Random Friday.....Yes on Monday!!

Ok so I am playing a little catch up.

I didn't get Random Friday up on Friday

so thought I'd go ahead and catch

ya'll up to speed.

Sir Cuteness got a dry erase tablet

for Christmas.

He loves it.

He is getting so big,

and is writing now.

Writing people.

How has this happened?

He is so stinkin' cute!!

Look at these letters.

So terrific.

Sir Cuteness found these stylus'

that Dak had here from his 

DS.

Sir Cuteness loves them.

I can remember Dak really loving them too.

So funny.

Oh my golly

then there was this goodness.

'nuff said.

And sweet baby girl was born on the 16th.

I'm not posting pics yet

of Miss Lady Sweetness,  

but we are already in love.

She is so precious.

I got to see her tonight (Sunday).

She is SO tiny.

And there you have it.

A week in the life.

Oh yeah,

my back is better.....

then worse again.....

then better.....

then worse.....

but.....

God is good.

And I am fine.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful day ~~ 

Random Friday.....A Poem

Oh good grief 

it is the Friday 

before Christmas

and all through the house,

every present is NOT bought

and no dinner planned out.

My house is a mess,

but the tree IS trimmed,

No egg nog to drink,

but there is coffee in hand.

Our grand babe is excited

to know Christmas is coming,

Lots of fun to be had

if this elf will stop ho-humming.

I must finish shopping and finish today.

I must buy a ham

and plan a dinner some way.

But in the midst of it all 

I'll not worry nor fret.

The shopping will get done,

and the presents I'll get.

The true meaning of Christmas

shall always remain.

A babe in manger

He came to save.

So this Christmas,

curl up with your family

and read the Christ story.

