FINISH IT UP FRIDAY-Really Random!

I WAS going to do a 

CHRISTMAS POST TODAY

but decided to clean up 

my picture files a bit.

LUCKY YOU!

You get to look at all this 

RANDOM CRAP STUFF

Some fall pictures of my daughter's kids-

BigBoyE, CharlesInCharge& BrightEyes

Can you tell who the 

GOOFBALL in that family is?

Hint- It's the oldest one!  lol

Looking for a cute little 

CHRISTMAS GIFT 

for a grandparent, godparent, mom or dad?

I stole borrowed them from the internet

but the TREE I spotted on 

AnnMarie-Musings of a Vintage Junkie's blog

Can I get a HAND for those ideas?
....nevermind....

Wouldn't those make cute memories?

My son was traveling for the week and my

daughter-in-love walked into the bedroom

and found our little CJK holding 

A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING

of him and his daddy 

taken a couple of years ago.

He was missing his Daddy and 

those wet spots are where his tears were

dropping onto the paper.

Doesn't that make you want to weep?

Look what a little CHUNKER he was! LOL

To comfort himself he sleeps with

HIS DADDY'S TEDDY BEAR

from when he was a little boy.

Not so chunky any more!

Speaking of CHUNKY!

Chunky peanut butter anyone?

This "little girl" is 14 now.

Look close-

That is not a SUNTAN on her legs!

She is going to kill me...

but she will probably wait until 

AFTER I buy her Christmas present.

She slathered herself with
PEANUT BUTTER
but refuses to eat at the
WAFFLE HOUSE
when we travel.
Her sisters make up for her.
We stop for waffles-

What do you want girls?
STEAK & EGGS...
Seriously---do I look like an
idiot-$15 for a 
WAFFLE HOUSE steak and eggs?
Milk is extra--
$50 later and we are on our way!
Maybe I won't get them a
Christmas present this year~

Speaking of Christmas presents

I will finish with this.

Yeah- You go right ahead and do that.

As for me---

I would be afraid of finding 

POISON in my COFFEE

if I did that!

I don't put

ANYTHING

past 

ANYONE

ANYMORE!

Have a wonderful weekend.

I will be back later with

some more

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

so -quit your whining!

Finish It Up Friday- Five For Friday!

Thanks for your patience yesterday-

Although a couple of you did 

SCOLD ME

for my absence---

and you know who you are.

I got a lot done and had about

30 people here for a meeting last night.

So, today, to pay you all back-

for giving me so much grief-

I am going to bore you with some

pictures that you can look at-

-or choose not to look at-

It's up to you.

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Ha- Reeled you right in with that picture,

didn't I?

Now that I have your attention-

I am gonna make you look at some of

MY OWN PICTURES!

This is taken from my kitchen window.

It is one of the last ships that will 

come into the port of 

Green Bay, WI this year.

Soon, the bay will be frozen solid.

Unbelievably, our grass is still green.

Here is our little Bright Eyes....

Isn't she cute?

Just think-

Someday she will be all grown up and

wearing makeup.

NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT!

Let's start with Mom's eyebrow pencil

and see where it goes from there.

Looks like it might TASTE good, too!

And here is your 

LAUGH FOR THE DAY!

I kept CJK overnight on Tuesday because

Mom and Dad had to be out of town

early Wednesday morning.

I made him a 

BIG BUBBLE BATH.

When he first looked at it- 

the bubbles were about 8 inches deep

and he did not want to get in.

After he got in he did not want to get out.

He said:

It's like WHIPPED CREAM, Nana

I said- Yes- It is!

 I dropped him off at his pre-school 

the next morning.

It is a small lock-down school.

When you leave the door closes behind you 

and you can't get back in.

AS THE DOOR WAS CLOSING BEHIND ME

he says:

My Nana covered me with 

WHIPPED CREAM LAST NIGHT!

I can only IMAGINE what the teacher thought.

As for me?

I hurried home,

pulled all the drapes,

and waited for 

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES

to knock on my door.

If I disappear you will know that

I have entered the 

Witness Protection Program

to avoid being prosecuted for

child abuse--

OR

 I will be blogging as

Nana Diana Takes A PRISON Break...

FINISH IT UP FRIDAY---FIVE FOTOS FOR FUN~and a couple of OLD SECRETS

I can hardly believe it

but I am getting my photo files

all cleaned up doing this

Finish it up Friday thing.

When I search for photos to use here

I am deleting some and moving others 

into their proper storage folders.

Whoo Hooo.

SO!

What is up this week?

MY LITTLE STAR---RIA

is off to a dance competition in 

Chicago.

