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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO U
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO U
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
♥ MY PATTI ♥
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO U!

Just one more day and my oldest daughter will be 40. She will never be 30 anything ever again! Wow, Patti, how does that make you feel? Well, it makes me feel ancient I tell you what! I can't believe how time just slips by without us knowing it. They say time flies when you're having fun but it's hard to remember all the fun you did have! ☺

I do remember the day you were born. You were so very tiny I couldn't believe you were really real and you were MINE! I was just 18 when you were born. I was still learning life and now suddenly I was also a teacher. I loved my life then. Not that I don't now, but it was great becoming a mommy. I was so in love with the fact that I had my own baby. I guess we take what life God gives us and learn how to deal with it. You had 10 little toes and 10 tiny fingers. So much hair! I felt like I had my own real baby doll. I also remember when you couldn't wait to be 30. Now you can't wait to be 40! You must be nuts to want to be older. ☺ Most people wish we could get younger, not older. Life is so incredibly amazing

I am so proud of you, Patti. In your 40 years you've come a long way. We all had to grow up and make so many decisions. So many choices. Your life began at Camp Lenope. You knew then and there what you wanted to do with the rest of your life. Now look at you. You're very independent... Hmmm I wonder where that trait came from. ☺ You're sensitive, caring, jolly, thick headed at times. ☺ You have this desire of wanting to be in charge all the time. You are so like MY mother. But you make me proud to have you as one of MY daughters!

♥ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Patti ♥

Forever Love,
Mom ☺

You Mean The World To Me
You give me all I need
In my day to day life.
You give me love
You give me friendship
You are supportive when I need it
You leave me alone when I need to be alone
You are as close to perfect as anyone can be
Thank you for always being there for me!

I Love You

A WINTER TO BEAT ALL WINTERS

I've been reading Blogs of people and their snow dilemmas, so I decided to show our neck of the woods. As you can see I included pictures of what our place should look like and ones of what they look like this week. I'm not sure when we will get out of here. Cy hasn't come to plow our road yet and it's gonna take great effort to dig the wagon out so Lynn can return to work. At least if Cy plows they can walk down to where the wagon is buried and if the main road is clear maybe they can make it to the store. We are running out of necessities. My honey tried to walk to his shed several times and he fell so many times. We need to get to the heating and air conditioner unit on the side of our house to clear the snow around it, but the snow is waist deep for my honey and he was only able to get half way. So I pray it doesn't give us trouble. Of course Christopher is loving it! Today Lynn fell in the snow on the back deck and he thought it was kewl to try and bury her. Ghees, I hate snow, I hate cold and I hate winter!! I am soooo looking forward to Spring. I must admit, anywhere I go I love it when I come home and stay put. But I am getting overwhelmed with all this snow and I am starting to want to go, anywhere! Ever since I broke my ankle in 2005, I am petrified of falling. So I think I'm gonna stay put til Spring unless we get dug out.

This Picture Is Our Beautiful Front Deck

This Is The Front Deck This Week

This Is The View From My Kitchen Window
Overlooking The Back Deck

This Is Our Back Deck

Here You Can See A Glimpse Of My Car's Antenna

This Is Lynn Attempting To Clean Off My Car
The Wagon Is Buried Under The Snow At The Foot Of Our Road
We Couldn't Even Get It Up To Our Driveway

Here Across Our Road, You Can Plainly See,
Is An Abandoned Cemetery


This Is The View Of The Cemetery This Week

This Is The View Of Our Beautiful Driveway

This Is What We See As Our Driveway

I know this is the worse storm ever as they said on the news. I hate all of it. But I am thankful for all my blessings; each other, our health, such as it is, a roof over our heads, and I thanQ God for not letting the electricity go out. There are sooo many without power for days now, I really feel for all of them.

God bless you and keep all of you safe!!

I JUST HAVE TO SHARE

NELSON ♥ ANGELA
I just have to tell you about NELSON. He will soon be another great son-in-law who will be marrying my middle daughter, Angela. They are planning a May 8th wedding in the gazebo in their community. Nelson chose that date because, MAY = Me And You, and 8th because it resembles the Infinity symbol.