It is the reason we celebrate,

and the reason to bring Him glory.

~~~

I love you so!!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful Day ~~

Random Friday is BACK!! HOLLA HOLLA!!!

Good Friday Morning to you!!!

And yes you read that correctly

RANDOM FRIDAY IS BACK!!

It seems that having my own laptop to post on

really does help me do more posting.

Go figure.

And thank you so much for reading.

And loving me.

Especially loving me.

I love you too!!

And reading.

And commenting.

And loving me.

So for this Random Friday

I will give a list in pictures.

This guy turned 50 this week!!

WOW!!!  

I love him.

He is the best of men!!

  I had a photo bomber afoot.

Literally =)

(I love this dirty little sock boy).

=)

I braided my hair to the side.

Had a photo bomber mouse in the studio.

I don't like mice.

But I do like Freddy.

He's been in the family for 17 years.

Sir Cuteness has a deep fondness for him.

Its because he's old.

anyway.....

I chewed on the ear of my wee babe.

These have ruined my diet!!!

Delishious little buggers.

RUINED.

Made cookies with these two fav's.

We laughed so hard.

Yep, a beautiful day in the neighborhood

with these two!!

Yes it has definitely been a fun week,

and one that has lent itself nicely to Random Friday!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful Day ~~ 

Random Friday with an "Engine" (Ninja) Turtle

Allergies are driving me CRAZY!!!

In the last two days I have spent $150 on medicine and doctors visits.

i'm.over.it.

And I still don't feel very good =(

over.it.

In other news,

My Mr. Winslow is also on the allergy train with me.

Yuck.

over.it.

And in other news, 

I get to see Dak on Monday.

Happy.

So Happy.

=)

I've been creating up a storm.

To see what I've been up to,

come visit me at the Scrapbook Cottage.

Faith did me a remodel,

and I LOVE it!!!

Scroll down to my first post today (there are two on there for today)

to see lots 'O pics.

We have been having LOTS of fun around these parts lately.

Sir Cuteness has discovered the "Engine" Turtles =)

He runs around the house like this.....

Look at this beautiful face!!!

Can you believe he will be 4 ~~ FOUR ~~ the last day of this month?

Crazy talk!!

He is just the sweetest little "Engine" Turtle around.

And boy does he love his gamma, and his gamma loves him to the 

Moon, MOon, MOON!!!

Have a Blessed weekend ~~ 

Random Friday.....A Top 10

WOW!!  I haven't done Random Friday in a while,

but I have a list of just random things I wanted to get down,

so here we go.....

1).  I am no longer a vegetarian.

I am a meat eater.

A reluctant meat eater.

It is still, and probably will never be my favorite thing.

But I am type O, and O's need meat.

So I am eating fish, some chicken and turkey.....

NO pork and a little red meat.

Ughhh.....

I've tried to embrace the red meat in my life,

but it is just NOT happening.

It hurts my stomach,

but most of all I just don't like it.

Ick..... it taste, well, meaty.

Yuck!

anyway.....

2.  I went and got my hair done the other day,

and my hair dresser gets the color on and then

takes me over to the dryer.

I looked at her kind of crazy,

because she NEVER puts me under the dryer.

She proceeds to tell me that my gray is getting stubborn,

as she pats me on the shoulder.

great.

Now I have stubborn knees, a stubborn back, a stubborn neck

and now stubborn gray?

Well I guess as long as my heart doesn't get to very stubborn I'm ok with it :)

3.  Speaking of which, I have been praying not to be stubborn lately.

I was praying one day and just telling God somethings on my heart,

and I started telling Him all I want to be for Him, 

and it just flowed out that I didn't want to be stubborn.

I am so thankful that prayer flowed out from my heart.

I have been praying that God will not let me get a stubborn spirit about me.

That would NOT be good.

4.  Sir Cuteness is, well, CUTE!!!!!

He is the smartest little thing.

He has started riding his bike.

Which to me is a scary business.

He crashed yesterday and has a little scratch/road rash on his cheek.

Poor guy.

He's fine.

Not bad at all.

He's a bruiser.

He jumps from about anything,

and LOVES to take walks in the dark with the flashlights

with his PaPa and Grandma.

He is the grandest little thing.

5.  Dak is in college.

He is trying to figure life out.

It is hard.

You remember right?

Trying to figure out what this big old world was all about without getting too caught up in it all?

Yes, you could say a prayer for him.

I love him so!!!

Spring break is next week.

He's staying at a friend's, 

but says he will see me sometime through the week.

YAY!!!

6.  Legg's is as well, working out this big old world as an adult.

Yep, you could certainly pray for her too.

She has a lot on her heart I know.

She is a joy to be around,

and makes me smile.

I love her.

7.  My Mr. Winslow is still and will always be the bees knees!!

He works so hard, and loves us so much.

I am truly a Blessed woman.  

Be still my heart, Mr. Winslow.

8.  Our insurance stuff is changing, 

