Here Comes the Bride- Show us where you live

The theme at Kelly's Korner this week is wedding dresses. So here it is. (I am not really good at describing it so I won't even try.)

Happy 1st Birthday Tillie Ann

It started out as....

Then we fell in love with....

And now we are loving every minute that God is blessing us with.....

Happy 1st Birthday Tillie Ann!!! :)

Blog Hop- Recipe

I am hopping on the blog hop again this week. I have had so much fun reading and finding new blogs. I am from the South and my recipe post is a drink from a wonderful tea room. It is called Town Tea. Hope you enjoy a little taste from the South.

This is the tea at my baby shower at work. YUM!!!

Tea bags for 2 gallons of tea

1 1/2 quarts of boiling water

2 cups of granulated sugar

1(48 ounce) can of pineapple juice

1(12 ounce) can of frozen OJ

1(12 ounce) can of frozen lemonade

Place tea bags in a bowl or pitcher. Pour boiling water over tea bags. Add sugar, stirring to dissolve. Let tea bags steep in sugar water several hours or overnight. Discard tea bags. Add juices, stirring well. Pour equal amounts into 2 one gallon jugs. Add water to each to fill jug. Refrigerate. Shake well before serving. Makes 2 gallons.

Little Diva

Just in case you get a call from me and nobody says anything this is why. Tillie loves to act like she is talking on the phone. She picks it up and says "O" then she will sit there acting like someone is talking to her. So next time you get a call, it has my name on the caller id, and nobody says anything I am sorry. It's just Tillie Ann the little diva.

Family Reunion

This past weekend was a weekend full of family activities in lower Alabama that most people have never heard of. It all started on Friday with a great trip to a place called Safford. My grandparents have a farm there and this was the location for one of the reunions. As a child I, didn't like to go to reunions because I didn't see the need. Now that I am adult and have a child I see that these are so important because in the end all you have is your family. Friday afternoon we arrived and we getting unpacked and decided to take Tillie on a ride on the scooter. Tillie has not been on many motorized vehicles so you can imagine how this went. She also met her 1st cow face to face. She didn't really care for it. After we ate, Tillie was playing in the house and I kept hearing her grunt like she was frustrated. So I went to investigate and this is what I found: She thought that this was a ball and couldn't figure out why she couldn't pick it up. On Saturday, was the big event at the house. All the children and grandchildren of my great- grandfather were invited to come and fellowship. Many of them showed up and we visited for a while. Tillie and Jackson played in the pool, on the scooter, and anything else that could take them places. The infamous 4-wheeler made an appearance again, but BB didn't have to push Tillie on it this time. There was too many other things to keep Tillie occupied. After everyone left, some of the men went hunting. Well just 3 of them. Everyone else was too tired. Check out the hunters. My nephew, Jackson, loves big tractors. While we were there he was able to ride a "BIG TRACTOR". This should be the next Massey Ferguson ad. On Sunday we traveled over to a little town called Sweet Water. This is where the traditional reunion is held with the entire family. There was not many in attendance this year, but the ones that were had a great time and a great meal. Overall the weekend was so much fun. We had a wonderful time and can't wait until next year. :)

1st Birthday Gift

Today Tillie Ann received her first birthday present from Grand "D" and Melody . It is a Vermont Teddy Bear Gram. It is too cute. Tillie is loving giving it kisses and playing with it.

Here she is coming to get it.

Opening it......

Reading the card.....

And here it is!!!!!

A new wall decoration

I love Uppercase Living products. I have several in my house. I put all of them up as soon as I got them except for one. It stated "Together we make a family." I loved it so much in the book and tried to copy it. It had a picture of a mommy and daddy kissing their little one. Buddy and I have several times tried to capture this, but it never turned out. Well, I was tired of looking at it in my closet so today I got busy decided what to do. So for less than $30 I created this with a little help from Buddy.

In the big frames are pictures of Buddy, Tillie, and me. The little frames have pictures of Tillie and me and Buddy and Tillie and just Tillie. The frames are all different sizes and shapes, but they are all rectangles. This made it a challenge to line up. There was no keeping it all in a little square. (Not the best picture because I am standing on the bed. that is why it is a little crooked.)

There was a lot of rearranging and moving so instead of putting nails in the walls we bought these new picture hangers. They work so good.