Wordless Wednesday

My friend said that all "bloggers" put a picture up on their blogs on Wednesday for "Wordless Wednesdays". I guess since I'm blogging regularily now (for the past few days anyways) and I want to be in the cool bloggers club, I'm going to post my wordless Wednesday pic! The concept is that the picture speaks louder than words so here's my pic of the day...

Stepping up to the plate

Last night I was at girls night with some of my friends watching Biggest Loser and eating bon bons. Okay, we weren't actually eating bon bons but we do normally have dessert while we watch these people work their butts off. Originally girls night started with Carla and I going to the gym and working out while we watched the people work out. For the second hour we would go to her house and eat dinner. That was almost 3 years ago! Now we go to Austie's house and only work out by moving from the living room to the kitchen during the half way update to get ice cream!

Last night as we were leaving the house all talking about getting married, Austie made the statement "ladies, we just need to step up to the plate" in which I responded "I'm playing in the dirt at the plate and I seem to be in a field all myself!!!" Now soccer is definitely my favorite sport and you can play it all by yourself but you definitely can't play baseball with yourself. Doesn't quite work like that!

So here I am, waiting at the plate of life to see who will come and make my baseball career a success : )

Two guesses what Naiyah is doing right now...

You probably don't need two guesses. She's curled up in a little ball, snoring and fast asleep. A funny thing I've noticed about Naiyah is that she really likes to rest her head on a pillow like a human being. She also prefers sleeping on or with a blanket. It's a current reality that I spend more time with Naiyah than any other living creature since I work from home and then she sleeps in my room. Someday I hope that changes : )

My biggest highlight is that this weekend I learned how to Rug Hook. This now makes me a "hooker". I'm really enjoying it because I love blending the colors and making a linen cloth with an outlined drawing come to life! I am currently working on a pillow with bees, sunflowers and a beehive! I'll figure out how to post it on here when I'm done! My second biggest highlight is that the daffodiles in my yard are in full bloom and look absolutely beautiful! I love the yellow with white. I think my wedding might be in those colors. It's be great if we could have daffodiles too but not sure how long they're in bloom and the timing would need to be just right in meeting my husband.

Off to continue working...

Feeding the bees

Recently someone asked a close friend of mine if I was an "old soul". They had heard that I was a knitter and thought that was an odd thing for a 26 year old! My friend replied "definitely not". At first I was satisfied with her answer because anything describing me with the word "old" in front of it doesn't sound very attractive but recently I've had to re-examine myself to decide if I really am an old soul for the following reason...I feed the bees. Basically, since I was a kid, we ALWAYS fed the birds. It was something my parents took great pleasure in doing and often times while we were sitting at the kitchen table and a beautiful bird flew into our feeder, we would all stop talking or eating to enjoy the bird. Through that I got to know the names of most common birds. In buying my house in Texas, one of the "must haves" was to have trees in my yard. Little did I know that I would end up with over 1.5 acres of trees and several birds. Last year I put up a finch feeder, hummingbird feeder and small bird feeder. I don't think word got out to the birds about the free food last year but they definitely made it headline news this year because the birds are eating like crazy! They are eating between half to 3/4 tube of food per day! I knew it wasn't hummingbird season yet but simply to keep them ready, I decided to fill the hummingbird feeders too. I noticed after a year days that the liquid was definitely going down but I knew it wasn't the hummingbirds. Yesterday I went out the feeder and noticed about 20 bees on the feeder having a hay day! The best part is that since the liquid is red, their stomachs actually glow red! So now I'm not only someone who feeds the birds but I also feed the bees.

So maybe there's a part of me that is an "old soul" but don't tell my future husband until after we're married! Don't want him to think I'm old : )

Naiyah's Birthday

This morning was Naiyah's 2nd birthday. I woke up before her and put treats from the bedroom door leading to a big, juicy, ham bone. She didn't quite know what to make of all the treats but she soon figured out she should eat them quickly before the cat got to them. For the remainder of the day, her plans are to sleep, have dog training and then sleep some more. She' quite gifted in the area of sleeping in several different positions and locations throughout the day.

Today also happens to be my dad's 66th birthday. I was going to wait to call him at midnight his time so I could be the first kid to call him on his birthday but I was getting sleepy and since he is old (and getting older), I knew he wouldn't stay up until midnight so I called at 11 and we made a deal to "pretend" it was midnight. I love him so much and I wish with all my heart that I could be up there celebrating with him. All the family is going to my sister's tonight for dinner and I'm sure dad's highlight will be holding Keira!

Tonight I'm going to the Wednesday Night Service at Green Acres. They are working through the book of Revelation and it's facinating to learn so much in depth about the churches of the New Testament. It's additionally interesting to me how human's haven't changed much in our 6,000 years on earth. We are still guilty of the same sins they are guilty of.

I'm still not confident that I'll be an avid blogger but this does finish post for day #2.

Well as you can see, the blogging world wasn't something I was ready to commit to yet and thus, it has been over a year since I posted my initial post! At this point, I'm not making any commitments to posting on here regularily but it has been on my heart more to write about the interesting things that happen in my life.

For the past few weeks I've been looked forward to the daffodiles in my yard to bloom and this week, the first one bloomed. Due to the large amount of rain we had yesterday, I found the flower face down on the ground today so I cut it and put in a vase beside my computer. I've only taken about 30 pictures of it in my office because it's so beautiful! It make life so much more pleasant! Fairly soon the daffodile farm should be opening up and I'm so excited to go and see the fields of them!

Besides the flowers blooming, Spring is definitely in the air. The birds in my yard are eating through about half a tub of seeds every day! For such little bodies, those birds eat a TON! The squirrels are doing their share to help and I'm thinking about putting grease on the pole for my own amusement of watching the squirrel try to climb it and continually slide down.

Naiyah is in dog training and today she was watching the birds when she should have been paying attention. Such a funny dog. Tomorrow is her 2nd birthday and I'm thinking about hiding treats around the house for her to find in the morning. We'll see if I have the energy to do it when I get up!

Now back to work...

Beth - I got this blog so I could post comments on yours. I think you're the only person who knows I have it : )