Happy Birthday!!

Today is my father and oldest sister's birthday.  I hope you both have a day filled with

joy, happiness, and love!

  Happy, happy birthday and I love you both dearly!!

Happy Valentine's Day....early!

To my sweet family, I love you to the moon and back!
I Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day
filled with love, hugs, and kisses!

I Corinthians 13
Valentine's Day is a day of love,
For showing that we care,
And if we read the Bible,
God describes love there: If we speak like celestial angels
From heaven up above,
All our words mean nothing
If we don’t have Christian love. Love is patient, love is kind;
It doesn’t brag or boast;
Love conquers pride and envy;
It is never self-engrossed. Love is not rude or angry;
Forgiveness counters wrong;
Love stays away from evil;
It sings a truthful song. Love is full of trust and hope;
It always perseveres;
Love never fails; It’s faithful;
To the Bible it adheres. And if you give this kind of love
To your special Valentine,
You’ll be loving right in harmony
With God’s own sweet design. By Joanna Fuchs

Valentine Quotes

Image from BH &G

For Valentine's Day:

Found these quotes and wanted to share them, as they would be great in
love notes to your spouses, children, significant others....

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Chinese Proverb

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day. ~Thomas Hood

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb

True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown

Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light. ~Grey Livingston

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb

Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor

Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key. ~Frederick Saunders

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Humorous Quotes:
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. ~Pearl Bailey

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine. ~Ogden Nash

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

Bloggy Award and Ava's Room

My friend Marla at Legos and Tutus gave me this kind award. Marla is a sweet, sincere, and down-to-earth person. She adores her children and hosts great events. Thanks so for the award and your thoughtful words.

Now here are the directions:"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find friends and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships will be propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly - written text into the body of their award."

Earlier, I had chosen eight people, but the more I thought about it, it's too difficult to choose just eight people...so I choose everyone to win.  I love all the blogs I follow and everyone is deserving.

Ava's Room:  From an earlier post, I had someone ask me if I would post pics of Ava's room.  You can click here and scroll down to the bottom, to see it.

Winter Ice Storm

Sorry I haven't been out to visit...we had an ice storm come through town and we were without power for 8 days. With temperatures at 11 degrees (and a windchill factor of 2 below) I will never take utilities for granted again. I am so thankful and grateful for:

• Roger and Sheila (my sister-in-law and brother-in-law). We stayed at their house for a few days.
• Patty and Brad: sweet friends we borrowed a generator from.
  

Our yard:

Roger and Sheila's beautiful backyard:

Thank you again to our family and friends. Even though it was a beautiful winter wonderland, I have to honestly say I'm ready for Spring :)