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!

Best Sister in the World

The only reason I ever give thought to have another child, is simply this:

To give Lucy a sister.

I love my big sister more than I can really talk about here.
We talk daily all about big things like how to handle discipline issues, best cook a lasagna and how to get a stain out of leather shoes.

But we also talk about the little things like how cute Mr. Shuster is on Glee, how a hilarious costume for Halloween would be if a man taped Massengill to his chest with a little baggie underneath it and if only NJ were next to NC.

We are different in so many ways, it makes our friendship great because we can talk about a million things.
But since we came from the same family, we have a million things in common.
Does it get better than that?

Today it did.

She preordered me The Pioneer Woman Cooks and it arrived on my doorstep today.

She loves me. She REALLY LOVES ME!

It's her birthday next week and well...I think my gift for her pales in comparison.
Oh well. I guess I win this time round :)
Love you!

Lamb Siblings

The beach trip was the first time since my sister got married TEN years ago that my brother, sister and I have all been together without spouses.

It was great to have time with just my siblings again and to laugh at growing up together and to get to enjoy life together as grown-ups and not so grown-up moments.

Check out how we look nothing alike straight on, but on the profile-we all have the same noses.



I'm a crazy genetic scientist to have seen that one.