tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68243794550770622442024-02-21T00:33:09.146-05:00Something to Blog Aboutouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-23555277050834197792013-03-05T20:02:00.000-05:002013-03-06T21:22:56.669-05:00Howard Eugene Mounts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I have often wondered how you properly remember a person to someone who didn't know them or even to someone who knew them in a different way than you. I have pondered how you can accurately share what a person was like, what they stood for, how the felt, what they were. The conclusion I have reached is that you just can't. What you can do is talk about what someone was to you, what they meant to you, and what they represented for you. You can't speak for someone else, and I wonder if you can completely know someone else. We all have sides of ourselves that we expose only to a certain audience. To know someone completely is difficult at best, so to safely tell their story is an unfair task. Today I have thought endlessly about my Grandpa, or Grandpa Howard as I sometimes called him. </div>
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My first memories come long after this picture, but I wonder so deeply about this man. This confident brown man with the thick black hair. What did he want? What were his dreams? Was this picture taken before or after he served his county in the Navy? What was this dashing young man thinking?</div>
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I know that he married my grandmother who was quite his junior. They had my mom, his only biological child, but not the only child he would claim as his own. I know that this smile is exactly the same smile he carried throughout his life. It never went away, and it always brought you along with it, even when you sometimes didn't want to go. The man was a jokester to everyone. He could laugh at his own joke, and you would be just fine with it. He never met a stranger, and if you met him you would know what I mean.<br />
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My grandpa wasn't a perfect father. Who is? He did something that to this day I find incredibly odd and admirable. When my grandmother left him, he moved in to his ex-mother-in-law's basement because she was raising his daughter, my mom. He continued to live there when he wasn't off working in another part of the country, and he didn't remarry until my mom was grown. Men didn't raise their children then. It wouldn't have been an option, but he stayed as close to my mom as possible. Can you imagine?</div>
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This is my mom, her dad, and his mother. It strikes me just how stylish he was. He was a tiny little guy. I was much taller than him. What he lacked in height he made up for with heart. He loved his two step-sons like they were his own. In fact, it was my step-uncle who took care of him, with the heart of a saint, right up until his farewell.<br />
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This picture is more of that man I remember. These are his sisters, Kathleen, the smallest, and Margaret. <br />
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These two are with my step-grandmother. They were together my whole life. I took the one on the right with my first camera, the Polaroid. His dog Mitzi is looking up at him. He loved that dog. She was a Boston Terrier and she was awesome. I remember she got a weird spot on her lip and they had to have her put to sleep. My grandpa was devastated. </div>
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This is Grandpa and my mom in his backyard. Grandpa made this bbq grill with bricks he reclaimed. I can't remember the story, but he was very proud of that grill. It think the bricks my have come from the old school house. It was pretty darn awesome. He was ahead of his time. "Reclaimed" is all the rage these days!<br />
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This one is in his kitchen. I love this kitchen. The house he lived in used to be a restaurant and if I am remembering correctly, you were served through those kitchen windows, but I might be getting it all wrong. I do remember eating a bunch of meals in this kitchen. There were always olives, which I loved. I loved to watch my grandpa eat. He ate with gusto, and he made the weirdest concoction after dinner. He would take a glass, put a piece of cornbread in it, break the cornbread apart, pour buttermilk on top of it, then put in salt and pepper and eat it with a spoon. It was the most fascinating thing to me. He also was as blind as a bat. I remember watching him and my step-grandmother put in his contacts, and then put his thick glasses on with them. He called it putting his eyes in. See again, super ahead of the times with the contacts.<br />
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I love this one. Grandpa loved the outside. I remember that he was always planting something, starting something, weeding somewhere, showing me the bloom on something. He loved birds too. He always had his binoculars out showing you some type of bird. </div>
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This was taken in our front yard. My Uncle Jack Worthington is on the ground beside of him. Jack is my dad's namesake. That man was a pistol. He could stand on his head like it was nothing. I wish I had that on video. You would be amazed.<br />
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My mom and my Grandpa long ago at the grave of Bobbie Lee (my Aunt Pats mom). She died very young when my Aunt Pat was just a baby. She was raised with my mom too.<br />
