Wednesday, December 17, 2014

First annual Hunter's Ugly Sweater Christmas Party!

Had a good party last weekend. These two planned an Ugly Sweater party for Christmas!
 LeAnn and Meghan
 Brothers, Rick and Ron

 The party room, aka the garage.
 Photo wall!
 Rob and Meghan greeter, and LeAnn
 Who me?
 Meghan trying to surprise new arrivals
 Daddy Rick in his light up sweater!
 Cousin Sheri and her grandson Rory
 Lots of hugs involved
 Meg to Rory
 The cousins! Ron, Rob, Sheri, Rick,
Marques! 
 The back!

 Alan and DeeDee
 Meghan and Marques
Marques' family, Him Mayan, DeeDee (Mom) and NeeKee

 Add in Meghan! The kids are getting married next August!!!
 Meghan, Ashley S. and Ashley N. , Rob
 Posing in front of the wall! I made everyone pose in front of the wall.


Randy! he had a great sweater! LOL
 Randy, Bella, and Erin
 The back of Randy's sweater
 Rick and Randy
 Rick and Cousin John and wife Tina
 LOL the back of Marques sweater when he sat in the barber chair!

 Shane and Bobbi are photo bombed by the Hunter boys!
 Bobbi and Shane
Winners of the Ugly Sweater contest!  Rick for Ugly 3rd, DeeDee for Uglier, 2nd, and Marques won the whole thing with the Ugliest Sweater of the night! Voted on by all the participants! Honorable mention was Ashley S. with her Merry Fu#$%$# Christmas sweater!! LOL


DeeDee thought it appropriate that her prize matched the snowman on her sweater!! LOL
 John and Tina, they made it! After a detour because they thought the party was at my folks house! But they made it and that's what counts!!
All had a great time! Meghan has started planning for next year already!!

Sunday, November 23, 2014

I am still around

I am still around, still checking up and reading blogs. I am still getting used to this back to work thing 15 months later. I did catch this pretty little guy in the back yard.

Isnt he a cutey!! Would like one similar to him in the freezer! LOL


We are enjoying the antics of our neighborhood squirrels.

I did another bazaar this year, at our local High School. This is one of my finds that I painted.
 Turned out pretty cute.


We are now gearing up, as our youngest will be getting married next August! This is her and her fiance'.
Emma is doing better, time time time. Winter has hit us early this year, we usually dont get snow and ice until late January and February, but November has been unusually cold. I guess November has been terrible in most of the country though.

Whats your horse thinking?

Very interesting article.

About/from Temple Grandin. Whats your horse thinking?



http://horseandrider.com/article/whats-your-horse-thinking-13295


Some insights into how horses see, think and feel.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Double 50th Anniversary party

My Dad and Mom, Cliff and Nancy, they were 18 years old when they got married in 1964.


Butch and Josette, they also were only 18 when they got married in 1964.


The two couples met while the men were in the Army, stationed in Anchorage, Alaska. Unbeknownst to the guys, they both visited the same jeweler when they were at basic training in Missouri. Mom and Josette have the same wedding set.

They would meet later that year and realize that they had the same rings!!!

Setting up the cake table.
 We made posters with photos from through the years.
 I made the cake toppers. Finding things in gold this time of year, when Christmas is just being put out by retailers is kinda hard! LOL I found some gold tinsel.
 The beautiful flowers that Gregs (Butch and Josettes son) had his cousin Mel make.
 The other cake topper.
 Hard to see, but we had two sets of wine glasses etched with their names, 50 years and the year they were married. I made wine glass charms for the glasses. The couples had a neat idea and traded one glass, so they both had one of each others! I thought that was pretty neat.
 The topper on the cakes. Ricks and my daughter, Meghan made the cakes and she did a beautiful job! so wonderful!!! And a lot of work!!! They had a layer of buttercream on the bottom and a layer of oreo filling on the top! Triple layer cake! It is so good tasting too!!

 Hubby, Rick and Greg, having a "Treager"" talk. They cooked pulled pork for three days! and were doing chicken here. There was no lack of food! We provided the meat and pop and water and had a potluck for the rest.



Cutting the cake.


Old friends, it was so fun listening to their stories about there time in Alaska! Dad told his version about how Josette was so mad at him after he stuck an icicle in her door and locked her in all day. When they finally let her out later that day she chased him around with a broom for a 1/2 hour!  Josette says they came over to their little apartment and Dad crashed on her couch, there were only 4 seats in the whole apartment and he was taking up three! She said she chased him out the door, sans shoes! with the broom and when he tried to get back in, beat his foot with the broom!! LOL Either way it was pretty funny!! Dad bought a broom and had me paint on the handle "Josette's Ass Whipper" LOL She loved that!! He gave it to her when he told his story! 
 My Dad and his oldest friend, Doug.

 Couples dance with Mom and Dad.
Gregs wife, Harmony, put together a poster with photos from the couples time in Alaska.
 Mom and Josette.
 Meghan, my cousins, John and Steve, and Hubby.



 Two old friends, Bob and Glen. Bobs wife Judy worked for Mom and Dad in their floor covering store for a long time. Glen and his family, lived next door to us when I was growing up.
 Live music, Dads friend Barbra and her boyfriend Tom. Barbra plays a keyboard and does all kinds of music. Also had Two other singer guitar player musicians that are absolutely awesome!!! Dad coordinated all that, because he has all the contacts!
 My little second cousin Mary. She is such a cutie.
 More friends, Sharleen and Ron.
 The music was wonderful, everyone seemed to have a great time and we got lots of complements!! I think it was a success!!
Happy 50th Mom and Dad!!! This is just a small portion of all that went on that night!