Doh!

Well my brother-in-law Chris and his bride Lisa had a lovely little wedding & luncheon. The sun came out, she looked radient most things went smoothly enough - except

That i forgot my camera card and have nothing to show :_(

Off to the Barn....

I'm heading out the the barn today for the weekend with a car packed full of papa hyden's cakes for another wedding (this time not my own)

This should be a very interesting mix of family people - many of whom I have not yet met

I will show all about it when I come home

Fabulous!

I find that some images just capture the essence of my life so well.....

By the way,

apon further study of dear Fabio http://www.fabioifc.com/

I've come to realize that he REALLY IS Fabulous!

... and of course strickingly similar to my own fabulous husband....

It's Springing outside

Has anyone else noticed the springing of flowers outside?

Here's my theory on the idea...

So, in the beginning God was making the earth right? He was making rocks and hills and grass and cows etc...
then one day i bet he stopped! suddenly and thought... " I know! I'll make trees that get COVERED in FLOWERS!!! yeah! then when the wind blows it will rain pretty little petals all around for Emily to dance in with her arms in the air gently gliding accross the satin of spring.

Thats my theory anyway...

Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Anni-vers-ary!

Yellow Lilies, Pink Tulips & Daffodils.....


Sometimes a year seems so much longer,
and sometimes it's like it never happened at all~









Keith made me this so-sweet frame holding a picture of the night we got engaged with pieces of the same roses inside! What a guy~




I made him 4 binders holding every letter from his mission in platic sheets and every award certificate from preschool up - and other stuff etc... etc...





One whole year!



I Love you Keith






Let the grindstone roll....

Fashion update from my Brother at Oxford

Hey Gang:
This in from the Ukraine (new fashion capital of Europe?), a distinctly bookish look designed to appeal to redblooded but still slightly pedantic folks like me.(Of course, it's a bit unnecessary as I'm already more than convinced by any group of skinny Slavic chicks, their headgear being rather irrelevant. But it's a nice gesture all the same.)
More anon,
Roderick

Bang Day

Monkey is asleep on my lap now


And I just had my hair cut with Bangs!

Happy Holi !!!!!!!!!!!

Spring is here and so is my favorite Indian holiday : Holi - the Fesitval of colors!
http://www.holifestival.org/



Why don't we celebrate such a cool vibrant holiday that involves running around throwing colored paint on each other?

from: http://www.breitbart.com/

Mystery of vanished "Buddha Boy" grips NepalMar 12 2:31 AM US/Eastern Email this story

The weekend disappearance of a Nepalese boy whom supporters hail as a reincarnation of the Buddha has sparked a nationwide search.

Supporters have showered 16-year old Ram Bahadur Bomjan with money and gifts for allegedly sitting in motionless meditation in the roots of a pipal tree without taking food or water, or using the toilet, since May 16 last year.

The youth, dubbed "Buddha Boy" by the media, left the site in southern Nepal because the thousands of devotees who flocked there had disturbed his meditation, media reported Sunday.
"He left as there was a lot of noise in the meditation area," his friend Prem Lama told the Kathmandu Post.
A search using plain-clothes police and civilians failed to find the boy, but he had been glimpsed in the jungle surrounding the meditation site at Bara district 250 kilometres (150 miles) south of Kathmandu, the Himalayan Times reported.

Inspector Kamal Acharya told AFP he was "90 percent sure" the boy disappeared voluntarily. "It does not seem likely that it was an abduction," said Acharya. a police inspector from Bara.
Police believed the youth had left the site with a close friend Sahila Tamang, who was also missing, Acharya said.

"The boy disappeared at around three in the morning Saturday while the people who guard the site were sleeping," Shankar Acharya, a journalist from Bara, told AFP.
The thousands of visitors who have flocked to see the boy were kept at least 15 metres (50 feet) away.

