THE BIGGEST OF BIG NEWS!!

BUT....I can't say what it is.  Mike doesn't know, Courtney doesn't know, my parents don't, not even Lily. I will say what it is when the source comes out with it!!!  WOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!  hehe

Mike's BIG 50!

Today Mike finally turns 50!  I've already been 50 for 7 months!  HA!  It's also the 1 year anniversary of his mother's passing, so we won't be having a party today.  She is very VERY missed.

Those were taken at his 45th birthday party. He's asked not to have a party today, so we won't. 

I could add a thousand pictures on here of her and each picture will have great memories, mostly of laughing. She LOVED to laugh and was hilarious.  Smoking is a horrible, selfish habit and it leaves the family with a huge hole. 

I'll make this a short update. I've put loads of pics on this blog thru the years of her and my family.  We did almost everything together so we have lots of photos and memories.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Throwback Thursday

Today is the day we're supposed to put old pics on the web somewheres and look at it.  Don't know why!
Soooo,

The girls would kill me if they saw this picture!  I think they're beautiful!

HAAA!  Look at Britt's coo-lots!  HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!  She never reads my blog, so I can laugh at her!  hehe

This is Lily yesterday when I was begging  asking her to take a nap.  She eventually did.

And this morning after getting her dressed, dragging this huge brush thru her nappy head, washing her face, finding her pacifier (YES she still can't live without it) and putting her peacoat on, I had to take a picture of my accomplishment.  One clean, dressed and happy 2 1/2 yr. old ready for school!  She only goes 2 days a week for 4 hours each.  She LOVES it, but hates getting ready for it.

That's it for today (hopefully). 

In the news today, everyone AND they're granny is looking for this missing Malaysian airplane. I have been watching loads and loads of CNN.

L8R!

Baby Raelynn!!!

I became a GREAT Aunt today!!

That's my Brittany holding her.  Deanna finally had her baby and she is just precious and so TINY!  7 pounds isn't really small, but after toting Lily around, Raelynn is definitely dainty.

My sister-in-law Donna and her ex-husband Jimmy.  They have both moved on in their lives, but it was nice seeing them together for Deanna.
The flowers are starting to bloom and my allergies have kicked in.  I've been up since 3:30am sneezing with a stopped up head.  I'd want to live no where else but the south, but spring is just awful.

Warm spring day!!!

We finally had a warm, sunny spring day and we did did enjoy it!! It's supposed to be cooler next week, so we had to lap it up while we could.

March 2014 update

About a month ago, we had a wonderful, beautiful snow and I was off work and took a few pictures before I froze.  YES, that's my frying pan collecting snow.  hehe

Not to say I take too many pictures of Lily, but she's about ALL I take of.  My family hates when I take a picture before they put their makeup on or whatever.  Lily doesn't care!!!

Mike's birthday is coming up and it won't be celebrated this year.  It's his BIG 50.  It also will be the 1 year anniversary of his mother's passing.  On his birthday.  Thankfully, it's a weekday this year, so he'll be at work and hopefully too busy to fall apart.  This has been 1 very long year since then.  I can say since the calendar flipped to 2014, it has been better...somewhat.

That's about all I have time for this time.  I'm a total slacker, but I do think about blogging alot, I just honestly don't have the time I did before Lily graced us with her self.  And that's a great thing.  I have learned since my mother-in-law passed away with no known journal/diary/message/letter etc...that this will be important to my family some day.  They won't have to look for it, it's right here.  We lost SO many friends and family last year that I want to pay tribute to my own family!! : )

Enough of that.  Lily was diagnosed with apraxia from her seizure and we're really working with her speach, and frustration issues she has with that.  That's another long blog post I'll get to one day.  Not very uplifting, but a reality.

More soon!

Joan