Shellie-Bration

This past weekend, we went to Amelia Island, Florida for a weekend getaway with my sister and her family, her in-laws, sister-in-law, my parents and my brother in order to celebrate the beautiful life that my sister has lived.

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera at home this one time in my life. So there's nothing to see here but amazing pictures of my sister. :)

I chose to celebrate her by giving her a series of gifts. One of them was particularly fitting for us. American Top 40 (hosted by Casey Kasem) was launched in July of 1970 and Shellie was born in November of 1970. So I made a two-disc set of the #1 song from the last 40 years. It was fun to do and it is like reliving my childhood with my sister while listening to it!

This is one of Shellie's favorite pictures.

If my house gets firebombed, you know why.

Aww my wedding day!

Sheridan applying my makeup!

1) 1970: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough-Diana Ross

2) 1971: Joy to the World-Three Dog Night

3) 1972: Song Sung Blue-Neil Diamond

4) 1973: Bad Bad Leroy Brown-Jim Croce

5) 1974: Hooked on a Feeling-Blue Swede

6) 1975: Jive Talkin-Bee Gees

7) 1976: Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart-Elton John/KikiDee

8) 1977: You Light Up My Life-Debbie Boone

9) 1978: Night Fever-BeeGees

10) 1979: Reunited-Peaches and Herb

11) 1980: Crazy Little Thing Called Love-Queen

12) 1981: Physical-Olivia Newton John

13) 1982: I Love Rock and Roll-Joan Jett

14) 1983: Billie Jean-Michael Jackson

15) 1984: Wake Me Up Before You Go Go-Wham

16) 1985: Like A Virgin-Madonna

17) 1986: Stuck With You-Huey Lewis and the News

18) 1987: I Wanna Dance With Somebody-Whitney Houston

19) 1988: Together Forever-Rick Astley

20) 1989: Straight Up-Paula Abdul

21) 1990: Nothing Compares 2 U-Sinead O’Connor

Disc 2

19 1) 1991: Everything I do-Bryan Adams

2) 1 2) 1992: Baby Got Back- Sir Mix A Lot

3) 1 3) 1993: I Will Always Love You-Whitney Houston

4) 1 4) 1994: I’ll Make Love to You-Boys II Men

5) 1 5) 1995: Waterfalls-TLC

6) 1 6) 1996: One Sweet Day-Mariah Carey

7) 1 7) 1997: Wannabe-Spice Girls

8) 1 8) 1998: Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing-Aerosmith

9) 1 9) 1999: Livin’ La Vida Loca-Ricky Martin

10) 2000: Independent Women-Destiny’s Child

11) 2001: Fallin’-Alicia Keys

12) 2002: Dilemma: Kelly Rowland & Nelly

13) 2003: Crazy in Love: Beyonce & Jay Z

14) 2004: Yeah!-Usher

15) 2005: Since You Been Gone-Kelly Clarkson

16) 2006: SexyBack-Justin Timberlake

17) 2007: No One-Alicia Keys

18) 2008: Single Ladies: Beyonce

2009: Poker Face: Lady Gaga

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

I am the luckiest sister in the world to have a sister like her!

Vision of Love

Happy Anna Howard Shaw Day to you all!

Well, maybe not to all of you.

For those of you with love on your mind...you might have had what we call a Vision of Love in your life.

Maybe not.

We don't really refer to that as a real thing at all.

But back in November I downloaded this song onto my ipod and well, let's just say that there have been many MANY MANY sing-along sessions since then.

One of the reasons why I love my husband so much?

He might know the words to this song better than I do. And he can hit the notes.

Impressive no?

Go ahead. Click it. You know you want to.

And sing loudly. But maybe wait until a coworker is in the room to sway back and forth WITH you. Cause you'll want to. Also, feel free to do that run of notes at the end with abandon. It's your own personal American Idol. Go now.

Celebrate a Vision of Love. There ain't no shame in that game.