Picked up Navy Seal’s Senior pictures today from our friends at Johnston Photography. They’ve been taking our family pictures since Matt was 3 months old. That’s alot of photoz!
I am just in LOVE with this one in the white shirt. The full shot in the suit is another good one.

Customer 1 stopped by on Thursday afternoon to clear away our snow. I especially love this picture because of the kid in the yard across the street making a snow angel.

More white stuff on the way this weekend. I love snow.

In other news, Von Maur is still not open but Westroads Mall will open on Saturday.
In other other news, I bought some pink peonies at Whole Paycheck today. I love them.

I’m not a mall shopper.
But I Really Like Von Maur. I do.

And, when they re-open,
I’m
going
to
go
buy
something
there.
Just for SPITE.
Just Because.

I wish it were Sunday
Cause that’s my Funday
I don’t have to Runday….
Remember that song?

I’m having a case of the MoNdAzE today. Good intentions, but problems.

I got an instant message from Matt, clicked on the link he sent, and got a virus.
OH.
I
clicked
it
twice
because
it
didn’t
work
the
FIRST
time!

I’m smarter than that.
Dan has spent countless hours with technical support trying to fix my mess. The good news is that we back up our computers religiously, so our photos won’t be lost. We lost so many photos a few years ago on a computer suicide.

Working on our Christmas Card list. I’ve got the photo…don’t love it….and now to the addresses. I had to take a few off this year because of divorce or death. Always a sad moment to do that.

Speaking of funerals, we attended the funeral of a wonderful, strong woman from Blair.
Betty Rogert was a role model for me—even if she didn’t know it. Strong, Busy, Influential and Friendly.
I’d love just ONE of her traits.
This verse from Luke 15, from her funeral, stuck with me.
"What do we gain by all of our hard work? I have seen what difficult things God demands of us.
God
makes everything happen at the right time.
Yet none of us can ever
fully understand all he has done, and he puts questions in our minds
about the past and the future.
I know the best thing we can do is to always enjoy life, because God’s gift to us is the happiness we get from our food and drink and from the work we do."

Celebration IS important. The pastor talked about her work as a mother, grandmother and homemaker. Her children and grandchildren spoke of that hospitality.
So, here’s to life’s little celebrations!

It was actually kindof pretty here in Blair. No power outages that I know of. Matt had a District One-Act Drama event that got postponed until the afternoon.

Blair got 3rd at District, so they won’t advance to the State Finals. DarnDarnDarn.

Friday night at the Final Dress Rehearsal and Performance for the Public, the kids spelled out ThankYou. I loved that! It was very sincere and so cute.

In other news, I HAD to buy this item at Mulhall’s because it was…

Here it is. I’m going to put Christmas Cards in it! It is sitting in front of our UNdecorated ONE STRING O’Lights Lit tree. Megan wants me to leave it that way.

I just might!