I have longed to venture into the digital scrap booking world. I will always have to cut and paste, touch and feel. But beginning able to take my lap top and create anywhere is a wonderful experience.
So all of that said. Enjoy the pictures with two digital frames and a brush to ink edges. This is so cool and a lot of fun .
I a so lucky to have a huge family. God has blessed me with two families who I love very much. My Mother gave me a wonderful step-father, a brother and two sisters. My Dad gave me a beautiful step-mother and three brothers. Could I have been any luckier?
Yes friends there is an Easter Bunny. My honey and I spent Easter week-end at our home in Florida. We live on a great street with a lot of friends. I just love it here. On Easter morning, I went out onto the porch with a cup of coffee in hand to enjoy the morning. God was truly glorious this morning. The sky was a brilliant blue with puffy white clouds. There was a cool, gentle breeze and life was truly good. I decided to walk down to the dock and to my surprise in the flower boxes the Easter Bunny had left two Easter eggs. Both eggs contained a shinny new penny for good luck. This 51 year old women was excited as a little kid. Thank you Easter Bunny, (Peggy,Tommy,Sara Beth,Andy and Sarah). You bunnies made my day.
Just call me Orlando, the famous fisherman. I do think he was a fresh water fisher. My little love Dixie and I are in Fla. again. Work continues on our house with four contractor's scheduled to work tomorrow. But, my love here is the sun, water and any type of water sport. This was last week-end with my honey and I. He is not very patentice and has a hard time sitting still to fish. The weather was nice and it was a great day on the water.
This morning while looking and reading my e-mails, I came across this message from my Honey. "
What more can I say. Love you Honey. Have a great day.
I have passed this sign many times as I,we have driven to Florida. It sneaks up on me when driving alone. Of course I always see it when drivings down with my Honey. He would think I was crazy if I asked him to stop. Honey would stop but still think I was crazy.
We do however sleep with two. Dixie the little cocker and Bella the little chihuahua. But when honey gets up in the morning all bets are off. Katie our lab crawls up on the bed and snuggles up close to me. She loves to put her head on my pillow. Normally I will tell them that it is not 8:00 and go back to sleep. The photo above show us sleeping.
You can see that Dixie has spotted the chewie on the table. It does not bother her that she is laying on my head. Katie can not be out done and needs to have a good look. Bella has to be the center of attention and get in between Katie and me. Once again I say "Go back to sleep, it is not 8:00 yet."
The alarm clock goes off and Katie gives me a big kiss. Time to get up Mom. What a great way to wake up in the morning. Honey is loving taking all the photos. And our day begins. 
loving, caring with a heart of gold. For the first 17 years of Marlee's life she was a dream. But some where along the path she lost her way. We thought she was young, immature. She would grow up. From the age of 18 to 26 Marlee was on a road of destruction. It was a slow road. We did not see it over night.
It slowly built into a nightmare. Her Dad and I did not know if she would live or die. As a parent we were scared. I am so thankful that my dear Honey makes the money to get our princess the best help. For the last 5 months there have been a lot of struggles, a lot of tears, angry words spoken, separation, fear, sadness, lost but learning and healing. Our whole family has grown through all of this.
As you can see through all the pictures, our old Marlee is back. There is a star in her eye. Stars have always been Marlee's favorite symbol. For once in her adult life Marlee is happy. She is still struggling with issues. Some of these things will be with her for the rest of her life. At the beginning of all of this I told her "This is truly the first day of the rest of your life." Our star is living one second, one minute, one day at a time. Each day is an accomplishment.
Hang in there baby. Keep the people who are there to help you close. Set tiny goals and pat yourself on the back when you make them. It is such a great comfort to know that you are okay and happy. I love the song below and thought of it when I thought of our star today.
On returning home, I spent time shopping on the inter-net for the best price for Canon's 100mm Macro lens. I had recently won money in Las Vegas and had saved it for the purchase of new camera equipment. I was like a kid in a candy store. My new treasure arrived and I was out the door to use it.
I hated it. I was so disappointed. I just wanted to sit down and cry. Every picture I took was out of focus. I had read reviews about the auto focus and they were suppose to be good. I purchased a mono-pod to use with no luck. At that time the lens was put away and ignored. I wanted to pretend that I did not own one. I pulled it out after Christmas to photograph some of my ornaments with little success.
Last week at dinner, the Diva's and I were talking about Macro lens. My only comment was that I hated mine. All my photos are out of focus. I commented to Debra that she hand holds hers and her photos are great. Of course I was reminded that if I would use a Nikon my pictures would be great, also. I guess I am just to hard headed to change over to the dark side. I also have to many lens and accessories to switch. To debate the pros and cons of Nikon and Canon would take another post. 