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This is Skylar with my grandpa at his home in Weber City, Va. This was after he had moved in with my step-uncle. His mind was not playing nice at this point. He used to really love wind chimes. He had a million at his house, so I had brought him the one he is standing next to. <br />
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This is an oldie! Look at me! Rodney, the uncle grandpa lived with, is in the middle with my cousin Courtney. We were at my gradnpa's sister's house. I loved to go visit them!</div>
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This is my dad and grandpa on Pilot Mountain a day or two ago!!</div>
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My grandpa, step-grandma, mom, dad, and sister on Pilot Mountain.<br />
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This is the last picture I took of my grandpa. I will treasure it. <br />
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You probably can't make it out, but there is a hummingbird in this picture. Grandpa would stand there and they would come right up and eat from the feeder. He loved the birds!<br />
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This is grandpa showing Skylar the train going by. In Davy, WV, the train went right behind his house. In Weber City, Va, it went right beside of the house. He also like watching the train.<br />
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I will always remember going to my Grandpa's house on Thursday nights. We went there to watch Dallas and Falcon Crest. I didn't like Dallas, so while it was on I would read all of the papers. Grandpa was always good for a Globe, National Enquirer, and at least one other odd ball tabloid. I would look at every single page, and read as much as I could get in. We would eat dinner first, including olives! Then we would eat Jello Pudding Pops. I preferred the chocolate, or the vanilla chocolate swirl, but I was bummed if I got stuck with Vanilla. I would sneak in the freezer and take an inventory before dinner to be sure there were enough to go around. If there weren't, I would volunteer to get them out of the freezer after dinner so I could get my hands on anything but a vanilla!</div>
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My grandpa would talk to me about school, my week, the birds... He loved to watch birds and he would tell me about any new ones, or ones that would be coming/going soon because of their migratory habits. He also loved to collect insulators from power lines. He would tell me about walking along the lines and what he found. He loved to find the blue glass ones in perfect condition. It was a quest for him. He also loved cracking walnuts. We were forever gathering them up for him, or going with him to gather them. He was always perfecting the perfect walnut cracking method. How best to get the kernels out as wholes. He knew the different flavors based on where they were grown, how much rain we hadn't gotten, how old the tree was. The man was an expert on walnuts. It might be why he lived so long with Alzheimer's. Walnuts might have special powers!</div>
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I remember him helping me study for the spelling bee, letting me help him fill up the humming bird feeders, showing me some plants he had started from roots, taking me down to the river to show me fish, or his boat, or something he found in the river. He never talked about himself or his childhood. He never complained. Not once did I hear him complain. </div>
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I remember when my momaw died. She was the one who raised my mom and my grandpa had lived in her basement to be near my mom. We had moved to WV and she was living in MI. I missed her so much I thought I might actually die. She was my best pal. When she passed away they sent my grandpa to tell us. I remember being in my Grandma Juanita's living room and thinking there must be some mistake. It couldn't be possible that I would never see my momaw again. I hated my mom and dad for moving me away from her, and now they were telling me she was gone. I remember looking at my grandpa and he wasn't making a sound, but giant crocodile tears were rolling down his face. He put his hand on my head and he had the most pitiful look on his face. It is only as an adult that I can appreciate that this woman wasn't his ex-mother-in-law, she was the person who did this incredibly important job of raising his daughter and she was gone.</div>
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As I sat at Granpa's funeral, the day before my 40th birthday, at the end of a crazy week, I felt so small, and tiny, and helpless and all I wanted was the enquirer, a jar of olives, and a chocolate and vanilla swirled Jello pudding pop, and for everyone who was there when those things meant so much to just be back with me to watch one more episode of Falcon Crest. I closed my eyes, and for just two minutes, they were all there with me, surrounding me. My heart so full I thought it would pop. My Aunt Reat, Aunt Brenda, Uncle Kenny, Uncle Don, Grandma Juanita, Momaw, Grandma Sis, Uncle John, and Grandma Grace, and then the song was over, my eyes opened and they were all gone again. I will miss them all so much, for so many different reasons, in so many different ways, but I will carry them with me and keep them as alive as I can in my heart. </div>
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Billy D. Williams' twin (really, the dude looked just like Lando Calrissian) was checking me out. <br />
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He seemed nice enough, but not quite thrilled to be there. I told him I needed 26, 20 cent stamps and 51, 45 cent stamps. My total was $68.41. That seemed excessive, but I didn't want to hold up the line and I already felt plenty unwelcome there. Plus my math skills were all off with this 20 cent per card variance. Square cards are clearly of the devil.</div>
