Family
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A Couple of Munchkins
My niece and nephew came down to visit with my mom and sister in law a couple of weekends ago. I love being around my family and it is always fun to have them come visit. I can’t wait to get a couple sets of chairs to put outside so we can spend more time enjoying the yard and watching the deer. This time around my sister in law, Stephanie, opened the front door and found herself practically face-to-face with a deer in our side yard. Deer even enticed her to get out of bed shortly after she’d told the kids to let her lay in bed longer. See, deer…
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Pumpkins with the Whitlocks
+WILLLLSOOOONNNN! +Painting pumpkins with my family last weekend. Zoe is in pre-school now and is smart, smart, smart! Grayson is growing fast and is an adorable troublemaker. The kid does.not.stop. Go! Go! Go! is hit motto. I keep wanting to cuddle with him like I did with Zoe when she was his age but he doesn’t want any of that. He has legs and wants to use them. The cat is Kylie, aka: Colley….Zoe’s original name for her. Zoe loves her some Kylie and Kylie is kind of like Grayson and does not like to be cuddled! Never a dull moment when children are involved!
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My Favorite Cute Kids
Back in July my mom, brother, sister in law, niece and nephew came down for the weekend to help us unpack. I went almost the whole weekend without taking my camera out but I managed to pull it out when the kids were playing upstairs in our the large room we’re going to call the entertainment room. Right now it is lined with boxes of items to sort through for Goodwill. Turns out the boxes are just as entertaining as any toy from the toy store! My brother’s mini-me. Annnnnd we’re falling over…. Running circles is also very entertaining to four year olds….and wears the 32 year old out just…
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Little Lovelies
It’s been awhile since the boys have shown up on the blog. July and early August was hectic with both of them as they battled some kind of intestinal infection for several weeks. Samson, who at his chunkiest was 14-15lbs got down to 7lbs and I could feel the bones in his tail. It was not good.. Needless to say I fed him whatever he wanted to eat and now he’s in love with as much tuna as I can give him. And would you believe he’s picky about what kind of tuna it is, too? Cats! (FYI if you are going to give tuna to cats look to give…
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Miami-Dade County Residents | Vote YES!
Baloo says to please vote YES on #500 today to repeal the breed specific legislation that prohibits pitbulls within Miami-Dade county in Florida. Miami Herald article My friend Marc’s letter to the Herald regarding the repeal of this ban. Blame the deed, not the breed.
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Grandad
This is the last photo I took of my grandfather, William Ralph Whitlock, on June 9, 2012. I didn’t know it then. I’d come up to Fort Worth with the main reason to see my grandparents (my mom’s mom and my dad’s dad) and of course to see the rest of the family too. I hadn’t seen been up there since the first of April and knew it was time for a visit. I only wish I’d made more time that weekend, spent more time sitting with Grandad. Instead I made it a rushed visit, squeezing in after getting a pedicure with my mom, sister in law and niece. Zoe…
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Happy Birthday Bro
Happy Birthday Bro. 29 isn’t so bad…Enjoy it! Curtis posted this on Facebook a few weeks ago and I got a good laugh out of it. Gauging by the time on the clock, I’m thinking this was a first day of a school photo, maybe 7th of 8th grade for me and 4th of 5th grade for him. We were stylin’!
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Red
I thought of you off and on all day today, wondering if you knew that today you were finally going somewhere where your body would get the nourishment from the food you ate. A week ago last Thursday, when the phone rang, I thought mom was going to tell me about you, not about Grandad. When I left the weekend before I thought I wouldn’t see you again and instead I was given another chance to say goodbye and it was Grandad I wouldn’t see again. Little kitty, one of two kittens that mom and dad found in the old garage of Granny and Jack’s house, the year both of…
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10 Years
I’ll share a Mountain House with you on a ridge in Pennsylvania any day. 🙂 Happy 10 year anniversary hubster!
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Easter Part II
So, as Easter was now a month ago I figured it was finally time to finish up posting the rest of the Easter photos. That morning I had gone to Home Depot and Walmart to look for already started eggplants because the some of the ones we’d started from seed had not survived. While there I noticed the clouds darken and it appeared it would rain. Rain it did. So, we had Easter egg hunting inside! The cake my sister in law made…it was yummy! Grayson (