Dresses

One of the girls said something about wearing a dress the other day. So I rummaged through the closet and look what I found! Was a whole lotta beautiful at our house!!

Reading chair

We made a trip to our library a few days ago. It has a wonderful kids section where the girls each took turns putting on a puppet show. They also have an area where the kids can sit and read. I am not sure what the background for this chair is, but we used it for a photo op.

If you look closely at Jordis' hair you will see that our resident beautician, ZoraLin, has been practicing without a license! I have lost count how many times I have revoked that license! Guess the scissors will have to be put up even higher!!

Officially summertime!

I arrived home from work last night and RaeAnne could not stop telling me about the Lemonade Stand that they were going to have. She crawled in bed with me, flipped and flopped like a fish out of water, and finally dropped off to sleep. This morning first thing off, she was looking out the front door to see if Paige was out. (Our neighbor girl) The phone rang about 11am and it was seconds later that RaeAnne literally ZIPPED across the front lawn to Paige's house.

I filled my pockets with quarters, grabbed the camera, two excited little sisters and headed across the street. Here is what I found.





The girls had a great time for about an hour and the neighbor's were great about "donating" to the girls' pool party fund! That is supposedly why they had the Lemonade stand, to make money for a pool party. I still don't know where that party is supposed to be. Guess Mommy's are the last to know!

Jordis...minus one tooth!

The tooth fairy has been having quite a workout around here lately. Jordis lost her first tooth recently. Here she is with one less tooth!

Mother's Day revisited

I cropped and fixed this one up just a little.

For Mother's Day I received a very beautiful bouquet of roses from my darlings. This had to be the most gorgeous roses I have seen in a long time. They not only looked good, they smelled wonderful too! I couldn't resist taking some close up shots of them. Each day as they opened more, they became more lovely.

Storms

Our weather has been variable lately. About one month ago, we had a very strong wind go through during the middle of the night. I heard all the noise and was up watching out the wind as things flew by our house at a very quick pace! That night we were one of the lucky ones here in our little neighborhood, the only damage at our house was our slippery slide blew off the playset. However, several of our neighbors were not as lucky. One neighbor's playset fell over, just inches from their house. Their storage shed was flipped upside down, the contents thrown all over and damaged. Another family had quite a bit of their pool deck torn off and scattered about. But the biggest damage of all....a house in the process of being built was literally blow away! Bits and pieces were scattered even across highway 75 and beyond. We were the only house here that did not lose any shingles!


This week we had a hail storm move through. Again, we were spared any major damage. Folks near to us had baseball sized hail. The biggest we saw was about quarter size. Here are photos of the hail piled up on our deck. Again tonight storms are marching across our state. We have heard reports of tornado activity.

Kids and Puppies

We had a wonderful surprise phone call the other day. A former neighbor was coming through town with her dogs and puppies! The girls have enjoyed being a part of three litters of puppies from these dogs, so of course, they want to be a part of the fourth and final litter of pups!! Some of the next door kids also came over to join in the fun. The puppies are adorable and I heard all kinds of pleas, "Mommy, can we have one?" "I like this one the best!" "Awww, come on, just one?!"

All the puppies and dogs were soon back on the road to home. However, I am still hearing that we need another dog!! And I am still saying "NO!"