"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" DIANE!!!!!
wow 48!!!!!

Vance Kids Christmas '59

This picture was made in our Aunt Bernice's living room when she lived in Southside. This house use to stand where part of UAB Campus is now. That was the doll that Santa brought me that year. My Uncle Jerry actually was caught talking to it because he thought it was a real little girl. In this picture I am 8, Bruce Wayne is 5 1/2, Diane is 2 and Renee is 1. Renee's hair was so curly it looked as if Mama had rolled in it pin curls.

The Vance Kids Christmas '63

I was always an AMAZON!! Here I had just turned 12 in Sept. and Bruce Wayne would be 10 the following March. I'm almost as tall as Mama's 6 ft. alumunum tree. Diane was 6 and Renee was 5. I wish I had this tree now. Mama had it in a revolving tree stand with one of those light wheels that aluminated the tree and it had hot pink glass balls on it.

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE ORNAMENTS

My Mouse Tree!!

Crystal has inspired me to put up my tree before Thanksgiving, plus my grandbaby, Mercy, will be spending a couple of nights here during the Thanksgiving Holidays. She loves my mice ornaments. Most of my ornaments are Mice along with a few Coca-Cola Santa ornaments and a select few others. I love the Christmas Mouse.

PLEASE PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!

This is Maria Atchison with her precious little boy, Josiah. They are in need of your prayers. Please lift them up. They need a miracle. 

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WAR EAGLE !!!!!!!!!!

"HAPPY 25th LEIGH-LEIGH"!!!!

 

The 70's!!

This was my cute little car. This is my 1973 Gremlin X. I bought it off the showroom floor and it only had 1 mile on it. It was a stright shift and I had never driven one until after I purchased it. Daddy was with me and he drove it to the Interstate, pulled over, let me behind the wheel and I learned to drive it on the way to Hoover from Birmingham where I let Daddy out on his job site and I drove it the rest of the way home by myself. I kept it for 6 months and then traded it in on a 1972 Malibu. 

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That's me in the big white shirt, Renee is her white go-go boots and Jimbo with his plaid britches and beatle hair-do. Jimbo and I worked at Winn Dixie in Hoover (it's not there anymore) and we were dressed to go to our work Christmas Party being held at the Coca-Cola Bottling plant in Homewood. Aren't we HIP!!! 

Here's my new Pink Glasses!! Purdy huh!!!! Oh and by the way, I'm down 43 lbs.  

God's Awesomely Amazing Water-Color Canvas!!

This is truly my most favorite time of the year. God is so AWESOME!!! 

 

 

 

Weight Update!!

It has been 7 weeks since my surgery and I just now hit 40 lbs. It took me a little over 2 weeks to lose 4 1/2 lbs. The thing is your body gets to thinking that it's starving and it starts holding onto what weight you have on you and won't let go. Ever since I can remember there was only two weeks in a month that my body would lose weight anyway. Two weeks on and two weeks off. Hopefully now I will have another good losing spurge. I would love to lose at least another 20 or more before Christmas.
I've started back to church at Kingwood 2 weeks ago and I am really enjoying it. My God is an AWESOME GOD!!!