Family time

Mom, Pop and Auntie came over for a BBQ. Then Jaqui came over too . . . It was super fun. We ate, and ate, and ate . . . and looked at pictures in the scrapbooks . . . it was a good time!!

Sorry Jaqui I forgot to pick up the camera once you got to the house . . . I guess I can either run my brain or my mouth . . . and I was busy running my mouth!

We are a family that LOVES to eat!!! Good thing I like to cook and am pretty good at it.

for some reason I always end up with pictures of Alex and Pop in the kitchen together . . . how funny is that!

He hates to have his picture taken!

Oh boy . . . a normal picture of my mom . . . If she sees someone with a camera . . . she closes her eyes . . . I can't tell you how many pictures of my mom I have with her eyes closed!

Card trick . . . Pop told auntie to pick some cards. The he said . . . "I have as many cards as you, plus one, with enough left over to make you 15." And he was right . . . Auntie thought it was magic . . . I thought he was silly!

Love those wonderful, simple family times!

I love it!

When I up load my pictures to the computer and there are pictures I didn't know on there!

Here was my surprise!

It was like a special gift!!! I always wanted pictures up Alex's nose!!! Thank you Alex!

Things that I love that make me happy!

In no particular order, just randomness.

If I have forgotten someone or something, forgive me . . . I'm just human . . .

Kennedy in this pictures makes me giggle! The look on her face is priceless. I think the glasses confused her.


Lorinda

My Kendra and Gennae! And how they let me be the Christmas Elf for their kids . . . because that's just the way I have fun!

Rahni Rae~

My dogs

Kendra and Braeden

My Jaqui!!

My mom and Auntie

My daddy!

Me and my Timmy! My family!!!

Bailey~ She's so sweet

Memories~ Good goofy times!

Roger~ What a goof!!!
MY Jessie!!! She makes my heart so happy!

Juliette!!! The best little dog on the planet!!!

Kennedy! She loves me unconditionally. When she sees me, she puts her hands on my face and then opens her mouth and tries to eat my face off~ It's her version of "kissing" me.

My family!!!

Jade, not really my dog, but I love her! I love all my dogs!!

My Thomas- Always in my heart!

Art

Tony

My boys

Alex

Memories, and Jaqui and Roger!!!

Avery

Tim! My wish come true! And Scrapbooking!

Life . . . today . . . is . . . good . . .

Still haven't figured out how to post songs. Gennae said she would help me, but we have both been so busy, that we haven't had time, so here is a link to the song that is playing through my mind today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqdWTeXWvOg I love this song. I know it was in a movie, but I can't remember what movie, so if you know it, please let me know.

I made two things for my trip to Iowa~

This is a tutu and hair bow for my new grand daughter! It's so tiny. . . . the tutu is 9 inches around!!! I googled how big a babies waist is . . . Sooooooooo tiny . . .

And here is the thank you note I wrote for Brent! For paying for me to come out there and be apart of this wonderful event!!!

I had to wander around Dick sports for a long time to find PINK WORMS~ Because if you are having a baby girl, you have to have PINK WORMS, Right??? And considering PINK is MY color, It almost had to be PINK ~ What else would work? Nothing!

I'm so excited for my trip. I started packing my suit case (A BIG suit case) yesterday, and I have it almost full, but still don't have any clothes in it!!! OOPS! I guess I will be naked my whole trip! (That will be a way to make an impression on IOWA!!) I think I'm going to put my clothes in my carry on . . . since the other suit case if full of Presents.

I'm still hoping to make one more tutu for the baby, a camouflage and pink one . . . in honor of Brent . . . but I'm having troubles with the camo tulle, I have to paint it. And then I worry that I'm putting spray painted tulle on a baby . . . So I'm not sure I am going to do it that way. I may have to just keep looking for camo tulle, and not paint it . . . I would never want to hurt the baby, so I think I will have to hold off on that. I can always mail it out later on!

I went to Team Mobile yesterday and had them set up my phone so I could get to my "ladies" while I'm on my trip . . . and they did, but for some reason I can't post . . . humm . . . I guess I need to go back to the phone store today and get them to fix that.

I have two parties this weekend for Maggianos . . . so this morning I need to get those made. I'm so happy this is a long weekend . . . I think we all need a bit of a break! I know I sure do!

Well that's about it for me . . .

