the show is over! whew.

thank you to everyone who stopped in at our Christmas Lovelies Show!



we had a wonderful time visiting with friends and making new ones, too!



now we're off to...



stop back next week for the full report!
happy day!!
miss lynn

happy day to my lover!

twelve years ago today, i wept (with joy) my way through our wedding...i love you, grant, and i praise God for His goodness and faithfulness.

happy day!

happy!

we've been working like mad to get our Christmas lovelies ready for the show...i realize today IS halloween, but i am listening to Christmas tunes and looking through boxes of nativities, even as i type this.

now, just to prove that i didn't skip halloween altogether, here are our trick-er-treaters....



we visited my grandparents at their assisted living home yesterday...our kids..
elliott and beatrice, darth vader and the lovely bride...and karla's kids - my nephew bennett, yoda, and the queen diva herself, miss kitt mixing things up as the cutest penguin i've ever seen.

happy!

those cutie patootie baby booties!

another advent pretty...

happy day!

four weeks from tonite...

i will begin my first adventure at


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thursday nite includes a meal with all the girls attending, an all together class art activity, and then, i am told, we will have the swap-a-rama exchange!

this is a major event in my little life. never. ever. EVER. could i have imagined attending art classes for 3 whole days - taught by women that i read about in publications i adore! i am seriously beside myself, totally giddy, as the big glittery event approaches.

big smile.
happy day!

precious...with a capital P.

at church this morning, beatrice and grandma suzie sang a darling little duet to celebrate bea's Christian birthday.



"i am a promise, i am a possiblity, i am a promise, with a capital p, i am a great big bundle of PO-TEN-TI-AL-I-Teee!"



it was absolutely so sweet and happy, my face hurt from smiling so big. fortunately we were sitting in the very front row so no one could see my pride.

i love seeing my children so crazy about my parents. (and vice versa.)
happy day.