Library Story #4

Posted on July 14, 2012 by admin

LibraryStories

Warm Fuzzies

A tall, tough looking guy walks up to the desk with a pile of big books. He places them on the desk and as he does so I see the forehead, eyes, and nose of a little girl as she peeks over the top of the desk trying to see. The little girl looks up to her daddy and whispers something. He looks down admiringly and tell his daughter that they have to check the books out before they can take them home.

There’s something so endearing about seeing a father bringing his children, especially his little girl, to the library. It brings warm fuzzies to me every time.

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Scripture Picture {Psalms 32:7}

Posted on July 14, 2012 by admin

Just an FYI…Scripture Picture will be taking a break for awhile after this week.

You are my hiding place; you will save me from trouble.
I sing aloud of your salvation, because you protect me.
~Psalms 32:7

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~ Take a picture that you like.
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Teenager’s Room

Posted on July 9, 2012 by admin

During the month of June, Teenager and I worked to get his room clean. Here’s what we did:
-made three piles of clothes (keep, keepsakes, pass down to Monkey) The pile to pass down to Monkey was taller than me!
-shampooed carpet
-got stains out of carpet
-cleaned closet
-stained bookshelf
-rearranged furniture
-cleaned base boards
-organized everything
-fixed broken drawer
-fixed broken bookend
-spot cleaned walls

He’s very proud to have a nice clean, organized room. Now if he’ll just keep it from getting so gawd awful messy again, that will make me very happy. I always forget to take before pics. Here’s a few after pics.

Teenager's Room

Teenager's Room

Teenager's Room

Teenager's Room

Teenager's Room

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Scripture Picture {Job 7:19}

Posted on July 7, 2012 by admin

Will you never look away from me,
or let me alone even for an instant?
~Job 7:19


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I love photography and love the Bible. What’s better than putting the 2 things together, right? So link up and spread the Word. 🙂
Here’s what you do to join the fun…
~ Take a picture that you like.
~ Find a scripture that you think goes well with it.
Or visa versa
~ Add the scripture to the picture using the text feature on photoshop, picmonkey, aviary, or any photo editor that allows text. If you don’t want to do that, you can just put the scripture in the post.
~ Put the Scripture Picture button in your post by just copying this code below:
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Camp

Posted on July 1, 2012 by admin

This year Teenager decided to attend a different Boy Scout camp. Since his troop is so large they usually have 2 different groups go to 2 different camps. The last several years he’s gone up to North Carolina to Camp Daniel Boone, but this year he opted to stay in his home state of Alabama, and attend Camp Sequoyah.

His troop leaders are quite tech savy and for this summer’s camp outs, began blogging and posting pics through the weeks of camp. Well, I couldn’t have been any happier to find updates about what Teenager had done each day along with pics.

Since Teenager has completed all but a couple of his merit badges, he decided to for go the Merit Badge classes, and instead attend the Mountaineer Program.

During the Mountaineer Program at Sequoyah, boys have the chance to climb, rappell, kayak, and mountain bike, learn to throw tomahawks, take a trip to the Indian Village for Native American activities, canoe the Tallapoosa River, hike the Pinhoti Trail in the Cheaha Wilderness, climb the rock faces of the Rock Garden at Mt. Cheaha, and enjoy an overnight backpacking trip. Lots and lots of fun!

Here’s some pics taken by leaders of some of the activities…

Boy Scout Camp: Mountain biking at Mount Cheaha
Mountain biking

Camp Sequoyah - Dining Room
Dining room ready for a bunch of hungry boys

By the camp fire @ Camp Sequoyah
Camp fire and smores

Camp Sequoyah - Climbing
Rock climbing

Mud Run
Mud run

Mud run
Mud run

Very proud that Teenager was chosen by his Mountaineer Leader for the “Golden Bike Wheel Award” of the Week!

Camp Sequoyah

Wednesday is usually family day at BSA camps. Since he was quite a bit closer this year, we decided go up for a visit. I was so impressed to see Teenager put his leadership skills to work just in the short time were there. I loved how the younger scouts look up to him and respect him. It made me so proud to see him growing as a young man. Here’s some pics I took while we were there…

Camp Sequoyah - Swim Tags

Camp Sequoyah

Camp Sequoyah

Camp Sequoyah - Teenager at his campsite entrance

Like father, like son. Teenager begged and begged on Wednesday when we were there to bring him a Dr. Pepper, so Friday night when Rob showed up to camp he surprised him with a DP!
Camp Sequoyah

See more pics here.

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Don’t hide stuff here!

Posted on July 1, 2012 by admin

A few weeks ago, we were traveling somewhere and Monkey was “playing a game” with Teenager, where he would hide the folded-up straw wrapper and Teenager would have to guess where it was. Monkey had a brilliant place to put it. See the pic below. I wasn’t aware of what was going on in the back seat, but at some point, I turned around and realized Monkey didn’t have his seat belt on. As any good mom would do, I told him to put the seat belt on immediately. So he attempted to, but couldn’t because he has forgotten he had put the paper just inside the latch. At that point, it was too late. The paper had been shoved down into the latch. Since we were flying down the interstate, I couldn’t risk trying to look at it, so we instructed him to move over to the middle seat and sit right next to his brother and that they better get along!!

