Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Oh oh oh


O'Charlie's blue dress shirt, $16

Dickie's black pleated twill pants, $19

Romance by Ralph Lauren for Women 3.4 oz. Eau de Parfum Spray, $78

Two light sprinkles of my favorite scent on my favorite neighbor's lapel so she can think of me all day at work,

PRICELESS!

Friday, May 22, 2009

New Family Members!

Laura and Warren and Parker got new puppies in the last couple of weeks.

Laura's puppy is a little silver and black Dachshund

Warren and Parker's puppy is a Dachshund, Border Collie, Pomeranian, Chihuahua mix, an interesting combination.

On Birds

Earlier this spring I spent day and night protecting my new strawberry basket from becoming the home of a pair of doves. Day in day out the two tried to nest in my strawberries and day in and day out I would pick their pieces of string and straw out and fluff the leaves on my plant back up. The nutty critters also tried to nest in the ceiling fan above my hot tub and in the luggage rack of my Escape! Gee'z. I got slack when it looked as if they had given up. A couple of weeks ago I discovered that the doves had indeed nested somewhere else but now I had a new guest in my strawberry plant. Robins. Robins don't build flimsy nests either. No, robins construct adobe dwellings! The damage had been done and the nest was large and already taking a toll on my little strawberries so I decided to leave it and use and share it with my daycare children. It's been quite exciting too.

This used to be my strawberry plant that was going to produce luscious strawberries for my breakfast every morning.

The robin's new home.

Sunday, May 17 the first egg hatched early in the morning.

Late in the afternoon the second chick began to break out.

Monday, May 18th

Thursday, May 21. They have sure grown in just three days.

Friday, May 22, feathers are starting to appear on their wings.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Gone Fishing!

My little Warren loves to fish! On Easter Sunday as most of us were wont to take a nap before going to PaPa's house for supper, Warren cried and cried, 'I want to go fishing!" So Puppa and his daddy took him to a little spot off Highway 31 and Bowles Bridge Road. Later Sarah, Parker, and I joined them to take a few pictures. I hadn't see Warren fish before, well, except for casting his line all over the kitchen. He's pretty good. He can cast thirty feet or better while walking! He particularly likes to catch boats.

Puppa caught a fish!


Close inspection


When do I get to use a real hook?


Did somebody say cookie?


Feeling sorry for the fish


That's my Dad

Friday, December 05, 2008

Cookies!

This week Warren and his mommy baked Christmas cookies to send to his daddy in Afghanistan. Yesterday Sarah boxed up three pounds of cookies and sent them on their way. I took pictures of Warren helping his mommy. He had so much fun!









Monday, December 01, 2008

Thursday, November 27, 2008

More beads

I've been busy in between cooking today. I made two more necklaces, one for Laura and one for myself. I made matching earings for all three crocheted necklaces. I gave Sarah hers (the purple one) early because I just couldn't stand to wait for her to see it and I am giving Laura hers tonight at dinner. I can't wait.



Tuesday, November 25, 2008

New Trick

Sunday Sarah and I went to the Delta Zeta Market Place at the VBC. I stopped at one beading table and talked to the designer there. She showed me how to crochet wire either by hand or with a hook. It was really easy. She told me to take three crocheted strands and then braid them together. Here's how it came out.



Check out Margaret Rose Designs.

I also crocheted with eyelash yarn and pearls these adjustable necklaces for my 5 year old niece and also 5 year old cousin. They're going to like these!



I designed this one a few days ago for someone very special. I hope to give it to her later this week (and I think she reads this blog). SURPRISE!

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Tate Farms

We visited Tate Farms again this year. Warren was old enough to really enjoy it. Here's some pictures we took there.

Pookies' big pumpkin

Kissing the bunny

Laura's pumpkin


Parker on the right and his cousin Blaine

Fall Update

Happy Saturday morning Friends! I've been away way too long!

It's been quiet and peaceful around here of late. The neighbors have settled down a bit, There are no dogs over there presently and They are keeping their thoughts to themselves. As far as when that woman goes to jail I'm still not sure. Now it seems that she has appealed and it could be a year or two before we have to deal with that all over again. I did get a call from the animal shelter asking me if I had a picture of the "dead dog" or if I could positively identify it. After an hour of searching old photographs on CDs I found not one picture of the mutt and I don't think I could identify it. Presumably the animal police have found this dog at a relative of Nick Kennedy's but proving it may not happen. Oh well. I forgot to ask the animal control officer if anybody has been charged with dog abuse after poor Tracker was found in almost starved-to-death condition. I'll look into that soon.

