i know... etsy strikes again...

yes, i was browsing through blogland/etsy and stumbled upon these lovelies... love them! Her etsy shop, Volume 25, is curretnly having a sale on these fabulous prints too!

Sick Pumpkin

So I've felt like one sick pumpkin the last 2 days...

Hope you & your pumpkin are feeling better...

90 years of stories...

Today my grandmother turns 90 years old... 90 years old! Yep, she was born in 1920 out in the wide open spaces of Montana and after 90 years of living... what stories she has to tell. From growing up on a large ranch, going to college, getting her pilots license, living in Hollywood, Boston, spending a year long honeymoon in Hawaii to finally settling down on a small dairy farm in SC... this pioneer woman has really lived.

What really amazes me is the wonderful legacy she has started... and is leaving behind. After her fiance was killed by a sniper in WW11, she had decided she was never going to marry. But after moving to Boston and working in the Parker House (now called the Omni Parker House), she met one of the owners (14 years older that her 28 years), married... 6 kids, 22 grands, many great grands, she's still telling her stories. Makes me wonder what stories I will have to tell after 90 years...

A Blessed Life

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25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

Matthew 6:25-34

We live a Blessed Life

just call me Jennifer Hudson!

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Just call me Jennifer Hudson, ya'll! I recently saw her on a weight watchers video and she really looks awesome! I heard she started at a size 14 and is down to a size 6! Crazy! Although I've always thought she looked wonderful! (We're kinda built the same way!) So.... I've joined weight watchers online and today is day 2! Its official now that I've blogged about it so I HAVE to keep it up! I want to see how much weight I can loose till Christmas! I'm excited! My sisters are doing it too so wish us luck!! I'll catch u up on my progress as I go!

the welcoming of fall...

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've blogged before that with the welcoming of fall comes the celebration of my big sis's birthday. And this year was a big one, saying goodbye to her 20s and welcoming in her 30s. Yep, she turned 30! And she couldn't be more fabulous! Had a wonderful weekend celebrating!

loverly...

I was just browsing Under the Sycamore's precious blog (where lately she is my only inspiration for having kids one day) where she introduced me to this fabulous Etsy Shop where I just made a couple purchases for a good cause! I couldn't help it, they're so great and I'm a sucker for a good cause! Look below at Ashley Ann of Uner the Sycamore and her precious daughter sporting a couple of the wonderful head gear this shop makes.

And i got this...

and this! i'm so excited about the clutch. Ya'll check out her shop, she has lots more cute things!