"this is better than key lime pie any day and double on sunday"

Hello!  Happy Mother's Day!

Just a little recap of the weekend!

Rygh and I started the weekend with a goof meal at Chili's and some DQ ice cream.  On Saturday, Rygh's best friend, Jonathan, and his parents arrived!  They are staying with us for a few days.  They are from Alabama and we have heard lots of "OH MY's", "Praise the LORD for jalapeno buns" and lots of other funny sayings.

I made Chicken Enchiladas, refried beans, and Mexican corn for dinner!  We started off the meal with fresh guacamole that went pretty quick!  The chicken enchiladas recipe came off of Pinterest.  I left out the avocados because I wanted to freeze some and wasn't sure how avocados would freeze once sliced.   We had our first meal out on our screened in porch!  It was a bit chilly but very nice!

Guac......if you put the nut in the guacamole after you make it, it helps it stay green longer!

our screened in porch set for dinner!
.....had to put a candle in a vase to keep it lit!

I got to use my new cool plate... it has interchangeable decor!  Tonight I used a sombrero but I also have a cupcake, hamburger, Easter egg, and many other cute pieces to make a meal special! 

We ended dinner with Baked Smores!  This recipe got rave reviews and was perfect with a glass of milk!
http://www.theaprongal.com/2011/11/baked-smores.html

tasty! 

Today, we had egg casserole and cinnamon and sugar donuts for breakfast.  Rygh's parents were in town for a sheep dog trial so they joined us for a big breakfast!  After breakfast, Rygh's parents left and we headed to Harvey for church.  Jonathan's mom had a hankering for jalapeno buns from Hard 8 so thats were we had our Mother's Day lunch!  This afternoon we spent looking at cows, shooting shotguns, playing football, and just talking.  

Dinner tonight was sloppy joes and chips!

pretty girls.

buster enjoying the sun on the tailgate.

I caught someone sleeping on the swing.  it was such a beautiful day! 

I just wanted to say a special Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms but especially to my mom and my mother in law!  Yall are the best and we love you very much!

Have a great week!  I start work tomorrow!

Lyn

cookies and cards

Hello!

Today, I baked Cowboy Cookies!  Rygh and all of his friends love these cookies!  They contain chocolate chips, coconut, pecans, and oats!  I'm not a huge fan of coconut but I love it in these cookies!  Check out the recipe here!

http://www.christmas-cookies.com/recipes/recipe524.laura-bushs-cowboy-cookies.html

Just beware that this recipe makes a lot of cookies!  It also makes too much to mix all of it in a Kitchen Aid Mixer so get out your muscles!

Another thing I did today....I made an album containing all of the cards we got from our wedding, showers, and the in between!  We had lots of cards!  We are blessed to know so many great people that want to support us! 

First off, I hole punched all of the cards.  Many of the cards are different sizes... I decided to make my cover to have three hole punches.  On the larger cards, I double hole punched them.  On the smaller cards, I just put one hole in each card.  

I used ribbon to hold the cards together.  I threaded each card to fit appropriately.  The bigger cards I threaded through the top two holes.  The smaller cards I threaded through the middle.  The little note cards that come on gift bags, I threaded them through any of the holes, depending on where I needed more volume.  

After, all the cards were threaded, I added a back cover page using scrapbook paper.  I tied the ribbon in a knot.  It's important to tie the knot pretty tight that way the cards won't shift too much.  

Lastly, I gathered up some of the materials we used for the wedding... our save the date, sticker, stamps, well wishes card, and cookie sack.   I used all of the above and made a cover! Here is the finished product!

I like having all the cards, notes, and well wishes in one place!  It's kind of a fun reminder of our engagement period, showers, and wedding! 

Well, Shepperd's Pie is in the oven for dinner and we are having friends over!  Hope everyone has a great night!  We are hoping for a good storm tonight!

Lyn 

a porch!

Hello!

Today it rained a bit in Stephenville!  Praise the Lord!

My parents and their best friends came to visit us today!  I made a blue cheese, apple, candied pecan salad with roasted chicken that was great!  My parents brought us a patio table!  My parents' friends brought us a beautiful reclaimed wood mirror!  Thanks Mary and Abel!

Yesterday, I painted the screened in porch and Rygh finished screening in the porch!  It looks great!  So excited to be able to eat a few meals outside on the porch!  I'm so thankful my husband is so handy!