No more car break-ins. I guess since Sarah and I followed that fellow down the street (did I blog that?) they decided to check out a different neighborhood. Smart move.

Now the good stuff. At the end of August my son-in-law, Ricky, took leave and came home for a couple of weeks. It was good to see him. While he was here we had Parker, Warren calls him Baby Pucker, it's so cute, baptised and celebrated Warren's third birthday too.

Blowing out the candles

Parker and my lovely 80 year old mother.


Sarah and Ricky had professional photos done at Amber Nichole Photography here in Decatur. She did a wonderful job.

New Halloween Undies!

Sunday, August 24, 2008

New Evidence

This afternoon as I was about to get into my car I noticed something weird on the concrete below my driver's door. Since my car was parked where Sarah's was at the time of the last break-in, I told her to quick call that detective she's been talking to. Tell him that the short skinny boy who broke into her car was wearing this. . . . .



Ha ha ha, ah come on, it was too funny. And besides, my daughter has nails like this but has not lost one. None of the daycare parents wear these nails. Nobody I knows wears these nails. Maybe it was someone trying to get into a car?

More Punk Head Kids

"Not again!" I thought as Sarah came running in the house, grabbed her phone, and fumbled to get it open in a hurry running back out the door.

Sarah, the boys, and I spent most of Friday evening shopping in Huntsville. We got home around 10:15, dragged our loot in the house and Sarah went back outside to smoke. The glass door had hardly shut when she stumbled back in grabbing her phone. I walked outside to see what had happened and found Sarah, once again, on the phone with the police. At the same time I noticed in the middle of the street, about five houses down, were three teenagers, likely one girl and two guys. The girl was screaming put me down in a silly I-don't-really-mean-it, no doesn't really mean no, way.

When Sarah got off the phone she explained that when she walked out she saw the three amigos walking towards the Terry's yard directly across the street from us. They separated and each lifted the handle of three of the four cars parked in the yard and then came back together at the street and walked on. The Terry's front door being wide open and the porch light and flower bed runway lights brightly lighting the front yard did not discourage these meatheads. They weren't very stealthy, hell, they weren't very quiet. The only way I noticed them at all was that they were making enough noise at 10:45pm to wake up any children sleeping in the houses down the block.

The punk head kids (and I very quickly explained to my precious 3 month old grandson whom I was carrying at the time, that there was a difference between punk head and punkin) got almost to the Spring intersection before turning around and waltzing right back this way. They didn't seem in any hurry, just lolligagging down the middle of the street. Now I could see that the girl spent most of the time slung over one of the boy's shoulders, thus the yelling. She liked it. We are now standing in our front yard with the porch light's 100 watt bulb attracting the attention of every moth and potato bug in a 2000 foot radius but seemingly escaping the attention of the notorious trio of trespassers.

A man we recognized only as the Terry's friend came outside to his car. Sarah went over to tell him to let Mr. Terry know what was going on. A minute later Mr. Terry came out and Sarah filled him in. He immediately got in his car and drove down Clearview but by now the kids were out of sight.

A few minutes later, some 15-20 minutes after Sarah called 911 with a crime in progress report, the officer pulled up and Sarah went to the street to show him where he suspects were last seen but he put his hand up to shut her up. He was on the phone when he arrived and I hope it was an important conversation because it took him a couple of minutes to complete before he was willing to listen to Sarah. By this time the rats have disappeared into the night not to be found.

Mrs. Terry had called the police as soon as she learned of the mischief. SHe requested the officer return to make a police report. Mr. and Mrs. Terry and Sarah sat on their porch for another hour waiting but the officer never showed up. What? That's not good. I'm back to looking into razor blades under the door handles as a solution to this problem. I'm also looking into surveilance equipment. I want a picture of the bloody fingers.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

On car break-ins

For the last four years my daughter's (Sarah) cars have been targets of mischief. In 2004, her senior year of high school, Sarah drove an old '95 green Grand Am. This car was broken into that fall and many CD's and forty dollars in cash was stolen. I think we made a police report even though I told her she should no better than to leave it unlocked. Didn't matter. With in the next two months it was broken into two more times and the handle completely ripped off each time. Again CD's and cash was taken and police reports were made. Since then she has bought a new car, moved to an apartment here in town and then moved to Kentucky but when her car spends the night in the driveway it gets broken into frequently. She resolved to keep nothing in her car more valuable than her door handle and began leaving it unlocked so that it would at least be undamaged. She slipped up a few times and left some CD's and a cell phone charger in it and sure enough they turned up missing. I convinced her to start locking her car again since the Suzuki has full coverage and we can get the handle replaced if something happens to it. So she did.

