My brother Cory and his wife Kristin.
Cory took this picture. Absolutely beautiful. Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Brothers are for keeping..So are sisters-in-law!!
My brother Cory and his wife Kristin.Cory took this picture. Absolutely beautiful. 
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sacrifice
I love our troops. I also love these pics of them that are out there circling the web. I just wanted to share them with you.
I just had to throw this one in for fun.
I just had to throw this one in for fun. Company Cruise 7/2008
Every year Shane's company takes a company cruise to entertain agents. This year we went to Key West, Cozumel and Belize. I uploaded these pictures backwards somehow from the end of our trip ending with the beginning. Go figure. I'll have to figure out how to arrange my pics in correct chronological order :).
Agent Chris with wife Maureen in our Limo on the way to airport. Post cruise. We were suppose to take a cab to the airport but we were running late to make our flight so we "stole" Ron's limo. (Ron's the president of the company) Ron had to take the cab. Life's tough, hee,hee.
Our agent friends Jay and Christine. They made cruisin' fun.
Agent friends Chris and Maureen on right of table. They made cruisin' even more fun!
"Nights" at the round table. Matt with wife Mikalyn, son Sam and daughter Anna. I'm in the foreground with upty hairdo. Matt is Shane's boss. He and his family are very dear to us! We just love 'em!!
BIG ship.
Republicans all the way baby. I still love my demo friends though. Ok. Here is our school lesson for the day. Ever wonder how the parties got their mascots?
Me and my husband Shane.
My other husband Shane. LOL. Agent friend Chris.
Leaving Key West.
Talking on the phone to my brother in the Key Lime store in Key West.
Me and Wyatt Earp in Key West.
The day before we set sail we had a company dinner at the Antique Car Museum in Fort Lauderdale.
Just for you Mark Williams!!
Me with the owners of the museum. If you are ever in Ft. Lauderdale you have to visit this museum. If anything else just to support them. They are an adorable couple.
Agent Chris with wife Maureen in our Limo on the way to airport. Post cruise. We were suppose to take a cab to the airport but we were running late to make our flight so we "stole" Ron's limo. (Ron's the president of the company) Ron had to take the cab. Life's tough, hee,hee.
Our agent friends Jay and Christine. They made cruisin' fun.
Agent friends Chris and Maureen on right of table. They made cruisin' even more fun!
"Nights" at the round table. Matt with wife Mikalyn, son Sam and daughter Anna. I'm in the foreground with upty hairdo. Matt is Shane's boss. He and his family are very dear to us! We just love 'em!!
BIG ship.
Republicans all the way baby. I still love my demo friends though. Ok. Here is our school lesson for the day. Ever wonder how the parties got their mascots? Answer
This symbol of the party was born in the imagination of cartoonist Thomas Nast and first appeared in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874.
An 1860 issue of Railsplitter and an 1872 cartoon in Harper's Weekly connected elephants with Republicans, but it was Nast who provided the party with its symbol.
Oddly, two unconnected events led to the birth of the Republican Elephant. James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald raised the cry of "Caesarism" in connection with the possibility of a thirdterm try for President Ulysses S. Grant. The issue was taken up by the Democratic politicians in 1874, halfway through Grant's second term and just before the midterm elections, and helped disaffect Republican voters.
While the illustrated journals were depicting Grant wearing a crown, the Herald involved itself in another circulation-builder in an entirely different, nonpolitical area. This was the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874, a delightful hoax perpetrated by the Herald. They ran a story, totally untrue, that the animals in the zoo had broken loose and were roaming the wilds of New York's Central Park in search of prey.
Cartoonist Thomas Nast took the two examples of the Herald enterprise and put them together in a cartoon for Harper's Weekly. He showed an ass (symbolizing the Herald) wearing a lion's skin (the scary prospect of Caesarism) frightening away the animals in the forest (Central Park). The caption quoted a familiar fable: "An ass having put on a lion's skin roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met within his wanderings."
One of the foolish animals in the cartoon was an elephant, representing the Republican vote - not the party, the Republican vote - which was being frightened away from its normal ties by the phony scare of Caesarism. In a subsequent cartoon on November 21, 1874, after the election in which the Republicans did badly, Nast followed up the idea by showing the elephant in a trap, illustrating the way the Republican vote had been decoyed from its normal allegiance. Other cartoonists picked up the symbol, and the elephant soon ceased to be the vote and became the party itself: the jackass, now referred to as the donkey, made a natural transition from representing the Herald to representing the Democratic party that had frightened the elephant.
--From William Safire's New Language of Politics, Revised edition, Collier Books, New York, 1972
This symbol of the party was born in the imagination of cartoonist Thomas Nast and first appeared in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874.
An 1860 issue of Railsplitter and an 1872 cartoon in Harper's Weekly connected elephants with Republicans, but it was Nast who provided the party with its symbol.
Oddly, two unconnected events led to the birth of the Republican Elephant. James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald raised the cry of "Caesarism" in connection with the possibility of a thirdterm try for President Ulysses S. Grant. The issue was taken up by the Democratic politicians in 1874, halfway through Grant's second term and just before the midterm elections, and helped disaffect Republican voters.
