I've been sewing again.

I made a few outfits for the girls and new bedspreads with pillows. I'll upload those later. I'm suppose to be getting everything ready for when I have surgery next week to keep me occupied while I'm laid up. But oh well. I'll have to get other stuff ready

I got tagged

I am "tagging" you. I was tagged and used 6 words to describe me on my blog. Now it is your turn! Jen OK six words to describe myself, Hmmmmm. I know this is a family friendly site. :>) 1) Energetic (sitting still, what's that) 2) Organized (sometimes to the point of being compulsive) 3) Motherly (not just to my own kids but to everyone who comes in my path) 4) Stubborn (this does not always serve me well) 5) Inquisitive (I need to know "why" for everything - I sound like my kids) 6) Daring ("It'll be alright" will be on my headstone) I look at this list and can't help but smile at the variety of the mix that is me. I'm tagging - Donna

ST Joe County 4H Fair

The girls turned in their project for the St Joseph County 4H fair. They are CloverBuds this Year. Next year they will be as well but after that look out 4H here they come. Genevieve is the Horse on Purple and Abigail in the Dog on Orange. They will get participation ribbons this year.

Our crazy last week.

This past 9 days have been zoom zoom zoom. First was the Water Park. That trip in itself takes a few days to recover from. Then we had VBS all last week from 6pm - 8pm. I know that doesn't seem like much but with little girls who go to bed at 8 pm it's everything. They also swam every day beacuse the heat was so bad here in the midwest. On top of all that I taught the Pre K - K group. There were 11 kids in all unless you count one wonderful little boy then I had 20. :>) I really debated on a leash. He would jet so fast I had trouble keeping up. They got me an assistant to help keep him corralled. But all in all they had a wondeful time and so did I. Then Sat am we got up early to drive to Indy for the FTIA adoption group picnic. We stay all night and drive back in on Sunday. Yes I know we are A Great Wall family but our friend, Drisella is an FTIA Baby so we go down with her family. What a great time but VERY VERY hot. So we are now recovering from that. This week will be a bit calmer. My Girly Girls Our theme for VBS was N.A.S.A. = Needing a Savior Always. It was a coll theme for boys or girls and the kids really got a kick out of the whole space idea and blasting off at the end to reach our goal of peace with God. I never would have thought the day would come when Abigail would play in water without haveing wings, rings, lifejacket and towels wrapped around here. "You've come a long way Baby". How sweet are these faces. Ooooooooh Radio Disney Beauty Queen - What a cutie My Little Old Lady - Her Soul is so much older than her chronilogical age

 

I'm learning to play with Picasa editing tool. =

 

Last Sunday we went to the waterpark. The girls think it's the cat's meow. They have 9 slides, 2 lazy rivers, and of course the wave pool. The Lazy river is mine and Abigail's speed. Daddy and Genevieve rodes the slides until daddy became "Green". She was pretty ticked when Daddy said he can't ride anymore. Genevieve palyed so much she forgot to eat. That made for a rough evening until her Dinner came at the restaurant. What a great Daddy - Geneveive thinks he walks on water when she's hurt. Our little Darling fell. Although she wasn't hurt, Daddy plays right into it. She should get "Daddy" tattooed on the bottom of the foot sonsidering she walks all over him.

Our little Divas

Check out the Matching Shoes and Bag

Our Stinkweed

Our Anthony was joined a soft-ball league this year, and is loving every minute of it. He plays on 2 different teams. The co-ed team plays on Friday evenings and the all man team plays on Wednesday evenings. These pics are from the Fri team. The girls get such a kick out of going and watching their brother play. They hang on the fence and yell for him like a batch of groupies. Sometimes Pretty Princess Poopy Pants comes along. She didn't make last nights game, we were expecting storms and it was hotter than blue blazes out side.

Sleeping Beauty

This is Abigail's idea of playing in the pool. She either sits on the raft with a towel around her or falls asleep on the raft. The whole getting wet and being cold thing is not her.

Our 4th of July

The girls did so much better this year as opposed to last. (Last year they sat in the house and watched through the window) They still needed their headphones but at least wanted to participate. Well Genevieve did. Abigail just sat on Aunt Barbie's lap. That seemed to be the best place in the world for her. Genevieve and Daddy had the best time playing with sparklers. She sure is turning into a Daddy's Girl. Who would have thought.

