How To Make A Royal Hat

Go to your kitchen and grab your biggest kitchen tool.

Pick your favorite color of ribbon

and get your sun hat out of your beach bag.

Put it all together and Wa La!

You have a Royal Hat and you will fit right in with the Royal Family.

See!

Here are the Royal Cousins,

Eugenie and Beatrice, Princesses of York!

Now don't you think I would fit right in with the craziness?

I don't know about you but I was late to Royal Wedding.

I didn't set my alarm clock.

Actually the dogs woke me up.

And when I threw them out the back door and turned on the morning news

The Royal Wedding is all I got!

I finally got there just as they were taking the carriage ride.

I did wear a gown, my night gown that is.

And I did catch a few of the special moments

on the news replays.
Glad that's over.
Now maybe we can get back to the real world.

Today

No School + 80* + Sunny = Jax Zoo!!

(pictures to prove it to come later)

After Lunch With Ryan

After "Lunch With Ryan", I went back to the hotel

where my parents were resting up for the

big flight home the next day.

It wasn't long before they decided that we needed

to go back to the cemetery one last time before going home.

It took a lot of effort because it was so cold and ugly out side.

This was about 4:00 in the afternoon.

The parents.
We met my brother, niece and Nord there also.

They had cleared the snow away for the funeral and they put

this green bench in front of her grave.

It was way to cold to sit on the bench

but we were all glad that we went back over there.

It's a long way from Georgia and Florida to go

and visit Sissy's grave very often.

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We took my parents back to the hotel to get warm

again, can I say bitter, it was some kind of cold!

At 6:00 that evening, The Sweetheart's family had

thrown together a little family pot luck dinner

for my family. It was on short notice and a lot didn't get the message.

I know that they would have been there if they could have.

I was thrilled to get to see as many as I did.

Most of them I haven't seen in about 6 or more years.

I didn't take my camera out until late and

I missed a lot of pictures of those that left early.

I am sorry yall.

I was not happy with the way my pictures turned out.

I so hate my point and shoot camera right now and I am looking for a new one.

Any sugestions?? Please tell me what you have and love.

Aunt Shirley and my brother, Sanford.

Linda Milne and her favorite nephew, Garrett

Aunt Betsy and her grandson Michael and granddaughter Molly

Rob and Josie Farnsworth

(Betsy's son and DIL)

T.J. Thorpe and his daughter Maddie

(Kirk and Sherry's son)

Jessie and his girlfriend

(Kirk and Sherry's grandson)

B.J. Newland and his girlfriend

(Aunt Betsy's oldest grandson)

Boddy (sp?) and my sister Carla

In the back ground is Sherry

Boddy is TJ's son and sherry's grandson

My brother Sanford and his daughter Amelia

This is Nord Anderton, Sissy's husband.

Michael, Uncle Val, Aunt Betsy's husband and half of Rob.

3 generations of Farnsworth men.

We have their ancestor, Philo Farnsworth to thank for inventing the TV!!

Kirk Thorpe, Sherry's husband.

Thank you to Sherry and Kirk for opening up your home

to my family and for inviting a lot of the Griffis family

so that we could visit, even if it was for just a few minutes!

The food was great but he company was even better!!
I l.o.v.e. The Sweetheart's family!!

Looking Forward

May you all have a very blessed and happy new year!

Laundry Mat

My Mid~Week~Blues this week is our local "Laundry Mat".

For other Mid~Week~Blues click over here.

We have a really nice Laundry Mat in our town.

I love to go early when there aren't very many people there.

It is always clean and the people that

work there are very helpful and nice.

You can even play games while you wait

or watch one of the 5 flat screen TVs.

I introduced the "Laundry Mat" to my two nieces


this summer at different times.

This child had never been to a Laundry Mat

and I so think it is one of those necessary life skills.

As you can tell by her chicken in hand

we were there around lunch time.


Funny how those nieces have to be fed too.

This child was trying to catch up on her summer

reading list before school started the next week!

She had been to a Laundry before while on vacation.


A sucker was enough to keep her pacified.

The good thing about the whole experience

is that you can do 6 loads of wash in 22 minutes!


Then dry and fold all 6 loads in about another hour.

I LOVE it!

( My washer went out this summer and we are trying to remodel and I didn't want to get a new one until all that was finished and ready for a new washer)

Reading To Dogs

Reagan loves to read to Bentley.

