Maddie and Grams shopping in Naples.
Gramps and Maddie on the beach. We are having fun in the sun, Maddie (my granddaughter) and Melissa (my daughter) made it down and we are having a ball. We've been going to the beach, shopping and hanging out at Starbucks and eating. :-) Maddie loves the beach and she has a complete meltdown when it's time to leave. LOL Hope everyone is well. Take care.
We're leaving for Naples tomorrow morning and I wanted to show you some of the photos of our time there last year. Melissa(my daughter) and Maddie(my granddaughter) came down with us last year and here is a photo of them with my sweetie on the berm.
Look at how small Maddie was this time last year, so cute.
And I cannot wait to put on my sandals and walk down to the beach and put my feet in the sand. The sunsets on the Gulf coast can be beautiful so we are looking forward to that also.
And every year we go to the big Superbowl party they have in my Mother -in -Law's building and Maddie enjoyed the balloons last year. For some reason my MIL hides from my camera. I'll have to take some photos of her while she's not looking this year. LOL
And because this one is just so cute. My MIL had this cute little hair dryer that she gave to Maddie because of all of her hair. It's just so funny to see a baby getting their hair blown dry. I am bringing my laptop but my MIL is unsure if her building has wireless. She doesn't use a computer, I've been trying to get her to use one so hopefully when she sees my laptop, she'll come around. I'll try to post a few photos while I'm there so you can see how pretty this area of Florida is. Also Donna from Made In Heaven has tagged me to name 5 things about me, so if I don't get back to that today I will do it when I return. I'm trying to catch up with a few things around the house today but hopefully I can relax later on and do some blog reading. Have a great Tuesday!
Look who I found in my suitcase yesterday. Cleo was trying to hitch a free ride to Florida. LOL Actually, I think she was looking for a warm place in the sun and decided the suitcase would do. Sorry Cleo, you have to stay home this time.
Here are a few photos from the slumber party on Friday night. Maddie decided that Grandma's river rocks were the perfect things to play with. She played with these things for at least a half hour until she figured out that if she threw them on the hardwood floor they would make a great sound and that's when Gramps put an end to that fun. :-)
And she is totally obsessed with the keyboard from one of the big computers. So we took it off for her and she was in heaven. She comes over our house now and heads for the office to play with the keyboard. Maybe she'll be a future blogger. I'm finally off to walk at the park again after a short break because of weather. I don't mind walking in the cold but walking on ice and snow really scares me. And I signed up for knitting classes again and once again I am the only one to sign up so far. So I told them that if the knitting class doesn't work out to put me down for the crochet class. We shall see............... Have a great Monday!
Just wanted to show you Maddie's new big sis tee shirt. And her little sister who is due to make her entrance into the world in May has a bib that says little sis. Maddie did not like having to try on this shirt, it was a tug of war to get it on her, but doesn't she look so cute in it? She's coming over for a slumber party with Grams and Gramps tonight.
My sweetie and I are temporarily sharing an office and to make room, I had to box up some of my favorite old friends. You should have seen me, taking some down off the bookshelf that we are getting rid of. I would put some in the box and then take a couple back out because I just can't part with them yet. Books have been my friends ever since I learned to read. They have taken me on adventures, entertained me, kept my mind off of problems. When I was growing up we lived right by a library and I would be there every week. There were no computers to entertain me, no game boys or video games and only three channels on the TV for a long time so books became my main source of entertainment. So some of my old favorites are going into storage for now but I did manage to keep a few that I read over an over again out. Does anyone else like to read certain books over and over? And what are your favorite books?
I also had to box up my collection of my old Nancy Drew books that I had when I was a young girl. I have my name in all of these books and on the inside cover where it lists all of the Nancy Drew books, I had marked off each one I would read or collect. I loved Nancy Drew.
Now my sweetie wanted me to box up my little bunny that sat on the bookshelf also but I put my foot down on that one. This little guy has been my buddy since I was an infant. He has no "fur" left on him and has been sewn in many places. He will be sitting on the new table we are putting in the office. There are some things you don't put in a box and in storage. I can see that my sweetie and I might butt heads while sharing an office for awhile, let's hope it's a short temporary situation. LOL Have a great Thursday!
Would you box up this little guy???
It's National Pie Day, see the bottom of this post for all the details.
My good blogging friend Shannon from Paint Mine Pink gave me this great award! Thanks so much Shannon, I think you are very amazing. I know I have sent you guys over to Shannon's blog before but do yourself a huge favor and go and visit her today. She makes the prettiest things and I just plain love her blog. Thanks Shannon!
