2010: A Great Year for FlowerGirl...

...full of animals, friends, family, school, church, lessons, dance, now karate, swimming, biking and clothes.
She loves clothes and has a great sense of style! She fulfilled her blogname role one more time in 2010 at her older cousin's wedding. She loves to read (what she calls) Mazzakeens for children about nature. (you may know them as magazines). and, oh, they signed her up for a Brownie Troop, too and Mom is an Assistant Leader; this will be fun. Eventually they will go camping!

Her Dance Debut...

...we were charmed and proud of FlowerGirl and her dance classmates. She beams with happiness, along with her "staff" aka Mom and Dad. It takes lots of work and fetching and carrying to arrive at such a proud moment. Another show is planned for the spring, as well.

Fashion-Forward in Her Trendy Boots...

...FlowerGirl made her stage Debut at her Church's Valentine Cafe Fundraising event in Feb. 2010. The other children were her friends from her preschool class.

A New Cast Member At FlowerGirl's House...

...early in 2010, she and her Mom and Dad went to a shelter and picked out a kitty-cat for her as a pet.
Our 'Girl LOVES animals. She made a point of showing us how to "sit just like a cat". She's grown a lot this
year. Now she has a hamster she calls HerVhey, and she has hopes for a ferret. (but I doubt that's gonna happen.)

Appropriate for the Holiday Season...

...the horse barn at Tamahay, the place for feeding and storing the winter hay. Evocative of the mood of shelter from the cold; the muted colors and the contrast makes this my favorite of that series of photos from
the Memorial Trip to Minnesota in early 2010.

One More Photo Dedicated to Piper...

.., taken in the mid-1940's, probably in Wichita, KS. In those days, people dressed up to go "downtown" shopping, to appointments, or for entertainment. Once the dressed-up people got to town and walked along the sidewalk, they were likely to have their photo taken by an annoying-if enterprising-person with a camera. He would hand you a numbered ticket with an address and you were supposed to send him a small amount of money and a SSAE and hopefully he would send you back the (right) photo. It appears that's what happened to Piper and her Mom. The little snap-shot was sent to Piper (and Hubsy's) Grandparents,  to illustrate how much of a little lady Piper had become. I love the inquisitive, even troubled, look: "Who is he and why is he doing that?" 

Can't Say Enough About Piper...

...in another time, she would have been a pioneer. She was a wonderful sister to her two younger borthers, seen above. As well, a wonderful friend, a great teacher, a business woman before that was "cool" and an inpiring leader of youth. That is only a partial list of her accomplishments. She is missed by all who knew her.