Bits of This and That - Hello Monday

 Good Morning Friends:

It's Monday morning and I'm linking up with Hello Monday.  We had a nice weekend and I'm going to share a little bit with you.

Holly & Sarah

Our oldest daughter came to town this week. She flew in on Monday and her friend picked her up at the airport and Kelli spent the first part of the week with her and her family.  On Thursday, we met them in Dayton at a Cracker Barrel and had brunch together and then Kelli came home with us for the rest of her trip.  I hate to say it, but I did not take one single picture of us and all the family we visited with.  But here's a picture she just shared with me from her trip to Italy.

We had so much fun and good talks and visits with family.  It was a wonderful weekend for sure.

Thursday afternoon after we got home, we just all sat and relaxed and enjoyed being together. Then Kelli and I left as we had tickets to go see "Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot" and she wanted to go to the Half Price Book Store first.  Half Price Book Stores were our favorite family place to go almost every Saturday for many years. Great memories going there.  Then we headed to the movie and checked in and then went next door to the Rusty Bucket for dinner as we still had an hour before the movie.  Food was good and so was the service.  The movie was very good and even opened some good chats afterwards about adoption.  I don't know if all of you know our girls were adopted.  They are half-sisters and came to live with us when they were 2 and 5. It was a year or so later that we actually were able to adopt them officially. Best choice hubby and I ever made!

On Friday, we spent the morning at home and Kelli and I actually got to do a week of our Bible Study in person.  Here's a picture Kelli took that I stole off FB.

That evening she went and visited with her grandma and then had supper with her aunt from her biological family.  I know she enjoyed the time with each of them. When she came home, the weather had cooled down quite a lot, so she did some work in the back yard that needed to be done.  After a bit, I went out to help her.  I think that now, I'll be able to get the rest of it finished.

On Saturday, we finished the last video of our Bible study and then got cleaned up and went downtown to visit some of the antique and specialty stores.  And then we found a new used bookstore, that I've never been in before.  It was such a cute place and we had a really good time.

This is the store cat. Very friendly.

Then that evening we went to my sister's and our brother and his family all came and we had so much fun together. So Kelli got to visit my whole side of the family at once.  It was definitely a great evening.  But again, no pictures.

We all went to church Sunday morning and it had been quite a few years since Kelli had been back to the church. It was fun for her to get to catch up with everyone there.  Their daddy was installed as the pastor of this church the same month the girls came to live with us...we also moved into our new house (which my dad built) that same month!  Needless to say, September, 1996 was a very wonderful and crazy month for all of us!  lol

After church, we went to Kelli's favorite pizza place (they don't have them in Florida) and got lunch with Tracy's family.  Again, it was a great time of catching up for Kelli.  It's been over 2 years since Kelli was in Ohio.  

After evening service, Kelli and I sat at the table and played a couple of games of Sequence.  Here's another picture from Kelli's FB.  She very graciously did not get much of me in the picture as I was already in my pj's and nobody wants to see that! lol

We all ended up going to bed a little early (at least for us) because we had to be up this morning at 5:30 to get her to the airport to go home.  She's in the air over Atlanta as I'm typing this.  It's been such a truly great time together!

Thanks for visiting!  

Cathy

Here's Sunday morning's sermon for anyone who has been listening to this Series on Psalms.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and to anyone who has or had a mother.  I hope you all have a wonderful day!

I love you and miss you mom!

In Memory of Mr. Griffith

I just heard that Andy Griffith passed away today and I just had to share my favorite scene from his old show. Mr. Griffith you will be greatly missed.

Walk Down Memory Lane

This is Kerri and Kelli in December of 1995. Kerri was about 18 months old and Kelli was 4 years old. You can't see the tree as it was on the other side of the room. But I think this was the day they helped us decorate the tree and Kelli put all the ornaments on about 2 or 3 branches. I let them stay that way the whole season! I'm so thankful for digital cameras because this is about the only photo I have of the both of them that time. Usually, I either cut a head off, or someone's eyes were closed or it was really blurry. But anyway, here's one to share.



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A Walk Down Memory Lane

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These are pictures of my youngest daughter and her grandparents from 2006. That year Kerri decided to have a picture taken with each set of grandparents and then she framed them and that's what she gave them for Christmas. I know the grandparents loved it and so do I. My girls are the luckiest girls in the whole world, because they have the best grandparents in the whole world and my husband and I get to call them mom and dad!

Above This is Kerri and Tracy's mom and dad

And below this is Kerri and my Mom and Dad

Walk Down Memory Lane

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Christmas 2005

Walk Down Memory Lane

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Kerri is on the left. This is her first band concert playing the flute in December 2005. She would've been 11 years old. She did so good, unfortunately after a year and a half, she decided not to play any more.

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This is my youngest from Halloween 2003. She is at a party the FOP had for their children.

Walk Down Memory Lane

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I didn't go too far back for my memory lane post today. I love my girls rockin' these 3-D glasses at Disney World last summer.

Memory Lane

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The girls and I modeling our new T-shirts to wear to Disney World in the summer of 2008. Can you tell from my blog that we just absolutely love Disney in this house? lol

Memory Lane

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This is another one of the photos in the old files at work. Obviously it was from my birthday, probably back in the mid to late 80's would be my guess. This was an old polaroid someone scanned. Look at that hair! And to think I did that on purpose. I paid for perms to make it do that. lol

Memory Lane

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This is us in May of 2004. We're visiting at my mom and dad's house. I can't even believe I'm showing this, but here it is.

Memory Lane

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My girls in EPCOT at Disney World in 2004.

Memory Lane

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Most of the pictures I've shown recently on Memory Lane have been when I was young or my parents were young. Most of those have been scanned by family and put on FB or I've scanned them in the past. My scanner isn't working right now but I wanted to show pictures of my girls when they were younger. I didn't have a digital camera back then, so I went to my scrapbook and decided to try to take a picture with my camera. While the picture isn't perfect I still wanted to share them. These are from Christmas 2000. Kelli would have been 9 and Kerri was 6. Aren't they adorable? Hey, I'm allowed to say that. Mom's are allowed to be prejudiced. lol

Memory Lane

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I love this picture. It was taken at my grandparents winter home in Florida. I don't actually remember this place. I remember the winter home they lived in when I was older. Anyway this was probably taken around 1960-61. That's my sister, Bev on the left and my brother Larry beside her. That's me in the front and I would have been about 3. That's my cousin, Mike next to me his brother, Jack peeking through the branches and their sister, Marlene.

Memory Lane

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This is my brother and sister when we lived on the farm. Actually I'm not sure if I was born or not when this was taken. I was only 3 when we moved from the farm. Anyway this picture would have been taken in the mid to late 50's.