Ole Blue Turned 300,000 Miles!

My friend, Linda, invited all who could to come, to her Suburban's Birthday Party. She is the only person I know that has driven a car for 300,000 Miles. We celebrated at Brazos Bend State Park.

Friends

Kim, (Buckey's mama), we have prayed over our boys for years. God take care of those two and keep them safe! Bless Kim for her faithfulness to you.

Lyd, Jan and Nanc (one of my visits to Orlando!)

We graduated together from Oak Ridge High School! We have been friends since Junior High (Nanc) and 10th grade (Jan).

Kristi! She and husband Brad drove me to Florida Spring Break~2010. They dropped me off & picked me up at my folk's house in Kissimmee! They were heading to Kissimmee~Clermont to watch their Shelby play College Softball. Thank you Brad and Kristi!

Jennifer Beaver and Angela Smith, mother and daughter fishing????


Lyd, Sandra Pousson and Janet Brooks, celebrating our OCTOBER Birthdays! With our other October Birthday gal........

Another October Birthday ~ Terri Holder, feeding her handsome grandson! No, Terri did not choose that hat, we made her put it on!

Linda Beaver, Mary Houston, Lyd and Ima Jean Smith, after church on Wednesday night, eating of course and resting from teaching Children at our Church.

Gayle Stein, Lyd and Kathy Sanford, I think we were at a fund-raiser for a Judge?

Same fundraiser, Kathy & Joe Sanford, and Regina & Ken Bishop. I worked with Regina and Joe in the SAIL Program at The Lighthouse.

More fundraiser, Tonya Heard, Nurse B, Debbie McDougal.

Co-workers from the Lighthouse!

Lyd's Florida Family, Fall-2009

The following 2 pictures are actually the last pictures taken for this trip to Florida. Laura and I were saying good-by at good ole McCoy/Orlando Inter.

~Now that you have seen the ending, scroll down to see the beginning~

My Florida Family, or at least some of them. Many Many are MIA's! Laura and Ryan came in from Germany. Ryan's mom and brother flew in from Crosby. Ruth from Germany, via Cape Canaveral. Of course David and I caught a Southwest flight from Houston. Then we ended up in St. Cloud at my brother's (Tim and Deb) and enjoyed lots of food and fellowship! Thanks Debbie for getting us all together, (and Tim!).

Pictured left to right: Deb, Tim, Lyd, Dustin's wife and baby, Dustin, Uncle Jack, Joyce Marie, Dad, Laura, Bobbi Jo, Mother and Baby Dave.

Mom and Dad and my 3 kids! We were all respresenting Texas A&M, until....

Dad decided he couldn't leave out his beloved "Florida Gators"!

The following pictures were taken at Nana Bleakney's after a "pig-out" at Sonny's bar-b-que, (our favorite!). Dave and I used to take the kids to Sonny's after church on Sundays for their 99 cents kids-meal, also our favorite place to eat in Florida!

Giselle, Ava Marie, Laura and Kathi. Ava is Kathi's grand-daughter and Giselle her daugher-in-law and Kathi is my sister-in-law, Clayton's wife.

(My brother Clayton passed away on June 5th, 1990, the day we moved to

San Antonio, Texas.)

Ava and Laura after a very very long day! Lord, thank you for my darling daughter, bless her with her own children some day soon!

Ava Marie (my great-niece), Laura, Giselle (my niece), Jonathan (my nephew), Julius (my nephew). Jonathan is my brother Clayton's son and this is his family.

Tim (my brother), me and Debbie (my sis-in-law) (Bobbi Jo's folks!)

Ryan (Bobbi Jo's "boy-friend", Bobbi Jo (my niece), Laura and Ryan

David with my brother-in-law, JAY! Jay makes us laugh and as usual the two Bleakney boys are "goofing off"!

Ryan, Laura, Max (my nephew), Ruth (my sister-in-law) David and me.

Max is Jay & Ruth's son, their daughter, Leslie was not able to come :(

Scott-(Ryan's brother), Ryan, Laura and Debbie (Ryan's Mom) Holmelin

The Crosby Crew, Ryan's dad passed away several years ago, after a long battle with breast cancer. Ryan is an absolute jewel and I love my son-in-law!

My cousin, Joyce Marie and my little "Praying Mama"

My sister-in-law, "Ruth". She lives in Germany and she is the mother of Max and Leslie Anne. Ruth was visiting at Cape Canaveral Beach and could join us! :)

Isn't She Amazing?

My daughter gave "the praying mama" a new facelift! I just love it, she did an awesome job. Laura is so talented and has a gift with this whole blog thing. Go to her blogspot, http://www.ourcrazyadventure.com/ and then check her links for: Bobbi Jo's, Lori's and Natalin's blogspots. Laura designed their blogspots as well. Lord, be with my daughter and help her to use her talents to honor and glorify YOU!. Thanks Laura, my new look is beautiful!

changes

I'm leaving and not on a jet plane. I have been praying for some time about leaving Texas and heading back to Florida. My folks are getting older and I would find it a blessing to live with them and take care of them for the remainder of their time on earth. The hardest thing will be leaving David here, but David assures me he will be fine. Laura is still in Germany, but she is definitely worried about how this will affect her and her holidays in the states. So this praying mama needs all of your prayers for God to guide me through this new path.

My plans are very tentative, but hopefully will be moved by end of summer. Still looking for a job, storage unit and a place to hang my hat. More to pray on, but trusting in HIM! Will keep you posted.

I adopted a HUMMINGBIRD!

Okay, I know what you are thinking. A Hummingbird Extravaganza? You went, watched them band the bird you adopted, held him and fed him? Yep, I am officially a NERD! I use to think the little ole people going bird watching, etc., were just plain weird! Now I am one of them. I even have the official T-shirt! (No, I have not bought a "fanny-pack"!)

May I present to you Mr. Louie Ford Hummingbird.

My mom and I named him yesterday. We named him after my dad.

And Yes, I felt his little heart beat! It beat so fast I couldn't even count it! Then just as I started to touch him and stroke his back, he flew away........First they bring the hummingbird to the table and weight him. Louie weighs 4.0 grams. He is considered a "porker". He is FAT! He sure is cute though. Not as cute as you Dad! In this picture the man is trying to get Louie to eat.
Linda and Angela adopted one too. Linda's is a boy and Angela's is a girl!
Mari waited in line, but they ran out of Hummingbirds! She will try again next Saturday.

Then they band the little guy. Louie's number is H-27433. Whenever they capture him again or have information about him, they will pass that information on to me. Angela is a 4th grade teacher and her kids are going to see pictures of her new little girl tomorrow!
Next, they will try and feed little Louie.

I think Louie Ford likes that sugar water. Linda's new guy didn't eat much, but he was the fatest one of all, weighing in at 6.2 grams!

This is a better picture of his feeding. Cool huh?

"GONE FISHIN'!!!!!!!!!!!

David, Max and Dave. Max is completing his internship in Dallas. He lives in Germany and decided he wanted to go off-shore fishing with Uncle Dave and Cousin David. They mainly caught sunburns........

My youngest nephew Max! Girls he is a single man, currently in Dallas, Texas!

My favorite son! Also single, lives in Houston!