Love is....Blue and Orange

How did I know when Andrew and Tarrah posted this pic of Jayden with his cool Bronco clothes that my Denver Broncos would go on to the next playoff game? Ha Ha! I didn't! But good things happen when you trust the Lord! So here is my tribute to blue and orange with  my Love is.. post today.

I like this rap video. No inappropriate language! Woo Hoo!

I am not trying to say the Lord is a Bronco fan but I am saying if you trust Him the way Tebow does, you never know when some nice things can happen to you and your team! Go Broncos!
I trust my Sweets very much. He takes good care of me and our phamily! So well I am sharing this wonderful Bronco win enjoy my little great grandbaby and the rap video for Blue Monday. Check out Sally's page and wish her well as you share your blues too!
Then hop over to visit Marydon and the ladies who post for Love is...Come join us. It is so much fun and each week I come across a Love is...I have not seen in a while or one that I don't recall seeing! It is loads of fun!
Now one last pic to share!

You see Tebow threw the touchdown pass, in overtime, to Thomas, and  we all know that Tebow trusts Jesus! Amen!

My Pink Phamily

A pretty pink dancing princess Sarah!

Markus and Hannah. She is always pretty in pink.

Rebekah, Dan (our sailor) and Hannah! Rebekah is our best dressed black beauty and Hannah pretty in pink!

Rebekah, Naomi and Alyssa. Three Best Friends Forever! It looks like Alyssa is the pretty girl in pink!

Rebekah looks lovely in pink. Hannah is blue!

Noelle with her Mad Hatter Derby hat! She won first prize at her friends bridal shower for best hat! Check out her pretty pink nails!

Ari has a pink pony!

Noelle is pink with glee for baby Jayden!

My mom was always pretty in pink! I was a nut for pastels!

Some fun phamily photos for Pink Saturday. Visit Beverly and all the pinkies for some fun this weekend!

"G" is for Gentleman

 Good golly, I am happy to be here tonight! Goodness gracious. Gadzooks! What fun! Always fun!

I live with some wonderful gentleman. There is my Sweets, Avery, he is my love, my number one man.

My hunky honey when he was just a kid with a head full of hair and a body that sizzled!

A Christmas photo from our old house on Durango Street. Number 27 was Steve Atwater, who played with the Broncos back then.

Last summer in our hometown in front of my old Catholic high school. Sad it is a Head Start program now.
There is Jeremy. He is our oldest son. He is smart and funny and very kind and caring.

A silly son!

Still silly! The goat man!

Jeremy and Edgar. BFFs 4ever!

Nick with Sean (Mesa Arizona 2011)

Nick and friends chillin in Arizona 2011/

The Phamily, 2009 at Hannah's graduation from high school in Boulder, CO.
Now why do I think they are gentleman!? My Sweet because he was raised by good decent folks and he is kind and caring.
Jeremy is a gentleman because he has a kind heart and is very sweet! He is always  very friendly to "outsiders" and he would never be cruel or rude to anyone whether he knows them or not! He is very bright and witty and has many good friends.
Nick is my buddy. He is the baby in our phamily and I am the baby in my phamily. So we have an extra bond. I say this because I am sad. Nick graduates in May 2012 and he has been my "lunch buddy" since he was in pre- school. We always had lunch together and I am not sure what I will do when he is off to college.  He is always  a gentleman and opens doors for me and acts like a classy guy!
These are my guys and I love them with my whole heart.
Before I sign off I want to tell you about one last gentleman. We have a patient, his name is Miguel. He needed surgery and he needed it quick. The scheduler told him she could accommodate him if he brought us chocolate! Today we brought us a beautifully wrapped box of hand dipped truffles! Now that is a first class gentleman. Talking take of the ladies and their chocolate needs!
Now hop on over to Jenny's and visit all the cool "G" posts today!

Blue Monday

A smiling boy. His mama said he rolled over today by himself! Oooh.....

My favorite blue food!

A blue moon!

The Colorado Columbine! Although this pretty wildflower is native to Canada it was adopted as my states flower on April 4, 1899 by a general assembly.

I hope you like my blue picks today! Happy New Year to all and enjoy 2012 as you stop by Sally's and wish her a beautiful and healthy New Year 2012!

