Weekend Coffee Share; August ~ Fun Month!

On By DianaIn Living life, weekend coffee share
Welcome to my coffee share! I just love this bearded Iris and wanted to feature it again.

How can it be August 28th? The weeks have just flown by and it has been a busy but fun summer. As I am writing this it is really overcast outside which I am a bit surprised but if the marine layer is thick enough to head inland where we are at it will stick around for at least half the day. That will be today, much cooler and cloudy, a nice reprieve from the hot summer days. I have to say that we have been lucky this summer, so far it has not breeched 100F (38C) and we have had summers where we have hit 115F (46C) that was years ago, now that’s stinking HOT! I think we will be okay this year and just have the usual 90’s most days. We do not have humidity here, I like to call it a dry heat even though we sweat like crazy working outside with the horses. It cools off very nicely every evening, I can’t complain.

I started out this month of August heading to my family in Arizona. It was my granddaughter’s 7th birthday. It was so much fun to be there to celebrate with the family. I can’t believe she is 7 years old and she is heading into first grade. She has since started school and her dad told me she LOVES first grade, that just makes me smile. 😀 My grand daughter is so smart, funny and quite the character. She’s a wonderful older sister and with her baby brother 2 1/2 years old, I know there’s always a little trouble with sharing. He’s starting to talk more each day which helps with communication between them. They have my heart, love them so much! ❤

She is so adorable as we sang happy birthday with most of the kitchen lights out and the glow of the candles lit so bright! Baby brother was trying to blow out her candles, silly guy and after she made a wish and blew out her candles I took her photo with the cake. My flash went off which caught her by surprise, so cute! She also has poses for her photos which we do not ask her to do of course, and I just giggle as she is so adorable. I will be saying adorable a million times in this post because that’s just the best description. I miss them so very much!!!

She doesn’t like her hair brushed so I took her photo to show her the pretty braid! ❤

We headed to the water park nearby the next day which the kids just love! Me and my selfies, these turned out so great and I went crazy and took one with everyone who went including my daughter and my son. The only one who didn’t come was my daughter-in-law, I feel bad I don’t have a selfie with her and didn’t get one on this visit. The selfie with my grandson is now my background photo on my phone. ❤ I may switch it out soon with the one with my granddaughter! I change them often depending on my mood. 😀

My son and daughter selfies, love this so much! My heart is full and I am feeling blessed to have such a wonderful family and am so happy to be fortunate to have these two grand children who make us laugh and are so full of energy and love. I have lots of photos that I took but wanted to share other events for this month. I can now see the advantage of sharing weekly because I can dedicate the whole post to one event. Since it’s been a month I will continue on and share my horsey photos as my horsey sister arrived just over a week ago. Her son’s birthday was this month and so she flew down from Idaho and stayed a week. We had a ton of fun as she helped me with my young horse Murphy and we rode out on trail with my other horse Chloe. She was able to ride a friends horse with me on the trails.

my sweet trail horse, Miss Chloe!
My sister and I out on trail!
Murphy enjoying a turn out in the arena!
He is very tall! Love this photo!
My sister riding Murphy! He is doing great and learning so much!

As I share this month I am thinking of how fast this year has gone by so far. I am terrible at planning things but am thinking I should try and be more conscience of this and try and plan more for the future. I tend to fall into a rut of day to day things and need to think beyond the moment. I blame my lack of planning on being a middle child. I tend to just do things as they come up as one sibling or another make plans and/or my daughter who is the planner of the family makes plans and thankfully I can usually join her or she invites me and her dad. We have planned to meet at President Reagan’s library in 2 weeks as we’ve never been and they have a WW2 presentation there that will end in October. The library is about half way to my daughter’s house so the plan is each of us driving there and meeting up for the tour. I am looking forward to this and am so thankful my daughter is helping plan and getting us there!

This month has been full of events. Our 38th wedding anniversary was August 19th which I almost forgot about but I took that day off to add to the days to hang out with my sister. My hubby and I went out to dinner and he is so sweet and got me some gifts and I got him a sweet card. I took a photo I will share.

