Friday Fences #2 11/11/11

Boat ramp at Crooked River State Park, St Mary's, GA.

Looking back over my shoulder to the right.

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An Email

My Aunt sent me this and I thought it was sweet.
An eye witness account from New York
City , on a cold day in December,
some years ago: A little boy,
about 10-years-old, was standing before a shoe store on the
roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering
With cold.

A lady approached the young boy and said,
'My, but you're in such deep thought staring in that window!'

'I was asking God to give me a pair of
shoes,'was the boy's reply.

The lady took him by the hand, went into
the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks
for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water
and a towel. He quickly brought them to her.

She took the little fellow to the back
part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed
his little feet, and dried them with the towel.

By this time, the clerk had returned with
the socks.. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him
a pair of shoes..

She tied up the remaining pairs of socks
and gave them to him.. She patted him on the head and said, 'No
doubt, you will be more comfortable now..'

As she turned to go, the astonished kid
caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears
in his eyes, asked her.
'Are you God's wife?'

Hard

Thursday's Photo Challenge: "Hard"

What's harder than rocks?

Not much.

These were taken on a little hike around "High Falls"

The little girls loved this hike.

You can see more Thursday Challenge photo's here.

Wordless Wednesday

Trav's Birthday Cake

 I forgot to post pics of Trav's birthday cake!

It was to cute!

And tasted awesome!

Cake once a month is NOT bad!

Mellow Yellow Monday

I was a guest bystander with my camera

Saturday at the wedding of the Sweetheart's, first cousin,

Donald's son.

It was a beautiful day for a wedding and we enjoyed attending.

Handmade yellow and purple flowers on each cupcake. 

The cupcake tree instead of a huge wedding cake.

I'm usually not as fond of cupcakes as I am of wedding cake

but this is the exception!

These were the bomb!!

Best cupcake I've ever eaten :)

The Groom, Randy's first marriage.

 The lovely bride, Marie and her parents.

 The kiss and the giving away their daughter.

This is a beautiful shot of Donald and Christine's back yard

over looking the pond. My boys have caught many a good fish

in that pond. And plenty of fond memories.

 The "I Do" kiss!

 Mr. and Mrs. Randy Barlow.

 The parents of the groom, Christine and Donald Barlow.

 My MIL, Donald, another first Cousin Farrel,

Sue, the Sweetheart's oldest sister and The Sweetheart!

Besides me, this is the only family that was there on Donald's side.

We were happy we could be there for the fun.

 Okay, let me just say that no "good", southern wedding reception leaves out the fresh wild Georgia Shrimp and I must say these were some of the best I've ever eaten. I bet there was the best shrimp salad on Sunday with the leftovers!

 All the food that I tasted was just wonderful.

Another favorite was the blue crab mushroom caps!

 The spinach dip also seems like a must have!

Christine, the mother of the Groom did all the food

with the help of some wonderful friends.

It was wonderful as always.

 Let the dancing begin!

 The Bride's friends from work did a little entertaining and it was really cute.

 The first dance.

Donald was telling us that they took dance lessons

so that they could have a wonderful first dance.

 They did an awesome job all the way to the dip!

Everyone had a great time!

Wonderful way to spend a Saturday afternoon and evening

and not have the stress of being the wedding photographer!

I Had My Cake

And it was WONDERFUL!!!!

Thank you for all your birthday wishes!

It was a great day.

Enjoy your weekend!

November 4th

I plan to have a birthday WEEKEND!!!

Happy Friday and weekend to all of you my friends!

Fridays Fences and Barn Charm #31

Douglas, GA.

Joining Janis for Friday's Fences for the first time this week.

Come on and play too!

Also this is going to be Barn Charm #31!

Barn Charm #30

Found in Mershon, GA.

Come on and join Barn Charm over here at Trish's Blog.

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!!!!

The Thoughts Make Me Sick

Take 30 pounds of Apples. 

And a spanking new wash tub.

And a crowd of cute kiddo's and you get this.

My assignment for the Primary Fall Festival, Apple Bobbing.

My Shelby went first (thank goodness)
 Reagan is a smart girl, she wouldn't even try it.

The thoughts of apple bobbing in the midst

 of cold and flu season just grosses me out!

All those germs just swirling around and around

makes me gag. I had a hard time even thinking about it

but fortunately most of the apples had nice long stems

and I encouraged the kids to pick up the apples by the stems.

That was very easy and most those little ones

were able to do just that :) Yay!!

This is my darling DIL. She is dressed as Fiona!

She always goes all out and enjoys herself.

Sad thing is, she has a Shrek costume for

Travis and he wants NO part of it!

She's got a few more days to talk him into it.

Wish her luck!