I have been unfriended...

These pictures had nothing to do with it... This one I just thought was cool and this one is just pay back to my sister for picking on me so much at the memorial day picnic... Sorry Shann, couldn't resist...

I have been unfriended! Do you know what I mean? I had a friend on facebook, and apparently they got mad at me and unfriended me... How about them apples... I guess the saddest part is it took me almost a month to realize I had been unfriended... Ha! How sad. Have any of you been unfriended yet?

15 years ago today.

This is actually a little deceptive, this picture was taken on June 4th 1994, we actually got married May 20th.

We eloped... GASP! Yes I am serious. Back in 94 in Alabama you had to have a blood test to get a marriage licence. So we were looking for a place to get that done. It was gonna wind up costing like $50, not what we wanted... Who wants to pay people to stick you with needles??? That's a whole nother blog. So anyway, I called Mom, cause she is a nurse I thought she might know of a place we could get it done cheaper. She said she didn't. Right about that time Que pipped up and said, "We could drive to Florida and get married for that much money!"

What was my stolid sage mother's response? "Well if you aren't coming home tonight call me so I won't be worried."

To which I replied, well exclaimed is more accurate, "YOU DON'T THINK WE'LL DO IT!"

And she merely said "Call me so I don't worry."

So we called to Florida, and found out it only cost $80 to get married in the courthouse, and then we called the pastor and asked if he would mind renewing our vows in two weeks at our planned wedding, and then we called mom and said "I'm not coming home tonight, we are driving to Florida after work to get married."

She said "Ok, I love you, drive safe. Why don't you come by here and get the cooler and you can put some soft drinks in it."

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Too fun. I love my mom.

So then we went to work and gave them 24 hr notice we would not be in the next night. They said why? and we said we are driving to FL to get married, and they said, "No you aren't" lol

So that night when we got off work at about 1am, we went to mom's house and got the cooler, and then drove to fl. We go to Pensacola at about 6:30-7am, and went to McDonalds for some breakfast since the courthouse didn't open until 8am. Then at about 8 we went in, filled out the paperwork, and had some lady marry us!!! What fun! Then we drove to the beach, but it was too cold really, and then went back to Q's house. I have been with him since.

I am so glad my mom let us, it is a great adventure we still talk about to day. This is true, all it, as Wendy Bagwell would say, "That's a fact with my hand up."

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Lol my frined Elaine sent me this in an email.

Awww the loyalty of a son? pooch?

This is a neat story of how a son (albeit a pooch son) protected his mom... Who says dogs don't celebrate mother's day?

Here is a link to some video. (This is a cute on Suz and Reb get your mom or dad to show you the linked video)

I am so loved!

I was working all day Saturday,I had to work at the portrait studio, and then I also had a personal photo job. Apparently my kids and husband were pretty busy too. When I came home they it was already dark and they had gone to subway to eat. I drove to subway and met them there. While eating they informed me that for mother's day they got me some roses, but they drowned in a flood, so they buried them in the yard.

This was the cause of the flood...
And here are my roses that drowned... Two rose bushes! So sweet.

Tymothie painted this pot for me in Sunday school.

Then Tym, Ann, and Nana all made daddy go to Wal-mart to buy me some more roses... (the kids know I love roses and well... never get them.)
However, I think this is my favorite gift. Well, it even edges out the fountain a little...

Juliannah gave me a brown paper bag, and calmly explained that it had a few air holes so that my "present" could breathe. At this point I got a little nervous...

When I opened it, there was Jelly Bean (the pink rabbit in the red dress.) This is Juliannah's most prized possession. Ms Tammy gave her this bunny when she was just hours old, and she wanted to give it to me for mother's day... How humbling...

What did you get?

Yeah, No.

This is horrible. Absolutely. As Tymothie would say. "Oh the Horror!" I hope President Obama is abhorred by it.

The Timer Just Called You a Nitwit!

I love this one! Nit wit! too funny!