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So, I pay with my debit card, rush out to apply all of those stamps, miss the darn mail pickup, but I keep placing stamps. I saw the lady driving the truck go back to get the mail. She had knocked on the door as I was hastily sticking stamps. My thought was that I would grab the lady on her way to the mail truck and ask her very, very nicely if she would put my cards on the truck. As I was standing there I glanced at my receipt. I had been charged for 226, 20 cent stamps instead of 26. Really? Well, at this point, the gate is down and I can hear the now very chipper staff cracking up and bantering behind the curtain. So I knocked on the door where I had just seen the lady picking up the mail knock. Then I hear the staff laughing about somebody knocking on the door and how they just need to come back tomorrow. Hahaha, hehehehe, cackle, cackle, cackle. So I knock again. More laughter, more smart remarks. Now I knock on the glass and say, "yes, I just checked out and I was GROSSLY overcharged". Bear in mind, I am having to YELL since they are on the other side of glass and a metal roll down door. The man who checked me out, you remember, Billy D. Williams (even though he is a sexy beast I am not impressed at this point), yells, just calm down. To which I reply, "I am calm, but I am having to yell through this window because you won't open the door!". He opens the door.<br />
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BDW: ok, how were you "grossly" overcharged?<br />
ME: well, I bought 26, 20 cent stamps but you charged me for 226.<br />
BDW: let me see your receipt.<br />
ME: sure<br />
BDW: hmmm, i sure did.<br />
ME: yep, and I didn't want to wait until tomorrow and have to prove my case. i figured it best if we fix this tonight.<br />
BDW: give me your debit card<br />
ME: sure<br />
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About 2 minutes later BDW comes out.<br />
BDW: ummm, since you had paid with your debit card I am gonna have to give you a money order.<br />
me: say what now? what do i do with a money order. I am sorry, I am not super familiar with money orders.<br />
BDW: (in his most sarcastic voice) I will cash it for you.<br />
me: well why didn't you say so?<br />
BDW: come back here and have a seat, this is gonna take a while.<br />
me: ok<br />
BDW: i need you to complete this paper work<br />
me: (only in my head) are you effing kidding me?<br />
BDW: use that pen over there.<br />
me: (i have no more words at this point)<br />
BDW: I'll be right back<br />
me: (still speechless)<br />
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I start the paperwork. He told me to put my name and address. I go ahead and sign too. Seems important right? I did not date it. This did not please BDW. He scolds me but writes the date himself with a proper amount of indignant disgust. <br />
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About 5 minutes later BDW brings out a money order for me to sign. I sign it. The mail lady has been pacing around so I recommend she makes herself useful and gets my 51 cards out of the bin and puts them on the truck. I really doubt any of you will actually get Christmas cards this year. I was pretty frustrated at this point. That is really no excuse for my grumpiness. This poor woman had wronged me in no way.<br />
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BDW now comes out with the $45 and decides to make fun of me for "yelling that I had been grossly overcharged". Really BDW? Really?? You who rings up stamps all darn day long thinks giving me crap is funny. Why didn't you think it was too much? I explain again, that I had no interest in coming back, standing in that line, and making my case, which I am pretty sure no one would believe. He pretty much ignores me. <br />
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Have I mentioned that BDW, while a sexy beast, moved like a snail. This guy made Greg Linkous look like flash. <br />
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I have shortened this story and left out a ton of cuss words. I don't think I actually said any out loud, but I thought a ton of them. Was I a grump? Probably. Was I within my rights? Darn right! Am I sorry for standing up for myself? NO! Will I go back to that post office anytime soon? No! Am I surprised that the post office is in so much trouble? NO!!!<br />
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In case you ever wondered what it looks like back there, it was pretty interesting and incredibly retro. There was a big wooden box with drawers for boxes that were closed. Everything was hand written. It was like walking back in time. <br />
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-74928197786760223512012-11-17T20:27:00.000-05:002012-11-17T20:27:43.530-05:00Personalized Greeting Card from Treat for FREEHey! Have you heard to <a href="http://www.treat.com/" target="_blank">Treat</a>?? Treat is Shutterfly's greeting card brand. You can make totally personalized cards quickly, easily, and uniquely and you don't have to stand in a line or even put on pants if you don't want to. Sounds lovely right?<br />
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Last year I sent out Thanksgiving cards and it was so much fun! My friend Jen said that no one sends out Thanksgiving cards. Wrong-o Jen! Everyone should send out a Thanksgiving card. <br />
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Treat is giving away cards for two days. Giving them away! Free! No cost to you. Go make a card, make it your own, and give it away, for free. Make someone's day. Prove Jen wrong. She's right so much, she won't mind a bit.<br />
