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Here's to a lot of this in 2009.  Happy New Year!!

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Boys of Summer

Before you cross the street,

Take my hand.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy.

~John Lennon

This is my oldest nephew holding little dude at a 4th of July parade.  My oldest nephew who was two-years-old, like, yesterday.  Blink and they grow up.  Into gorgeous young men on the inside and out.  You are basically looking at my world, not including the ten ones in between. 

Happy belated 4th of July!  

 

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When the Roll is Called Up Yonder

Well, there have been many silver linings since life exploded around here, and one of them is this great little church we found through my sister and her wonderful family.  I really can't say enough about it and how much it has helped the girls and I in our time of need.  This is Bee on our way there this morning.  She's way into her cowboy hat lately and wears it most everywhere.  That hat has been in our family since my oldest was only one year old and we went to the rodeo for the first time.  It's seen a lot of cow herdin' and two stepin' around here, and still stands up to a room full of three-year olds.  Stuff that works, gotta love that.  

See more Best Shots at Melody's as she takes over for Tracey for a couple weeks.  Check out her blog while you're there.  She's an amazing lady with an incredible family.

A Hat

This is what happens each morning when I ask Bee to go get her pull-up and put it on.  She runs from the room with great purpose, and returns like this.  Such a little comic . . . For more Best Shots this Monday, visit Tracy.

And a token one of little man.  I was snapping some shots and he had something to say.  I'm glad to see he's assertive with his words because he's gonna need to be to get a word in around here:)  I think he was asking to get out of the girlie basket and go to an Astros game.  

There is so much going on around here, but I haven't wrapped my mind around all of it yet.  When I do, I'll try to make sense of it here.  My kids and I are standing in the middle of the rubble that became our life.  This summer we will start re-building.  In our swimsuits . . . 

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Help!!  I'm sending my firstborn to Kindergarten this week and relaxed yoga mommy has become neurotic freak mommy!!!  Breeeeaaaathe . . . into the paper bag.  

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On a lighter note, here is my first BSM in weeks!  I haven't been posting, but have been taking photos.  This summer we had a fun little Thursday evening Family Fun Night at the local gym complete with snow cone tailgate party at the end.  I will miss summer . . . and will post more on all of this when I get my little chicks settled.  Here's my oldest on the balance beam . . . beaming:)

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Happy Monday!!

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This is, again, a quickie post.  They all seem to be getting that way lately! 

My friend, Jen, and I headed over to a new location to beat the summer photo doldrums last week.  We ended up with some fun ones, and I'm using them to experiment around with Photoshop, which I know nothing about.  So far I have managed to completely mess most of them up, but that's how we learn, right?  (Thank you "Save As"!!) 

But here's one of my favorites.  Still not happy with the color, but the subjects are pretty darn cute:)  Happy Monday!

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My best shot this week was of my first, first child . . . sweet Daisy dog.   She has always been, and continues to be the best dog in all of the universe.  My oldest daughter festooned her with flowers this weekend, and she played along with her usual good nature.  Molly the cat was also festooned with flower garb to which she responded her usual response . . . she barfed. 

Here is sweet Daisy.  As always, go here for more best shots this Monday.

Here she is being read to by my oldest (did you know that dragons and sea monsters are not the same??)  Daisy's enthusiasm here matches mine in college math class.) 

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Here are some old pictures I was playing with last night.

We have a fun little photo club that meets once per month.  We downed several bottles of the most delicious red wine during the June meeting, compliments of my mother, and had a great time!!  Cheers!

Here's my homage to strawberries, which we have been enjoying almost every day this summer.  As I stared at the shriveled, sad little creatures in the produce section yesterday, I realized they are out of season.   So here's my strawberry tribute.  'Till next year!

Have a great Monday everybody!!