more orangey photos with thoughts on bonding

Tonight I am thinking about (and praying for) this little fellow here with his first ear infection and his pregnant mom sitting solo with him while my son travels far and wide over seas. I can only encourage her being a distance away but fully knowing the hardship as I raised 2 babies by myself with many an ear ache. It is not fun and I distinctly remember the agony of feeling rather helpless with managing their pain. Thankfully the antibiotics will give some relief soon and family and friends are nearby to helpout. He is one precious little guy and having orange hair gives him and me some serious bonding for life.

Annie was smitten with the pony ride on Saturday at the pumpkin patch and this will be one of my alltime favorite photos of us. Since we have spent many a day walking to see the neighborhood horses, I feel a special tie with her and the horses. I am indeed sad though at the moment because right now the horses are out in the country and we have yet to see them since last Spring. I look for them everyday on my walks. I have hope they are coming back to the neighborhood but if not, we will always have pumpkin patches, festivals, and somebody elses horses to visit nearby. Of course Annie told me that her favorite pumpkin patch thing was riding the pony. The girl is bonded to them with me and it all started on our strolls to see Tess.

Another bond I have with a certain orange headed little girl is with the curls. Goodness knows this girl and I have the same swirls and curls and if I dare say the same spirit! She and I need to spend a lot of time together in the nearby years because I fear for her life. No, seriously, I fear that she will be labeled with that TEMPER everyone loves to give us redheaded people. I would love to get face to face with the nimcumpoo who started that legacy and shake him up real good. I see blondes and brunettes and gray headed people with bad tempers all the time but no one says a word about their hair! Anyway, this girl and I will always be hooked with each other. I understand her. I feel for her. I love her. So far she is the only redheaded girl in her generation in our family.

And one last precious photo of the gals preparing to trick or treat. They got started at Lolli and Pops 2 weeks ago :)

Orange Trees

I took these pictures of some beautiful Fall trees on my walk yesterday, before all the rains came last night. So glad I did.

I think more people would walk if they had this kind of scenery to look at. I consider myself blessed and motivated as I walk each day.
Our God is an awesome God (even if we do have to look at speed bumps too)

Hope you are motivated now to get outside and do some walking of your own :)

Waiting on google blog account to let me upload some photos- will post Orange Thursday as soon as it lets me :)
If I continue to have trouble -I may resign the blog business because if you are like me, you don't want to just read words and blah blah blah, you want to see pictures mainly. Hoping to have an easy time of this as blogging should be fun and therapeutic but bloggers beware if you are using google- they have certain limits on how many photos.
Until then, here is a bit of trivia about the color ORANGE:
Orange is a power color. It is one of the healing colors. It is said to increase the craving for food. It also stimulates enthusiasm and creativity.

Orange Wednesday

Today is recycle day and I always enjoy my new plastic cap top finds/deliveries on Wednesdays. I sorted thru a few bags that I already have and have started grouping them in colors. Guess what color I enjoyed sorting thru for today? Right!

I took the bag outside trying to come up with a creative place to photograph them and right by my St. Francis of Assisi statue is where I landed. It gives me a reason to mention here, that I had a nice time digging up my daddy's day lilies last week and then planting them in my circle garden. I am quite sure some of them will be ORANGE when they bloom! But more importantly, I had a very interesting talk with my Father this week after my week of day lilies. And I am talking about both my earthly father and my Heavenly Father. Sunday's sermon at church was on how we view God. Something caught my undivided attention when the statement was made that it is good to say "Father" when we address God. I thought about how I feel when I can call on Daddy and he is there for me. (there have been times when he has not been there for me too so the contrast was good for me to visualize) I thought about how when we were digging up those lilies and I asked Daddy was he sure he wanted me to take all of them. His response was "Nothing would give me more pleasure than to see these blooming in your yard later on". Oh, do you hear what was about to be a "God thing" to me!
After church, I came home and looked at the freshly planted lilies in our garden and realized that my Heavenly Father wants nothing more than to see my blooms later on, even though a few plants are just now getting rooted in me. It may be hard work getting rooted but He is always there waiting to watch me bloom.