The boy's followers did not permit visitors to see him during the night, raising scepticism about claims that he had been surviving without food and water.
Ram's meditation spawned a mini-industry with the site jammed with food and souvenir vendors.

Rupees were stuffed in collection boxes around the site and a member of a committee looking after the site said foreign Buddhist groups had donated 40,000 dollars for its upkeep.
The boy had told supporters through a friend that he was not a reincarnation of Buddha but was an "austere sage."

Gautama Siddhartha, who later became known as Buddha or the Enlightened One, is believed to have been born in the same region near the border with India in around 500 BC.

Magic Night

Sunday night magic on Friday.........


oh James.....




This is where Kaarina & I decided to get to know each other better. We have always had mutual friends and bumped into eachother at functions but not until we started reading each others' blogs from different states did we begin our personal friendship... She also had a lovely bridal shower on Sat. to celebrate her becoming a Pixton! (with the help of Forest)


Look at Audrey's Beautiful smile! She's so photogenic.
and check out how long James' hair is getting :)



me (mid-blink) and lover keith



Our feet - can you guess who's is who's?



Rock it Skye! Actually she did rock it for a few songs; silencing the whole room with her passion



Look closely... our feet are gathered together around the cell phone that's proped up against the flower vase, which phone holds Emily potter in it, listening to skye serenade us all
look a little closer and you'll see red hearts on the wall that were dedicated in honor of Lumina.
its just not the same without them....



Big thank you to Skye & Jared Engstrom for hosting a lovely magic night.

interesting note: while some people came and went through the night, most the time ended up as the tree married coulpes from the ol' gang i.e skye&jared, James&Audrey, Me&keith

My cat's a slut.

I think Monkey is with kittens! This will be very interesting indeed...

So does this mean i should throw a kitty shower?

-Just kidding of course, I dislike "cat people"

If she does pop some out - who would like one???
....fresh from the oven........






























ps: I updated Keithypoos blog for him --->

Life is hard people! So laugh!!!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha hee hee hee hee hee hee!






"Win over a sad heart,
... only then is life worthwhile"

We ALL feel pain sorrow even torment -

Laugh yourself away ~ back to your self.

I have decided to become a Laughing instructor. And someday will lead my very own laughing club. What? you haven't heard of that?
well here's only one example :) http://www.worldlaughtertour.com/
I've know about this for a few years. They call it Laughter Yoga. So laugh with me people - Laugh till it hurts!


http://www.filmakers.com/indivs/LaughingClub.htm

I hear the drip..... drop...... of spring

and oh how peaceful it is

I smell the fresh...... soft...... of spring

and oh how soothing it is

I see the pink......blue...... of spring

and oh how lovely it is

I hear the chirp......chirp of spring

and oh how inspiring it is

I sense the coming of spring.....

and oh.....oh.... how very beautiful it is

Oscar night 2004

Thank you Paul for so quickly finding and sending this picture to us! What fun we had...

Ah the good ol' days of glitz & glam
.....will I ever see them again?

Thanks Sash for sending this picture

I can't believe it's been almost 2 years since we flirted sliding downhill on iceblockes...

... are there any other crazy pictures of us out there that we can see???

with love

Each death has uncovered lost lives

Somewhere deep in our southern neighbor
there is a city
full of relatives!

My relatives!

That I've never seen,
Never talked to,
Never known.....








And they started with my grandmother's brother; Hal

who fell in love with a spanish beauty...

and never returned from a country and people that he loved so deeply.

But now he has left us with a legacy to uncover



and new family to love!

See that man on the right -->
Thats my great uncle's son.
See the cute guy in the middle ->
That's his son (my cousin)
and the baby...






The baby belongs to lovely Jencie (sister to the cute guy above)
My Mexican sister cousin only 1 year older than me born in April likewise.

Through the magic of technology we overcome space, time, and borders.

We have been emailing lovely messages to eachother and I am so thrilled to have discovered this glorious new familia of mine!