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So the other day, I went out to the car fairly early in the day as it was supposed to get up in the 100’s by the afternoon. After about an hour of messing with the paper and using various tools to get it out, I finally did. I tried to latch the seat belt, but it still wouldn’t go in. Baffled, I started thinking, while looking over in the middle console, where I found the plastic fork with a couple prongs broken off. “Noooo! Noooo!” were the first 2 thoughts in my head followed by some words I won’t say here. I went inside and ask Monkey if he or his brother had tried to get the paper out with a plastic fork and he said, “Yes, Teeanger tried to help by using the plastic fork and it broke off in there.”

Teach your children not to put stuff in the seatbelt latch!

After another hour, lots of bad words running through my head, a gallon of sweat excreted from my pours, and a trip to Walgreens for batteries for the flashlight, I finally got the plastic prong out. Luckily, that fixed it! So teach your children not to put stuff in the seatbelt latch and save yourself a lot a trouble. 🙂

Teach your children not to put stuff in the seatbelt latch!

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June’s End of the Month Summary

Posted on June 30, 2012 by admin

This month I was happy about: being able to spend time with family and friends.
This month I was sad that: Teenager won’t be playing Auburn Thunder any more.
Somethings I accomplished this month were: getting Teenager’s room rearranged and organized. Stained the old toy box and the bookshelf in Teenager’s room. Did some touching up to the kitchen cabinets.

Something new I did was: go to a CD launch party.
Books I read were:
Focus On America: Profiles Of Nine Photographers
The Americans
Remove from my books
Photographer of Modern Life: Camille Silvy
Cape Light
Park City
Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Living Witness: Historic Trees of Texas
Photography and Play
Landscape in Photographs

Movies I watched were:
Crazy, Stupid, Love (didn’t get to finish, but will when I get a chance!)

TV Shows I watched were:
America’s Got Talent
Sister Wives
The Bachelorette
Whale Wars
King of Queens
Drop Dead Diva

My favorite song this month was: Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye feat. Kimbra

What I remember about work was: super slow summer.
A lesson I learned this month was:
A friend and I: acted completely silly at the 80’s Party we attended with our hubbies.
My favorite pic that I took was:
Camp Sequoyah

I cooked: Banana Pudding & Brownies
The boys were: out for the summer.
My husband was: busy working on Soccer Tourney website.
The thing I’ll remember most from this month was: seeing Teenager grow as a boy leader in his Scout Troop.

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Scripture Picture {Psalm 16:11}

Posted on June 30, 2012 by admin

You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
~Psalm 16:11

psalm16.11


I love photography and love the Bible. What’s better than putting the 2 things together, right? So link up and spread the Word. 🙂
Here’s what you do to join the fun…
~ Take a picture that you like.
~ Find a scripture that you think goes well with it.
Or visa versa
~ Add the scripture to the picture using the text feature on photoshop, picmonkey, aviary, or any photo editor that allows text. If you don’t want to do that, you can just put the scripture in the post.
~ Put the Scripture Picture button in your post by just copying this code below:
<center><a href="http://magnoliamom.com/?cat=316"><img src="http://magnoliamom.com/images/ScripturePicture1.jpg" width="125"/></a></center>
~ Visit at least 5 other posts and comment on 3. We all love comments.
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~ Let me know if you have any questions!


               

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Den Meeting at the AU Fisheries {Fishing Belt Loop}

Posted on June 27, 2012 by admin

Last Friday Monkey’s Cub Scout Den met up at the Auburn University fisheries for a Den Meeting to complete the requirements for the Fishing Belt Loop.
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Teenager caught 2 fish.
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And so did Monkey.
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There were a couple pretty large fish caught.
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All fish were thrown back in after the hooks were removed. See more pics here.

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Date Night in Decatur

Posted on June 24, 2012 by admin

Yesterday, we dropped the kids off so that they could hang out with their Uncle Nick while Rob and I escaped for a date night in Decatur, GA. One of Rob’s buddies from high school, Jason Passmore, had a CD release party at the Java Monkey.

After finding a parking spot and locating Java Monkey, we walked around to find something to eat, as the Java Monkey just sells drinks, appetizers, finger foods and desserts. Nothing real substantial. We ended up eating at a little spot right around the corner called Noodle House. It’s a locally owned, Atlanta Chain, that was reasonably priced for the amount of food and very palatable! We ordered Korean Dumplings, Beef & Broccoli, & Kung Pao.

Jason Passmore's CD Release Party @ JavaMonkey - Decatur, GA

Jason Passmore's CD Release Party @ JavaMonkey - Decatur, GA

We finished up just in time to find a good seat at Java Monkey, chatted with Jason, and got another drink before the show began.

Jason Passmore's CD Release Party @ JavaMonkey - Decatur, GA

Jason Passmore's CD Release Party @ JavaMonkey - Decatur, GA

If you enjoy jazz, I highly recommend his CD, Beautiful Day. You can buy it on iTunes here or if you prefer to have an actual CD, you can buy those here.

Jason Passmore's CD Release Party @ JavaMonkey - Decatur, GA

A little side note about Decatur; It’s a super cute, trendy area. I wished I could have gotten some pictures to show you, but Rob and I loved it and plan to go back.

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