great quotes...

"When we choose not to focus on what's missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present...we experience heaven on earth."

"Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't."

"We LIVE, We DIE and the WHEELS on the BUS go round and round."

"I Do My Thing and You Do Your Thing. I Am Not In This World To Live Up To Your Expectations, And You Are Not Here TO Live Up To Mine. You Are You, And I Am I, And If By Chance We Find Each Other, It's BEAUTIFUL."

Ultimately, LOVE isn't something you say. It's something you have to do and the BEST KIND takes years. -KIRBY

Grant me PATIENCE to deal with my BLESSINGS!!

Love is the many small moments that make up a lifetime of happiness...

Life is about making mistakes, Death is about wishing you had made more!

I was made to find you, I was made just for you, made to adore you, I was made to love and be loved by you . You were here before me, You were waiting on me and you said you'd keep me. Never would you leave me. I was made to love and be loved by you!

Never miss out on the PRESIOUS PRESENT MOMENTS!

Mean what you say, say what you mean, mean what you say & drop it!

Love is that which is unlimited. There is no beginning and no end to it. No before and no after. Love always was, always is, and always will be!


9.29.2008

wedding 101....the picture takers

this is my brother in law lynn aka the new santa
taking a picture of jeremy who is taking a
picture of him....he he

wedding 101.....the swing

they had a swinging chair out on the patio at traci and
matt's wedding....here is breckyn pushing his
sister charlei lou and 2 cousins emmalyn and shauna
they were so dang cute and happy....


wedding 101....pics of the family

this is the 5 of us with our mudda.....
debbie, gay, mom, angie, me and our little but
bigger brother kirkee......

this is the 5 of us with our dad wayne and mom....

this is the 4 of us teasing the snot out of kirkee
because we LUV him....he.he.he

these are all of our children....
sydney and angie (gay's), traci (angie's),
adrienne and zachary (debbie's)
ashley, breckyn and charlei are mine of course...
and kayden (kirkee's)
these are my sweet monsters......
it was a great weekend with all the family for sure.....


wedding 101....

what fun it is to do flowers for weddings....i had
a blast doing these ones for my neice traci
and her husband matt over the weekend....
this is the book table the flowers are burnt orange
calalilies and yellow freesia...so pretty....
the cake had square glass vases in between
the layers with clear rocks, water and floating flowers
it was so awesome.....

the center peices....simple but fun....

one of 3 big arrangements that i put together....

here is another one.....i had a ton of fun doing this.....

the witches are out and gardner village...

i was trying to get the flowers for the cake done at
traci's reception and the kids were being busy and
crazy so i asked their dad so nicely to take
them for a walk while i finished what
i was doing....well gardner village must have been
a lot more fun then a wedding because they didn't
make it back for the ceremony.....here they are
with some of the witches....




cute babies.....

9.24.2008

fun at marcie's......

so if you follow the musselman blog and the hoggard
blog i'm sorry but i had to post these pics so my
family that lives far away could see them..... so
some of you might be getting them double....SORRY
anyway this is marcie's (my friend that watches
the kids on Monday and Wednesdays) little girl
ashley dawn and my charlei playing in and drinking the
dogs water out of their dish....marcie and benny have
2 big boxers just like us....FUN FUN
they were dunking their heads.....there goes ashley
and theres miss charlei lou.....YUM
up out of the water she comes.....what a face!!
then it was gone....the water that is....
goofy girls....and this isn't the first time either....
benny wouldn't let marcie get any pics the first time
so she had to get a few this time....
thanks marcie for getting such moments like this on film...

a few more from camping....

here are a few more cute ones from camping a
couple of weeks ago....
ash taking charlei for a ride....she loves
the nin nin's.....
breckyn taking me for a ride...he is a really good
little driver....
playing on the rocks....


a few more from camping....

i needed to post some pics and hadn't posted alot of
the ones i had taken from camping a few weeks
ago so here are a few more of the kiddos....

poppin a wheely.....
doing some tricks on the rocks....
way to go jarmee....i think sometimes he has more
fun then the kids....


9.22.2008

a spiritual weekend in VEGAS....WHAT!!

i know its hard to believe but i just had the most
spiritual weekend in VEGAS.....so a week ago last
friday one of my good friends i will call her kathryn
came into the office and out of no were she asked
what i was doing the next weekend and if i wanted
to go to vegas.....well what girl can pass up a weekend
in VEGAS....so i asked what the catch was and
she told me about this.....

who couldn't use a little time out....and only WOMEN
woot...woo....i was in so we left last friday and
that night there was a concert and one really good
speaker....the concert included Jason Deere and
Hilary Weeks it was so wonderful....music gets
to me in away that even the most intent man in my life
cannot...hehehe just kidding....anyway the music was
great.....so saturday we were up early the conference
started at 8:45 am and we wanted so good seats so we
were off again.....the day was extremly wonderful
and so spiritual we were sad to have it end....what an
uplifting thing to be in a room of mothers, sisters and
daughters of God....i told my mom this will be a new
yearly tradition....and that she will be with me next
year for sure.....if none of you have ever been you should
go you can check out the dates for 2009 at
love you all and i can't wait to go to vegas again with my
sister and neice next month.....

goofy girls in the garden.....

so this is a huge scarecrow that was in the gardens
at the bellagio....and these are 2 of the goofy-est girls
ever....becky hughes and kathryn halls we had a ton
of fun.....hope we can do it again....






2 of my favorite things...las vegas cont.

so i don't know how to say the artists name but he is
amazing....these are all glass flowers put up one
by one above the check in at the bellagio...it is so
awesome....
and of course the fountains at the bellagio...i could
stand and watch them for hours....


las vegas continued.....

if you've never been to the gardens at the bellagio in
vegas you are missing out....i was so dang excited
when i walked in and it was all decorated for fall...
being as this is my FAVORITE season....it was
beautiful....can't wait to go back in 3 weeks and
see it again.....
PS the pics don't do if justice....



9.17.2008

butt kid.....

just a funny one from camping over the weekend....
can you see her....she's in there somewhere...

crazy hair day......at school

so it was crazy hair day at school yesturday and the
glasses were just an added bonus....say cheese
it was crazy sock day to....she wore her rainbow ones
that have toes in them....she looked pretty fancy

9.15.2008

our beautiful kiddos......

after jarmee got the dog house finished on saturday
we headed to canyonlands for an overnight camping trip
with kirk, stefanie and kayden....on sunday morning
i was just playing with the kids and got these
fun pics....so cute and growing so fast....






saturday morning fun....

the kids love their new swingset...saturday morning
dad was working on a new house for the dogs and
we were playing on the swingset...tons of fun
the new house for the DOGS....


practicing the sax....

so ashley is the only girl playing the sax-a-ma-phone....
he he if you watch the simpons you know what
i'm talking about.....anyway so here she is
practicing and she is already pretty good....way
to play sunshine...

the soccer moms 1st game....as COACH

so yes besides the soccer MOM i am the coach...i told
the recreation director that i would coach as long
as i could have ashley and niko on my team
so he hooked me up....this was our first game
and we WON.....
niko and ashley out in the field...
here they are again....

the cheering section....go team go...