Bentley likes the chewing on the book better than her reading.

But the two of them spell t.r.o.u.b.l.e.

I really just wanted yall to see how big Bentley is getting.

He is over 60 pounds and is 10 months old.

They are crazy for each other but he can get a little rough still.

Most of the time he thinks he is a dachshund.

He finally has a deep loud scary bark and that

is the real reason we got him, we wanted a guard dog.

He's a good one.

Cinnamon Bread and Cheetos

We spent the weekend at my Crenshaw family reunion

in the cabins at Indian Springs State Park, GA.

Monday morning as we were getting ready to leave the cabin I went to put something in the truck and came face to face with this deer.

We just had a stare down.

I went ahead to the truck and he didn't run off he just kept looking for food.

I went back in and told the girls to come quick and look.

I was just sure that they would scare him off but nothing seem to bother the deer.

It wouldn't do until they got their daddy outa the bed and Pop Pop to come see too.

As we are standing their quietly Shelby looks up at me and says,

"This is why we come here."

I say, "why"?

She says, "to watch the deer."

We had been there all weekend and this was the first deer

we had seen. We usually see them every where.

They wanted to feed the deer something.

The crazy Sweetheart told them that they would eat their

cinnamon toast and Cheetos's.

They of course believe them.

I step out again just in time to see them run up to the top of

the drive to put down the bread and Cheetos.

I just thought it was so cute in their night clothes.

Of course, they never did eat the food the girls left for them

but we did watch two different deer for about 20 minutes.

So sweet in the peaceful morning hours to watch the girls and enjoy the beauties of nature.

Sunday~Stills

This weeks theme for Sunday Stills

is Red and Green.

It's a stretch by counting the green grass

and the red shirts.

The pictures were taken yesterday

in Guysie, GA. at Mule Days.

Meet Sam!

Sam weighs in at 3300 pounds.

The Redheaded woman is his owner

and she was the sweetest thing to introduce

Sam to the girls.

He was a very gentle animal

He was hitched up to pull their wagon.

To join in the fun or to view other Sunday Still click here.

Labor Day Weekend

I'm back tracking for a bit.

Our summer was so crazy that I didn't blog much.

So I will randomly be adding post that will cover our summer activities.

Just for journal-ing purposes.

We have season passes to Sea World, Orlando, Florida.

We usually go in January for Shelby's birthday.

Again in March for spring break.

Then we usually go the end of October or in November.

But we NEVER go in the summer time!!!

Just go sometime and you will understand.

BUT...

we went to Orlando for the Labor Day Weekend

and since we had season tickets, the girls put in to go.

We waited till around 5:00 pm hoping that the heat would subside.

I was hot but bearable.

Reagan was sure happy to be there!

She has been so funny lately, she throws her hands up like

this when I try and take her picture.

I show you this picture because I want you to see that cup

that Shelby is drinking from.

That's my Sea World cup that if you bring back each

time you come your drinks are only 99 cents!

And this made the 2nd year I remembered to bring back my cup.

No one else remembers to bring theirs.

Reagan and Auntie Jordan.

We were waiting for the acrobatic show to start
and they always come out and sell the flashing light jewelry.
For $5.00 each they got some way cool Dolphin necklaces.


So when the lights go out they really are cool.


Really great show.

The girls wanted their pics taken with some of the dancers.

Uncle Trav wanted his picture taken with the girls.

This is where my Mid-Week Blues picture comes in.

This is the main thing we came to see,

Shamu Rocks!!

I finally started just at dusk!

It was wild and loud with Rock n Roll music.

Interestingly enough no trainer got in the water with the whales :(

The Sweetheart really loved the music because it

was mostly 70's and 80's hits and lots of his favorite.

We really did Rock Out!!!

So much so that we got our pictures up on

the jumbo screen for every one to see.

I nearly died but the girls loved it!

After Shamu Rocks

the girls and Aunt Jordan and Aunt Emmy

rode a few of the rides.

The girls wanted their mama to have one of the flashing hats.

I'm surprised she bought one but it make them all happy.

Uncle Travis ended up carrying the girls out of the park.

We really enjoy spending time together as a family and we had a great weekend.

**I took these pictures with my point and shoot camera. I really missed not having my big camera for this trip.