Thursday, July 31, 2008
I need this vacation..........
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Time
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Cave dwellers
You should have seen me getting Daniel up on this egg........it is so smooth that he couldn't get a good footing by himself........if anyone had a video camera, maybe we will be on u-tube......it must have been comical. Now the sun was bright and I was trying my best at the photo taking.........but honestly I was just pointing the camera and truly couldn't see what I was snapping.........like what was taking place when I snapped this one????? Either oldest brother
was trying to snap his head off, trying to hush him up so we wouldn't get spotted by the enemy (or aliens) or getting him to turn his head so I could snap the picture........I don't know........I do the best that I can....they are always alive and breathing when their parents come home, we have adventures to share, we haven't had to go to the emergency room at all and the laundry is done.......I haven't heard any rumors about firing me, so guess I am safe for another year or two.
Monday, July 28, 2008
A Field Trip
So this stately gentleman was one of the first animals that we saw........
Andrew in all of his 3 year old wisdom called him a reindeer......worked for me. BUT and isn't there always a but involved, all animals became reindeer........ALL OF THEM. I tried to explain that this was a goat
(and technically I don't think it is, but that was the first name that popped into my safari challenged mind).......nope, it was a reindeer........ok, so it worked for him and it could work for me too............now big brother on the other hand, well he must have gotten up on the wrong side of his bed and every other bed in the household too.........I mean he just was a nasty little troll. He didn't like this place, he was bored, Andrew was getting on his nerves, he was bored, this was the worse day of his life. I truly did start to laugh in the beginning.......I did. I mean who at seven years old goes on and on and on like some menopausal old woman?? Then slowly, very very slowly, my laughter turned into a seeping sore, and with each 'I'm bored, this is the worse day of my life" remark, it was like sea water being poured over that seeping sore.........not a good feeling. I am not, nor will I ever be a perfect Nana.......and here is the example to prove it.............I made sure that there we weren't holding up anyone else in the safari line........and I stopped the van, turned around and said " Get out" of course he just looked at me........."Get out Daniel, I have had it.........if you are so bored, and this is the worse day of your life, then please share all of this with someone else. Andrew and I are enjoying ourselves.........and since you can't be polite and keep your thoughts to yourself, get out. Maybe another family will pick you up, maybe someone that works here will drive by and pick you up...........but get out." Now that I think of it, it probably was mean, if you are going to turn me in to an agency, please wait and do it after my vacation and be prepared to turn in 3/4s of the families in the world too.....and if you stop reading my blog because you think I have miserable child-rearing talents, so be it............but it worked, he apologized and has never started this type of rudeness again, at least not with me. It wasn't the best safari type place, I have been to better, but it was fun and the two animals that I liked were.............
He or she was on top of a hill and for some unknown reason, saw us and came running down (and it was hot people....waaaaaaay to hot to be running) at us and it was truly like the cartoons..........of course he or she didn't eat the pellets that we purchased, but there was plenty of corn on the road and that is apparently what they like.......so he or she stuck around and it was cool. Here is a close up of the feathers
I don't think that I have ever seen ostrich feathers this close up......
I don't know for sure, but I think this majestic creature is a llama.........whatever it is, I really did like it.........when we stopped to look at it, in my mind, it stared right back at me............I don't know why I liked this, staring is usually rude, but for this creature, it was cool. Now get prepared to turn me in again, but I wrote down other license plates so that you could turn these families in too...........at some point Andrew could not control himself anymore and before I could say "supercalafradulisticextraledoious", he was unbuckled and grabbing food to throw out the window at the animals...........
Daniel soon joined him and since I was going less than 5 mph, (got a little worried about what this would do to us with overheating an all........) both boys threw out food and had a good time.
At the end of the drive, there is a little petting area..........shoot, they only thing to put hands on were goats and that was ok.....Andrew again was thrilled, Daniel was more worried about stepping in droppings..........to each his own......... This is the only picture I could get of the two of them together...........sigh. Most of the nannies (isn't that what a female goat is called?) were obviously pregnant and I showed Daniel how to put his hands around their huge tummys and try to feel the babies move.........no luck......but he did enjoy that.
All in all it was a mixture of good and bad.......thinking about doing the caves today.......we'll see how the boys do with the idea..............if they don't show interest, then we'll have a jammy day or a sprinkler day.........maybe board games........maybe it will be just a survival day..........tee hee...........man I am having font challenges today, aren't I ..........oh man.............
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Concert night
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Ok Ok Ok OK
Ok, I missed yesterday too..........and I know where I was too.........right here at the computer.......making a little non-professional catalog to send along with my jewelry that is going up to NE next week-end. I am trying to make this as easy and simple for the other grammy as possible. So I figure if I have the name of each piece, the price, and a picture of the piece, that will help her 99%, nothing is 100%. I only have the bracelets done right now.....still need to do the necklaces, ear rings, and other little odds and ends that I carry..........get that....."that I carry" like call me Macy's!!!!!!! You know it isn't easy put things in alphabetical order.........I still have to sing the alphabet song some of the time........... I DO!!!!! So tomorrow or maybe in just a wee bit I will work on the necklaces........as I pretty sure I have most of them photoed...the ear rings...........sigh, well I know I only have one of two pair, as they were just not photographing well. Good gravy, make them sound like they were humans........can an ear ring have a good side??????? It's just that the wire shines no matter how overcast the morning is, so you get this glare on the photos.........and I am not earning enough to start investing in photo props or aids........shoot there is waaaaaaaaay to much in the jewelry making area that I need or want.........so that is where I was yesterday.........really and truly busy.........being an industrious little ant........now lets hope all of this work, categorizing, paper and ink make a difference.......fingers crossed!!!!!!!!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
It's still today........
