Tangled

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birthdays, family dinner, games

You have to understand that when one of us girls has a birthday around here we like for it to be life-changing! We like to ask questions like,  “Is this the best haircut, hair color?” and, “Should I wear this lipstick color?”, “Do these jeans make my butt look big?”, stuff like that.  So after evaluating hair color for the birthday girl Holly, we did indeed decide that her brown hair was a tad bit “mousy”.  So the birthday girl got highlights from me and her dad! (Thanks Peyton!) So in honor of the blonder Holly I thought it only appropriate to have a Tangled theme party!

Holly had requested paper plates,  a laid back, burgers on the grill kind of night so I was eager to oblige!

Then presents! You can’t tell much about that hair color here but it is good!

Captive audience!

Could we get one more person on that couch?

Poor Cheryl is running out of lap! We look forward to meeting our new grandson SOON!

Just about every time we all get together the games come out and this night was no different!  A little Go Fish and Guess Who.

We ended the night cuddled up and watching the season premier of Swamp People! If you don’t know what Swamp People is I don’t even know what to say…you haven’t lived. Or at least you haven’t lived with little boys! (I will say the language seemed worse last night when those gators would almost bite their arms off! Not good!)

So Holly Kaye Haun Smith, I love you! I had so much fun celebrating you last week! (Yes, I said week!) I love you and yours and cannot imagine my life without you! I pray that this coming year is full of wonderful, beautiful, amazing things!

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Tangled

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birthdays, family dinner, games

You have to understand that when one of us girls has a birthday around here we like for it to be life-changing! We like to ask questions like,  “Is this the best haircut, hair color?” and, “Should I wear this lipstick color?”, “Do these jeans make my butt look big?”, stuff like that.  So after evaluating hair color for the birthday girl Holly, we did indeed decide that her brown hair was a tad bit “mousy”.  So the birthday girl got highlights from me and her dad! (Thanks Peyton!) So in honor of the blonder Holly I thought it only appropriate to have a Tangled theme party!

Holly had requested paper plates,  a laid back, burgers on the grill kind of night so I was eager to oblige!

Then presents! You can’t tell much about that hair color here but it is good!

Captive audience!

Could we get one more person on that couch?

Poor Cheryl is running out of lap! We look forward to meeting our new grandson SOON!

Just about every time we all get together the games come out and this night was no different!  A little Go Fish and Guess Who.

We ended the night cuddled up and watching the season premier of Swamp People! If you don’t know what Swamp People is I don’t even know what to say…you haven’t lived. Or at least you haven’t lived with little boys! (I will say the language seemed worse last night when those gators would almost bite their arms off! Not good!)

So Holly Kaye Haun Smith, I love you! I had so much fun celebrating you last week! (Yes, I said week!) I love you and yours and cannot imagine my life without you! I pray that this coming year is full of wonderful, beautiful, amazing things!

Tangled

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birthdays, family dinner, games

You have to understand that when one of us girls has a birthday around here we like for it to be life-changing! We like to ask questions like,  “Is this the best haircut, hair color?” and, “Should I wear this lipstick color?”, “Do these jeans make my butt look big?”, stuff like that.  So after evaluating hair color for the birthday girl Holly, we did indeed decide that her brown hair was a tad bit “mousy”.  So the birthday girl got highlights from me and her dad! (Thanks Peyton!) So in honor of the blonder Holly I thought it only appropriate to have a Tangled theme party!

Holly had requested paper plates,  a laid back, burgers on the grill kind of night so I was eager to oblige!

Then presents! You can’t tell much about that hair color here but it is good!

Captive audience!

Could we get one more person on that couch?

Poor Cheryl is running out of lap! We look forward to meeting our new grandson SOON!

Just about every time we all get together the games come out and this night was no different!  A little Go Fish and Guess Who.

We ended the night cuddled up and watching the season premier of Swamp People! If you don’t know what Swamp People is I don’t even know what to say…you haven’t lived. Or at least you haven’t lived with little boys! (I will say the language seemed worse last night when those gators would almost bite their arms off! Not good!)

So Holly Kaye Haun Smith, I love you! I had so much fun celebrating you last week! (Yes, I said week!) I love you and yours and cannot imagine my life without you! I pray that this coming year is full of wonderful, beautiful, amazing things!