Oh, and for my adult readers, My friend Deanna has been doing a really awesome series on Marriage. You can read that here. (Suz and Reb, you need to ask your mom and dad before you click on this site, there are some adult themes albeit Christian Adult Themes...)

How I handle conflict...

These pictures have nothing to do with the post but they are tooo cute not to post...

So some of you wondered how I handled that last situation. I put up on the status bar of my IM a notification that all conversations that take place with me on that program will be logged into my computer's history. That way no one is surprised. I also chose to delete my history with that person, just because like my dear hubby said , a soft answer turns away wrath, so I felt it was a nice gester, however I did inform that person that from this time on I would be recording all conversations...

So... conflict anyone?

So I got a question for ya…
I try to embrace critique. It isn’t always easy, and it is sometimes a real fight with my pride. However, I think the benefits outweigh the cost, so I choose to open myself to criticism so that I can continue to grow and change.
When I feel like I am forced into a decision I don’t quite agree with, I want to pull that situation back out and examine it and see if I reacted correctly. This is nothing personal against anyone, I want to see and judge my actions. The bible says judge not lest ye be judged. I don’t want to judge, I WANT to be judged… Please judge me!
So if any of you are up for a good clock cleaning, BRING IT ON! I keep telling yall to be brutal, and no one will… Rip me to shreds… in love.
Please note, you are welcome to disagree with me, but that doesn’t’ mean I will change my mind, it will just mean we disagree. We can still be friends.
Ok here is the situation I was talking to a friend on MSN IM the other day, and she asked me if I save my conversation history. I said yes. As a security measure I have my im set to save all conversations. Mainly because I can be slow sometimes, some things take a day or two to sink in. If I have my conversations saved I can go back to them and look at what I said a few days later and see if I still agree with myself, or if I need to change my stance on that.
She got very upset, and promptly asked me to delete them. When I said no, she said I was being childish immature and disrespectful.
I said she simply needed to trust me that no one would ever see them, they are my conversations too, and are stored on a secure password protected laptop, that only I ever use.
Here is my question. Since my computer is secure and they were my conversations, was it my right to refuse to delete?
OR
Was it her right to DEMAND I delete them? (She said she was asking but she asked repeatedly and badgered me until I felt bullied into doing it, saying such things as “Well you are being selfish and immature if you don’t delete them, that is just childish.”
Oh, an interesting note, On MSN IM you can set it to save, but on Yahoo, it just saves them, and you can’t delete them…
Please vote and tell me what you would have done. I really want to know.

Futile attempts at a self portrait...

I was trying to accomplish two things, keep my right eye open inspite of the flash while smiling, (when I smile my right eye closes) and hide my double chin... How do you think I did? Be brutal, I can take it! (and I promise not to take it personal)

Ha! go Ruth!

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Franklin Graham, who now runs the Samaritan’s Purse international relief organization, admitted in his book “Rebel With a Cause” that he could be a real handful as a boy - but his mother was equal to the task at hand.He tells a story about pestering his sisters on a trip to eat at an Asheville drive-in, a big treat in those days. He was out of range of his mother’s “quick backhand,” and even her shoe tree - a piece of spring metal with a wooden toe on one end and a heel on the other, which she would use to “extend her reach.”Ruth Graham threatened to lock her son in the trunk if he didn’t desist, a threat that didn’t deter him at all. Exasperated, she pulled over and locked him in the trunk, checking first to make sure he could breathe.Franklin Graham thought he would be freed when they got to the restaurant, but she kept him in the trunk even after the food arrived.LOL! Today, she'd been hauled off to jail and her children taken away. Bless you Ruth Graham. The world will miss you.

Precious and Tym

Precious is so precious...(aka snot wad... she sneaks into the house and will still things and take them outside to chew on them... lol)
I admit I feel like a hick posting a pic of my kid without a shirt on... but this was so cute, Tym was helping Spann out. He was saying that where the reds and greens meet, winds are blowing in opposite directions, and they fight, that is how tornadoes are formed.