Ten on Ten November

I took these on the 10th ...then got sick and didn't get a chance to post them so I am posting them now...On the 12th :)


There was a boil water warning in the area that my school is in so I took some of our Hurricane water to school for my kiddos to drink (Hurrican season is almost over anyway - only a few more weeks!)




Getting Dressed.  Since there is no school on Veteran's Day, we are celebrating today so of course I had to wear my Navy Bear pin! :)




The beads I wore (and played with) all day too.




In Social Studies we were talking about the Incas who used runners to deliver messages over long streaches of land.  To demonstrate it (and to just get outside for a while) I took my class outside to do a running telephone game where they all streached out and carried a question from me to the last person and then returned the answer to me.  While outsied one of my boys found a feather.




My husband, a Navy Vet, came to school to talk to the older kids about what it is like to be in the service, some of his experiance, and what Veteran's day and the flag mean to him.  Here, he is letting on of the girls try on his body armor.




Home again :)  And I wondered why my glasses always have little fingerprints on them!




One of the cute little birdies on one of my daughter's pillows




Dinner time!  Yummy cheesey chicken and noodles with peas




I love cheese!!



Bathtime!



Ten over Ten on the Tenth of the Tenth of the Tenth (plus ten)

10 photos

over 10 hours

on the 10th day

of the 10th month

of the 10th year of this century
(plus 10 things I'm thankful for)
:)

(Want to join in all the Foto Phun?  Simply head over to 10 on 10,

 take ten photos on the tenth of each month,  and share them! 

Easy-peasy!)

1. Good Morning, Mommy! 7:30am



2. Scripture lesson at church 8:30am



3. Scripture lesson at Sunday School 9:30am



4. Yummy lunch of chicken, green beans, and Mandarin oranges :)
(Not sure why it is sideways) 11:00



5. Getting ready for a Dr. Seuss party that you
could not,
would not
want to miss! 
12:00pm



6. All the new shoes Daddy bought.  Notice the camo boots!  1:00pm

7. Shelf above the TV - Grandma and Grandpa (I hate that there is a glare over Grandma, she was a BEAUTIFUL woman, inside and out), Hubby and I on our wedding, and our nephew along with all of the Challenge Coins that Hubby has acquired.  2:00pm



8. Grandma's China (yes, a beautiful woman had beautiful things :) ) 3:00pm



9. Night vision caught Daddy napping and Baby Girl eating crackers in bed! 4:00pm



10.  Mmmmmmm  Sippy cup!  4:45pm



 Ten things I am thankful for:

My friend Elizabeth posted 10 things she was thankful for in honor of 10-10-10 and Canadian Thanksgiving so I thought I would too!

1. A wonderful year with my beautiful baby girl who is having her first birthday on Tuesday.
2. Finding a church where I feel welcome and "home."
3. A loving husband who does all that he can to support.
4. Having bills to complain about (If I had no bills then that would mean I would have no home, water, electricity, food, etc...so many in the world don't).
5. The wonderfully cool weather that has finally hit Florida.
6. Having not only one family but many incredible groups that I call family (in-laws, adoptive, biological, step)
7. My books.  I love being able to briefly escape into a world of imagination that isn't my real life.
8. Family and friends that I know will always be there for me no matter what.
9. My health.  So many don't have the luxury of good health.
10. Diet Coke...yummmmm  :)

10 on 10 - July

I recently came across a blog that asks it's readers to take photos on the 10th of every month and post 10 of them.  Sounded like so much fun that I couldn't pass it up! I decided that I would actually take the photos on the 9th and post them by the 10th because I know that I'm more likely to get to them posted the day or so after than the actual day I take them.

This is the perfect month for me to start because Hubby and I have a wedding to go to tonight so I should get some GREAT photos to post tomorrow!

Christmas Camping

I love camping! Being in the middle of nowhere with nothing around but the river, the woods, and the creatures (and family and/or good friends) is one of the best feelings in the world. So relaxing and peaceful. For just a little while, you can forget all the troubles of the world, the economy, the stress, everything but how wonderful this life can be.

This is the first Christmas in 3 years that Hubby has been home for Christmas, yet he still isn't going to be able to take part in the family Christmas activities because he has to work. Instead, we went camping for a couple of nights with his parents. As a Christmas gift for them, I put a few of the pictures together in a digital collage and will grab a few matching 8x10 frames to put them in today. Here's what I came up with:

Here are a few more pictures that didn't make the collages but I think are worth showing.

Pictures

Me and my nephew out in the pasture after Thanksgiving lunch

Baby Cousin Sarah meeting her newest baby cousin Vusi in South Africa for the first time.

True Redneck Thanksgiving :)


Even the cat wants to watch the Gators beat the Noles! GO GATORS!!

Face Your Pocket

I saw a link to this website the other day and thought it was interesting. Granted I can’t read Russian (Maybe my cousin Jennifer could help me out with that), but on the English version it says that it is a project to gather pictures of people putting random things that they carry around with them, either in their pockets or purses, on their scanner then putting their faces on the scanner as well, so I thought I would give it a try. I decided to dig around in my purse and see what I found that may (or may not) be interesting. Does it give some deeper insight into my life or personality? Who knows, but I was bored and this is what I did instead of my Linguistics homework (Maybe Cousin Jennifer could help me with that too!).
Let's see, I have my squished face, the wallet my sailor hubby gave me, 3 tubes of lipstick, a 500 yen coin, 4 huge safety pins, a dollar bill (all the American money I had), my thumb drive, BC Headache medicine, moist towelette, a kaeru (means both "frog" and "return" in Japanese. It is supposed to bring a traveler safely home), butterfly clip, hair tie, sharpie pen, and 3 patriotic charms. What can it all mean? Anyone have any great insight into me now, other than I must have a cluttered purse and I'm broke? Perhaps there is a reason that my thumb drive with all my my graduate stuff from all my classes so far is above my head next to the headache powder? Things that make ya go Hmmmmm.....

Now that I'm done with this I guess it is on with the homework. It isn't really that hard, I like the class actually, just needed a brain break and thought this would be fun!