1st Day of School

The GRAND-girls have started the school year 2013/14.

They are growing up fast.

They are 8 and 6 years old and in the 3rd and 1st grade.

They have really great teachers again this year.

Such a blessing.

Funny Stuff

Shelby has strep throat again and went to work with her daddy.

This is what she spent her time doing.

Trying to sale her little sister.

Her Uncle Trav found this sign and sent me the picture.

This provided me with my only laugh today.

Happy Wednesday Y'all.

Early Summer 2012

I have a lot of cell phone pictures

that I need to dump here into my blog.

Memories of fun good times.

 

I have two sons.

They married Darling Girls.

I love them and love spending time with them.

I hope that I am always a good Mother In Law.

 

 

This is Jordan.

Affectionately know as Aunt Jor Jor.

She painted every ones nails before we went to dinner.

My oldest GRAND, Shelby.

 Miss Freckles should be her name.

She looks so much like her daddy.

He has as many or more freckles.

 

My only GRAND Girls!

We really do hope to have some more one day.

I fear that these two will be grown by then.

Note the blue finger nails.

(Reagan is in Kindergarten and Shelby in 2nd grade this school year)

 



It's always fun to have your picture taken with the

alligator in front of the Caddy Shack at the World

Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida.

 

This was the only trip I got to take with the girls last year.

A far cry from all the years before.

 

Kissing Cousins

Cell Phone Saturday #12

Spring has sprung here in south Georgia.

 And we have been Kite flying a lot in the last two weeks.

Both GRANDgirls are really good at flying kites.

I started teaching them at age 2.

Now that they are 7 and 5 they are real pros.

Makes a Gigi proud.

I bought little cups for the nursery at church and they

were on the kitchen counter so I wouldn't forget to

take them. Reagan called me to come look at her castle!

She was so excited! I had to laugh and

be happy about her creativity.

 (I still had half a pack left for the nursery.)

I've shown you mine now you show me yours!

Cell Phone Saturday!

Cell Phone Saturday #7

 Huckleberry Syrup on pancakes from my sweet friend for my birthday.

 It was to good!!!

 The Sweetheart's cat, "Mo".

 Cousins, Reagan and Gracie riding Great-Grandma Griffis

 electric chair up and down the stairs.

This picture is a year old. They both have grown so much!

And last but not least, Shelby and Justin Bieber cutout at the Ulta store.

She posed like he was alive.

Pretty funny.

I've shown you mine now you show me yours!

Cell phone pics, of course!

Happy Friday!

Cell Phone Saturday #6

Welcome to Cell Phone Saturday!

No rules here just share some of the cell

phone pictures you took this week or that you

have had on your phone for the last year!

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One night last fall we had dinner out with the family.

A very talented balloon artist stopped by our table and

took requests and then made balloon animals for the girls.

 Reagan wanted a rabbit!
It think this one was awesome.
And actually it was Reagan that wanted me to
take a picture of her ballon.

 Shelby's was a monkey.
Only thing that looked like a monkey to
me was the color and the long tail.

I have 3 - two year olds.

Bentley Bulldog chillaxin.

And the FDOT Brothers, as the Sweetheart calls them.
Walgrin (left) and Dawson on the right.

All 5 of the above babies are spoiled rotten!

Now, I've showed you mine
You show me yours!
Cell Phone Saturday pics!

Cell Phone Saturday #5

Which one is faking?

We were watching Animal Planet and all snugly one Saturday night.

One GRANDgirl fell asleep.

She looked so sweet so I took out my cell phone and took a picture of her.

The other one said, "take mine too".

She pretended to be sleeping, I took her picture.

So which one was faking??

Take a guess, top one or bottom one?

I've showed you mine

 now you show me your cell phone pictures of the week!

Future Fire Fighter

This was a really big deal for Reagan! 

She had been so scared to do this by herself.

We always had to hold on to her as she came down.

Doing it all by herself brought the biggest smile!

Cell Phone Saturday #3

 One iPod!

One set of earphones!

Two sisters!

Sharing.

Doesn't look as if Shel is happy about it.

Aunt Jordan and her mom painted the girls

walls with their names right before they

 moved in the new house.

I showed you mine!

Now show me yours!

Cell Phone Pics!

Shreck Was A No Show

It was a real shame that Shrek never showed  up.

Trav showed up for chili and to help Gma to put together a new book shelf
on Halloween Eve but the costume never showed up with him :(

It's probably all my fault because when he was a child

 we never did do much for Halloween.

