Sneak Preview

We are spending our last night in Arizona.  It's been a lovely weekend, filled with all sorts of stuff.  Once I get home and can put two thoughts together, I'll surely post.  But, to tide you over until then, here's a few photos for your viewing pleasure.  This kind of summarizes the weekend........

and the best part??

Both my kids in one place.

loooooooow self esteem/whew bad hair day

all letters will be in lower case today, i think it reflects the proper mood.

i'm feeling ugly today. 

i am sure my hair looks like this today:

my hair is way overgrown, it needs color desperately, and oh, it is big.  if i were using capital letters, i would have written the word big in all caps.  because it is big.

and yet, by the end of the day, after all the humidity and sweat, i end up looking like granny wrinkles from real housewives of new jersey.

by the way, how nuts is that danielle?  gee-ma-nittley.

must stay away from mirrors today.  must find hat.  must find muu-muu.  must cut hair.  (it's planned for tuesday, hooray)

wish i looked like her

 

Where's Neildo?

Please notice the guy in the green shirt.  You'll be seeing a lot of him in the next few pictures.

Oh, he's not the focal point of the pictures, but somehow, he kept popping up.

Kinda like a bad penny? 

Or Waldo without the stripes?

And the best part was that no one even knew he was there, with the exception of the photographer.

Sometimes we're pretty silly.

Even the bartender got "Neil-ed."

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THREE days until we all get to see Jake!

And Summer Begins

Happy Memorial Day to all, and thank you to all who served and continue to serve, so that I could enjoy a weekend such as this.

Hilton Head, friends, pool parties, kids in the pool, hot dogs, fried catfish, ice cold beer, steaks, yummy breakfasts, sunburn, sand, the smell of sunscreen.......Summer's here folks!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Enjoy your weekend folks!  Me?  I'm hanging with some friends in Hilton Head.  I hope to come back without a sunburn, but filled with stories and pictures. 

Have a great one!!

Dogs and Beer Bottle Caps and Tigers

Steven helps out the Charleston Animal Society quite a bit. I like to go with him when I can, but he has more free time than I do.  

He goes there every Wednesday and takes pictures of the dogs and cats that are up for adoption. (this little fella was there today, thanks for letting me borrow this picture, Dear.)   He then edits them and puts them up on his website and their website. Man, these animals are so cute. He will help them out with special events (photographing) and go any time they have an unusual animal. (rooster, goats, guinea pigs, horses!!)  He is so dedicated to helping animals, and I really love that about him.    (Now, if only I could talk him into bringing another dog home...)

Each year there is a fundraiser called, "Furry Affair." It is a silent auction for donated works of art. He has donated photographs, and other beer bottle cap art.    This year's has over 1500 caps.  He's been hammering for two weeks.   We've been drinking beer for years to collect these caps.  Our dear friends collect these as well and give them to us.  We have beer bottle caps coming out the ying yang.  But it's all worth it.  Looky!!

And, an extra treat today.  My brother's team hasn't had a very good baseball season.  It's been a true "rebuilding" year.  (Lots of frustration and learning)  Well, today, they upset the #1 team in the country, the Texas Longhorns.  They are in their conference tournament, and this puts them in the winner's bracket for the tourney.  It's a good thing.  Good job Tigers!

Baby Ducks and Speculums

Look what I saw today!!  We were on our way to work, and Steven pulled into the duck pond and this is what we saw.

Say it with me --- awwwwwwwww.

Mama and her babies were so brave.  They waddled right over to me to say good morning.  (Yeah, I know they were looking for food, but let me pretend here for a minute.)  What a great way to start a day; with cute little baby ducks.

I love her feet in this one. Mama is pigeon-toed?

After we had seen the ducks, and I dropped Steven at work, I went for my annual obgyn check up.  (Don't worry, nothing gross is gonna happen!)  As I sat in the waiting room, a pregnant woman and dad came into the office.  That man was SO uncomfortable sitting in that room.  You could see it all over his face and body language.  I mean, why was HE uncomfortable?  It made me giggle a bit and OH he was so relieved when he was called out of that room with all those W O M E N.

I love my doctor, she's great.  She was telling me that she had delivered two babies that morning.  Actually, I think she probably delivered two babies before I was even out of bed.  I started thinking that no matter what I did with my day, no way could it top that.  Actually, no matter what I did with ANY of my days would it ever top that.    Huh.  That's kinda humbling.

As I waited to go in for my exam, I saw these sitting on a table staring at me:

Speculum Soup.

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I like these little guys much better.