Now we've had our suspicions of who might be doing this. There are two little thugletts that live two doors down, in the house on the other side of the bad dog people. The older of the two is maybe twenty three, the younger is seventeen now. The younger, Mitchell, is friends with the bad dog people, I'm guessing someone is supplying someone else with something. But we've just had suspicions, no proof. In March of 2007 I watched as Mitchell and three thuggy friends broke a car window. I reported it to the police as I was following them down the ditch behind my house giving a description of what the were wearing. And they were all four caught. This kid is bad. His brother's name appears in the paper once in a while on drug related matters. Bad boy. These neighbors gotta go too!

Sarah's car was broke into again Friday night and we found that we have a sort of witness. Saturday morning I was up early getting ready to go to the Georgia Aquarium with my grandson, Warren, friends Twyla, Kevin, and Jonathan. I was dressing in the living room and looking out the window when I noticed a light reflecting off of Sarah's windshield in the driveway. We don't have street lights anywhere near so I knew that wasn't it. I walked outside to get my car seat and the stroller out and ready to put in Twyla's car and noticed that the light was coming from inside Sarah's car. I lifted the handle and found that it wasn't even latched. That's the way the perp has been leaving it. I guess so he doesn't make a noise shutting the door. On the driver seat was Sarah's CD case, opened. I woke Sarah up and asked if she had gone outside to look for a CD but of course she had not. The little thief was at it again. The one night Sarah forgets to lock her doors it happens again. While I was still standing in the driveway I noticed that my neighbor across the street's car door was opened too. I walked across the street to shut it so that he wouldn't wake up the next morning with a dead battery. Before I left for Atlanta I told Sarah to be sure and tell Mr. Terry that I shut his door. I didn't want to be accused of anything.

Later Saturday Mr. Terry and Sarah made police reports. Apparently the Terry's have had many break-ins as well. They've had CD's and Cell phones and such stolen too. The police officer informed them that this was common in the neighborhood. I didn't like that. He also said that there have been a few daytime house break-ins recently even with people home. Not good.

On Sunday my neighbor on the other side mentioned to my husband that he had come home late (like 2:30am) from work and was sitting in his carport smoking when a skinny white boy with dark, very short cut hair walked past him right up against his house past my house then into Michell's house. Sarah picked up her police report Monday and mentioned to the reports people that she had a possible witness. A detective tried to get in touch with her Wednesday and left a voice mail. He said, "I understand you have a suspect named Wellingham and by that do you mean Mitchell?" Apparently he's know.

Today I was feeding Parker on the couch in the bay window and noticed a boy in a red shirt walk towards Michell's door. The guy fit the description perfectly so I got up and took a picture of his car. I only got a view of the front so I called Sarah and asked her to hurry home so she could get the license plate. She did. A minute later the boy was out of the house again. I grabbed the camera but by then only got a picture of his backside. It's a start. We know what he's driving now. We'll get him!


Monday, August 18, 2008


Saturday morning we got up really early to go visit the Georgia Aquarium. My friend Twyla picked Warren and me up at 5:00 in the morning so that we could go to Green Pond (a little west of Birmingham) and picked up Kevin and then on to Aniston to pick up her nephew, Jonathan, to go Atlanta. We left home without directions so Twyla called her brother-in-law and asked him to look up directions on the internet. As she talked and drove I scribbled directions. We got lost any way. For forty five minutes with circled downtown Atlanta with no idea where we were. We called Laura and she looked up directions and tried to locate where we were by the street names I gave. We asked a guy trimming bushes at a gas station, we asked some young adults walking down the street, finally we asked a police officer standing on the corner. We made it! The place was crowded but it was a lot of fun. We watched a 4-D movie. Warren loved the bubbles and rain. I can't post pictures because I didn't take very many. I walked most of the place over with my purse on one shoulder, the stroller hanging by its strap on my other, as I hoisted the nearly three-year-old up as high as I could so he could see over the crowd. We'll have to go back another time when it isn't so craoded.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Blah Blah Blah Blog

I really need to catch up here. It's been a busy few weeks for me. I have had four children to leave my daycare and go to school and in their place I have taken on three infants. I must have been out of my mind! Individually they are all charming little tykes. Together with the other two one-year-olds they are making me crazy! I expect in the next few weeks things will settle into a routine of some sort.

