Thanks Mom!! :)

I picked up my mom last week in St. Charles, MO we had a great day shopping....she will stay for a week and I am so happy to have her here!! :)

Friendship..........

We need each other...In times of private pain,of fear and stress;
We need each other...to share our joys, our times of happiness;
We need each other...to hold on and be strong, and encourage when things are going wrong;
We need each other...to keep the faith and love,

and remind each other of all the things we're dreaming of;

We need each other... now and always.

Tracy-I am so glad God picked you up and moved you from Texas to Illinois......he knew there was a photographer here waiting for you to be your friend too! :) He works in mysterious ways!

NOTICE: Calories DO NOT count on your birthday!

Thank you to Lynette, Lisa and Megan for making my birthday great!

I am thankful for your friendship!

YES....for those of you counting....this made THREE desserts today! So if you see me running tomorrow you'll know why! :P P.S.-We DID eat the WHOLE thing!

Age is only important if you are cheese or wine...right??

All three of my kids remembered it was my birthday this morning.....I am a lucky mom! :) They started after breakfast drawing me little pictures for my gifts and wrapping up toys of theirs...it was sweet! :)

After taking the boys to school I went on a field trip with my daughters preschool to Marble Slab Creamery (YUM!!!)

When the boys got home from school I promised them they could decorate a cake for me....they really did a great job and it was delicious!!

So I have had two desserts so far today and tonight I am going out with my girlfriends to dinner....I'm sure we'll do some chocolate damage! :D

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.....

Change is the essence of Life.

Be willing to surrender what you are, for what you could become.

everything was beautiful........

I was driving today and saw this....I have photos from a summer ago or so where this same person wrote a messsage on this same bridge. Fortunately or unfortunately however you see it our city cleans these up fairly quick so I wanted to document it....I wonder what their story is....their last message spoke to me and this one does as well. There is a sadness about it that contrasts to the beautiful sunny day we have here today...to me it's art.

2 "rocker chicks" + 1 playdate= priceless photos :)

Addie had her best friend Mina over today for a playdate....I had just bought these outfits and had been wanting to try them out....I think for a 15 minute photo shoot (they had playing to do!) the pictures were darling! I had two very cute subjects!! :)