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Had to grab the camera for this one! Walked into Brandon's bedroom one night to turn off his light and saw this! Pretty hilarious. This is an air gun (soft pellet) in case you are wondering. Not sure why he took it to BED with him....

Here is a closer look at it in case you are really into the gun thang.


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The other day, Brandon was playing with his laptop on my bed and Lexi gets up there and lies down her chin on his keyboard. She was like "Ok, get off the computer and play with me!!!" - It was really cute.

This weekend was very laid back. I haven't really been feeling the greatest. I think it is allergies or sinus stuff. Not really sure, but I didn't feel great the entire weekend. I think I'm finally on the mend. I lost my voice around Wednesday or so and it just kept getting worse. I think it is finally back mostly, though still not normal. Brandon had a lock in at our church from Friday night at 9:00 until 9:00 a.m. Saturday so he came home and went to bed. He slept from 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning until 4:30 p.m. Saturday evening. I finally had to wake him up because I was afraid he wouldn't be able to get to sleep that night. I myself pretty much just stayed in bed sleeping and watching TV. Just didn't feel like doing much else.

Oh, and our newest purchase: A Wii Fit! I had enough credit at a local store to completely pay for it so I didn't have to put out any money at all for it. Brandon just hooked it up and is playing it. I'll have to try it out later. It looks like a lot of fun. I understand there is some test you can take and it will give you your "Wii Fit Age" - hmmm - not sure I wanna do that!

Hope everyone had a great weekend (and a more cheery one than I did!)

Best Shot Monday and The Weekend

*For Best Shot Monday, I couldn't pick just one photo....the one below is my favorite. I couldn't believe these deer just stood there without moving as I drove the car up. They finally did run off, but they let me get some good pics first.


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I'm a blogging wimp. I must face that fact. No matter how hard I try to keep up with this blog and reading and commenting on others, I can't do it. I just can't. And part of me thinks it is silly to try. Nobody out there is pressuring me. I'm pressuring myself. And I don't know how to stop it. I don't want to give up blogging - I love it. However, I DON'T love the pressure I feel to post or read and comment in order to "keep up". So, I'm just doing the best I can. And I hate to start tons of posts with "sorry I haven't blogged in so long". People get sick of reading that!!

So, let us proceed with this post.

Life has been full and good lately. Brandon leaves tomorrow morning with my parents for Colorado. They are doing this really cool thing calledSOARING TREE TOP ADVENTURES. Check the website out. How cool is that? So, they leave tomorrow to drive there and do that and then drive back. They are going to visit a few more historical sites in between. Brandon has had an activity filled summer! I wish I could go with them, but I really need to stay here as I can't really afford (monetarily and time wise both) to take off work for the week.

I took Brandon up to the school yesterday as they offered free physicals for those kids that are going to participate in athletics in the coming year. It was nice I could do this for free. Found out Brandon is now 5'5" and weighed in at 155!!!! Oh my gosh. I knew he was taller than I. I'm 5 3 1/2 but I thought he was just over that, but I didn't know he was 5'5". And I don't think he has even hit puberty yet. Wow. He had a friend over to spend the night Friday night so they had a good time.

Oh, people have been asking about my date. It went great (this was last week) and I actually had another date this weekend with him. We watched a movie and actually went out to the wildlife refuge and took some pictures. It was really enjoyable! He is not a photography buff, but he seems to not mind my obsession with it. He is a hunter so he really liked seeing the deer out there! I got a couple of good pics of some animals which I'll try to post here. I still need to edit them so I hope to get them on this post. I won't say any more about the dating thang cause I never want to feel that I'm exploiting anyone on here - ya know? But, it seems to be going well. I think I have another date for next week!!

The movie we watched yesterday was Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio. It is an excellent movie - very dramatic and compelling. But it is also very disturbing. Have you seen it? Definitely don't let your kids see it. It is very violent. In fact, the movie kind of stayed with me and I've been thinking about it. It is based on what I would imagine is what happens in other countries where they mine for diamonds...and how they treat the natives who dig for them. It is sickening.

The part that bothered me the most was that they take children from their parents (young boys) and they kidnap them and then train them to become soldiers. They give them weapons and have them kill and they inject them with drugs. These are KIDS - Kids that looked to be as young as 7 and 8 up through teenagers. Just sickening. Anyway, despite the disturbing subject, it was a good movie.

Also, I should post about THE HEAT. We are melting here in Texas. Melting!!! It was like 105 yesterday. You certainly don't want to go out during the day and do anything. Even going out in the evening is almost unbearable. UGH. Makes me want to hibernate in my air-conditioned house.

I should end this post. I have a number of sets of photos that I need to work on editing so I suppose I should start on that. The weekend is rapidly coming to a close and I still have work to do.

I still have about 7 more days (apx) of photos from my trip to post. I'll get around to that in the next century. I hope.

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Here is my Best Shot Monday photo. This was taken in April when I visited the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens. I could barely even see this little guy on the flower until I got out my Macro Lens. I just love taking photos with the macro lens as it opens up a whole new world!!

By the way, the watermark on this is my old blog site, which is private (in case you are wondering...)

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Brief synopsis of our weekend:

Brandon arrived home on Friday evening. Yea!!! It was great to see him. This boy of mine, who is now taller than I.

Saturday I started out the morning with an approximately 14 mile bike ride (yeh me!) with a friend of mine. Since I don't think I can fit my bicycle in my car, he came to pick it up in his truck. We saw all manner of wildlife on this ride and it was totally, totally awesome. We saw a herd of wild hogs, a BEAVER crossing the road and swimming in the water, buzzards, geese, deer, a bald eagle, a beautiful full moon and lots of sunflowers. And just pretty scenery. I loved it. OK, so my butt was very sore, but hey, you can't have everything. What a workout. I'm hoping to get to do that really soon. Then, I got home about the time Brandon was waking up and cooked a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon. YUM!

Saturday we ran errands and hung out. Saturday night we went to see The Dark Knight. It was good. WE both enjoyed it. Oh, Friday afternoon I went to see Mama Mia and I loved it. Very cute and great music!

Sunday was church of course and packing up Brandon for his camp. I did make him mow the yard tonight.

Oh, and get this. I cooked a nice dinner tonight (which I seldom do) - chicken fajitas. Homeade pico-de-gallo and homeade flower tortillas along with some very tasty chicken fajita meat I cooked on the grill. I had a bunch of it that I cooked and we ate less than half of it. I had a big chunk of meat left that I was going to use for lunches this week. Yum. I saw WAS.

I come back here to the computer to type up a lovely post for you all, and I hear a clatter in the other room. I thought that Brandon was throwing his dish in the sink, like he is prone to do so I get up to say "put that in the dishwasher" and I realize he isn't in the kitchen at all. My container that had the meat in it is EMPTY. Empty I tell you!! That dog ate the rest of my chicken!! I was so ticked. She got right up on the cabinet and ate it all. GRRRR

On a totally different subject, at church this morning, I lean over to Brandon to ask him something and realize something is amis. What is wrong with this picture?


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Yep, he had his shirt on inside out sitting in the pew in church. I leaned over and whispered to him to let him know. He immediately slipped out and changed. How funny is that? I'm sure the people behind him had noticed and if they were observant, probably noticed that he changed it. oops.

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This photo was taken this summer at the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens. I loved how much detail you can see on this bee, down to the pollen on its legs. How cool is that? I love capturing details on flowers, bugs, bees and insects.

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I'm going to try to start participating in the Best Shot Monday. It is a great way to share a special photo. Ok, so I know I have like 3,000 special photos a week, but hey, here is a chance to showcase ONE.