In the mean time, I never finished the dog story. After the last session in court the animal shelter was to collect the dog named tracker (again). This time they found the dog and picked her up with no trouble. No trouble except for the condition she was found in. The dog was all skin and bones like she had been starved to death. She had had puppies just long enough previously to have been weened and sold. I imagine that's why they dragged this case out so long, so they could collect the money for the puppies. Speculation is that they tried to let the dog starve to death thinking that if the dog died the judge would suspend sentencing on Shameka as he did with Nick. I predict someone else is going to be arrested over animal cruelty in the near future.

Tuesday, August 5th was the last day Shameka could file an appeal and it appeared she did not. Friday, August 8th was the day she was to begin serving her 30 days. But she didn't. That Monday, the 4th, The girls and I went to Walmart right at 5:30 to pick up a few groceries and other things we probably didn't need. While we were there, Rick came home from work and the neighbor started threatening him. The threats were something like, "If you ever come in this yard again I'm going to kill you." A little later hubby was out adjusting the sprinkler in the front yard while Nick was mowing his. As Nick walked past he yelled over the mower motor, "I ought to just burn your house down. " Rick called me, asked where I was, and if the girls were with me. He then warned me to be alert when we pulled in the driveway because the neighbor was kind of hot.

When I got home I encouraged Rick to make a police report. We called the police and talked to an officer I didn't know and I was standing sort of behind and to the side so I couldn't read his badge. Rick told him we just wanted a police report on file. He told us that a police report was a waste of time if we weren't going to have him arrested. We thought a minute. It was one man's word against another's and if we couldn't put him in jail we didn't really want to piss him off further. We are genuinely afraid of this guy. We do believe him to be quite capable of big stupidity and we have our two little boys to protect.The officer did offer to go over and talk to Nick. Nick was out in the yard by this time having seen the police car across the street and knowing it was about him I'm sure. The officer walked over there and Nick began yelling. We stood on the front porch but could not understand what Nick was saying. Then Sarah, who had been sitting out back on the deck, came out the door reporting that Nick was yelling, "Nobody over here saying anything they are always calling the cops on us for no reason, blah blah blah. . . " And the officer left.

Friday we watched for Shameka to leave for her 30 day stay. In fact we didn't see her until the next Wednesday and thought she was in jail the whole time. But she was not. Seems she filed paperwork to serve on weekends and it hadn't been filed yet or some such malarkey. She was to come back the following Friday.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Slam Dunk!

Oh gosh court today was way too easy! Especially after last week's what-the-hell-was-that experience in court.

Last week I thought the case against Nick (who now admits he resides at 911 C. Street after denying it for so long) was reopened because he had violated the January 15th settlement by having dogs on his property. I studied my notes (i.e. read my blog over a few times) and was prepared to testify about the dogs on the property after January 15th. I even brought pictures of the dogs labeled with the dates that I took them. By the way, this is a no no in court. Witnesses don't peek down at notes that haven't been entered as evidence while testifying. Ahem, anyway, I was actually questioned on the events of September 7th, 2007 and before my mind could change gears I found myself describing the wrong dog. When I caught myself I turned around to Tylerann and said, "Oh, it's the dead dog -- Bamboo." But it was too late. The defense attorney shut me up right then. She tried to have the case dismissed because we couldn't agree on what the dog looked like. As it turned out, the judge got the right idea. He stated that it looked to him that we were describing multiple incidents with multiple dogs running loose. He was right. The outcome was that Nick was found guilty but the judge suspended sentencing because the dog was supposedly dead. "Poisoned or something," he claimed. The judge warned that if that dog should turn up in the next 12 months, perjury would be a consideration and jail likely.

