R.I.P

This is my cousin Christopher Michael Dyke. He passed away on Sunday morning due to a house fire. Him and his girlfriend had just been home a little bit when God called him home. He left behind two beautiful, sweet hearted little boys. He did care a great deal about his boys and they absolutely loved him to death. We just finished up the services for him and we are still so very very shocked. We had just been camping with them not two weeks earlier. He made so many people smile with his natural smile. I have never known him to get upset with many people because he was so layed back. Him and my husband had become quite good friends and its been rally hard for my husband to except also. We love him very much.

This is him holding my baby girl. She absolutely will not have anything to do with most people but she did like Chris.She loves playing with his boys and they get along great together. He was so full of love and laughter. His little sister said she will miss most of all his ridiculous jokes that never made any sense.

Well this was one of his jokes: he had gone and gotten a 3 leaf clover put on his leg. So his little bro and sis asked him what it was for or what it meant. His response was because we were Irish. Thats so freakin' funny because...we are absolutely not Irish. His lil bro checked and there is no Irish in us and we still do not know why he had that tattooed on him. However, in remembrance of him we all went and got one done. His friend, step mom, dad, and all the cousins. So far their is eleven who have or have appointments to get them. It just shows we love him and will always remember how he could make us all laugh even if it was because it made no sense at all. We love you Chris!

Summer is Here!!!!!!

So here is my cute little, scared of the water, baby girl. She has been terrified of the water since she was tiny and went walking out into the water and fell. She was only big enough that when she put her hands down to catch herself she was commpetely in the water. Every year she has made a little progress with the water. So by the end of last year, she was holding the wall to walk in the 3 foot area of the pool. We went camping (see last post) she did get into the lake which is rare for her so I knew she had made some progress. Well we decided to use the pool a lot this week and here she is just like a fish.


This is her not only swiming or jumping in but DIVING! I was so proud that all I could do is grab the camera and yell "do it again".

Here she goes!


I feel almost like I did when she first started school! Well...yeah bout that proud!
See I was a fish in the water. My mom would almost have to spank me to get me out of the lake. I never knew what a pool was like but I didnt care so long as it was playing in the water. Now to have a child I just always imagined getting to share that passion with her. I thought all hope was done until now! Yipee, my daughter has something like me! I am so very very proud of her.


This is her jumping off the side of her great-grandparents pool. If you look closely, you will see a huge smile on her face as she knows she is about to hit the water! Way to go ladybug! I love you!

Vacation 2008

Well since my last post we have spent two weeks camping. Yes I said camping and it has the title of "vacation". When I was growing up, that is all we could do. That is all we could afford to do. One week a year we would spend the entire week with my mom's brothers and sister-in-laws and all my million cousins. We literally grew up together. We were tiny tots all together and what is terribly weird is that now our children are the little ones. It totally trips out our folks. So check out these pics!

So this is my little bundle of joy and my cousin's little bundle too. Yes I can very vividly remember me and her at this stage in our lives. This child was called by her mother's name all week long. She apparently looks identical to her momma. She sure does favor her a lot. Yes her mom is a little doll too.





Here of course is one of us not so tottler sized cousins. He obviously still thinks he is a child. To his dismay and our pleasure he didnt finish what he bagan at the top of the hill. We had a blast watching him try and try and try and still end up this way.However, we had a great well diserved laugh at his expense.

This is most of our little punks. They had just as great a time together as we used to when we were their size. This pic was taken just after we got our turn on the raft-pulled-by-the-fast-boat-thing. It was so fun and just like us, everyone brought their lawn chairs to the lake bank to watch how quickly my aunt could flip us right off the "THING". She was sucessful with me (as if thats a big shocker)the hard part was getting back on. Anyways, it was very very fun and I would do it again and hope to get to soon.

Last day of Kindergarten!!!

