A Day With Two

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Where in the World, and not so Wordless Wednesday

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away. Oh wait, I have already started a post like that in the last month!!

So the long and the short story is….I haven’t been anywhere this week!! So Where In the World Wednesday comes to you from our own living room! Please ignore the mess, because well…housekeeping is just not my forte so to speak (now you know one of my dirty little secrets, I pretty much suck at housekeeping)!

If you are here for Wordless Wednesday, well, this is so not going to be wordless, because I just have to give a few shout outs to people!

I won an absolutely awesome MLB (Major League Baseball for those who don’t deal with acronyms) chair from a wonderful blogger Mommy Goggles ! This win was from Guidecraft!

I think she likes that chair!!

Well, it must have been a Guidecraft month for me, because just a few weeks later we won this awesome GUIDECRAFT Train Toy Box! Can you even believe it?? One of my favorite Review/Giveaway blogs, and just a great blog in general Night Owl Mama had a huge giveaway party and I (and my kids) were the luck winners of this awesome toy box! Hey Tricia, I think the kids love it…what do you think???

To join in on Where in the World Wednesday please visit Lemon Drop Pie.

A few of my very favorite Wordless Wednesdays are: Jolly Mom, Go Graham Go, The Mommy-Files and Two of a Kind, Working on a Full House!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Portraits

Looking back on this portrait of the kids I just have to laugh at the memory. You have a new baby who is just about 4 weeks old, so you make an appointment to get their portraits done. What I didn’t count on was my usually picture happy 2 year old wanting to have no part of the whole thing! After many failed attempts to get her to smile, the photographer and I just had to give up. I had to get just one print of that day for the memories alone!

June 2006

About 4 weeks later in July 2006 we got a different story and my Angel behaved as I knew she could!

And then we have this little Cutie Bug, who had found his smile by the time these portraits were taken!! I still just want to pinch those cheeks!!

“How do you play along? We all have tons of photos from the days before the digital camera. I figure if we just scan a few each week, eventually they will all be safely into our computers. But you don't need a scanner to participate! - Just find a photo that takes you back to another time. Every week you can come back here and share photos that "Take you Back." If you decide to participate, sign the Linky below and I promise to head on over and spread some comment love your way!”

Sunday, July 11, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Books

There is nothing quite like a good book! Being an avid reader myself, it is a joy I am trying very hard to pass on to my children! It seems as if we have books falling out of every available corner in my house. We read, my daughter is finally getting old enough to read by herself too!

Today I give you quotes about books!

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener. ~ Paula Fox

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of time. ~ Louis L'Amour

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles William Eliot

Nothing like falling asleep with your best friend, and a good book!

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island... and the best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ~ Walt Disney

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important — that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them. ~ Laura Bush

If you love quotes and like to post them on your blog, please feel free to link up below! I will post quotes and the Linky Tool every Sunday, and since I love reading other’s I will visit yours every week!

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Where in the World Wednesday ~Puerto Vallarta

Once upon a time, in a land far far away…O.K. just before we had kids, we visited Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Can I just tell you what a joy it was to look back on these photos? This was our honeymoon in May 1995!

Remember the panoramic photos? I have these big 8 inch long photographs, the only time I ever took them was in Puerto Vallarta.

A few things I remember; all the Mexican-seafood restaurants! Our favorite was called the Seafarer I think. And shopping downtown in the open air market where everyone thought my husband spoke Spanish, he doesn’t. Buying Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts from a vendor on the beach, those shirts lasted us for many years!

Where in the World have you been?? Go link up at Lemon Drop Pie!

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Grandparents

Take me back to November of 2004! This was probably Thanksgiving that year. At family gatherings I am always bad at remembering to take pictures, just get to busy with all the preparations I guess! This year it looks like my Mom and Dad remembered to get the camera out and then sent me pictures when they got them developed.

My parents bugged my brother and I for years about having Grandkids, we managed finally between the 2 of us to give them 6 Grandkids in about 7 years. My kids fit in nicely with their cousins at number 3 and number 5!

Sunday, July 04, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~America

Happy July 4th everyone! I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating America’s Independence and spending time with your family if you are able too!! Today I give you America!

If you have quotes on your blog, feel free to link up below!

E pluribus unum--out of many, one. ~ Great Seal of the United States

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall ~John Dickinson

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” ~Robert J. McCracken

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck