband’s latest favorite thing on tv next to Game of Thrones and The Hatfields and the McCoys.)  Knowing the bugs and skeeters are gonna be killer this year, we bug bombed the back yard, burned citronella torches and sprayed down the kids.  The kids played croquet, bocce and lawn Twister.

Summer Time Celebration for Sarah!

Miss Sarah has something to smile about!  She turned 18 and graduated with honors from high school all in one week, so her family wanted to celebrate her milestones with family and friends.  We chose bright citrus colors of orange, lime, lemon and fuscia.  I didn’t get many pictures, but I think you get the picture!  Congratulations, Sarah!

“Wild About You” Graduation Reception

Just finished the graduation reception for the class of 2012 at Michael’s school.  I chose the theme “Immaculate Conception is Wild About You” and it was a fun theme the kids and parents enjoyed.  Take a peek at the food, décor and fun!

 

Immaculate Conception Elementary School, Graduation Reception decorations, Wild About You theme, Animal print theme decorations, Fort Smith

Clueless at Fifty!

My sweet, sweet husband pulled off the impossible!  He and my wonderful friends truly surprised me with an early 50th birthday party.  I thought I was going to my girlfriend’s house for a Mom’s “almost the end of the school year” get together…instead, I walked into a beautiful New Orleans themed soiree with plenty of fantastic food, drink, and music including my favorite freshly boiled crawfish and shrimp, purple, green and gold birthday cake, king cake, souvenir cups AND all of the faces I love!  It was a perfect night and so much fun.  They really went all out and I will never, ever forget it!  I should have turned 50 years ago!

 

Eagle Scout Grotto Project Revisited!

Our son is officially in “waiting” with his Eagle Scout project.  His notebook has been turned over to the Eagle Scout reviewing committee and now he waits for weeks or months as committee after committee take a look at the project to approve.  Patrick asked for a few donated bushes to plant on either side of the grotto and to level out the large pile of dirt that was dug to pour the foundation from his mentor, Frank Sharum/Sharum Landscaping.  Frank is a very busy man and Patrick had made many calls to arrange to get the plants and get the ground smoothed out.  He has been waiting for months.  The Church called yesterday afternoon to say that a Sharum’s Landscaping truck was in front of the grotto and some men were “pushing dirt around.”  I told Patrick I would take a look at the site for him in the morning to see what was going on.  All that waiting paid off…Frank Sharum went above and beyond our wildest dreams…

Sharum installed a large rose garden around the grotto with crepe myrtles, liriope, laurels and fountain grass…included the design around the Zachary Taylor chimney as well.  What was once an ugly patch of land with a chimney on it is now a gorgeous garden complete with a beautiful stone grotto, an enormous blooming magnolia tree, and fragrant with roses to please generations to come at Immaculate Conception Church.

A very big THANK YOU to all who helped with this project…Patrick, his family, Scout Troop, Confirmation class, Church officials and members of IC Church, a very talented stone mason, a very talented landscape architect and his crew, generous community businesses and

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the good Lord, Himself!  Praise be!