tlc's Random Life

Being that it is oh so close to these pretty little girls 9th birthday I thought this would be a great throwback.  Wow it is hard to believe they are already nine.  It seems just like yesterday we were at the hospital watching the snow fall as we waited to see their sweet little faces.  Twins!  Though it has happened in our family before it had been like 30 years so they were special.   Still are really.  Doesn't hurt that they are the babies either (well babies as far as my parents grandkids go)  I don't know how Dave & Nae do it.  I am positive that if it were me with twins they would have been mixed up more than once. And God love them what if that did happen...just kidding. They know who they are thank goodness because if I'm not looking right at them I still have a hard time telling who is who.  I think they must get tired of people not knowing which one they are.  If we're not careful they will switch up on us ...

    Let me just start by saying straight out of the gate that I absolutely hate to be on the front side of any camera much less my own.  Now it isn't that I don't enjoy being in the moment, I do.  I just enjoy taking the pictures instead of being in them if that makes any sense at all.   With that said I'm glad I was on the front side of this camera this day.  I suppose all little girls dream of growing up, getting married and having babies.  I know when I was a little girl my friends and i would play house, we would more less mark of sections of the room as mine and theirs these sections would be my house or her house.  we'd have baby dolls name them fun names.  We had fun.  I don't know that I ever really thought about actually having children when I grew up.  And as I got older I remember that I didn't even want to get married when I grew up much less have any kids.  But we all grow up. And that guy comes along t...

Yes flashback Friday because we had company over last night and I totally forgot that it was Thursday and I didn't get my throwback post up here for you all to laugh at. I can't tell you the year this picture was taken, what I can tell is that it was the fall.  I know this because that is part of a deer Stephen is cutting up that Val is so proudly holding up. This photo makes remember my dad bringing home a deer after his long day out hunting and how I wanted to "help" him cut it up.  Don't ask me why because I don't really know and I am absolutely sure that I was next to no help at all.  But I remember I thought it was awesome.  So it warms my heart to see my girls spending this time with their own daddy.  They have been "helping" him for years now.  Well Val has anyway.  I only recall Britt really helping when it was the deer she shot, she would rather be playing or anything else besides cleaning a deer (as you can see her here with her sil...

According to my clock it is still Thursday but only for a few more minutes so I'll have to make this a quick post.   The photo is of my sweet niece Haleigh.  It was taken by one of the many guests at a baby shower being held in my honor in preparation for Miss Britt.  Those of you that know my family now realize it was nearly 14 years ago.  It isn't the best photo of Haleigh but back in the day not everyone you know was trying to be a professional photographer like it seems they (myself included) are these days. Anyway the photo.  I came across it the other night while looking at old photos with the girls.  Seeing that I don't own a scanner I used my phone to take a picture of a picture (I've done quite a lot of that lately)   I miss all the girls being this little more and more every day.  They are all growing up so fast it sometimes makes my head spin.  I mean really...her sisters (the babies in our family) are ...

Hand rolling I can not tell you how many times in my life my dear mom has tried to teach me how to make her homemade flour tortillas over the course of my life but for some reason unknown to me I can not get it.  I've tried and tried.  They always turn out bad.  It's so bad that I just gave up a few years ago and started calling mom every time I needed(trust me its a need not a want) her tortillas. I think its because she never measures anything just tosses it in a bowl and does what she was taught by her mom, who was taught by her mom and so on.  It is a little sad that I could never get it.  And I was saddened by the thought that after she is gone I wouldn't know how to do it & I wouldn't have anyone to call to make me some.  Heaven knows dad don't know how to make them, loves eating them but he does not cook them.  I know what your thinking "just go buy them at the store or find the recipe online"  You and I both know th...

It’s the new year!! I can’t lie and say I’m not glad. Because God knows I had done had enough of 2012. It was just a crazy year. I was on facebook yesterday and read a status update by my dear friend that got my brain to spinning. “…one little word. One word to live by this year…” One word to live 2013 by…oh the ideas I have. Almost couldn’t sleep last night because of all the words running in my head. Woke up this morning and it was just there. Simple   It means so little yet so much in one little word. I looked it up this morning to read what exactly Webster had to say about it. And well I was a bit surprised. There were 10 different meanings for it. There were a couple of meanings that sure hit home. Meanings that I do want to live my year by. #5--sheer, unmixed. Free of complications This is one I really want to work on. I am always thinking too much and worrying about the what if’s. I always seem to be mixed up about what truly matters in my ...