My Weekend....

We had a wonderful weekend. We drove up to here~





On Saturday morning with My daughter Jennifer and her husband. We met up with the rest of my family to celebrate mine and my Mother's birthday's.

When we first got there we walked from our motel down to the lake and took some pictures~


Jennifer and Chris~





Roger and Me~





Roger, Me, Jennifer and Chris~





Then we headed downtown to check out all the shops, we passed these two places along the way~


Harrah's Casino~




Harvey's Casino~



This is the main street Lake Tahoe Blvd.~





There was this real neat looking wooden post with bears on it so I had Roger take my picture with it~





This is what the entire thing looked like~





After walking around for a while we went back to our rooms and got ready to go meet our family at the Lakeside Inn Timber Resaurant for dinner, the food was really good and so was the service. very reasonably priced.





Everyone at dinner~




We did a little gambling but not much as Roger and I really don't like it much. When we got in the van to go back to the motel for the night it was 28' very chilly out but our Motel room was nice and cozy warm. We drove home today stopping at Apple Hill to pick up some really good Apple goodies.

Everyone had a really fun time and enjoyed being together and for my family that is a feat of it's own :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful start to their week and enjoys looking well to the ways of your households....

Blessings,Joann

Happy Birthday to my Father :)

My father passed away one Sunday morning in March of 2007 sitting on the couch watching the birds outside like he did every morning. I thank God that he passed away so quickly and peacefully but today November 7th is the day I miss him the most. This song sang by Jason Crabb (one of my favorite singers) just really touches my heart. I love the line "But with our family and friends we'll be together once again, we're going to view all of Heaven's splendor hand in hand."

I sure miss you Dad but Heaven is sweeter with you there!!


This was the best video of the song I could find but the first 40 seconds have nothing to do with the song so give it a few seconds.

Enjoy the song







Blessings,Joann

Not a happy Army Mom right now....

I am not the happiest Mom right now ~

My son Matthew (I call him Mattie) called and said he finally got the info for his next duty station. He is at Ft. Knox going to school until the 18th of December then will be going back to Ft. Knox on the 3rd of January, he will be there for an additional 3 weeks of training and then go to the next duty station......and guess where he is going.....Ft. Hood, Texas, he was originally thought to be going to Ft. Carson Colorado, but I guess it changed. I just sat down and cried about this. I know that probably no matter where he would have gone he would eventually be sent overseas to Iraq but Ft. Hood not only is now know for what happened there yesterday but has always been known as the base with the most casualties of the war and the most deployments. This just breaks my heart. Mattie on the other hand is a very proud soldier and really has no problem with being deployed so I am trying very hard to stay strong for him but it is so hard for a Mom to do. He is training to be a Bradley fighting vehicle mechanic and is doing very well so far. I can't wait for him to come home 42 days to go, yes I am counting down.

Please keep him in your prayers, I would certainly appreciate it.



Blessings,Joann

Please keep the families at Ft. Hood in your prayers

I got a call today from my son at Ft. Knox telling me about the shootings at Ft. Hood. I didn't have the tv on today so didn't know what was going on. My heart goes out to all those families, the first thing I thought was that there were 12 mother's out there getting the horrible news of their child being killed and then the other 31 getting the news that their child was shot. I just can not even imagine how they must be feeling. Please lift all of these families up in prayer today.

I was so happy to hear my son's voice, I know he is on a different base but they were on high security just in case. I so wish I could just hug him today but I can't, 43 days until he comes home for Christmas :)

Blessings,Joann

What a wonderful day I had!!

Monday night I had planned out my entire day for Tuesday (My Birthday) I planned on doing NO HOUSEWORK, GO NOWHERE, and basically sit and either read or embroider. Of course I had the daily things that always need to be done but nothing more....

When we got up on Tuesday morning Roger gave me my Birthday card~Yes at 5:30AM~ and inside was a gift card for Joann's fabric store (My absolute favorite store). Funny thing is though is this is the same wonderful man who always seems to be complaining that I have WAAAAAAY to much crafting/sewing things already :) He said he got me the card because he knew it would make me happy. So now my idea of staying home all day went right on out the window. NO way was I going to let a Joann's gift card stay unused for long :)

After showering my Mom and sister called and wished me a happy birthday, okay I am ready to head out the door when the doorbell rings. It is my daughter Jennifer and granddaughter Katie. The first thing Katie said was "Happy birthday Grandma YOU got CAkE!!!" it was so cute. So we visited for a while and then decided to go out for some lunch before they had to head back home. It was such a wonderful suprise for them to come by (they live about an hour and a half from here). They also left me an 8x10 of Katie's 3 year old picture..she is just so cute in it, her smile is so pretty~



Then I found out that all of my books that I had on request at the library were in ALL of them, that is very unusual so I stopped off at the library and picked them up, lots of reading planned as you can tell~






After all of that I finally got to Joann's I found all kinds of fabrics that I just couldn't live without~

Fabric for my craft room window~ The picture isn't that good of it, the color isn't quite what it looks like in person~




This is the window~



New Fabrics~



Christmas Fabric~



Everything I bought~




When I had just got home from shopping my cell phone rang and it was Mattie calling to wish me a happy birthday oh it was so good to hear his voice.


Roger got home and we decided to go out to dinner, to Chili's my favorite restaurant! But before we left we noticed a box sitting by out gate, it was the spray that I had ordered from Joanns.com It is supposed to be a great product for applique and for me I can use all the help I can get :) So that was another good thing on my birthday!





At Chili's I ordered the Monterey CHicken and it was so yummy! I even had a Strawberry Daquiri with whipped creme! And for dessert Roger and I shared one of there Chocolate Molten cakes, oh it was so good and such a perfect ending to a perfectly wonderful day.

Now it's back to just regular old days for another year!!!


Blessings,Joann

So Now what do I do????

Okay wonderful friends of mine. I have been inundated with e-mails to be invited to view my blog, I am trying to keep up with everyone's request but am failing miserably. I am so sorry to have seemed like I was making everyone jump through hoops to see my blog and now I am thinking of re-opening it to everyone. I just don't know if I can get all the request done and it only allows 100 people. So I am praying about it and would certainly appreciate your prayers as well. I know this is not some big important deal but as you can tell I am up at 2:30AM trying to get to all the e-mails and my head is about to explode. It is still private right now but it may be changing in the next few days. Just wanted to give a heads up for what is going on. I truly appreciate each and everyone of you who have either commented or e-mailed and your friendship means so much to me. I had made another blog just so I could import all of my blog posts into one area (the underhiswings one) that one I will be deleting as I have now moved everything to this blog. I wanted so much to keep my Titus2 blog as it really means a lot to me to be a keeper of our home. So for now this is the blog I will be posting to. I do have a post I need to get up about my wonderful Birthday and all my great suprises, pictures of course too...just give me some time.
Thanks again to you all....

Blessings,Joann

Important news

As by now you are aware that I have listed this as a private blog. Cannot seem to shake some people whom I don't want reading to visit. Please visit me at my new blog which I also sent you an invite to don't know for sure wich one I will continue with and wich one I will delete. I did move all of my posts to the new blog. Hope to see you there.

Thanks for your friendship
Blessings,Joann