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My name is Maria Louise. I am in the Renaissance of my life. I am a wife, mother, and student. I am a perpetual student of singing, dance, piano, and life in general. I also adore architecture and love to write. I write songs, stories, and poems, and have a few ideas up my sleeve for children's' books. I'm also back into ballet after more than 20  years away.

Below are Some of the Things that I Love. [They are not in any particular order...]

smiley bouquet!Smiley faces

I love my dogs. Click on their pics to go to their web pages! [Charlie on the left, Annie on the right].


Maria the Bride dancing with her son EvanI love my son Evan

Dancing with my son Evan at my wedding in one of my restoration gowns. You can read more about the wedding here.

Gorgeous tree at vineyard in Virginia

I love trees too! I now have a tree page to show my photography...here.

smileywoman.com banner

Dance! The link above will take you to my dance site.

I love my Dan!
Here we are in our Renaissance Festival costume creations. You can see other costume creations
here.

IF YOU WANT to see more renaissance festival pictures go here.

I also LOVE bears!

This is Sunny. She is a rare, old SunKid from Germany.
She's very photogenic and makes a cooperative model!
:-)

This is one of my favorite pics of my son Evan and myself. This was taken in 1999.

In Summer 2004

I graduated with an honors degree in Psychology


University Accolades May 2004
Psychology Outstanding Senior Award

This is a pic of me with my favorite graduate student teacher, Toni
[She taught our Research Methods Lab class]


Maria graduated with Honors in Psychology in August 2004.

University school awards, honors, and recognition: Dean's list, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Golden Key International Honour Society, The National Honour Society in Psychology, Recipient of Psychology's 2004 Outstanding Senior Award, GMU Cum Laude Honours Graduate.

48th birthday celebration

Mr. Smiley sang Happy Birthday to me in the wee hours (I was born at 3 a.m.) When my mom was alive she used to call me on the phone at 3 a.m. and sing Happy Birthday to me, and then tell me to go back to sleep! :P

Random comment...
I lost another pound! Woooo Hoooo

I'm excited about my day, especially meeting Oranges for the first time AND she's making my birthday cake! :D

I'm also happy that I can wear a fun, colorful Jams World dress for my birthday day. Because my Achilles is still a problem, I'm going to wear my Smileywoman hi-top Converse sneakers with it! Should look weird!

I'll be back later to post pictures...

Okay, four QUICK pictures that Mr. Smiley took of me WITHOUT makeup in my "party" dress and hi-top sneakers. :P

1. My husband the crazy photographer and of course, the birthday girl! :D

Image hotlink - 'http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a376/smileywoman/birthday/48Bday1T.jpg'



2.
Back view of my Jams World dress. I bought this vintage dress two years ago and have never been small enough to wear it! Image hotlink - 'http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a376/smileywoman/birthday/48BJamsDressBT.jpg'



3. Side view of dress, hi-tops, and silly me! :P

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4. Looks like a dental convention. I told Mr. smiley you have to SMILE in an exaggerated manner sometimes for the camera. I look demented! :?

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5. I love hats!

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6. Just a pose for Mr. Smiley...

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7. Smiling face and front view of dress.

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8. More Hats! :D
 

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9. Artistic black and white

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12. Me asking, "almost done taking pictures yet?"
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Begging him to STOP taking pictures!!!!!!!!
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Today was my birthday and several DDNers were in attendance.

First, here's the smiley "influence"
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Here's DDNer hylndlas (Maggie) and her baby bump! :D
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Here's DDNer Oranges with her beautiful smile. (She made my yummy birthday cake!) :)
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Here's me and DDNer dancingrainbows (Nisha)
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With Nisha and her boyfriend, Steve
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Me and Mr. Smiley
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My card from Nisha
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My presents from Nisha
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Smileywoman and Oranges cuddling!
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Getting a card from Maggie's "baby bump" surprising me with an announcement on the baby's GENDER!!!!!!!
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Evan

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Some of the group


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From L - R my Russian "sister" Anna with her boyfriend Wayne, and Nisha and her boyfriend

Silly birthday girl! :P
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Evan decorated Oranges' iced cake with orange trim and candles
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Maria's Pages
Maria | Reasons to be Grateful | Ode to Dan | Christmas Day | Eulogy and Pictures
Costume Creations | Our Church's 50th Gala Celebration

Dan's Pages
About Dan | Our Wedding | Halloween | Our Home | Charleston Trip

Evan's Page
About Evan

Our Dogs' Pages
Charles "The Dog" | Annie Girl

Tributes
Tribute to Mama R |Wedding Anniversary 2006 | Mama's Last Christmas | Big Boy Bunny | Dance Tribute to Mom VD | Snow | Trees

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