a river vacation

I recently took advantage of my new job by using PTO for the first time in years.  At the day care I never was paid for time off.  Therefore I didn't often take it.  Over the labor day weekend I took Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.  To my delight my hubby did too.  We loaded the camper, hooked our river boat to it and headed to our buddy Stevie & Brooke's river lot.  It's just under an hour away.  Katie bug had her first boat ride... then wanted nothing to do with it, my friend Brooke and I got to try out my new river floats, and take it easy was our theme.  We didn't get in much of a hurry to do anything.  We ate, drank, laughed, floated, rock hunted, drank coffee and whatever else we wanted.  I am so thankful for our pals and their spot on the river.

They look like a lazy river ride at Opryland don't they :)

Shaun took this of me.  I told him it looks like I am fishing naked!

This is my new fishing lure.  It casts great but didn't catch anything.  Casting is fun though.

tommys favorite thing

little tommy and I have played this game since he was a kitten. 

when it's time to wash the sheets he likes for me to make a mushroom

with the bottom sheet with the elastic. 

he crouches underneath.  i wonder what he pretends when he's under there.

sometimes i'll move my hand and he'll dive over to where I am.

at twelve years old he still loves it.

i love this picture

not a dress girl... but

this morning I stumbled across a dress shop while looking for an old blog fave.  maybe it was the music I was listening to.  maybe I want something to go with my boots or brown sandals for fall.  maybe they're just stinking cute.  press play on the video first please.





and one summer one.  it's twenty bucks.

this place

Last winter I bought a new laptop from QVC knowing that my old laptop was on it's last leg.  I left my Acer plugged in while I went to work one day and when I came home my little pc that I spent so much time with over the last seven years was dead.  I got fairly good at backing up my information on my zip drive thing.  But what I found I had lost was more of my browsing on the internet and sites I loved to check in on.  Those certain blogs that I frequent by the click of a button but for some reason I couldn't remember their web addresses.  Lucky for me, I have this place.  This resource.  My own personal place that I share with so many.  Last Sunday morning it hit me.... look on your own blog at Image Inspiration... and there they were.  By sharing inspiration from other blogs on my blog I created some history and was able to find my online friends that don't even know me.  I still don't have all of the blogs in place that I used to have on my favorites menu but I'm slowly but surely working on building it back up.  It's been months since I've visited some of them.  So it was good to see old faces and beautiful sites and pictures and stories.  Funny what you get used to.

Gorgeous picture.  I haven't been taking many lately.  My big zoom lens on my Nikon is broken, the one that I loved to use.  This is from herlibraryadventures.  Click the pic to go there.

I love her vignettes.

Happy August!