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So, it couldn't be easier, on Monday the 19th or Tuesday the 20th, go to the <a href="http://www.treat.com/" target="_blank">TREAT</a> website and make a card. Use the code: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">TREATBLOGR</span> and make someone's day. <br />
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This one makes me think of my friend Jaclyn. She loves this old pyrex. She would love this card. <br />
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In typical Ouida fashion, a weather event delayed my trip by a day, but not in the neat tidy, your flight has been cancelled hang out in the city another day and watch the beautiful snow kind of way. Nope, more like race to the airport in a cab with a grumpy cabbie who wants you to kneel down and thank him driving you to the airport, which be definition, is exactly what you are paying him to do (for realz?) only to get your hopes up, move your gate, then your terminal, only to tell you that your flight has been cancelled, but you are rebooked for the first flight out, just kidding we cancelled that one too, and all of the hotel rooms have now been booked kind of way. You know that way right???<br />
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I got to see my cousin Ryan who I have not seen in years. Probably 10 to be exact. He's a male model. Really. How many people get to say that? I am super proud of him. He really is living the dream. He lives in a tiny little apartment in Astoria, just a really quick cab ride from LaGuardia and he makes a living smiling, pouting, looking pensive, playful, whatever the shoot calls for. He hangs out with celebrities and skateboards through NYC. Quite the gig if you can get it. He went with me to check in to the hotel and I am pretty sure the lady checking me in thought I was living a reverse Pretty Woman scenario. I mentioned this to Ryan and he didn't get it. Twenty two year old men aren't familiar with Pretty Woman. Who knew? Anyhow, we hung out in the city for a while, then he ditched me to go smile for the camera. It was fun while it lasted. Then I was lost. Hopelessly, but I stumbled upon the Apple store, and from my research realized that I had also found FAO Schwarz. All was right with the world. Well, mostly. I was still lost, but I found a really cool toy store, so it didn't seem as hopeless.<br />
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The city is like an assault on your senses, especially if everything you see is a postcard in your head. I left my nice camera behind. I had to have my laptop count as my other carry on, and there is no way I would check it, so I had to count of my phone and my little Canon point and shoot. Less that ideal, but what I had. There were a million scenes I wanted to snap, but I also forgot my battery charger, so I was always afraid I would miss the next best thing. I especially loved this bike. Pretty right??<br />
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-47270936570151012132012-11-11T08:45:00.000-05:002012-11-11T09:41:58.953-05:00Shutterfly Wants You to Thank the TroopsToday is Veteran's Day. My grandfather is a veteran. He very proudly fought for our country many, many moons ago. Greg's grandfather was a real American hero. There is a story of him saving his entire flight crew. Today we have lots of men and women doing the same things, and it is much easier to tell them THANKS! I can't imagine what it would have mean to our grandfather's to have been thanked on a day like today.<br />
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Shutterfly has made it really easy this year. Just go <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shutterfly/app_525739750774135" target="_blank">Thank the Troops</a> and create your own card. Shutterly will print and ship the cards. Their goal? No biggie. They just want to send a card to every American hero. The cost to you? A couple of minutes of your time. <br />
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My friend Summer has a husband in the Army. He is gone for up to a year at a time. My friend <a href="http://newshoephoto.blogspot.com/2012/08/op-love-mom-charlotte-family-photography.html" target="_blank">Jennifer</a> photographs soldiers returning home, or more sadly, leaving their family for a deployment with a program called Op Love. <br />
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This is a very small, very easy, very awesome thing you can do with just a few clicks. Come on, you can do it. Send me your card so I can see what it looks like!! Here is the inside of mine!<br />
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-54330870450602793362012-10-28T22:58:00.001-04:002012-10-28T22:58:57.150-04:00I Love HalloweenSo, we went for it today. We kept Avery inside, warm, and rested, and at 1 o'clock we headed down to The Children's Museum for Truck-or-Treat. Avery had a hoot. Glad we went. I loved the Ghost Busters car complete with the whole set of Ghost Busters (2 of them were on a break). How cool is this car? Superb!!<br />
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From there it was over to Mellow Mushroom for a late lunch. Mmm, Mellow delivers. Y-U-M-M-Y<br />
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Next we headed to Old Salem for a little old school trick-or-treating. Good gracious, Old Salem, you brought it. We will have to do this every year. I think the pumpkin party a week earlier will be a recurring event. We really enjoyed this day. My favorite pumpkins were:<br />
