Cute Pic

Looking through old pictures today trying to get inspired to do a layout and ran across this picture. I think it is so cool. Larry and Richard there with their cowboy hats on and Mom with her cute little baby doll. Grandma and Grandpa holding a picture of I am thinking Lucky and Joyce. Why were they hold their picture? Where was Pat, Cornelia and the rest of the kids? Was Joyce and Lucky stationed somewhere else and all the other kids were local? Who was taking the picture? Look at the "icicles" on the tree and the christmas cards hanging on the wall. I wonder who they were from? That cute little reindeer (I guess it is a card on the wall) at Grandpa's right elbow. I wish I had the answers to these questions.

Haven't felt very good today. Throat is sore. Took my camera and printer dock back and got a new one. Hope it works and gives me no problems. Getting ready to go eat a little soup so I can get ready to go to work tomorrow. Not looking forward to it especially if I am not feeling any better. Talked to Nick today. Vincent had gotten a text message from Ashley which said to bring some toilet paper home!!!LOL, I am still laughing about that. I texted Nick and asked him why Ashley needed toilet paper! He called me back and said that she had been having problems with her text messages, her brother had gotten some, but he said she probably don't know how to use it....he was laughing as much as I was. Never know who sees your text messages!!! Said he was going to be working in Chapel Hill all week. Natasha called me this morning and asked me if I had called her. She had a missed call from me. I told her no that I had called her last night when she was trying to get in touch with me, but not today. Technology!!! Guess I will go for now....

Play...

Seems like Allyssa has Santa all to herself....this was one of the pics that Deborah took while we were visiting Santa in Hendersonville, NC, December 16, 2006. On Ali Edwards blog which I read every day, she has challenged everyone to come up with a word that would describe how you want to incorporate in our layouts during the year, a word that we could use in our every day lives...I have come up with "play". I am going to try to "play" more that I have in the last year. There is so much that pre-occupies my mind, bills, work, making sure the granddaughters are taken care of, you know, that everyday junk that keeps us from enjoying life. So I am going to see how it goes. Had lunch with Mom, Deborah and Asheton at Zaxby's today, then Mom and I headed to do our normal Saturday "thing", going to scrapbook stores. We went to the Scrapbook Company today, soo much pretty paper and things for our layouts....wish I could have at least 1 of everything!!!!! My Kodak printer dock is going to have to be returned tomorrow, it just is not working right. Have tried 2 new cartridges in it and it still is not wanting to cooperate with me, so I have to take it back and get another one. So I will have to concentrate on pictures that I have already printed out for now....that should not be a problem. Vincent and I went to Cracker Barrel in Hendersonville, NC, to eat dinner. We rode the bike, kinda of chilly when we left, but the ride was really good, refreshing.....I enjoyed getting away for a brief spell...

Changing style

This picture is from the Easter Egg Hunt at church March 3, 2005. I am thinking of a change of scenery, maybe upside down also. Ever since I have been scrapbooking, several years now, I have always done 12x12 layouts. I am thinking of starting an 8.5x11 album. I am going to try it anyway just to see how it is. I have several mini-albums right now just waiting to be put to use, but I cannot decide what to do with them. Is that not odd? I have so many ideas, things-to-do lists, etc. running through my mind most of the time, I don't even know where to start. That is, in-between trying to clean house, watching Allyssa and Dakota 3 or more days a week, church, making sure I am spending enough time with hubby, working, and all that "other" stuff, like paying bills, (and trying not to forget to pay the telephone bill like I did this month)....I was going to enter the creating keepsakes hall of fame contest, but I have to have 10 layouts completed and sent in by February 10 and some of the things that I have to do, I don't think I will be able to get them done. I seem to run out of ink in both my Epson picturemate printer and used all the starter ink in my Kodak printer...so I cannot print any pictures right now. Why is that it all seems to run out at the same time. Just replaced the color ink in my lexmark printer. I think I need to go now and try to get some of the things on my to-do list completed, since I like to "check" things off, so the more I complete the more checks I can put on it! I know I am weird!!!!!!!

Silly Dakota!

This is now another one of my favorite photos. It was taken at the mall in Hendersonville, NC, when we were up there before Christmas. Dakota is being her silly self with her tongue out! Asheton is always such a great big help when we have both the girls. Allyssa and I met up with Mom at church tonight. Natasha got off work early and went to pick up Dakota herself since she don't usually get to do that. Sonya, Lynn and I ran to Leopard Forest Coffee Shop for our usual coffee run before Scott (our pastor and Sonya's husband) gets started. He told us we only had 5 minutes to get there and back! Of course, we did not make it in 5 minutes. We had Gracie, one of their daughters' with us, who was not feeling the best in the world, so while we were waiting on our coffees, Sonya was hustling back and forth to the bathroom with Gracie who would not go in the bathroom because she is afraid of the closed doors. So we grabbed a cup for the road (empty just in case Gracie got sick before we got back) and headed back to church as fast as we could get there within reason! Gotta go for now, it is 10:57 p.m. WAY, WAY past my bedtime.....:-(

Guess who this is!

Yep, this is Allyssa at her 1-year-old birthday party 5 years ago. Isn't she the cutiest thing? Look at the tossled hair! They all grow so fast...Natasha, 24, Nick 20, all my gosh, time is flying by. Nick will be 21 in April. 21 years old. I will be 47 in February. Not feeling well tonight so I am going to make this short. Gonna go and take a shower and get ready for bed. Don't feel like doing anything. Maybe I will feel better tomorrow....

Happy Birthday Allyssa

Today was Allyssa's 6th birthday. It has been 6 years since she was born? It don't seem possible sometimes. She received a Baby Alive baby doll from Mema and Papa Bob which she is opening in this picture. Dakota is looking on just waiting on her chance to get to the baby doll. Allyssa was happy with the baby doll, especially since it is suppose to wet her diaper among other things is it is suppose to do. This party was for the family. She is suppose to have a sleep over with a few of her friends in a couple of weeks. We ate dinner at Mom's house for New Year's Day. We had a good time and the food was delicious as always. Well, it is time to get back to the grindstone and a regular schedule now. Holidays are over for another year....2007 here we come!!!!!

Out with the old...

Three hours and 45 minutes and 2006 will be gone, no more. How depressing is that? But we do have a very new year, no blemish, no nothing to start off with. A clean slate. Seems the older I get, the faster everything moves. I will probably be asleep when the new year comes in, not that I don't care, I just really have never gotten into the "celebrating" the new year. Never got involved with new year's eve parties, fireworks and so forth. Why is that, I wonder? Allyssa turns 6 tomorrow. 6 years old...she was just a premmie yesterday...seems like yesterday sometimes anyway. Still haven't done anything with my "resolutions" idea, finished one layout today, "14 months" for Dakota. Been looking at a picture of Allyssa taken back in September, 2005, when we went to the lake and I captured the most beautiful picture of her as she was getting back on the boat from a dip in the water. I just cannot seem to put down into words what I see in the picture...the water droplet falling from her chin, perfect pink lips, tantalizing blue eyes, perfect nose...some of the traits I intend to put on the layout...not finished though. Not feeling very good today anyway.