Friday, April 29, 2011

Shoe Shopping & Snowcones!

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Shoe shopping the night before prom. 

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They will match the dress perfectly!  Can’t wait to take photos tomorrow!

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On the way out to the car coming out of the mall, “The snowcone place is open!  The snowcone place is open!”  Me: “If I buy you a snowcone, will you STOP saying that?” 

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Yummy snowcone goodness.  And that smile is worth one hundred snowcones. 

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Yum Yum!

Happy Friday night!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Easter 2011-Part 4

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Going into St. Mary’s at 7:30 am.  You can see that we are nearly the first ones there…so that we can sit in the back row.

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Riding home with Sari in the mustang. 

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Bryan with his V8 Fusion. 

 

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William in his hat. 

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Jakey giving poor Isabella a smile of Twizzlers.

 

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Sarah making the bunny cake.

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Yum.

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Sleepy…

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Together!

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Sisters!

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Mom! 

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Elizabeth and Pudgey!

Happy Friday!  I am soooo ready for the weekend!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Easter 2011-Part 3 Dog Baths

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Within a half an hour of arriving at Mom’s, the dogs had found something horrible smelling to roll in. 

Time for a bath for all 3.

Tigger wasn’t happy.

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Ralph was so embarrassed because the Pantene made him kind of frizzy for the rest of the night.  So he just laid around and slept the rest of the night.

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And I didn’t get a picture of Pudge when she was all wet and ratty looking because I was the one who gave Pudgey her bath.  But here she is growling at a raccoon in the back yard.  Yes Pudge, you are vicious! Pudge actually got 2 baths because she rolled in something again on Sunday. 

Happy Thursday! 

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Easter 2011-Part 2 Isabella

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Isabella – our newest family member.

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Such a beautiful little girl.

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There was lots of this over the weekend.

Grandma.

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Mommy!

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Aunt Sarah

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Aunt Christina

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Cousin Liz

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The proud and happy new parents.  Neither one of whom has had very much sleep Smile 

Jake:  Come to Papa!

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Isabella’s first Easter basket. 

(She was the only one who got a stuffed animal!) 

It was wonderful to meet you, Isabella!  I am looking forward to many, many more visits with you in the future.

Happy Wednesday!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Easter 2011-Part 1

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One of my favorite parts of getting together with family is all of the great stories that emerge as we are visiting.  I had trouble deciding which story to start with.  So finally I decided to start with the easiest first-the family photo. 

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Every year we start with all of us trying figure out each other’s cameras-mostly-we always forget how to set Mom’s camera to take 10 photos. 

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It sucks getting old. 

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So the rule is that I get at least 3 normal photos before the true faces start coming out. 

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Bryan decided not to cooperate this time, but I was tired, so I missed it. 

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Elizabeth was the one that started it this time. 

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And mostly it is just her making the face in my set of photos. 

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The rest of us are pretty serious, so we don’t change much.

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Well…except that guy in the back that I’m married to.

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Yea that’s right…

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This one is all mine, ladies Smile 

This is just the tip of the iceberg-there are lots more stories to tell.

Happy Tuesday! 

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Happy Easter-2011

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Free Easter artwork from Ali Edwards, available here.

Wishing everyone a very happy and (hopefully) sunny and warm Easter weekend.  I am looking forward to spending lots of time with family this weekend. 

Happy Easter!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Easter-2003

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We are missing some people in this photo-but the ones in the photo are pretty cute!

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Here they all are!

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In front of the apple tree!  I think it’s the apple tree…Love this photo!

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Ha!  Last egg be damned!  Jakey found it!!!!

Happy Friday!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

How NOT to Spend A Sunday Afternoon

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A couple weeks ago, Elizabeth called while I was getting ready to take a little Sunday afternoon siesta to say that the truck had broken down.  Daddy was working (of course), so I left to see what kind of help I could be. 

This photo is me sitting behind the truck with my flashers on.  People don’t seem to know what flashers mean.  I had to keep waving people on.  Frankly, I decided that most people are stupid after this day.

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This is Elizabeth and I hanging out in the car waiting for the tow truck-love having a camera on my phone for times like this. 

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This is the tow truck driver hooking up the truck.  You can see that the truck chose kind of a bad place to die on her, but we got it home. 

It turned out that all that was wrong was the alternator.  Mr. Tryon had a new alternator in the truck and had it running and ready to go by 10:30 the next morning.  The sad thing is that Elizabeth is already showing “the gene”.  The gene that zaps alternators with nothing but a look.  I have had to replace at least 3 alternators over the course of my driving existence (possibly more-I don’t recall some of my earlier cars problems, so I may be forgetting some). 

Happy Wednesday…and don’t spend your Sundays this way!