Friday, June 10, 2011

May 7 (Day 134)

Phoenix and her friends with their self portraits at her birthday party.

May 6 (day 133)

No picture..yet again

May 5 (Day 132)

Yeah..no picture...

May 4 (Day 131)

Fellow mitigators Jaye and Erin during the Mitiga

tion Conference.

May 3 (Day 130)

Our annual Region 6 mitigation conference....the mitigator engineers hard at work crafting messages in the hallway between sessions.

May 2 (Day 129)

Another missed day ( i Missed a lot of May days)

May 1 (Day 128)

Luther gets a bath.

April 30 (Day 127)

Oops--another missed day.

April 29 (Day 126)

Last Day of LFMA, my 11th anniversary and it looks like William and Kate get the privlege of sharing mine and Chris's anniversary with us..

April 28 (day 125)

A view of Festival International in Lafayette Loisisana

April 27 (day 124)

Collegues at Louisiana Floodplain Management Association conference.

April 26 (Day 123)

Phoenix sits at the head of the table in the Fishbowl for bring your sons/daughters to work day. This where the Regional Administrator sits for VTC's and press conferences during disasters

April 25 (day 122)

Tornado sirens = spending time in the stairwell at work.

April 24 (day 121)

Oops---another missed day.

April 23 (day 12)

Phoenix is cooking again.

April 22 (day 119)

Griffin's soccer team.

April 21 (day 118)

Another missed day.

April 20 (day 117()

Luther is growing.

April 19 (day 116)

April 18 (day 115)

One day when she has to wear glasses she will look back on this picture and think to herself..."What was I thinking?

April 17 (day 114)

Love my Keurig!

April 16 (day 113)

Grocery shopping

April 15 (day 112)

Scrapbooking night with my ladies!

April 14 (day 111)

Pirate Date at school.

April 13 (day 110)

Twirl Practice

April 12 (day 109)

Think I am going to have to go searching on phones for a picture for this day

April 11 (Day 108)

W euse E-Mealz in this house...love it!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

April 10 (day 107)

A typical peek into Phoenix's bedroom before we go to bed yields this view.

April 9 (day 106)

I will not lie...it has been pretty stressful at work and around the Gibson household not knowing if I was going to be forced into furlough....so this was welcome news when I woke up to check the news in the morning. I will be reporting to work on Monday.

April 8 (day 105)

While Phoenix was at softball practice I took a stroll down to the lake only to be treated to this view...so worth it!

April 7 (day 104)

99 cent Taco days bring me and my fellow coworkers here to lunch every week. ANd now the weather is warming up it is even nice to sit outside.

April 6 (day 103)

A tradition in our house... a morning breakfast donut or cinnamon muffins with candles to blow out.

April 5 (day 102)

Me with Phoenix on her last day of single digits. When she wakes up she will be in the double digits. For those of you with little ones, do not blink...if you do they will be 10.

April 4 (day 101)

My little girl...in two days she will be double digits. I can hardly believe it.

April 3 (day 100)

Ahh..another one of those days I forgot a picture, but lo and behold when I unloaded the camera, Griffin had taken care of it for me.

April 2 (day 99)

Strawberry Shortcake..mmmm, mmmm, good.

April 1 (day 98)

Griffin's preferred pose.

March 31 (day 97)

Oops---missed it...have to check other cameras...probably to be added later.

March 30 (day 96)

The view from my hotel room in Shreveport.

March 29 Day 95

A very sudden hailstorm on our way back to our hotel in Shreveport had us on the side of the road for about a half hour. Severe weather at its best.

March 28 (day 94)

A sure sign spring has arrived. Texas Bluebonnets.

Monday, March 28, 2011

March 27 (day 93)

A token photo of a layout to commemorate the endign of PSL...not sure how many layouts I made during the 6 week session this year, but I think it is close to 100.

March 26 (day 92)

Griffin got a hair cut (much needed) after his soccer game.

March 25( Day 91)

Our life team went "boot scootin". Here we are at I-Hop at 2 AM after a night of dancing, can you say reminiscent of my college days? Love this group of people! Best life team ever.

March 24 (Day 90)

Dinner.

March 23 (day 89)

Sigh...well I apparently neglected to purposefully take a picture today. But I foudn this when unloading the camera...it is a random shot in my office, of the bulletin board on the way to the elevator...I guess it is something.

March 22 (day 88)

So I really want the picture of the day to be of oh I do not know..my brother in the hospital (yet again), his X-ray or some such reminder of yet another hospital stay...but he has not shared any with me yet. So here is Griffin..playing Goalie, not a good position for him, as you can see he doe snot quite have the attention span.

March 21 (day 87)

Here is Luther...a week later....at the soccer field.

March 20 (day 86)

Griffin made the decision to get dunked. This decision was quite the journey for my little guy. For months he asked very thoughtful, intelligent, and logical questions about the existence of God and storied in the Bible. Some of which I could only answer with a simple "Because He is GOD". One Sunday night when he came to me and said he was ready to "be a Christian" I was flabbergasted. I did not expect him to choose to be baptized so soon after that decision, but he did.

Mar 19 (Day 85)

Again I found myself at the end of the day without a POTD...so I snapped the headline on a major internet news outlet.

Mar 18 (day 84)

I forgot to take a picture of the day, however, when I unloaded all the memory sticks from cell phones and Phoenix's camera, she took a self portrait today, so it is the POTD by default.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Mar 17 (day 83)

Luther...has made himself quite comfy...

Mar 16 (day 82)

Meet Luther, a white German Shephard, and our new family member (I am such a sucker)

Mar 15 (Day 81)

On the Chisolm Trail. This is taken at Chisolm trail Heritage Center in Duncan Oklahoma, it is a sculpture honoring the cowboys of the old west. The Chisolm trail was the main "highway" for driving cattle from Kings Ranch (in the southern most portion of Texas) to Abilene Kansas. It would take around 90 days to drive a heard of cattle 100 miles up the trail.

Mar 14 (day 80)

Oklahoma...who new such a seemingly flat state could be so beautiful. This is in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, just a short 2 hours north of us. It is the oldest wildlife refuge in the country. There are free roaming buffalo, long horns, colonies of prairie dogs...and the views are spectacular. We were treated with the perfect weather for blue skies and visibility for miles.