Happy sweet treats tuesday! :) treats, writing :) Celebrating my 15th DS Anniversary! :)

Happy sweet treats tuesday!!! :) Cheers!!! :) We're enjoying a Super sweet day! :) it's a day of treats, writings, and i'm celebrating my 15th Anniversary here on DS! :) i'm celebrating in style, with enjoying some nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and enjoying an iced coffee! :) i love you all, our dear angel friends! :) We're very heart happy and excited! :) it's one of our favorite days, and traditions :) sweet treats tuesday! :) This morning, my mom, Lisa, and i enjoyed a great time going out to get treats at mcdonalds :) We got our favorite treats :) my mom and Lisa got breakfast sandwiches, mcgriddle cakes, i got fruit and maple oatmeal for Holly, i got 2 breakfast burritos, and 2 vanilla iced coffees for Holly and i :) Cheers!!! to enjoying the wonderful simple joys in life :) We've been enjoying our treats, and a super spirited fun day! :) it was so nice going out to get treats :) i'm very heart happy and excited to be celebrating my 15th anniversary here on DS :) DS is a very special site :) i love DS, and the very special wonderful friendships we share :) we've all become a wonderful family of friends over the years :) it's a very special joy to my heart, getting to enjoy time here on DS, writing to friends :) i'm very happy, thankful, and blessed to have you all in my life :) You all are family to us, and always have a very special place in our hearts :) i appreciate you all :) i'm enjoying some wonderful time here on DS today, writing to friends and enjoying an iced coffee, celebrating with everyone :) Cheers!!! to 15 years, and many many more years! :) i cherish and treasure your very special friendships :) it's amazing, how it's been 15 years :) the years go by very fast :) when i joined DS, i felt like a sunflower seed needing to sprout, grow, and blossom, and you all have helped me do that :) we all have blossomed together, in this wonderful garden of life :) i've got many very special memories from DS over the years, and many more memories to be made :) i dedicate my 15th anniversary here on the site, to family and friends :) You all make each day very special, and memorable :) Thank you all, for your sweet happy DS anniversary wishes :) Big group happy Sunflower friendship hug :) Holly and i are enjoying some nice writing time :) greetings, from my sweet spirited writing area :) i took some new pictures of my writing area to share with everyone :) i wrote a new letter, and Holly and i wrote some cards :) We're enjoying a great start to the new year, with lots of writings :) We're all keeping warm, it's a very extremely cold day outside here. We're very thankful for the warmth of our home :) We've got the sports radio on, lots of great football talk, and made some hot teas, and hot chocolate today too :) There's so much more to look forward too, as the month and season continues on :) Thank you angel friends! :) i'm having so much fun celebrating my DS anniversary today! :) Enjoying a super sweet day, with family, friends, DS, treats, writings, and the beautiful spirit of the season! :) Tomorrow's super wednesday! :) We look forward to mailing envelopes here from home, and the ghost hunters party is on!! :) Whooooooooo!!!!! :)

Celebrating my 15th Anniversary here on DS! :) Sweet Treats Cheers!!! :) Hi angel friends! :) Big warm caring happy friendship hugs! :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping warm, and enjoying a great day :) We love hearing from you, and are enjoying a very special time sharing in the month of January, with lots of great seasonal joy, festivities, and traditions :) We think of you and your family's often, and are very happy,thankful, and blessed to have you all in our lives :) Today, we're enjoying some nice treats, and i'm celebrating my 15th anniversary here on DS :) i'm celebrating in style, with some wonderful time here on DS, writing to friends, and having an iced coffee :) Cheers!!! to you! :) Thank you angel friends, so very much for your sweet happy DS anniversary wishes :) You all are wonderfully nice, and sweet :) i'm having a great time celebrating :) it's amazing, how it's been 15 years :) i remember it like it was yesterday when i first joined DS on January 11th, 2007 :) many wonderful friends i've met here on DS over the years, very special friendships to always cherish and treasure :) the great progress i've achieved, in all of my goals, dreams, and hopes, i want you all to know, you all are a very big and very special part of all of the progress i've made over the years :) so many wonderful times shared, very special memories made, and so much more to look forward too :) i'll always be here for you <3 Thank you for the wonderful joy you all bring our hearts each day, all throughout the seasons and years :) it's a very special joy getting to share our days with eachother :) my family, Holly, and i love you all, and DS, bunches and bunches! :) You're very special to us all :) Cheers!!! to 15 years on DS, and cheers!!! to many more! :) Happy Sunflower friendship hugs, and smiles! :)

This morning, we had a great new day, rising and shining :) i woke up very excited to share in, and celebrate my 15th DS anniversary with everyone :) i was up early this morning, enjoying some nice time here on DS ,writing to friends, and getting ready for my early morning nature walk :) it's a very special part of my days spending time here on DS :) it got very extremely arctic cold outside here overnight. our windchill below 0 degrees. i bundled up warmly, gathered a big bowl of goodies, and went outside for my nature walk :) it's very cold out there, i walked over to the bird sanctuary area in our yard, and put lots of goodies on the feeders, and on the tree branches :) the sky has that classic winter look to it, with the sun rising up, the sky had a blue/orange/pinkish glow :) i wasn't outside for long, but am so glad i put goodies outside for our nature friends :) The goodies help them very much, especially during these wintery days. Wishing everyone warmth, and safety :) i made a hot tea when i came indoors :)

