Happy Birthday Emma!!!!!

Our Emma is 8 today!
We love you, sweet girl!
Papa and Granggie

Will wonders never cease?

Mike is now on Facebook! This is his profile picture. Can you tell that he's a John Wayne fan?
Actually we all are and our kids were raised on John Wayne!
Anyway Mike decided to "go" Facebook to stay in touch with his family...mostly his cousins that he never sees and since they were friends with our daughters, he wanted to be able to keep up with them.
As for me "going" Facebook...well...probably not...the "jury's" still out on that one! :)

Quiet Splendor

The sun rising, breaking through bits of early morning fog greeted me this morning as I had my coffee on the porch. As I looked out across our patches of woods, new growth...brilliant green everywhere, popping out...dogwood blossoms unfolding, red buds...quiet splendor indeed but isn't it funny how in all their quiet new growth, they seem to be shouting..."wake up"..."come to life"..."emerge from the old and be made new, afresh"! Isn't that what we want? Each day is a new day with a fresh clean palette of brilliant colors just waiting for us. What life-picture will we paint? It's really up to us.
As the old crusader in the Indiana Jones' Raiders of the Lost Ark said..."choose wisely".

Porch Time!

More Maylena

"Movin" on up!

You know how you say, "Oh I'll never do that or get one of those", well I did. When the Nooks and Kindles came out, that's what I said. I had no desire for one. An electronic reader...pfft...not me.
I like the feel of a book in my hand, the paper scent, etc. Well I still do but now I have a Kindle Fire and I love it! Mike gave it to me as an early birthday present because it was on sale. I've downloaded lots of free books, games ; even read two books over the weekend on this fascinating little electronic device!

Now if I ever figure out what all I can do on it and my smart phone which is, at the moment, a bit smarter than me, I'll really be moving on up!
Hey it must run in the family...my almost 82 year old mother is now on Facebook!

Smitten!

Isn't she just the cutest thing you've ever seen? This is Maylena, our 9th beautiful "Grand"!
I kept her yesterday afternoon and she was a jewel! She tries to talk and she smiles and coos.
She loves being out on the porch! (A girl after my own heart...ahhh...)
We rocked and talked and rocked and she slept in my arms a bit. It was a wonderful afternoon!
When Brittany got back, she sat and visited and Maylena fell asleep in my arms. The joys of being a "Granggie"!
It was a lovely "Maylena afternoon" indeed!