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We had the best plans for this weekend. Today it was going to be <a href="http://www.carowinds.com/daytime" target="_blank">Carowinds</a> for the kid friendly Halloween party. Tomorrow was <a href="http://childrensmuseumofws.reachlocal.com/?scid=2771009&kw=19039517&pub_cr_id=16290524652" target="_blank">Truck-or-Treat </a>at the Children's Museum, followed by <a href="http://www.oldsalem.org/halloween-pumpkin-carving" target="_blank">pumpkin carving</a> and t<a href="http://www.oldsalem.org/trick-or-treat-in-old-salem" target="_blank">rick-or-treating at Old Salem</a>. I mean, honestly, short of winning the lottery, this is a pretty banner weekend for me. Really! Until........Avery got a cough, and a wheeze, and freakin' strep throat. Blerg!!<br />
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I had a hunch his congestion was not run of the mill, so I scheduled an appointment as late as possible, Friday at 5. We were home by 8 with 2 kinds of medicine, not counting the nebulizer, and a diagnosis of strep throat. UGH! <br />
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-4080382016653120972012-10-22T20:46:00.004-04:002012-10-22T20:48:10.938-04:00New York In NovemberSo, I am going to New York. In less than two weeks. I am freaking out. I hate traveling without Greg and Avery. My stomach hurts the whole time and I feel like I might die. I am not kidding. It is like torture. Judge me if you need to. I really don't care. I really dig my spouse and I love my child. I work full time, and I resent having to spend even more time away from them than I already do. Can't relate? I am not asking you to.<br />
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The point is, it makes my darn heart hurt. I am scared to death something horrible will happen while I am gone. Please don't tell me to have faith or not to worry, it only pisses me off. The reality is really bad stuff happens every day. I cherish our time together. I don't consider Greg or Avery a nuisance. I don't "need" time away. Again, I make NO apologies. <br />
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So, this trip is for work. I do appreciate the opportunity to learn new stuff so that makes this trip more bearable. I also will not be subjected to mandatory "work" dinners. I won't be surrounded by tons of people drinking, smoking, acting a fool. It will just be me, and one other co-worker who will have his wife along. <br />
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I am very much looking forward to seeing my cousin <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6824379455077062244#editor/target=post;postID=3360169518896938473" target="_blank">Ryan</a> (if it works out). He's kind of a big deal, so I am not counting on it, but most of all, I am looking forward to seeing a couple of my pals complete the NYC Marathon. I will be keeping one of their wives company and cheering them both on as loudly as this little southern voice of mine can! <br />
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Ok, so Martha guilted me in to picking the winner and the winner is.......... entry 16 <br />
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Congratulations! Email me so I can get you the details you lucky dog! I better get a Christmas card!!ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-20486948198016226032012-10-14T20:13:00.000-04:002012-10-14T20:13:25.862-04:00Awesome Idea for Photo CardsJust found the best idea for making the photo card even more awesome:
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Take a picture of the card and use it as your contact's photo on your phone! Awesome!!ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-28901536742634765092012-10-14T07:15:00.000-04:002012-10-17T11:06:09.332-04:00Shutterfly Holiday Cards are HERE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Be honest, you love this time of year right? If you don't my friend <a href="http://www.nixon-notes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ginger</a> can talk you in to it. Well, I do, but you probably already knew that. Halloween is my most favorite holiday, but Christmas is a very close second, and do you know why? Because I love the cards. That's right, I said it. I love <a href="http://bit.ly/RjyOos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christmas Cards (see the whole Shutterfly collection here)</a>. I do. </div>
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I spend hours pouring over the options late at night, pouring over my pictures, plugging them in to the templates, debating, studying, deciding, and I normally end up with about 3 different designs, and I order the same amount of all 3. No, I do not send everyone the same card. I am a rebel like that. I like to keep people on their toes. </div>
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I am going to start with a New Year's Card for you procrastinators out there. Sometimes you get busy and think there is no point in sending cards, Christmas is over anyway. Wrong! Cut that out right now, and send a Happy New Year card. Your friends will still have heard from you, and you will be that friend who shook it up a bit. Do it!!</div>
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I think this one is so pretty and simple and I love the embellishments that are actually on the picture. It makes it look less like a template.<br />
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I love the simplicity of this one. 2013. How the heck???<br />
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This one really speaks to my heart . I think fun it just so important. Everyone doesn't have to look perfect, or posed, or matched, or be airbrushed. I love ones that look fun!!!!</div>
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And no, not only people with cute kids can send photo cards. Yes, I do care about your dog and I would love to see a picture of it. Don't be silly, you don't have to have perfectly dressed children to send a Christmas card. I can't wait to see Woxy Dog, Fido, or even your guinea pig. I am serious!!