While the illustrated journals were depicting Grant wearing a crown, the Herald involved itself in another circulation-builder in an entirely different, nonpolitical area. This was the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874, a delightful hoax perpetrated by the Herald. They ran a story, totally untrue, that the animals in the zoo had broken loose and were roaming the wilds of New York's Central Park in search of prey.
Cartoonist Thomas Nast took the two examples of the Herald enterprise and put them together in a cartoon for Harper's Weekly. He showed an ass (symbolizing the Herald) wearing a lion's skin (the scary prospect of Caesarism) frightening away the animals in the forest (Central Park). The caption quoted a familiar fable: "An ass having put on a lion's skin roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met within his wanderings."
One of the foolish animals in the cartoon was an elephant, representing the Republican vote - not the party, the Republican vote - which was being frightened away from its normal ties by the phony scare of Caesarism. In a subsequent cartoon on November 21, 1874, after the election in which the Republicans did badly, Nast followed up the idea by showing the elephant in a trap, illustrating the way the Republican vote had been decoyed from its normal allegiance. Other cartoonists picked up the symbol, and the elephant soon ceased to be the vote and became the party itself: the jackass, now referred to as the donkey, made a natural transition from representing the Herald to representing the Democratic party that had frightened the elephant.
--From William Safire's New Language of Politics, Revised edition, Collier Books, New York, 1972
Me and my husband Shane.
My other husband Shane. LOL. Agent friend Chris.
Leaving Key West.
Talking on the phone to my brother in the Key Lime store in Key West.
Me and Wyatt Earp in Key West.
The day before we set sail we had a company dinner at the Antique Car Museum in Fort Lauderdale.
Just for you Mark Williams!!
Me with the owners of the museum. If you are ever in Ft. Lauderdale you have to visit this museum. If anything else just to support them. They are an adorable couple.Visit to Florida 7/2008
In July of this year Amara and I flew to Florida to see Cory and Kristin's new baby girl and Michelle's new baby boy. We were there 10 days and had a restful time. We probably spent half that time sleeping. :)
Kristin at beach with baby Mya.
Amara and Brock (Cory's oldest son).
Cousins havin' fun.
My sweet cousin Lisa holding Mya.
Michelle's daughter Sarah with Amara.
I love this magestic oak tree. I use to play under it as a little girl. I had my 6th birthday party under it. It holds special memories. I just had to take a picture of it while we were in Parrish. 
Amara with Nana.
My best friend from high school, Michelle, with her daughter Sarah and new baby boy Nicolas.
Cory and Kristin's new baby girl, Mya. Isn't she precious!
Amara with cousins Brock and Daniel making Tamales. Uncle Cory said that in Mexico Tamale making is a family affair. So we made it a family affair too. It was fun and they tasted great!
Amara, now the expert tamale maker.
OK. Here are the three muppeteers. These three hams were all born within a couple months of each other in 1996. Brock, Haley, and Amara. (Haley is Kristin's sister's daughter.) Here they are for their 12 year old reunion :).
Kristin at beach with baby Mya.
Amara and Brock (Cory's oldest son).
Cousins havin' fun.
My sweet cousin Lisa holding Mya.
Michelle's daughter Sarah with Amara.
I love this magestic oak tree. I use to play under it as a little girl. I had my 6th birthday party under it. It holds special memories. I just had to take a picture of it while we were in Parrish. 
Amara with Nana.
My best friend from high school, Michelle, with her daughter Sarah and new baby boy Nicolas.
Cory and Kristin's new baby girl, Mya. Isn't she precious!
Amara with cousins Brock and Daniel making Tamales. Uncle Cory said that in Mexico Tamale making is a family affair. So we made it a family affair too. It was fun and they tasted great!
Amara, now the expert tamale maker.
OK. Here are the three muppeteers. These three hams were all born within a couple months of each other in 1996. Brock, Haley, and Amara. (Haley is Kristin's sister's daughter.) Here they are for their 12 year old reunion :).Building Houses in Mexico-Casas Por Cristo 6/2008
Our friend John by the "John". The Mexicans mainly use out houses in this city of Anapra.
Via al la casa.
Our 7 yr. old son Justice with Cody.
The three Muggateers. My husband Shane on the right.
My oldest daughter Alexis on left. My daughter Amara in middle pink. Friend Mariah on far right. With children in Mexico.
This is me with Mya. Her family is the one who we built the house for.
Alexis with Mya.
Me with the lady who we built the house for.
My oldest son Chase the carpenter.
A strong foundation.
The building crew. I didn't help build but I still got in the picture :). I helped cooked for our hard workin' construction crew. They were amazing. They built one home in 4 days with mostly women and children.
My family in front of the new abode.
Me and Miss Maria. She is the head of the church where we stayed. She is an amazing woman. Her husband use to be the pastor but he passed away. I could write a book about what an incredible woman she is.
Raising the walls.
The Crew.
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