again.

So this year instead of taking another 20% rate hike hit,

we are doing a program that will lower our rates,

but that requires us to do all this physical testing and health story stuff.

Yes, it has been interesting to say the least.

Well, I did my physical last week,

and WOW on paper I should be able to run 10 miles like,

right now this morning!

My height, weight, BMI, Good Cholesterol, Bad Cholesterol, Total Cholesterol, 

and waist circumference are all in terrific ranges.

YAY!!!!

The lady told me that she was suppose to give me a "teachable moment" and talk about 

things I could improve upon,

but she said she had nothing to say, except keep doing what I'm doing.

Now if I could just run that 10 miles.

Silly knees =)

Well, I wanted to do a Top 10 Random List for you,

but 8 is good right?

Oh wait,

9.  Check out my Scrapbook Blog.  

I am LOVING having a place to talk about my art and post lots of pics :)

Oh yeah,

10.  Today I am doing grocery shopping,

so this weekend I can work on my art.

My Mr. Winslow will be working,

Dak will be at school or a friends,

Leggs will be with Byrd,

and Chase will be here with Sir Cuteness,

so I will be hold up in my room getting some crafty love a going ~~

YAY!!!!!

So there we go, we made it.....

 A top 10 of Random loveliness going on in our lives right now.

I Love You So ~~

Random Friday ~~ And they grow up!!

So it is very possible that I am feeling very nostalgic this morning ~~

I have been looking at home movies and remembering.....

I love sweet memories.....

That's probably why I love to Scrapbook so much!!

I love to put those pretty memories, tucked into pretty packages.

Yes, I am a girl.

A.Girly.Girl.

anyway.....

As I was going through pics, I had this huge need to share a few on my blog.

I have so many I need to scan into my computer, so I can share pics when Dak was a little.....

Oh.my.stars.

***** 

And speaking of Dak.....

I love him.

*****

And speaking of kids I love.....

Leggs.....I love you.

*****

This is my sweet Sir Cuteness, being well, sweet and cute =)

He is holding the first cucumber of the season in '09.

He loved cucumbers and still does, and LOVES to pick.

He LOVES the garden.

Yes we may have ourselves an outdoor lover on our hands.

YES please!!!  =)

OH MY ~~ LOVE ME SOME CURLS!!!!!

Dak and Sir Cuteness on one of MANY trampoline excursions. 

Oh how I love these two!!!!!

Oh.my.stars.

Look at those cheeks. 

My little football player in the makin' =)

I know.....very random.....

But I am feeling nostalgic and SO tender hearted today.

I LOVE MY FAMILY SO!!!!!

I AM A WELL-BLESSED WOMAN!!!!!



Random Friday ~~

Well Good Beautiful Friday Morning to Y'all!!!!!

Yep, still here.

I know I haven't posted ALL WEEK,

and I don't even have a really good reason why.....

other than I've been really busy.....

Lots of things going on.....

Anyway.....

All is well and I am back to writing and VLOG-ing =)

So here we go.....

*****

Okay so I feel I MUST start with Sir Cuteness.....

This boy is a one-of-a-kind, kind of Cuteness.

Sir Cuteness has been on fortified iron vitamins for a long time.

I keep hoping they will take the boy off those awful, black liquid, craziness

and give him some tasty gummy chewables or something,

but so far, it's been all black, disgusting liquid.

So I thought I'd get smart this week and sneak them in his morning apple juice with breakfast.

I made sure that I was on the other side of the kitchen, so he couldn't see me,

and I put them in there, shook it up and brought it to him like normal.

He took a drink, and then another, and boy was I in trouble =)

He said, "Gamma, I told you not to put that black stuff in my juice!!" 

(insert very mean, very cute, but very mean looking face =)

(Oh and also insert, he didn't tell me, he didn't even know =)

So I laughed and told him I couldn't get anything past him.....

still mean, little ole cute face, now with hands on hips =)

And he said he didn't want it.

I explained to him he was going to have to drink it, either in the juice or just out of the dropper

(with me chasing him down of course, because that is what it had come to!)

So he decided juice was better.....SCORE!!!  =)

Then at lunch time he said, "Gamma, I need some juice, but this time NO black stuff!!"  =)

Oh how I love this boy!!!!!

*****

So the last three weeks of the month, one day of the week, our library has story time for littles.

So Sir Cuteness and I have started going over and "Shaking Our Sillies" out, among other things =)

Well after we do that, and the "Hokey Pokey" and read a few stories and a craft and play on the flannel board and talk to Miss Adrian, we play in the kid's area in the Library itself.

So we had headed out, and he started playing.  There were lots of Littles around because of Story Time, so he was having fun watching them and even interacting a little bit.

Well there was this one little boy about a year or a year and a half younger than Sir Cuteness.

