Josie

Here is about 3 minutes of “the day in the life of my dog Josie”….! She is happy to be home. I had to take her to the vet the other day and she was so stressed out that she burst a blood vessel in her right eye! Told me to bring her back if it didnt look better the following day. Which I did. My daughter Kelly came with me.Josie used to be her dog. She was coming with me to see Kathy’s new puppies (previous post) and she told me that one time when Josie was a little thing she went to get her vaccinations and they broke off the needle inside her!!! No wonder she was stressed out. But folks when I got there initally to pick her up they told me it would be a few more minutes…as I am heading to the desk I hear a dog scream! It was so weird sounding but it kinda sounded like Josie so  I asked, was that my dog??!!! The receptionist just didnt really answer me and fluffed it off. Didnt think much of it until later when the Dr. suddenly notices her eye as he is giving me the low down on Josie’s visit. Which was just for vaccinations. When I returned the next day to show them the eye was worse the vet got the low down from Kelly on Josie’s broken needle incident and I picked up a prescription for her eye. I don’t feel good about how she really got the broken blood vessel. I think someone knows something that happened to her but isnt saying. Anyway…I guess she will live….! I just hate that she had another bad experience! Oh nd I can’t just take her somewhere else because I signed up for their year long health plan which saved me ALOT of money!!! Gee, now I am just worried how will I ever get her into the groomers!

Anyway! Here is my sweetheart Josie….She likes to hang out under the dining room table when she has a bone so I had to get down to her level to get her 3 minutes of fame…haha

Mom must feel pretty sorry for me! I got a great bone!

Oh yeah!!!

Look at me GO!!

Okay guess I will take a rest now….

Ho hum… this is rather boring…

Oh here comes the sun….that can only mean one thing my mom and her camera!!! So I guess I will throw her a bone and pose…

Sometimes she likes to experiment with color….is this a good color for me?

What was that?!!

Oh yeah …Posing…I am supposed to be posing! Is this my good side?  

No more like this…I think.

Oh that sun feels good!!!

 Hey check me later when I do some real fun stuff…like getting my bath! The fun part will be watching them catch me! hahaha… 

Isn’t she the cutest! I just love her to pieces!!!

My 5D is here!!

I went around this morning and took a few shots.

I’ll be doing some more later, but wanted to post just a few from the new camera.

These are all out of the camera so you can see (and I can gloat) in how they look before you edit them!)

 

 

 

Thats all for now, but there will be more to come!!

We have a mini-engagement this Saturday so it will be put into action very fast! We are shooting the wedding for Karah & Josh and they are who we are taking pictures of on Saturday. We’ll post them after so you can see how cute they are!

 

Mark finally got his 5 D!!!!

Remember when he dropped his 20D and his nice IS (image stabili$er lens) a little while back?
Well he took his money and upgraded it to the famous 5D everyone is so excited about.
I have had mine for a year now and I have been super happy with it!
Now Mark is gonna know what it feels like to own his own…
He has been very much coveting mine for a while now! So now he can live guilt free!!

 

Stay tuned for Mark’s pictures from his new 5 tomorrow! Also, we got our
Graphi Album with the cover picture embedded into a silver metallic cover!
Be posting that up tomorrow too! Right now we gotta get to the gym!

 

 

My friend Kathy called to say her 
doggie Lola had puppies! So Kelly and I jumped in
the car and headed over.

Feeding Time!

She is a good mommie!

Black and white

Sepia tone

Aren’t they precious!

It’s a good thing they already have homes or Kelly
and I would have taken at least one home!

She was curious about the camera!

This is the Daddy…Charlie. He did not like the camera at all!
So I didnt get alot of him…

I just love baby animals!!!

I played around with some of these pictures in Picasa to get some different looks.
I used my Canon 5D with no flash in doors with just lamps for lighting. I used my 28mm fixed at 800-1600 ISO.

Pretty cool!

 

For a few days now I have been looking at my counter and realizing how quickly time really does go by!!! It makes me kinda mad at myself for sometimes squandering it…..

When I hit 50 I thought this is gonna be a piece of cake…but then it quickly went downhill from there. I ended up with all kinds of pains and what nots…I realize now looking back that I had alot of symptoms relating to being too sedentary but that is the only thing that seemed to help! I then began searching for answers. I ran across a list of symptoms for fibromyalgia from a friend who has it. Then a friend from church came across my path with all these supplements she took for hers and said she was healed. So I bought them and as long as I took them I felt good. Even pretty good. Then I added excersise and realized that once I started working out I really started to feel ALOT better! But wouldnt you know it. Things got hectic and schedules changed and I stopped going to the gym! Can you imagine!? Then the supplements dropped off and I was eating junk again!! So guess what I was feeling OLD again. All the aches and pains were coming back. Then because of vanity I came to another crossroads weight gain!! That did it! I guess I can tolerate being an invalid but overweight and and invlaid NO WAY!!! IT was at this juncture that I heard about Dr. Perricone. I heard a couple of things that made one of those doink! sounds in my head and I decided to try it. I was so excited to hear my son say this morning, Hey Mom youre lookin pretty good! Then later he came up to me and said , so that Dr. Perricone is working for ya, huh? My heart was soaring! What a great way to start the day! So I took my supplements and drank my green tea with a smile on my face…

Today we start back at the gym….so I am feelin pretty good about ’07!

