Birthday Girls!!

We had a luau party for the girls on the 21st! FUN, FUN time are the YMCA pool, that they LOOOVE!! Luckily they will still let me give them joint parties! Soon enough that isn't going to happen any longer! LOL Here's some pics of the day! In all the chaos...I rarely remember to take pics, so Justin was in charge of the camera! LOL





Present Madness!!


Cake boy! LOL

Jebbye and Jeb Michael

It was SOOOOOO awesome to get to see and hang out with Jebbye and Jeb (and Jamie-to-be!!) We've missed them so much and hate being apart from our "Navy family". We spent the evening at "ITZ"...I call it Chuck E Cheese on steroids!! LOL

Digi-Scrap!

Ok, so even if I do have an area set aside to DO my scrapping....actually getting TIME to scrap is a whole different ballgame! I'm sure every mother's mantra is "when they're older"....I DON'T WANT TO BE THAT BEHIND!!! LOL So...my latest adventure...digital scrapping! Do you know how much of this stuff you can find FREE!!?? It's GREAT!! Here's a few pages I did in about an hour today, with just some of the photos on my external HD. My CPU HD is "in the shop" right now...remember my "going MAC" post?...I digress. So, until then, I don't have a LOT of my photos, so here's recent pics instead. No one ever said you can't work backwards....right V? LOL

Falyn:




Faith:




Chandler:



Joint Pages:

7-7-07

Happy Luckiest day of the CENTURY!!

Thousands will get married today.
Many babies will be born.
Live Earth Concerts around the world
Harry Potter #7 Release

Countless other events will happen. What will you be doing on the most memorable date of your lifetime? Looks like the rain will be scattered for us today, so get out and enjoy it!

Have a memorable day!!

Party Time!

Saturday we spent the afternoon at Kaleb's birthday party. A little background...Kaleb is Jon and Rachel's 6 yr old son. Jon, Justin and I all graduated high school together, and we met up with him and his now wife Rachel at our reunion last year. Got to chatting up with them and they also have 3 kids...Rachel and I hit it off, and so that brings us to the present. LOL

Here's Mr. Handsome Kaleb himself! (blue shirt)



And the rest of the kids and I enjoying the day! :)


The "little" girls....and the "big" girls.

THANK YOU MARY KAY!!!

Ok, so I am not below a little bribery!! If Faith is anything...she is a GIRLY girl! Don't let the wanting to play T-ball fool ya! She loves her some lip gloss, dress up, SHOES....so I brought along some lip gloss and lo and behold....

SHE BATTED AND SHE PLAYED FIRST BASE AND SHE LOOOOOOVED IT!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! I was SOOO excited and SOOO proud of her!! She was very proud of herself too!! :) ( I think she even forgot about the "lips"!) LOL

Go Tigers!

This year is Faith's turn for T-ball. Falyn wants to do gymnastics and soccer (which both start later in the year) and Faith BEGGED to play T-Ball...so...well...I signed her up for 3 yr old T-Ball at the Y. WHAT was I thinking? I KNOW how shy this child is, and I guess in all honesty, I really thought she would be ok with it and play. Heck NO!! Tuesday was our first game. This child wanted NOTHING to do with T-Ball. LOL She didn't want to talk to anyone, meet anyone, NOTHIN'!! I did finally manage to get her out on the field to throw with me. We were out in left field, when a little boy got up to bat. I told her "watch this boy, he might hit the ball to you, and then you go get the ball, ok?" - "ok, mommy" - watching very intently (mommy got excited here), ball LINED drive to Faith! - ball lands two feet to her left, she stares at it - "Faith! get the ball! There it is! Get it!" - 8 tiny t-ballers running at Faith - "MOMMY!!!!" - Faith runs to me! All I could do was laugh!! LOL Maybe next time! LOL

I was this "-" close to having her up to bat, and they started cheering for her. Yep, it was all over, she didn't want to bat! :P Oh well. She has 7 games left...surely she'll get used to it by the end of the season? LOL Here's my little T-baller! :) (Thank you Grandpa Randy for taking these, while wrestling with Chandler-man!)

Pensacola

Just a FEW of the TOOOONS of pics I took while we were there last week...so check back soon! It was VERY hard to see my old house and then even harder to have dinner with the couple that bought it and not BEG to go see it. I never really realized how much of an attachment you can have to a house....but when 2 of your babies came home to it, crawled for the first time there, took their first steps there....memories!

Here they are playing in the sprinkler at Tracy's! Thanks again 1000x babe! Love ya!




Isn't she just gorgeous!?

Needed to take a step back...

and just remember why it is that I love this job and what I do. These beautiful babies right here are why...

So I borrowed a lens I have been drooling over forever and took them out to this huge field...and we sweat to death, but it was worth it! (they look washed out on here, but they are vibrant!)






Some more today...

More prayers please.

It is with a heavy heart I write this post. My dear friend Angie's father lost his battle with lung cancer on Friday. I had the honor and pleasure of photographing him with his grandchildren a few years back (minus a few new additions), and I will post those in the morning. I'm having a hard time writing this post, so here is his obituary sent from Angie. Please keep her and her family in your prayers.

Richard Neil Jackson, "Rick", 60, died at his home surrounded by family in
Athens, AL on Friday, May 18, 2007 after a courageous battle with cancer.
He retired after a 35-year career in the nuclear industry and was a
decorated veteran of the U.S. Army during Vietnam. During his life, he was
a resident of Taylorville and Erie, IL, Zachary, LA, Russellville, AR, and
Athens, AL. He enjoyed time with family, fishing, gardening, and Nascar.
He is survived by his loving wife of 12 years, Dixie Jackson; brother,
Bill Jackson of Columbia, MO; son and daughter-in-law, Rick and Beth
Jackson of Henderson, NV; daughter and son-in-law, Keri and Chad Parker of
Zachary, LA; daughter and son-in-law Angie and Ryan Dick of Slidell, LA;
stepson and girlfriend, Jason Miller and Mandy Goldman of Houston, TX; and
a special niece, Teresa Wright of Taylorville, IL. He was known as "Pops"
to his 8 grandchildren, Féde Smith, Bradley and Ella Jackson, Austin and
Nicholas Parker, Delaney, Madelyn, and Sophia Dick. He was preceded in
death by his loving wife of 25 years, Jeannie Teter Jackson; father, Cecil
Jackson; mother, Hazel Helfer; brother, Dale Jackson; and sister, Kay
Jackson. A visitation honoring his life will be held at Charlet Funeral
Home in Zachary, LA on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 12:00 pm until memorial
service at 2:00 pm officiated by Ron Thompson. Graveside
services and military rites will immediately follow at Azalea Rest
Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Bill Jackson, Carroll Law, Rick Jackson,
Chad Parker, Ryan Dick, and Jason Miller. In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations may be made in his name to American Cancer Society and the
Hospice of Limestone County in Athens, AL. He loved life, friends and
family, and will be sadly missed by those who knew him.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

GoRgEoUs!!!!!!!!

Why can't the weather be like this ALL the time?!? It's BEAUTIFUL today!! (oh wait...it CAN...IN SAN DIEGO!!!!)