July 2, 2007

•  WARNING!  INSANELY LONG POST AHEAD!

  Too much to explain - let me sum up...

  As most of you know, the last month has had me pretty much living out of a suitcase - from home to arkansas, to texas, to home, back to arkansas, back home - far too much to go into details, so in an effort to cover the highlights and to keep this as brief as possible, I thought that I would just give you the last month in photos...

  Texas...so good to be with my sweet friend Vicki - despite the grief and a broken foot, it was good to be in the same space with her - to get to see her life/house/things that she loves...I totally understand why her house was one of Aundreas favorite places to be....

  
  

  

  
  

  Love this shot of Tori - she was eating an ice cream cone and struggling in the heat to keep it from dripping all over.  Just not enough hands for the ice cream and the napkins!

  

  
  

  After Texas, it was back home for a week to stay with the Mucci clan [see next to last post].

  Sandwiched in there was Fathers Day - the whole fam damily was over to celebrate, and my sister Jannah decorated a FANTASTIC cake for my dad - each one of the apples on the tree represents the 'unmarried' kids - his and my moms initials are on the trunk of the tree and then each of the baskets has my married siblings initials and an apple in the basket for each of their children.  It turned out super cute - all that creativity and skill in a 15 year old.  Amazing.

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  Here is a shot of her with my brother Sam that day...

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  Me with my sweet niece Addison...

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  And with my two incredibly good looking brothers, Abe and Joe...

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  Mom with our newest addition, Hadassah [isn't she getting CHUNKY? I love it!]  I love how she is looking at her grandma and how her little fist has a firm hold on Moms shirt...so sweet.

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  Then it was back to Arkansas for a week packed with fun, friends and family...

  I had a couple of fun days being 'aunt Havah'...Syd had the FANTASTIC idea painting/putting sparkles on our toes since it was kinda cloudy/rainy and our pool plans were foiled...

  Works in progress...[Syd - you are so beautiful!  Love this picture of you!]

  
  

  

  

  
  

  And the finished product...so fun!

  
  

  

  
  

  Got this shot with Logan in the midst of all the toenail fun - man do I love him! [more than I love all three of those chins that I am sporting - sheesh]

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  Also got to meet my friend Dena's baby girl for the first time - she is 20 months old and super sweet - funny...I love this age - this would be Dena, Kenya and I.  [Kenya wasn't so much about sitting with me for a picture, so Dena and I got on the floor with her and I took this one myself - not too shabby, really...]

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  I had a random opportunity to give blood with my friend Jen while at church on Wednesday night - so much more fun with a friend btw.  ['Nobody makes me bleed my own blood' - name that quote!]

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  KK was working that night, so she came out to check on us and got this shot.  [yes, at this point the blood drive girls were laughing at us BIG - the girl who was sticking me told me that we were the most fun that had had in a LONG time ]
  

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  They set us up on cots right next to one another - Jen got started before me...

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  But guess who finished first?  Ummmm - yes, that would be me.  [because everything really is a competition you know]  Here we are getting juice afterwards - right before the free t shirts

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  After the bloodletting, I was able to spend a few precious moments with this dear one - my friend Judy VW.

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  Thursday was a SUPER fun day - Vicki was in town, and she and Sydney and I spent the day together - first up was lunch at Shogun - a Japanese restaurant where they cook your food at the table.  So cool.  I love the challenge of eating with chopsticks!

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  Syd and Vicki....

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  After lunch we went and painted pottery - I haven't ever done that before - it was SO.FUN.  A little overwhelming if you walk in not really knowing what you want to paint or how - but still FUN.

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  Friday I got to have lunch with the youth of america [Sydney, Seth and Sam] at the Olive Garden...I cannot tell you how much it blesses my heart that they want to hang with me [or at least don't mind ].

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Friday night and Saturday I got to hang with some of the coolest girls on the planet - [girls that weren't there - and you know who you are - you were missed BIG] Also - sorry - my camera ran out of batteries before I could get the other side of the table!  Ugh.

  
  

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  A good time was had by all - I came home the early part of this last week and have spent the time going to the doctor, getting paperwork straightened out for work, doing laundry, unpacking, settling back in...trying to get some semblance of a routine going, without much success at this point.

  It has been a little difficult to be back home and to slow down...less busyness means more time to sit and ponder/think/grieve...not quite ready for that.

  In all of that however - I was out driving the other day and right in front of me appeared this rainbow...So pretty - I needed to see it on that day - to be reminded that God is still God.

  
  

  

   

    

   

   

   

   

   

  
  

  
  

  So there you go folks - congratulations for making it to the end! That is all for now...

   

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