Flashback Friday 5/25

This weekend in May of 2005 we headed to Illinois for our usual summer visit. The weekend we arrived we had a nice little cookout with Jason's family. And then I forced everyone to stand close together for pictures. It's my job. It's what is expected of me.

The heathens. From left to right. Jonathan, Grace, Hannah, Cameron, Joshua, Josie and Justin.

 The adults. Aunt Nancy and Uncle Marvin. Grandma Ann and Grandpa Marvin. Paul and Jason's Mom, Lana.

Jason's family. 

Troy and his then wife Jamie with their hooligans.

And then the next day I got to see me niece Maddie!

May 20th 2006 Hannah was in a play, Robin Hood, on Charleston AFB. A traveling Group that worked with the Youth Center. Hannah LOVES being in plays!



On this very day in 2008 my Brenda Lou Who was in Charleston visiting us!! We spent the day at the Isle of Palms!

May 22nd 2010. My time is running out in Charleston. I am soaking up as much time as I can with friends.

Me, Ali, Raquel and Naomi. At a restaurant that I cannot remember the name. I do remember being in downtown Charleston and I remember the Pear cheesecake with salted caramel.

I do hope to organize my much older pictures and get to scanning. So I can show off itty bitty Hannah and Josie. Till then you will have to make do with the 8 years of digital I have :D

Embrace the Camera 5/24

Addiction thy name is Triple Mocha Cappuccino Blast from Dunkin' Donuts.  

And you guys thought it would be another picture of me with one of my kiddos. Pssht! Boring!!!

For those who know me know I am normally obsessed with my Chai Frappucinos from Starbucks. My loyal BFF for the past almost 8 years!! I am cheating! But how can something so wrong feel so so so right. I am already craving another one!

This next series of pictures was set up by Cameron. I was only gonna take a quick shot but he told me which ones to take and then promptly announced 'OK I done.' and left.

I could label it the 'What was I thinking?" series. Cameron LOVES Nutella. It is 90% of his diet. And he does enjoy nibbling on pretzels. So I was showing him how to dip pretzels into Nutella. He refused. For awhile. One thing with Cameron's sensory issues is he doesn't like getting food on his lips. Which is why he eats such a dry diet. So having a glob of Nutella come towards his lips not hidden between two slices of dry bread made him very nervous. But he watched me and noticed I never got any on my lips. His first couple of pretzels he would dip and then look at it then hand it to me. Then he finally got brave enough to pop it in his mouth. YUM!!! Insert 'What was I thinking!?!?!' He LOVES it!!! Somehow I have only managed to up his Nutella intake. I was only trying to get him past something that made him nervous. As a result I may of doubled our Nutella bill!



Crafting Truth

 Maybe one day I will grow up into one of those reliable crafting blogs. Just not today. I decided to show you some truths. Below you will see the wood I bought for my string art project. Ridiculously HUGE pieces of wood. Jason is having fun making fun of me. What the deuce was I thinking!?!? But I spent the money already so I am determined. One day last week I spray painted it my pretty new blue and then brought it in the next day after it dried. And there it sits. Right next to a canvas that I messed up ten ways from Sunday but I will revive the darling! I am just so frustrated with it she shall sit and wait for my attention.

So the truth is in my house projects sit and wait. ALLOT. Some of them for significant amounts of time Some of them I will start and then get bored and go work on something else. It has taken me days and weeks to finish something so simple because I am quite the crafty butterfly.

                         

   

I do have a very important project on the crafting block. A friend of mine offered to pay me to make one of my magazine frames!! I have been chopping away at my magazines. Alas the letter B is quite elusive but I think I have enough now to get started!

And then of course this project of sorting and ROYGBVing my Grandmother's yarn. I bought this shelf to put it on then after I brought out the bags of yarn I pretty much figure it out that it way too small.

And this sexy project. Folding laundry. Ugh!

I didn't want you to come here and only see my piles of stuff. So something pretty. A Choose Joy canvas in my bedroom. I see it every morning when I wake up!

So I might not ever give you a reliable crafting blog but I promise to do my best to take you on as many crafting adventures as I can. Cause I do love it so. It is very much a part of who I am.



Flashback Friday

Thanks to digital cameras all our photos have a digital time stamp. Which works perfect for what I would like to do on Fridays. A flashback on what was happening in our lives this past week in the years past.

So with it decided I went and looked into my files and came across this in May of 2005. Mother's Day as a matter of fact. Look how little she was!!! 9 year old Josie B.

My 2nd Mother's Day with all 3. We were living in Montgomery AL at this time. After our mini photo shoot we went home and the kids played in a little pool and with a slip and slide!

May 17th 2006. We have moved to Charleston SC by now! And we have just started venturing into what has so far become his life obsession. Drawing. Just the other day I said 'Cameron you are using up to much paper.' to which he replied 'But Mom I need to draw!'

Little 2 yr old boy. By now we knew you were 'different'. Special. The word Autism was being batted around for sure but we were still so new to the game.

May 13th 2007.  Jason has been home from Iraq for about 3 weeks at this point. Poor Josie B has broken glasses that always slid to the front of her nose. We would call her Grandma cause she would have to tilt her head up or she would tilt it down and look at us over her rims.

May 16th 2008. We are at the Charleston Children's Museum with Cameron class. I of course am a hoot!

Wow I really do think I am going to have allot of fun with Fridays!! If I get into a groove with scanning photos I may even be able to take us back even farther!!!

Embrace the Camera

So here we are! First entry in over a year. I think the only way to maintain this blog is to keep it simple. On Thursday I am going to participate in this thing called 'Embrace the Camera'. Every Thursday I am going to be in a picture. Me. You know the one usually holding the camera. Today I wanted to stand next to my 16 yr old. My middle child. My Fedorable Josie B. And when I need her to help me you can hear me call throughout the house 'MY TALLEST!' because dagnabit my little girl went and got taller then me. Even without her fedora ;) and yes oh yes she LOVES to point it out. Daily.

Also the first set of pictures was me trying my darndest to just stand next to her without touching her cause she no likey being touched. And when I finally told her we had to just step in and put our arms around each others waist she had her fist clenched and she was stiff as a board laughing. But I eventually got the first one and I kinda dig it :D