Praise & Girls Are Heading Home!!

I have to first offer up praise for my daughter's boyfriend's dad. He has been sick and was on dialisis (why do words look like they're spelled wrong when you think it's right?) anywho... A kidney came available so he had a transplant last night!! Praise the Lord! I pray that this all continues to go well and his dad pulls through this. Please keep Darrell and his family in your prayers....

The girls are heading home from Arizona as of late tonight. :) Might be home Saturday, maybe Sunday.

Last night, the hubs and I went to Olive Garden.....



I love their Chicken & Gnocchi soup. YUM!! Hubs had his usual Chicken Parmigean.

We then came home and played a card game called Spit. It's also known as Speed. My friend Teresa and I use to play this all hours of the night. VERY competitive and the hubs and I are very competitive.... Not a good mix HA!!!!



Since yesterday was Wordless Wednesday, I couldn't possibly tell you what all we did. I try to honor the rules.... Doesn't that pic look like Hammy has buck teeth? He had actually been licking frosting.... I know bad momma.....

So the girls are coming home. Please pray for their safety. Can't believe my Shelby will be 16 next month. We are doing Alice in Wonderland Masquerade from the newest Alice in Wonderland. I gotta get busy..... Please share any ideas you have by leaving a comment.


This will forever be my favorite picture of the girls. This was for Robert for Father's Day back when they had to be 10, 8 & 7, or somewhere along there....

I promise to get better about taking pictures again. :)

Wordless Wednesday

6th Day Girls Gone..... Got the Answer!!!

My girls are always asking me how I can overlook certain things dad does, or how I can get over his temper tantrum (HA!) so quickly.....

Here's my answer: We live, we love, we forgive and never give up. Because the days we are living are gifts from the Lord, and daily reminded to live and to love....

So I finally figured out the best answer. :)

5th Day Girls Gone.....

And so goes the days of our lives.....

I sure hope the girls are having fun and behaving. I wonder what they're up too.


Thought I would take you back to the good old days.... When the girls were all sweet and stuff.

Oh I miss them being little....



My how they change. Even their taste & looks change....

I miss the good ole days.

3rd & 4th Day of Girls Being Gone....

So as I told you in the last post, Papa had a story to go with the list of rules...

Young lady asks grandfather: Papa may we go eat some habaneras peppers?

What flashes through his mind in under a secong:

1. YOU DO NOT HAVE A CLUE HOW HOT THOSE PEPPERS ARE
2. IT MIGHT BE FUN WATCHING YOU CRY
3. I DO NOT FEEL LIKE DEALING WITH IT RIGHT NOW
4. MAYBE LATER

SO HE ANSWERS: NO

The last thing he wants to hear is:

WHY NOT?

Refer to thought #3.

"WHY NOT" TURNS ME MENTALLY INTO THE INCREDIBLE HULK.

#2 cracks me up. How many of you ever felt that way??? This story is a result in 1) Ashley ALWAYS says Why Not? She is our very inquisitive child. 2) Harley wanted to try some chocolate Papa had and he told her she wasn't going to like. She said yes I will. It was like 5x7 size of chocolate. Problem was it was BITTER chocolate. So Papa told her if she was going to try it she would have to eat all of it. She tried it and immediately hated it!

Speaking of chocolate and Harley, Robert and her got in to a frosting fight.... It was from her birthday cake.


The picture below is from our trip to Petite Jean. Shelby & Ashley sitting on one of the big rocks, by the waterfall. I'll do a post on those pictures soon. I got some good ones.


Below is a picture of me, Robert, Hammy, mom and dad from New Year's.


This is who my girls are with, my parents...... God love them!!! 3 teenagers.... Thank you mom and dad, for spending time with my girls.... I know it hasn't been easy.

2nd Day of Girls Being Gone.....

So I thought why not share pictures of this past year about the girls that way I kind of kill two birds with one stone.

I have to share first, the rules that Papa laid out for the girls for the trip. Too funny!

While We Are on the Road:

1. Keep your hands to yourself.
2. Do not invade another person's space.
3. If you get mad about something just smile, close your eyes and pretend that you see Santa Claus placing presents around the tree and he is naked.
4. If you are still mad count from 50 to 1.
5. It is ok to cut up while we are riding but if papa says to be quiet, BE QUIET, do not make me turn green and yell. I do not like to yell and you will not like me when I yell.
6. Be kind.

Ok my favorite has to be #3, and I love how #5 is snuck in there right before the Be Kind. HA HA!!!



He also had a story for the girls as an analogy, but I'll share that the next time. For fear of a too long of a post.



I hope the girls are ok, and are behaving well..... I know they will have fun once they reach their destination. I hope they are taking pictures.



Before I close, I want to ask for prayers for our family. I can't go in to details at the moment, but please know your prayers are very much appreciated and hopefully I will be able to tell you what you were praying for soon.

**Pictures are from Gulf Shores trip Thanksgiving week 2009.

1st Day of the Girls Being Gone.....

And I really miss them! What's up with that? We have all been really close here lately. They are growing up so fast. They will be gone until August 1st. A week and a half! At least they get to have a great vacation with so many fun things to do, right before school. :)

So I thought I would share a couple of pics of the girls.

Shelby & I at a concert. She cracks me up with her expressions in pictures.


Not sure how I got this pic of Harley & Ashley, but I can hear the laughing in this picture, and it makes me laugh.

I hope & pray they are safe and that they behave themselves...... {hint} {hint}

Coming Up to Breathe.....

This is exactly how I can describe my life right now. I have had some ups and downs and to me it feels like more downs then ups. This has been going on since last August. I've had to face some stuff that I had stuffed down inside of me, and when a good friend of mine passed away last August, it all came bubbling out.

I feel like right now things are brighter then they have been. I've had to learn I can't always have peace, and here lately the biggie "IT'S NOT ABOUT ME!" to certain extent. I have felt so under water and out of control with my emotions. There's only one that's in control. He is teaching me that.

I will post pictures that I've gotten since last year and try to update everyone. Again this is to keep my family updated. Especially those that I've recently added to Facebook.

I know there are hardly any of you that read this, but those that have thanks for sticking by me.