This is one of my favorite spots along that drive between my parents' house and my house. It's also outside Meridian, TX, which a town that claims to be the top of the hill country. This is one dramatic hill to come around
And here's a smattering of bluebonnets at this same stop. I love this time of year!
Whenever I was traveling back and forth between college and "home," this was the first sign I was getting close. Mom and Dad live in Granbury. This sign is just outside Meridian, TX.
I count this as green because of the signs, they're green, but the scenery is also very green this time of year. The flowers were just gorgeous! In my part of the world, the bluebonnets are fading, but just this some 100 miles north, they were still looking good. 
B had games on Monday and Friday this week. This is from the Friday game. Lots of green again, for the week of green.
The left column is a sequence of pictures for B's second hit she made in the game---and the run she got. Yea, B!
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Here's what I had in my wallet today---most of this is from girls who paid me for their shirts at girl Scouts. I love this green dish towel, too. I got a set of three from Pier1 , and I love them. I was going to only add the link to the page with the towel, in case you love them, too, but the picture was so nice there, here it is! ;-) 
This is a sort of Eye Spy picture 
For this color week, I am starting out with a Tabblo. I went all around town with my camera today finding green things that are living. There are so many green things in the spring, I found too many! Enjoy my Week of Green! ... See my Tabblo>
Another shot from Tabitha Class---we made friendship bracelets tonight and they had a party for ME! I can't believe how many celebrations I had this year! One of the ladies brought everyone their favorite candy bars to eat. (She conveniently asked everyone last week what they liked.) This little bracelet came out patriotic. :-)
B helped wash both our vehicles today. She is getting sprayed by her daddy while she stands in the bed of his truck. She really requested that she be the picture of the day while washing the truck, but I liked this one best.
I got a package from my sister, which included this angel figurine. Yea!! It's called "Bless This Kitchen" and it's by Jim Shore again. I only have the two of these, but I love them. :-) She also sent me some books from that book list I had on my other blog. Now I have some possible books for my book club. Thanks for the present, Rach!
The after game huddle---they won! 6 to 2. That's Larry standing on the right, and B was right there with him. Go Firecrackers!
This is another train picture. I had to sit and wait today before I got to the kids' schools. But I made good use of my time---I got out my camera again. It seemed like this long train had lots of automobiles in the train cars. I always wonder if they're making them in, say, Michigan, and shipping them down to Houston. 
I was surprised today by my class of kids! They brought me presents, cupcakes, cards---it was all very sweet! These are my presents. I had to stage a picture---I didn't take pictures at school because my camera was at home. Quite a lot of fun things in there!
This is where I ate my real birthday dinner---Freebird's. It's a very cool burrito-made-to-order place. No, the image is not reversed, their logo has the backwards F. If you look close, the bricks spell "GiG 'EM" which is the Texas A&M version of "go team." The foil creations are traditional as well. My kids have left foil creations in three different locations. 
I snapped this one picture today---out the windshield again! We were leaving the restaurant where I chose to have my birthday eve lunch. This was the "big eating out" dinner. :-) We ate "queso live!" and I had fajitas. Delicioso! Those are my husband's hands.
This is our B, hitting in her 2nd game. It was COLD! This will be my view for many Mondays (and several Thursdays and one Friday) until the middle of June. Daddy is pitching!
I finished the knitting part of my scarf! I am planning on a little bit of fringe on the ends to make it ready to wear---but I have until this fall, right?
I had to post three pictures today to kind of show the process for what we were doing. J took this picture of me and B in the kitchen. After the shirts sat for 24 hours (about), we rinsed them and rinsed them in the sink.
Then we untied them and rinsed them some more in the sink, until they were running almost clear water. Some ran clear-er than others----remember these were 7, 8, and 9 year old girls adding dye, so some were carried away with their dye! This shirt happens to be B's own shirt she did, inside out.
And the last steps happened in the washer. I washed two loads of shirts (about 25 total). I washed them with some Dawn diswashing liquid all the way through a cycle. I then ran it back and did the rinse cycle 3 times for each load. See how blue the water still is? I think this is in the final rinse cycle.
This was my big day---I helped the Girl Scouts tie-dye their shirts. It was a crazy, hectic process, but they had a lot of fun.
It is impossible to take a good picture of an egg hunt. Our tradition is to hunt eggs in the morning before church----the Easter Bunny hides them for us! so the kids just got up and hunted for eggs frantically, trying to get more than the other. There were plenty of eggs to find this year!
J (in the red) is in his drama skit at LTC in this pic. We don't know what kind of score he made, but it was very good. I was proud of the way he spoke up and made his lines nice and clear. The boys were buying a bird feeder, and the squirrels were "Unstoppable." 
The night before I ate at Taco Bell all by myself. I was waiting for J to get done with his Troupe activities. We always laugh at the sayings on the hot sauce packets.
We were able to go shopping for new shoes for J since I got my paycheck today! Yea! He is tearing up his old tennisshoes in this picture. He got size 8 and a half this time. Maybe He will get taller than Larry!
I took this one of one of the church girls who had knitted up all the yarn she had during the last week. She is such a crafty girl----she has that creative gene! :-)
Our school district had an ArtFest today. We knew that B had artwork in the show, and were surprised to find out that J had something also. His art teacher said when she pulled his bowl out of the kiln, she said, "This has to go in the show." B's two pieces are flanking her---a Storyteller Doll (the one with all the yellow and blue and red), and her other one is to her left with a yellow mat.
