Monday, August 30, 2010

One Sign

Several days ago I sat down on our back deck and looked around the yard. I couldn't help the sigh that escaped from within...the dogwood's berries had come and its leaves were starting to turn red. A sure sign that fall is right around the corner.



And I had to share these beautiful flowers that made me smile.


Two Out of Three

We have three cats, but only two are present in this post. Maybe because the third wasn't around, or maybe because I refuse to call her mine. Not that Sammy isn't, or hasn't been apart of our family, she's just very...female (grouchy, mean, grouchy, mean, happy, grouchy, mean, etc.)

Here are the other two however.

Meet Mila
(pronounced "Meelah")

Actually as you can tell she is still only a kitten. She was born earlier this year (in the spring sometime). We were suppose to give her away, but no one took her and then they stopped calling. She's actually one of Sammy's kittens.

Then one day, she ran out in front of our car and got herself run over. We thought for sure she wouldn't make it, especially since she disappeared the next day. Her leg was unusable for the first day, but then she learned to hobble on it. Now she walks perfectly fine, like nothing ever happened. She's as spunky as any ol' kitten...maybe even more so. Because we all thought she was a goner and now she's just fine, we thought to call her Miracle...in Spanish! In Spanish it is milagro. We really didn't like the sound of that, so we shortened it to Mila.


Next we have
Molly
She is now a couple years (at least) and she is also one of Sammy's. I consider Molly mine. She has her grouchy moments, but for the most part is quite happy. :)

She's also very lazy...sitting around all day...yawning.

And almost always has this look of annoyance on her face. Well, she didn't particularly like me sticking the camera in her face, ordering her not to move so much.

Mila is so wild, it was hard to get a picture of her. I can't believe I got this many!


Thursday, August 26, 2010

I Never Knew Shopping Could Be So Fun!

Tuesday we gathered up all the girls and went...shopping (of course!). We had so much fun, trying on silly clothes, prom dresses, and things that we seriously wanted buy...we had lots of laughs.Trying on different clothes...some silly and others not so much. I love Megan's skirt...it makes me smile! :)


And, sunglasses of course, are always fun to try on!


We went to JC Penny's and just had to try on their prom dresses.


Necklaces...oh so many to choose!


What girl wouldn't like Bath & Body Works. It seemed like we spent hours in there sniffing, spraying, testing...

...until we finally bought those things that we love smelling and had to pose for another picture!

Then over to JoAnns where we played with the flowers a bit. :)

Trying on scarfs and high heeled shoes




We finished our shopping with dinner at Panera Bread
This is my lovely meal. Broccoli Chedder in a bread bowl. :)


We finished the day with a stop at the beach. Unfortunately my camera died just then, only allowing me to get just a couple pictures.

Friday, August 20, 2010

A Picture From This Summer

Earlier this month us high school girls got to have a sleep over with our pastors wife at one of the ladies (from church) home. We all had a very fun, giggly girl time eating pizza, watching Sense and Sensibility and staying up to nearly 2:00 am. I didn't take very many pictures...actually hardly any...but I was able to get this one of Em and I just love it!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Friends Visit

The Bennetts came to visit us on Thursday!
Heather, me
Sarah and Aaron

We played Apples to Apples and another game shown below.

They bought some beautiful Gladiolas!!

I love purple and yellow together, just like I do blue and yellow. :)

Now here is the other game we played, a game that we are not sure of the name. But it was a lot of fun and brought a lot of laughter!
What you had to do was a write a sentence on a piece of paper (like the one above) and then pass to the person beside you.

That person would read the sentence and then draw it.

The third person is only able to see the drawing, and then must write what he sees.

It kind of goes on like that, so that the fourth person sees only the sentence and draws that.

Many times you will end with something totally off from the first sentence. :) I would highly recommend playing this game...especially with a lot of people (the more people the funnier they are at the end). We played with 5 people this time.


Monday, August 2, 2010

Summer Fun!

I brought the camera to church last night...it was fun taking pictures of the girls. :)Marjorie, Heather, Bonnie and Lydia

Here's a message for you!!!

Heather and Sophie aren't they so sweet!


Friday, July 23, 2010

Fireworks and Flowers

We actually ended up going to see some fireworks the same night I said that we were (probably) not...I was kind of surprised that we went. But, we didn't stop there, Heather and I ended up going to see some more on the 4th at the beach (which, in my opinion is so much fun!!). I got to take some fairly good pictures of the fireworks on the first night. Here's a couple of the better shots.



And I can't help but share some (kinda) recent pictures of my favorite subject...flowers!!! These were taken earlier this summer.
(Don't you love blue and yellow together??)


Saturday, July 3, 2010

Happy Fourth!!



Happy 4th of July Everyone!!!


A day early because we'll be gone to the park with my church on Sunday. What are you all doing (besides those of you who go to my church)??? Is anyone going to see fire works? I don't think we'll be going to see any, but who knows...:)


These last two pictures are of the Memorial Day parade, but I still thought I'd share them. The love the Great Dane!

Friday, July 2, 2010

Kitten Pictures