A Thorn Among Roses

someone needs to send an alert to the weather dude that it's MAY!!! we have been freezing our booty's off here in good old indiana...it's so bad that sofia walked up to the cadillac today and said, "momma, get in cad-oh-wak and go to floor-ee-duh now, please."  it's that bad...we need some sunshine bc we are starting to lose it here. my gift to you today is some florida sun...via our vacation last month. if i close my eyes, i can still hear the waves...if i could just jump in the cadillac and drive there now.  hmmmm....maybe?

tried doing some fam shots yesterday, but the wind didn't cooperate.  paige and i had hair going everywhere...it was not pretty.  oh my...another try later today! and with no photoshop i can't even make us look better.  sad.  very sad. {and hello wind on the shirt making my belly look worse!  not funny at all} in spite of all that , there are a few shots i grabbed that i liked tho...what do you think? love love love this one...my girlies!!! almost... and most of them... and sof quickly got too tired, after like 4 minutes of shots.  she's still cute even when she's tired. it's our last full day at the beach...we've been taking advantage so far.  but now, it's nappy time.  praying for decent fam shots tonight...we'll see! have a good weekend!  what are you up to?  we're up to driving back home to indiana...where it's 36 degrees today!  i know! shut up!

just a few of the things i'm uber thankful for... obviously, us! all of us...we are best when we are together! seeing the sunrise every single day...maybe not at the ocean or the beach, but having the ability to see it. it makes me think that each new day is a great opportunity to do something good today...to love the kiddos and hubs...to glorify and praise god...to learn so mething new and to maybe pass along a little too. i mean, look at the guy....need i say more? birthmoms...they rock my stinking face off. friends...man, do they make the world a better place or what? enough said... and how about all those toes in this house...if could correctly, we have 60 toes! i love every single one of them...big and small, light and dark...and mostly female...i love them all. what are you most thankful for today??

hard to believe that brooke was ever this small... and so still! {kids entry} b is 2 weeks old in this pic i took in the side yard in ryan's hands...you can see his thumb on the right side. this is the actual shot, no cropping, but sepia toned, which i love! {it's the opening photo in her baby scrapbook} and my adult entry.. one of the girlies i mentored while she was in hs...and i totally still talk with her an dlove her even more today. and she's more than beautiful. there are lots of fun faces to see, so head on over to iheartfaces ...

so many of you all liked the rockstar ditty, let's give a pics of me via flickr a try. here's how it works.... a. type your answer to each of the questions below into flickr search . {flickr is like photobucket...but you can search other people's images too...} b. using only the first page on your flickr search, pick an image. c. select the size of boxes as 3 by 4. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd ’s mosaic maker . Use these questions in each URL box!!! 1. What is your first name? d 2. What is your favorite food? chocolate java lava cup 3. What high school did you go to? M 4. What is your favorite color? red 5. Who is your celebrity crush? brad pitt 6. Favorite drink? margarita 7. Dream vacation? greek isles. 8. Favorite dessert? chocolate 9. What you want to be when you grow up? old 10. What do you love most in life? my lord 11. One Word to describe you. silly 12. Where do you live? don't you wish you knew...but i did put my hometown here. {top le...