She always takes a prize.

She is the most graceful little girl 

I have ever seen.

Even when not dancing

she moves like a dancer.

Isn't she a beauty...

with a little SASS thrown in for fun.

Makes me want to cut hearts out of leaves

when I look at her.

Don't you love this idea!?!

I HEART this little guy, too.

This old dollhouse sits under a covered "porch"

on the front part of our garage.

CJK- is fascinated by it and always checks it

to see if "fairies" are inside.

He KNOWS they are there.

On my side porch off the dining room

I have a glass topped table & chair set

 I bought from my

neighbor years ago.

I pull the cushions off it for winter

and it starts looking bare.

But-who says that a 

FRUIT CENTERPIECE 

won't work outside?

AND if you use fake faux fruit

you won't get "critters" eating them.

I send them  next door to eat the 

neighbor's pumpkins.  

I am a good neighbor that way.

Speaking of FRUIT---

Have you seen this little "trick"

on the internet somewhere?

Is that cute or what?

Cutie-pie clementines

with a piece of celery for the stalk.

source unknown

Well, there's my FIVE photos--

of course #1 counted as THREE pictures, 

I suppose.

I never was very good at 

FOLLOWING THE RULES

and I have the deportment remarks on my

old report cards to prove it.

I blame my father for that...

hey---gotta blame somebody.

He was a smart-aleck, too.

This is a TRUE STORY!

When I missed school I 

ALWAYS wrote my own excuses to turn in 

to the teacher in charge of truancy.

ONE DAY

I asked my MOM to write my excuse for me

because I was in a hurry.

When I turned it in they called HER 

to see if I had 

FORGED MY EXCUSE.

SHE was MAD at ME

for that!

Seriously?!?!???

Maybe if you are 

REALLY GOOD I will tell you about

the time I tipped over backwards in

Accounting class and my

full skirt and can-can

went up over my head.

I blame Charlie Watson for that!

He put his feet against the legs of my chair

when I went to push my chair back 

to stand up.

Pfffffttttt...

Mrs. Harkness never liked me anyway.

She liked me even less after 

THAT INCIDENT.

FINISH IT UP FRIDAY- Five Fall Things I Love

I have so many 

CUTE THINGS saved

to my files---

but this is one of the cutest!

I thought these were the sweetest little 
scarecrows ( I said witches earlier) 

I ever saw!

Too cute for words, aren't they?

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AND

Barbara-21 Rosemary Lane 

captured this.

That may be the coolest GHOST display I have ever seen.

This came from Jemma's blog

At Home With Jemma

Why do MY window boxes never look like that?

Oh! And-

I have to share this!

I think it is 

HAPPY LOOKING!

Southern Living, y'all

And OF COURSE
No post of MINE 

would be complete without a little

Halloween Humor-Right????

Well, what's your 

BEST GUESS?

Is this a Halloween get-up

OR

does this guy shop in Walmart 

dressed like this

ALL THE TIME?

I am betting he doesn't even KNOW

it's Halloween.

(plus I don' think purple is his color)

You all have a GREAT FRIDAY

and keep a sharp eye out in Walmart.

You never KNOW what you'll see there !

ps.  Last day to sign up for the giveaway:
Little CJK will pick a winner on
Halloween!
Click here

FINISH IT UP-FIVE ON FRIDAY

You know I've been gone awhile

and while I am usually a picture-taking fool

I didn't take many pictures this summer.

However, lucky for you,

(that part was a joke)

I have lots of photos to 

show you that I have 
hoarded over the past few months.

First and foremost!

I LOVE FALL.

I love decorating for Fall 

almost as much as I like decorating for Christmas.

Here is something you MIGHT see at my house.

For some reason I always set this up in the same little cubby hole. 

I painted the little slate about 30 years ago.

Geez- Am I getting old, or what!

The little turkeys are paper mache  and held candy.

They are almost as old as I am ...

that is OLD, folks!

What is NOT old around here?

This NEVER gets old!

Three cousins on a swing....

Now WHY is the 

MONKEY IN THE MIDDLE

the only one looking at the camera?

Love that SweetCheeks 

still wears bows in her hair!

I might have spent a little tine in another state.

A special present for you 

if you can figure out what city 

we are in.

okay- I mighta lied about the present

That, folks-is blurry because it is 

what I like to call an 

ACTION SHOT.

It has nothing to do with the camera's user.

(I mighta lied about that, too)

After INDY I came home to Mr.Excitement!

Yeah- sometimes he's a little shy.

Did you notice that he has a GIANT left hand?

