~i can do this with my eyes closed~

 i find it frustrating that in a lot of pictures i have trouble keeping my eyes open.

i know this seems kinda really weird to post about but i feel something is wrong with me.

it should be easy. smile. say cheese. and wa-lah!

since the move i've run across family photos and have taken a few minutes to go over them.

in those minutes i've noticed

1. my kids are growing fast
2. my husband and i have both filled out a little
3. i need to spend more time taking photos (i mean really good family ones of the 4 of us plus 1 dog
4. we need more vacation photos. which means we need to take more trips
5. MY EYES ARE ALWAYS CLOSED.

(i'm going to start checking and making sure they are open before we say good enough

i feel sorry for the photographer who has to be patient with me)

in our defense the sun was in our eyes.

but in looking through photo after photo it didn't seem to matter either way.

with or without sun i have problems.

i'm going to start with my eyes closed than on the count of 3 i'm going to open

(hopefully that will help)

see. only the moon out this night and still issues.

must of been a full moon.



~this is not our home~

well today we closed on this home. i believe God is blessing our move since our house sold so quickly. which is a blessing in today's housing market. we had just one showing so we thought the process was going to be drawn out, but these one-time-lookers made us an offer  and today as of 10:00 a.m. this home became theirs. now hopefully the closing on the house we are buying goes just as smoothly. let's hope, pray and cross our fingers. it's been a really hard move with the humidity and the driving back and forth and the fact that we did this just over a year ago. so we are pooped out. achy. crabby. hot. but grateful.

~from misty and lance's wedding day~

brooke and her dad. the groom and his men.

 the groom and the husband. chuck and rodney almost getting fired for sneaking a beer.

b&b with their dad. dad giving attitude back to daughter.

the wedding party

b&b hanging out downtown before the wedding.

a few more of the wedding and decor....very beautiful wedding.

~he likes to look at himself. a. lot.~

something otis has become quite fond of during the move

is the mirrors on the floor that i haven't hung up yet!

~hard to believe they are now them~

here they are then......

 how do they do it. how do they grow so fast.

here are B&B in maine a long summer ago on vacation.

here they are in front of our house at the time...tearing up the streets!

nap time some time ago. 

i can't remember the last time the kids took a nap. it just don't happen anymore

unless they pull a very long night at a sleepover the night before.

 them now......

them now is so different.

but they still do the the same to my heart.

they rock my world!

~a quote and a joke!~

he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose

jim elliott

nebraska weather!

~love this~

found here.

whoever thought of this display has a great imagination.