SEUSS!!!

This week Katie is performing in the Musical Seussical at MCHS. She is a Who! Here are some photos from last night's awesome performance!!!

Here are the Who's with the Grinch!
Mr. and Mrs. Mayor and their son Jo Jo.
The Who's looking up to Horton. (Katie is in the middle)
Horton and Gertrude McFuzz.

The Cat in the Hat and the Bird Girls.

We Set The Date...

For my surgery on my ankle!!! What did you think I was getting married? Haa haa haa! OK, so on March 12, I have to be at the hospital at 5:30 in the morning. (They won't need much anesthesia, cause I will still be dead asleep at that hour!!) My surgery time is 7:30. I forgot to ask how long it will take, but judging from the description he gave me of all he will do, it doesn't sound like a very quick trip! I'll spare you all the gory details, and skip over to the recovery. I will not be able to put weight on my right foot for 6 weeks. That means no driving for 6 weeks! :gasp: After that I will be in the walker boot again, and can hopefully tolerate going back to work. So, here's the open invite... anyone who wants to come visit and keep me company while I am all cooped up in my house, you have an open invitation... unfortunately, you'll have to do the cooking, and maybe a little cleaning but I would sure love to have ya! LOL

My Poor Babies!!!

I did this week the one thing I never thought I would do to a cat. I had the babies declawed. I figured they will not become outside cats, and I cannot have them tearing up my home, so I did it. Didn't have too much time to think about it. I called my Vet at Veterinary Express and was asking about it, and decided to make an appointment. He then and there told me he could pick them up in a bit. Wow.. no time to think, and that was a good thing! I really like Dr. Trey Rogers, he is very caring and is wonderful with all my pets, plus you can't beat that he will come to you!! The babies for this procedure had to go spend the night with the doctor. They came home in less than 24 hours, and he said they are doing wonderful. They have only slept since they got home, and what moving around they have done looks painful. I am feeling a lot of guilt now, but know in the end it will have been worth it. (I hope) Here are some pictures of my poor babies!

The top one is Oliver who by the way weighed in at 12.5 pounds. Garfield on the bottom weighed 9.3 pounds! They look so pitiful... my poor babies!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Hope you are all having a great day with the ones you love! Look what my babie got for me!!!



I will leave you now with a few verses on what the Bible says about LOVE taken from 1st Corinthians 13:

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV)


Spread the LOVE everyone!!!

The View...

from my front porch... In a bit over a year, only 800 or so little voices will be heard from my porch... bells ringing, buses and cars driving in and out. Ahh.... the peace and quiet I have now will be all GONE... Here is what I see only about 300 yards aways....

A couple...

of Random Pictures I enjoyed taking!!!

The first is who we call Fat Bird. He sits in a bush near my car every morning when I take Timothy to the bus. I am hoping to get a better photo of him, but I love the way this one turned out!!!


And this is of course a "baby" This happens to be Garfield. He isn't usually in front of the camera as much as Oliver, cause this is where he lives... on top of my cabinet!!!

Quartet Competition!

Tonight Fortune competed in the county's Barbershop Quartet Competition. The girls sang "Ten Feet Off the Ground" and "My Mother's Rosary" both in perfect harmony! I was so proud of them all!!! They won 2nd place out of the 10 women's quartets competing. Here they are with their very proud Choral Ensemble director! (Katie is the next to last one!!!)




Here she is before leaving home... I love this picture!!!

My new Brace...

Well, I showed you all my new lovely tennis shoes a bit back, now I have my new brace to wear in it... it will take a lot of getting used to!!!

Back in Time...

So I have decided that since I am almost done scrapping 2007 photos (only 6 pages to go!!!) I need to start working on my back log of Katie photos! I am totally missing any pages of her from the time she was 3 until she turned oh 10. So, as I dug through these photos, I was filled with mixed emotions. One of nostalgia, remembering the past events, one of fear of how in the world am I gonna get all this done, one of elation thinking once these are done I am truly caught up... and then again fear of actually being completely caught up with nothing to scrap. And then there was the disappointment... I hate that I do not have a lot of great pictures from back in those days. No close ups, no really cute posed photos, etc. Scrapping older photos is hard! Think about putting old photos on brand new papers? Does it work? hmm... anyway, today, I managed to do what I think are 2 cute pages. Simple, but cute of Katie's 3rd birthday, again, saddened that the photos aren't the greatest, but elated that I remembered all the kids names from the party! LOL Here they are...stay tunes for more!