98 Plymouth Grand Voyager
Finally! A picture of the Van I got as a result of the accident. I got it 10 days after the accident, the day the rental car (I sooo loved that car!) back. It is SO nice to have a van to tote all of the kids around in. And as an added bonus, it has air conditioning! lol. Daniel helped me find it (okay, okay, HE found it! :)).
If you ask Charlene what she wants for Christmas she will just roll her beautiful blue eyes cause she has defiantly heard that one before! She is currently missing seven of her front teeth. How she chews her food I will never know! I tell her she looks cute with no teeth and she rolls her eyes (isn't that supposed to start when she is a teenager? lol) and says Mom! I have teeth.. (and she points to her cheeks) back here! I love her toothless smile! They are just starting to grow in, but I will never forget my toothless beauty!
I couldn't resist taking this picture. We just ran to the store to pick up a few things for dinner and Charlene wanted to push the cart. Bella just kept leaning over and giving Charlene a hug and a kiss. This is what being a Mom is all about! I love these girls!
Slightly cropped auto corrected image in Adobe Photoshop (Brightness & contrast)
Memorial Day is always really special to me. It is the one time of year that the Cemetery comes alive. There is an energy in the air that is only there during this time of year. And it always brings a smile to my face. We went to Memorial Estates last night to put flowers at Carolyn's grave. Daniel looked around and saw that there were some headstones that looked new although they were very old. We went home and he looked up how to clean a headstone. We went to the store and made a kit with all of the things necessary to polish a headstone. We went back to the cemetery and cleaned and waxed her headstone. It looks next to new now. I am so happy with it. What a thoughtful thing to think of doing.
Harrison, Merlin, Bella, Charlene, Zoey
Zoey, Bella, Charlene
My Man
My Dad's family has a cabin in Mt. Air. Every year we go up and help clean up the grounds and do some spring cleaning inside the cabin. I have not been able to help for several years as I have worked on Saturdays forever! Well my schedule just changed at work so I have weekends off and today was my first Saturday off. I was really glad that we could go up and help! Daniel helped my dad with the heavy lifting and I helped rake the leaves that had accumulated. I helped inside a little bit, vacuuming the lofts. The picture of the kids up in the loft sure brought back a lot of memories! As we were leaving my dad asked Daniel to get up on the shed to hook up the tire swing. I just had to take a picture. Luckily Daniel is not scared of heights and so it was not to big of a deal for him to do that. I am like my dad.... I would have had a really hard time doing that! Thank you for all your help Daniel!
My work rented a whole movie theater at the Gateway for Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Lost Skull. Daniel and I took Harrison, Merlin, Charlene, Zoey, and Bella with us to the movie. It was fun to see Indiana Jones back in action. Although I would have to say that I was not too impressed with the story they decided to tell. It would have been more intertaining if they had chosen a story that I knew anything about! I had not even heard of a crystal skull until Discovery Channel showed a special on it, just for this movie. There was a lot of comedy in it, and it is always nice to laugh! It was nice to go out as a family!
I haven't been inside that school since I graduated ten years ago. What a strange feeling, but it was very nice to get dressed up and go out with my man...
When we got to Liberty Park we were pleasantly suprised to see that my Mom and Dad were already there waiting for us. We registered and got our Bibs and Mark and Barbara showed up! To our most pleasant suprise, they were going to participate in the race as well!
We helped Mark and Barbara into their Team Wilson T-Shirts. I was so proud to be wearing a shirt with Mark's picture on it! I said, "Hey Mark! Do you recognize this guy? He's famous!" And Mark just replied, "Yes, would you like an autograph?"
The race started just after 8 AM. This was a 5k Walk and Roll Race which is 3.1 miles. This was not a timed race, but according to my GPS we finished in 29:39:21. It was a pretty cool run. It all took place at Liberty Park. We basically ran around the park twice. When we arrived at the finish line, Mark and Barbara were already there waiting to cheer us on as we crossed the finish line. They had gone around the park once, which was just over half the distance of the race.
Barbara told us they completed it in 26 min. Mark chimed in to let us know that it was 26 min and 25 seconds. Then as we started talking about something else we heard Mark clear his throat and say "and 33 100ths"! So their time was 26:25:33! I love Mark's sense of humor and I was honored to run for him!
Harrison, Merlin, Charlene, and Zoey were able to be there and cheer us on at the beginning and at the end! As always, I love running with Daniel and hope to have many more experiances like this one!
This is the image that is on the shirts that we wore! Thank you Daniel! You did a wonderful job!
Right now Daniel is in an audition to play a mini golfer named Flamingo! He will do great! And whether he gets the part or not, it is an audition under his belt.... Besides that, doesn't he look sharp?