Well Sir Cuteness had a little chunky car he was playing with that came out of the bin, and this little boy came over and picked it up. 

Sir Cuteness looked at him and then at me and said, "He has my car." 

I assured him it would be okay and he could play with something else,

when Sir Cuteness walked over to the bins, grabbed out a monkey glove (for 5 Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed) and headed over to this little boy.

He went right over to him and very gently and sweetly said,

"Here is your Monkey Glove."

(Ummm.....Okay.)

The little boy lays down the car, grabs the Monkey Glove, looks at his mama and starts playing.

Sir Cuteness grabs the car and comes over to me and starts playing once again like nothing ever happened.

The mama looks at me and said,

"That was brilliant!!" 

Insert BIG smile!!!

To which I smiled back and said,

"I'm sorry!"

To which she said,

"No really.  That was brilliant.  That's the best thing I've seen ALL day!!" 

Insert another BIG SMILE!!!

And no children were crying or snatching toys or anything.

Way to figure it out Sir Cuteness.

You and your awesome reasoning skills.

Insert BIG SMILE!!!!!  =)

*****

So in other news:

Mr. Winslow and I will be headed back down to Hemmed-In Hollow tomorrow.

*****

And in other news:

I started a new four week Bible study this week through "The Women's Bible Cafe".

It is Beth Moore's "Loving Well".

Oh can I just tell you.....

This is SO good!!!

Let me just give you a quote from the book:

"No one has ever seen God, but when we love beyond our abilities, people will see Him in us."

Amen.

If you are in need of a shorter study to do before Beth Moore's James study comes out in November,

this may be the one for you.

Love.

You download the video's for $4.99 ea from Lifeway and watch one a week

and work in the journal.

It is so personal and relevant.

I am LOVING it so far!!!

*****

In other news:

My washer is broke.

I'm headed back to the laundry mat this morning.

It is costing a FORTUNE to go to the laundry mat.

$1.25 for ONE load to wash.

.25 for 8 MINUTES of drying time.

I had 5 loads and spent $10.50.

I've over it.

Anyway.....

*****

In other news:

I get to see my college babes today.

Dak and I are gonna have coffee at Hebrews.....

(Y'all really need to come to MO just for Hebrews,

and why your here, stop by and see me =)

Anyway.....

And then we're gonna head over to get him some Dorm Snacks.

Boy needs to eat and he's out of snackage.

So I'm gonna help a brother out!  =)

I love him so!!!!

My heart is so tender towards him and I can't wait to get a little time with him today.

And then after I take him back (he doesn't have classes on Friday),

I'm gonna pick up Leggs.

And we are going shopping.

Can I get a WOOT-WOOT?!!

She needs a pretty new dress for a wedding she is singing in tomorrow.

So happy to oblige!!

Then she is coming back home with me and we get to hang out this evening.

YAY for College Babe Time!!

*****

In other news:

Yesterday, I did a Vlog for you on a project I started Wednesday evening and completed Thursday afternoon.  It was quick and easy and I LOVE the finished project,

well almost finished project.....

Well, I hope y'all have a Blessed and Beautiful weekend!!

I love you so ~~

Ephesians 3:16 "I pray that out of His glorious riches, you will be strengthened in power through His Spirit in your inner being."

~~ Random Friday ~~

Happy Random Friday to y'all!!!

*****

These are pics from the spring and I just got them downloaded, and they are just so cute of Sir Cuteness,

thought I'd share.....

Do you see it?  heehee

Stinkin' messed up knee =)

 Beautiful Boy!!!

 This makes me SO happy!!

We will be completely redoing our gardens for next year and will even be doing some winter gardening.

SO excited!!!

 Sir Cuteness ~~ you are so sweet!!

 A guy My Mr. Winslow works with has been saying for a while that he has a white robin.

So we sent a camera with him and sure enough.....

Look at this beauty ~~

 The boy is obsessed with straws.....

Look how sweet ~~  I love him so ~~

 Hi .....

 And here is my beautiful Hebrew's Coffee concoction....

Legs calls it Snobby Coffee.....  because this is pure delish-ish-ness.....

Sugar-Free Hazelnut with Soy....

Oh my stars.....

I want one.....right.now.

In another note, mom is going home today.....

I will update more later.....

We are having Sir Cuteness' Birthday Party this evening and he is SO excited!! 

It will be low key, but FUN!!!

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY DAK & LEGS MOVE IN DAY TO COLLEGE ~~

WOW!!!  SOMEBODY BUY ME A DOUBLE CHOCOLATE VEGAN BANANA SPLIT QUICK =)

Have a Blessed Day ~~

Random Friday ~~ Sir Cuteness CRACKS.ME.UP. ~~ Edition

*****

So let's Random it out on this Friday, shall we?  =)

Sir Cuteness is so stinkin' funny!!

He cracks us up every.single.day.

Here he is getting his inner B-Boy on.....  =)

Just the way he rolls.....

(Doesn't he look ornery right here? =)

 Here is the view from my couch.....

Yes my knee in ice.....again.....

It's okay.....

bummer.....

but okay.....

 I LOVE this picture.

