~Happy Birthday~~

Today, My baby sister, Pam turns "47", She is the little one with the dark hair and beautiful smile in the top pic, I would love to see that smile again. Boy was that a long time ago. Things have certainly changed since that time. We added 2 brothers to the mix, then boyfriends, girlfriends,then in-laws, and out-laws, and children, nephews, and nephews, and nephews, then we finally got another girl in the mix. There is "37" Years between Pam and the next girl born into the family, Cember a Great Grand-daughter for my parents. There is 9 boys, James, Tony, Buck, Rocky, Bruce, Chris, Shawn, Austin, & Kiefer between those 2 girls... But now we have 5 little girls with only 1 boy, Justin, born in that year range. 4 of those little girls, Cember (Justin comes in here), Briauna, Maranda & Gabby were born within 17 Months, then it was 7 years before we got another baby and it happened to be a girl, Kelsey..
Pam had the first Grand Daughter for my parents, My oldest Grand Daughter was the first Girl born in our Family since Pam..
Below is Pam and her Daughter, Briauna, taken last Christmas. Today she is "47".. Happy Birthday, Pam... I want your HAPPY DAYS BACK!!!!!!!

~Neighbors Needed~

I have moved. Come join me!!!!!!!


Can't remember if I told you that I have moved out from 1 Beggars Alley,
located at 2 Poverty Lane, at the corner of Down and Out Circle. As of
today, I have a brand new home.

My new address is Living Well on 3rd Abundance Drive , located at the
corner of Blessings Street and Prosperity Peak .. It's in the I Can
neighborhood.

No longer will I allow myself to travel to the other side of
town on Begging Peter to Pay Paul Route, located at a dead end
intersection called I Don't Have, which connects with Borrowers Junction.
I no longer hang out at Failure's Place, near Excuses Avenue, next to
Procrastination Point.

I've moved to an upscale community called Higher
Heights with unlimited potential and opportunities for me to succeed. I can
do ALL things through my Higher Power who strengthens me!


Life is good because God is good!

Care to change your address?

There are many vacancies!

GREAT IS THY FAITH FULLNESS!

I AM WELL BLESSED AND SO ARE YOU!!!!!

DON'T TELL GOD HOW BIG YOUR STORMS ARE!!

TELL YOUR STORMS HOW BIG YOUR GOD IS!!

May God Richly Bless each and Everyone That Reads This

~Girls Weekend!~

This was Girls Weekend at the LakeHouse (or as Cember and Gabby first called it "The Water House"). It is not anything fancy, just a little cabin in the woods. Larry and I bought it about 4 years ago, while Rocky was in Iraq. I spent many a day there working, crying, just being alone, it helped me keep my sanity when Rocky was in Iraq. More about all that later.

This weekend I took all 5 of the little girls, Cember, Gabby, Kelsey, Maranda and Briauna to the lake house for the weekend. Something I tried to do about every couple of months, but since we built the new house I have not been able to do that, So I decided to take this weekend and go. Friday nite, is just kinda a chill out, watch movies eat popcorn type a thingy. I, of course, go in and wipe down everything (this time it has been shut up since we were there in August), just so I feel it is clean enough (not SPOTLESS) for us to be healthy. It was around 11:30 when we finally went to bed, yes Little Bit (Kelsey) lasted as long as the others.

Up around 8:30 on Saturday morning, Strawberry Muffins and milk for breakfast. Then outside we went. The girls played in the cane break at the back corner of the cabin. They made a playhouse out there and played most all day. Gabby became a little shutter bug, She is learning to use the camera and she took pictures of everything, even took a few videos. I am attaching a few. Someone managed to get a few of her and I got some of all them. While they were busy playing and doing what little girls do, I was raking the yard, picking up limbs and burning. We have a fire pit at the side of the cabin and I was burning leaves and limbs in there. I have the Booboos to prove it. I forgot to get my gloves and take them with me. Oh well, My blisters will heal.

