Jamie at a Fire Scene

There was a house fire in East Pennsboro today. I am sick, so I was waaaayyyyy slow to head out to get some pics of Jamie there. By the time I got there, the smoke and fire was over and they were just starting to clean up. Here are a couple pics I got of Jamie:

Equine Day at Bonnybrook Riding Club

My mom is President of Bonnybrook Riding Club in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania. So my sisters and I took our kids to their first (annual?) Community Equine Day last Saturday. There were great demonstrations, classes, displays, pony rides and even the fire company set up a booth. Bradley took his good friend Michael along to enjoy the day. We made lunch on a camp fire and the kids enjoyed Smores after tramping through the woods looking for nature's treasures.

I had fun just taking pictures. Here are some of my favorites of family . . .

In Loving Memory . . . Pauline (Gates) Meyers

Today I attended a memorial/rememberance service for Pauline Meyers, my ex-husband's grandmother and my children's great-grandmother. She died a week ago today at the age of 94. Her grandson, Dan Musser, led the family service on the lawn of her home recognizing the incredible legacy she left.

As her children and grandchildren recollected favorite memories and lessons learned from his great woman, her great-grandchildren frollicked on the grounds as did her own so many years ago. Afterwards, together we all enjoyed a last meal together at Grandma Meyers house.

Here are some of the photos I took throughout the afternoon:

In my next life . . .

I say this often . . . what I mean is . . . I know I only have so much time in this life to play and learn and create just for the pleasure of it. There are just so many things I want to try and do and learn about, but realistically I don't have that much life left! No, I'm not dying . . . my mind's interest is just that vast!


In my next life, I would love to . . .

• open a small, lunch only restaurant


• learn to knit and actually make things


• create art seriously and have gallery showings


• write a book (ok, I have NOT totally ruled this out in this life yet)


• go to college again and this time major in art, literature, photography AND web design - yes, all separately and individually!


• develop a free battered women's bodyguard program


• raise seeing eye dogs


• own a goat farm and make cheese from their milk


• open an antique store


• be a motivational speaker or life coach


• create a magazine - oh yeah, there is a variety of topics to pick from!


• be a school art teacher


• design clothing - preferably for kids
• Make a film or documentary

Ok, there are way more, but that's enough for today.

If time, money and talent were no issue . . . what would you want to do?

L.

Wishing I had a daughter . . .

just so that I could buy her clothes from Matilda Jane Clothing . . .

They have a tshirt with this quote on the back:

Princesses
wear crowns to remind them
that they are beautiful
because some days
it is easy to forget.

I LOVE that!

L.

Pip and Sabrina

My best friend and her husband. I love this picture!! Most of the shots had her husband making goofy faces, but in this one he was listening to her . . . and it shows!

A Couple QUICK Layouts

Ugh, I'm tired. I'm still transitioning to the early wake-up that school requires. So far so good, nobody's overslept. Each night I want to go to bed earlier though!

Hence, less scrapbooking which I usually do late at night when the work is done. I'm getting back into the swing of work too, after essentially working part-time over the summer. I'm beginning to feel accomplished and thereby, more motivated. YEAH - I needed to feel motivated again!

Here are two quick pages I put together with recent pictures. I am tending to do less embellishing with the better pictures. I find the pictures are easily the focus of the page.

Beautiful Melissa . . .

Isn't there a song with that line in it? This is my niece Melissa. She owns a fantastic hair salon called NVS (envious). She does my hair! Anyway . . . she came over today so I could create some sales flyers for her. On one of them, I really wanted to include a picture of her so we ran out back quick and took a pic!

Isn't she GORGEOUS?!! I told her this pic reminds me of someone from the movies, but I'm not good with names. She said people tell her she looks like Kirsten Dunst a lot - what do you think?

Scrapbook, Photography and Art Books on eBay!

I'm cleaning off my shelves to house more photoshop and photography books, so I'm listing about a dozen on eBay tonight!

See them here at Aunt Lori's Vintage eBay Store!

L.

New Pics of Bradley

I do wish Jamie would pose for me more . . . my photo album is very unbalanced between the kids. Bradley is so cooperative, so I have lots of pics of him . . . Here's some more . . .