Easter, Easter, Easter

Oh, wait did I tell you guys that I LOVE Easter! Love it so much that I bought my little next door neighbor a bunny! Ok, not a real one, her parents would kill me. But one she can hug and love and call it her own! I'm soooooo excited about the change in weather too, I love spring, so much so that I got married in the Spring. Yep, J and I got married in March! In fact, our 8 year anniversary is next week. Holy Mackrell Batman, 8 years! Seems like yesterday! And I know it sounds corny but I do love him more today that I did 8 years ago. Anyway, enough about my anniversary (more about that next week). Getting back to spring, the flowers have already started to bloom, and so you know what that means ---- photo opportunities for me! WOO HOO!

Blessings,
Magnolia

Layla Grace

Thank all of you for your prayers. As Layla's mother so wonderfully said. Layla went to play with the angels this morning. Please continue to prayer for the Marsh's family and for their transition to a life without little Layla on this Earth. I said a little prayer for her earlier and asked her to say "Hello" to my Dad. Thank you all again for your continued prayers.

Blessings,
Magnolia

Snowing Again!

Are you kidding me?!?!? It's snowing again! We go years and years with no snow and twice in 3 weeks it snows. Holy Mackerel Batman! I now have a hard time believe the whole global warming issue. Have I told you have much I adore watching snow fall and how peaceful it is for me??? Oh, yeah, I think I did a couple of posts ago.

Again, please pray for Layla Grace, she is such a fighter!

Blessings and More!
Magnolia

Please Remember

Please remember to pray for Layla Grace, I have added her Mom's twitter link to the blog. Also, you can connect to their blogsite and read her story from there. It is a heart wrenching story so before you start, grab some tissue (wish I had, ruined my mascara, thank goodness I was home at the time!). God bless her family for being so supportive and calm during this time and thanks be to God for giving them this support and calm.

Thank you,
Magnolia

Easter & Curling

And what do these two things have in common. Well more that likely absolutely nothing! Just wanted to see if you were paying attention. And I really wanted to talk about both.

1st - Easter - As you can see I have changed my background to Easter already. Why you ask? Well to be completely honest with you....I LOVE EASTER! It's my favorite holiday. All of the hum bug from Christmas is replaced with WOO HOO at Easter. Not only do I love what it symbolizes for Christians (the whole world actually), but both my anniversary and birthday fall in this lovely season. I adore this season for so many reasons. Great cool crisp weather with wonderful blue skies, stunning flowers that come into bloom. And what does most of that equal, well simply - GREAT picture taking opportunities. I love to take pictures in the spring and around Easter. So you see there are lots of great reasons that I love this time of year.

2nd - Curling - Well during these Winter Olympics I have become addicted to curling. I blame J. for this. A little background here, J. lived most of his life in Minnesota, yep, this southern girl married a midwesterner (that's a whole other story), and he started curling when he was really young and loves it. So therefore, we have been watching all the matches on TV and have become really interested in this sport. Too bad that way down south we don't have a whole lot of ice rinks and definately no curling clubs that we could join. But we're looking, I thing J. found that the closest one is about 1 1/2 hours away. So we'll have to see what happens.

So there you go. Easter and Curling, one has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember, the other may become one in the near future.

Blessings & Happy (early) Easter!
Magnolia

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!  And just for you, here's another picture of our SNOW!

Are You Kidding? SNOW!?!?

Yep!  Snow!  And lots of it (or at least lots for us)!  The white stuff starting coming down right when I left work yesterday (and you'd just know it would start at the end of the day and not the beginning right).  As I drove home it was snowing pretty hard, but of course and thank goodness it wasn't sticking yet.  I got home and all I could do was sit and watch it fall.  There is just something really peaceful about snow falling.  I fixed myself a cup of coffee and sat under our carport and was just amazed.  Do you ever have moments when you really feel God's peace around you?  Well, it's when things were quiet and the snow was falling for me yesterday.  There was just a peace and serenity about everything.  It was awesome (Lack of a better word).  So what does peace and serenity look like to me........