Take Me Back Tuesday ~The Saucer Version

Take me back to September of 2004! My Angel was 5 months old and just loved her exersaucer! We had the basic kind that came with no toys and required you, as the parent, to keep picking up tossed toys from the floor and lovingly place them back onto the tray! No matter how many times I retrieved said toys, I could not have done without this!

Wow, just look at those pinchable cheeks! Where did those go?? This was also the spit blowing phase which is what she is doing in those last 2 pictures!!

Got some memories of you own posted??

“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!”

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A Day For Quotes #3 ~Maya Angelou

Good morning everyone and welcome to A Day For Quotes!  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!

This week I have chosen Maya Angelou.  Her quotes just seem to stick with me and inspire me whenever I read them. 

 

Global Renaissance Woman

Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.

Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture.

Dr. Angelou’s words and actions continue to stir our souls, energize our bodies, liberate our minds, and heal our hearts.

A ton of good Maya Angelou quotes here at Goodreads

 

 

Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

 

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

 

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them

 

 

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

 

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

 

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

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Where In The World Wednesday ~My Own Backyard

So last week, Ginny Marie asked what was outside our own door, and is it an an oasis or an eyesore! Our answer is that yes, our backyard is probably on the eyesore side, but when you are a kid do you care??

Our backyard is big enough to have a brand new swing set from Sears:

It is big enough to have room for a kiddy pool: (Where you can shoot your Mom with a squirt gun)

It’s big enough to ride your mini bike in when you are 2

And it is big enough to have friends over for a Memorial Day BBQ, who take pictures of you (with you camera no less!)

I would love to see what is in your backyard!! Anyone??

Jump over to Lemon Drop Pie and tell us!

Take Me Back Tuesday ~The Bathtub Version

In our bathroom I have this cute little picture of my daughter in a ducky frame. She was just 6 months old (November of 2004).

Yesterday my son asks, “Mama, where is my bathtub picture”? So I had to dig in my picture archives to show him!!

Here is my Angel, just 3 and my Cutie Bug at 1 (May of 2007).

Thank goodness I had bathtub pictures to show him, and he is even using the same little blue bathtub seat his sister used, man that was the best little thing!

“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!”

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A Day For Quotes #2 ~Memorial Day Version

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May. It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who died in military service for their country.

This first picture is of my Father In Law (on the left) who served in the Korean War. While he did not die in military service, I am sure he knew many who did.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. ~Norman Schwarzkopf

The following is our very own Veterans Memorial in Greeley, CO. We are very close to it, and visit it often. My Father in-law's name is on it’s walls….

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. ~John M. McHugh

They fell, but o’er their glorious grave
Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. ~Francis Marion Crawford

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake

One of my favorite songs ever:

And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free
And I won't forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me
And I gladly stand up . . next to you and defend her still today
Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God bless the USA!

~Lee Greenwood

If you enjoy quotes and blog about them, 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! So jump in for A Day For Quotes!

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Where in the World?

If you happened to visit my blog Tuesday, you would have seen pictures of my trip to Alaska in 1984! 

Where in Alaska was the question I left you hanging with! 

The answer is Kodiak, Alaska!

Our church youth group went on a mission trip to a partner church there and boy did they put us to work!  We painted houses, felled trees and dug ditches.  After all of that work, our one desire was to visit a beach with “real” waves.  So they took us to Fossil beach. 

This first picture is Kodiak Island as seen from when we were on neighboring Woody Island. 

The other 3 pictures are of Fossil Beach on Kodiak.  What strikes me is how warmly we were dressed at this beach!  It was July, and one other thing I remember was the fact the the sun set at about 10:00 pm, and rose at like 3:00 am. 

This beautiful picture below I cannot take credit for, but is shows an overhead shot of Fossil Beach.

 

Been anywhere close or far?  Go visit Lemon Drop Pie and link up for Where in the World?

 

 

 

Take Me Back Tuesday ~Alaska in 1984

 

Once upon a time, what seems like a long, long time ago, (but was really July of 1984) I got to go to Alaska!  This was a huge deal for the “I have never been anywhere” girl from Colorado. 

The youth group at my church worked and worked to be able to send a bunch of us on a Mission trip to Alaska.  If you want to know exactly where in Alaska, you must tune in on Wednesday for Where in the World? over at Lemon Drop Pie!

 

What you are looking at in these pictures was something completely new to me, was a Buoy swing.  A Buoy in Alaska is typically used as a float in the ocean to mark where crab pots are for the fisherman.  In this instance, it was strung up in a tree, much like a tire swing is.  Going on the Buoy swing, involved climbing the tree, reaching for the Buoy, taking a leap of faith, and swinging.  But hey, we were there on a church mission trip, so I took the leap!   These pictures are a few of people that were with me on the mission trip, since I was the photographer at the time! 

The first picture shows some bear prints from a very large brown bear native to the area next to a grown man’s boot! 

 

“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!”