My Christmas wish...

Dear sweet friends,

Sometimes things happen in your life that make you realize

what is truly important in this life.

It's not the stuff.

It's not where you go or what you see.

It's not anything material at all...

It's the precious people in your life.

The family that you've been blessed with,

the friends that you hold dear for so many years

and your treasured relationships with them.

My sweet friend Tammy Cottrell,

who I've known since we were seventeen,

is in ICU right now suffering from double pneumonia.

She is on a ventilator and feeding tube

due to the seriousness of her condition.

And to make matters worse, she now has an infection

that she has acquired since she's been in the hospital

that they are fighting with antibiotics as well.

So, my request from you is for your prayers....

Please pray for this precious girl, mama, wife, sister, friend and artist ~

for complete healing and restoration to good health.

I love you much sweet Tammy!!!!

Wishing you a blessed Sunday dear friends,

hugs and love always,

Dawn

Welcome Summer!

And we sure did!!!!

We had several family get-togethers this past weekend

and have had so much fun!

So what have I been up to?

Just being with them ~

Sweet Clara...swimming for hours and hours like a little fish...

Noah and Clara enjoying the cool water together

at Uncle Mark and Aunt Susan's house ~

David, Chase and Noah enjoying the deck and grillin' out.

Brad, David and Chase's pool ~ we had a blast!

Our oldest, Brent, smokin' some AMAZING ribs for the entire family....

and we're talking a MASSIVE amount of ribs!

Noah looks mad but he wasn't...just enjoying the pool ~

One last photo to share with you, sweet Clara.

Her mama took this pic last week and I just love it ~

I have a special request sweet friends...

Lisa's little 3 yr. old niece, Gracie,

had an terrible accident this past weekend.

She suffered severe burns from falling into campfire with hot coals.

Gracie is having surgery this morning at 8:00 am for skin grafts.

My request?

Your precious prayers for wise doctors,

relief from pain and swift healing for this

tiny little girl.

Thank you so, so much.

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Perspective ~

Life has a way of making you put things in perspective ~

don't you agree???

Here I am moaning and groaning about moving all the

(beautiful) junk I've accumulated over the past years and

Sunday morning we receive a call that our brother-in-law Mark

has suffered a heart attack!!!

Our niece Allison kept him alive with CPR until the paramedics arrived

and now he is in ICU in Athens, Ga...

Makes any trouble I have seem like a joke ~

Please, my precious prayer warriors,

Keep Mark in your prayers for healing...

Hugs and love,

Dawn

Dear Prayer Warriors ~

Dear friends, our precious friend Rose of My Bella Rosa needs our prayers!
Her oldest daughter Ashley was in a terrible car accident last night.
She and her boyfriend were T-boned by a drunk driver.
The drunk driver kept driving as the police chased him.
He eventually crashed into a median wall.
He hit the passenger side of the car, where Ashley was sitting.

Ashley has a broken pelvis and is in a lot of pain.
Her boyfriend was treated and released from the hospital.
The drunk driver is paralyzed from the neck down.
So much damage was done by this.

Please pray for sweet Ashley,
Rose and her entire family my precious friends....

hugs and love to you all,
Dawn

Dear sweet friends ~

I would like to ask all of my readers to please say a prayer for Nita and her daughter Elizabeth, and for Elizabeth's good health as she has received an abnormal blood test and they are worried about her liver. I know you all are prayer warriors and ask that you remember them as you bow your head ~

much love and thanks, Dawn