This week.... :)

My sweet mama came to town!!

Oh I love when she's here.

We laugh till we can't breathe.

We cook like crazy.

And my mama loves her some guac!

So Ryne hiked it up the tree in Rio's back yard

and got her some avocados:)

under the very helpful direction of the gang

of pointers on the ground.

Check out the bounty!

I still find it amazing that avocados are so abundant here.

I love morning talks over coffee with my mama, sharing our hopes and dreams.

My latest? I've got houses on the brain. 

Like crazy.

While I sooo appreciate the place we're living in, my heart longs

for a little yard for my little bully.

And ok, I'll be honest, for me!! And for the hubby!!

Just a space to sit in and admire the plants and flowers

that I never imagined in my life I could grow in AZ.

Just feast  your eyes on this adorableness that just hit the 

rental market!!

It has happiness written ALL over it huh??

We went and walked it and....oh boy.

Mama wants.

Like really bad. 

We turned in all our paperwork and are praying like the dickens.

Tenterhooks....

This little place brings to mind this song I grew up singing in church.

If you've spent any amount of time with an old hymnal, then you can

sing this with me....

I'm satisfied with just a cottage below

A little silver and a little gold

But in that city, where the ransomed will shine

I want a gold one that's silver lined

Chorus

I've got a mansion just over the hilltop

In that bright land where we'll never grow old

And some day yonder we will nevermore wander

But walk on streets that are purest gold