47

Yesterday was my 47th birthday! It was a really good one too. Dave and I began by going to church to see Torrell get baptized. Very nice! Then we heard the Word. The message was "Hold it Up" and it was taken from Exodous 17. I'm always looking for tie in to scripture in the way the message is presented and it was right there. I also look for applicability of the message into every day life. Again, it was right there. Hold up my faith with prayer and praise. Hold up almost anything with prayer and praise for that matter! Hold it up!

The rest of the day was pretty laid back but Dave gave me a brand new Annie Lee figurine and a poster signed by Annie Lee herself. That's getting framed an going straight up in the kitchen, just like the signed poster by John Holyfield! Very cool.

Yo, with her slick self, gave me a gift card which took a hefty chunk out of my bill at Kohls on Saturday. TBPB is coming.

The kids gave me a set of new reed diffusers.

I got a new Build a Bear too. Born on my birthday.

Dad and Christine sent money. That's always appreciated.

Then we had dinner at Red Lobster. Yum!

Dessert was the birthday cake Yolanda gave me. Yum too!

I got a ton of well wishes from Facebookers!

This morning I got on the scale fully expecting to be up, but I was down 1.2 pounds from last Monday's weigh in. I am down 19.2 pounds since April 25. Thank You God!

And now, I have the rest of  the week off.

With one little "bump" that momentarily robbed me of my joy yesterday that I will not even acknowledge any more than that, 47 is starting out in an AWESOMELY BLESSED way!

Happy 4th of July!

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Ha! Here we go again.

Okay, here is a new attempt at blogging. It's been what? Two years since my last post? Yeah, something like that. Anyhoo, I figure what the heck, I'll give it a try. Again. One reason being that about a month and a half ago something went crazy wrong with my computer and I lost EVERYTHING that I had not put on the back up external hard drive that Davie Pooh bought me. In other words, I lost A LOT! That includes a ton of the layout pics I've taken - you know, just in case something happens to the actual layouts. In the last three or four months I've been a scrapping fool and I decided that I would photograph all (or most) of the layouts I've scrapped and put them on the back up hard drive, but also here on my blog. You know, just in case something happens to the actual layouts AND the back up drive.

Yeah I'll use my blog to talk about life too, not that anyone is reading my blog. But maybe one day, some day I will have a reason to direct a family member or friend to my own little spot here on the WWW. Maybe ...

So let's get started with a couple of bubble layouts I took of Jordyn and Justin late last summer/early last fall. Lucky for me both kids were in a decent mood and happy to oblige and indulge my photographer requests. This has become a rare occurrence with all three kids. Typically they either dodge and avoid me and my camera or make the silliest goofy or bored and ticked off expression they can. The bubble blowing was actually fun for them so it was cool to catch them being themselves and having fun.

As you can see, I did some photo editing, making only the bubbles present in color. I love the effect and I'm pretty please with the layouts too.

So here's my first post in a long time. I promise to post again soon

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