happy birthday trey!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Trey, happy birthday to youuu!!

Trey, you are one of the sweetest young men around and you display that trait in your everyday life. Along with your concern and heart for others, you amaze me with your kind spirit, your willingness to help others when you see they're in need of assistance, and above all, your passion for learning God's Word and practicing it in your daily life, where you realize it for not. You are one Godly guy. What a catch! :)

I am so glad God brought your family into our lives and I'm reminded of it each time I see you and Clark, the leaders, together. 

Happy birthday, dude!!

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This afternoon we threw a surprise birthday party for Trey and what a party it was! Miss Danielle had been planning it for what seemed like ages, and she is the queen of parties, ya'll. Working/testing out Family Fun games makes the Furlough parties the best! 

Since Miss Danielle and Mr. Lennie were going to be super busy leading the games and watching over everyone, I offered to take my camera along to snap some pics {more like over 200 but who's counting}. Really, it was just an excuse to hang with them and have fun at the party because let's face it: I love parties. So, I invited myself under the disguise of taking pictures. Having a nice camera has it's perks, you know. ;) 

Click HERE to see the best shots of the evening, but since no birthday post is complete without some evidence of the festivities, I thought I'd share some of my personal favorites...

Pulling up; Trey was a smarty-pants and looked under the blindfold to confirm his suspicions... ;)

& this was right after Clark told him we each had a million dollars for his present. Funny guy that Clark is...

Playing Water Balloon Toss with a twist: using towels to launch/catch the balloons. 

Amazing Race al a Family Fun! 

Water bucket race... 

This was by far my favorite game: stuffing "worms" into a water bottle. Sticky beyond belief, but so fun to watch the boys and their partners stuff in the noodles. We found noodles in our hair and on our clothes for hours afterwards. 

See what I mean?!

Pizza time!!

{Andrew, Nate & Clark}

{Jonathan, Trey, Joshua, and Will}

DODGEBALL aka the best game we played that night!! I was thisclose to winning a round before Mr. Lennie tagged me. At least I didn't trip and land on my back like I did in the first round... :)

Cake time! Kudos to the Furlough kids for making one awesome tasting cake! 

Picture time!

Ah, good times and great memories!! Happy birthday, Trey!

clark’s first (and third) football game

Weekend here at out house can be summed up in one word: football. Football, football, football. I can honestly say that I now know a tad more than the basics on how to play a game, and I can even see questionable calls by the refs. Still, I’m not as into it as the guys, and I always go upstairs, lock my door, and try to work on some schoolwork.

And, now that Clark’s Upward season is in full swing, I decided that this post would be fitting since all we do is eat, sleep, and breath football on Saturdays, what with the game in the morning and ECU plays most afternoons.

That’s right, it’s Clark’s 1st football game…three weeks late! Oops…

Our new favorite picture of Clark:

 

A lot of plays ended up like this, and it was too funny to watch.

Clark’s team has won every game, but Upward, the Christian sports program he’s in, promoted good sportsmanship, so the team lines up and says congrats to the opposing team after the game…

Mama had to say congrats, too!

I didn’t bring my camera to the second game, but I did bring it to the next (third) game. So, here’s some not-in-order shots from that game…

The coach and his posse:

My favorite of the day…

I had way too much fun with the still shots, so beware!

And, in case you couldn’t tell, ECU was playing, so everyone (and I mean everyone out there) was wearing purple…

Flattering, huh? Ha!

Dude, that’s going on my photo wall.

FYI, it was 5 degrees above freezing this morning. And we still have another month to go before it’s all said and done. Oy!

the mystery is solved!

 

Finally, all my blogging problems are solved…for the moment, at least. First, it was the issue that Blogger wouldn’t upload my photos. Then, Flickr told me I had to buy more space after uploading ten photos, so I went to Photobucket. Everything was fine and dandy until I couldn’t find out how to upload the pictures to my blog without having to manually do it, or having them in a slideshow.

Then, my sweet blogging friend, Eden, who stuck it out and continued to chat with me even though all I could talk about was the issues I was having with blogging, suggested I use her program she uses to publish posts, Windows Live Writer. I quickly downloaded it, explored all the great options you have (like watermarking your photos and such) and started to write my first post. I was thrilled…until the program told me there was an error and couldn’t publish the post. Are you kidding me?! Apparently not, because I went through three days of changing little settings and trying over and over again to publish. That’s when I turned to the discussion boards. After going through them numerous times, posting an actual post asking for help, I got my answer!

Turns out I had run out of space on my blog to store the photos. That’s it; just ran out of space. A problem easily fixed by sweet talking, er, I mean asking nicely for my dad to buy my some space. 20MB’s for 5 bucks, and it’s last me about 20 years if he and I calculated right.

And that’s the recap, folks. Two plus weeks of this, and I’m just now figuring things out. Poor, tech challenged SA…

{just a sample of what WLW looks like. just like Microsoft Office 2007, if you ask me…}

Without further ado, let me introduce you to my new love, Windows Live Writer! A huge bear hug to Dad and Eden, along with the guy who’s name I can’t remember who replied to that discussion post, giving me the answer. A million bonus points to all of you!

Note: This post was backtracked. Since I could still work on posts and save them as drafts, I did so all week. Thus, they were ready to go when the payment went through.

issues

Flickr has issues. Apparently I can only upload ten of them without running out of space and having to buy more space. Um, not happening. So, I tried Photobucket. Bingo! I've successfully uploaded the first batch of photos, so, for now, it's my new BFF. We'll see how it goes...
How do you like my excuses? Honestly, this week has been a total bummer what with school assignments popping up two days before they're due, and a bunch of other things that have taken their toll. Thus, no blogging.  Will a preview Friday for the upcoming week smooth things over? :) Just a note, some posts are from last week's preview post. I really wanted to post them, so I just wanted to give you guys a head's up!

{fall scenes}

{gussy and josiah's nest loot: repost}

{projects, projects, projects}

{brick wall}

{clark's 1st football game: repost}

Some other posts include my pumpkin cookie recipe with pictures I've yet to upload to PB, and, hopefully, pictures of this new coffee shop me and mama are going to tomorrow. It's supposed to be gorgeous inside, so I'm hoping it'll make for great times in the future...
Thanks for sticking with me, readers. Any and all suggestion on how to upload photo TO Blogger FROM Photobucket are so, so, so appreciated!