Quilt Scrapbook Page

I started working on Sloan's Good Wishes Quilt scrapbook this evening. I completed one page that contains the wishes from my parents and my brother. I plan to separate my wishes into Family & Friends, May 2006 DTC, AWAA families and blogging friends.

More Family Wishes

This wish comes from my cousin Jeff, his wife Dana, and their 3 boys; Jacob, Colten and Corbin. They live in Springfield, MO. Thank you for the sweet wish and scripture.

This wish is from my cousin Brian, his wife Carrie and their two girls Madison and Macy. The lady with brown hair in the photo is Marlo Thomas. The recent photo is from St. Jude where Macy is undergoing treatment for Wilm's tumor. Macy and her family have been in Memphis for the last 6-7 months and I so appreciate them taking the time to send this to me.

This wish is from my cousin Shelia, her husband Mike and their two kids Nick and Brad from Springdale, AR. I love the fabric! I just heard that they lost their Boston Terrier, Timmy and I know they are so sad. We all love our pets sooo much!

This last wish is from my cousin Jennifer and her husband Brett from St. Louis, MO. The wish she wrote is so sweet and brought tears to my eyes!! Thanks Jennifer!!! Go Cards!!

MARVIN

5 Month Sercy

I found this cute shirt last week in Greenville's Life Is Good store. I love their shirts and had to get this one for Baby Sloan. I hope she likes it as much as I do!

5 months down...

Check out the ticker another month down. Molly is such a sweetie to endure this humiliation. She did get an extra doggie biscuit today!!

Happy Birthday Mom!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!

Mom, I hope you have a good day and I wish I could be there with you! Love you!!
(For some reason blogger wouldn't let me load photos, I am sure my Mom is happy about that!)

***Updated, finally able to load a photo of dear sweet MOM

Weekend getaway..

I spent this past weekend at Edisto Island in South Carolina for a little R & R with my good friend and frequent travel buddy Shari. We stayed in a friend of a friend's beach house on the coast. The weather was beautiful, most of the time. We caught up on some chick flicks. I read a book Meeting Sophie about a single gal adopting from China and we ate alot of seafood.
This is where we stayed and we also rented bikes to ride around the island.
That's Shari in front of Bell Buoy Seafood where we bought shrimp for our lowcountry boil. Looks a little shabby but the shrimp was good and fresh. The island is not at all commercialized. There are only a few restaurants and a Piggly Wiggly grocery store.

This is our house, beachside.

The beautiful sunrise of the South Carolina coast. Great with a cup of coffee!

Mooncakes vs. Birthday Cakes

Well, I haven't been very good about my blogging lately, just busy with work, vacation and other misc. stuff. I did celebrate a birthday on October 2nd, my 29th;). OK my 34th, but it just doesn't seem possible. Anyway, I was in Atlanta for the weekend and my parents took me to a Chinese Bakery to pick up some mooncakes for the Harvest Moon Festival. We purchased a lotus bean paste and a mixed fruit and nut to sample. I have a feeling they were packed full of trans fats but who knows? I was a little surprised to see a pack of silica gel in the actual mooncake package. I am used to seeing these in a shoe box but with cake, hmmm? Anyway, we did the taste test and I must say we really did want to like it, but not so much. My Dad liked it the most but he has been know to eat pickled pigs feet and sardines on a regular basis, so his vote doesn't really count. We did have my birthday cake from Rhodes Bakery in Snellville, GA, the best cakes ever made!! I am certain it had a few trans fats! YUMMMYY!!!

Young Hero

On Friday, my cousin's little girl was awarded the Missouri National Guard Young Heroes Award. He was so proud of her! Check out Macy.