Pet contest, a Birthday, and Friday HOPS!

First, a bit of business.  PLEASE go visit The LG Report and cast your vote for TUCKER in the cutest pet contest over there!  Tucker says, "Woof! Woofy, woofin!"  Which translates to: Please vote for me I really want to win that bag of treats!  Meanwhile, I'll be trying to get that darn squirrel out of the tree. Thanks everybody!

It’s Deanie’s birthday today!  She’s been a delight and blessing to us for 24 years now!  And the time really did fly by.  Yes, she was born on April Fool's day, but she's nobody's fool.  Deanie is our ‘keep the peace’ child.  She does not like anyone to be upset or angry and she absolutely insists on truly appreciates status quo in the family.  She is our ‘prissy missy’ who would dig in the dirt, while dressed in her cutest outfits, pull worms apart and then promptly wash her hands before turning around and doing it again.  Her birthstone is diamond and she loves them- the bigger and more sparkly they are the better.  She has a voice that truly makes the angels in Heaven’s choir jealous (No joke!  When she was auditioning for high school chorus I was standing outside the door and heard the most beautiful voice. When I peeked in to see who it was-- it was Deanie!) and is a dancer extraordinaire (seriously she even turned down schools after high school because, in her words, “Mom, being a dancer is just like being an athlete.  If you get injured, your career is over and then, without a college degree, what are you going to do?”  Point taken but she truly was poetry in motion.).  Deanie loves life and would have majored in partying social life had they offered it in college.  She never meets a stranger and everyone just loves her.  She is sweet, kind, loyal, respectful, responsible, and diligent.  She can talk anyone, and I mean anyone, under the table and the same can be said of her about shopping.  She is a fashionista.  She is a true southern belle and yet able to take down a chauvinist male with the flick of a wrist.  She will go out of her way to surprise or encourage or uplift a friend.  She loves her dog, Becks, like he’s her kid (the 100pound chocolate lab).  The child is beautiful (inside and out) and resourceful.  There’s really nothing about her that isn’t truly wonderful.  Except that she now lives NINE FREAKING HOURS AWAY FROM US.  Anyway, a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our wonderful Deanie!  We love you!  

Our little thumb sucker at 19 months

She was the White Rabbit and Breezy was Alice; Halloween 1988

High school

College

This is when she dyed her hair dark brown and it still hadn't grown out.

A beauty even as a brunette. 

Getting a Christmas kiss from Becks (2010)

She's the one in the bridesmaid's dress...with the hand on her hip and her mouth open. (10-2010) 

 At a bridal shower with the college roomies- she's the tall beauty on the right. (8-2010)

And now it's time for the Friday HOP over at Hilary's Feeling Beachie called Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun!  

Here we go:

1. If I don’t WALK TUCKER in the morning, my day feels off.  Because it's habit and because he will sit and stare at me until I take him!

2. When someone walks into my house for the first time, they usually comment on HOW COZY IT IS.  We live in a small (1300 sq ft) house that is decorated in fall colors.  Everyone always comments on how cozy and inviting our house is.


3. Every time I see the movie, PS I Love You (My Dog Skip; Brian's Song; Marley and Me; Pocahontas; Steel Magnolias; An Affair to Remember; most Hallmark movies and commercials; the list goes on but I think you get the idea)  , I cry. (Yes, I am a great big baby who SOBS at these types of movies). 

4. My feet feel best when they do not have shoes on them, which is most of the time because I HATE SHOES!  
 

I'm also linking to Java's Follow Friday 40 and Over at Never Growing Old!