Proud to be an American.....

Freedom.....

The Smiles.....

Freedom....

The Laughter.....

Freedom....

These little girls are thankful for the Men and Women who continue to fight for their Freedom! 

God Bless America!!

In Honor of Independence Day, we will be closed on Monday, July 4th. 

We will re-open on Tuesday, July 5 at 9am. 

In the mean time...... 

it may not be free.

But close to it....

ALL SPRING/SUMMER APPAREL 

AND 

SWIM SUITS

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TWO DAYS ONLY....

TOMORROW AND SATURDAY!

*** excludes all day, Christening, Coming home gowns, and special occasion***

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Coupon Monday!

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Enjoy!! 


Another Give-Away coming soon...stay tuned!! :)

Hmmmmmmm......

where to even begin??

June has been busy and we have yet to experience the lazy days of summer! Emily made All stars in Softball so our nights continue to have the route of ball fields!

Last week, Tim had business in Atlanta and so we decided to tag along.......

which was fun, because we could order Chinese in and hang out in the pool all day.


Elizabeth found the complimentary sleep mask amusing and we found her wearing it very entertaining....

we also discovered this would be the last trip our girls could go with sharing one bed AND that their new favorite restaurant is the Waffle House....

which lucky for me was right next door to our hotel....

Tuesday night we headed here.....

I SOOOO wanted to sneak in my camera with zoom lens, but decided to follow the rules and only use my camera phone in the stadium.


This was not only the girls first Braves game, but mine as well. I loved it! When I was younger, one of my older brothers and myself climbed on our roof and made a Tomahawk out of Christmas lights and had it displayed up there through the World Series.

I reminded the girls that Chipper Jones was just a newbie to the team when I was younger and watched them all the time.

We headed home the next day and I had just enough time to check in at the shop, wash some clothes, repack my bags and head north to babysit this little guy for the weekend.....

Pure Sweetness! This little booger's father is a photographer; so I took full advantage that he has seen a camera before and is not afraid of it....

ohhhhhhhhh! Seriously! I could EAT.HIM.UP! One day I will post pics of their home and the very creative ways my SIL decorated a rental that had a No Paint (along with other things) contract. Another day, Another time, but I do have pics and they will haunt me until I post them, so no worries, they will post!


On to creative decorating.......


Over the last few months, I (along with many others) have been helping plan and put together a wedding. It has been lots of fun! Pulling together using talents and gifts that God has given us makes me smile and I hope brings honor and smiles to our Heavenly Father as well! So many details, so many projects! I can't WAIT to show you....details later next week!

Speaking of weddings...........

Look who's starting to plan one.......

A huge congratulations to our Leah on her engagement!! We are super excited for she and Wesley! She has been a blessing to us and our business and we will miss her greatly when she heads to Mobile for school in the Fall.



Now, speaking of Fall.......

I am sure you sun loving, heat stroking peeps can't believe that these little guys have arrived.....

tis true tis true.....

and they want to make it to your little ones closet soon in hopes that cooler days are ahead! Which also means, that if Fall is rolling in, Spring is moving out! Shop with us for up to 50% Off Spring/Summer apparel!

Well, I think this has slightly updated everyone!


Good night y'all!

Coupon Monday!

Hello Blogger Friends! Lots going on in my neck of the woods. Can't wait to tell you all about it! I am working on a post, but in the mean time.....

here's "Coupon Monday!"....

excludes: New arrivals, Day, Coming Home and Christening Gowns! 

Enjoy! 

Coupon Monday!

Sorry for the delay getting this out. Sick baby this morning. She is better, but I will tell you, if you need to schedule an appt. for a well check up with Dothan Pediatrics, the summer is obviously the time to do that. I have never seen the office that empty. I got my girl's scheduled and it was easy easy!



Here's Coupon Monday y'all! Happy Monday!

enjoy!

Viewer Discretion Advised.....

Wow, you a probably wondering what this title is all about.

Basically, I have the privileged of using this blog as my little soap box sometimes. And today, I would like to stand on it.


I am women, hear me roar!




What if I could just jump right into the black and white t.v. show with an apron on, my child biking down to the local grocer, and husband coming home from his 8-5 job at approximately 5:05pm everyday, with the only negative words coming out of my mouth when I dropped the fresh homemade blueberry pie on the ground being "oh fiddle de de".

