Friday Foto Friends with Lily Grace

Good Morning Friends!  It's Friday!!  Mommie says some people say: TGIF! Which means 

"Thank Goodness it's Friday!"

And it is also Friday Foto Friends day, so Mommie said I could share some of her favorite photos from the week.

How about this beautiful sunset?  

Mommie said that God paints the most beautiful pictures in the sky for us to enjoy!  Sometimes they are in the morning at sunrise, and sometimes they are in the evening at sunset.

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Psalm 113:3-5

"From the rising of the sun to its going down

The Lord’s name is to be praised.

The Lord is high above all nations,

His glory above the heavens.

Who is like the Lord our God,

Who dwells on high..."

I love to watch the sunsets with Mommie from our back yard beside Still Waters Pond.

Mommie said it's kind of like watching the fireworks on the 4th of July...they just keep getting better and better and you don't want to leave until it's over.  I've never seen fireworks yet, but I hope to do so. However, Mommie said God's "fireworks in the sky" are much better than man's man-made fireworks.

Look what we saw land in our yard the other day! This small butterfly sat there for a while so we could take its picture.  It never opened its wings all the way so we could see the pretty design on her open wings, but Mommie thinks it might be an "American Painted Lady" butterfly.

I hope we can see her again. I'd like to see her pretty painted wings!!!

Oh, here's a picture of ME! This was on St. Patrick's Day, and we were having breakfast. Mommie made some delicious Apple Bran Muffins, which are just like her Blueberry Bran Muffins except she puts little diced pieces of apple in them instead of the Blueberries. And we had scrambled eggs with spinach and sausage and cheese in them!  Mommie said the spinach was green for St. Patrick's Day!  They sure were yummy!  

Oh, and looky at this pretty purple flower we saw when taking our walk. Mommie said it is called a "Lady Lupine", which is growing in the woods and blooming right now. It is related to the "Texas Bluebonnet", but there are not so many of them here like there are in Texas.  She said that's because people from Texas will tell you that "everything is bigger in Texas".  Ha Ha.

While we were walking we checked on our wild plum trees to see how the baby plums are growing. You can see where I am pointing to some in this picture. Mommie said she doesn't think there are as many of them this year as there were last year, even though these trees had so many blossoms.  Maybe they don't produce as much fruit every year. I don't know. We will have to wait and see what develops!

Yesterday was my brother Scotty's birthday.  He likes to create things from copper wire and other stuff.  I think I already showed you one of these motorcycles before, but he added another one this past week to his "collection".  He does this all by hand with no tools.  I think they are pretty cool, don't you?

Speaking of Scott, when he got home from work yesterday we celebrated his birthday with just Mommie, Daddy, and me. (I).  Big brother Benton and Auntie Rose were out of town, so we are going to celebrate with them on Saturday.  Mommie bought some good ribeye steaks at the store, and Scott is cooking them on the grill.

Even though it is his birthday, he gets to grill the steaks because he is the best steak griller ever. He used to work in restaurants and was always the best grill cook, so he has lots of experience!

Our steaks were perfect!! Scotty's being funny putting bunny ears over my head when Mommie took this picture.  Some people never grow up no matter how old they get! Ha ha.

Speaking of how old they get...this is a "traditional picture" that has to be taken at every birthday party, Mommie said.  We must have a picture of the birthday person blowing out their candles. Scott's lucky we only put these two candles on the cake for him to blow out instead of 44 candles! Of course, if we'd done that, the cake would have caught on fire! Ha Ha!!!

Did you notice that Scott is wearing his "I'm Mom's Favorite" t-shirt again?  Mommie said he could get away with it because his brother wasn't here, and I forgot to wear mine that says that too. But since he's the birthday boy, he can be the favorite!  

Scott was being goofy with his gifts, which were kind of goofy too.  Those were towels for washing his car, but he pretended he was a unicorn. I think he's silly.

This gift was a wire brush for the grill, because he always does the grilling here.  He was pretending he was using it as a back-scratcher, which would have hurt, I think.  It was a very sharp wire brush...

Here's he's pretending he's brushing his teeth with it!! He's crazy. Oh, the Ritz crackers were also a gift, because he eats them like crazy with peanut butter on them. 

Here he's in his best gift...a "Director's Chair" for sitting outside, with a space for a drink and a place to put his cell phone or a snack. Mommie and Daddy had a funny story to tell about this chair. They went to Walmart to buy it, and they checked out at the self-checkout place, and then they forgot to put the chair back in the buggy when they went outside to the car.  They drove all the way home, which is about 15 miles, and when they got home and looked in the back of the car they both looked at each other and said, "Where's the chair????"  And so Mommie had to call the store and after about five minutes of waiting to speak with a real person, she told them what had happened and asked if the chair was still there where they left it.  The sales person checked and said yes, and she would hold it for them.

So they got back in the car and drove 15 miles back to the store, and Mommie had to find the lady and where she had put the chair, and had to show her the receipt, and then she could take the chair and bring it back home!!   Mommie said that chair just got a lot more expensive with all the gas they spent bringing it home! LOL.  Our friend Linda over at https://thatsmesimplylinda.blogspot.com/ would appreciate this story.

Well, that's all my pictures for this week!  I hope you enjoyed them.  We had a lot of fun taking these pictures.  Now we can't wait to go see what pictures you are sharing!  And also, we can't wait to go take some MORE pictures. But Mommie's going to go get a "permanent" in her hair this morning. She said she is tired of having to control the cowlicks in her hair every day, and they won't stay down and behave, so she is just going to get curls all over them so they have to behave. I don't understand how a cow could lick her hair...we don't even have any cows here in our house, but every day she complains about those cow-licks in her hair!!! I've looked and looked for the cows, but I can't find any here...do you think Mommie is imagining things?  She said she will let you see the new hair-do when it looks good enough to take a picture!  

Okay, that's all folks!

Love, 

Lily Grace