Prayers To Those at Sea World

My friend Julie's daughter Kristin, pictured here at Sea World Orlando, was trained by Dawn, who so tragically lost her life this week.
Kristin, Dawn and Lisa...
Kristin's words on Facebook....

Thank you all for your thoughts, concerns and prayers. I have gotten the opportunity to work with the most passionate, talented, caring, highly-trained, loving friend, and we are all better because of her. Please keep her family and our SeaWorld family in your thoughts and prayers. I thank God for the fabulous soul that blessed our lives!

9 Days of ....

I have just finished nine days of....

Laughing

Playing

Wondering

Knowing

Shopping

Yoga

Crying

Yoga

Learning

Inspiration

and Love.

Girlfriends are absolutely one of the best treasures we can give ourselves. I can always count on them to replenish my soul, to show me I am not alone in what I live through, how I mother, how I wife, how I am just a girl at heart. Girls. Women. We give so much to each other.

Thank you all for sharing my life with me, friends.

You mean more to me than you know...

I would follow these women ....

A N Y W H E R E

Games people play...

We played a fun new dice game called FARKLE. One of us put the dice in our drink cup and threw them on the table... ice cubes and all, what a laugh that was!!!
Girls who stayed home and cooked dinner... but don't worry, we went shopping AFTER dinner!!

The day was sunny and hot, finally, and

I took the plunge...
So did a few of my friends!

Sarah and Molly....

Meme found some adorable Easter shoes for her little gems. They have beautiful gems right on them and they shine!! Meme is going to leave surprises here for you, so when you get here for Easter vacation you will be so excited!! I miss you girls and can't wait to see you!!

My little Townsend Cayden... don't you worry! Meme is bringing home lots of handsome stuff for you too! We grandma's love the Carter outlet store! I miss you too, little monkey!

Oh Dagmara...

Aren't you proud... Yoga every morning with the Desperate Housewives!!The "newbies" are really trying so hard! "A" for effort!

We've had some cloudy days... but we still managed to enjoy the hot tub!

We also enjoyed laying out in the little bit of sunshine we had on Saturday!

I took Debbie to see her Dad today in Sarasota. It's always so cute to see them together!
Debbie is always doing such nice things for me, so I was so happy to do something sweet for her!! I am lucky to have her as a friend!
Tomorrow the Housewives hit the road... we are off to see Janice for the day! We are excited to see her home here in Florida!!

Guess who had a make over? She wanted to look just like this...

Oh, and someone DID eat that pie!

Chugga...Chugga... choo choo!!

The girls and I went to Cayden's house on Weds before I left because they were so worried about their little cousin! They wanted to see first hand his big cast because (in their words) "it is the saddest thing for baby Cayden because now he won't be able to walk." They asked if we could take him a new toy and I said "good idea"! We went to ToyrUs and they picked out some trains and a train mat -"since, you know, Meme, Chuggington is his favorite show! He loves trains!" They showered him with lots of love!
Molly really liked his Mickey couch... just like her Dora one!!
Cayden loved the trains...

Florida Fun!

The Desperate Housewives of Bay Cedar ....

Dinner - Big Al's Friday night.

Dee, Marlene, Patty, Roxi, Meigan, and Debbie. Missing from this photo... Ms. Jeanette :-( - who could not get time off work to join us this year!! We miss you J!

So, yes, I need to be in the picture too... here I am!
Patty, always smiling and laughing about something! Marlene, just trying to FOCUS!!
Ladies, one at a time...
Saturday... cloudy - 67 in Florida... what the hell? Shopping all day! Off to the Flea Market. We cannot miss the flea market each and every year... you never know what you might find!! We saw tee shirts custom designed for us....

Patty found earrings... for that special occasion!
Roxi wondered.... Do these look too BIG on me? She gave us her best Elvis impersonation while wearing the white ones!!
We had lunch at Dolly's, where homemade pies are a speciality!! How's that gonna fit into our Skinny Bitch regimen, I ask you????
Just look at the love that went into this pie... three little hearts cut into the crust. Reminded me of three little some ones I left back home in Ohio!! Meme misses her gems. This cherry pie looks heavenly... of course we are only going to look at it, not eat it!!
More shopping at Miromar Outlet Mall!! We needed some BLING!
There's that Patty again... smiling.
and AGAIN. What's with this Skinny Bitch?
Tomorrow's forecast... Sunny and 72. That's more like it. Pool day!!

Have YOU read the book... Skinny Bitch? What did you think about it?

Ride the Wonder Wheel...

Last Saturday, Dave and I took Sarah, Molly, Bridget and Cayden to the Home & Garden show at the expo center. They have a huge ferris wheel that travels around, up and right out of the building thru a glass enclosure!! So fun to ride! We sang Cherl Crow's song "Wonder Wheel", ok, maybe just I sang Wonder Wheel...

"Ride the Wonder Wheel...

It goes round and round, it goes UP... and it goes DOWN.
how I love all the sights and all the sounds...
riding on ... THE WONDER WHEEL!

Cayden had some fun sliding in the playground set up! The girls loved climbing all over them too!

Bridget and I ended up sitting and eating ice cream while Papa traveled the aisles, checking out decking, pool liners and such.
You scream, I scream, We all scream for Ice Cream! We were all pretty worn out after this excursion! I am in FLORIDA!! The Desperate Housewives have landed!

Townsend Cayden

My sweet little Cayden broke 2 bones in his foot today .... under my watch. I feel so sad about it, although, I know, there was nothing I could have done to prevent it. He was not climbing stairs, or furniture, no, he simply was walking and fell since he is still "wobbly" at it.
He came home from the drs. ready to smile for me still. He is just the most precious little guy to me, I could not love him more.
His Papa loves him lots too!
Pray for quick healing so this little man can get to walking around again! His Mama's thoughts here.