My how times change.  Besides the apron, my child doesn't bike to the local grocer and my husband doesn't show up the same time everyday and I say more than "fiddle de de" when I drop anything food related on the ground.

I say all this because though times have changed, somethings don't need to.



I understand that the English language changes. In fact, I can type the word "gotta"  at this very moment and my spell check won't even pick it up, but the two (now three) times I have typed "Fiddle de de", it shows up incorrect EVEN if I try multiple spellings, it doesn't recognize a very verbally used word 50 years ago.



My point (and this is where I stand tall on my soap box):

My mom's generation: this boy is cute. Super Cute!

My generation: this boy is fine. Mega fine!

My daughter's generation: this guy is Hot! Like OMG HOT!


If I could tell you the amount of times I heard that word referenced at a boy in my daughter's age group the end of this school year you would think I was exaggerating. In fact, my 7yr old told us the other night a school mate told her she was Hot.

I understand that words can mean one thing and the way you say them can magnify them, but to me, Cute, means good looking, Fine, means really good looking, but, Hot, means a whole lot more than that.

Pardon my bluntness, but if I EVER use the word Hot referring to my husband, it will mean a whole lot more than the fact that he is good looking, it would probably come before I jumped him. Sorry, I know bluntness isn't always necessary, but this is my soap box and I am trying to make a point here.



I could say that when I use the word Hot about my husband that I am just stating the fact that he is attractive to me, BUT, if I used the word "Oh, fiddle di di" when dropping something, now in days you might think it comical or that it really didn't matter that I dropped it, I will just "whip up another one" attitude; verses the "oh, shit!' that the world really wants to use to get the point across on how miserable that was for you to drop it and ruin your day.


Point again: If  you are using a word in the way that the world has corrupted, please teach your children what that word really means and as Christians set yourselves apart from the world. Because as I was driving down the road to drop off my nieces and nephew the other day this issue was already heavy on my heart, but made it to this blog because of this..............

this is how the world interprets the word Hot. And if this doesn't convince you enough, try Google imaging the  word Hot.

I'll step down now....

and the winner is..............

The winner of our Posh Panoply Give-Away is...............

Congrats Kim!!!!! Come pick up your prize by next Friday!!

Fun Times......

 So, I have discovered that posed photography is for the birds..... 

Well, maybe that's not fair to say.....

Let me rephrase.... I have discovered, posed photography with CHILDREN is for the birds......

I once remember clearing out Elizabeth's nursery when she was born, thinking that her newly painted checker boarded floors and white walls would be the perfect back ground to take newborn pictures of her and her two older sisters. At the time they were age 3 and 4. I had then (8years ago) a really nice manual Cannon film camera that took really good pictures. BUT, as I said, it was film and it was manual; and with a 3 and 4 year old, I already prepared myself for knowing I would probably have to take about a BILLION shots. Not to mention, then I take them up to be developed, wait, and then when looking through my billion pics want to cry because of all the frustration that even went into that day just to end up with a half decent picture of all three....

1. the taking out furniture.
2. fixing hair and placing the bow just right
3. making sure they all had good naps
4. waking them up to make sure they didn't look sleepy eyed
5.breast feeding the infant
6. going ahead and letting the infant spit up multiple times on the "pretend" photo attire, because you knew she was going to do that so you did in fact, save the best for last.
7.placing them just like you want them
8.threatening ice cream if they do good.
9. change the blow out diaper after shot 152
10. threatening with ice cream AND movie
11. tell them "just one more"....lie
12.give into the pacifier being an accessory the picture
13. tell them to stop poking the baby in her eye
14. threatening their life
15. giving them ice cream while calling your husband and telling him he better go get a vasectomy before heading home.


and just so I don't forget, I have 1 billion pictures to remind myself of that day.....

 All this to say........

 I have changed a lot since that day....

  These are my girls......

Almost 12,11 and 8,  and I still can't get what some people would think "the perfect picture" of all three together. Where they all look at the camera, they all have their perfect smile on (or fish face!) and that hair is placed perfectly on their head.


But, I have realized that if the picture above would be different, it wouldn't be my kids.


These are my girls. I have decided to snap my camera and capture our life, and this, is our life.

Because one day, we are going to look back at pictures we have and laugh a lot......


so, sit back and enjoy the pictures of our beach adventure with my brother and family.......maybe you'll laugh a little too....

and so they say, a picture can say a thousand words.....

Why not it scream this................





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