Brad’s Letter To Santa…

If you know me, you know I save almost everything!  I’m not a hoarder by any means, but I do love to hold onto my stuff.

When the children were growing up I kept a lot of their school papers, newspaper clippings, and even dried flowers from proms and such.  A few years ago, I presented each one of my grown children with a plastic tub full of “things” from their childhood.  I thought I’d given them everything, but lo and behold, this week I ran across a small tub of  special things that I kept for myself.  Among those things I found this…

It is a letter to Santa, written by our youngest son, Brad, at age seven.  Did you notice the date on the letter?  It was back in 1992–nineteen years ago!  My how time flies.  Santa Claus granted Brad’s wish, and I have a picture to prove it!

It’s times like these that make me glad I save those little things…My precious little “Joe Montana Wannabe” is now a twenty-six year old man!  I’m pretty sure I saved that little football outfit and put it in Brad’s tub, too!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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Fun Friday Photos…

I enjoyed sharing some of my “funny photos” with you last Friday, so today I’m going to do it again.  I hope you at least get a smile from some of these…

Did you know that my cat, Bobs, is so smart that she can actualy read???  Well, actually she’s not smart enough to read, but she has a love/hate relationship going on with this particular book!  The book is called “Peter Cottontail”, and it plays the song whenever the book is opened–and sometimes it plays when it’s closed!  Everytime the book plays that annoying electronic music,  Bobs goes wild!  She either claws at the cover of the book, or sits and stares at it!  Strange, but true.

Have you ever dressed your dog up for Halloween?  We have!  This is “Big Buddy”, aka “Gizmo”.  He belonged to my daughter several years ago–and she dressed him up as a clown once–in the pre-children days.  Big Buddy was always a good sport.  He was more well-behaved than most children that I know.  Sadly, Big Buddy became a victim of the “tainted dog food” scam a few years back, and is no longer with us. 

Do you see this little pink, screaming, “bundle of joy”?  She replaced “Big Buddy”.  Life was much quieter living with the dog!  Of course, she is sweet and cuddly some of the time.  Unfortunately, she has her moments–her “Maddie Moments”, her “Jack Attacks” or what her mama usually refers to as  a “meltdown”.  This photo is old.  She’s almost five years old now!

Times have changed, but some things haven’t…Yeah!  She’s having a full-blown meltdown in this picture.  Did I mention that we have seen this face a lot over the past four years?!  Gotta’ love our little Maddie though.  Life just wouldn’t be the same without her!

We figured out at an early age that Maddie loves to eat!  The child lives for breakfast, lunch, and supper.  She’s not quite five yet, and she will already call “dibs” on certain foods in the refrigerator :)   In case you haven’t figured it out from the photo–let me tell you–Maddie hates to have her hair combed!  She hated it then, and she hates it now!

One of Maddie’s favorite pastimes is–watching television!  Yeah, we don’t want television to be a waste of time at our house, so we’re bringing her up watching “informative” television shows–like Fox News and  ”Glen Beck”!  Oh darn, his show went off the air…I guess we’ll just have to record  some episodes of “Hannity” for her!  We want her view of the world to be “fair and balanced”. 

See this bumper sticker?  A few years back, on our son, Brad’s, 21st birthday, a co-worker played a joke on him, by putting this bumper sticker on Brad’s car…I wonder how many people read it before Brad discovered that it was on his car???  I thought it was sort of funny when I saw it!

Wanna’ know what Brad thought about his bumper sticker?  Just read the pendant that he’s holding, and you’ll know!  Among Brad’s  other many thoughtful birthday gifts was a “grow a girlfriend”.  Sorry I don’t have a photo of her to show you!  He placed her in water and she grew…and grew…and grew.

And this last photo…well, what can I say???   If you never hear from me again after today, it’s because the son in the photo killed me after he found out I put this photo on my blog… It was Christmas 2005, and we were all feeling a bit crazy!  It was just after our oldest son got engaged, and for Christmas we gave his bride-to-be a pair of pink panties that said “bride-to-be” on the front…and for some reason, her hubby-to-be felt compelled to try them on–and he did!

And on that note, I’ll say “have a great weekend, everyone”!  Smile!  It makes people wonder what you’re up to…

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Published in: on August 5, 2011 at 7:34 am  Comments (7)  
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They’re Baaack…

My six words for today :  There is life after the honeymoon!

Yes, it’s true.  The newlyweds, Brad and Jennifer, arrived home from their cruise on Thursday afternoon.  We were really glad to see them after five days!  They looked tanned and happy!  Actually, Brad looked a little bit ”sun-burned” and happy!  The couple brought back tons of photographs, which they shared with us Thursday evening.

The couple spent one day visiting “Atlantis”.  I’m so glad they managed to get tickets to go!  Two days before the wedding Brad hadn’t been successful in obtaining tickets on-line.  Jennifer wasn’t happy…I feared the marriage was in trouble before it had even begun, because visiting Atlantis was their main reason for booking the cruise!  I’m glad it worked out in the end! 

 

Jennifer says visiting Atlantis was the “highlight” of their honeymoon–that and the “towel creations” that they found in their cabin each day!  Jennifer was fascinated by them, and took photographs of each one!

  Brad states that the highlight of the honeymoon for him was getting to meet South Carolina Gamecocks coach, Steve Spurrier, on the cruise,–and getting his photograph taken with him twice!  I can actually see the excitement on Brad’s face!  Only Brad would have the guts to strike up a conversation with someone famous…then get him to pose for a photograph twice!

It’s good to have our family all back on the family farm again!  Only it didn’t last, ’cause our oldest son and his family left this morning for a vacation trip to the lake…Next it will be our daughter and her family’s turn to hit the beach for a few days…Fun, fun, fun!   Now that the wedding is behind us, I’m ready for another get-away, myself!

I really enjoyed looking at Brad and Jenn’s awesome photographs!  Seeing those sandy white beaches and all of that sparkling blue water just makes me more determined than ever, to see those sights one day!  I really liked the towel creations, too!  Who knows…a cruise may be in our future one of these days–I’m adding it to my “bucket list” right now! 

**Photos were borrowed from Brad/Jenn’s Facebook page.

Published in: on July 2, 2011 at 5:40 pm  Comments (7)  
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