Views Through My Lens>>Eyes

I love to take photos.  There's nothing like a warm and sunny day to take my camera outside and just click at what ever tickles my fancy.  I will admit that sometimes I have strange fancies.  But, I guess that is what some people call, art.  Now, I am not saying my photos can be classified as art.  What I am saying is that everybody has their own perspective and has their own view of the world. 
Here's mine:
I was having a nice relaxing bubble bath and thought of taking pictures of the bubbles.  So I had Amanda get my camera for me.

 The view from where I lay, lol.  Cute isn't it?!

Hemi

Greg and I have come to the conclusion that Hemi is not coming back home.  Today is the 3rd day that he has been gone.  Something must have happened to him.  I am upset about it.  Amanda is still taking it pretty good, but she has hope.  She is still expecting him.  I guess that I still do because I keep looking outside for him.  I haven't tried calling because I don't want Amanda to get upset, she tends to be ok until she thinks I am worried about it.  So I have been very positive that he is coming home soon.  I don't know if that's good or not.....I hate to leave false impressions.  Probably tomorrow I will tell her what I think.  
I hate it when my cats just disappear.  There is always that wondering.  What happened to them?  I guess living in the woods I know to expect the cats to go missing.  And living next to a busy road is also another thing I should expect.  I know he didn't just run away.  This has been the only home he knows.  We got him as an extremely young kitten.
Greg's friend had found a whole bag of them at the river, they had been abandoned.  He gave us Hemi.  He's been here for 5 years.  
So now we've lost a dog and a cat in the past month.  So sad.  I warned Greg that there will probably be questions for a new kitten.  Not only from Amanda, but from myself.  I just got 2 cats and now I'm back to one.  

I sure hope he shows up soon....

 

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I fell in love with signature tags mostly because I have always loved my name and collected things with my name on them.  After a while I wanted to make them myself.  I was then a member of CafeMom.com and was in groups that designed and made these tags upon request.  At one time, I was designing for 6 groups!
I am no longer doing any of that.  I am not a member of Cafemom anymore.  But I still enjoy making tags and having my own. 
I have a slide show on my blog to show my gallery of designs of some that I've made over the past few years.  I have been designing them for almost 3 or 4 years.  Not sure which, I'd have to stop and count I guess.  It's gotta be 3 years.
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It's a Friday Follow Day!!

Welcome to another Friday Follow Day!!  I am getting ready to start my day today.  I have quite a bit to do today.

Today the sun is shining outside my window and I am thanking the Lord Jesus for the wonderful light!  

This is the 2nd Friday Follow that I've participated in.  I am grateful for all of my followers.  It helps me to feel like I am not always talking to myself!  lol  I was just telling my sister on the phone yesterday that I like to blog because I have all of this information in my head that I feel like I need to share with people.  And it's not all info like something you need to know, or something you'll enjoy learning, sometimes it's just my thoughts.  If you don't mind following the ramblings of my mind, join me on my blogging journey!!  

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How Do You Pick Your Books?

This question came from Callapidder Days blog and rather than post my weirdness as a comment, I thought I'd just share it with you!  lol
I have a system to how I read my books.  There is a shelf in my bedroom that has my books that I want to read on it.  I have them lined up, in order.  lol  The order was determined by genre (I had them mixed up so I wouldn't get bored), but now determined by order of purchase.  When I want to read a book, I grab the first book and read it. Sometimes I have to skip past it for certain reasons and that is ok.  When I buy new books, those books go to the end of the line.  Unless I have been waiting a long time for the book or am just way too excited to read it and it goes right in front!
I had to come up with this system because it takes me waaaaaaaay too long to decided which book to read.
So now you know some of my weird-ness.  I hope you enjoyed!  lol

My Lil Man

This morning I was awakened at about 3:30-4am listening to Kyle cough.  It's not bad coughing, but he coughs every 15 min. or so.  I got up and put some Vicks on his chest.  As I laid back down in bed and cuddled up to me I could see his profile out of the corner of my eye.  
This little boy is such a snuggler.  One of my ultrasound pictures shows Kyle's nose nudged into my uterus as close as he can get it.  To this day, he still loves to bury his nose somewhere into me.  He says he loves the smell of his momma!
I think back on that picture and remember the shape of his lips in the profile.  I remember thinking that his mouth was kinda like Amanda's but his top lip stuck out a little further.  Then I remember wondering if he would look like that when he was born.  And he did and still does!  It is just such a miracle to me that I can see a picture of him growing in my womb and know what he was going to look like, to a point.  
Then I think about the women who have abortions, especially the later ones, and wonder how can they say that baby is not a real person?  Mine was!  And still is!  But that is not the point of my blogging this morning.
I thank God for giving me Kyle because He knew that I needed this little boy to even out my family.  I needed a low maintenance person/child and someone who is happy and tries (most of the time) to be in a good mood.  I love Amanda dearly, but she is quite a demanding person and extremely strong-willed.  Kyle is laid-back and always laughing or smiling.  He can play by himself and laugh with himself.  He loves to learn, share, make others happy even at his own cost, smell me!, be a boy with his Daddy and make me laugh!  The boy has been laughing and smiling since he figured out he could!  
Kyle comes up with some of the cutest ideas.  K-Hey Mom?!  I know why they call Super Man superman. 
Me-Why Kyle?
K-Because he's Super and a Man!
He has this idea for many many things!  
K-It's a hot dog because they are hot and made out of dogs!  lol  I love that one....
He is such a loving child also.  He loves all people and is very tender-hearted.  It's very easy to hurt his feelings.  He gets very excited about Jesus and often amazes me with his thoughts on God.  He's eager to learn all that he can, which is why he started Kindergarten a year early and is now doing a lot of the schoolwork with Amanda.  
I am so proud of my Little Man and love him so much!  And he is so much like me in many ways.  
Some pictures of My Boy:
It seems I will have to upload pictures onto Picasa because there is no longer an option to upload from my PC.  Hmmmmmm..........Nope you can still upload from here, but it's a different button.  And it won't work.  Hmpf on Blogger!
Ok I figured it out, it was not difficult nor time consuming to add some pictures to Picasa.  I will upload from there and hopefully it will work!  *fingers crossed*
Yay it worked!!
This first picture shows Kyle when he was about 2 years old I think and he wore Daddy's gloves to bed.  lol

 My Little Man brings me flowers all of the time!

 This is Princess Belle that we met.  Kyle was so in love with her and said he was going to steal her from The Beast.  Her face here is right after he had kissed her!  lol  My camera then was too slow to get the kiss, but it's priceless to get the face after!

 Always grinning!

 He was my Chubby Bubby when he was a baby.  He's so skinny now!  lol

 Awe, one of my favorites.  Right after he was born.  Always such a good little boy.