Random pics from the past :)

year 1995- Quantico Va. FBI National Academy...Lovee graduates!!! Me. Lovee, SIL( and FBI Agent!! )year 2003- Renewing our vows in Vegas!!! He asked again and I said yes...again!!

year 1973- The Christmas he surprised me!!!( I never have liked to have my picture taken) Don't cha love the trash can??!!

year 1995- Our last Marine Corps Birthday Ball.......Cherry Point, NC

year 1992- marine Corps Ball San Antonio,Tx

year 1977- Babyboy's first Christmas...and I was preggers with Sunshine girl :)

year 1979-Camp Pendleton Ca-2 kids down and ready to join Lovee in Okinawa....Yay!!!!!!!!!!! I sent him this picture to tantalize him...lol

year 1973- Lovee and me...Honeymoon is over and he's leaving :(

year 1973- We're engaged.....Tulsa, Ok

Tile pics....

I'm not sure if I've shown these before....but I thought I'd give ya'll a wee sample of our tile handywork.. :) this top pic shows the mosaic I did going from the laundry room into the hall way. We wanted to change the pattern and needed something to let the space do that. It's groovey!!!!!!!!This one is the laundry room..That was our starting point and first attempt. I think we kicked ass!!!!!! Of course the entire project is done now...but I haven't taken those pictures yet.
Am I lazy or what??? (don't answer that!)

Maybe after I get back from Chicago I can put up the finished product. I've gotta show the baseboards that Lovee's put in....he worked like a dog to get this all done. Oh sure, I helped...I mean I DID have knee pads and all............ Monica's not the only one who knows how to use those don't cha know..hahahahahah But Lovee, cuz he's all buff and strong like an ox and still wears a Speedo when he swims!!! yea baby!! and multi-talented.....did most of the work. He's awsome. :)

The Cluster Fuck From Hell

Sunshine girl here... fixin this for Mom :) Here is the picture of Dad paint and spackling the laundry room floor.

The carpet has been torn up in the hallway going to the living room and going to the master suite. Who's that on the far left wall? Hum.....?
The hallway going to the master suite (to the left)

Carpet torn up by the back door outside of the kitchen. What a fucking mess underneath that carpet!!!! Ugh!

What a wonderful job Ma and Dad did on the tile in the laundry room!! That picture is to come. HUGE job this is.... holy geeze! K... all for now. Ciao peeps! :)

furkids..wolf cubs..sisterlittle and me

Talk to the butt! I can never get a good pic of these two. It's always about the butt. Geesh!
Pebbles is on the left....she was no bigger than a pebble when we got her. Panda is on the right. Looks are deceiving with these two...both are Chihuahua's and I swear they eat the same food...but Panda, affectionately called 'Love dog" coz she literally loves everyone, is twice the size as Pebbles. Pebbles is about 6 lbs. and Panda is about 15 lbs! Panda does eat more ...um...outside stuff...bugs...'candy' left by the cat...Ewwwwwwww-gross....whatever isn't nailed down. I think Panda ( you can probably guess why she's called that :)) is a Downs Syndrome dog. She's built just like them, ears are lower, her teeth are different, smart but not, loves everyone...she's just special.

These are the wolf cubs....they're almost as big as their Mom and Dad. Babyboy and his gf kept 7 of the 8 that were born! That's 9 wolves to feed!!! Holy cow...literally!!

Sisterlittle and me. Can you tell what my favorite shirt is? She's the beauty in the family. Beauty and brains! What a combo! I miss her already. We didn't get to spend much time together.

Maybe next year...

We'll see.

Last leg of the trip..Indiana

This was the main attraction for us in Lafayette, Indiana. This beautiful gal on the left is Ms. K. I swear....she hasn't changed in 20 years!!!!! ( how'd she do that anyway??)We first met her when she was 18 or 19 and Lovee had recruited her then boyfriend into the Marines. When we left lafayette and moved to Paris Island, SC, she followed. She lived with us for about a year...waiting for her boyfriend ( not pictured) to finish bootcamp and his formal school so they could get married. We love her too....as one of our own. Shamelessly, it's been 10 years since we've seen her. The last time we saw her, her daughter..the little mini-me standing next to her was only 6! She's a gorgeous 16 now. Her hubby and little guy who, ironically is 6 now, are big loves! I have no words to express how good it was to see her again. We got to visit for a few hours then they were off to see fireworks and we had to get some sleep. I couldn't see them off though, when they left our hotel room.....too many tears. :( I miss her awful!
This is the park that was just across from the house we rented. # 3 son would take his little fishing pole down there and catch 'fish'....they were throw-backs...but he was so proud. Sunshine girl would feed the ducks.

This was our house. I loved this place. The basement was scarey for me as I'd never even seen one...but since the laundry had to get done I got used to it. It wasn't airconditioned back then but I noticed it is now. That's a plus! We lived on the left side. I loved the big porch. People would drive by and wave....we didn't know them...just friendly folk there.

The rest.........Back to Oklahoma. No pics for that. It seemed like an eternity passed before we got back.

So, vacation was a complete success and we got rested up and recharged.

All is good.

Next year......not sure....I'll keep you posted.

On to West Virginia....

