HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

I know it is has been a while since I have posted, sorry if I let anyone down. This is a special day for my Mom and LeRoy, and I wanted to honor them with a post on my blog. They were married in Sidney, Ohio at President Chrisman's home, by President McDonald 16 years ago, that doesn't seem right does it, that its been that long already.

On September 4 1993 Charlet and LeRoy Elliott were married, here are some wedding photo's...

very serious and much younger looking...

Here they are today, even more beautiful....

I am very grateful to have them in my life. I have learned a lot from them both, and I love them both a lot. I want to tell them both thankyou for everything, and I love you, I hope you had a great anniversary!!!!

Millie also says grrrrr, she loves you both soooo much, you have no idea how much it means to me to see the interaction between you two and her...she loves you tooo!!!!

Happy Birthday to Millie

Millie was born 4 years ago today to Fluffy and Ramsey. She had a rough start, you see from her picture she has a deformed right front leg and she couldn't get to the mother's teets, and when she was helped to them she couldn't get any milk from them. After a week of trying this method and seeing that she gained no weight, I offered to take her home and feed her from puppy formula. I just really wanted to do something for this family and for Millie. She gained 3oz in one week and really thrived from then on. There is much more to the story, and if you would like to hear anymore of it I'll be happy to tell you, it is just too long a story to post. What I can tell you is that she chose me and has been a blessing in my life, she saved me and is still saving me everyday. I love her soooo much, and I am thankful for her.

For her special day she got to go to her favorite places, where she got to recieve her favorite treats. Care to guess what her favorite treat is? Being petted of course. She had so much love shown her today. I wish that would be all it would take to have a good birthday, just being held and loved. How simple life is for Millie, and how nice too!

Here she is with two of her favorite people when she was 5mths old....

I forgot how tiny she was.

Here she is when she was just one year old....

2006

2007....2 years old

2008...3 years old

2009... 4 years old

How do we honor Memorial Day?

I wanted to observe Memorial Day properly. Last year I posted a list of those within my family that have served in the armed forces. None of them lost their lives, but they gave up a significant amount of their time to serve their country. Something I find very amazing and am very grateful for their service and sacrifices. First I would like to post a few things on how we can honor this day appropriately...
Ways To Observe Memorial Day
Memorial Day reminds us of our duties towards the wounded soldiers and the bereaved families, orphans and widows of the dead soldiers. We should honor the dead by adorning their sacred remains with flowers and garlands and show our gratitude towards them in the following ways:
Adorning the graves of the soldiers with flags or flowers.
Visiting cemeteries and memorials.
Furling the American Flag at half-mast until noon.
Furling the 'POW/MIA Flag'.
Keep silence for a minute at 3 p.m., 'National Moment of Remembrance' and listen to Taps being played.
Take a pledge to aid the disabled veterans, widows, widowers and orphans of the dead and keep it.
You may support the efforts to restore the traditional day of observance of Memorial Day back to May 30th.
Offering thanks to the veterans and appreciating the ultimate sacrifices of the soldiers to the bereaved families personally may help too.

One of the ways I will observe the day is to post this. Here is a poem to help us on this day as well:

Freedom is not free

I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Service man saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil
How many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.

LCDR Kelly Strong, USCG - Copyright 1981


I hope you all have a wonderful and peaceful Memorial Day....


Not to make light of this occasion but Millie wanted to show her support also, by wearing a patriotic bow in her hair.

Happy Mother's Day

Mom with the Grandkid's and great grandkid's...

Mom and best friend Pat

I wanted to dedicate a post to my Mom for a day that is all about mothers. I saw a video put out by our church and thought it expressed a lot of the words I would use to describe my Mom. I tried to add the video to my blog and never could get it added, so I am putting the link here so that you can follow it. Enjoy the video...http://www.youtube.com/mormonmessages

I hope my Mom has a good day and knows how much I love her. Thankyou Mom for all you do for me and have done. I love you lots and lots....always and forever!!!!

Just a note of correction, if you can see the dates on the pictures, they are wrong, when I had taken them back in 2007 I had failed to reenter the correct date on my camera.