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Blogiversary Giveaway!

Woohoo, it is my Blogiversary!  Actually it is belated, it was last Friday.  But, I have been very busy.  Here are a few photos from the last week or so!

 

 

 

 

 

Baking apple pies!

 

 

Making a hundred pumpkins for the treat or treaters!

 

 

Voting!

 

 

 

 

Hank Williams Jr was the guest singer!

 

 

 

Going to the very cold Monday Night Football game!  If you watched it, did you see me?  I was the one in blue, teehee!

 

 

 

We WON!

 

 

Catching the B man looking at some girlies! He will be unveiling his own very lovely primate very soon!  He is still deciding upon a special name for her! (Sorry, Charlotte, he peeked at your giftie!) 

 

 

 

Finding out oldest boy would be flying with CAP, and actually flew the plane for a little bit!  Can you say, give a mama a hive!  Here is his first achievement award.

 

 

A day trip with the youngest boy, hubby and Bentley!

 

Okay, now to the part you really (I sincerely hope) are interested in!  This has been ONE whole year of making new friends, finding out I am not alone, there are others like me!  Not to mention learning!  And I have learned oh so much from each of you!   To celebrate, I am having a giveaway!  One of the coolest crafty books! 

 

 

A copy of Alabama Stitch Book!  If you want a chance at it, just comment on this post between now and Thursday, November 6!  I will probably throw in a few extras, because I adore you all!

 

XOXO

Just so I would get over the "Bear" I told you so's!

Hubby took me to my happy place!

 

Yep, that is the quickest way for him to have peace.  My man is no dummy!

While I am still on the mountain trip, (and could be for awhile, my apologies!) I have to brag on my putt-putt skills! 

 

 

Oh yes, I got not one but two hole in ones! 

 

 

Did you hear that Tiger is afraid?  Very afraid!

Now for some random pretties!

 

 

 

(Kai, this is the back of YaYa's head, she is deer looking!)

 

 

 

 

 

Benji made one of the best finds ever!

 

A heart!

Sorry about some of the "not so good" photos, new camera ya know!

Till next time, love ya!

Not For the Poo Squeamish!

If you are of the queasy sort, please wait and come back for my next post.  But, this story cannot be told without a photo!

Picture this, we are at our lovely chalet in the mountains, our first night there.  I am on the porch listening to the quiet and looking at the stars that can only be seen in total darkness.....ah such peace. 

   

You can hardly see the moon, but it was gorgeous!  I figured out, it is hard to share the night sky!

Then out of the blue I heard the loudest crashing noise coming down the side of the mountain.  Ugh, Run Leigh Run!  I made it from the porch to the back side of the chalet in a flat one second, hunkered down and screaming..SQUIRRELRABBITOPUSSUMSKUNK ... BEAR ... DRUNK HUMAN???  Much to my humans delight!  Oh, they went and looked (to protect me, you know) only to come in laughing harder.  Of course there was nothing there then.  What a good laugh everyone had at the squealing mama!  Except The B Man who had my back, even if he was buried under a blanket, hidden with fear.

Until the next day when we discovered official, yep confirmed, bear dodo!  Right beside our porch!

 

Scared "the do" right out of Bentley, it did!  Then the humans weren't laughing quite so loud!

Then they had a bear sighting of their own.  Three cubs together, and you know mama wasn't too far away!  Hubby took pics with his less than stellar camera and I can't get them to show up (they are so dark), even using photoshop.  Any advice?  I can see eyes in one of the pics, maybe I should just post it like that?

If you are still here and not interested in poo, come back next time.  I will attempt to "not" mention the word or show pics!  XOXO

Ahhhh....Sweet 40!

I mentioned that I had one of the prettiest cakes ever for my big 40!  Well, here it is....

 

If you can believe it, it tasted better than it looked!  I loaded up on some goodies too!

 

Okay, I am probably the only person that I know that does not mind aging, in exchange for gifts!  I am also partial to the date, September 16th, I think that it sounds beautiful!

We had a great time in the mountains, with the exception of a bear scare, I will elaborate on soon!  I am off to blog roam now, and bake.  It is amazing how happy a new pan can make me!