The table my parents got us! 

Rygh put in a fan so we can sit outside in the summer! 

Beautiful view!

Have a great night!

Lyn

BBQ and shells.... shot gun shells

Hello!

So yesterday, Rygh and I went to Cabela's and bought a few things.  For dinner, we headed to Tim Love's Woodshed Smokehouse.  It was a cool place but in the summer I bet it will be hot!  It is an open air restaurant on the Trinity River by TCU.  Rygh and I started with the whitefish dip which was excellent!  I had the 3 kale salad which I loved!  We shared the woodshed burger which had a hamburger patty, chopped beef, and sliced sausage on it... the best of every world!  Rygh also had ribs!  He said they were great!  I didn't try them because I don't like to eat things off the bone... a little too carni for me!  We finished dinner with the peach cobbler!  so yummy!  We also had perfect seats to watch the Kentucky Derby!

We had a great trip to the "city."  

p.s.  someone teach me how to turn pictures... i can't figure it out!

today, we headed to harvey for church!  church was great and we also went to Sunday school!  we are working on getting connected!  after church, we went to pastafina!  it was great as usual!

this afternoon we shot shotguns and watched the rangers lose :(

have a great Sunday!

Lyn

sliding doors at last...again!

oh my goodness, i just finished writing this blog and deleted it! ahhhh...so one more time!

We finished the sliding doors!  Here is the story!

So last weekend we were in Kerrville.  My mom showed Rygh and I an article about a couple who made sliding doors on a budget.  We thought "Hey, we can do that"  and began working!

We found two doors at a local place here in Stephenville.  One door was yellow and one was white.  I decided to crackle pain them!  First off, I washed the doors.  We set up saw horses and laid the doors horizontally on the horses.  I painted a layer of brown paint and let it dry completely.  Next, I painted a layer of Elmer's Glue All Glue.  I let this dry for about twenty minutes...enough to make it tacky.  I then painted the blue on top.  After patiently waiting for a couple of hours and wondering if it was actually going to crackle.. it did!  I was pretty darn excited!

Yay..the doors are painted!  Now on to the challenging part..hanging doors!  First we screwed two eye bolts into the top of each door.  We bought galvanized pipe, elbows, phalanges, nipples, couplings...odd combination,  right!?  We hung the doors in our room and at first they sagged.... back to the drawing board. Lucky for us, Jeff is an engineer and after rigorous thinking came up with a plan!  It worked!  Here is a picture of the way we hung the doors!

The finished project!!

Special thanks to Jeff, Joe, and Rygh for making this happen!

I am loving the added color to our room!

Today, Rygh and I are going to go to Cabela's this afternoon and then to Tim Love's Woodshed Smokehouse!  I'm pretty excited!

Next week, look forward to pictures of our screened in porch!

Have a great weekend!

Lyn





dogs, dogs, dogs and curtains

Hello!

So I figured I would feature our dogs in this post!  We have two dogs.  Diesel is a 7 year old German Short Haired Pointer.  Buster is a 4 year old rescue dog that I got in college.

Meet Diesel....

Diesel loves the sound of a gun bang, rolling in green grass, and Rygh. 


Meet Buster

Buster loves running free, laying in my lap, and me.

Buster is beginning to love the ranch life....

Buster and I have been going on long walks every morning around seven.  This morning it was a little wet!  Buster likes to run like a banshee and in so got a bit dirty.

So Rygh and I got creative with our curtains for our bedroom. First off, we went exploring for somewhat straight tree limbs.  We found four that we liked.  I spray painted them brown.  We bought hooks to hang the limb on the wall and then we hung the curtain from the limb using brown ribbon.  To finish them off, I sprayed painted 6 antlers blue to use to hold the curtain back.  I'm trying to embrace the rustic look and make it a but modern.   We are adding sliding barn doors to our room and a photo collage.  These will be featured soon!! 

I'm going to document my housewife fails on here as well...

Number 1-  Last night while cooking dinner, I had a few too many appliances in use.  The breaker flipped and Rygh was unable to get the power back to it..... needless to say, the electrician is coming this afternoon and we had to run an extension cord to keep the refrigerator on... whoops

Number 2-  I was pretty much done drying our bed sheets when I went into the bedroom and saw I did not take one of the pillowcases.

woof.

Hope you have a great day!

Lyn

Love is here!

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