June 13th - Mom's Birthday - Okay so this post is a little late...

I'm trying to catch up on my blog, so some events may be a bit out of order. Hey, at least I'm trying to get caught up. I just don't work on my computer at home in the evening because I'm on the computer all day at work. Beside, my home computer is turned off most of the time, because the fan in it is loud and it bugs Tara when she is doing homework.

June 13th was my mom's birthday. We celebrated it on Sunday, June 14th.

Mom, Halli & Kin. The kids like to help pass out the presents.


And sometimes they like to help open the presents...

Colby, cheese! He was being very lovey that day.


These are just a few pictures I took at home that same day.

View from inside looking at the backyard. My yard looks pretty good. I was still trying to revive by grass at that point. I finally figured out that my sprinklers suck! They don't have enough water pressure to cover the full area. I have been supplementing the sprinklers by watering in the evening and what do you know, I have green grass.

This picture also shows one of the chairs that Tara got for the back porch. The are very comfy.

This is a typical position for Pumbaa. On a pillow on Tara's lap. He doesn't do this with me that often because I don't know how to sit still. Also, in the background on my window seat you can see some of my card making, scrap booking stuff. This is also a typical sight to see at my house. I am usually doing some sort of craft and the window seat becomes my immediate supply/storage station and I work on my portable table.


My hair is finally getting past my shoulders. You can sort of tell in this picture, but you can't see the longer layer.

Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day on June 21st at Mom & Dad's home. Dad got some yummy treats and got to spend some time with some of his kids.

Here is Dad and McKinnley.

More treats!

Tara


Me, Deb! Out in the backyard. It actually wasn't horribly hot that day. Just hot.


My Pumbaa. Pretty good picture, he doesn't look like a black blob.

Colby hanging out on the table.

Tara and Colby. LOL. Colby is a goof ball on purpose most of the time.

Oh, lookey, Colby actualy let me take a nice picture without any fingers or funny faces.

Pamelas sunflowers. They got very tall this year. Maybe about 8 feet?

Halli on the swings.


McKinnley on the swings. Wild blond fro!

Colby with the rope bracelet he had for camp. I think he called it a dead man's knot.

They burned the ends to keep it from fraying and the shorten the ends.


Halli, McKinnley & Colby in the back yard.

Happy Birthday McKinnley!

On Sunday we celebrated McKinnley's birthday. She turned 7 years old on May 11th. She got a bunch of cute clothes, some hair ties with bling and a book from Grandma and Grandpa. I got her a pink bracelet. Pamela is taking her to get a manicure and pedicure on Saturday.
The birthday girl, McKinnley

Miss Halli, finally out of her cast.

Miss Deborah, the photograher

Halli, Pamela, Dad & Mom

This is what I did for McKinnley for her birthday. There is a bracelet in the bag.










How do you like Colby's toe socks?

We had to try out the new hair ties.

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FYI- the girls are wearing Colby's t-shirts because they got sunburned the day before swimming.

Mother's Day

Here are some pictures from today at Mom and Dad's house for family dinner and to celebrate Mother's Day.


I made this for mom out of wood block letters and then mod podged paper onto the blocks:

A week or so ago I mod podged my initials so I knew that I wanted to do something like that for my mother's day present to my mom. This is how my initials turned out:

Isn't the owl cute?!

Pamela's cactus in the backyard is blooming

Self portrait, since I am usually the one taking pictures at family stuff, this is the only way I get a picture of me in the mix.

Tara

Here is Pamela wearing a cute new shirt and crocheting a shawl

Pumbaa and his rabbit

Here's Dad. His forehead is all healed up and you can't even see the scar from where they removed the cancer.

Matt, he just got a haircut, can you tell???

This is normal to see Matt texting all the time.

Belle (Pumbaa's mom) and Pumbaa

Mom

Howdy

This past week I have been working on making Mother's Day cards. I have actually done okay with selling a few at work. On Tuesday Matt brought the kids over so they could pick out a card for their mom. Halli and McKinnely are always so curious about how to make a card, so I showed them how I made one and they helped pick out the paper I used.

Over the weekend, Bridgette, Sarah and I got together for dinner and then went to watch a movie in John and Bryant's house. We saw Ironman (daaa nah, da nah nah, da do da do da do da do, da nah nah, Ironmad themesong) . It was so nice outside, however every now and then I felt like I was being attack by bugs. On Saturday, Tara and I went to see the new movie, X-Men Orgins. It has been like forever since I went to the movies, so it was fun and the movie was good.