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And last but not least, I give you JOY! Enough said.</div>
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ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-42341621478423490512012-10-08T20:32:00.002-04:002012-10-08T20:32:52.855-04:00I Will Blog AgainI promise!! I have a lot to say. I feel invisible, but I will blog again!! Stay tuned!!!<br />
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ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-67977216245405116402011-11-27T23:15:00.001-05:002011-11-27T23:32:27.149-05:00Chicken or Snail?I feel like this chicken. You wind it up and it just goes in circles really, really fast, but it never gets anywhere. Then it just winds down and sits there looking pitiful. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While I cleaned the stove the chicken just sat there looking. For whatever reason, it held one foot up, just slightly, the entire time. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously, look, it is just sitting there with the cracked sea salt like it owns the place. Wings all perched back like it has somewhere to go. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What are you looking at chicken?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And such a photogenic do-nothing. Never blinks for a shot, doesn't have a bad side. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, I know the green pot needs to be washed. Thanks chicken. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What's that? You like the tree? Me too. You look lovely reflected in its light.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, you can see your wind, but it is nothing to be ashamed of. We all have something that makes us tick!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah, snail. You just chill and wiggle your antennae. Can you have a chat with chicken? Chicken is stressing me out. Can you teach us how to slow down, but I would rather not leave that trail of slime. Not cool snail, not cool!</td></tr>
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-44457510060701554152011-11-27T22:59:00.001-05:002011-11-27T23:14:26.508-05:00Oh Christmas Tree - You Mean So Much to Me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Putting up my tree is so much fun, and so exhausting. It never fails, every year when I open up the boxes I am flooded with memories of Christmases past and as much as it makes me smile, it really, really hurts. I miss my Momaw, I miss my Grandma Sis, I miss my Grandma Grace, I miss my Grandma Juanita, I miss my Aunt Brenda, I miss my Uncle John, my Uncle Kenny, I miss those giant family gatherings full of a bunch of nuts that were so loud you couldn't hear yourself think and there was so much wrapping paper someone always lost a present, but most of all I miss the Grandmas. They really are the glue you know? Once they are gone it is never the same. </div>
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I do really revel in my tree, and I take pride in the fact that it looks like it belongs in a candy store. I really, really do!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love her every year, more than the year before. She is as old as me, tattered and tacky and priceless.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A newer arrival, fresh from the Pottery Barn. The place I would live in the event of a zombie apocalypse! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A drummer for Greggie. So shiny and alert with his cymbals ready to crash. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New this year, direct from Pier One, where I shop, because I cannot afford Pottery Barn., an Owl I converted in to a tree topper.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first married ornament. So cheesy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Avery's 2nd Christmas. Love you Hallmark!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first Baby's first Christmas ornament, and the model for the coming years. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have a ton of these. Stolen from my mom's box. She loves to tell the story of how my dad thought they really were cookies and not styrofoam. YUCK!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Also for Greggie's love of owls, many throughout the tree. I love them now too! Maybe I am Julia Roberts in run away bride. Which bird do I really like??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From my friend Ginger, a new tradition. The Christmas pickle. I still think it looks like a green SHUT YOUR MOUTH.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A new addition from World Market last year. A Zeppelin carrying an elephant. That's reasonable. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bath and Body reindeer in a hoodie. Yes indeed!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extra special. These nests are floral pics I put in the arrangements at our wedding. I grabbed them all up before we left for Charleston and pepper them all over the tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Nick ready for some football. Damn you Hank Williams Jr. for ruining that phrase!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet St. Nick. An oldie but a goodie. He matches the skier!</td></tr>
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-39747557098219360892011-11-26T23:03:00.001-05:002011-11-26T23:08:12.052-05:00Cheese!Have you ever tried to take a picture of a stand-up-comedian-princess-tom-boy-live-wire-mexican-jumping-bean-with-wandering-eyes? I have.....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had her lined up perfectly for this shot, and at the last second she leaned forward and moved 2 feet to the left. Still super cute!<br /></td></tr>
