In God We Trust

I got this in an email from a friend and thought I would share it on here because I thought it was so neat!

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?!!?" --Jay Leno

This is a beautiful photo of a giant flag in Arizona.
The photo is authentic and un-retouched.
The picture was taken on regular Kodak 35 mm film.
The person who took the picture couldn't believe the image created by the sun's rays. Nice of them to share with the world!

Now that's cool!

And he's back!

Well, since I was up in St. Aug right after Steve got back from being in Basic Training & the other training (he was gone almost 7 months) he came down south to stay with us for a week. We had a lot of fun hanging out & catching up after so long.

Tuesday night Andrew, Meg, Stephen & I all went bowling. Here are some of the pics from there.
The bowling group!

Butt Depot

Andrew & Stephen at "Butt Depot" outside of the bowling alley. I thought this was the funniest thing when I first saw it! I had to have Andrew & Steve in on the funniness of the picture!

*FYI: The ash-tray type thing they are sitting on says "Butt Depot" on the bottom of it. Sorry the pic is kinda blurry, you know guys...they wanted to be funny but didn't want to be caught by anyone else, so I had to take the pic in a hurry! LOL

Andrew & Meg (someone sneaked into the background of the shot! )

Meg & Stephen

Murphy's Law

Stephen in anguish after bowling me a strike. When he was only getting spares for himself.

The sister's chillin' while the guys focus on bowling.

Andrew bowling a strike

A good one of the three of us.

Steve & Andrew in the arcade after bowling. Stephen's practicing what he learned in Basic Training

Picking up Meg

Last weekend I went north to pick up Meg the relatives houses that she had been visiting. Had fun hanging out there, with Steve being back. (We actually smuggled him home with us. I have pics of him down here to come.) We had fun before we left watching Ghost Hunters the Lighthouse edition, over at Jae & Mike's. And it was nice to see those of you that we got to see, for a little bit. Thanks to all for your accommodations! Enjoy a few shots of our time in St. Aug.

"The Girls" hangin out @ Laura & Robs

The 2 oldest granddaughters & the 2 youngest!

Meg & Felc. taking pictures of each other! (Laura it looks like she's following in your photographer footsteps!)

Meg & Francesca

God's Promise

Here is the rainbow I saw the other day. It was a complete one, I just couldn't get it all in the picture...I love how it went right behind the church steeple.

On the beach

Meg & I out on the beach

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lifeguard stand...I love these instead of the ugly ones you see on other beaches

seaweed & the waves

board walk & the dunes

Meg @ the beach

Just us girls

Brooke spent a few days down at our house after July 4th! Here are some of the pictures from her visit. We had such a blast...these are the only pictures I took but we did so much more than what was captured on "film". We went to the pizza place, bowling, swimming, in the jacuzzi, hung out with a couple kids meg was watching swimming & on their tramepline, made cookies, girly night, movies. We had a blast!

Check out the pics!

Time to Bowl

Brooke posing with her bowling ball...she's ready to bowl a spare


Meg & Brooke at the bowling alley


Brooke & I at the bowling alley

Silly faces @ the bowling alley

High-Five great game!

Arts & Crafts

Painting!

Meg & Brooke painting their ceramic

Craft Day...Brooke painting her bird which was later named Crimson

Girly Night

Painting Brooke's toenails


Me doing Brooke's toe nails...& yes that's pride & prejudice on the TV in the background (incase you wondered!)

Meg & Brooke smiling while watching the movie

our beautiful nails

Meg & Brooke on my bed watching Pride & Prejudice

Brooke & I during "girly night" after we painted our nails & watched Pride & Prejudice

Meg, my cousin Brooke, & me

Crimson eating a gummy worm in my car while riding back to take Brooke home

Happy July Fourth

Pics of GGdaddy's July Fourth flowers. We always had the best July 4th celebrations out in "the country" with him & GGmama. Just wanted to show a pic of the flowers & flags that Meg & I put out there.*I doctored the pic so the last name didn't show...ya know privacy issues!

The following pictures are from our July Fourth celebration. Rob & Laura's family came up to celebrate with GGmama & my family!

Meg & the kids in the back of the van

Watching the fireworks...they were kinda loud

Brooke & Anthony sitting in the back of the van watching the fireworks

Maria & I

Me & brooke outside wathing fireworks

another one of ours

This is one of the free fireworks that we were watching the neighbors a couple blocks over shoot off. They put on a very nice free show for us! (right anthony?) This is up in the sky

one of our fireworks

Meatball walking himself out in the front yard while we watched our & all the neighbors fireworks.... I didn't doctor this pic...meatballs eyes got a reflection that or he's an alien!

Megan directing traffic with her sparkler

Meg