wacky wednesday ..

it's wacky wednesday at school ..

we love homecoming week !

we look like babies ..

jeff and i just celebrated our 20th (gulp) year anniversary ..

i made him a book us .. the 20 years we have been together ..

it was hard to find a picture of just us for each year .. i am going to have to work on that ..

i thought i would share some of my favorites ..

1993 ..

the night we got engaged ..

1994 ..

the day we got married ..

1994 ..

sydney australia .. honeymoon 

1998 ..

1999 ..

2000 ..

rome

2001 ..

the Berlin Wall ..

2001 ..

2004 ..

smokey mountains ..

2010 ..

2011 ..

puerto rico .. 

2012 ..

2013 ..

beaver creek ..

20 years went by just like that ..

in a blink of an eye .. 

i failed ..

have you ever totally failed someone .. you don't realize it until later that it has happened .. you sit and process the events that happened and then think to yourself .. wow .. you totally dropped the ball .. i had a moment like that yesterday .. i let my poor friend dangle out on a limb .. flailing about .. just waiting for me to stand up and say .. hey wait a minute .. and while i said it just loud enough for the people around me to hear .. i did not say it loud enough for my friend to hear .. she is the one that mattered .. she was the one that was dangling out on a limb .. i should have stood up and very loudly announced to the entire room .. excuse me .. you have your facts wrong .. but then you start to second guess yourself and say .. really you would have stood up and shouted it loud enough for everyone to hear .. to call attention to yourself in the middle of a service that was NOT about you .. you would have risked the embarrassment to your friend .. to her family .. just because some guy got his facts wrong .. how would your friend have felt .. would she have been mortified .. would she have sank lower into her seat and wished that she was not there .. or worse that i was not there .. 

its a tough call .. but i think that i would want my friends to do that for me .. to be there in my time of need .. to worry about what is being said when i am not in the frame of mind to do so .. to know that the words that were misspoken were like daggers to my heart .. i would want that .. because i am sure that later .. after i had time to process it all thru my brain .. that that very moment would confirm the devotion and love of a friend .. 

another thought .. i have also decided that never again will i sit in the back if i have to leave early .. i was more worried about disrupting the service .. about being polite .. i SHOULD have been worried about my friend .. i SHOULD have sat right next to her and held her hand and hugged her shoulders and told her that i was so sorry .. so sorry for her loss .. so sorry that the pastor misspoke .. so sorry that her heart was broken .. instead i sat in the back .. away from friend .. out of her reach ..

she needed me .. she needed me to hold her hand ..

 to stand up and say hey wait a minute you are wrong .. 

she needed me to rescue her from her limb ..

instead i sat in the back and left early ..

next time .. i will shout out loudly .. 

i will sit by friend in need and i will stop the service and draw all kinds attention to myself as i crawl all over people so that i can leave early if need be ..

because what matters the most is my friend .. 

not the disruption ..

a lesson learned the hard way and at the expense of a broken heart ..

a quick hello ..

my dear friend trina is in town .. 

a friend that i rode tricycles with when we lived at 1026 N Hickory Place ..

the reason i can remember the address is because that is where i lived when i was in kindergarten ..

Mrs. Cann .. my kindergarten teacher .. would be so proud that i still remember it ..

so .. since my tricycle riding buddy was in town we meet for lunch ..

the little girls played littlest pet shop while the big girls visited ..

ellie and katie have become fast friends .. 

they have already planned summer get togethers and road trips ..

the mommas and their girls ..

the grannies .. mommas and their girls .. 

until next time friend when we can pick up where we left off ..

basketball ..

cash's pass resulted in a basket !!

ellie is #25 (black jersey)

she plays basketball like a "football" player .. 

she made a basket ..

her team lost the game but she played her heart out .. 

he said yes he would ..

the nutcracker

before the craziness of christmas and new years we went to the nutcracker 

and because the nutcracker is much more fun with your mom and friends in tow..

 we took kinzee .. gracie and granny with us ..

we got to go back stage after the performance and meet some of the cast .. 

and stand on the big stage ..

and ride in the little car ..

and meet clara herself .. 

it was a treat for everyone !!

snowmobiling ..

it was a beautiful morning to snowmobile ..

the snow was perfect .. the weather was perfect ..

it was a perfect day !