He is so very sweet and incredibly thoughtful! The box has a beautiful necklace with double hearts and heartfelt saying!

Why am I so bad at gift giving in general? I would gladly give away money, my shirt off my back or anything one could want if I can afford it. But I can stress for days and not know what to get and I rarely get him anything for our anniversary as I have no idea what to do, I am serious. I am horrible and I got him a sweet card and that’s it and I will ask him if he needs anything but we have been married for so many years the words romantic don’t strike me as being a great definition of how I feel. I LOVE him with all my heart and I know I am the glue that is our family unit and all I have to offer up is the love and consistent “being here” as I will always be there for my hubby and my family. I guess that is my gift.

I considered removing the last paragraph as I am embarrassed I can’t be more giving in the gift department to show my appreciation and love through material things. I can’t be alone in this world so I am going to leave all of this mumbo jumbo in and say that as I try and figure out the “why” I am like this as I feel rather selfish to not buy him anniversary gifts. I do not expect him to do what he does for me as I would be just as happy and never blink an eye if he just bought me a card and we had dinner out. He almost always gets me these gifts. He got me Jade gifts for our 35th anniversary, me? I got him nothing, zip, zero, nadda….. A big hug and a kiss to thank him! Haha, it is what it is and I am who I am….. Sharing myself to ya’ll wasn’t my plan this weekend. But there it is! 😀

I’ll end with these two photos. My sister riding Murphy! I think I may get a print of this to send to her for Christmas. Or I may make her a photo book with all the photos I have taken this past year of her and Murphy. I thought I would try a selfie with Murph on her last ride. Haha, it turned out pretty cute! Thank you for visiting and having coffee with me today. As I think about this month of August, there are a ton of birthdays. My granddaughter 8/3, my brother 8/4, my nephew 8/14 and my sister’s 8/23 and 8/26. With my anniversary thrown in there 8/19 you can see its a crazy month of celebrations. Most of them were virtual but still, no wonder I have been busy!

I hope you all have had a wonderful August and I am looking forward to the Fall as September is days away. Thank you Natalie for hosting the weekend coffee share link up and I hope you all have a great week ahead.

Loving Family Cowgirl Grandma,

~Diana ❤

21 thoughts on “Weekend Coffee Share; August ~ Fun Month!”

  1. Sounds like a good month spent with family! Glad you got to visit for your granddaughter’s birthday and great that your sister visited and did horsey stuff with you 🙂 Hope you have a wonderful week!

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  2. Hi Diana, Thank you for your weekend coffee share with pictures of your family and horses. I’m glad you’ve had a wonderful August with your family. It’s so nice that you got to be at your granddaughter’s birthday and when you returned home, your sister came to visit and you got to do horse riding together. Happy anniversary to you, too. Have a great week and a beautiful September!

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    1. Thank you so kindly Natalie! It’s been a fun-filled August and I’m so thankful for all the family time and the horsey time with my sister. You are so kind, and I hope you have a great week and wonderful September too!

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  3. Your August Birthday schedule is like our daughters family in October. it incudes our Grandson who will be turning 8 yes EIGHT on October 10. Time flies. Murphy is such a handsome fellow I’m sure your sister would love a photo of her riding him. Happy Anniversary to you and your other half, We are at 38 years too my husband and me. 🎉🥂😃

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    1. Oh your grandson is only one year older then my granddaughter. I think I knew that but how does the time fly so fast? Crazy!! I agree, I think my sister would enjoy some photos that I have. She’s been such a great help and is always so excited to visit and ride! I’ll do that for Xmas this year! Happy 38th anniversary year to you too! And I think your husband’s name is David too, so many things in common. I just Love it! 🥰 Only you ride at a much higher level than I do but I know we both ride the trail and Love our horses dearly. ❤️🐴🎉🤩

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    1. Hello sweet friend! Thank you for stopping by and I always love your kind comments. I’ll keep up the happy trails, as this makes me smile! Same to you too!! 🤩🐴🥰

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  5. Hi Diana! There is no better word for your grandkids than ‘adorable’. I absolutely love the photo of your granddaughter with her cake. 💞 I go back and forth with gifts for my husband. Generally, he buys me very beautiful and heartfelt cards and I do something special for him. Usually, it is baking him a special desert but sometimes it is setting up a piece of technology or some such thing. I always try to do things for him and treat him in a way that he knows how much I love and appreciate him.