Sweet Treats Cheers! :) It's one of our favorite days and traditions, sweet treats tuesday :) my mom, Lisa, and i enjoyed a great time going out to get treats at mcdonalds :) Lisa warmed her car up early, and it was nicely warm inside the car for us :) We enjoyed our car ride over to mcdonalds :) we love this very special tradition :) We always wish you all could go with us to get some treats :) my mom and Lisa got breakfast sandwiches, mcgriddle cakes, i got fruit and maple oatmeal for Holly, i got 2 breakfast burritos with picante sauce, and 2 vanilla iced coffees for Holly and i :) double cheers! :)We enjoyed our car ride home :) it was so nice going out to get treats :) we've been enjoying our treats :) i got my iced coffee today in honor of you all, our dear angel friends :) everyone knows i love iced coffee, and i have so many great memories over the years, of sipping an iced coffee and enjoying nice time here on DS :) it's my favorite way, to celebrate my DS anniversary :) We look forward to many more sweet treats tuesday adventures :) Cheers!!! to enjoying the wonderful simple joys in life :)

DS TIME!!! :) i'm loving my DS time! :) celebrating my 15th anniversary here on DS :) i remember it like it was yesterday, when i first joined DS :) January 11th, 2007 :) it was an amazing year :) i remember my early days here on DS, when i was super shy, experiencing anxiety, depression. i remember posting here on DS, and would visit the site about once a day during my early days. i became friends with other members, and eventually began to write journals, about how i wished to overcome at least some of my shyness, and wanted to go out more. february 10th, 2007, i went to the supercenter walmart for the first time, with my mom, dad, and niece Alyssa :) i remember i bought my first sell phone that day, and wrote all about my experience :) i eventually began to go to our local walmart here, and other stores, and wrote all about my experiences, and made more friends :) i was like a sunflower seed, needing to sprout and grow, and you all have helped me to be able to sprout, grow, and blossom in this wonderful garden of life <3

i feel so very thankful, for those early days of DS, and it really getting me started with becoming more social, and being able to go from being housebound with anxiety/shyness fears, to being able to join in on life more, joining in on going out more, having adventures :) i bought my first digital camera in April, 2007 that year ,and my first picture was a picture of the sky, and i began to take more and more pictures :) i was meeting so many friends here on DS, and lots of amazing sharing :) i remember beginning to sign onto DS in the mornings, we had a DS breakfast crew going, i remember some of us always signing on at the same time, and it was just so very neat :) baking friday began in September 2007, and times continued on :) We all have been through so many times over the years, to quote our dear friend Bev, my ds mum (Bloss), she said, "we've all been through so much, through triumphs, tragedies, from ups and downs, to all of the times" :) it's very special, how here on DS, friendships made, we've truly become a family of friends, across the miles :) We all have made great progress, and have come so far together :)

You all have helped and seen me grow over the years, and my family has grown :) i met Holly here on DS in 2009, and so many friends over the years, that to this day, we all still keep in touch :) on this day ,and every day, i remember dear DS friends also, that have passed away over the years. their wonderful spirit, and loving memories forever are in my heart <3 i think of them every day, and i cherish all of the beautiful memories made. :) i love all of the times we've shared, and continue to share, with spirit soaring moments of the seasons, months, holiday's, birthday's, and so much more :) i appreciate you all :) Your wonderful love, care, support, encourgement, and guidance has helped me so much :) over the years, my family and i have had the wonderful joy and privilage of being able to meet in person ,friends fron DS :) our friends Tommy and Cynthia, Emma (ZenEm), Stacy (Sunflower10), Deb (Stardust) :) the years go by very fast. it's amazing ,how it's been 15 years already since i joined DS :) i'm ready for the next 15 years, and many more :) DS and the wonderful friendships we share, you all are very special to all of us :) i get this amazing spirit soaring feeling, when i post my journal, with or without pictures, i'm so thankful for my DS journal here :) it's truly my journey and my story :) i wouldn't be where i am today, and i wouldn't have made this great progress, without you all. Thank you all, so very much, our dear angel friends for all that you do, for my family, Holly and i :) This is the most wonderful way, and joy to my heart today, celebrating my 15th DS anniversary, by writing, having time here on dS, writing to friends, and enjoying an iced coffee :) To all our dear angel DS friends, over the years, CHEERS!!! to you :) i will always be here for you :) Thank you all, for helping me, to always feel comfortable, being myself, and enjoying blossoming in the garden of life with you all :)

