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picnic in the leaves

i went over to play with em & jen in their massive pile of leaves.  but not just jumping in it.  fallling off backward into it from the swing, running around the tree and flying into the pile,  diving into it. oh for a massive pile of leaves with a swing nearby.  perhaps i shall migrate our leaf pile.

little girl, next door neighbor.  played in the leaves too.

we had a picnic too. cider, spice tea, cookies.  sitting in the leaves.

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dorinda? i love dorinda!

november 14th was dorinda’s wedding.  now they are mr. and mrs. greg and dorinda beeley.

i took most of these with film, in my 35mm slr.

waiting for greg!

peeking in at them between the partition and the wall.

^dorinda and sharlena

dorinda’s bridesmaids were her sisters, charlessa, susan, and lucinda.

bridezilla!

the ideal version of this picture would include greg and dorinda kissing by the sign.

during the reception we all pinned clothespins on the single men.  and sam won with 36.  he got the garter.

we threw wheat on them as they ran out.

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out & about

aka… shopping during school hours.

lunch at ruchi palace, clothes at old navy, metal things at joanns, fairy heads at michaels, applications at mardel and barnes & noble (for melissa.)

^ i got those orange pants.  and a black and white stripey shirt, and a winter coat.

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oatmeal

because oatmeal is periodically made at our house for breakfast, we daughters are forced to eat it.  i have endeavored to, each time, put different toppings on my oatmeal.

this time it was bananas (more bananas than oatmeal), milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, and chocolate chips.

i finished it before mom came out of the shower, so that she wouldn’t tell me not to eat chocolate for breakfast.

*the best kind of oatmeal to eat (if you must) is stone ground oats.  not rolled.

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this girl is beautiful.

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daniel kirkley.

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i woke up at 10:40

^ clara with leaves

^ lovely butterfly.  enjoyed god’s amazing creation this morning very much.

^ eggs of a lovely colour

^ a crate of grapes arrived by mail for alexa today.  with some persimmons and green things too.

^ i made scores of cookies – a gross in fact.  dorinda’s famous oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

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of film and football and fort worth and green beans

here are some jewels from my recent rolls of film.  i’ll be posting more later… but we shan’t have a photo overload now, shall we?

^ aunt marie, friday night football game in houston between clear lake and clear brook

^ clara and ginger in the back yard

^ fort worth stockyards

^ when alexa was making potato leek soup, with green beans as well

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amy's big umbrella

amy’s hair is very red… she put henna in it.

 

 

 

^amy got a huge umbrella at ikea.  all big and yellow and blue with ikea on it.  walking advertisement.  it’s big enough to keep her and her backpack dry, as well as fit our entire family under.

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