Lilacs!!

I absolutely loooovvve my lilac bush. It is one of those rare colours that you don't see that often . So Alannah and I went out yesterday afternoon and picked buckets full of them. Last year my bush had very few on it due to a late freeze, but this year it is loaded and I am loving it!

And oh how I looovve the way they fill my entire house with their sweetness and beauty!

I have a vase full of them in almost every room.

Happy Friday!!!!

: It's a new beginning around here! :

I spent much time outside yesterday in the awesome weather and greatly enjoyed photography the emerging birth of so much of God's beautiful creation!

: my strawberries are blooming :

: the "heaven's perfume" tree in my front yard :

: the view from my porch this time of year :

: crabapple blooms :

: one of the three crabapple trees outside my living room window :


I love this time of year!

The air is scented with the fragrance of the blooming trees and everywhere I look I see vivid colour against all of the new green grass!

I am so glad God created colour....

- Spring -

: spring has definitely sprung around here! everything is in bloom and so green and beeeuuutiffuuuulll! especially with all the rain brightening it up! :

: my forsythias :

: dogwood bush :

aren't those red branches gorgeous!

: the "heaven's perfume" tree in my front yard :

i don't know what kind it is so I just call it my "heavens perfume" tree because when it blooms it gives off the most heavenly fragrance! aaahhhhh! it is sooo sweeeet & soft at the same time....mmmmmm, mmmmmmm

: tulip poplar :

aren't these the cutest little leaves! when fully grown they will be absolutely HUGE!

: crabapple :

:: Splash Boots ::

It all started 2 Sundays ago when it warmed to 70 degrees that day. Alannah wanted to go for a walk. We had so much snow on the ground that when it warmed to 70 that day the water was running everywhere! And there was lots of it! So I had her put her winter boots on and off the 3 of us went. Wellllll.....she couldn't keep her 2 little feet out of the water! That child ran, and I mean, RAN through the water the whole entire time! That would be a total of 12-14 blocks! She had a blast!! And we had a blast laughing and watching her! Unfortunately, I had my mind so much on the wonderfully warm day and getting out in it to get some much needed fresh air, sunshine and exercise that it never occurred to me to take my camera.....
When we arrived back home her little boots were soaked, inside and out, as well as her socks. So I mentioned that as soon as Daddy got a job I would go out and buy her some galoshes. She got excited about that because we had just borrowed a book from the church library about a little girl named Sarah who had to give up her favorite boots because her feet grew too small for them. Alannah said," I can get boots just like Sarah's!"
So the next evening she and I go to Bible study and she saw my friend Sarah's red rain boots and launched into telling Sarah about her book Sarah's boots.
Well, Sarah....my friend that is, not the book Sarah.....came to visit a few days later and brought these.......

Alannah was so excited and said, "Splash boots!" So we had to take them out later that afternoon and run through every water puddle we could find. Although this afternoon it was much colder and there was not anywhere near the amount of water that there had been the Sunday before but never-the-less she still had fun, as the photos to follow will attest to!

~the first puddle she ran through~

~she loves playing with sticks, so we had to stop and pick up any stick we could find~




So the "splash boots" are a huge hit!

Thanks Steve and Sarah!

She has worn them almost everyday since. When I tell her to go put her shoes on she will most likely ask, "Can I wear my splash boots Mama?"

She wore them to the grocery this evening!

Watching her run through the puddles and have so much fun splashing has me wanting to do the same with her so I am going to go out and buy me some "splash boots" of my own!

"Boogin Waggard"

Alannah has this phrase that she has said for months now and Greg couldn't seem to figure out what it was and I thought I knew but when I asked her she would say no, that wasn't right. Well, tonight we figured it out and it was just as I had thought.....so I must have asked the question in a different way this time for her to confirm to me what she meant......

the phrase is......

"boogin waggard"

and it means.....

the "boogy record". Translated.......it is a......"Manhatten Transfer Bop doo-wopp" record.


Her favorite song on there is "Baby Come Back to Me". So I thought I would share her boogying to this record and song.

It has also been known as the "do dat do dat" song.

For those of you who don't know.....yes we do have an old hi-fi that we listen to records on....all of the time! And we LOVE it! records are cheap at Good-Will and garage sales and we can get all varieties of music from Big Band to 80's rock n' roll to everything in between. Our most common and favorites are Blues, Big Band, and all of that wonderful gifted and beautiful music from the 30's & 40's.

A good laugh ;-)

Children are such fun to have around! It seems that Alannah is always doing or saying something that brings out a good laugh or chuckle in us. Take for instance yesterday.....she was upstairs playing quietly in her room. Her huge Barbie house and all of her gaggillion Barbies and paraphanilia are up there along with puzzles and tons of books.....

Greg goes up to get something from our room and comes down carrying this.....

Now "this" is a puzzle piece to this puzzle........

As you can see this puzzle is all about learning how to zip, buckle, tie, button, etc. Weeelllll.....she certainly has the buttoning down well!

We laughed and laughed and laughed over this one!!

And then.....I had to take a picture.....because more and more I am beginning to learn that I need to document these times because, lets face it...we live in a very, very busy world where many of us can't remember what we had for lunch the day before let alone remember funny things that our kids do. So here is the documentary. I hope it makes you chuckle :smile

Have a great week!

:: Cheery, not dreary ::

I have been fighting a cold the past 2 days and so today has been a "down" day. My dear hubby asked me this morning what I was going to do today and I said nothing, absolutley nothing that I didn't want to do. I am taking it easy. And that is exactly what I did! I have sat here at the computer for a good part of it, editing my photos. I had gotten behind on my editing and we have been having problems with our computer lately so I had not been able to do a whole lot of anything with my photos. But, thanks to a kind friend who came over last night and cleaned up our computer, we are running good for now and I am taking advantage of it while it lasts. And it may not last long.....basically its like this.....our computer is old....5 yrs. old and it is starting to slow WAY DOWN and do strange and funny things. We were told that this is just what computers do when they get OLD. Actually the average life of a computer is 3 yrs. And then after that things start "going south". It gets slow and loses its mind! For now ours is retaining most of its mind and is a bit faster than it was a day ago! My prayer is that it stays that way until we can afford a new one....which will be a while, quite a while.

Anyway, back to what I was sharing.....I came across some photos that I thought might cheer up a few of you who are bummed because of the cold and snowy weather we have been having....so enjoy! And please, feel free to share comments....I love to hear from you all! Just click on the comment link at the bottom of my post....and follow the directions....it's easy...

:::: These are from my trip to Charleston ::::

Isn't it gorgeous there !? I drank it in, like a smooth, creamy, iced cappucino.....