This is a gooey ooeyy love sick post about my husband.  I will keep it short and sweet so you dont gag. 

I love my marriage, I hope that each and every one of you married can say that and mean it.  Being married isnt easy but when you find someone who makes you laugh, smile and happy then it makes it all worth it.  I feel that I am blessed to be married to a man I can talk to about anything, we laugh together all the time, we enjoy our time together, we hold hands  and we talk to one another over the phone or instant message throughout the day, it is nice after all this time after all that we have been through to still be so in love.

Lowel brought me home roses on Wednesday and then again on Thursday just because and its not the roses that make me love him.....its the just because!!!

To match the newly painted front door and shutters I also painted the mailbox and used my cricut to jazz it up a bit.

Sometimes storm damage doesnt suck after all

During a recent storm our house suffered some damage so we were able to get the house resided. 

Here is the before pics

Here is what is looks like now with darker siding and black shutters.  We also removed the large bushes in front of the windows.  We are looking at possibly putting on a front porch.

Front door house numbers using cricut

We had new siding put on our house while away for vacation (it was necessary there was storm damage).  Anyways, when I returned home I started painting the front door, mailbox and shutters to go along with our new siding color.  My old door was sage green with black lettering that said welcome but this time around I changed it up a bit.  Since my door is now black I used my cricut to cut out beige numbers and put the house number on the front.  I love how it looks and we have had so many people drive by and stop to say they love the colors of the house.  More pics of the house to come after we get the shutters back up.

I am still using my coffee filter wreath that I made last year, I just change the accent decor to match the season or holiday.  I still have up 4th of July stuff but soon it will change to football stuff since we are right around the corner from football season.

Working hard for the money, so hard for it daddy.

We don't always give the kids allowance, in fact we only give it to them when they ask. They know that asking for their allowance means that they must do the work that we tell them to do and it's not easy jobs, which is why they don't ask often in fact we have gone months without being asked. Today both kids asked for their $5.oo and then waited to hear what they had to do to earn it, sometimes it's inside jobs such as vacuuming, dusting, cleaning windows etc. Today was outside work cleaning up pine cones and other stuff from the yard that I had pulled from the flower beds. After about an hour both come up to us and asked if they can stop now and get something to drink....whoops we totally forgot that they were still working, we were busy mowing, cleaning out flower beds. The yard looks good thanks to the kids and I'm glad that they know they have to earn their money. Now if they could just ask for indoor work next time cause that makes for one happy momma when I don't have to clean windows.

Right before we left for vacation we got sad news that my 97 year old Grandmother had passed away.  She went very peaceful with my mom by her side.  She prayed that God would take her and I believe her faith in God was so strong that he did, right then and there.  She was an amazing Mammy to all of us and Great Mammy to the great grandkids.  Im so glad that Preston got to know her and he will always remember her. 
Here she is at Thanksgiving of 2010 with 3 of her great grandkids.

Here is her obituary . Normally I wouldnt attach this however I want to take this moment to brag about her, she was a very accomplished woman and spent her life teaching others in school and church and was honored on many occasions for her work.  If you want to know what a Godly woman is like then here she is........http://www.springhillfh.com/obituary/user/show/template?id=46162

We have been out of town for the past 10 days so today has been catch up day...catch up on life, work, cleaning the house, stocking the house with groceries, washing clothes and sleep.  We had a wonderful time at Cape San Blas Florida, the beaches were beautiful white sand, the water was crystal clear, the pool and the house were amazing. Here are more than just a few of the pics from our vacation.

Here are both grandmothers with the kids

We went to Gulf World one day in Panama City

Preston with Flipper

Trinity with Flipper

Mammy with her grandkids

Lynda with Tara and Katie

We woke up one day after a storm and this had been washed up on beach just a few houses down from us.  Its a hammer head shark.  It was already dead so we let the kids touch it....come on when are you ever going to get to say I touched a hammer head shark.  If the kids could of lifted this bad boy up we would of took a picture of them holding it as if they caught it themselves and none of you would of been the wiser.