How was your day? I hope you are doing all you can to stay healthy this year. Just look at how fast time flies by! One day you will wish you had taken better care of yourself along the way! Trust me!

Love ya!
Kerri    

 

It’s my sister Lorri’s birthday lunch!!!

After we ate our lunch Lorri opened her presents…
Usually you cant get Lorri to wait till after you eat…
She really is growing up! haha 

Oh apparently I am very funny!

Here she has opened the other picture…and taking a closer look. 

This other picture is the picture of The Sharp Family in my previous post from the other day…
as you know if you look closely her mother in law is laughing so hard that it made us all laugh too!

Okay, lets be serious now and open Lindsay’s gift!

OOOO! What is this?

It is a book that Lindsay made…I mean made!
Every bit of this book was handmade!

Lorri hired Lindsay to take pics of her Christmas decorations before she took them down.
Lindsay took her camera and came back with some great images…

Lorri is suprised to see her pictures in a BOOK!

It is so satisfying to be able to make your gifts!!!

Okay so on to the desserts!!!!

This is the Churro Alamode!

And this is their Flan!!
They were both really good!!!

This is where we ate…

Okay this is our dear friend Donna, Lorri,
Kelly (my pregnant daughter-Grayson’s mommie), and me! 

And here is Lindsay!…

Now on to the Chick Flick portion of the program!
We saw The Holiday…we all loved this movie!!!
It made me want to run home, throw open the door and hug and kiss my husband! I am so glad I am married!!! Happily married!!!

It was such a fun day!!!!

Happy Birthday Lorri!!

 

 

Shhh….these are a surprise for my sister’s birthday which was Jan. 2nd. So Lorri if you see this do NOT scroll down! You have to wait until Saturday! 

In my last post on Nana’s passing I wanted to share who Nana was related to. My sister’s husband Mike is Nana’s grandson and the lady in the front is Fran who is Nana’s daughter. We took pictures at Kelly’s at Christmas and this was so hilarious we had to make a storyboard! Do you remember my post where I was an elf? Well they all watched it about 10 times at Christmas so when it came time to make some of these guys smile, I lifted my leg in the position I had it in the elf link and these are what we got…I think that tickled Fran’s funny bone…lol!!!

 

Left to Right: Lorri, Will, Mike, Fran and Sara

This one just makes me smile and sigh…I just love it…

We put a little border around it so it can be framed without cutting much more of Mike from the photograph.

 

 

Just got back from Nana’s Memorial. It was a beautiful mass. Held in the Catholic Church that family attends. After the service they had a full breakfast prepared in another building We ate then drove to Fran’s house to visit with family. My sister is married to Mike and Nana is Mike’s maternal grandmother. You will recall I posted Nana’s passing in mid December at the age of 102.

While I was at Fran’s (Mike’s mother) Nana’s daughter I learned alot about the family especially Nana. She was a very sweet person and never learned to drive. She walked everywhere and ate very healthy most of her life. Until she got to be in her 80′s when she learned she loved Hotdogs! haha…She helped nurse her mother to health when she was sick and became a nurse as a result. She was a very happy person and did for others as her mother did. Her mother did things other people found too difficult to do. She bathed and dressed little babies and children that died to prepare them for their burials. The generation before us did waht they had to do but Nana did it with a smile and song in her heart…

God Speed Nana!

Holy Family Church (through the door windows)

The stained glass in the foyer

Just below the stained glass was this beautiful
little Nativity Scene

This little table was set up in the room
where we shared breakfast together

Close up of the middle picture board . I believe
the middle picture of her at 18 yrs. The one above
of the male was her husband.

Nana just weeks before she passed.

 

The rose on the table…

Our flowers…

My sister pointing out Nana in her pictures…

Our bouquet of flowers…

L-R Fran, her son-in-law, David who is married to
Linda, Fran’s daughter who is standing behind him,
my sister Lorri , and Mark my husband.

They are looking at an old scrap book put
together with all the old photos and momentos.

David’s wife Linda is the family historian/geneologist.
She began this beautiful book when she was young.
She was always the one who asked the elders to tell her
names and dates and stories as she heard them. 

She would then add them to her book…
with pictures and notations… 

 I thought I would end on the beautiful page…

Nana loved God so I have no doubt that her life has gone on…in Heaven…