hiatus....

i'm going to be taking a break from the blog for a while. could be a couple of weeks...could be months, but i have some other business that needs attention. miss ya~

happy 4th!

i think these are pinwheels...

"i don't know what to think mommy...."

"now i do, that was awesome!"

"do it again!!"

A great big Happy 4th of July to my fam and friends! Enjoy the pics of Blaine~

a quiet stroll....

Take a stroll through a charming neighborhood. Take your time, snap some photos!

ever changing....

flaxen-haired babe....

lopsided grin....

heartbreaking charm...

cheeky smile...

Little Blaine, ever changing....evolving....countenance and visage awaiting rediscovery.

togetherness.....

a personal family shot....

looks like total disarray...

i think we finally got it...

Ha! Togetherness reminds me of the intro to the old Parent Trap movie. Think about it...you'll see what I mean :). Anywho, you'll have to blow up the second picture to check out all of the babies reactions. High-larious.

coincidence? i think not.....

On our recent trip to St Augustine, Blaine discovers the wishing witch and Marilyn Monroe. He freaked out when he saw the witch and would not let go of Mike's shoulder. However, he giggled and smiled at Marilyn's cut-out. No kidding....

birthday wishes....

what's taking so long?

this is where we had lunch...

haha, just thought that this was a funny picture...

and for dessert.....candy, mmmm!

trouble...

Looks like Blaine has found trouble in the cabinets. Busted!!!!

hair today.....gone tomorrow....

Summer heat is rolling in and that means "bye bye rats nest". Heck, I'm saving money on shampoo too!

pics of a three day weekend...

nephew clark and cousin caroline playing in the pool...

cousin emma and nephew bruce....(isn't he cute?!?)

I don't have pictures of Blaine's Memorial Day......yet....but here are a couple of some other loved ones!

happy memorial day...

I wanted to wish everyone a happy memorial day and also thank all veterans for their service to our country. And a very personal thanks to Dad, Jared, Grandpa Chick and Grandpa Guy......we love you~

let's go ride a bike (think, let's go fly a kite lol)

blaine and his daddy....

eh he, 'nuff said...

what did you drop in there...my arms are too short to reach?!?

Adventures in bike riding..... hehe! I mean honestly, how cute is Blaine in his little helmet?? The last picture is just an adorable afterthought :)~

would you like a weekend getaway?

Oh nellie, what I wouldn't give to spend the night in a castle! I love the ivy crawling all over the stone walls.....desperately seeking a way in....

pool party...

cool your toes off dad, put em in!

the light, it's blinding me!

Blaine's classic goofy-grin...

How truly redneck of us. We broke down and purchased a baby pool so that Blaine could get used to sitting in cold water before graduating to the BIG pool. He's awfully darn cute, though. It was worth the purchase price of $5.00.

let it slide.....

Blaine and I took a little stroll to the park. He likes the slide...but only when I'm with him, haha!

another quote that moves me...

A letter from Captain Frederick Wentworth to a Miss Anne Elliot (Persuasion)-

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am at every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in
"F. W

Oh please.....I dare you not to swoon!

tea party...

my pre-refreshment table setting...

from left to right; Madonna, Savin, Satha, Rebekah



I was finally able to post pictures of my tea party. What a great time we had! And all of my guests were so sweet....they even brought me a gift! I hope to make this an annual soirée~

bubbles...

I love the progression of these pictures. He starts out real wary of the bubbles but, obviously.....he overcomes his shyness, lol!

quotes that move me...

"Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come abroad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt: and then I've a nervous notion that I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me."

"That I never should, sir: you know" -----impossible to proceed.

Oh my....this passage still makes me cry almost every time. Jane Eyre is, perhaps, my favorite book. With almost every page, I am moved. You love Mr. Rochester despite his flaws. And oh, oh....how I wish that I were as good, kind and courageous as Jane!

cottage adoration...

"I'll have my tea in the garden, Jeeves."

"Do come in and please mind the topiary..."

Another weird, obsessive love of mine.