Seems like they were always GI Joe wearing their camo hunting clothes.
Not real original.

I've never cared much for Halloween.

My DIL, the GRANDgirls mother, who worked

so hard her big freckles faded off during her work day.

Aunt Jor Jor, Fiona, with her friend from school, the Nerd.

Rea and Shel on the back.

The GRANDgirls

Family friends who came to trick or tread with our girls.

My MIL as the Red Headed Devil.

Shelby and Reagan's GREAT-GRANDma and Aunt Jor Jor.

Another year of silliness over with!!

Thanks heavens!!!!

Silly Sock Day / Relay For Life

For $1.00 the GRAND-girls wore silly socks today to school.

the money went to Relay for Life.

Guess who was making socks last night at 11:00?

I finished all 4 socks 5 minutes till midnight.

I don't really like cell phone pics but that is

 all I could come up with in the middle of the night.

But then that is all I used at 7:30 this morning was the cell phone.

The GRAND-girls spent the night with me last night
and were very happy this morning to wake up to their cute socks.
They got a lot of Ooos and Ahhs this morning as they walked to class.

I Survived The Summer Of 2011

I realized that it is not really over yet but

for us, school started today!

The girls were excited this morning as I met them to take

a quick picture. I'm excited too!

There is lots going on around this place and this remodeling

is about to do me in for good!

It is taking sssssssooooo long.

It would be quicker to build a house from scratch

than to remodel this 30 year old home in the 100* heat of summer.

It's been tough and I've needed to be here more than I have been.

I've spent a lot of time with my GRAND-daughters

and we have had lots of fun good times!

But today we are all back to reality!

And the temperatures are suppose to be around 99*

and no rain in sight. That's a big UGH...

Reagan starts Pre-K this year.

She was a little shy acting this morning when we first got to her class room.

She will be fine.

 She has been in nursery school for 4 hours a day,

 5 days a week since she was 11 months old.

This is what she wanted to wear this morning.

I got their lunch boxes at Thirty One.

Shelby starts the 1st grade this year.

She's got this, no problem.

She was giving Reagan all kinds of advice this morning.

Christon said it was pretty cute.

Love her freckles.

She is her Daddy's Mini-Me.

Except she has more of my personality, dramatic.

Her daddy was always very shy, even around family.

Love her new Croc's and new lunch box too.

And of course they have new book bags to start the year off right.

And back to school haircuts.

I love this picture of them holding their mommy's hands.

I pray for a GREAT school year ahead!

Color Me Happy

A summer camp is held Monday-Friday 10:00-1:00 at our local "paint your own pottery studio" called "Color Me Happy". Shelby was old enough to go this year and was excited that her cousin Madi was there too. They did pottery-painting, canvas painting, building with clay, glass fusing, sand art & tie dying a t-shirt!

By the smiles on their faces you can tell that they loved it!

This was about half way through her painting. It turned out really cute.

 

Reagan isn't old enough to go this year. But she loves to go to the public library which is just around the corner from Color Me Happy.

She has been infatuated with all the Christmas books and we've only checked out 7 already this summer. I'm sure there are more that we haven't gotten to yet. That day I read her 3 and we checked out 3 more all on Christmas.
 And Christmas will be here before we know it.

The top pictures have the yellow in them that I need to join Mellow Yellow Monday.

Waiting For Fireworks

This year we viewed the fireworks in old downtown Brunswick.

We got there over an hour early to get a good place.

We try and sit right at the edge of the parking lot so that

the Sweetheart can get right out and sit down

and no walking or tripping involved.

Of course it's a good time to take some family pictures.

 My GRAND, Shelby.

The other GRAND, Reagan.

My oldest son, Harrison and his wife Christon.

The parents of my GRAND-daughters.

 The Sweetheart aka Pop Pop and Shela.

 Pop Pop and Rea.

My niece Leah and Shel.

The Sweetheart's sister Sue and her oldest son Aaron.

Family friend, Paige.

Family friend, Claudia

Family friend, Kara Mia.

My GREAT nephew, Jonah, Aaron's son.

GREAT nephew Manny, Aaron's youngest son.

The Sweetheart and his mother, aka, Gma Griffis or Kathleen.

Shelby and GREAT-GRANDma Griffis

and a fake cat.

GREAT-GRANDma and Reagan.

And finally the Sweetheart and yours truly!
The weather was perfect, no smoke from the fires and the best breeze.
Everyone had such a great time.
Half way through the fireworks Shelby yells,
"This is the best day ever"!!
And it really was.