Mermaid Party!!

Today Loui from Mountain Mermaid is hosting a very special party

for a very special mermaid.

I am so glad to have met this beautiful mermaid, she has taught me so much about the place that I love.

The ocean runs through her veins, and her heart is filled with love for all creatures great and small.

If she could, I think she would paint the world in the beautiful greens and blues so we could all feel like we live in such a beautiful world.

A beautiful mermaid through and through.

Happy Happy Birthday Rhonda!!!

Please stop by

ShelleBelles Tiki Hut

and wish her a Happy Birthday!

The ocean is yours my dear mermaid have a wonderful day!!!

all images via Pinterest

A Birthday Break and A Blogger Friend

Hello there my friends.

I hope you are having a wonderful week so far!

I just wanted to come by and tell you that I am taking a little break this week/weekend and will be mostly away from my computer. (I will be around just not as much)

I am very far behind on house work, very far!

I need to finish up on painting, clean rugs, blah, blah and

along with work (YUCK) and hopefully we are getting our floors (YEAH!!!)

BUT most importantly,

FRIDAY

it is my daughters birthday, and not just any birthday (although all birthdays are special) because she will be a

TEENAGER!!!!!

OH I am not ready for this! :)

I can't believe that she is growing so fast

My beautiful little baby girl

who loves life,

loves to goof around,

is quiet and gentle,

has grown a love for a special place,

who's smile lights up my world,

and Oh!

Oh yes,

there is the face that I seem to get more and more!! :)

With everything that she has been dealing with over the last few years, she is such a beautiful young lady who loves with all her heart, finds the beauty in everything and is my pocket-full of sunshine!

Happy Birthday baby!

We love you more than you know!!!

So for the remainder of the week we will be doing some special things with her and making her first steps into the wonderful world of 'teenagers' as special as possible!

I also wanted to thank my friend Julie from Being Ruby who surprised me one day with an idea for a new button!

Julie, who shares a love of the sea, is so creative and writes and photographs beautiful images that inspire me every time I visit her!

I loved her creations and chose one for my new button, I love it and it suites me perfectly!

It is on my sidebar so feel free to grab it and please make sure you go say hi to Julie, you will be inspired and leave with a smile on your face and your heart.

Thank you so much Julie!

I will be back Monday to show you some progress from our Family Room!

(sneaky peak of the hall)

Have a wonderful week and weekend!!

HUGS!

A Winner and an Apology!!

Hello my dear friends! I hope that you had a wonderful beginning to the week!!

I have to say that mine was a bit interesting and irritating!

First let me apologize for the crazy email that went out to you, if you received one from me about buying a computer and it looks like something that I would NOT write,

please delete it!

I hope that I have fixed it on my end and I am very sorry if I caused any disruption in your computer.

That was the irritating part.

The interesting part was this.....

SNOW, SNOW and MORE SNOW!!!!

(I promise the photos are untouched :) )

It was like we were in our own little snow globe! Seriously! I live in the "Lake Effect" area in Michigan and we got about 1 foot of snow today, it looked like that all day! Odd thing is about 2 miles away from the lake it was sunny all day and they didn't get any snow!

Michigan I tell ya!

It did look really pretty when I wasn't driving in it!

Oh,

I also have to tell you that my hubby got a thrill reading all your comments!!

He must have taken some of them as a challenge to come up with some more creative ways to spell things.

So, yesterday morning I woke up to this...

Don't worry, it is a term of endearment! :)

I will say that it is cheating though!

Ok,

Now for you have been waiting for!

I really enjoyed reading all of your wishes and my wish for you is that you get what you are wishing for!

You are all so wonderful, I truly, truly mean that!!

The winner of the $35 gift certificate for CSN is

Erin from Like Grandmas

Congrats and Merry Christmas and happy shopping to you!!

Today is also a very special day for me.

We will be celebrating this little one's

5th birthday!!!

He is so precious to me and his birth was full of celebration

and

heart ache....... literally.......