Monthly Archives: May 2014
Wedding Bells…
What an emotional, wonderfully great last week. How can parents have such a wide array of feelings? So happy for the next step of their lives but mixed with a twinge of sadness.
Life is bittersweet…
The littles and the boys with GG
Em and Garrett all dressed up…
The girls getting some pics before the wedding…
Handsome Teigen…
Beautiful Samantha with her sister…
Giving the groom away, awfully hard on me…
A quick kiss…
Father and son…
Rings…
Official…
Yeah!!
Handsome guys…
The girls hiding from the wind…
The Dads…
Papas…
My mother-in-love, Aunt Abigail and Uncle Jason…
Cold little girl…
“Happiness”
A little rain and a slight breeze but no snow!
Headed to the hay shed…
My mom and dad…
The official paperwork…
Sawyer with his Grammies, my mom on the right and my husband’s mom on the left.
Sawyer with his Papas, Mark’s dad on the left and mine on the right.
The littles…
Sammy with her dog Oakley…
Sawyer trying to embarrass his sister…
Brother and sister…
Grammy and Garrett dancing…
Madeline and Sawyer…
Brother and Sister…
Sammy with Hayden…
A little dance between buddies…
A little dance between buddies…
Father Daughter…
Sammy and Garrett
Hayden
My parents…
Tori and Hayden
Love this one of my kids and my parents…
❤
My beautiful girls…
All too soon the evening came to a close and the new married couple drove away…
The day seemed sort of like a fuzzy dream. Totally wonderful but in the same thought how did it come to this so soon. Very surreal. It was just yesterday…
The boys started moving into his room and found a couple of treasures…
A blanky with only two corners of silky left on it. A blanky a boy carried with him everywhere and was the ultimate comforter…
His little Teddy that followed him everywhere…
How can a mommy go from crying tears of pure happiness and being excited for her boy and his wonderful new wife to crying tears of remembrance all in the same minute?
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Linking up with friends at:
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Spring Glow…
Cool Facts About the Blue Heron
- Thanks to specially shaped neck vertebrae, Great Blue Herons can curl their neck into an S shape for a more aerodynamic flight profile and to quickly strike prey at a distance.
- Great Blue Herons have specialized feathers on their chest that continually grow and fray. The herons comb this “powder down” with a fringed claw on their middle toes, using the down like a washcloth to remove fish slime and other oils from their feathers as they preen. Applying the powder to their underparts protects their feathers against the slime and oils of swamps.
- Great Blue Herons can hunt day and night thanks to a high percentage of rod-type photoreceptors in their eyes that improve their night vision.
- Despite their impressive size, Great Blue Herons weigh only 5 to 6 pounds thanks in part to their hollow bones—a feature all birds share.
- Great Blue Herons in the northeastern U.S. and southern Canada have benefited from the recovery of beaver populations, which have created a patchwork of swamps and meadows well-suited to foraging and nesting.
- Along the Pacific coast, it’s not unusual to see a Great Blue Heron poised atop a floating bed of kelp waiting for a meal to swim by.
- The white form of the Great Blue Heron, known as the “great white heron,” is found nearly exclusively in shallow marine waters along the coast of very southern Florida, the Yucatan Peninsula, and in the Caribbean. Where the dark and white forms overlap in Florida, intermediate birds known as “Wurdemann’s herons” can be found. They have the body of a Great Blue Heron, but the white head and neck of the great white heron.
- The oldest Great Blue Heron, based on banding recovery, was 24 years old.
- Great Blue Herons congregate at fish hatcheries, creating potential problems for the fish farmers. A study found that herons ate mostly diseased fish that would have died shortly anyway. Sick fish spent more time near the surface of the water where they were more vulnerable to the herons.
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Spring Signs…
More Lamb Love…
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Sky…
We’ve had some pretty amazing skies around here the past couple of days…
