The Fourth of July

Sometimes the best times come in the most unexpected packages or places. Yesturday we spent the day with Ricky, Sheri (his daughter), Tori (his daughter), Shane, Rachel, Nick, and Dan. We went to the church picnic in the park first and then headed back to Shane and Rachel's place. The guys got fresh cuts and we braved huge crowds to go watch fireworks at the lake. I think it was a lake ... we never got close enough to see the water! ~laughs~ Later, the fuzz busted up our home fireworks display due to the lateness of the hour but we had a great day none the less. Check out the montage if you wanna see the pics!

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Monique ...

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My girl ...

Any one have any idea who in the world this might be?

Without giving it totally away ... I write this post with tears in my eyes. In fact ... right now I can't write it ... I'm going to have to step away from this one for a while just because I'm so overwhelmed with emotion ...

So I'll let you guys take a guess or two at who this gorgeous, talented, intelligent, God-loving young woman is ...

while I just go and thank God a few moments ...

The Tats ...

As the only Shama Shama (I think this is a safe bet) to have tats ... I figured I'd share my ink ... including my gorgeous Konnichiwa (Midori) though she isn't finished yet ... I go back next Thursday to have her finished ...

Tat #1 : On my lower back ... this was the first -

The Original Picture:

The Tat:

Unfortunately with this picture you can't see the detail in the bottom flower but it's definitely a painful and memorable experience that your lower back inked! Time to complete - 2 1/2 hours

Tat #2 - left thigh -

The original picture:


The Tat:

We changed her hair color and again ... a lot of the detail is lost in shrinking the picture and with the low light in the room but she's my mermaid. Time to complete: 6 1/2 hours.

Tat #3 - right thigh -

The original picture:

The tat - in progress:

Her makeup has to be finished and there is some background color, design in her kimono and four kanji characters that will be added .. two characters for Loyalty and two characters for Sensuality ... together they carry a very deep meaning for me. I love this tat the best ... obviously it has lots of detail but it's far from finished. Time so far - 4 1/2 hours. It's maybe halfway done.

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I scrounged around and found a bunch of reject pictures that no one managed to steal from me in my active days as -clique paparazzi- and spent the better part of a day scanning and uploading these ... hopefully they will bless ya'll as they did RJ and I while we worked on this. If there aren't many pictures of you it isn't because I don't love you dearly it's cause your pics were obviously the most sought after and you'll have to look around at the rest of the clique for the guilty party! ~grins~

I love ya'll! I have about 50 to 100 more pics to upload but I can't get to them tonight ... so stay tuned!

Some pics

Above: Rich, upclose and intimidating ~laughs~

Above: Rich's most recent tat, this makes 5 for him and yes, those ARE earrings in his ears -- he got them gauged last year, those are 10's.

Above: My mermaid tattoo on my left thigh, this is #2 for me

Above: Richard and my other two favorite boys, Pppete and Nicolai