THANKSGIVING- what a wonderful word

Such a wonderful word full of promise and blessings and all of God's gifts to us all and a reminder of them.  This year brings thanks for Pete, my husband who  is full of love for all that I have and his family that loves me back.  Thank you Father for this precious man in my life.  We have been going to the lake quite a bit and I can actually say a few time I've "smoked" Pete at fishing - NOT OFTEN but I do have pictures :))))!!!  We will be spending Thanksgiving in Hurst and setting a new FAMILY tradition here of decorating the Christmas tree as a new family.  I love to have the tree up early and then down right after Christmas.  Then we started adding up all of our NEW FAMILY for Christmas presents.  Did I say I was blessed with all the new family?  I am :)) Pete got the whole HUGE family surprise the most . Gotta love me and all that comes with me!  He just got blessed with about 15 more people that he had ever expected to have. Added to this Rachel and the girls came up a few weeks back for the Nascar race and below are some pics.  Pete's first Nascar races and we had such a great time with Todd and Cherish on Friday and Rach, Christian and Faith on Sunday. Faith's man won the race which made it ultra cool

just random pictures of our NEW LIFE

Pete and I have spent the last several week-ends or if we could sneak off during the week at the Lake.  "Practicing Retiring"  we are REALLY starting to like it alot but it is not quite our turn but when it is we will be ready

Changes for Christian

Was just reading some of my older posts and realized needed to update Christian's status. She returned from the Coast Guard - with That was not the right thing for her and now she is attending Lone Star College to get back into the college groove, which is where she realized she should have been headed. She has reacquainted with a long time friend Amanda and it is a blessing they are together at school

FINALLY BACK !

Ok boys and girls- finally got everything back so I could update my blog. JEZZZ this TIME I wrote down my information so I could get back on without CRS and the password thing.

ANYWAY update from May. This wonderful man in this picture with me has now become my husband as of July 2010. What a wonderful life this has become. I have moved to Hurst Texas to be with my husband and everyone else is still in the Houston area. That part was hard to leave everyone but I DO SO love this man that the decision was not hard and had the full support of my family. I have also become a homemaker full time. Now THAT took some adjustments but I've about got the hang of keeping house, cooking for my man and being loved again. WOW. Pete and I have bought a travel trailer and moved it to the lake up here. WE both love to fish and Pete is "practicing" retiring so we go for a few days at a time "usually" every other week at least. We also just got back from Savannah- a delayed Honeymoon, Savannah is absolutely beautiful and when you see some of the pics, you can just tell we had a great time. Now that I've found where the heck the blog was lost at, THANKS ROBIN!!!! I'll be more faithful. Luv n hugs

Charlee and Pete

AMAZING WEEK-END!!

This week-end was Christian's Happy 18th b-day, her graduation party and going away party all in one. Well It took two solid days of cleaning to even make the place presentable but mission "sort of accomplished". BUT my "man friend" came down to visit for the week-end and wow did that MAKE the week-end special. We never ran out of things to talk about and he was so helpful by cooking and helping to clean up. A man that cooks and cleans - WHOA he has my heart beating and yes he does. It is great to feel first of all and then feel alive and sincerely happy is awesome and honestly beyond what ever I thought I would have again.

Not sure where this is gonna go as he lives far away but wow this moment, at this time is awesome
luv n hugs
charlee

smiling

How strange the last two weeks have been in my life. I've reacquainted with an old "friend" and it is simply like 40 years just had not gone by. There is not a day when I don't have to charge my phone and I'm loving it. Some one who calls and drives with me the hour to work and then some afternoons talks with me the hour coming home. Oh yeah then there are the couple of hours we talk while I'm on the porch. He lives up by Dallas so that is a BIG BUMMER but wow to be wanted and missed is pretty awesome - had pretty much decided that part of my life was over and not going to be repeated and now I am so looking forward to each new day and to this week-end . He is coming down for Christian's grad party and will meet most of my family- well talk about baptism by fire- if they don't scare him off then he is a keeper. I find myself smiling alot these days and that is pretty neat. Well I should get back to work just wanted to share with you, RObin as you are pretty much the only one who reads these besides me. He wants to take me to Savanna,Ga in Sept and I am so seriously thinking of going :)))))

luv n hugs
charlee

Continued New Beginnings

Well its been over a week and my friend and I are still chattering like 40 years never happened. It is unusual for me to have a man to "Chat" with but I like it! I never had to recharge my cell phone because i used up the whole battery in one phone call but now I do and I like that also. Next week he is coming down for Christians' grad party and then I guess we will see if we have sparks and ignition. I'm thinking yeah we will :) and I'm gonna like that as well a whole lot. Rachel and Christian seem to be fine with my guest coming but we will see when he gets to OUR home if they can deal with another man being at our home. My hopes are that they will be accepting, if not WE will be patient. It is so scary good right now, please Lord let it continue.

luv n hugs
charlee