Blue Monday

 Good Morning fellow bloggers and dear friends...It is time for Blue Monday over at Sally's house. Please visit Smiling Sally by clicking here

For my blue Monday I wanted to share a few more snow pictures with you, I took these Sat Evening when my 2 grands came over to spend the evening while their Mom and Dad finished their Christmas shopping.

They loved the snow and wanted to build a snowman, ...but got too busy having a snow ball fight with my black Lab, Levi and of course he was in hog heaven...lol...

I love the soft blues formed by the snow shadows and their clothes were different shades of blue...

They started off by making (trying to) a snowman on the truck of DH's car

Then Levi decided he wanted in on the action...

MooMoo had forgotten to bring her gloves so she used a pair of white cotton gloves I had...lol..didn't fit or help much

I love this color of blue on RedMan...

MooMoo had on several different shades of blue and was making her snow balls, ready to fight...oh yes, the truck is also blue...

LOL, she brushed up against this little tree and was instantly covered with falling snow..lol..she was saying "bad tree, very bad tree".....

Levi was doing his dancing bear trick all morning, he'd rather walk on his 2 hind legs than on all 4s.

and still dancing

Snow ball fight...was on..

oh, he was playing dirty, waited till she bent over and whammmm...

bulls eye

doing the first snow waltz....the snow was already starting to melt....

I just love the shades of blue that nature provides, no man made shades can equal them...

Happy Blue Monday everyone and Merry Christmas, can you believe it is only 18 more days...

First snow and Christmas card picture...

Good morning my friends, I have had several comments on my beautiful new header, I was so awe stricken Sat morning when I woke up and saw the beauty of my world in the first light of day. So I had to grab my camera and save the views if only in pictures.
Friday night it started snowing in South Mississippi, I snapped a few pictures because I figured it would be lite and would be gone by the next day..you can check out those pictures here...I was so wrong...I am posting some of the beauty I saw Sat. morning...
As I think about the beauty of that morning, I realized, the first snow of the year is much like God's love for us, this beautiful scene was not so beautiful Friday before the snow, winter had started turning everything drab and the bushes and trees where loosing their leave, just like our hearts that are filled with sin has turned dark and cold, but his love is like the snow it takes and turns our ugly sin filled heart beautiful, with a love that makes it as white as snow...his love covers our heart, just like the snow covered the ugly landscape.

Looking out my front door...

a picture of the slider in day light

looking out front door toward the pasture

my patio, just as the sun is appearing over the arising

a closer shot...of my azeleas and grape abor...

awww my poor Sweet olive is heavy with ice and snow...

The moon could still be seen...

sun rising a little higher in the Eastern sky

it looked like a giant ball of fire against the white snow...

my perfect Christmas card and header, this was taken at 6:30 am..and the sun's red glow lite up the Eastern sky...

the 3 pictures above are looking out my bedroom window at the pasture beside my house, you can see the snow clouds slowly moving north...

my grape vines and azeales and bird house...

I hope you have enjoyed looking at my snow picture, will do a post later on the Grands playing and building snowmen and having snowball fights....I also realized the squirrels that where scurrying around in my yard last Sat. click here to see that post..knew something we didn't, that it was time to lay up stores and snuggle down for a long winter's nap....God is amazing.

Re-Run Sunday

It's time again for Sunday Favorite Re-runs, a new Meme hosted by Chari over @ happytodesign http://happytodesign.blogspot.com/ It is so much fun to go back and re-run some of my favorite post.

For this weeks rerun I wanted to repost  a post I wrote on 1/07/2009  I believe it is fitting this close to Christmas...

My Kid's Christmas Presents

This year for Christmas I wanted to give my Children something special for Christmas. I have always loved to paint, doing people is one of my most favorite things to do. But...I've never really done a person that I had to make look like someone special. So my year was filled with trail and error attempts to do these. Here is the final results....

 Keifer and Marissa, Son of Ronnie and Daughter of Ronnie and Mindy Smith

 

 Lance and Teresa, Son of Charles and "ME"

 Connor and Morgan Son and Daughter of Chuck and Lori Smith

 Karter Smith Son of Missy and Kyrk Smith

 I have also done a couple more portraits and canvases of people.