And my other good blogging buddy Tammy took pity on me the other day when I did this post , whining about aging. Thanks so much Tammy for taking pity on this Grandma. I love the name of this Young at Heart award, that's what we all should be. And I'm passing this on to all the gals who felt like I did in that post, in your mind you are still young but sometimes when you look in the mirror there's a strange older lady looking back at you. LOL
I wanted to share this video with you because I got the CD the other day. The song is How You Live by Point of Grace and the CD is the same name. My sister June and I went mall walking the other day and the nearest mall from our side of town is a half hour away and when we got there, a sign was on all of the doors saying mall walking was cancelled for that day because of a big sidewalk sale. Well, we seen people walking, so we decided since we were already there, we would give it a try. We had good intentions but didn't get five minutes into the walk when we got sidetracked by the sales, stopping every few minutes to see what each store had on sale. The Disney store in this mall was shutting down so I scored a nice fat Mickey Mouse for Maddie and then we went into the Christian Bookstore where I bought this CD and I also got Natalie Grant's Awaken. I've been sitting here all morning just getting into these two cd's. They are so good, not just the lead songs on the cd's are good but all of the songs are. Hope you enjoy the video, I have the worst luck with these videos so I hope it plays for you. Have a wonderful day. There is snow here today. I went out to take a few photos but did not think any were post worthy. Oh and really listen to the words of How You Live! Turn Up The Music!
Travel Tuesday is below this post. Some really awesome photos of Kauai!
Napali Coast State Park
Kauai's Coconut Coast which is on the east side is known for it's many coconut palms.
Tree Tunnel on the road to Koloa
Rainbow in Waimea Canyon
Kauai's Famous Fern Grotto
Wailua Falls near Lihue, Hawaii
Here are my posse of girls at the coffee house the other day, minus my youngest daughter Christina who stood us up with some excuse about working a 24 hour shift and needing to get some sleep. What kind of excuse is that? LOL My daughter Melissa is on the left and then there's my granddaughter Maddie and my niece Stephanie, who we all consider part of our immediate family. I think I already told you about her Mom who was one of my best friends and who died when Steph was really young. Some day I'll write a post about my unlikely friendship with the southern beauty queen who would have been a part of our girl power today if she was still here. Stephanie was at our home a lot while growing up and she was the target of my sweetie's infamous lectures more than once. Now with Melissa's and Jamiel's new baby girl (yet to be named) coming we will have yet another girl to add to our group and if my son and Allison allow us we will add their little boy to our mix. :-) The only boy who we will let be in our girls group.
The coffee house has a little play area for kids so parents can drink their coffee and talked and their kids can play with all the toys. Maddie was having a ball playing with Steph.
Okay now I am going to bounce to the subject of aging. I don't know about you but sometimes in my mind I am still that fresh face young 16 year old in the above photo with my sweetie in 1972, so it comes as a shock to me when the aging stuff quite literally smacks me in the face like the other day. The other day I am getting ready to put on my makeup when I noticed in my mirror what looked to me as an eyelash under my eye, so I'm trying so hard to get the eyelash off, rubbing and trying to pick it off, when all of a sudden I realize that it's not an eyelash at all, no it's a deep set wrinkle under my eye. Okay, don't laugh at me, my eye sight is bad in my defense. And then of course I start really inspecting what's going on underneath my eyes and am shock to realize that I have become am almost 52 year old woman. Where did she come from? And why didn't I see her sneaking up on me? I could have planned an attack measure. Now, don't get me wrong, I would not go back to being that 16 yr old again, I love this time of my life, I'm just not sure I'm ready to embrace my winkles just yet. So maybe when I look in my mirror I should be seeing this little old lady:
But isn't she cute and dressed so stylish with all of her jewelry and white gloves? Truth is I am somewhere between that 16 yr old fresh face girl and that cute little old lady(though I want to be just like this lady when I get to her age, she's stylin') and I'm becoming comfortable with that. And with that said I am going to the hairdresser tomorrow to get the gray dyed out of my hair. Ugh, a girl just can't win.
I just finished this book this weekend and had to share with you all. This is a TERRIFIC book. If you want to see more of Karen's books go here and check it out. I know it may seem like I only read Karen Kingbury and she is one of my very favorites but I am also a big fan of Barbara Delinsky too. Barbara has a new book coming out on January 22nd called The Secret Between Us. There's a few authors that I'll get their books as soon as they come out or one of my sisters will and we will pass the book around. My sisters and I like the same authors, and I think we all agree Karen is one of our favorites. But if you haven't read Between Sundays yet, go an get it, it is well worth the read.
This is Karen's new book coming out February 5th. I've read the whole series and can't wait to read this one.
And yesterday afternoon I pushed myself away from the computer and went to see this movie. Yes it was hard to leave my computer but I did it, I've been really busy with work and the computer was starting to give me a headache. Kat seen this movie also and wrote a post about it also and I totally agree with her. I really liked this movie. It was just plain good, now I know not everyone likes the same kind of movies but I did like this movie. I think everyone knows about this movie by now. Two terminally ill men makes a wish list known as "the bucket list" before either one of them kicks the bucket. We should all make bucket lists.
And I was given an award from Lille Meg who is from Norway. Please take some time and go visit her, she is so sweet and don't be intimidated by the language barrier, she does write in some English. And leave her a comment I know she would love it. Anyway thanks so much Meg, that anyone would think I was amazing in any capacity is amazing to me. And because there are so many of you guys that I think are amazing I am passing this on to everyone who visits me. I am going to update my blogroll here as soon as I get a chance.
