Birth Announcements of the Girls

It has always been fun to make birthday cards, anniversary cards and other projects using a program I have called Microsoft Picture It…This program came in handy when all the grandbabies were born…I know that hospitals can make birth announcements for the new parents but I have found out that they are simple and to the point…With Picture It, I can add all kinds of backgrounds, colors, font types and colors and clipart that adds to the detail of the birth announcement project…I have been fortunate to be able to put together all 4 of the girls announcements…So below are how all the girls’ announcements turned out…

As you can see with each grandbaby, I learned new techniques and how to do more things…but the best part is that the parents of all the girls were happy with the ending results…

Kayla, Brianna & Elizabeth are Brandi’s 3 little girls and Laurianna is Misti’s little girl…Brandi is our eldest daughter and Misti is our younger daughter…

Christmas Photos of All Girls 2009

When one has kids, you always look forward to having Christmas pictures taken either with Santa or family or with other siblings or family members…Mine has grown up and the picture taking is no more…but the most fortunate part of my life are my grandbabies when the holidays come around…So when pictures are posted to where we can see them, I am very excited cause now I can look at that picture and capture it for my own use…We were lucky this Christmas that the grandbabies other grandparents took the girls and their other 2 grandkids to Walmart to get their picture taken for the Holidays…For that I am grateful…For one, the youngest daughter, Misti, and her family, hubby, Chad and daughter, Laurianna, flew from Sicily to West Virginia for Thanksgiving and a few days in December and for two, Richard and I had to go to Orlando, Florida to work and can not be around for most of the holidays…With the picture capturing, Richard was able to make a few extra separate Christmas photos for our desk, or for the other family members or friends…Richard also made the extra  photos with the different Christmas backgrounds for the other grandparents to enjoy…

Our eldest granddaughter, Kayla…She was 5 1/2 years old…

 Our second eldest granddaughter, Brianna…She was 4 1/2 years old…

Our third eldest granddaughter, Elizabeth…She was 2 3/4 years old…and finally,

Our fourth eldest granddaughter, Laurianna…She was 11 months old…

Thanks to Bruce and Peg for taking all of their grandkids to have their picture taken…Without this picture being posted on Facebook by Sarah then we would not have seen such a great picture of all the kids…The other 2 grandkids are on Peg’s side of the family, her daughter’s children…They are MJ and Kylie…What a great group of kids…

Gulf Pines, Milton FL Fun

It’s special moments like this that make taking pictures fun..Brianna and Poppy (Richard) are playing.. Bri was suppose to be relaxing, watching tv, but then she wanted Poppy to lay down with her..I’m not sure who started the tickling..

Playground fun..Brianna and I headed to the playground that the KOA Gulf Pines has in their campground..It is a very nice playset..The area is covered by mulch and sand..There are a couple of animals that are on those springs that goes in to the ground..Brianna ran for the slide..Needless to say, the one thing we didn’t think about was the possibility of water being at the end of the slide, on the slide itself..Brianna found out on the long spiral slide that at the bottom of the slide was water..

Brianna wanted to take off her pants right there at the playground but I told her that her pants would dry and that she can’t take them off…She waited a bit but realized that they would be alright…She continued on to riding a pretty yellow pony…It looked like she was riding in to the sunset…

When pony time was over, Bri found a quacky duck to ride…What fun she had bouncing around on the duck…After riding the duck for a while, it was time to go back to the playground set…Brianna wanted to find out if she could run up the little straight slide and found out that the slide was very slippery…She had a blast just trying to go up the slide…

Bri would try to climb up the slide and wound up sliding back down the slide…

On the other side of the stairs is a spiral continuous ring..Unfortunately, I could not get the pictures of her bringing her arms and feet over to the rungs of the spiral ring and she would walk around the spiral rungs down to the ground…My little shadow would also climb gray steps that you can not see on the other side of the blue tunnel… 

After our playground escapade,  we decided to go for a small walk around the campground…We took a few roads to head towards the rv and on our excursion, Brianna found a small garden wall to walk around…Do you think she might do good in gymnastics??  She does like to walk around the wooden beams…

Getting on our way down the road, Brianna came upon some poles that she liked to swing around…and can this girl sing…While swinging around the poles, she was singing some song that I never heard of before but she was just going to town, singing as loud as she could…If only I could have recorded her…

Can you name that tune????

More walking beams…

 Ourside our rv is nothing but sand, dirt, leaves and mini acorns…Brianna wanted to go out and dig…I saw no problems with that and she even got a plastic spoon for digging…I wonder what she was making to “pretend” to have a bite…*L*

In the evening around 6:30pm, Brianna gets relax time and she picks out the movie that she wants to watch in the bedroom…However this time she wanted me to take a few pictures of her posing…She is a bit of a ham but had fun posing…

The one thing that Brianna wants to do while we are here at Gulf Pines KOA is play miniature golf…So far the weather hasn’t quite been cooperative but hopefully this weekend, if no rain is in the plans, we are hoping to go play miniature golf…The KOA looks like they have a really nice golf course…But Brianna don’t like to hit the ball in the hole several times, she likes to put the ball up close to the hole and hitting all the balls in to the hole…It is fun to watch and I hope that I will have some pictures to post by the weekend…More pictures will come as our visits to this campground and Sunset King come about…(Jan. 26 – Feb. 9, 2010)