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    1. Awww, thank you so kindly Anne! I appreciate your kind comments about my grandchildren ~ adorable is the best description I agree!! ❤️ I didn’t think about the things I do like baking his favorite cookies, or maybe cooking a dinner he loves. I will have to keep this in mind as I should tell him I am doing this or that for him because I love him. I do tell him often how much I love him, but it’s the little things I’d like him to know how much he’s appreciated. I know he knows! Thank you for sharing the things you do as that’s so sweet!! 💞

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  6. Sounds like your cup is full and running over with blessings.. What a good summer you’ve had with family visits. I appreciate your honesty. The best my husband and I do when it comes to birthdays or special occasions is go out for hopefully a good meal and do some sightseeing. We are content in that way and works for us. Before we know it, you will be drinking your coffee with your specialty crème. ☕️Enjoy the rest of summer and you captured wonderful photos!

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    1. I’m so incredibly grateful for all my blessings. ❤️ Thank you so kindly for your sweet comments and for visiting with me as I share my happenings in August. Yes, like you and your hubby we love going out together for a good meal and even sightsee too! Clearly his love language is more gift giving and he’s so sweet understanding I’m not returning many gifts his way. I’m so happy you enjoyed my photos 🥰 and have a great rest of the summer too!! 💞

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      1. Thank you Diana! You have a very thoughtful heart. Your appreciation for life comes through in your writing. My husband is a good cook and tackles it with enthusiasm, does the shopping too. I am grateful. 🤗

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    2. Hi Diana – this monthly summary post was great and it was nice to see the family and the horses!
      And the granddaughter’s carrot cake looked yummy (and fun)
      And I never really get my hubs anything for holidays – he will sometimes get me something – but i usually say I don’t want anything –
      And for our 25th anniversary I bought us two art sculptures and guess what? We gave them away because we want less stuff (we gave them as birthday gifts and the wood sculptures matched those people)
      But your hubs sounds like a gem and a great fit for you! Congrats on 38 years!
      💛💜💚🧡
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      I look forward to your summary for September –
      In the meantime – have a great day!

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      1. Hi Yvette! Thank you so much for your wonderful kind comments. It’s amazing how fast these weeks fly by and there it is August gone but it was a fun month.
        My hubby is definitely the one who always says I don’t want anything when I ask about gift giving for birthday or anniversary. So I don’t get anything. That’s a great story about your 25th anniversary gift, and isn’t that so sweet you were able to re-gift and the sculptures matched them better! That’s awesome!! My hubs is definitely a gem, gosh, being married to a horse girl isn’t always easy I’m thinking. I get so wrapped up in my horses I’ve had to tell myself to make time for my family, especially my hubby! Thanks again for visiting and stopping by! ❤️💙🧡💚

        Have a great day and week too! 🤠

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  8. Belated happy 38th Anniversary Diana 🎉 and what a wonderful month you have had! I’m sure your sister would enjoy a copy of that beautiful photo and so glad you had so much fun together. Wishing you a blessed rest of the week and please give sweet Chloe and Murphy a big pat from us all 🤗🥕🧡🥕🐴

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    1. Thank you so very much Xenia, I can’t believe it’s been 38 years together! I think I will get that photo printed, I need to do that soon so this is a nice reminder. 😀 It has been a busy year it seems, which there has been a lot fun times too. Thank you for visiting and please give Misty a hug and pat from all of us here. Have a wonderful rest of the week. ❤️🐴🐶💖

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