Sisters (and brothers)

We have 10 years, and miles away in between, but nothing separates our hearts!

You can kid the world. But not your sister. ~Charlotte Gray

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb

Sister to sister we will always be, A couple of nuts off the family tree.~Author Unknown

There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother. ~Astrid Alauda

A brother is a friend given by Nature. ~Jean Baptiste Legouve

After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers. ~Astrid Alauda

As we grew up, my brothers acted like they didn't care,but I always knew they looked out for me and were there!~Catherine Pulsifer

Best Things In Life Are Free

Hello my faithful friends, I am back from our weekend trip to D.C. My Tito and Tita (Uncle and Aunt) from Georgia drove to D.C. for a baby shower so we took the opportunity to meet up at my cousins.' It was a nice sweet little reunion.

Here are some pictures of the pretty sights...

We stopped to stretch our bodies for a few minutes, in a small town in West Virginia.

I just love this picture. Feel free to download it, it's my present for you!

A few hours later, we made it to the I-495, or the 'beltway' in D.C. and stopped at a mall at Tysons Corner. Of course I had to take pictures of flowers.

Free play for my little happy camper.

And a trip to Toys R Us for any toy he could grab, thanks to his Tito Adrian! Yay, more Thomas!

And how about some free laughs and rough-housing with his fellow Filipino-Irish cousin...

It really wasn't a sight-seeing trip, but we squeezed in a drive and a few minutes of walking around the U.S. National Arboretum.

Happy? There's more...

And so our visit to D.C. was over. My toddler and I drove home to our man waiting for us at home. He wasn't the only one waiting. For in our backyard, I could see these:
(a view of our neighbor's property )

And last but not least, imagine my surprise when I went to check out the hostas in the hedge... one iris among a bunch that are about to bloom!

Thank you Lord...