Photos, Weddings, and Home

I am back home, but find myself overwhelmed with taking it easy. It's not that I am sitting on the couch all day. I am playing with photos from computer.

In Florida, I tried to go to the sunset quite a bit this time. With photos from two weddings, sunsets, and this past weekend, I think I will just slow play the next couple of weeks.

Yesterday, in the morning, I cleaned the house. Then for about 5 hours, I sat and watched a live workshop on Flash Photography. LOVE! And ready to go reshoot some receptions.

Today, I spent most of my time playing with Powerpoint 2007 trying to realign my nephew's wedding set to music. The whole file is 29 mb and no way to share it with the world. I love it but feel like today was a waste of time.

While I was in Florida, my husband's work car blew the motor. It had over 333,333 plus miles. Faced with needing a vehicle, we are trying to cut down on trips to town and spending.

Last weekend was such a surprise in our lives. Our daughter and son-in-law invited us up to Huntsville for a belated Mother's Day weekend. Our son planned to join us. Our daughter in Idaho comes to visit at Christmas. Plane tickets are $400 plus so a visit from her at this time was out of the question.

When we arrived in Huntsville, Jessica came running out and hugged me so tight. I had decided not to bother her with the questions a normal mom asks when she gets around her married( 5 years) daughter.
She was so excited I could not keep the wondering out of my mind. She hurried us into the house because they wanted to give us the surprise ASAP.

We were ushered into the back room where the washer and dryer is. A medium sized box was wrapped up and sat in the middle of the room. You coudl hear the little whimpers. My husband was none too happy to be hearing that the gift was small and noisy.

We pulled the box opened and out popped our Idaho girl. The smiles on our face and the tears in my eyes. What a surprise that was. She had come down with her friend Rachel from Idaho. Rachel was moving back home to Tennessee after getting her Master's at Idaho.

This weekend, I plan to enjoy all of my children again. Right now, Jon, Christina, and Christina's friend, Rachel are all hiking together in the Smokies. Rachel plans to hike the whole AT soon and is starting to train.