Music

I woke up this morning and really felt Otis Redding, "try a little tenderness" !

Ever have a day when that happens, like you just need to fill your world with some sort of song . . . and it's like your theme song for the day. I changed my ring tone on my phone to that song, posted it for my "ladies" and listened to it over and over.

Isn't it funny how a song can take you to a different place and time.

When I think of "Try a little Tenderness" I see this in my head~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNGIg8f-0Wc One of my favorites! Don't you just love the 80's! I do . . . I guess the decade of your teenage years is always one of your favs . . . and the 80's will always be mine. Nothing like big hair and bubble gum music!!

Every time I hear the GoGo's ~ "we got the beat", and "Our lips are sealed" it takes me back to my freshman year in high school, when Jaqui and Christi Oberbaugh and I decided we were going to make a band and sing like the GoGo's . . . We listened to their music on a portable tape player, and and sat out side of the school on the lawn and sang.

And every time I hear Stevie Nicks, I think of Jaqui . . . it doesn't matter what song, I think of her. Always have, probably always will. Even though she doesn't "like" her like she used to, I will forever associate Stevie Nicks with Jauqi.

When Drew and I broke up, And Gennae and her boy friend broke up, she and I listened to a lot of Jodee masssina . . . Bring on the rain . . . so pretty much any time I hear that song it takes me back to the day Gennae was coming to have lunch with me at the store, and it was raining and we were sad, and she came in and said that she was listening to that song. I think I can almost remember what she was wearing that day!

I remember when Roger and Jaqui and I were juniors in high school and he was driving me to work and Jaqui was riding along, and we were eating peanut butter crackers in the car, and Roger decided to go 100 miles per hour and he flipped the car. The song on playing was Billy Idols, "White Wedding" It was also the song I had them play when I gave the toast at his wedding to Hileigh . . .

Music can take you to a different place and time . . . it can conjure up good memories and bad . . . it can help you to "visit" people you hadn't thought about in a long time. I love music . . . Enjoy some music today that takes you back in time. Remember . . . and enjoy the memories . . . For where you have been in life helps you to know where you are going.

Randomness

Last night I had a dream about the "Bad Tim" . . . that he was still stalking me . . . I guess after last weeks whoo~ha, and him trying to get in touch with me again, and the creepiness of the song he sent me, Called~ The ghost woman and the hunter. I'm still a little scared. I blocked him from my facebook. And I believe I had already blocked him from my regular email . . . but he is resourceful and likes to send inappropriate messages to me through my wire services. Hopefully with him being blocked he will leave me alone.

This is a picture of when we were dating, before he became a psychopathic, crazy, stalker.

If you see him lurking around any where I am . . . please call the police. I have not spoken to him in over 2 years and he still won't stop. He scares me.

I'm going to Iowa!!! My niece Rahni Rae is having a baby, a baby girl! And her hubby Brent wanted to fly me out for a surprise for her. . . Well . . . she discovered the messages between us, and he had to tell her what was going on. She is so happy she started "Bawling" (That's what Brent said.) So I'm making plans to go there. It should be a lot of fun!

Maggianos, the Italian restaurant is keeping me pretty busy! I had a phone call yesterday from a woman on the east coast who is having a party on July 3. That's pretty exciting . . . The business is growing.

Patti and I got together and took some pictures of Kennedy and Mariah in the tutus and bows. We are going to make posters of the girls and hopefully we will get some more business . . . Still need to figure out how to store the tulle I have cut and ready to make Tutus out of . . . So if you come up with something please let me know.

Here are some of the pictures from the photo shoot~

Kennedy and her cuteness!

Totally love this picture of Mariah! She is so pretty!

I love how the colors pop on this one!

I don't know what was going on with her tongue! But it was too cute not to post!

Happy Buddha baby!

Her pappy (Tim) was playing with her and then it was her turn to take pictures again so he laid her down, I think she was a little confused . . . like "Hey, where did you go? I wasn't done with you yet!"

ok on to other things, lately I have had such bad gas . . . I don't understand it. I'm trying to eat better . . . is that what is causing the gas? I don't know? I don't like it either . . . there have been times where I would like to leave the room I'm in and leave me there . . . but I can't get away from it. . . Hard to be lady like and have horrible bad gas! Know what I mean?

Well I guess that's enough from me today . . . have a good one.