Monday, October 17, 2005
Wow it's been a long long time!
Wow! it has been a really long time since my last post! This is going to be a long one catching up! I have been busy flickring and other such things! In looking at my last post, it was Abby's 1st birthday. Well since then there have been a few other firsts! Well my great nephew Layne Ryan turned one! What a big boy! They had a nice party for him at his grandma Julie's house! He had a cookie monster cake like his daddy had when he was little. There is also great news as he will be getting a new brother in a few months to come!
Another first just recently was with Baby girl Kaylee celebrating her first year milestone! What a sweet baby girl she is! Happy birthday Kaylee! Another great niece, Michelle, who is Kaylee's 1st cousin will be celebrating her 1st birthday next week! They are exactly 2 weeks to the day apart.
Now as I look back on my calendar since my last post in February, several other things of note: In March - I was liberated! I got Roadrunner & got rid of my dial-up AOL! I also got digital phone & got rid of my SBC! I love it! In April - Megan & I went to the Blanco Living History Day which included several notable guestspeakers, a banquet, & a ball! It was great! The men and women were dressed in there civil war era costumes! There was lots of dancing and it was fun! Also in April we went to a Feast of Unleavened Bread at Canyon Lake. It was also loads of fun, good food, good friends, good fellowship, swimming, good music, & The Good News! In May - My mom bought tickets for me & my sister to go to the Alamodome to see Joel Osteen live. My Uncle came along too & my mom's boyfriend as well. It was really nice & there was a big turnout! We also went to see Star Wars III for Jordan's birthday! She had been counting the days down til it came out! Finally this movie helped piece together & answer all those lingering questions about anakin/darth vader, etc.! June came and I turned another year older & my mom & her longtime boyfriend of 25 years finally got married! Now that's a long engagement huh? LOL Me & my siblings were glad it finally happened. Now we can say: my stepdad instead of my mom's boyfriend. Ashley went off for a week to Glorieta, NM for a camp called WILDWEEK. She had a great time. She also got 2 lifeguarding jobs and is glad to be making money. One is year round for a local school district at an indoor natatorium and the other was only for summer at our neighborhood pool. July - Alicia bought a miniature dachshund/wiener dog! He is soo cute! His name on his papers are Hershey Caramel Kisses. We call him Hershey. We are pretty sure he is what they call a Sable colored dachshund. On the 4th of July we went to Camp Alzafar for their annual dance that we usually go to. It was fun! Alicia went to the Ukraine again on a mission trip. This was her second time. She really liked seeing the work Yahweh is doing over there! She was gone two weeks and got home in the middle of the night and was back in time for a week of VBS at the church! There was a big turnout and Me & all 4 of the girls worked! The kids all had a great time! 4 of my nephews & 3 friends all were able to attend. August - Well our old black lab Lacey turned 11 this month. She isn't so much black anymore, she is turning gray on her feet and snout area. My great niece Hailey turned 6 during her trip to Disneyland. She had a lot of fun there. On the 18th - 21st, Me, my mom, Ashley, Alicia, Megan, Jordan & Josh all went to Corpus Christi to visit my sister Andrea & her family (David & Hayden) We had a great time visiting, playing games, spending the day at the beach, and on Sunday attended the Franklin Graham Festival! It was a weekend long event, but we only wanted to go to the last day when Michael W. Smith was there. He was so energetic and so full of the Holy Spirit! You could just feel Yahweh's presence in the auditorium. It was great! The 21st would have been my best friend Michele's 40th Birthday had she lived long enough to see it! Boy do I still miss her! We would have celebrated it up right! September - My cousin Jeff goes away to Scotland to attend the University of Edinburgh. Layne has his 1st birthday party which was a happy event but on the morning before the party Me, my mom, my sisters Julie & Andrea were going to visit my maternal grandma who was in hospital. Well my mom got the call that she took a turn for the worse and so we decided to make our visit earlier than planned but by the time we got there she had just passed away about 20 minutes before, while we were in route to the hospital. We will all miss her, but she lived a good long life - she passed just 10 days before her 92nd birthday! October - We went to a feast of Tabernacles in Athens. It was lots of fun. Lots of good speakers, good friends, good fellowship. It was a great time together. It's the first time I have slept in a tent since I was aout 11 or 12. There were 9 of us in that tent with loads of stuff but we all fit! Also the highlight of the feast was Ashley & Alicia's baptism . Praise Yahweh! We were all so proud of them for taking this important step in their walk! Happy Birthdays! Next week we will be heading back to Athens to the same campground for another tabernacles celebration! It promises to be equally as much fun as the last one. Can't wait to see everyone! I know it will be a great time of learning and fun & fellowship! I will provide details on that when we return. Well I am going to try not to wait so long to post next time! I know you will all be relieved I am finished finally! TTFN - Larlie! 4:22 PM |
Another first just recently was with Baby girl Kaylee celebrating her first year milestone! What a sweet baby girl she is! Happy birthday Kaylee! Another great niece, Michelle, who is Kaylee's 1st cousin will be celebrating her 1st birthday next week! They are exactly 2 weeks to the day apart.