Porch Sweepers

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birthdays, Neighbors

I LOVE old people! I do! Now I’m not talking about old people like Madonna at the Super Bowl half-time show.  My goodness! I was afraid that she was going to break her hip! As my 9-year-old grandson would say “Awkward”! No, I mean real old people.  The octogenerarians. Our kitchen window neighbor just recently turned 50 and his parents came to celebrate with him.  My neighbor’s dad swept the front and back porch every day? Maybe twice.  What is with that?  My mother was always sweeping the porch too.  It makes me feel like somehow I missed some important lesson that has to do with sweeping the porch…that it is somehow therapeutic! We blow our porches off every now and then, but where is the rhythm in that? But that generation has some serious porch sweepers! But to run across porch sweepers with a sense of humor…that’s my favorite! We walked across their well swept porch for a little game of bingo and birthday cake and shared such a sweet evening full of laughter!

Thanks neighbor for sharing your porch sweepers with us, and happy birthday!

Porch Sweepers

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birthdays, Neighbors

I LOVE old people! I do! Now I’m not talking about old people like Madonna at the Super Bowl half-time show.  My goodness! I was afraid that she was going to break her hip! As my 9-year-old grandson would say “Awkward”! No, I mean real old people.  The octogenerarians. Our kitchen window neighbor just recently turned 50 and his parents came to celebrate with him.  My neighbor’s dad swept the front and back porch every day? Maybe twice.  What is with that?  My mother was always sweeping the porch too.  It makes me feel like somehow I missed some important lesson that has to do with sweeping the porch…that it is somehow therapeutic! We blow our porches off every now and then, but where is the rhythm in that? But that generation has some serious porch sweepers! But to run across porch sweepers with a sense of humor…that’s my favorite! We walked across their well swept porch for a little game of bingo and birthday cake and shared such a sweet evening full of laughter!

Thanks neighbor for sharing your porch sweepers with us, and happy birthday!

Porch Sweepers

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birthdays, Neighbors

I LOVE old people! I do! Now I’m not talking about old people like Madonna at the Super Bowl half-time show.  My goodness! I was afraid that she was going to break her hip! As my 9-year-old grandson would say “Awkward”! No, I mean real old people.  The octogenerarians. Our kitchen window neighbor just recently turned 50 and his parents came to celebrate with him.  My neighbor’s dad swept the front and back porch every day? Maybe twice.  What is with that?  My mother was always sweeping the porch too.  It makes me feel like somehow I missed some important lesson that has to do with sweeping the porch…that it is somehow therapeutic! We blow our porches off every now and then, but where is the rhythm in that? But that generation has some serious porch sweepers! But to run across porch sweepers with a sense of humor…that’s my favorite! We walked across their well swept porch for a little game of bingo and birthday cake and shared such a sweet evening full of laughter!

Thanks neighbor for sharing your porch sweepers with us, and happy birthday!

The Birthday Stocking

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birthdays, family, gift-giving, traditions

One new tradition that we started last year is the birthday stocking. It has been a blast! I love celebrating birthdays. It is the celebration that is for that one person.  Unlike other celebrations, this is a time that we are able to focus all our attention on making the birthday boy or girl feel extra special and loved. The birthday stocking is a way to add to the celebration! Everybody in the family sticks a little something in. We just recently celebrated my granddaughter’s fourth birthday and it was such fun coming up with things for her stocking!

She had so much fun! She made good use of the hair accessories and earrings immediately!

Oh my goodness! I love that girl!!

My daughter-in-law is next, with a birthday later this month,  and I can’t wait to fill her stocking!

The Birthday Stocking

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birthdays, family, gift-giving, traditions

One new tradition that we started last year is the birthday stocking. It has been a blast! I love celebrating birthdays. It is the celebration that is for that one person.  Unlike other celebrations, this is a time that we are able to focus all our attention on making the birthday boy or girl feel extra special and loved. The birthday stocking is a way to add to the celebration! Everybody in the family sticks a little something in. We just recently celebrated my granddaughter’s fourth birthday and it was such fun coming up with things for her stocking!

She had so much fun! She made good use of the hair accessories and earrings immediately!

Oh my goodness! I love that girl!!

My daughter-in-law is next, with a birthday later this month,  and I can’t wait to fill her stocking!

The Birthday Stocking

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birthdays, family, gift-giving, traditions

One new tradition that we started last year is the birthday stocking. It has been a blast! I love celebrating birthdays. It is the celebration that is for that one person.  Unlike other celebrations, this is a time that we are able to focus all our attention on making the birthday boy or girl feel extra special and loved. The birthday stocking is a way to add to the celebration! Everybody in the family sticks a little something in. We just recently celebrated my granddaughter’s fourth birthday and it was such fun coming up with things for her stocking!

She had so much fun! She made good use of the hair accessories and earrings immediately!

Oh my goodness! I love that girl!!

My daughter-in-law is next, with a birthday later this month,  and I can’t wait to fill her stocking!