Meet My "New Guy"...

After we got BUTTONS back in July I wrestled with the thought of another kitty... and wrestled and wrestled... FINALLY deciding BUTTONS needed a friend...


Meet my "new guy"... POMPOM... we decided to keep the "vote count" fair and went with a male cat... not wanting the guys to be "outnumbered" in the house... LOL

It didn't take BUTTONS (or the rest of the family) long at all to fall in LOVE with her "little brother"... they have become INSEPERABLE...

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"Trick or Treat"...

Lilley-Kate and her "country bestie" Kylee had a blast Trick or Treating in the neighborhood this year...




An 80's girl and a 50's girl (although most people thought Lilley-Kate was LAVERNE from LAVERNE and SHIRLEY... LOL)

The Daddy's took the girls around this year... and us Mom's stayed back and handed out candy...

ToT was a bit "early" this year... 5 to 7pm... kinda nice with it being a school night...

The girls had a fun time and Lilley-Kate is ALREADY thinking of NEXT HALLOWEEN!!!

OH... and our pumpkins were a BIG HIT!!! Hope EVERYONE had a nice evening!!!

Home Again Home Again...

We enjoyed a nice change of scenery for the Easter Holiday... lots of flowering trees, shrubs and flowers...

Some relaxing "deck time" watching the birds...

Some FABULOUS SHOPPING (and a new housekey!)...

Good food...

SUNSHINE and WARM temperatures...

A LONG car ride home...

Hope everyone had a nice Holiday!

In the BLINK of an Eye...

Our FAVORITE GIRL has turned SEVEN!!! HOW is that POSSIBLE?!?! I am the Mother of not only a 7 year old... but a soon to be 21 YEAR OLD TOO! I found today ironic in a weird way... it took SEVEN LONG YEARS to get pregnant with Lilley-Kate... and today we CELEBRATED her 7th BIRTHDAY...

She told me tonight before heading to bed... "Mommy, Today was the BEST DAY of my WHOLE LIFE!"...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our FAVORITE GIRL! Thank you Lilley-Kate for being everything that you are... our dream come true! WE LOVE YOU!

Christmas Countdown...

Last night we decided to take a bit of a "road trip" to a (not so) local nursery to visit "Santa's Lane"... this has become a yearly tradition... the trees (there are about 100 in all) are beautifully decorated and there are LOTS of holiday ornaments and decoration to see...

Lilley-Kate was THRILLED that Nick agreed to come with us...

The PINK pointsettias were a FAV of both ME and Lilley-Kate (I think it was the glitter on all the petals that we loved the most!)...

LOTS and LOTS of beautifully decorated trees... I think I have come to LOVE the "very decorated" look... (I got lots of good ideas too of things that can be ADDED to trees... other than traditional ornaments)...

A big "trend" was the Colored trees... Lilley-Kate and I particularly like this PURPLE tree... they also had PINK, ROYAL BLUE, WHITE, RED and even a BLACK tree...

The most favorite tree of all of course had to be the BALLERINA TREE...

I hope everyone is getting their last minute things done!!! Tonight we will be popping popcorn and taking a ride around our nieghborhood to see all the Christmas lights!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!

4 Generations...

Clockwise from bottom left... Great-Grandmother ("GG"- My Grandmother), Grandma (My Mother)... Mother (Me)... and Lilley-Kate