This is the last day of school for both these girlies! Kindergarten is over!! This was their party. Small indeed but what a time they had. I could not pass up the chance to show off this piicture. It was absolutely the sweetest thing I have seen in a bit. To my suprise, my lab sat there very quiet and behaved for all the pictures I took till I got the perfect picture. I just think it is sweet to see a tree, a can-man, good ole' dog and cute little girls, playing school not hours after the last day of school, all in the same picture. I am guessing I was over the school thing way more than they were. They played school a long time after we got home. lol. This is what our little girls wanted to do with their now found freedom so the mommies got together and decided to let them have at it.
This is my little ones bestest friend at the present time and as I forsee, a long time to come. She is a good little girl and I am glad my daughter has a great buddy to hang out with. Lucky or blessed for me, I get along great with her mother too. Yipee!ADULT CONVERSATION! Congrats to the little kinder graduates!!!! Welcome to 1st grade and your first summer vacation!

This week in my life!!!

This is my mothers absolute shining moment.

My moms favorite thing and one of the many things she does well at is making bisquits. The only thing she does better is share herself whole heartedly with my daughter. She dearly loves showing my daughter how to do things. Bisquits was just one of the many things she showed today. I adore both these girls with all my ever-lovin-heart. I can vaguely remember her doing the same thing with me. And to noones supprise, my little one loves this as much as eating them.

Here we had a cookout with some good buddies from the west. After all the swimming, eating, and playing we all decided to sit down and have some desert. I know it seems as if she is just looking at this smore, but she finished it off in no time flat.

This is BB,s little boy. He is a doll baby. Unfortunately for him and great for my camera, he was quite upset here. He wanted to swing and I had him give a turn to another child there and well as you see he wasnt too happy with me. However, this did make a darling picture. Love ya muffin #5.

This is what we did on Tuesday. Isnt she beautiful?! She did such a great job. She is a sweet little girl at our church that just so happens to be my little girls idol. She has been taking lessons for two school terms now and wow has she got some tallent. Good Job! Keep up the good work KSM!

This is the very last full day of my little bitty, teeny tiny, 6lb11oz baby girl's kindergarten year. It just absolutely blows my mind that what seems to be only days ago and now a happy on-her-way-to-first-grade little girl. It is so bitter/sweet. Im extatic that she is progressing so well but at the same my baby is growing up. I just hope with all my heart that she will always know how very proud of her that I am. I love you baby girl!

My new SLR camera!!

So since my last photo problem I have decided to get what I really wanted and so I got me a Cannon EOS Digital Rebel XTi. I just love it and I have found some weird things to take pictures of. Here is one I just couldnt resist.

This is our Kitty. One of three so far. She is one of our favorites. She has been around longer than most and she is so cute. The part that makes this so funny is her name. I will begin to tell you that as of the day our little girl was born, she rules everything. She of course got to name all of our animals. See we had a wounderful cat when she was born. We loved him so much. he was our very first animal as a "couple". My hubby has high blood presure and we heard an animal would help relieve stress (parties all the time was stressfull) so we got him. He became our child till we had her. After she was born my in laws talked him into getting rid of the cat and eventually we did part with him. So anyways, we realized kittys wont kill our child and we went crazy. Our first kitty was a male. My daughter had just begun to talk and was getting into Sunday School and so she named him: Simon Peter!
It was the talk of everyone around. So on to present. THis is our mommy cat "Football". No I do not spell very well but this perticular word is not misspelled. I havent a clue how she came to this name but she loves her and we have a cute memory of her name. I can hardly wait to remind her of this when she is older. Our other kittys are: Spook(solid black kitty) and Gussy.


This is just me snapping pics at church Wednesday night. It was the product of our WMU deciding we needed to spiffy the grounds up a bit. Arent they beautiful?

This is what my husband does well. He loves fishing and aparently he does it well huh? This will make for a fine fish-fry on some beautiful sunny summer evening here in the south!

This is my hubby being a good sport while I snap pictures of everything under the sun and well some of it too. I do love my new camera. Hopefully soon me and one of the Bullercrew will get to take it out and try it out on some landscapes. I love my buddies!

New New camera!

So you remember I got a new camera and all that stuff!?! I just think it takes such great pictures. The fact that we live in such a beautiful part of the country makes the pics so much easier to say that.




However, we had a weekend trip this weekend to the Great Smoky Mountians. I took pictures of all I could. Needless to say, I used 8 batteries. I didnt get the camera I truly wanted because Im not made of money but when you have to replace soooo many batteries, I actually could afford what i wanted sooooo...


I went last night and got me a super camera! I will post pics as soon as I get more made. I am so excited! See ya soon!