Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Pool fun and Party!!

We went to Lucie's best friends four year old birthday party. It was at a bowling alley and the kids had fun!!





I put up our little pool and the kids loved it.

My Garden!

These are a couple of pictures of the Garden that I am oh so proud of! I do need to weed again so these pictures do have some weeds but there is also.....

Raspberries on the outsides and peppers down the middle.


This is our Strawberry patch(hopefully next year it will be bigger. The big plants on the right are four huge tomato plants.


This one has a little of everything. Suger snap peas(grant and I have already tested these and they are great), tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and more peppers.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

HOT! HOT! HOT!

Today I was VERY hot, it was humid and HORRIBLE! After Lucie's recital we decided to buy a slip n' slide. It was so much fun, JOsh and I even had a few slip n' slide races with the kids!! We then had some friends over for dinner, I got more great gardening tips!! It was a good day!

This first picture is my favorite because this is how summer should be. Grant was sooo happy. A hot day, slip n slide, and his best friend Havi(my sisters little girl who is 2 years older then Grant) holding his hand while they run in the water. Life doesn't get any sweeter then this!! The look on his face is so sweet, it makes me want to cry, this is how happy every kid should be! Havi will probably never read this but thank you so much Havi for being Grants best friend. We love you!!





My Little Ballerina!

Lucie had her second and last(for awhile) dance recital today. I was VERY pressured into signing her up but got some aggressivly harrassing phone calls about doing it. So I finally signed her up-at which point my little sister(who is her teacher) stopped the phone calls. I am glad that I signed her up again because she does LOVE it, and it gives her more time to spend with Lana before she goes to school out West. Last year a week before her recital she came down with chicken pox. Three days ago I took her into the doctor and she has a double ear infection and is sooo uncooperative that he tried to do a strep test and she wouldn't have anything to do with it, her throat was red and what he gave her for her ears would take care of that as well!! So anyway she has been in a HORRIBLE mood. To make a longer story short when she got up to dance she came on stage with her arms crossed and pouting, she danced a little and then at the end she layed on the ground and she was picking at the floor! It was a long day, it is over, and she was beautiful!!!

This is Lucie who is ready for dance!


This is Lucie, Paige, and her cousin AVA!


This is Lucie with Gigi and Grandpa


This is Lucie with Grandma!


This is Lucie with her Daddy!


This is Lucie with grandpa!


This is Lucie with her cousins Ava, Talitha, Havalynne, Aunt Alana, and gigi and grandpa!!


This is Lucie with her sweet Aunt Alana who was a great teacher, beautiful dancer, and wonderful Aunt-who she will dearly miss when she goes to school!!

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Our Master Bedroom!!

So our house came with curtains that are a little outdated, but in great shape and rather expensive to replace, SOOOO I decided to try to change the paint color to make the room look better and still keep the curtains. The paint was a light blue and I changed it to green(I am NOT a light blue person.) HMMMMM!!! We still have to pull our carpet and get a bedspread-I can't decide if it was a good decision or not. It is one of my least favorite colors-but when all is said and done, I may like it!!

This is a picture of the blue paint that was there when we moved in!



This is the blue paint and the green paint around the window border!


This is the green paint. Again HMMMMM!

My First Garden product!!

I can't really consider it a complete garden product but it was sooo good and really fun!! Last weekend we picked Rhubarb from our garden(the people who lived here before planted it.) Then we made a strawberry rhubbarb pie(strawberries from the store.) It was so fun having the kids help us pick the rhubarb and then see a finished product! We have three gardens this year, a raspberry patch-a strawberry patch(with four tomato plants)-and a garden with cucmbers, grape/cherry/and normal tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and pumpkins. We are super excited for our things to start growing!!





Fishing down the Peshtigo River

Josh and some of his fishing buddies went fishing down the Peshtigo River on Friday. He didn't put suntan lotion on his feet so they were burned. On Saturday night he went fishing for a couple of hours closer to home, he came home and about 3 hours after he was home he put lotion on his feet and pulled off a chunk of what he thought was DIRT from his foot, it turned out to be a leech that was SUCKING his BLOOD. His foot was bleeding and it was so gross. Anyway these are some pics from the Peshtigo River trip-not the leech one!!!