Now as I look back on my calendar since my last post in February, several other things of note: In March - I was liberated! I got Roadrunner & got rid of my dial-up AOL! I also got digital phone & got rid of my SBC! I love it! In April - Megan & I went to the Blanco Living History Day which included several notable guestspeakers, a banquet, & a ball! It was great! The men and women were dressed in there civil war era costumes! There was lots of dancing and it was fun! Also in April we went to a Feast of Unleavened Bread at Canyon Lake. It was also loads of fun, good food, good friends, good fellowship, swimming, good music, & The Good News! In May - My mom bought tickets for me & my sister to go to the Alamodome to see Joel Osteen live. My Uncle came along too & my mom's boyfriend as well. It was really nice & there was a big turnout! We also went to see Star Wars III for Jordan's birthday! She had been counting the days down til it came out! Finally this movie helped piece together & answer all those lingering questions about anakin/darth vader, etc.! June came and I turned another year older & my mom & her longtime boyfriend of 25 years finally got married! Now that's a long engagement huh? LOL Me & my siblings were glad it finally happened. Now we can say: my stepdad instead of my mom's boyfriend. Ashley went off for a week to Glorieta, NM for a camp called WILDWEEK. She had a great time. She also got 2 lifeguarding jobs and is glad to be making money. One is year round for a local school district at an indoor natatorium and the other was only for summer at our neighborhood pool. July - Alicia bought a miniature dachshund/wiener dog! He is soo cute! His name on his papers are Hershey Caramel Kisses. We call him Hershey. We are pretty sure he is what they call a Sable colored dachshund. On the 4th of July we went to Camp Alzafar for their annual dance that we usually go to. It was fun! Alicia went to the Ukraine again on a mission trip. This was her second time. She really liked seeing the work Yahweh is doing over there! She was gone two weeks and got home in the middle of the night and was back in time for a week of VBS at the church! There was a big turnout and Me & all 4 of the girls worked! The kids all had a great time! 4 of my nephews & 3 friends all were able to attend. August - Well our old black lab Lacey turned 11 this month. She isn't so much black anymore, she is turning gray on her feet and snout area. My great niece Hailey turned 6 during her trip to Disneyland. She had a lot of fun there. On the 18th - 21st, Me, my mom, Ashley, Alicia, Megan, Jordan & Josh all went to Corpus Christi to visit my sister Andrea & her family (David & Hayden) We had a great time visiting, playing games, spending the day at the beach, and on Sunday attended the Franklin Graham Festival! It was a weekend long event, but we only wanted to go to the last day when Michael W. Smith was there. He was so energetic and so full of the Holy Spirit! You could just feel Yahweh's presence in the auditorium. It was great! The 21st would have been my best friend Michele's 40th Birthday had she lived long enough to see it! Boy do I still miss her! We would have celebrated it up right! September - My cousin Jeff goes away to Scotland to attend the University of Edinburgh. Layne has his 1st birthday party which was a happy event but on the morning before the party Me, my mom, my sisters Julie & Andrea were going to visit my maternal grandma who was in hospital. Well my mom got the call that she took a turn for the worse and so we decided to make our visit earlier than planned but by the time we got there she had just passed away about 20 minutes before, while we were in route to the hospital. We will all miss her, but she lived a good long life - she passed just 10 days before her 92nd birthday! October - We went to a feast of Tabernacles in Athens. It was lots of fun. Lots of good speakers, good friends, good fellowship. It was a great time together. It's the first time I have slept in a tent since I was aout 11 or 12. There were 9 of us in that tent with loads of stuff but we all fit! Also the highlight of the feast was Ashley & Alicia's baptism . Praise Yahweh! We were all so proud of them for taking this important step in their walk! Happy Birthdays! Next week we will be heading back to Athens to the same campground for another tabernacles celebration! It promises to be equally as much fun as the last one. Can't wait to see everyone! I know it will be a great time of learning and fun & fellowship! I will provide details on that when we return. Well I am going to try not to wait so long to post next time! I know you will all be relieved I am finished finally! TTFN - Larlie! 4:22 PM |
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Another busy day!!