Before the trial actually began, Lynne took T and me aside and told us the deal she was trying to work out with Shirley's attorney. Part of the settlement would state that there would never be dogs at that address as long as they were living there. I asked, "And if they move?" Lynne said they didn't have any jurisdiction over that. I said so it would be simple if they just moved. I vote we settle on them agreeing to that. Then they wont be bothering me and they can have dogs if they choose. A win win situation!

There had been some skirmish in the back with Mrs. Shirley. Her attorney then came forward and asked the judge about Kennedy's case. Apparently Shirley thought that her husband's case (she's now claiming him as her husband) had been dismissed. I guess the judge not imposing punishment gave her that impression. She's no virgin to the court system. The judge corrected her and explained that he was reserving the right to sentencing at a later date if that dog showed back up. Shirley was expecting to get the same but that did not happen.

He didn't send the witnesses outside this time. I guess he figured we had all been there several times before and that he was going to hear much the same thing anyway. The animal control officer, Lynne, started off with a brief description of why we were there and then started pouring out the pictures. The defense attorney objected and asked that they be properly entered into evidence individually. This was probably not a good thing for the defense it turns out because Lynne handed each picture to the judge and with each one described why the picture was taken and what it was to represent. Each picture showed the brown and white dog on my lawn or in my driveway. The city attorney asked T if that was the dog, she said uh huh. He asked me if that was the dog, if that was my yard, if I took the pictures. I answered each time with the same uh huh and that was it.

The defense attorney didn't even cross examine either of us.

Lynne went on to remind the judge that Shirley had signed papers in his courtroom May 6th, 2007 surrendering two dogs to the city. There was no problem picking up the little white puppy at the address provided but when the animal control officers arrived on Harrison Street, Kennedy was there. The resident contended that the brown and white dog was his and they couldn't take it with the court order reading that it was Shirley's. Not only that, they had tried dyeing spots on the dog to alter it's appearance and tried to convince animal control that this was the wrong dog. They said that Tracker, the brown and white dog, was a male and this dog here was female. I guess nobody had any evidence as to the sex of the offending dog. I was more concerned about it's teeth, frankly. I am certain that no amount of hair dye is going to change that dogs genitalia (and thank Heaven for that or who knows what mine would look like by now). I remember Lynne coming back to my house that day and asking me to print out the best pictures I had showing off the markings on this dog. The dog had very distinct marks and after viewing the rest of my pictures there was no doubt that this dog was one and the same.

The judge held the pictures like a playing hand to be proud of. I was hoping he would just slap them down and say gin but I didn't think it would happen. Then it happened. Well he didn't say "gin" exactly but he might as well have. He did say that the pictures showed with out a doubt that the city had proven it's case, that specifically being that the dog was running loose on January 29th, 2008 (see my blog on same date).

As Judge Cook began considering consequences, Lynne pulled out the pictures of the dyed dog. The judge reviewed them before looking up at Shirley. He started with, "Ms. Shirley, you've made this a lot more complicated than it need to be. That's why I'm going to sentence you like this." He looked down and started writing as he was talking and I didn't hear every thing. I did hear him rattle on, "court fees will be $470, blah blah blah. . . . .and thirty days. . . . . beginning August 12th, bond set at $500." Then it hit me. She was going to JAIL! Oh gosh! It hadn't occurred to me that there might be jail time with this. I thought a couple hundred dollar fine and that would be it. Oh yeah! She's going to Jail. Turns out her sentence is actually 180 days with 150 suspended, has to serve 30, and two years probation. Of course she gets 14 days to appeal. Don't know if there's much point but she probably will.

While this is still bouncing around in my head it occurs to me that somebody is going to be pissed leaving the courtroom. Then T whispered to the city attorney, "Are we done?" As he nodded T came out of her seat and almost ran out of the courtroom. Either she had to pee really badly or it had crossed her mind to get the hell out of Dodge before Shirley did! I popped up and was out of there and to the steps calling, "Wait for me!" We jumped in my car and headed for somewhere to eat.

My phone was dead so I asked T to call my daughter (who was at home with my grandchildren) and warn her to lock the doors. T called Sarah and said, "She's going to jail."

Sarah screamed back, "Who MOM?"