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Stinkin' cute right? I want to post them all, but her mom would KILL me!! Surely just this one won't gt me in trouble will it??</div>ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-19013212346506893442011-11-25T19:39:00.001-05:002011-11-25T20:05:01.990-05:00Thanksgiving? No Thank You!So, Thanksgiving? Normally I love this holiday. I get off both Thursday and Friday from work. SCORE. I love being off on Black Friday. Major perk of my work. This year, I am DONE with Thanksgiving. No offense to the Pilgrims or the Indians. I just can't take one more minute of Thanksgiving 2011.<br />
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It all started Tuesday at 11:30. We were heading out to Downtown Deli to eat brown salads. YUMMY! The whole gang was there minus one person. We hadn't been out in forever, but my phone beeped. It was school. Avery wasn't being himself and seemed to feel bad. I ride the elevator back up, call Dr. Stone, and head out to get Avery. Now, a little back story here. Greg was on vacation, perfect right? Not so much. Greg had taken Eva Dog Linkous for the old spay/neuter (we don't want Bob Barker after us) and a back dewclaw removal. CRAP. <br />
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I take Avery to the doctor where he is diagnosed with a bad cold. We head home armed with antibiotic and decongestant. Ok, we can do this. I log back on, get some work done, get the dog picked up, spend almost $300 doing it, and settle in for the night. My plan is to leave Avery at home with Greg and go to work the next day. HA! <br />
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At about 7 pm Avery starts throwing up with nothing more than this warning, "mommy, i not feeling good!" The vomit did not stop all night long, and then I got sick. Wednesday we were all feeling much better. Eva included. On the mend right? Wrong!<br />
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Thanksgiving, immediately after eating, I start feeling really, really bad. So, needless to say, I too have the bug. I go to change Avery's diaper and realize he has a swollen, blue testicle. No doubt a side effect of all of the vomit strain. <br />
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Up Friday morning, to the doctor again, yes, that's another $25 copay. Turns out Avery has a hernia. We knew he did, but we thought it had cleared up. All of the vomit conjured it back up, or down, as hernias work. So we have to go see a surgeon. GREAT. <br />
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We come home to collapse. I let Eva out of her pen, and one of her back feet (dewclaw removal) is HUGE. It is swollen, red, and it looks terrible. My dear, sweet, mom, loads her up and heads to the vet. Eva is having a reaction to the bandage and comes home with antibiotics. Thank the Lord my mom could take her. <br />
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Now, as I type this, Greg lay in the bed, sick as a dog. I am sure he will vomit any second. I hope for his sake it is soon. It really does feel much better after the vomit. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isn't this a great family picture? It makes me so very happy!</td></tr>
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So, if you are wondering why I am done with Thanksgiving 2011, you should be clear now. Good riddance already!ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-19414637382892592042011-11-19T23:20:00.001-05:002011-11-20T00:08:53.850-05:00Pack of Boys - Happy Birthday BrennerWow! We have been on a birthday marathon. Most of the kids in Avery's class have turned 3 since the beginning of October. We have been working the birthday circuit like it was a profession. Today wasn't at a bounce house or a museum, but in someones back yard. Who I can't say, because I didn't ask permission, but I can tell you all about it. <br />
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The boys played football. Legitimate, tackle football. I was a nervous wreck, but the kids loved it. It was a lot of fun, and as luck would have it, I had my camera in the car. Cha-ching!! It is amazing to me how quickly boys become BOYS, and girls become 16 year olds. So much fun to watch!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So serious!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite FBCCC families</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All eyes on the ball</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously, they are tackling each other!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">nice wide stances</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">more tackles, please note avery's distance from the pile up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Get him!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huddle up kids!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bryce is so stinkin' cute!! Love him!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The b-day boy in action. Go Brenner!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy Birthday cutie pie!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adorable cheerleaders right??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reagan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A kiss from Daddy. Melts my heart!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brenner and Mommy - twins??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Check out that serious stance!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Room 115 buddies!!<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
Thanks for sharing your birthday with us little guy. We had so much fun!</div>
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-30294757245598774252011-11-19T22:39:00.001-05:002011-11-19T22:51:48.264-05:00Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!Friday was Thanksgiving at Avery's school. It is always so much fun to get in there and see Avery in action. Especially when he doesn't know you are watching. His little friends are so cute. I know I've said it before, but I wish we had a house full. I love kids! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Avery's place mat, napkin ring, hand print, turkey, and apple. Beautiful!</td></tr>