Lovee and I continued our vacation in Berkley Springs, WV. One of his 3 sisters lives there and we love it in the mountians! His sister graciously rented this cabin for us from Berkley Springs Cabin Rentals. It was perfect. It's called the Birds Nest, which is obviously perfect for me. :) It had been completely remodeled and had everything you could want. Perfect for kicking back and relaxing. Just what we needed before we headed back to reality.



Fipps practically jumped out of the car and into this tree. Can't blame him actually. he found several more places to perch but I'll spare you the pics. ;)

Lovee emptied the car while I looked around. You can tell by the smile on his face he was a very happy camper. Silly me, I actually got choked up while his sister was showing us everything. Not sure why that happened,,,tired from the trip.....overwhelmed by the cabin and the serenity of the whole place.....her generosity.....I'm not sure. I do know I whispered over and over to myself that I wished we never had to leave. So peaceful.

Loee had this grin on his face the whole time. Gosh...he's just the best guy ever. Looking at this picture makes my heart sing. I Love that man!!!
This is what we woke up to each morning! Yea....it was really hard to look at. NOT!! I have a thing about rocks too. Just call me Lucy. ( Lucy and Desi did a movie where she collected rocks from each place they went...**gigglesnort** I do that too! ) Lovee found me 2 fabulous rocks that were perfect. Is he special or what!

We went in the town of Berkley Springs to the local Mineral Springs bath house. We had our own private 30 minute 'bath' which was so fun. I'll spare ya'll the details. (tee-hee)

Afterwards, Fipps was thirsty, so he got a drink from the spring. Excellent water for sure.

A wee bit of info about it. It's a must visit place in my book.

We spent our last night at the cabin with Lovee's sister and her friend. Cooked steaks on the barbie...had some wine....conversation...

Perfect day!

We left on the 4th to make our way to Lafayette, In. We were stationed there in the 80's while Lovee was on recruiting duty with the USMC.

Those pics are next.

more Pics... :)

Fipps finally gets to meet his twin. It was a fairly emotional meeting for sure. Both boys were more comfortable staying in their respective nests.And........here's the imfamous ETK with me. Good grief!! Fipps is such a camera hog lately. I think he was looking at his likeness on my tank top. Am I silly or what??!! ( and where did that extra chin come from)

Fipps was checking out the breakfast that ETK's 'baby' made for us. Breakfast burittos!! yummy!!

Baby is a great cook and since ETK is like a stalker paparazzi he's always ready with a smile!

Everyone was taking pictures of the skyline so I thought I'd try too. Well, as you can see my wee camera didn't want to cooperate! Figures!


We had Indian food for dinner the first night we were in ATL. Lovee and I had never had that so we were excited to try it. OMG.....it was soooooo good! We were all very content afterwards. If I remember right, Lovee had to roll me to the car! lol

Back in our room, Fipps decided to check things out....again. He wanted some privacy so I had to shut the door. :)

This is a better shot of our room at the Indigo Hotel. It was so charming! See the wallpaper?? Sea rocks I think. Lovee and I almost losteach other in that bed. It was huge!! Well, it was a king, but we don't have one of those.....too big....can't snuggle in those very well....we have to be touching to sleep.

ATL was getting ready for Gay Pride week while we were there. There's a huge church cattywompus accross from ETK. These guys were hanging a banner. Cool!

They were having a time of it as there was quite a bit of wind. Ummm...hello..... of course it's windy...you're up 6 stories!!!!!!

That's it for now. More later.

Photos...just a few tho...

Here's ETK and Lovee...this is our Hotel in ATL...as soon as I saw the wallpaper I thought of Tali. She has sea salt on her blog. I don't think this is sea salt cuz it's colored...BUT...I thought of her :). The room was fabulous!!!! More pics on this to follow.This is of course, Fipps. He's studying the menu where we had lunch with my nieces and nephews in ATL.

And here's Lovee with the N and N's. I cut one niece out of the pic...Oops! Of course Fipps is a total camera hog so he had to get into the action! lol

Should have had this one first, but I'm not too savy about posting stuff and I went assbackwards :) Fipps is 'nesting 'in our bag of goodies we packed for the road. He was quite content to ride there the whole way to ATL. Boys!!! Sheesh!

and of course the most important person EVER...Lovee. We had just started out and he and Fipps were looking at the ginormous storms that played with us all the way. We didn't care tho cuz we were on the road to our Vacation to see the Fabulous Ms. ETK and her sweetie.

More later. Reality has hit and I've got to get ready for 'work' now. :(

( I hate it when that happens)

Lookie what I got!!!

I got a package in the mail from the fabulous ETK.

She sent me my very own Flamingo which will, of course, be traveling with us on our upcoming trip. :) There was also a memo pad that says 'WOW! You make me smile...I Love You!' and a pad that says 'I don't do mornings'. Ha...


There were also some bags with a bunch of computer thing-a-mabobs, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do with them....lol...I'm so NOT a techie person with computers. :) I'm sure she'll give me some instructions and tell me what I can do with them....

I also went shopping with Sisterlittle and found these fabulous sandals at Dillards.. These are exactly what I was looking for when we went to Greece but couldn't find any. Of course! Anyway...looked at hundreds of purses and finally found this one at Tj Max. Only $20.00!! That makes up for the $$ I spent on the shoes. lol...I know everywoman out there will understand the logic for that.

And of course as soon as Flamingo saw the purse she immediately jumped into it!