Does this look like a happy puppy? NO! Dixie is miserable without tennis balls in her life. For about three weeks, she has been limping on her front left leg. After the first trip to the Vet and numerous X-rays, Dr. Laurie said arthritis. Let her play and get plenty of exercise. That is what she needs. The exercise is good for her. One week of that and my sweetheart got worst. Dixie could not jump on the couch and did not want to play.
Second trip to the Vet to see Dr. Mullis. He is an orthopedic specialist. Yes, she does have a little arthritis but since she is worst?? I think she has tendinitis. No exercise for two to six weeks. This is a very painful condition one that I have never had, but. It was suggested that we put Dixie in a crate and keep her on a leash outside. My little princess is not in a crate or leash but we are not playing with tennis balls. I am trying to get all of them put away. Just when I think they are all hidden in the closet she comes up with another one. 
Late yesterday afternoon was an eventful weather day in Fayette County. At around 4:45 PM the severe weather warnings started playing on TV over and over again. The weather was beautiful outside. The girls and I had just come in from outside. I had worked in the yard and played with my babies. By the time Honey came home the beautiful day was a different story. The sky was a very strange color and the warnings were coming more often. All of the sudden I heard something hitting the windows in our house at about the same time Honey said OMG come look at the size of this hail. We could not believe it. It was like baseballs hitting the pool.
When the hail storm was over, I retrieved some of these beauties from our yard. It only lasted a few minutes but this is what we got. In my 51 years, I do not think I have ever seen hail this big or the shape that it was. 
There is nothing better than Divas at dinner. We enjoy our drink of choice, talk, laugh and sometimes celebrate a Birthday. Of course it does not take much for us to celebrate. When the Divas are together it is a Celebration! I am so blessed to have such a great group of friends. The best reward of scrap booking is my Divas.
All good thing must come to an end. My honey comes home today. He has been in Miami for the past four days. I have enjoyed 4 days of doing what ever I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Are my PJs still on at noon or maybe more like 2:00? I have enjoyed myself. Now don't get me wrong. I have missed him dearly. I love this funny photo of my honey. There are two way to look at this. Is he my hunk of burning love or is he the devil in my life? Both can be a lot of fun. Have a safe flight home my darling. See you tonight. Love or Devil?
You guessed it. These are my traveling buddies. And yes we did rent a car to go to a scrap book store in Hawaii. Our ship was in port for two days. The second day was to shop and return to the boat for rest, relaxation and girl time together. I did hand over my camera to a stranger and ask him to take our picture. We were in heaven on earth.
Two years ago today, the four of us were on a scrapbook cruise with Lisa Bearson. Eight days in the wonderful Hawaiian Island. We were in a different port every day. Our days were filled with fun and adventure. At night, we were busy scrapping. Now you tell me, what a better way to travel. This photo was taken from a helicopter. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this trip.
I was on this cruise on Valentines Day 2007. My darling son was in school at Western Carolina in North Carolina. I had heard that they were getting snow and possibly snow in the Atlanta area. The morning of Valentine Day I called my son with the following message. "Good Morning Son. I am having coffee on the back of the ship, sitting in the sun and the weather is 80 degrees. Love you. Mom" On my return I received a call from him telling me he did not like my message. Poor baby was walking back and forth to class in 24 degree weather with snow. My perkie little message did not send him love. Poor Baby!!! Can you tell how upset I was??? Ha! Ha! Ha!
All dressed up and out on the town, with the rest of the cruise ship. This was Debra and Jamie's first luau. We had a great time and enjoyed the entertainment. None of us wanted to come home.
It was one of those March (oops February) days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: When it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens
What a glorious day it was in Georgia, blue skies, fluffy white clouds. God's hand is truly at work. Don't you just love how the daffodils bow their heads to the sun? I am now on the look out for robins digging in my yard. They are suppose to be the true first sign of spring. Have you seen one, let me know?
This photo was taken in January, in Key West, Fla. It does not snow here and it really does not get cold. But the winter sun rise and sun sets are the best. There is something about the shorter amount of day light that makes them so special. I am a collector of sunsets from all of our travel. This one happens to be a sun rise and is probably one of the best photos I have ever takes. Hope you enjoy it. Please let me know if you would like the actual photo.
I am truly at home in paradise. We are spending the week-end on the forgotten coast in the pan handle of Florida. We love being forgotten. We do not have chain restaurants, souvenirs shops, putt putt golf or water parks. But we love it.
What we do have is heaven. We enjoy the beauty of a natural beach. We are often greeted by dolphins. The experience of watch a dolphin give birth is amazing or seeing a mother dolphin stun mullet with tail for her twin babies to eat. Our house is surrounded by protected marsh lands for bird. We enjoy all kinds of sea birds. Have I mention how much I love it here.
I consider myself a collector of sunsets. I try to take pictures of sunset every where we go. I have done this for some time now and truly enjoy it. You can see God's hand in the painting of a sun set. No two are a like and they are all so special. Hope you enjoy this amazing sun set with me on the forgotten coast.
I am a
Snapdragon
What Flower
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