My sweet Valentines

I hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day. I thought I would share a few pictures of me and my valentines. My children. I love them so much. I had to work the whole week-end and I didn't get to see Christy or Cole. I will be mailing Cole's valentine box today. ( I know, it's late...that's normal for me.) Hopefully I will be seeing Christy tomorrow and be able to give her valentine goodies to her. I was able to spend a little time with Garrett before going in to work. Valentine's Day is a busy day for us at work. This is me and Garrett. An old picture...from Christmas. Isn't he precious?

Me and Christy at her birthday party in January. She has grown up to be such a beautiful girl and such a sweet mommy.

Christy and Garrett...I love this one!

You can see the LOVE between them here.

Me and Christina during the Christmas holidays.

Me and Cole the day after Gabriel was born.

He was so tired and so excited about his new baby boy.

My sweet little Garrett after I gave him his Valentine candy. (Chocolate Monoply) He was so happy. He didn't think he was gonna get anything. Look at that smile!

Looking at this picture reminds me that I never did a post about my china cabinet being finished. I just have to scrape the paint off the glass where I was a little sloppy. If you click on the picture to enlarge it, you will see that! I need to fix that! Maybe tonight. I'm so glad that I have my computer back! Gotta go to work now.

Love y'all,

Having fun in the snow in Mississippi

Well...I've seen so many blogs today with 'snow' pictures that I thought I'd better put a few on mine. It started snowing last night and its still coming down. I took Rosie outside to see it and to play. She had never seen snow before and at first she was a little bit afraid of it. She didn't stay that way for long! She ran all over the yard! She looked like a little 'Tasmanian devil' running in the snow. I think that we had about 4 or 5 inches at the time of this post. That is rare in our part of the woods in Summit, Mississippi. Garrett grabbed her because she was getting too close to the road. She didn't like that at all. She wanted to play some more.

This picture was taken after she was put on the porch for getting too close to the road so many times. She was begging 'Bear' to help her get off the porch. I love this picture. The size difference between them is HUGE!

Okay...just a little more fun. 'Bear' is helping to watch over her. This is the front of my cottage. It still needs so much work done on it. However it does look pretty in the snow. Snow makes everything prettier!

Bear...are you trying to knock over the kids' snowman or are you doing something else?!

Hailey and Garrett and their masterpiece. Mr. Frosty.

Rosey all changed and warm in mama's bed. She's my little sweetheart. She looks so pretty in her pink polka dot shirt. She won't keep her bow in her hair...she shakes it out every time I fix it.

Maybe we can play in the snow again tomorrow. Everyone stay warm and safe!

My little blessings

I just wanted to share some new pictures with you of my little blessings...Jason and Gabriel...my two grandsons. This is me and my daughter and Jason at her birthday party last month. I forgot to put this on my last post. He was raring to go! He didn't want to sit there to get his picture taken...again!

My little man, Jason. He is 20 months old now. Almost 2 years old! Where has the time gone? Here is Jason pointing out the angel's belly button. LOL

He had just gotten up from a long night!

These are pictures of Shanna and Gabriel. We went to visit them this past week end. He was all dressed up for church. He looks like a little man. He is 2 1/2 months old.

Isn't he cute?





He really wanted to come back home with me but he doesn't know how to tell his mommy and daddy that yet. He will learn...I will teach him.

My son Cole and his baby son. I love this picture.

Shanna and Gabriel. All bundled up because they had snow!








Jason looking so cute! I love that smile!

Jason with his buddies.

My little boy Garrett holding his nephew Jason. All ready for church. I love all of my boys.

Garrett holding his little nephew Gabriel. They had just gotten up. Our visit was very short...too short. We went on Saturday morning and came back the next day and made it home in time to watch the Super Bowl. Go Saints! Garrett was afraid that we wouldn't make it in time. He loves football. I hope you enjoyed my pictures of my little blessings.

Hugs,

My little girl

I got my computer back today. I am so glad. I wanted to show some pictures from my daughter's birthday party on January 12th. I can't believe sometimes that she is all grown up. She turned 27 this year. I am so proud of her. Here she is reading the card that I bought for her. It takes me forever to find the perfect card for my loved ones. I have to read so many before I find the perfect one.