Orange Tuesday

When we took Annie and Lily Kate to the local plant nursery 2 weeks ago (while they were staying the weekend with us) so they could see a few of the animals wandering around, I had no idea Annie would be excited to see all the orange pumpkins. A few college students were painting them to sale for charities and they really sparked a flame within her to paint her own. (child after my own heart)
She could hardly wait for me to put Lily Kate down for her nap so she and I could have some painting time on the porch. The little shirts I usually have them wear while they paint were in a drawer in the room where LK was napping and I forgot to get it out of there. So I pulled out this apron I made years ago when Lauren and Sydney were this age and hoped she would not get paint on her AU cheerleader dress.

She was very careful because she too is an AU fan and would not want Aubie to find her outfit all messed up. She painted the whole thing all by herself and later told her mama that it was her favorite part of the weekend (even including the Fair rides and the animals we petted).
We went from painting to playdoh masks (orange made from mixing pink and yellow) and then to popsicles that afternoon. Thank you Lord, for my porch!
Lily Kate was so happy when she woke up to have an orange popsicle and get in on the playdoh fun. (She has no idea she missed out on the painting and that is a good thing)
(close up of that pretty dark orange hair) more often known as an AUBURN color but let's call it orange for sake of this post!


Lily Kate says "now,orange yall glad you came back today to see all these lovely orange photos of Lolli's?"

there will be more orange photos from this month tomorrow!

999 and 10-10-10 and Orange Orange Orange

What a crazy title, you say? Why did I pick it? 3 reasons:
My blog counter showed 999 this week and that means 999 people have viewed this blog over the last 2 years or it has been viewed 999 times.

And this month we all saw 10-10-10 on the calendar and I had A & Lk that weekend that it fell upon so I gave it a 10 for sure!

And the whole month of October has been ORANGE for me (with a touch of blue). I've had some great times this month with my youngest grands and it seems most of my photos are in living color orange. I can't help it that my team's colors happen to emphasize the bright orange color of this month too but I sure do like it! Speaking of my team, it is only fitting for an Auburn fan to express how extremely proud and happy we are to be 8 and 0 and ranked #1 in the BCS this week. There are some big ole smiles about town this week!
And this October season has turned into a beautiful orange display of Autumn colors. I just love to thank God for His creative touches on this time of year.

In honor of our Orange Orange Orange month, I am going to post some of my favorite orange photos taken during October each day this week~Hope you enjoy!

This gigantic bouncey Tiger was at the Pumpkin Patch we visited this past weekend with the kids. And tiny little Annie went up there and came down all by herself. I called her "cotton ball" after that since her body just floated on down the slide with barely a movement as her precious feet hit the ground.

My brave son in law took both my 2 granddaughters up that huge thing next and slid down holding both of them. (look in the middle shadowy part to see them coming down) They all came down in one piece but Jack was waiting at the edge to catch someone just in case. My daughter decided to brave it also and we all shared a big laugh at their daring adventures. A good time was had by all!

The tractor train ride was fun too and Annie particularly loves a fast moving ride. I loved watching her. Lily Kate was happy to sit on our laps and take in the open country scenery. J & J were in the seat in front of us which afforded her to capture some pretty cute photos of us in action.
I think they started Pumpkin Patches MOSTLY for grandparents, don't you?

ORANGE you going to come back to see what photos I post tomorrow? There will be some orange themed ones for sure!

consignment sales

ok-I admit that I am a sucker for consignment sales, kid's especially. I will comb thru them pretty good and look for the deals. Recently, I worked at our big local sale and if you work so many hours you get to preview things and shop early. It's not easy work either but I meet interesting new people and learn a few things at these events. And when I find things like this top for $5.00,

I am convinced it was worth my time! Yes, it was a size 4 (I have two little size 4's in my life :)and it was missing the pants but the smocking and cuordory top were in excellent condition and I knew I could find some material to make some pants to go with it. I actually think these are the cutest smocked lollipops I have seen yet.
And I did find the exact turquoise gingham right here in town at my sewing store and sewed these pants up quickly this week.

And wah lah! Here's a cute new lollipop outfit for the size 4 girls to share!(And I hope another little one might wear it also in 4 years from now).

p.s. Have I ever told you how much I love being Lolli?