Faith, Family and Friends: February 2010

Garage Door Covers

Check these garage door covers out! A German firm, Style Your Garage, will create a poster for your garage door, as if to show the interior and what's in it! Prices range from $199 to $399 for the double door. Guaranteed to make those that drive by take a second look!

It's My Birthday!

I have a birthday tomorrow! I shall be 55 totally awesome years! Some have been better than others, but I truly wouldn't have missed this dance.
Here are 55 neat thoughts I had today ~
1) I still have at least 30 more good years!
2) Boy, it's harder getting up off the floor than it used to be.
3) Never realized I could love another's child until I became a Nan.
4) Still love coloring in a new coloring book with new crayons.
5) I just love Munchos and sweet tea.
6) Wonder how long it would take to lose ten pounds.
7) Wonder what I have to give up to lose ten pounds. Munchos?
8) Wow, John begins a vacation tomorrow. He'll be home thirteen days. Wow.
9) What is he going to do to keep from being bored?!
10) I love my life.
11) There are some ugly people in this world. Smelly ones, too.
12) There really isn't enough hours in most of my days.
13) Should I stop and get a breakfast biscuit? No. Drive on.
14) I think we'll leave around 9 am for Brandon, MS.
15) Snow. I love snow. We just don't get enough.
16) I really should start trying to lose ten pounds. Maybe next week.
17) Comfort foods: cream of wheat with butter, tuna and noodles
18) Favorite drink: sweet tea, or an icy classic coke
19) Favorite dream: to see Paris in Spring. Or Christmas.
20) Favorite car: the one I'm driving now
21) Favorite home: 204 Spruce
22) I should have stopped and got that biscuit.
23) The shoppe needs to be vacuumed. Drat.
24) Love this scarf Stacey gave me for Christmas!
25) Which reminds me, I loved those white chocolate pecans Patti gave me!
26) Listening to the radio would be better if there weren't commercials.
27) The TV is all mine tonight!
28) Which reminds me, The Bachelor isn't fun now that I know who he picks :/
29) There are so many tiny wrinkles on my hands!
30) Gosh, look at the wrinkles on my arms!
31) Okay, quit looking. It's getting worse.
32) I love the way Garrison cleaned my car!
33) Drat, Garrison is moving to Knoxville to go to UT.
34) So who's going to clean my car now?!
35) Forget the biscuit. Wish I had some white chocolate pecans!
36) I need more room at CaaB to display the new arrivals!
37) Shoot, I forgot my phone charger.
38) Maybe we'll go out to eat Thursday night. Maybe I'll just get take out.
39) I love a Japanese Steakhouse!
40) Noah is funny not looking at me when he first comes through the door.
41) Ian's hair color is gorgeous.
42) Oh, there's Elle. Be still my heart.
43) Wow, it's 4 already!
44) I love it when Noah and Alaina want me to read to them.
45) Alaina. I get to see her this weekend!
46) I love watching Jenny nurse Elle.
47) I'm glad Patti has to do the window dressing. I'm so NOT into that.
48) Retirement. What a grand way to live.
49) John's on vacation after tonight. Hmm
50) I wonder where we'll eat Saturday night!
51) I love food. I love eating just for the pleasure of the taste!
52) I'm so proud of our daughters.
53) We really need to pay the water bill.
54) Think I'll stop by Zaxby's on the way home.
55) It's been an awesome day.

Baby Fields

I have always, always loved this print. In fact, I found it and had it professionally framed when Jenny was younger. The reason this particular print grabs my heart is that our Jenny has a doll that she loved dearly when she was small. Baby Fields was two weeks older than Jenny and was a much loved Betsy Clark doll that went through umpteen dresses, legs, and arms. The only original part left of that poor babydoll was her trunk and her face. And the facial features were all washed/worn off. But there was never a more loved baby doll.

As we noticed how worn this doll was getting we began looking for another Betsy Clark doll. We looked and looked and looked. And looked some more. My mother in law finally found one on a visit to San Francisco. Upon giving it to Jenny, we noted there wasn't much enthusiasm. Hmm. Jen disappeared for a bit and returned, having gone to Mima's bathroom, gotten some lipstick, and given the new doll some painted lips. Horrors. Needless to say, that doll was trashed and we just kept Baby Fields repaired. Some things just can't be replaced.

Both of these adorable prints came from a blog I found when I first began my blog. The Feathered Nest. Dawn generously shares her prints with us and has such a sweet site. Go visit her and see for yourself. She's a creative soul and a real sweetheart.

Sugar & Spice

Sugar & spice

and everything nice,

That's what little girls

are made of!

I thought of this nursery rhyme when I saw this snapshot of Miss Elle that Jenny took recently. All pink, and soft, and girly. She was five months old this weekend. Five short months!

Snow! Finally!

This is Stacey's home! At the time this was taken, they'd already gotten four inches and that was early this morning. They ended up getting quite a bit more. Austin and Alaina had a blast!

This is Leslie's home and you can see her 'boot' prints along with MarleyDog's paw prints as they walked outside early this morning. There was enough snow that there's still snow between the prints and the driveway! Lucky girls.

Look at the snow Jenny got at her house! And she lives just outside city limits! Note how cute our youngest grandaughter is. She doesn't know what snow is yet.

Our daughters got snow today. They really got snow.

And here's what we got. And this was after several hours.

This was after it snowed a couple of hours. Didn't get much better than this. Drat.

Just not the same, but hey, it's snow!

Finally!
(This area will eventually be joined with the units on the other side of the lake. For now though, it's just a quiet zone that doesn't look too pretty.) So, how much snow did your part of the world receive?! It's still coming down, but it isn't sticking on the asphalt.

New Decorating Site!

I found this site and fell in love with her ideas! She's Becca at Adventures in Decorating and you'll enjoy her posts and photos as much as I have! I look forward to reading further and seeing more of her beautiful home! Look what they did with their breakfast room?! Love it!