We've been enjoying the day very much :) Holly and i put some sports radio on today, lots of great football talk, with the upcoming NFL playoffs :) The matchups are all set ,for a great football playoffs season :) We're loving the radio to begin the week, and looking forward to some awesome playoffs gamedays party's :) greetings, from my glowing writing area! :) Holly and i are enjoying some nice writing time, writing cards, and i wrote a letter :) We love writing :) i've been continuing to add to my writing area, and so excited to share new pictures of my writing area with eeryone here in my journal today :) i love decorating it, and seeing it glow with the wonderful spirit of the season, and many special times being shared with family and friends :) we look forward to mailing envelopes here from home tomorrow, sending lots and lots of love, and happy sunny caring friendship smiles across the miles, from our hearts, and home to yours :)

We're enjoying a super sweet day! :) Treats, and Writing! :) celebrating my 15th anniversary here on DS! :) Double cheers! :) my family, Holly, and i are doing well, healthy, and in great spirits :) it was so nice going out to get treats today :) We enjoyed a nice lunch, and tuning into the sports radio :) Lots of great football talk :) we're having a great time, writing cards, and a letter :) i'm enjoying my new year writing area, and continuing to add more of our wonderful cards, gifts, and treasures to it :) i'm very heart happy and excited to be celebrating my 15th anniversary here on DS with everyone :) it's been a great stretch of days :) Holly and i going to watch a movie tonight :) Tomorrow's super wednesday! :) We look forward to mailing envelopes here from home, and Holly and i look forward to our ghost hunters party :) We've been enjoying watching our new ghost hunters season 10 set :) The ghost hunters party is on!! :) woot yeah!! :) There's lots more great things to look forward too :) You all warm our hearts, and brighten our days :) Thank you angel friends, so very much, for all that you do for us, for your wonderful love, care, support, warm well wishes, and for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers :) We deeply appreciate everything, with all of the love of our very happy hearts :) Big group happy sunny warm caring friendship hug :) We wish everyone, a nice peaceful evening and night :)

-never lose hope :)

To Wildthing, Peaceful Gentle Moments of the day :) Wildthing, we're enjoying a super sweet day :) We enjoyed going out to get treats this morning at mcdonalds :) We love this special tradition :) i'm celebrating my 15th anniversary here on DS, enjoying nice time here on DS, writing to friends, and having an iced coffee :) i've been enjoying a great writing day, and so excited to mail envelopes here from home tomorrow :) i love my writing area and writing time :) a great start to the new year, writing lots :) we're enjoying some sports radio, and organizing my coins :) Thinking of you,our dear friend :)

my mom, Holly, and family says hi :) We hope everyone is doing well, healthy, keeping warm, and enjoying a great day :) We think of you all often :) We love you all bunches and bunches, our sweet dear wonderful guardian angel friends :) Thank you all for the very special joy you bring our hearts, and the day brightening sunshine you bring to our days :) We'll always be here for you all, our dear angel friends :)

Celebrating my 15th DS Anniversary! :) i'm enjoying a very special and great time celebrating my DS anniversary with everyone :) i made this cool DS 15th anniversary picture, with Mr. Cool Sunflower in the picture :) It's a super sweet day! :) i'm very heart happy and excited! :)

Happy sweet treats tuesday! :) We enjoyed a great time going out to get treats this morning :) We love this very special tradition :) Cheers!!! to family, friends, to the spirit soaring times of the season, to sweet treats tuesday, and to enjoying the wonderful simple joys in life :)

My Writing Area! :) A very special greetings! :) i'm so happy and excited! :) i love my writing area, and seeing it all set up, and decorated :) my writing area is very special to me :) it's a wonderful dedication to family and friends :) You all inspire me to work hard toward my goals, and to enjoy each day to the fullest :) Holly and i are enjoying some great writing time, writing cards, and i wrote a letter :) it's a spirit soaring feeling writing :) We're looking forward to mailing envelopes here from home tomorrow :) Sending lots and lots of love, and happy sunny caring friendship smiles across the miles, from our hearts and home to yours :)

FROM 2007, DS 15th anniversary moments :)
My Keychains :) i remember recieving special keychains, from friends across the miles, andi would bring the keychains with me :) i had the keychains in my pocket, and whenever i experienced anxious moments in the stores, i would put my hand in my pocket, feeling the keychains helped bring me a peaceful calm and DS strength :)

One of my proudest moments, from 2007 :) December 15th, 2007 :) The day we rocked it, at the supercenter, mall, and benny's store :) This is a picture of me inside the Mall :) i hadn't been inside this mall, in about 14 years. DS, and you all gave me strength, to go into the mall on this day :) i remember this experience very well :) it's one of the most exciting journals i ever wrote, on that evening after we got home from shopping :) my mom took this picture of me inside the mall that day :) it was quite incredible, how just 11 months earlier, my anxiety, and shyness was very severe for years, then i joined DS on January 11th, 2007 and you all helped me to grow into being able to have an experience, and moments like this :) Thank you angel friends :)

Mr. Cool Sunflower! :) celebrating a very special day : )Iced coffee cheers! :)