How do you measure time???

How do you measure time?

Do you watch a clock, use a planner, a calendar, the sun, seasons?

How about checking the expiration date on the milk carton? Yes, I have noticed that I check the milk carton to make sure that we can use it before it expires. This week when I checked the expiration date is comes very close to vacation time. Yeap, I use it like a calendar.

Tag - I'm it!

Anita tagged me - I was to go to my 6th picture file folder and the 6th picture.

Here Rayme and I are on our cruise vacation in August 2005. We arrived a few days early to take in the sights around New Orleans. Since we were so close to Mississippi we decided to visit another state and stopped to see the what was around and found the Stennis Space Station visitor center and took a tour. It was very interesting!
This is about a week or so before Hurricane Katrina made it grand entrance to this area. I have often thought about our tour guides how they were affected by the hurricane and if they were all safe.

Here is the next part - I am suppose to tag 4 people to take part. No pressure....

Nicole
Michelle
Tracy
Lisette

New Year - Celebrate!

This is the year to Celebrate!

Last year my good friend Jane embraced the word "balance" and tried different methods to remember to have "balance" in her life.

My word this year is "Celebrate"!

I want to remember to celebrate the things in my life - daily celebrations, family and friends, holidays, and my many blessings. The word celebrate just sounds happy.

To start the new year off Rayme and I were invited to celebrate a surprise birthday party! Happy Birthday Toyke!

The very next day I got to help celebrate Ray & Cali's wedding! Congratulation Ray & Cali!

I love to celebrate! And looking forward to many more celebrations! What do you like to celebrate?

So long, fair well .........

Last night Nicole and I were watching my favorite movie "The Sound of Music" and I remembered the part of the movie where the children were leaving the party and singing the song - so long, fair well...... Like all good parties they all have to end.
As our children have grown up and are having lives of their own we don't get together very often.
Rayme and I were blessed enough that both Nicole & Michelle were able to come home for Christmas in spite of the extreme weather conditions and flight delays.
We usually go to Rayme's side of the family for Christmas Eve, but with our weather being frightful, his parents didn't want anyone to venture out on the roads. Therefore, we had an unexpected time together with just the four of us. We had a wonderful time together and getting the last few details wrapped up (no pun intended).
We kept expecting the rain to come, but it never came just snow and more snow and more snow! Poor Nicole her blood apparently has thinned out and was having a hard time keeping warm, but still loved the white Christmas. My family and some good friends came over to enjoy our Christmas dinner. It was such a wonderful Christmas.
Now comes the time when the party has to end and we have to say to Nicole & Michelle - so long, fair well ........see you soon.

Baby It's Cold Outside!

The temperature here has certainly taken on the feel of winter. Usually we don't have this kind of cold weather until January. Our temperatures here have dipped into the teens and with windchill factors sometimes below zero.
This morning when I left for work I got into my car that is parked in the garage, so I really didn't have to brave the weather to much, but when I got to work and had to walk from the parking lot to the building - whoa baby - I had to look down to make sure that I actually put my pants on (and I had)- it was so cold and wind whipping it felt like I didn't have any on.
As I watch the doppler radar, satellite images, and weather forecast it looks like we have this cold winter weather for a couple of weeks.
How is the weather in your neck of the woods?

New Christmas Shopping Experience

It is time to update my blog! Can you believe that I haven't updated for over a month? Can you believe we are in December? Can you believe that I have 22 days of shopping before Christmas - OK really 21 days since this day is slipping away quickly and if you subtract Christmas eve it is like 20 days. Yikes! But I have made a new discovery to help out with my lack of planning.
Online Shopping!!! Yes, I have ordered things online before, but never for Christmas shopping.
I can't tell you what I bought because the recipient reads my blog. So let me tell you what I think of online Christmas shopping - I love it!!! You can't believe that there is so many things that I have on my list and I can do it all in the comfort of my own home in my PJ's.
The other good reasons for online shopping. No parking issues, the store doesn't close, I am a little bit better at not impulse buying, did I mention that I can shop in my PJ's.
Have you shopped more online this Christmas? What great deals have you found online?

Fall Fun in Arizona

Our vacations include planning different destinations and of course food! One of our first stops on the way to the Grand Canyon was a little cafe with great pies!

This is Dan (as in Daniel Boone), Lloyd and Rayme sporting their coon skin caps getting ready for our adventures at the Grand Canyon. It was rather chilly that morning we were at the Grand Canyon, but it did warm up to a balmy 50 degrees (as long as we were in the sun it seemed warmer).
The first time I visited the Grand Canyon I was in awe, and couldn't believe how beautiful and the creation of it was an overwhelming feeling. It still makes me feel a bit of disbelief of it magnificent wonder.

Another thought, I wonder when the first pioneers came west and came upon this natural creation what they thought?

Cheryle, Dan, Dawn, Lloyd, Donna & Rayme at the Grand Canyon (not to close to the edge).

Dan & Rayme close to the edge. (A little to close for Cheryle and mine comfort.)

The next stop on our vacation was Sedona, and we took a Jeep Tour in the back country. I love gnarly looking trees, and I wasn't disappointed because I was able to take quite a few pictures of the unique looking trees.

I am not sure if you can detect the color of the jeep, but it is Pink! I highly recommend the Pink Jeep Tour in Sedona. We had a great driver - Kristen! No, we didn't let the guys drive!


Definitely a wild ride!

I love taking pictures of the scenery in Arizona.

Earlier I said we like to eat and here is one of our stops - gotta love Texas Roadhouse.

Breakfast outside on the patio in the middle of October!
A vacation wouldn't be complete without a friendly game of Hand & Foot!

And a daily midnight swim in the 97 degree pool. Dawn likes her pool warm, the rest of the us think of it as a big bathtub.

I had a great time with great friends and lots of fun!

It isn't the destination it's the journey. I can't wait until our next journey.