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Not to go on too much, but how cute is this stuff? I mean really, all the money in the world can't buy this stuff. SO CUTE!<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You really have to love anything made with that little hand print! Swoon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">best napkin ring ever!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">gobble, gobble</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cheese, or should i say, turkey?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">crazy about daddy</td></tr>
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Avery's teachers, all of the teachers at his school, had done a great job with the crafts and the room looked so cute. The things they make are so precious to me. Lunch was GREAT! The food was so yummy, especially the sweet potato casserole. It was a full room and a fine meal. Well done FBCCC! Well done indeed!<br />
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<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-41082922260973528382011-11-19T22:32:00.001-05:002011-11-19T22:37:34.038-05:00Lovely LoganMore pictures today, more time outside with Avery enjoying the fall, and more loveliness from my precious Betsy (that's what I call my camera)! <br />
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Today it was the sweet Swiders in front of my lens. Logan is so cute, so funny, and such a trooper. Three wardrobe changes, one call to Santa, and one promise of a surprise = zero tears and these pictures:<br />
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!<br />
<br />ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-16921365141368427242011-11-18T01:16:00.001-05:002011-11-18T01:16:45.947-05:00First Christmas Card Order in the Books!I am so excited!!!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you made your way over to the Tiny Prints site to check your cards you may have noticed that they have a <a href="http://tinyprints.promotionexpert.com/talentsearch" target="_blank">contest</a> running. If you haven't made your way over, 2 things: </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Why and what are you waiting for? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. They have an <a href="http://tinyprints.promotionexpert.com/talentsearch" target="_blank">awesome contest</a> going on! <u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The grand prize is $1,000 cash, plus a $500 Tiny Prints gift certificate, cha-ching!!<u></u></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Look, I spend more time than I care to admit looking at all of your pictures and I know you have some of the best pictures in the categories they are looking for:</span></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Cutest Kid (from ages of 25 months - 10 years old)</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Cutest Family</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Cutest Couple (Jen!)</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Cutest Pet and Owner</span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">THE DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 21st! What on Earth are you waiting for? Get to submitting. You can submit from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tinyprints?sk=app_305143176166872" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or the <a href="http://tinyprints.promotionexpert.com/talentsearch/" target="_blank">Tiny Prints Website</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I were entering the Cutest Couple category, I would start with this:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cutest baby from 0-24 months this:</span><br />
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Cutest family, this:</div>
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But hey, I am just throwing out some ideas. You get out there and show me how it's done. I dare you!!!</div>
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Ok, as your reward for being with me through 2011 I have a special treat for my loyal readers (both of you!). Oprah is doing a special contest called "<i>The 12-Day Give-O-Way</i>". 12 people will win this years "Favorite Things". <br />
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Here's how it works. There are 12 codes. One for each day starting 11/28/2011 through 12/9/2011. You can enter once each day with the designated code. <br />
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Log on to <a href="http://oprah.com/12days">oprah.com/12days</a> and type in that day's code. Remember it starts 11/28 at 12:01 a.m.<br />
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Here are the codes:<br />
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11/28/2011 code = 037<br />
11/29/2011 code = 058<br />
11/30/2011 code = 067<br />
12/01/2011 code = 076<br />
12/02/2011 code = 080<br />
12/03/2011 code = 099<br />
12/04/2011 code = 106<br />
12/05/2011 code = 156<br />
12/06/2011 code = 170<br />
12/07/2011 code = 232<br />
12/08/2011 code = 234<br />
12/09/2011 code = 240<br />
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Good luck!! If you win, remember your friends!! Approximate retail value per winner: $9,427!ouidahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13352077132687107128noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824379455077062244.post-47085805612028801102011-11-13T13:33:00.001-05:002011-11-13T18:50:21.699-05:00Wooten Family 2011My most favorite thing in the world to do is take pictures. I love, love, love it. I am not a "photographer", I don't claim to know how to take the perfect picture, and I don't charge $75 for 30 minutes and 2 digital images, but I am flattered when people trust ME to take their family pictures!<br />
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Team Wooten gives me the pleasure in the fall. You might say it has become a tradition between our two families!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How it all started. Kendra and Jon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The man, the myth, the legend. Connor!</td></tr>
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