Life is Busy!

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!  We've been keeping extra busy, but I'm not complaining. :)  Mom and dad came for a visit.  They had to be here for their grandson's 19th birthday!  Yes, my baby boy is 19 yrs young, hard to believe!  Besides this big celebration we celebrated Father's Day, Mother's Day and my Mother's birthday!!!  It was a vacation for us all!
After all the celebrations and vacation hubby had returned to work.  On his second day back to work I got a call that he was being taken to the ER by ambulance, I was freaking out!!  Kyle and I met the ambulance there!  It turned out to be kidney stones.  We're grateful it wasn't something worse.  He's back to his good health and now has an idea of what labor is like for a woman. ha ha!:)
Talking about health issues and hospital visits make me think of Ginny and Phil at Let Your Light Shine.  Most of you that visit me probably visit sweet Ginny.  Phil, Ginny's husband, has been diagnosed with Melanoma.  I lost my granddaddy to this cancer and I'm at high risk for melanoma because I have dysplastic nevus syndrome.  Even if you don't know Ginny and Phil please say a prayer for them.  

I'll be making my way around blog land playing catch up.  I've missed everyone's stories and photos!  :)

Our baby boy, Kyle!
Love you, son!

Roxanne-Love with her boy, Kyle!

My Mom & Dad.
Love you both so much!

A Dog's Life

Here's Rambo and Rocket soaking up the Florida sun and waiting to eat, waiting for a walk, waiting for a tummy rub or for some squirrels to play a friendly game of Chase.:)  What a life...a dog's life that is!

We love our pups!  They Rock! :)

Afternoon at the Park with My Son Part 3

Hi friends!  I have been really busy with life. :)  I will be catching up with everyone's blog soon!  
We will be soon getting our Christmas decorations up.  We have neighbors that already have pretty lights on their houses.  I do love the lights and beautiful Christmas music.
I'm posting a few more pics from our visit to the park.  My son and I both enjoy the outdoors and animals, but I'm not into camping....go figure. :)

We got a great surprise when we looked up and her came three Sandhill Cranes!
I just caught them landing!

I wish I could have gotten better pics of these beautiful birds.  The camera I was using is 5 MP and 12 optical.
It was a cloudy day so, I was at the mercy of nature.  :)  

Animals in my life

I've always had animals in my life and I wouldn't change a thing.  When I was very young, my dad and I raised an orphaned bird.  At my grandma's house I always had kitty cats.  At home I had a doggy for the most part.  In my twenties I started helping with wildlife rescue.  I've raised baby squirrels from before they opened their eyes.  I would have to keep them warm and get up through the night to feed them.  This was good practice of how life would be once I had my son:).  I've had two kitty cats, Tigger and Taffy.  And now I have three doggies, there's pics of them in another post.  Two of them are rescues.  Outside we have squirrels and birds that we feed regularly and in return they give us cheap entertainment, ha ha.  MaMa squirrel lives in our Oak tree down in the "V", I call it her condo.  She's great, she will climb on our garden window and ask for more food.  Our dogs and squirrels share the backyard better than expected.  We really love to cookout and hangout in the backyard, reading in the hammock or better yet looking up into the beautiful sky and trees and just watching nature. 

Help from afar...SquirrelQueen

Today I got advice from www.squirrelqueen2.blogspot.com.  She's in Washington State and I'm in Florida.  Is the internet great or what???  I started following her blog and within hours she had become my first member, welcomed me to the world of blogging and gave some very valuable advice.  Thank you, thank you and thank you!  This is the type of person that you want to have around in life.  You might be having a not so great day and then there's someone like SquirrelQueen there to lend a helping hand.  This is all new to me, but one day I will be able to give advice and help a rookie with their blog.  Life is good!

Raising my dramatic teenage son, life is wonderful.

My son recently turned 15 years old.  Like a good mother, I took him to the overcrowded DMV on his birthday.  He did pass both test and got his permit.  I was very happy for him, but on the inside I was freaking out with the thoughts of him driving me around Orlando.  It's not so much of him driving as it is the way other people drive in Orlando.  And trying to explain that to a teenager isn't so easy.  Every time we go for a drive, which has been everyday since he got his permit, I try to point out what other drivers are doing wrong and teach him some street smarts that the DMV manuals don't teach.  Take today for instance, we're leaving the 7-11 and a city bus stops to let him pull out onto the road.  I tell my son that the bus is leaving space for him to go so, go ahead and pull out and wave thanks.  Another time I ask him about his speed and he tells me he's going 32 in a 30 mph zone and says most people go 40 mph here.  I say well that doesn't make it right.  We take the long way home of course, which is fine.   We arrive home and I tell my husband it took longer because Kyle, our son, wanted to practice driving.  I'm thinking that my son and I had a nice little drive.  Then I over hear my son telling my husband how I was screaming at him while he was driving.  I hear this and immediately ask him what he's talking about.  I know I didn't scream at my son while he's driving me around in a large SUV and I'm already having trouble breathing, ha ha.  It seems to me that if you correct a teenager or say something they don't want to hear, then you are known as the adult that's freaking out or screaming.  Is this normal?  I hear the same thing from a lot of my son's friends about their parents or teachers and I suspect they are exaggerating just a bit or maybe a lot.  I have a hunch there's a lot of mom's that can relate to my life with a teenager.  I love my baby boy more than anything and that is what keeps me from pulling all my hair out...LOL!