Flashback Friday (on Saturday)

silly a year ago

silly today

somethings just never change...

see other flasbacks and add your own by visiting Jen's Flashback Friday linky.

Flashback Friday

This pic is from July 2007!!!  MacKenzie and her cousins (plus 1 friend)  have grown so much!!!

I took a pic of the girls on the 4th.  Those three girl cousins in the middle have now expanded to 5 less Cydney...we missed her this 4th of July!

I posted that last one on my photography blog too, for the Independence theme this week.  I love seeing them all together!  They get along so well and love spending time together.

Now head over to Jen's blog to see more flashbacks!

Her World | My World

My best friends come up a lot here. My girls Brandy and Regina are like family to me. Regina and I have been best friends for about 19 years...for us...a lifetime. Our friendship with Brandy just a couple of years shorter. Live a little...deal with one too many "girl friends"...and spend just one hour in our presence and you can easily see that our friendship is unique. It's a gem and I know that I'm blessed to have those girls in my life. As a mommy to three little girls, I constantly pray and beg of God to bless my girls with friendships like the ones I share with those two special girls. We are never too far out of touch. Via email, text, or phone calls, we pretty much have some sort of contact several times a week. There have definitely been seasons where we talked everyday...work and kids strain that today...but we are still definitely there for each other when the need arises.  I love that miles apart we still bounce ideas off of one other, pray together, cry together...laugh together...and well yes we are girls...so we also roll our eyes at each other :) 

I recall being in college at OU and my oldest sister once telling me something to the effect that we were all kind of one in the same. Today I'd say that our worlds are all very unique.

I've mentioned here before that I joined in with 19 photographer on a creative journey...52 Fridays. I love what the project has done for my personal sense of creativity. I was THRILLED when Regina told me about a month in that she was going to join in on 52 Fridays...but with her own spin on it. Regina is a writer - a darn good writer. For the past several weeks she has used the same themes and used them for writing prompts. I LOVE her posts. We are 16 weeks in to the photography challenge, but last week on my drive to work, I called Brandy because I'd thought of a way for her to join in on the challenge. Right now, her world is centered around raising her miracle baby girl. I'm so excited to announce that Brandy is going to take on the themes each week as well and teach Hannah's lessons around the theme.

A year from now, I hope to compile Her World | My World into a book dedicated to our friendship and our five baby girls between the three of us. I'm so excited about the project and invite you to follow along. Our timing is off, but here below, I will link you to each of our Week 1 Post - Self Portraits

Her World | My World  | 52 Fridays | Week 1 | Self Portraits

Hope's World
Regina's World
Brandy's World

And because it's Friday...and I love joining in on the fun...here is my Flashback Friday! This is a picture of the three of us about a week or so before Brandy's daughter, Hannah, was born prematurely at 26 weeks. We had no idea how different life was going to be so soon...

And sure, I should be embarrassed, but here is another pic of us dressed alike during a girls weekend in Dallas - Regina's home at the time.  It was hilarious...but somehow when you get the three of us together...we don't care much about what anyone else thinks...ok...I admit...I can't believe we did that...LOL (totally ripped this pic off of Regina's blog...it's mutual...she's done it to me too :))

Don't forget to join in by visiting Jen's blog and linking up!

Happy Friday!

Flashback Friday

Easter is this weekend and I'm hoping to make it fun for the girls.  For the first time ever, I have purchased Easter baskets that I plan to put together...nothing fancy...but something.  I'm hoping we can dye and decorate eggs tomorrow.  I'm also hoping that the weather holds up so we can possibly do an egg hunt in the backyard.

This is a flashback from last Easter.  All three girls have grown SOOO SOOOOO much.  It's unbelievable.  Last year, I purchased MacKenzie's dress early on from Dillards on sale and I got the twins dresses from Target for $24.99.  This year, I found them dresses again at Target for $14.99/ea.  I'm thrilled.  They aren't fancy, but I'm not really one for the fancy dress, white shoes, and hat.  It just isn't me... :)  I ordered MacKenzie's online from Hautelook.com.  It's by US Angels.  I like it a lot, but  I'm just glad it fits!  She's seriously growing like a weed.

I hope you enjoy your Easter Weekend ! May your heart be filled with thanks for the sacrifice Jesus made for us.  For this, we were not worthy, but he paid the price anyway.  We are so very blessed.

This is probably a really dumb question, but why does the date of Easter change so drastically?  Last year, Easter was the first week of April...

I'm sure this is something I should know...but I'm going to have to google it... Enough of my blabbering...wanna play?? Head over to Jen's blog and link up!  !

Flashback Friday - One Pound Difference

My girls...one of their first nights together...still amazed by the difference one lb can make.  Nala was 1 lb bigger than Nia...and now...2 years later...so much bigger...

They go to the doctor on the 12th for their 2 year check up.  While neither of them were on the charts with their birth weights...they've made up for it...two healthy girls today :)

Wanna play, head over to Jen's blog and link up!  I already peeked...some wonderful flashback this week!

Flashback Friday - In the Arms of a Sister

The twins will be two on Sunday so I've been thinking back a lot lately to the day they were born.  The first picture is one of maybe two or three pictures we got of MacKenzie together before Nia was taken to the NICU.  She loved her sissy at first site.   The second is from January of this year.  It was one of the first pics I posted on my 52 Week Blog for 2011.   Love love love the way my big baby loves my little babies. 

Wanna play, head over to Jen's blog and link up!  I already peeked...some wonderful flashback this week!

Flashback Friday

Found this old photo in my flickr stream...from 2007.  Yep, I was torturing Mack even then.  It was Fall Break and I took her out to take pics during the day.  I remember the day so clearly.   Man she's grown a lot.  So who does she look like here?  Nia? Nala? Neither?

I miss her little ponytails.  I'm not mad at that backlight...I know this pic is wonky but to me it's a treasure.  It was taken with a Kodak Z650.  I thought it was a wonderful camera.  I still have it (I have a LOT of cameras) but it failed me early on...

Wanna play, head over to Jen's blog and link up!

When you are done, I think you want to check out my 52 Fridays Blog...I'm just saying, it could be a treat...week 10 will be published by 8 a.m. cst.

Flashback Friday (on Saturday)

Jen, mom to Jae has one of my favorite mommy blogs 525,600 Minutes .  I've enjoyed watching her little girl, Jae, grow over the last year or so.   Jen is a great photographer and captures the most beautiful candid moments of her girlie.   Last week she started hosting Flashback Friday.  I meant to participate and forgot and once again, I'm late, but still wanted to play. 

Here is my flashback pic.  It's taking it back................... way back.  To my kindergarten year.  Yesterday my cousin tweeted that this appeared in the Mardi Gras Bulletin in our hometown.  I had to see it and am so glad she scanned it for me.  We don't have many pictures of us growing up so it's always fun to see anything from the early  years.

Denhamtown Elementary
Bogalusa Louisiana
Kindergarten Class of 1986

Yeah, I should probably be embarrassed.  But...I'm not.  ha!

Not much - but just for fun - $5 giftcard to your choice of Starbucks or Target to the first person that comments with the correct guess to identify me amongst the crowd of very poor looking children here! ha! Should be pretty easy :)  Leave your email address so that I can email you and get your address...

Wanna play, head over to Jen's blog and link up!






ETA:  First two people guessed right!  Ok, girls, I think I know how to contact you both.  I will do so later today to send you both a g/c.  Thanks for playing :)