Happy Birthday to my youngest sister Andrea! Today is her birthday and we have a busy day planned! First I have to go finish up a cake that should have been done last night, but never got finished. Yesterday's party for Abby was great! She loved her cakes I made and her sister was truly surprised when I brought her a Belle cake. She wasn't expecting it so she was really surprised! I will put the cake pictures up on my fotopage as soon as I can.
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Abby's One!!!!!!
And a very Happy Birthday goes out to a very special one year old today!! My great niece Abby! I will be making her birthday cakes today as well as one that was for her sister who was sick in the hospital on her birthday and I had promised her a Disney's Princess Belle cake. Then we go off to the party at Chuck E. Cheese around 4:00. Then tonight we go over to my sister's house to make another cake for a birthday party tomorrow. Well I guess I better get my decorating supplies together to go to my sister's house and make cakes. Take care & have a fun day!
9:31 AM
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Friday, February 18, 2005
Busy weekend coming up!
Well this is supposed to be a busy weekend! I will be making & decorating lots of cakes! I will try and post them to my fotopage later! I guess I get a little bit of break tonight, all my kids are gone so it's just me and the hubby! That will be nice. Megan and Jordan are off BBsitting their cousins and the twins are gone til Sunday afternoon. They are working at Disciple Now for the church. They will have a busy weekend too! Well have a great weekend! Yahweh bless!
10:55 AM
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
Swimming & Starbucks!!
Today was a great day, my mom picked up me, and two of my kids. First we went to the Josh Davis Natorium so Ashley could drop off her employee package. She is trying to get a job there as a lifeguard. She got certified at the end of the summer last year so she put in an application just down the road at the school district's Athletic center. Well while she was in there my mom & I waited in the car and after a while I went in to see how much longer she was gonna be, plus I wanted to see the pool. It was really neat in there. There are actually two Natoriums right next to each other and they may even be connected, but this one is bigger and was built in honor of our very own Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Josh Davis. They had a dispaly cabinet with several pictures when he swam at the smaller natorium during his high school years. Of course I guess he keeps his Gold medals at home. There was a diving competion going on inside also. Although I was never on a diving team I always loved watching compititions. Swim team was my thing! I love to swim! I know it is bad, but just the smell of the clorine at the natorium the other day brougth me back in time to all my meets. I just wanted to go jump in myself!
After leaving the natorium, we went to Target to get Megan some jeans & a hoodie & Ashley got a movie. Alicia & Jordan stayed home. Alicia did some laundry and Jordan wanted to play the new video game I bought at Target when my mom & I went yesterday. Before we shopped around in Target we were all staring at the Starbucks & drooling so we decided to all go have a frappachino! My mom actually got iced vanilla latte, Megan & I got Java Chip frappachino, and Ashley got a mocha peppermint frappachino. They were so good! We also split 2 large, warm, soft pretzels. One was light salt flavor and the other was garlic parmesian flavor. They were very good. I felt bad that the other girls weren't there to enjoy it so I bought Alicia & Jordan a frappachino that they have in the little bottles. All in all I would say we've had a great day so far! Wishing ya'll the same! Until next time! 4:22 AM |
After leaving the natorium, we went to Target to get Megan some jeans & a hoodie & Ashley got a movie. Alicia & Jordan stayed home. Alicia did some laundry and Jordan wanted to play the new video game I bought at Target when my mom & I went yesterday. Before we shopped around in Target we were all staring at the Starbucks & drooling so we decided to all go have a frappachino! My mom actually got iced vanilla latte, Megan & I got Java Chip frappachino, and Ashley got a mocha peppermint frappachino. They were so good! We also split 2 large, warm, soft pretzels. One was light salt flavor and the other was garlic parmesian flavor. They were very good. I felt bad that the other girls weren't there to enjoy it so I bought Alicia & Jordan a frappachino that they have in the little bottles. All in all I would say we've had a great day so far! Wishing ya'll the same! Until next time! 4:22 AM |
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
I found some good books today!