Donna

Happ Birthday

The girl's chores include setting the table for dinner. Genevieve has recently felt the need to make everyones plate as she takes the bowls of food out. It's cute because she makes she she and her sister get a "No thank you portion" of the food they dislike. It usually measures out to a bite or two. Unless Genevieve is making plates. Then hers is about 1/2 a bite and her sister gets about 5 bites. Hmmmmm not to sisterly.

girls and friends

Girls being Girls and discovering the fun of make-up. It's better getting a makeover than doing it your self

Look at this - OMG I had no idea I was fashionable

Adopting Asian kids becoming latest fad By Mike Seate PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, June 19, 2008 Though I may not be ready for sainthood, I am owed some accolades for having sat through not one, but two, chick flicks with my wife in as many weekends. Few experiences are as emasculating and downright testosterone-sapping as viewing films made exclusively for and marketed toward the female gender. Their plot lines are centered almost entirely around emoting and the dashed expectations of true love. I often find myself enduring their 120-plus minutes by thinking, "Boy, she's going to watch six World Superbike races and a whole season of 'Tank Overhaul' for this one!" Although I spent most of my sentence, I mean time, during this all-estrogen double feature counting lint balls in my pockets and fishing for popcorn caught between my bicuspids and gums, something in both these otherwise interminable films did manage to pierce my thick fog of indifference. In "Then She Found Me," Helen Hunt portrays a neurotic mess of a woman who screws up every relationship in her life and can't tell good men from rotten ones. Unable to conceive a child naturally, Hunt's character decides to reward herself with something guaranteed to make her character and the audience smile: a Chinese baby girl. The film ends with long, lingering shots of the kid's smiling face, and half the women around us were fighting back tears. I was, too, but mine were because I'd never recover those lost two hours of my life. One week later, I suffered through an afternoon screening of the glitzy handbag commercial cleverly disguised as a major motion picture known as "Sex and the City." In that one, Charlotte, one member of the quartet of ditzy, clothes-obsessed main characters, couldn't conceive a child naturally. The solution? She adopts one of those adorable Chinese babies you've heard so much about -- forcing viewers to spend much of the next 90 minutes of film watching these four screwed-up women as they screw up some kid who would be better off in a rice paddy 7,000 miles from any of them. Call me cynical, but since when did Asian children become "must have" fashion accessories for upper middle-class Americans? Along with Calloway golf clubs and season tickets to football games, paying $30,000 to $40,000 to adopt an exotic baby is suddenly viewed as the most chic purchase this side of a pair of Manolo Blahnik pumps. Never mind that thousands of babies of other races -- most of them black -- go without foster homes and adoptions here and elsewhere in this country every year. It doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars to adopt a black, Latino or mixed-race child. But for some reason, even Hollywood is marketing Asian babies as somehow superior and more desirable. That's a shame. Because if people really wanted to adopt children because of a desire to become parents, they'd just adopt babies, not fashion statements.

Someone learned how to ride a bike without training wheels

This past Friday and Saturday we had a yard sale, did pretty good too. wooooo Hooooo Disney $$$$. My grandson and granddaughter were over for the day. The girls love to play with their nieces and nephews. My grandson who is 6M younger than Genevieve has been riding without training wheels for a year now. What a dare devil. Anyway he told Genevieve he would teach her how to ride like he does. It was so sweet. - That was Friday. They went home about 3pm. Saturday morning Genevieve is taking Keith's bike out of the garage. I ask her what she's doing. She tells me, "I'm gonna ride it". I say OK and keep unpacking boxes to set up for the yard sale. I look up and the girl is riding. Wow, look out world. She is so proud. she had to call everyone she knew and tell them. Sunday Daddy took the training wheels off her bike and took her to the school playground. I get there and realize he did not put on her helmet and knee pads. Grrrrrrrr. She's mad at me because I made them come home. I told her next time she has to wear a helmet and pads because she is going way too fast now and too far. Sometimes I hate being the bad guy. My husband gives me the lecture that we never had helmets, ate food that had sat out and ate with dirty hands. OK a different generation