Hillcrest Cottage Life: September 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

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Always There - May 14

Best Mom Ever

Snow Days - Feb 14

Bring On the Cheese Dip!

Return of the Santa Mugs - Dec 13

Atticus Finch is Merry

Not Your Typical Country Outing - Nov 13

Happy

Glamping Gipsy-Style Nov 13

Gipsy the Teardrop Camper

Responding to Failure- Nov 13

My Letterpress!

Tynkie's Attic - Sept 13

Enter If You Dare

No Birthday Pony...Again - Aug 13

One of My Many Blessings

Consider the Birds - June 13

Tabasco & Atticus Finch

Word of the Year -Jan 13

A Sign to Remind Me

Carpe Diem - May 13

Blessing - Honor Grad

Blessing #4 - Feb 2013

Guy Meets Car

Finish Strong Report

TWO Graduations!!!

Best Finishes from 2012 - Dec 12

Lots of Hello's & Good-by's

Left Behind - July 12

Two Boys Gone

Graduation & Wedding - June 12

Proud of This Guy

Graduation Invitation - May 12

A Time for Everything

Last School Lunch- May 12

A Daily Ritual Ends

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Time Travel - Oct 12

A Mysterious Letter Arrived

HC Weekly Highlights - Sept 12

College Guy's Intramural Team

Seaside Chest- Sept 12

Sand Meets Ocean Blue

Left Behind- July 2012

A Chapter Ending

From Bed to Bench - Apr 12

New Porch

Changes Are Here - Mar 12

Stu is 21!

View From the Pit - Feb 12

Psalm 40: 1-3

Texas-Style Zombie Killers - Feb 12

Ranch Outside of San Antonio

Runners to Your Marks -Dec 11

"Finish Strong" in 2012

Fa La La La La is Here - Dec 11

Hey, Santa

Look Kids, A Real Xmas Tree - Dec11

Love It!

Mugged... Again

Vintage Mugs

City Girl Goes to the Country - Nov 11

Country "Big House'

The Smell of Death - Nov 11

Last Game with Last Son

Winning Rocks and Losing Stinks-Oct 11

We Won!

A Review

NEW BOOK!!!!

Senior Homecoming- Oct 11

And Zombies!!!

West Point Ring Weekend 2011 - Aug 11

For ME!!!!

How i Spent My Summer Vacation - Aug 11

Precious Family Time

A Slice of True Life - Aug 11

Telling Family Stories

Barbie Doll Heads and Paris - Aug 11

Engaged!

Summer Day at the Lake - Jul 11

Ahhhhhh!

Morning Glory Love - Jul 11

Happy Summer Day!

Blooming - Jul 11

Ghost Town & Death Mask Jul 11

And an Old Cemetery

My Decluttering Bike- Jun 11

Well Worth Selling My Childhood

Hello... Good-Bye - May 11

Secret garden

Why We Did Not Rake the Leaves - Apr 11

I Love You, Mac

De-Cluttering Items of the Day - Apr 11

The Love of My Grade School Life!

Afraid to Scratch My Head - Mar 11

I Won This at an Auction!

1920's Candlestick Phone - Mar 11

Cap'n Kangaroo Phone

Mrs. Beasley - Mar 11

1967 - 2011

Childhood For Sale - Mar 11

THE Shoes!!!

Fashion Icon - Feb 11

Burberry For Sale

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Art Studio Tour - Mar 10

The Drawing Board

Clutter - Feb 11

Look at This Treasure!

Golden Thievery - Feb 11

Lucy Plots

All Academies Banquet - Jan 11

My Awesome Cadet

Sun Sets on 2010 - Jan 11

Hillcrest Cottage's Newest Member

Simple Xmas - Dec 10

True Xmas Spirit

Bike Ride - Dec 10

Beautiful Arkansas River

Beginning to Look Like Xmas - Dec 10

Ready or Not - Dec 10

My Tree Helpers

Gingerbread Tradition - Dec 10

Mission Accomplished

Help! I've Been Mugged!-Dec10

My New Obsession

A Hillcrest Cottage Thanksgiving - Nov 10

My Silly Guys

Eggplant Art - Nov 10

Too Beautiful to Eat

Estate Sale Booty - Oct 10

Vintage Fun

Hillcrest Cottage Random Friday - Oct 10

Chiminea... Yes!!!

