Time Flies and We're Having Fun

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Air Show

Living as close to Ellington Field as we do, we are always THRILLED when it is the time of year for the air show as we pretty much have our own show right from our front yard! The circle around SUPER LOW over our subdivision as they are swinging around back towards the air show field and its a blast to hang out in the driveway/front yard and figure out where they are coming from next...sometimes they are RIGHT over head before you realize, and you know it from the sound without a doubt! We were all loving it! Trouble was, it was a bright sunny day and I was taking pics with my Nikon and it was NOT liking trying to focus looking straight up and into the sun most of the time...that and the fact that I REALLY need a zoom lens for my Nikon BAD...here are some of the shots I got anyway, you will get the idea of how up close and personal we were in our own front yard! :)

Shots Fired

One afternoon right before Halloween, I came home after work...pulled in the driveway and glanced over at the big windows that are on the front of the house (formal dining room windows) on the first floor of the house. Noticed there were circles on the windows and in a split second realized what they were....BULLET HOLES!

I flew into the garage and came running back out once I parked the car....sure as shit (pardon my french), there were bullet holes in the window! Looked like someone had taken target practice at my halloween decorations on the windows (and were a lousy shot as the missed them all). Come to find out, they were bb holes....as we have dual paned glass windows and there were like 3 bbs in between the panes of glass stuck in there.

Upon further inspection, we have 3 of them embedded in the wood of our front door, 3 other blemishes where others grazed the door (thank GOD they missed the gorgeous glass panes on the door and didnt shatter them) and also had 6 indentations on our garage door. Apparently someone must have drove up along the front of our house and had a field day....probably kids. Better hope they dont come back or their momma's wont have much of them left to get after once I got a hold of them...still angers me..cause it is so sensless. I mean, someone breaks in and takes something, at least you know the reason behind it? Anyway, here are the pics I took that day.

Halloween

So, James decided to be Darth Vader this year for halloween. No real reason, since he had never even seen a Star Wars movie before, had no clue who Darth even is! We were just in Party City looking at the wall of costumes, told him to pick one, and he said I want to be THAT ONE MOMMY!!! Think he liked the mask and the light saber...kid is no dummy! Its cool! So, darth it was.....now we are officially in Star Wars mode as we got him two of the six movies which he LOVES, and I am in the process of framing star wars movie posters and other cool star wars stuff for his walls of his room, and got him a star wars comforter for his bed (sssshhhhh...dont tell James...its all christmas gifts for him to open!)

Pics from Halloween and pumpkin carving:

The Lake House

Took some really cool pics at my sister's lake house the last couple trips up there....thought I would share....love it there, so peaceful and quiet...and breathtakingly beautiful at sunrise and sunset....

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Day at the zoo with Freddy, James, Jada and Marlee

Spent the day with Freddy, James and the grandkids........Tiffany (Freddy's daughter) has a stepdaughter that is 5 and a 2 year old daughter of her own....we babysat them today and decided to take them all to the zoo...then came back home with them, played, watched Spongebob, had some food etc......and I made the girls some hairbows that they LOVED!!!

Anywy, I just uploaded a TON of pics to my facebook account from our day and am going to be lazy here and just add the links to the albums here...says on facebook I can share "with anyone" even if they are not on facebook...so lets see if this works...enjoy! LOTS of GREAT pics of the kids!!! :)

Think you will have to copy and paste each one into a browser to get it to work...the insert link feature on here is not working or I am just tired...or both! :)

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113220&id=685530748&l=4b267016c6

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113193&id=685530748&l=d58fb1f6eb

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Richard and Lorelie's Wedding

We went to Richard and Lorelie's wedding last nite. Richard is my nephew (Freddy's brother Johnny is married to Kelly....she has two boys - twins - Richard and Wesley...is was Richard getting married). The wedding was at Johnny and Kelly's house and it turned out fabulous (much like my wedding to Freddy 6.5 years ago at Johnny's other house!! LOL!!)

Well I ended up being very glad that I brought my big camera as it turned out their photographer was sick and did not come. So I decided that since there was no "professional" that I would be stepping on their toes/getting in the way, that I would take as good of pics as I could with my camera for them (they had a couple other friends doing the same thing).
Below are some of the shots from the night...it truly was a great wedding! James was the ringbearer and he was SO handsome in his tux and did a great job (even if Uncle Johnny did have to walk with him at the last minute as James got nervous!) and Richard and Lorelie make a beautiful couple! Here's to a lifetime of happiness for those two, and hope y'all enjoy your trip to Hawaii this week!!! :)