Here she is with her gift from me. She was so excited. I had bought the same thing for my sister for Christmas and when Christy saw her open it, she looked at me and said "Where's mine, Mama"? I told her that I wasn't sure that she would want one so I got her something else. I had already decided to get her one for her birthday. LOL

I got her an Estee Lauder make-up collection. She loves it! She was so happy! Can't you tell by the picture?

This is a picture of her and my daddy. She was his very first grand child. I did that to him.

Me and Christy. My only little girl. Always my little girl.

Missing my computer...

Just wanted to do a post to let everyone know that I'm still here! My computer was finally put in the shop a few days ago. I can't wait to get it back. I haven't been able to post in so long. I'm using my little boy's laptop right now. He wasn't too crazy about that either. I guess he thinks I'm gonna mess his up like mine! He is only 8 years old and he knows more about computers than I do. Mine completely froze up last week. It had been acting up for a while and then it just froze! I will say that I have been able to get a lot more done around the cottage since it's been broken. I finished painting my china cabinet and started working an a few other projects too. As soon as I get my computer back, I will post pictures. It looks so much better. I'm enjoying reading everyone's blogs...I've missed that too.

Have a great day!

Unfinished projects

Remember this old hutch that I bought last year and had great plans for? Well...today is my day off and I started looking around the cottage at the 'MANY ' unfinished projects that I have started and decided that today would be the perfect day to get a couple f them finished! YAY!
I have been using her already to hold my sweet shabby rose dishes. She has a coat of primer on her and a partial coat of pretty 'cottagy' white paint. I just need to finish touching her up and rearranging my dishes inside and she will be ready for her debut.

My plan is to finish a project every time that I have a day off. I want to finish the things that I have started already before starting new ones. That has always been a "thing" with me. Too many irons in the fire and not getting them all done. Well...no more. That was one of my New Year's Resolutions and I'm stickin' to it.

Grand Baby Love

I'm back! I haven't posted since sometime in December. I've just been so busy with...life. You know how it goes. Everything happens at once! It has been so cold here in Mississippi. So not normal for us. I'm usually so hot natured. I won't even wear a coat to work. Don't want to have to keep up with it. However this has been a totally different week for us down here in the South! I've been wearing my big coat and gloves and even a scarf! It has been freezing! Speaking of which, my water pipes froze last night and I don't have any hot water. I've been boiling it on the stove to fill the bathtub for me to bathe and the sink to wash dishes. I even left the water running a little bit and it still froze and the pipes busted. I haven't even let it stress me out. At least I have cold water and lights and a warm house. My computer is still messed up but I finally figured out a way to put some new pictures on my blog. I called my sister in Louisiana and ask her to email some pictures to me off of her iPhone and then I saved them to my favorites and then I got them from there. Yeah! I know that some of y'all are probably thinking 'duh, why did it take her so long to figure that out'? Oh well...I'm not too good with all of this hi-tech computer stuff but I'm learning! This is me and my new grand baby, Gabriel. Isn't he a doll? Cole and his family came down last week for a few days. I had to work the whole time that they were down so they stayed at my daughter's house. After work I would head straight out there to spend time with them. I held Gabriel the whole time that I was there. I'm telling you, it was heaven! I would have him in my arms and every few minutes my other little grandson, Jason would come over and give me a hug and I would be hugging them both at the same time! Wonderful feeling! Nothing like it!

Look at this precious one looking up at me! I just wanted to keep him forever!

He looks like a baby doll. He is 6 weeks old in these pictures.

He looks just like his daddy! Look at his big eyes! My grandma did it again! She passed down her big ole eyes to another generation!

Holding Gabriel brings back so many memories of me holding Cole when he was a baby. I cried the first time I held him. I will be making a trip to Memphis soon!

Please excuse the way that I looked in these pictures. I was exhausted from work. They really put me through the ringer this year! It was tough and we worked some really long hours!

I would've stayed up all night long if I could have and played with my grand babies and still went to work but I knew better. I'm not as young as I use to be and I have to get my sleep. I'm a 'Nana' now! I'm lovin' every minute of it!

Thank You so much Melinda for sending these pictures to me so that I could use them on my blog. That was so sweet of you to pull into the gas station to email them to me! How many other sisters would do that?

She was on her way home from Hammond, La. and pulled over to email me these. She had just taken her kids to the movies. Wasn't that sweet?

Well...I guess I've done enough bragging for one night. I have this huge smile on my face right now because I have a warm feeling inside after sharing my precious grandsons with you.

Hugs,

Lee Laurie