We stopped long enough to make a sandwich for lunch and then back at it. I talked them into helping pick up some limbs and we could roast weinnies later. That did not last long, that was WORK! Oh well, every little bit helps. I finally finished and got the fire burned down enough we could roast hot dogs. so they went in and brought everything outside around the fire. Cember and Maranda took turns roasting the hot dogs, Gabby and Bri may have a little, but I think it was too hot for them. Cember and Maranda stuck it out. They really roasted them (almost black)... Everyone liked them that way. Between the 5 girls ( well I had 2) they ate 3 packages of weinnies and 3 packages of buns. I could not believe how much they ate and would have eaten more had we had them, (later I found another package in the freezer, OOPS). Next time I will take more.. I cannot believe how much those girls ate this weekend. We went through 5 family size bags of chips, 1 lb of ham, 2 lbs bologna, 1 lb cheese, 6 pkgs of muffins mixes, 2 gallons milk,,, plus countless snacks. I hope they had enough to eat.

After dark Saturday nite(After baths and head washings), it became Craft Time, We made halloween necklaces (orange, white & black beads, with Pumpkin, ghost and candy corn charms), I think some of them made a bracelet to go with it, Then we got out the craft foam, and made fall get well cards for ms. Norma. Ms. Norma, is a very sweet lady that we fell in love with when we bought the lake house. She lived in a LOG house across the road from us. She is one of those people you could spend hours listening to them tell you stories of their life, or at least as long as she could hold out to talk. She has a lung disease and is on oxygen 24 hours a day. Her and her husband built that log house, It took them 7 years to do it, they cut the logs, debarked them and all. I will try to find a pic of that. Cember and Gabby had to go see her everytime we were up there, that was a first thing Saturday morning kinda thing. Then on Oct. 2, 07 they went over to find a note on the door that she had been taken to the Hospital at around 2 that morning. They were heart broken, we set about trying to find out what had happened. She had taken pneumonia and was hospitalized. We found out about 2 weeks later, that she would not be coming back to the log house, she was going to have to be in an assisted living facility near the hospital. So we try to go see her when we are up there. She just adores the girls.

Sunday morning, was clean up, load up and head out. We left the lake house around 11:30 headed for Ms. Norma's. First we stopped at the dollar store to fix Ms. Norma a trick or treat. When we arrived she had a halloween book marker for each of the girls and was so excited to see them. We walked down to the rec room and saw the huge aquarium and bird atrium they have there, then we walked out to the garden and the gold fish pond, it was a beautiful day and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit. I saw ms Norma was getting real winded, so I said Time to head on home. So we load up again and home bound we are, stopping at Micky D's in Malvern for a burger.

Now I have to unload, clean up, wash up and put away our weekend. Me, I had a WONDERFUL time.. Now to start planning the next one. I think it will be the Stocking Stuffin Party... May sneak one more in before that, Not sure.. We will have to see..

Until Next time, Nite All and Sweet Dreams...

May God Bless you as he has blessed me with wonderful times as this weekend was...

~Before and Middle~

This is the 1948 FarmAll tractor that we bought Aug. 3 (20th Anniversary of mine and Larry's first Date). We have spent most weekends taking apart, sanding, priming and painting on this.
This is how far we have gotten. We are slowly but surely getting there. Just wish we could have found RED paint!! Hahahaha I think this is going to be RED! So far we have gone through 9 cans of primer and 7 cans of Regal Red paint. We have plastic bags over the front tires, because they are finished and I did not want to get red overspray all over them. Larry laughed at me for doing that, then he saw how much red paint would have been on there had I not done that. We are having alot of fun doing this. We planned to work on this all day this past Saturday, but it rained. You can't paint in the rain, it will not dry. Bummer... Oh well there will be next weekend..

Instead we unpacked some of my teddy bears and got them put in 2 of the 3 cabinets. Not sure where we are putting the 3rd cabinet yet, so it is still in storage.. Everyone kept asking what I was going to put in the cabinets that have been in the house for about 3-4 months, now when they come back, they will be full.. Larry and I have collected these bears from places that we have been, some of them were his nieces (she died of Cystic Fibrosis 4 months after he and I married), her mother gave them to me after Pam died. SO those I will treasure forever. I have some that my boys and my little girls have given me. Buck, Mandy and the girls bought me the 911 commorative bears from the United Way when Rocky was in Iraq. Rocky and Deanna bought me It's a Girl Ty Bear when we found out we were having Kelsey, I have a Yellow Jacket Bear that Bruce gave me when he was playing football. So there are so many bears and each one has a story. More about Bears later.. Now I must go get 3 girls bathed and ready for bed.



Nite all.. May God Richly Bless each of you...