Love is... Rewarding Kisses

Happy New Year to all! No time for this kissing business, we were sound asleep at 11:20 P.M. last night! Laugh Out Loud! But we have a rewarding marriage so all was well while we were tucked soundly in our bed.

Life moves along quickly  and we are very grateful for all the beautiful blessings we have shared in the past year and look forward to more in 2012!

I am grateful for all of you here and wish you well in 2012. I hope we will continue on this journey . If I don't always come by to visit know I will get there eventually. It is a tough job trying to organize time to visit everyone here.

Today was a lazy kind of day. We enjoy these rare three day weekends so we take time to reflect and just kick back and relax.

Come wish Marydon a wonderful new year and thank her for all her effort organizing this Love is...each week. Come join us and share your favorites here too.

Pinks and a Happy New Year To All!

How about a trip to the Bahamas so you can sit on this fabulous pink beach?

Some pretty pink bubbly beverages in pretty flutes. Ah...bring the new year in with style.

Pink Champagne Cupcakes. You can find these at Betty Crocker's website.
Stop by Beverly's and thank her for hosting our weekly Pink Saturdays. I will be a participate for three years! Happy New Year Pink Saturday!

 One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things.  ~John Burroughs

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.  ~Ellen Goodman

End of the Year Thoughts: VIVIAN

Today I heard from my friend Vivian! We have known each other since we were young teens! She is one of those people who sticks by you and never acts judgemental! I love her! I never tell her enough! She is a great gal and she likes her coffee with lots of sugar ! She never married but had a huge crush on a guy named Ed for most of her youth! Vivian lives in the same house she grew up in and shares it today with her younger brother. They lost their mom this past March. No one told me. I am sad. I loved Jessie. She was a hard working awesome lady. When Vivian's dad passed away she and her mom were blessed to travel to Rome and meet the pope, who at that time was John Paul II. It was one of those once in a lifetime trips and they were tickled to be there! Vivian went on to survive ovarian cancer. I can not even imagine that pain! I have survived three major neurosurgery's but cancer! I think Vivian is a hero. I love her like a sister. Once she and my own sister Mary held me while I was sick! We had gone out to a club, ah... the old days....and I ordered a Long Island Iced Tea! Not realizing it was "happy hour" I drank two of those and could barely stand up! I remember my older brother telling me "What were you thinking, you had alcohol poisoning?" He explained the fact that my drink contained enough hard liquor to tranquilizer a big guy like him! At the time I weighed around 120 lbs. soaking wet! Ha Ha! So Vivian held my head and my hair as my sister drove us to her house. She told our folks we were going to watch movies and those girls cared for me never leaving my side! Is that a friend or what?  Granted my sweet sis cared for me but she was blood so I thought she had to! Vivian knows some of the darkest secrets that I have! I trust her like I trust God and since the two of them have known my secrets since we were teens I figure they are not going to rat me out now! Hee Hee! Vivian worked for the Holiday Inn alongside her mom for many years. They were "laundry ladies". Talk about an honorable and thankless job! Both my late mother and my favorite aunt Ang worked in the laundry too except they worked for a different laundry.
Did you know that Vivian means Vivacious and Lively? It is Latin and I am sure her mom must have had a 6th sense that Vivian would be a firecracker! She is fun and lively and she always makes you feel comfortable. She is of Mexican heritage and she is one incredible lady.
Today I am sad because I was not there for her. Now I will make up for it. I will  be the friend I once was long ago. I will always treasure Vivian and I will visit with her and we will reminisce about her folks and particularly her mom because Jessie was a quiet, sincere  and beautiful lady. She had a passion for her faith and I think after the untimely death of her own husband she she kept her faith and was so courageous caring for her family. She was one of the kindest ladies I knew. I will help Vivian carry on the beautiful legacy of her mom and her dad. I am hoping she has lots of photos tucked away so she can make a memory book.
Is there someone in your life you need to reconnect with? Don't hesitate, do it today. Join me by writing a personal note or letter to them. Let's bring back the old fashioned writing letters and cards like we did in the past. I truly believe it is an incredible way to communicate with those we love and cherish.
When I visit Vivian I will post photos. I am sorry I can't get to my photos from my oldest daughter Noelle's wedding. I have a great shot of Vivian alongside our mutual friend Kathy O'Gane!
Ah...Kathleen O'Gane, that is another story for another day! Stay tuned!

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall
 
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.


Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali


I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats