Goodbye Summer and remembering The Big Girls

I had high hopes of sharing some interesting pictures that I took Saturday at the AU game and was all ready to download them from my phone to the computer and I stuck the adapter card in the wrong slot which will now cost me a trip to the computer store. We have shook it every which-a-way and taken off the front without damaging anything but it appears we need help to retrieve it.
Oh well, some of you (Alabama fans don't want to see those pictures anyway) will appreciate other pictures more.

I blogged early in August that I would have to share my Girls' Week pictures in September since this month will be a slow one in our activity of seeing grandchildren. So here are some from Big Girls Week at Lolli and Pops:
We did so much the week these girls were here but this picture sums it up pretty good! We had a blast together :)
When Lauren and Sydney are here, things happen that just don't normally take place. When you put 2 cousins, ages 13 and 10 together away from their brothers and parents they seem to get a little hyper, especially when cooking anything chocolate!

Giggles, smeared faces, laughter, and stained shirts were the result! (gotta love Shout It Out at times like this)

Sydney walked in with not 1 but 3 bags full of Beanie Babies and they certainly had a good time all week with these collectable items. It was fun to see their creativity naming them and grouping them and including them in most everything we did!
My friends' tandem bike was good for some morning exercise too between the 4 of us.

especially Pops and I since the girls could not reach the front seat's pedals.

One of the fun things we did with my neighbor's granddaughters was style us some hairdos with empty plastic bottles (in this case they used small Dr.Pepper bottles:) The girls all had fun modeling their do's to us along with a little skit too.


You knew I could not post without a lollipop picture :)
One of the things I enjoy most about having the big girls is playing games with them. These 2 love playing games as much as I do and they begged me every night to stay up late playing either mexican dominoes or Last Word.

I miss them already. I really am sad to say goodbye to summertime but I already have a few new ideas brewing for next year's weeks with each set of grandchildren :)

Are you ready?

Are you ready for some football?

We are ready at Lolli and Pops' house!

Sayings about growing older

This blog post is dedicated to growing older. We had 2 birthdays in our house this week and we have celebrated in style! The pictures posted are all new ones taken in the last 2 weeks and the sayings are from one of those emails that was recently forwarded to me!

The best antique is an old friend. These friends have been through life with me, starting in the church nursery as toddlers through high school and consistently standing beside me through each stage of life. I treasure them so much.

One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a
nice change from being young. Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old
is comfortable. Not only am I comfortable with my old friends but I bought the same dress in 2 colors because they are extremely comfortable and that is what really matters now that I press on in life!

Speaking of being comfortable, this friend here is one I can always be comfortable with. She is a testimony of what a true friend is!
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Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. James 4:14 NKJV

I can only hope that these little girls will grow up and my life will have impacted them in a positive way as my grandmothers' lives did in my life.
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to
know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads
weren't paved.

Julie Cobb and Annie Cobb
The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's
really in trouble... exception being when you are with your grandmother and that middle name is the same as your grandmother's!
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think
of Algebra.
Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.
My husband likes to remind me of life before we met. He is right, I would not go back to my youth or Algebra for nothing.
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You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
this was rather humorous after receiving 2 identical birthday cards this week = I think my friends and family are trying to tell me something = maybe that I have a lot of fun laughing or maybe something else!
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Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth!Even though you can not see her very well here, I love this picture because Lily Kate has her sweet little hand on my shoulder and she did that naturally. I also love it because we don't have many pictures of the 3 generations of us girls together.

It's been a good week. Thanks yall for celebrating our August birthdays with us.

deleting

Deleting is such a powerful thing to do. If only we could delete some of our mistakes in life, right? There could be a mini sermon on that right here on my blog but I am not going to take the time or space to do that because my blog is about "Lolli's loves" and I don't necessarily like to talk about my mistakes (there have been plenty). However I have learned a bunch from my mistakes and I am ok to admit that. I also do love this delete button on the computer! And I totally prefer to blog about my loves and had to make some photo space in order to do that. After spending about an hour today deleting old photos from 2008 so I could add some new ones to this blog, I feel like I cleaned out a closet or two..if only I had used that time to really clean out a closet or 2 :)...
ok, I look forward to soon sharing on the blog from my time with the Girls' Weeks this summer. I had so much fun with both the big girls and the little girls. I also had a birthday this week and have a few fun photos to share about that too. I will be around this week. For now I need to download a few new photos. Happy weekend to whomever is reading with me! And I hope you are enjoying your delete button as much as me!

Some favorite Luau pics

There were some people who were in rare form at the Luau:

and this picture with the trees in the background makes Lee look like a giant doing the hula hoop! Well, he is sort of a giant :)

speaking of rare form, Gregarina was hilarious during our skits!
even the toddlers were laughing at his cheerleading!

Knox at the Luau

Knox and his mommy and daddy arrived the night before the Luau. He was flying high as the center of attention and rightly so!

Babies are so much fun to watch at these family get togethers and Knox certainly was adored by everyone but especially the big girls at the Luau this year. They were so eager to hold him but the crowd was a bit overwhelming.

Here are some of my favorites of Knox at the Luau:




please note what is in Knox's hand after the pinata broke and the cool dude open shirt style with beads!

Lolli loves this baby boy!

Built for two...

One day earlier this summer I was sitting with a few of my elderly friends playing mexican dominoes and one of them started singing Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer....I'm half crazy all for the love of you....
anyhow if you don't know the song, it is all about a bicycle built for two. One thing led to another and I found out this couple had an old tandem bike buried deep in their garage. They were most excited for me to get it out and use it for some of my summer activites.

the older granddaughters had fun with it during their week with us but they were not quite big enough to control the front seat so either Jack or I ended up riding with them. We got our exercise that week :) Those bikes are not easy!
during the Luau, we put it out for the mamas and daddys to get some fun out of it too. Uncle Jeff and Corey had a nice ride.

Jessica and Joey had a fun ride too.
You just never know what Lolli and Pops might pull out during a Luau.