First Day of School 2009-2010

The girls love school. So, when it was time to go back, they were ready. They both had a great first day. I'm glad they like school as much as they do.............I always hated school!

The Day After The Party!

We went to see the fireworks last night. And B brought something to our attention.......which is nothing unusual. She's never seen the finale. Last year, the woods caught on fire and the fireworks were cancelled and the year before A chewed on one of the neon necklaces and got the glow stuff all over her and we had to leave so we could wash it off of her. She kept asking is this the finale. We had a pretty nice family on the left side of us, and two truckfuls of roudy people on the right and behind us. We were in the same area as last year only the area was cleaned out and it looks like they are going to build something new there. We saw a lot of the smoke from the fireworks this year. The wind wasn't blowing enough to blow it away. The girls enjoyed themselves only the traffic afterwards took an hour to get from the place where we parked to the bridge in town............Let's see......we have pictures of the girls waiting for the fireworks to start.........................the prettiest firework of all to me...........B enjoying her lollipop from Hansel and Gretel's Candy Store.................B eating watermelon after the parade..................A acting like she didn't know I was going to take her picture while waiting for the fireworks.............and A jamming while waiting in traffic on the way to see the fireworks.


I know my pictures are out of order as the day happened but after I loaded them, I was too tired of waiting for good internet to rearrange them.....just enjoy!

Happy 4th of July!

We went to Mayfield's Dairy yesterday. Yum-YUM!

We have just finished the golf cart parade and the watermelon social. We didn't win this year but I do have a photo of the cart that did. There were three Betsy Ross' and even a guy dressed as Uncle Sam with flip-flops on!

Here's the girls, our cart and the one that won.

Tonight we will go to the fireworks in Helen and if I had time, I will load a couple of pictures from there.

Mermaids

Here's some fish we found while in Florida. Quite beautiful to me.

Sunny Florida

I've never been a big fan of Florida nor beaches. Put me on a mountaintop with a rocker and a cup of coffee and I'll be just fine. But, the girls want to go to the beach. So yesterday after Field Day we loaded up in the RV and headed south. We stopped at a WM and when we came out there were two bikes on the back of the RV. We have no idea how that happened unless the Elves dropped them off while we were inside. B wakes me up at 6:50 this morning (forget the 8:00 rule AND that it is a Saturday!). We walked over to get breakfast only to realize that we are an hour ahead of them so we had a half hour to wait.

Here's a picture of each girl on the new bikes. We may not make it to the beach.................

Turtle Freedom

My mom brought a turtle over this morning that was in her yard and immediately A swore that it was going to be her new pet and she was going to call it either Pete or Daisy. We did a little research and decided that it would be best to let Pete go free. After the day in captivity, we made a trek down to our 'pond' and let him go. It is so funny to me how 'city-fied' my girls are, even though we do live in the country. At their ages, I thought nothing of following my grandpa down in the woods but eeewww, this was terrible and we didn't even step foot in the actual woods! Oh! And by the way, our pond is only a little hole that was dug out when they were building the house. Justin put a sewage pipe in it so now the water from the creek will come in when its high but usually doesn't go back out.

As the girls say 'Do we have to go down here?'

'Here you go Petie, have a good life!'

Here is Our Golden Pond :0
Later!

Recent Photos and Update

Spring break was last week. We didn't go anywhere, A had practice for her part in Peter and The Wolf. Her group was the meadow. I didn't see them since I was working back stage. She always wants me back stage where I can be close to her. But the girls didn't eat until Mr. Frey offered a Chik-Fil-A at intermission. Thank Goodness! And, as B said...hey, it was cold but it sure was good! I think from now on, J can work back stage and I can be our family's gopher. We are always (or at least I am) so stressed out that if I can be the one that makes sure that everything comes all together at the last minute, even that we do have flowers, then I will be ok. Then I can be sure that everyone is taken care of at the last minute. But, maybe things will be smoother for all of us. Something's got to give in our wild and wacky way of doing things around here!

Beka learning to decorate cookies.......I'm not that good at cakes so I don't think I will be that good at teaching her to decorate cookies. We are giving it another shot for Easter.





Having fun with cousin Bobby. Hey, I always thought he was the greatest so now they do too. I never realized until I saw this picture how much he looks like our Uncle Johnnie.

I have never paid to have a dog professionally bathed. Poor Peanut. He was shedding so much hair that I could not get it all combed out. The girls and I took him and requested that he get pink toenails and a bow in his hair. He did get the bow in the hair but not pink toenails. PetSmart calls it the Furminator, he's still shedding but not as bad.