It is possible that PaPa was encouraging his grandson to do something dangerous =)

 That's my boy with the football signal going on.....

Fall is comin'.....

I'm just sayin'.....  =)

 Sir Cuteness does the funniest things with his tounge.

He is so funny.....

 Okay, so this picture cracks.me.up.

Here are the men folk watching TV and Sir Cuteness, stunting it up, right in between them.....

Hahahahahahaha.......

 He's pretty talented!!

 OKay, so Sir Cuteness went with me to the Pain Doc on Wednesday and as we were sitting there waiting for the doc, he tells me that he is going to be a doctor one day so he can get into the red box (trash).  I told him he couldn't get into it because it is where the needles go. 

So I asked him what kind of doctor he wants to be. 

Me:  Do you want to be a leg doctor, so you can help people like Gamma with their knees?
Sir Cuteness:  Nope.  A toenail doctor.

Me:  A toenail doctor?  =)

Sir Cuteness:  Yes.  I make them pretty.

Me:  Hahahaha Heeheehee

Sir Cuteness is totally fascinated with my purple toe nails.

He thinks they are SO pretty =)  So he wants to help others have pretty toes.

Works for me =)

 Again, getting his inner B-Boy on =)

 We went to Old Navy yesterday and he put this ridiculously cute hat on and of course Gamma had to get it.

He is so stinkin' cute in it!!!

 Okay, so one more Sir Cuteness story before we move on.....

He went into hug his daddy before bed last night and asked him.....

Sir Cuteness:  Is that the boat man?

Daddy:  (On the phone) No buddy it is not the boat man.

Sir Cuteness:  You really need to call him.

I would, but my phone don't work.

I really need to get another phone.

hahahahahahahahah.....

Yes you do young one =)

*****

So I don't know how many of you have an Iphone, but Dak does, and it takes AMAZING pictures!!

I really can't believe how good the quality is and his isn't even the Iphone 4.  His is the 3. 

But he takes some really good pics.

The rest of the pics on this post were taken with his Iphone.

Here I am in the garden last night.



 Look at this beautiful sunflower!!!

Even in the heat, she is thriving ~~ and it is hot!!

 So this pic cracks me up.  Because Dak asks me when he came out..... "Mom why are you all wet?"

To which I responded, "Really?  There is a 2 year old with a water hose about."  =)

 RJ, these sunflower pics are just for you!!!  =)

So sorry yours broke ='(

 And I will leave you with my FAVORITE pic of the last couple weeks.....

Me and Sir Cuteness at college, hanging out with the bear =)

I love y'all ~~ have a Blessed Friday ~~

Random Friday ~~

Happy Friday and since it's Friday,

You know what that means.....

Yep.....

Randomness!!!

So let's get started.....

*****

I am in another Scrapbook Class and this time it is 12 Challenges in 4 weeks and so far I've done every one except for the current one, but I have some ideas for it. 

This is the finished page for my second challenge.

You had to take a picture and make it the canvas.

So I took a pic of Dak and Legs from Baccalaurete and added just a few embellies.

I edited it in Picnik (Thank you RJ =) and I LOVE the way it turned out!!

 In our third challenge, we were asked to use the color orange.

Since orange doesn't go with ANY thing I have going right now,

I decided to make a little mini for my baby sis.

She had asked me to write down my free-weight exercise routine,

so I thought "Why not make it cute?" and use orange.

My camera is doing something funky,

but this is how it turned out.....

 Here is the inside.....

All the writing is my routine.

I wrote it in pencil so baby sis can erase my lbs, reps and sets as needed.

She loved it!!!

 Sir Cuteness has been taken pictures again.

Too funny =)

 This picture cracks.me.up. 

Sir Cuteness had on these two different shoes the other night, and not just for a little while, but for practically the whole evening.

So I tried and tried to get a picture and he kept running away, laughing and giggling all the way.

So when I downloaded these pics, it included a lot of pics that Sir Cuteness had taken with my camera, and there was this one.

I tried SO hard to take a pic for y'all and he'd already done it.

Why thank you Sir Cuteness =)     Hahahahahaha ~~

 Yep more Sir Cuteness photo's .....  =)

 My pics are all out of order, but I wanted to show you this one as well.

This was my first Challenge in this new Scrapbook Class.

You had to take a pattern from everyday life and implement it into a scrapbook page.

So I took a basketweave pattern from a basket that sits on my computer desk and adapted that to fit my scrapbook page.

I did a basketweave on my page and then collaged Dak and Legs from a Baccalauraette picture and then collaged a pic of a chair from our college visit day of the college Dak will be attending, and also added a stack of books and our shoes from the same day.

So cute!!!  I was really happy with the result.

We've been SO busy around here.

I have lots of fun stuff to share with you and am hoping to maybe get a video up this weekend.

Have a Super Blessed Day ~~