Oh Holy Night...

Click here to visit Brittany Sweet Nothings for Praise and Worship Sunday...BE SURE TO SCROLL DOWN AND TURN MY PLAYER OFF FIRST.......
Today my Praise song is one of my favorite Christmas songs....

Thrift store fines and snow...

Hello, dear friends, after whining like a big baby this morning about not being able to find what I wanted at Wally World, I decided to pull on my big girl pants and just go out there and hurt for what I needed some where else...after all Wally World isn't the only store in the world..well... around here it almost is. But I dressed in my warmest clothes, after all this is Mississippi in Dec and we can expect any kind of weather..hey I'm not crazy, it's snowing right now as I type..of course it will probably be melted by noon tomorrow and temps back up to the 60-70s. what can I say, nothing is what it used to be.

 looking out my back door...

Dear Hubby and I decided to go find a nice Christmas tree, but first we went to his favorite BBQ House and ate lunch..I actually got to eat a nice green salad and 1 piece of smoked chicken...it was so good..hummm, boy do I miss food like that, wonder if I could....oh, anyhow I digress...after we finished eating we stopped by the Market Basket, a nice fresh Fruit and Veggie store that also has pumpkins at Halloween and CHRISTMAS trees at Christmas, we picked out a nice 6 1/2 ft. Blue Spruce.. Sorry I didn't think to take my camera, after all it was cold and looked like rain or snow any minute.
I took DH and tree home and headed to the Beauty shop after which I hit town, I just knew Venders, would have Nativity scenes since it is a store for handcrafted items...well doodoo, wrong, no Nativity sets there...oh man, this is not looking good. So back to the car and headed 4 blocks all the way across town to the Thrift Store ...Jack pot...well almost, no barn, but I did find several great items to use in my Christmas decorations....
This first picture is of a figurine of Mary Joseph and the baby Jesus lamp...I got this for $2.00 and it works perfectly...I thought it was so elegant and sheek...

I set DH's first Bible on a plate stand open to the Christmas story in Matthew, I just love the beautiful pictures in this old Bible, the picture of the Nativity is just amazing...

Next I found this pretty white, candle/candy holder it looks like fine china but it really isn't, but I loved the Angels in the round on it...I got this for only $1.00....I have a feeling it will be in my Christmas decorations for years to come....

I am going to use it to hold candy canes, my Grands love these and I can't keep them, I used to put them on the tree, but they were constantly knocking ornies off trying to get one...so into a dish they go...

I placed it on the coffee table...I am always tweeking my arrangements...I have added one of my favorite Stanas in the silver tray with Mom's glass jar of ornies.. The little Chior boy in front is the last one left out of a set of 12 Mom had since the early 40's.  The snowman gourd was painted by a dear friend in North MS. Tammy...also under the tiny glass dome is a Santa figurine holding a baseball bat that I bought for Keifer the first year he played T-Ball.

better view of the little Chior Boy and Santa under glass....

Well, I was just as happy as I could be finding the first 2 treasures so I paid, wished everyone a Merry CHRISTmas and headed to the door, as I was passing a cabinet full of cut glass dishes I spied a glass dome sticking up and lordy look what I found.. I just had to have it and at a meer $4.00 for both pieces I think I got a bargin, I think my Christmas Santa mice salt and pepper shakers look so good displayed inside it...

still need to add some pine or holly to give it that extra opffff and maybe even a bow...well, laying right beside the dome and it's plate was another fabulous cut glass plate with a tiny little handle on it, I had never seen one like it, so of course I had to have it...not sure yet what I'm going to do with it, but for $2.00, I'm sure I'll find a good use for it some where...

OK, after all my looking I still didn't find a barn for my set, but DH told me if I'd stop whining like a spoiled brat he'd make me one, well now why didn't he say that in the first place and he would have save me and him alot of misery...lol..But it still doesn't change the fact that in our small town finding a nativity scene is like finding hens teeth, impossible and it is such a shame....

Hope you all have a happy, blessed and snow free week-end... Brrr, baby it's cold outside...