I'm Cheating...

Now I'm on Facebook, - thanks Becky for setting me up :) - I've been too busy 'adding friends'! It's a great way to catch-up with your High School friends!!
Check it out...and 'friend me'!!

We're ready for ....

some fun this weekend!! Hope everyone has a safe weekend!! :)

Thanks Pookie!

Growing up in Alabama, my family always had a summer garden in our backyard. How great to pick a tomato and have a sandwich! So, when I saw on a friends blog that she was wanting a garden - thanks Heidi Stephens! - I knew this was the year!! And so my sweet hubby got to work!! He built the cutest box and got some good dirt - I live in Florida, we have sand people! - and took the kids to pick out the veges. Now, I did help dig up the holes and install the plants, and so I can be proud when the fruit/veges of our labor grows!! Thanks to my Pookie - yes, he will probably not appreciate me writing my nickname for him - for the garden!!

My Sweet Niece Graduates...

My niece graduated from college last week with a BA in Education. Courtney is smart and caring and will be the best elementary teacher (and she needs a job:)!!! We are so proud of you Court!! We love you!

Happy Mother's Day!

How thankful I am to be a mother...






And I had a wonderful example..thanks mom, I love you!!

Pentagon (con'ted)

I forgot to write about the outside memorial in the last post....
So as you can see in the above picture, there are metal benches facing in 2 different directions. One direction represents those who died in the Pentagon and the other are those who died in the plane. Engraved on these benches are the names of the perished. Under each bench is a reflecting pool (water), which you see in the above picture Robert explaining to Marshall not to throw anything into :}! You can also see in the pictures from the last post, the section of the building that was rebuilt in record timing - can't remember exactly how quickly, but it was impressive!
And finally, the picture below shows the Pentagon from the Old Post Office Tower - you can also see the Cherry Blossoms ~ WOW!!

The Pentagon

So, one of the coolest parts of our spring break vacation was a tour inside our Nation's Department of Defense building, aka the Pentagon! We had to have clearance before we made our trip..back-ground checks, hair samples, teeth impressions...o.k. not the last two! Only approx. 100,000 citizens get the tour each year...we were stoked!!

No picture taking was allowed in the building, and we were strongly advised to keep our children in line...YIKES! But they did great and were in awe! The hallways...I hope this isn't CLASSIFIED.....:} are decorated with themes, i.e. the different branches of the military and how they've evolved. And of course the coolest/tear-jerking hallway was memorializing September 11, 2001. WOW!! There were letters from elementary schools, patchwork quilts from schools, photos/paintings and.... the framed American Flag that was flying over the Pentagon that day. WOW!

There is also a Chapel inside the building with a window facing the sky-line where the plane entered the building, and now the ground where the memorial is outside. Inside the chapel, there are 2 HUGE 3-ring binders. One holds letters from the families that died inside the Pentagon...including a picture. The other holds letters from the families of those that perished from the plane...including a picture. I was able to read 1 letter... a child writes to her mom about how much she misses her...

So here's some pics we got on the outside of the building..












GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!