One of the highlights of...

this holiday season was spending time with "the girls" (left to right: Melody, Katie, me, Alyssa) taking an art lesson from my niece, Katie who teaches Art to high school and middle school students in Missouri. We used oil pastels on canvas that were shared by my sister, Melody. Not bad for a first effort, huh? I like Melody's trees and mountains much better than mine! But I must say, I do like the swirly-ness of mine. Melody and I used a photo from Scotland. Isn't it amazing how two people can look at the very same picture and come up with two totally different perspectives?! Kind of like life, huh? Anyway, I am very happy to now have a landscape to put on the wall next to my Mama's and Mammaw's. Sure, it isn't of their quality, but who cares...it's mine! For a closer look, click on the photo and then you can see details better...like Mel's mountains!

What a Blessing!

I was so blessed this year to spend Christmas with my family for the first time in over 18 years! What a joy! Lolly absolutely ADORES that Brady-Boy! She gets so excited whenever she sees him!

Aunt Robbie with grand-nephew, Brady...

School Picture 2006

Open Hearts Luncheon 2006

I was blessed to host my Sunday School Class' annual Christmas party again this year! We had yummy food, hilarious fun with our ornament exchange and a really good time. It is the funnest bunch of "girls" I know!
(Sharon, how did you manage to hide from all the pictures?!)

Merry Christmas!

Lolly is quite excited about Christmas this year. One of her favorite holiday activities is helping me wrap presents. Of course, her idea of “help” is a little different from mine! Every time I turn around, she is there with a snippet of ribbon in her mouth or a piece of wrapping paper dangling from her lower lip. The other night, after shooing her away for about the fourteenth time, I looked up and here she comes down the hallway with a long streamer of toilet paper in her mouth as if to say, “HEY! If you won’t let me have any of that bright shiny stuff, I’ll get my own paper!” If you looked up the word “persistent” in the dictionary, it would probably have her picture next to it!

She has a favorite new Christmas tree ornament. It is a fuzzy moose that sings, “O, Christmas Tree” in a very gruff moose-ish voice. She is fascinated by it. Every time I pass the tree and squeeze its tummy, she comes running and stands on her hind legs to see and hear it. Let’s hope her persistence doesn’t allow her to figure out how to get up there and then try to make it “sing” by herself!