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I guessed I missed yesterday............
Monday, July 21, 2008
Music, Music....
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Another movie topic.........
Friday, July 18, 2008
Two, yes 2 stories to share.......
Thursday, July 17, 2008
I'm on aroll.......
Do any of you remember when this all got started........coloring on fabric, man it was fun......and relaxing. Did you know that coloring is one of the most relaxing things you can do? Well it is.
Next is the window in the bath tub/shower combo.........had the berries from my own house and they were the right color, purchased the pretty white curtains (they are crisp and white......love it)
Last, but surely not least, is this area.............my sil says if a wall is blank anywhere around me, that I just HAVE to put something on it..........thinking this is a true statement. I bought the French picture at Old World Market (another fun place to visit) and framed it myself, the sign was purchased on my last trip to Gruene (remember it is pronounced Green) with my older friend this spring........the hanger was purchased at Hobby Lobby, when they were 50% off......so all in all it was a very economical setting........
So there is my powder room........what do you have in yours? I hope someone shares........
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The walls at my computer.......
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
At the landing
Hmmm, it appears that the middle stitchery is a wee bit crooked.....now don't you think that I would have seen that before I took the picture....yeah, but I didn't..........sigh. I embroidered this while I was pregnant with my last child, my son. I spent most of that pregnancy in a 5th wheel travel trailer, with two little girls, ages 4 and not even 1 and a husband that had a roving eyes. I had this forever and one year, my military children while they were visiting me, asked if they could take it.......as my sil was taking a framing class at the time...............wha -laaaaa, isn't the end results nice? I write something like that, and I sure don't mean it to sound like someone fishing for compliments..........it's a statement or words that I use quite often.........."isn't that nice, isn't this nice."
This piece of art has a good story to it.........as you know I like to think that I can make quilts.......I know that I LOVE quilts and appreciate the time and cost that goes into each and every stitch. When my mother-in-law passed, my ex, his brother and wife and I went to clean out the house.........oh what treasures we found. We found this quilt, that was in truth, quite bad condition, but it had such fancy hand work, and the material used, what was left of it, was gorgeous. I wanted it and so did my sister-in-law.......now before I could stop her.........she whips out a pair of scissors and cuts it in half................I just stood there with my mouth open........truly I think they had to tell me to breathe..........I couldn't believe it...........I would have told her to keep it, if I had known she was going to do that.............but there, it was done. The minute I saw my half, I knew what I was going to do with it. I had four good sections......well not perfect, as you can see, but four that were salvageable.........one for each of the children and one for us. That Christmas, I took them to a frame shop and had them framed for Christmas gifts. The gentleman that I took them to, was so nice and liked the idea that I was doing this, that he asked me questions about my ex's grandmother (oooo, forgot to mention, this was his grandmother's quilt, my mother-in-law's adoptive mother.) so I told him how she was a nurse in Canada and came to Wyoming as a mail order bride. He has all of this written up and placed nicely on the back of the frame. This household is lucky, as I have mine and they have theirs, so two get to grace this home. No, my ex didn't want it......
I bet you can't wait for the next area to show up tomorrow.........tee hee...........
Monday, July 14, 2008
What's on the walls?????
Sunday, July 13, 2008
It's another lookeeee lookeeeeee
I am in a book..........ME !!!!!!
I have been a fan of Pat Sloans,well it seems like forever. I have a tendency to like scrappy quilts (and I think it's because I am not the quilter of the year........shoot I am not the quilter of the second.......the mini itty bitty second), but so far no quilt that I have given as a gift has been refused or given back.........sigh, but then maybe the people receiving them remember how their mums taught them. Here is the page with my quilt on it...........of course with my vast knowledge of life and the computer, did I think that all of the words would be backwards??? that my name would be backwards???? well of course not........so I don't even know if I can get a close up of my name............ok,ok, I am being totally and completely vain...........rarely does anything like this happen to me............shoot, this is the first time ever to be published..............ME!Saturday, July 12, 2008
The Park......
This is Andrew......he is three and just at the age where is truly discovering so much and sharing this discovery is such a delight. You forget how frightening learning to balance and learn to walk on something that seems high to you............
Daniel steps up to the plate and helps little brother out.........he has had some issues lately with being the "older" brother............so I was very proud of him just being there for his brother.I really like this one..........you could use this on a Christmas photo/card.......I love getting cards with photos enclosed or the old fashion photo card...........
I am trying to remember to take my camera with me........so I can practise and also share more of my own photos with you.............so bear with me...............you could bombarded with some real hummers...........