First Cast

We had a date night the night before. Took the girls to a much talked about and promised trip to ihop (which was a 40 minute wait with about 20 other families of 5 or more) What a zoo! We couldn't even really talk above the noise. We ate, they loved it of course. Checked off the list of 'summer fun' and call the experience complete. Then, we were off for an afternoon of fishing at the lake house.

Her face says so much!!

Aubrey's first worm, first cast, first catch of the season!! She's got 'it'. 'It' took a little longer for the rest of us to catch something.

First trip and she can put her own worms on and cast beautifully! It's amazing how much they have grown since last spring. Removing or even touching the fish is another story!

Edie and Ray like to touch them and hold them by the lower lip and toss them back in.

Sweet little Edie's first catch!

Reagan stayed out there all afternoon, and 5 min before we left during pack up she caught a sun fish! It was a fishing tri-fecta!!

Everyone was happy! (Phew!!)

Date Night

What a handsome date I had!

Good friends, good food, good laughs.

Happy 9 Year Anniversary

This year's anniversary could not and SHOULD not be topped. After painting the outside our house for the last two weeks and almost completing this task....

we woke early today to find the automatic ice maker water line had leaked and flooded our hard wood floors in the kitchen, and had been leaking for some time, slowly seeping through the floor and down the basement walls, the leak area was behind lots and lots of plastic totes, so we would not of seen it, and did not see it until it was to late.

We spent the day with the wet vac, every fan on in the house.

My dining room rug was out on the driveway to dry. Some of the items we kept on the TOP shelves of the basement storage area were NOT in plastic bins. Only three boxes and ironically one them was our wedding glasses, after crying about the disaster, this did make me smile. They survived the last nine years what a great day to find them, let's use them! I washed and dried them hoping to have a toast at dinner, I went about the rest of the day cleaning, drying, mopping... only to find later that one glass had been broken during the day! The stem had been broken off of it at some point...after a mild interrogation, no one fessed up, so that one will remain a mystery. I think I need a finger print kit for situations like this.

It's a day later, we had Aubrey take our picture again, she does such a great job, she is our official anniversary picture taker. She took the one in the margin of the blog!

The drying continues, I'm going through EVERYTHING tote by tote. The water dripped down through the ceiling, onto the totes cascading down them. They were stacked so close and high it soaked everywhere and everything. Some toes had cracked lids, I never worried about water coming DOWN on them so it was no big deal, it was the water level coming up that had always been an issue.

Insurance guy comes on Tuesday, until then I'll try to get it as dry as possible and keep going through the totes. I did want to go through them and thin stuff out, just not on our anniversary, or a holiday weekend. back to work for me!

Painting....

Before
After

Man, what a project! Now we notice every little imperfection. Two weeks ago we REALLY realized how bad it needed paint.

We had a few color choices picked out, but once we got to the store, we went our separate ways and came back to each other with the SAME color choice, that was nothing like what we originally going with.

Not sure if I want to put the shutters back on, what do you think?

Always Someone To Play With

Turn your volume down, unless you like Laurie Berkner :)

I found this 'pod' chrysalis in March when we were doing some yard work, Reagan and I scooped it up and put it in our 'bug jar'.

It's grown, wormed, squirmed and rocked out to Laurie Berkner.

Last night she emerged.

I thought it would be a Luna moth, but it's a Sphinx Moth, I'm not sure if this species has a mouth. I've read some do and some don't. I hope she makes it through the day which she'll remain dormant for. I guess the sun turn a 'switch' off and they are motionless during the sunlight. It'll be interesting to see if she starts to stir tonight, if so I'll let her go. That was a fun experiment and the girls enjoyed it, creepy but fun!

My Girls

You Can ALWAYS Count On Your Sister

Where Does The Time Go?

21 months
5 years old

Can a 4th Birthday get any better than sun, pool, ice cream cone, and a juice?

'I be just like you mama....'

Edie tells me all the time when she grows up she wants to be just like me. I gave her a vacuum, and a pretend play coffeepot just like mine. We vacuumed together and made coffee together Sunday morning.
Auntie gave her an ironing board, and iron.
AJ made her an apron (that is she ironing).

She had been playing with these non stop!

Happy 4th Birthday Edie!!

Daddy created a beautiful home made cake!

She got shy when we sang.


We ALL helped her blow out her candles!

Prelude To An Edie Sneeze

If you see either of these faces, get a tissue ready!