"No, not your mom, Shameka!"
T and I sat and ate lunch giggling, 'She's going to jail!" one minute and, "Oh hell, they are going to be pissed at us!" the next. We finally ordered lunch for Lynne and took it to her at the animal shelter to thank her for a job well done.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Demdamneighbors

Saturday morning the girls and I met at Panera Bread for brunch on their way out of town to go mow grass in Kentucky. My job for the weekend was to finish painting the hallway and to repaint one wall in the living room. I wanted to make it an accent wall, two shades darker than what I just painted it. I was unhappy with the way the red elephant picture looked. All afternoon Saturday I painted until I ran out of the trim color.

I pulled a bottle of wine out of the fridge and a couple of wine glasses and walked around the yard to find Rick. We sat on the porch talking until the bottle was empty. Seems he had an encounter with Nick the nuisance next door.

Rick spent the better part of the day spraying sealer on the deck and privacy fence. While he was standing in Nick's yard spraying the outside, Nick was talking to the little juvenile delinquent who lives on the other side of him. While staring Rick in the eye, Nick told Mitchell, "I ought to go in and get my gun and shoot that bitch for draggin' me into court all the time." Then when no reaction, "I'll shoot her husband too. He probably don't even know what's going on." Rick just finished the fence and moved on.

I think the point of this was to entice Rick into a confrontation of some sort. I told Rick he ought to make a police report. Rick said he's thinking about calling Mr. S. The landlord and telling him the dude's gotta go!

Did you read that Tylerann? I know you said that Nick made some sort of attempt at an apology last week but it's not genuine. I had a hard time thinking it might have been. Don't go getting to chummy.

Oh yeah, the wall I repainted turned out lovely. I think the new color is the color I wanted all along. Maybe I'll get a wild hair and repaint the other walls.

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Painting again!

I set aside this fourth of July weekend as time to paint the living room. I've had paint samples taped to my walls for over six months and I've finally chosen a green called Dusted Bronze. It's a shade darker than my bedroom and the same color I am to paint the kitchen sometime soon.

Friday I started clearing the outdated shelves and junk off my walls. I'm keeping the Alabama prints but not much of anything else. I've ordered some black floating shelves either for the living room or the kitchen (or both).

I took a break in the afternoon to go see WALL-E with the kids and grands. About fifteen minutes into the movie Sarah complained that her back hurt and she couldn't move. I helped her to the lobby and called her grandfather to come take her to the emergency room while I stayed with Laura and the boys.

I'm not really sure what the movie was about. I couldn't pay attention . I just wished it would hurry up and get over so I could go and tend to Sarah. I met her at the hospital and waited for a doctor to see her. He thought she just had a muscle spasm or something. Gave her some happy shots and prescriptions for happy pills and sent us on our way. Later we laughed that it might have been caused by the back bend she did at the house that morning to prove to Laura she could. No more back bends!

Saturday I got serious with the painting and Sunday I almost finished.



It sure is much brighter than that "otter tail" brown I had in here. The carpet looks dirtier and I had to lower the wattage of the bulbs in the lamps.

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Family Reunion!

We held another Holley Family reunion in Pine Mountain Georgia. It was a neat place. There was nothing for miles around. Nowhere to eat, nowhere to shop, nowhere to anything but visit with family. I take that back. There was a botanical garden and a the Wild Animal Safari. We had to go to see the animals.

We rented one the the zoo's own vehicles, broken down mini vans with bars for windows. The sign advertised that it was cheaper than a good car wash and would avoid damage to one's own vehicle. It turned out to be a good idea. We had a buffalo to rock the van we were in. My little Escape would not have liked such treatment. There was a little red Toyota behind us. Ha ha just like waving a drape at a bull!

The spare tire cover on the rather new Jeep ahead of us reads, "Only in a Jeep".


Warren really enjoyed it.

We observed a lot of tongues but avoided getting licked.
NOTE: If you are into this sort of thing you can click on the picture to magnify it.



Laura sat in the front passenger seat to get good pictures. As she was leaning over Rick to take a picture out the driver's side, somebody was poking their nose in her window -- and their tongue.

You should have heard her scream.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Mother's 80th birthday

Hi, I'm back. It's been a busy summer so far. In June, we celebrated my wonderful mother's 80th birthday. My brother and sister got together and decorated the clubhouse in my parents' neighborhood and invited forty or so of their closest friends. My sister did most of the food. She's just good at all that.



My 93 year old aunt came from Birmingham.

I don't know who my dad is making advances on.

We kept the trouble makers all in one spot. There's my father-in-law, my husband, and my two sweet grandsons Warren and Parker.

Here's the whole bunch of us.