Nelson use to be Amish and when they get a certain age, they are allowed to choose whether to stay in their community or enter the outside world. He, of course, chose the world. No wonder with his hunger for knowledge, he wanted to learn all he could about what, where, why, and how things happen.

Among the many things he has to offer the world, he writes poetry, keeps a private journal and makes beautiful things with his hands.Here are just a few of many.


These Are Carvings Of An Amish Couple

Angela In An Amish Outfit
Angela wanted to see how she would look wearing an outfit the Amish women wear daily so she got one from Nelson's family. BTW, his whole family chose to leave their community.

Nelson Is A True Die-Hard Dallas Cowboys Fan
and He Made This Tissue Dispenser
Angela and Nelson plan on going to Dallas for their honeymoon...BUT thats not all, they plan on relocating there. Boo-Hoo :(

I Am So Amazed With These
He Has Such Talent

I Can't Remember The Name For This Fish
But I Know It's A Christian Symbol

When He Was In Amish Community, They Use To Congregate For A "Barn Raising"
Where Everyone Got Together To Help Build Buildings. Imagine Building Things Without Power Tools. This Is A Scale Model Of A Building They Would Build

This Past Christmas, Nelson Made This "CROWN" For His Princess.
They Just Had To Bring It To Show Us
And Of Course I Had To Take Pictures Of It


Here's Nelson's Facebook Page


If We Ask Him Nicely, He May Make Something For Us.

MY NEW eBAY ITEM

COME SEE
We had these three "Collector's Edition, Coca-Cola Classic Series" Barbies since Lynn was married way back when, hehehee. Anyway, I did some research and found out they are worth more as a set than individually. So we decided to list them on eBay to see if anyone wants them now that she's outgrown her "barbie" days. They're still new in their individual packaging, have never been played with and my eBay listing will tell you all about them. Whether you have a daughter of your own, if you want to give them as a gift for someone "special", or even want them for yourself to add to your own Barbie collections, come check them out.

AN FDA WARNING

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for all who use (or who intend to use) the product "ALLI"

ANOTHER FIRST

On Tuesday of this week, the 19th, Christopher came home from school and showed us that his tooth came out while he was in school. For weeks, actually months, we've been playing with it and of course it's been getting looser and looser. Just recently we were playing with it and it got to the point where it was only hanging on by a thread, for lack of a better word. He was amazed how much he can play with it with his tongue, even underneath. He told us the story of how it happened.


During lunch, he was eating a peach. He bit down on it and thought he bit into a pit or something hard. When he took it out of his mouth he was so excited to learn it was his tooth that finally came out!! ☺ I sure can imagine being him and feeling as if something special just happened to me! Wow!! Something did happen... It's another one of those exciting "FIRSTS" that we all have experienced at one time or another. Now he's starting to make room for his big boy teeth. ☺ I know I was so excited for him and with him when he told me the story.



They sent him to the nurse. She took care of him, cleaned it up and put it in this adorable little box shaped like a tooth. It has a plastic string so he can wear it around his neck. I immediately fell in love with the box but even more so of the whole story and how it happened. It was so cute with his first tooth inside. I thought it was the cutest thing I've seen in a long time. So we had him put the whole tooth under his pillow that night. He for sure had no trouble going to sleep.



The next morning he was so excited that his tooth was gone and in it's place was a crisp $1.00 bill folded small enough to fit inside the plastic tooth box. He got a kick out of the fact that the Tooth Fairy folded it so small.

He put that money together with some other money he's been saving so he can buy a NED yo-yo. The picture on the side of it glows in the dark. His school was selling yo-yo's and he wanted it enough to earn it. It's kewl. Now he's learning how to use a yo-yo. He's having a lot of fun playing with the yo-yo AND with that empty space where he once had a baby tooth! BTW, I can see the bottom of that space will soon be occupied by a new big boy tooth, already! Wow! How Kewl is that!!