Inaugural Crazy-Lady Ride - Oct 10

The Purple Cruiser

Change is Good - Oct 10

Smirky Smile

Sprint Through the End - Sept 10

11th Grade

Broken Bones and Shattered Dreams - Sept 10

Number 9

Big Waves and Peeling Paint - Sept 10

Makapu'u Beach

Fottball Player's Letter to God - Sept 10

Making Dreams Become Real

Labor Day Events - Sept 10

Home from College

An Untold August Tale - Aug 10

My Hero

Random August Snapshots - Aug 10

Stu & Lucy

July at HC - Jul 10

Meet Lucy the Goldendoodle

June's Coming, Going, & Staying- Jun 10

Mac is Staying!

Tearing Down Wall #1 - Jun 10

The Wall

Tearing Down Wall #2 - Jun 10

Wallpaper Circa 1946

Tearing Down Wall #3 - Jun 10

Great Coffee Cup Revolt of 1946

Twenty One

When Clayton was 16

Random May Happenings - May 10

Adios to Freshman Yr & Spanish

FYI: Jesus is Coming Back - May 2010

Mother's Day Flowers!

Hillcrest Cottage Roses - Apr 10

Full Bloom

Jeep Update - Apr 10

These are Cool, BTW

Spring Fever - Apr 10

My New Purple Bike!!!

A Day in the Life - Mar 10

Creating Paper Billfold wallets

St. Patrick's Day Green - Mar 10

Green - Hillcrest Cottage Style

God Grabbed My Chin - Feb 10

The Dusty Chandelier

A Critical Mission - Jan 10

Seeing This Makes Me Happy

Jesus Knocked on My Door - Jan 10

This Pic has No Relation to This Post...Just wanted to Share This Photo I Just Received (From July 09...Remember "I Am Film.")

Gone - Jan 10

Empty Bed Left After the Tornado

2009 Year in Review - Jan 10

The Highlight of '09

The All Academies Holiday Banquet - Dec 09

Me with Cadet Corporal Kinley

Electric Socks - Dec 2009

The Socks!!!

Boys... - Oct 09

The Muddy Jeep

A Weekend in Upstate New York - Oct 09

"See you at Christmas."

"You are My Reward" - Oct 09

Mothers Day 2000

Never Quit - Oct 09

Queen of Speed-6th Grade

Football Football Football - Sept 09

Go Warriors #9!

Time - Sept 09

Davis' First Solo Jeep Trip

Too Much Fun for the First Night of College - Aug 09

From Stuart's I-Phone

Week of Change - Aug. 09

All My Guys Togethter

About Almost Being 50 & Stuff - Jul 09

Lots of Blooming Ahead

Sunday Morning - July 09

Black-Eyed Susans in Full Bloom!

"It" - The 90 Second Good-Bye

Click Here: Remembering Our R-Day 2008

R-Day Eve - Jun 09

It was One Year Ago

R-Day Eve - Jun 09

Click This Pic for Video Tribute

Family Vacation - Jun 09

Kinley Guys Reunited

Road Trip - Jun 09

Mac Enjoys the Air

Graduation - May 09

Grad. Pics by Our Good Friend Steven Davis

On a Day Like Today - May 09

Peace Amidst the Storm

Thankful Days - May 09

Enter with a Happy Heart

Thankless Days- May 09

Morning Coffee & Journal

Mother's Day Report - May 09

My Roses

Blank Journal and Strong Will - May 09

Time Turned Backward - May 09

Last School Lunch - May 09

First Grade Lunch Box (Circa 1965). It's metal, cool, and I can still smell the pimento cheese sandwiches, Fritos,& Ding Dongs.