Well today I didn't do anything to exciting except go to Target, Half Priced books and The Post Office with my mom. She had to get stamps and mail her income tax return, then we went to half priced books. I was trying to see if I could find a genealogy program for the computer. I need to update my family tree and back when I had done it before I had borrrowed someone's program and put it on my computer, but my computer crashed since I submitted it to Ancestry World Tree @ Ancestry.com & the rootsweb.com. I hadn't really had time to work on anything in a while, but some newfound cousins found my Genealogy Project and invited me to their family website where I can share info with them. Well since my info was lost due to my stupidity in not saving my files to a disk, I lost them so I set out to find a copy of Family Treemaker. No success at the two places I went, but I found a couple of other books. A child's cookbook, two games that were marked down to $1.00 and a birthday present for my younger sister who's birthday is Sunday. It was really great, she has one little boy and they do alot of activities together and I found this book called "The Little Boy's Activity Bible For Toddlers" and it is really great because it has like a bible story, then it has a mommy and me activity to do after each one. I really think my sister will like it! I only paid $5.00 for it. The list price is $12.99 so I got a great bargain as well. The cookbook I got was for kids with easy to make recipes and it was only $1.98 and then I found an old 1970's reader for $3.00 and a book like one my dad bought me as a kid that burned up in my sister's house fire 17 years ago. It was a Treasury of 55 old Walt Disney stories. I just love going there to see what kind of bargains I can find. Last time I found many great cookbooks. I love cookbooks!!! Also the last time I went there was with my mom (who taught me my love of books) and she told me the story behind half priced bookstores. I never had heard it until then. Apparently he worked for my dad many years ago at a very large, well known company (nothing to do with books) and my dad was told to let this guy go. Well this guy went and opened up this bookstore. I noticed there is a lot of them around the country. My mom said that once when the man still worked for my dad that my mom and dad stopped by his house to drop something off and my mom waited in the car but my dad went in. Anyway he told my mom that this man had hundreds of old books, tapes, records, etc. in stacks all over the house. Lots!! Anyway my dad said that is what the man used to start his first store after he was let go. I know this is prolly boring to you, but I thougth it was interesting that one of my favorite stores was started by a man that my dad let go many years ago. Well when I got home, with no success on finding a GEDCOM program for my genealogy project, I ended up downloading the free starter version of FTM so I can at least trade info with my new family lines. It will work for now, but I still need to get a good program for that. Well that's all for now! TTFN & Yah Bless!
5:18 PM
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Library Day!
Well today I went to the library! I found several books and the DVD of Orthanger Abbey I reserved came in so I checked it out with several others. I also checked out a few books for good school reading. We are soing unit studies and right now we are starting one on pioneers. There are some really good book series that are like diaries written for juvenile readers called Dear America, The Royal diaries and the American Sister series.. I also found a new series called The Lone Star Journals which obviously are about Texas. Anyway the one I picked up is called Get Along Little Dogies - The Chisholm Trail Diary of Hallie Lou Wells. All seem really great. I also found one called A Pioneer Sampler which is about The Daily Life Of A Pioneer Family in 1840 and it has some recipes to try as well as activities that the children would have done back then. Can't wait to try some of the ideas in the book. Also today was my little great nephew Brendan's first trip to the library. Every time I see him he wants me to read him a book. Sounds like he takes after our side of the family. Most everyone loves to read books! Alicia took some really cute pictures of him "reading" books. I don't think she has had time to put them up yet though. I felt so bad because he was so excited about seeing all the books that he was running and ran right into a bookshelf and his his poor little face. He had a big purple bruise going from his eye to his cheek where he hit. And I know it hurt cause he usually is tough and jumps up but he was crying about it. Anyway he still had a good time. He met two other little boys that were close to his age and helped one of them pick out books. It was cute. The other boy gave him a hug when it was time for him to leave. Well that is all that happened today that was worth telling. Take care and have a great & blessed evening!
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