One day, I am going to get paid back 

for all of this you know....

but not today!

Why?  Because TODAY he wants me to
COOK FOR HIM!

Yesterday we started a WHOLE 30 food program.

It means lots of cooking.

I didn't think this was going to be easy--

nothing worthwhile ever is, is it?

This is how I feel about the whole thing!

AMEN!!!!!

Hope you all have a great Friday.

Bear with me as I get around to

visiting your blogs and playing catch up.

Finish It Up Friday's FIVE FOTOS & Baby Bright Eyes Update

Good Friday Morning!

So---Some of you know I took a little trip

with MyHero and my granddaughter, Lulu.

We didn't tell anyone where we were going-

we just went.

We ended up on the upper coast of Florida.

So-here are a few pics of our trip.
Is there anything better than sunrise
AT THE BEACH?

We stayed in this sweet little cottage.

The big banks of windows overlooked the ocean
and we were only steps from the water.

Lulu made a friend a couple of days after
we got there.
They hung out and did 
"girl things"
like painting their nails.

Her little friend was just darling and from 
NAWTH CARAHLYNAH!
LOVED the accent!

My Hero relaxed and enjoyed himself.
Hmmm...maybe you should wear sunglasses
so you don't have to SQUINT...just saying....

I made the mistake of telling him I thought
PIRATES WERE KIND OF SEXY..
You know - like Johnny Depp...

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UH...yeah.......uhn-huh...
Let me check...
NOT WORKING!!!

 Thus ended our romantic getaway!

Here is the news from my daughter about  
Baby Bright Eyes.
 Thanks everyone!! It was her tibia (shin

bone) and it isn't fractured, thank God!

 We are going in to see the pediatric

 orthopedist tomorrow morning to try and

 figure out why she still isn't 

putting any weight 

on her leg (4 days after her fall).

 Prayers appreciated and thank you, again!

Poor little munchkin-
has to sleep in a basket....lol

Have a GREAT Friday!
I will give you another update on our 
little babydoll tomorrow after she sees
the specialist.

Finish It Up Friday- Five Fotos For Fun

I am getting to the point where my

photo albums are getting cleared out.

That might be good or bad...

So Here We Go:

Let's COUNT shall we?

-ONE LITTLE BOY-

CJK

on the dock to nowhere:

That is using the Waterlogue application.

Here is what the original looked like:

Two Little Sisters Loving Each Other

while they wait for a snack after a hard

dance practice routine.

SweetCheeks  and Ria

Two All Togged Up

for a wedding.

Big Boy E & CharlesInCharge

THREE Little Schoolgirls

on their way to the car..

I promised to only show them from the 

knees up. 

I LIED!

Someone could NOT find their shoes!

How DOES that happen?

Lulu, Ria & SweetCheeks

The FOUR FINGER GRIP!

Little Miss Bright Eyes

And one more cuz she is
SOO CRAZY CUTE!

Now- I want you to go out and enjoy 

your day!

Here is

FIVE IN A ROW!

Don't be all sedate, stuffy, and safe-

be a little daring!

You just never know what might happen!

Yeah- That would be me...

I can hear my name over the loudspeaker now....

FINISH IT UP FRIDAY-Five For Fun

I may get my picture files all cleaned up yet 

by doing these 

Finish It Up Friday posts.

What do you get when you
put a bit of polish to tarnished silver?
It sure is pretty here, huh?!

Ummm...here's the before.
Yes- it is tarnished.  DON'T judge!
I've been sick, remember?
I may use that as an excuse the rest of my life...
The grammas would be rolling 
in their respective graves seeing this~

Next up-Someone sent me this and said
 it reminded them of
Baby Bright Eyes.
I can't find a source-
if you know it I will gladly give credit for it.

So sweet-I think that is the connection-

They are both just SWEET!

Let's see-

What else?

Why is CJK so happy?

Cuz he knows Nana does not care 

HOW BIG OF A MESS 

he makes with a sticky sucker on the tile tray,

~ dominos and  other boy "stuff"~

SweetCheeks asked Papa to be her

SPECIAL PERSON

at school.

He brought her flowers and she was thrilled.

Doncha love those dimples and NEW teeth?

Papa was so thrilled that he was her special person!

The next day he

 offered to take SweetCheeks to see

CINDERELLA!

Here they are -ready to go~

I told her if she wanted to have a 

CINDERELLA THEMED PARTY

I would be glad to host one!

I will invite them all over and they can

CLEAN MY HOUSE!

 Yes. I. Am. Wicked!

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Have a 

WICKEDLY WONDERFUL WEEKEND!