Spring Art is in Bloom - May 09

Yearbooks are Here - Apr 09

Class of '77 Yearbook Pic

Spring-Inspired Art - Apr 09

This is called "Hope"

Sr. Prom Saga No. 3 - Apr 09

Clayton as a Jr. - Spring 2007

What Stu Did Instead - Apr 09

Sr. Prom Saga No. 2

Senior Prom: To Be Or Not To Be ? - Apr 09

Stairway to Heaven in '77

What I Learned #3- Apr 09

My New Hat - Apr 09

Sorry Stu, It Didn't Stay in Vegas

Pirates and Tea Parties: I'm Clairvoyant - Apr 09

Check out My Crystal Ball Gazing Skills

Random Reasons Why I Love Hillcrest - Apr 09

Misty Fall in My Neighborhood

What I Learned #2 - Apr 09

Warning:Beware of Dangerous Childhood- Warping Shoes

"Those Geeky Red-Toed Shoes"

Easter Egg Hunting - Apr 07

Stuart Then

What I Learned #1 - Apr 09

Davis the Passionate Soccer Player

Ode to My Pets - Apr 09

Promoted to Human Status

Plebe Parent Weekend- Mar. 09

Plebe of PPW

The Quiet Calls My Name - Mar 09

Enjoying Tullum, Mexico

Film- Mar. 09

Sadly...Only Pic of Me with My Plebe

The Three-Cornered Hat Principle - Mar 09

Is It Legal to Leave Him There?

A Constant - Mar 09

Ballroom Dancing Lessons - Feb 09

Me and My Husband...not

The Wrestle Room- Feb. 09

Championship Wrestlers

Last Night I Laughed- Jan. 09

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Tea Party for Pirates- Feb. 09

Little Blue Book

Senior Skip Day- Feb. 09

Mac Enjoying the Moment on Daybed Fading

Overstuffed - Feb 09

I Sold My Albums on Ebay

My Grandfather Lives- Feb. 09

Fop the Pony, the Surrey, and Jim Jones the Very Kind Driver

"THE" Uniform- Dec. 08

Xmas 2008 - Full Dress Gray Uniform

Merry-Go-Round- Nov. 08

High School Senior Who Replaced the Freckled-Faced Hardy Boys Reader

All My Pirates- Oct. 08

...Have Sailed Away

All My Pirates have Sailed Away

Grumpy Pirate with Fake Smile

Open Windows - Oct 08

The Cross-Eyed Trooper - Sept 08

Stu in Little Italy

Operating Heavy Machinery - Sept 08

Nothing Like Brothers

"For More Than Ourselves"- Aug. 08

USMA Class '12 Motto

Sweet Smell of Summer Reading - Aug 08

My First of Many Nancy Drew Books

"It" - The Ninety Second Good-Bye- Jul 08

The Long Anxious Line

"It" - The Ninety Second Good-Bye- Jul 08

My New Cadet

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to West Point- Jul 08

The Quirky Hat From Little India

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to West Point- Jul 08

Times Square Happiness

No More Hieroglyphics - May 08

Kindergarten Lunch Note From Mom

Mr. Stretch - Apr 08

Davis in Greenwich Village

Broom Man - Apr 08

My Neighborhood Has One

Checkout My New Ringtone

The Official Appointment to USMA

Milestones- Feb. 08

Motherhood 101- Dec. 07

West Point Bound Senior

Bicycle Regret- Jan. 08

It wasn't France, but It was Fun

Life is Crazy- Aug. 07

3 of My Favorite Guys

Life is Crazy- Aug. 07

Summer Here...And Gone 2007

Life is Crazy- Aug. 07

Water's Edge '07

Coup D'Etat- Sept. 06

Leader of Eddie Bauer Rebellion

The Season is Changing- Sept. 06

Dad on His 80th Birthday

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