Summer Vacation--Oregon Coast

Instead of taking long vacations in the summer, we do weekend trips. Mostly we go camping, drag the trailer around, go fishing, and always have lots of fun.

For Father's day weekend we went to Brookings, Oregon. Normally when we go to the coast we get a motel, but I convinced my hubby to do something different this time. We went camping, tent camping, with our little ones. An adventure!

...It was Gracie's very first Ocean adventure, and the first time Anna could actually run & enjoy herself and the sand....

...Saturday morning Anna & Daddy caught a caterpillar. They let it crawl on them, from their head...to their toes. ...

...We went to a park, and drove around for a little sight seeing. Richie drove water truck in Brookings for about a month during the Biscuit Fire, so he had been to the top of this ridge before, but I hadn't. He had hoped it was a bit clearer up there, but it was just as it was the rest of the weekend, cloudy....

...Anna made 'friends' with some seagulls..

...Daddy & his girls waiting for the waves to wash up...

...Me & my girlies, posing for Daddy...

...Anna LOVED playing in the sand...throwing it, squishing it, running in it, making it muddy, it didn't matter, it was dirt, & she was happy...

...Then it was time to come home, right after this, I asked her to show me a pretty smile, wouldn't do it, so I said, "Smile for Fum-Fum" (Grandma), she did, quickly, then told me "No, I Supemodel" ---boy do I have my hands FULL!!!

Happy Birthday Wishes & Some Fun

My Granny was my best friend.

I spent every summer at her & Pa's home growing up & would visit as often as I could. One summer we decided to go for a picnic at the creek, as we were crossing, the rock slipped, and Granny fell in. At a resturant once, I wanted to pour the ketchup onto my own plate...opps it went into Grannys snow white hair! We would go to 'town' on Thursdays, because that was when all the sales & Senior days were & I always got to ride in the front seat.

I can remember, I would be be ready to come home, get on my way, and change my mind by the time I got home, the next day, my Pa would make the hour drive and pick me back up. He would be there no matter the weather. Granny taught me so many things; cooking (add a few drops of yellow food coloring to chicken 'n' dumplins), crochet (I was pretty proficient at the Granny Square), Sorry!, Rummy & Yathzee (we played often) and so much more.
She was such a strong, independant, loving woman. We had a very special relationship and I miss her oh so much.
Today would have been my Granny's 78th birthday, so Happy Birthday, hope they're throwing you one heck of a party up there in heaven. Love You Always!

One of the things I did countless times at Granny's was crafts. And I love doing crafts with my girls. Usually for every occasion. Father's day is this Sunday so we spent our morning creating a special gift for Daddy.

...We needed paint & glitter...

...we opted for blues, green, & yellow this year...

...Anna gets to do it all by herself...

..while Grace just lays on the floor and watches....

She did get to get in on the painting action though, we needed her footprints. As I painted her precious little tooties, she laughed and laughed. And another milestone... after today she'll be doing a lot more than just laying there. She's now rolling over from her back to her tummy.

Enjoy your weekend... I'll post the finshed products on Sunday evening/nite, since we'll be at the Southern Oregon Coast for the weekend. Yay! for Vacation!

Mommy & Me Session--Lovely Young Women

Yesterday evening, despite the pouring rain, I had an outdoors session with some of my favorite people. Not only are they all beautiful on the outside, their hearts are bigger than anything comparable.

Although we had to get creative with where we went, patience won, and we got some really great shots. Love ya girls!

We started out indoors, after moving the dining room table & chairs...

...then ventured out to the barn, in the pouring rain...

...the rain let up a bit and we managed to get under a tree, too bad we couldn't see more of the rainbow down the valley...

...but we headed down to the pasture anyways...

...and back to the truck, possibly for a new ad...

...we had some daylight left, for a little bit of fun...

...and when we're almost done, got some yummy evening light...

...the end...

It was so great to be able to shoot something besides my own children, who don't really follow instruction too well. ~hugs~

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Delimia of the day: Vista 64-bit...anyone reading this know how to get Elements to work with this...I've been working at it for...oh...12+ hours, installing, uninstalling, reinstalling, reading, searching....and I'm at my wits end... :( Other than that issue so far....I'm liking the new machine. It's about 10x faster than the other, but if I'm not going to be able to edit...then it was pretty much an upgrade for nothing.

--Product Spotlight--Storyboards

I thought it would be a good idea to showcase 1 product that I offer. Every 2nd Thursday of the month I will post a new item to spotlight. Each month there will also be a special offer that relates to the Product of the Month, the deal will be located somewhere in the post.

To kick off this Product Spotlight: This month is all about storyboards.

Storyboards come in a variety of sizes, and make great gifts.

What better way to showcase your baby's tiny features or your childs growth & discovery...

Storyboards make great keepsakes for all those someone specials we have in life.

Keep your desk unclutterd at work...or hang on a refridgerator.

From today, June 11th, through July 9th, 2009 receive a compliemtary "Desktop Story" when you purchase a regular sized Storyboard.

Changes

Over the next few weeks the looks of the blog and my website will be changing.

I will also be getting a new 'official' logo & I'm so excited!!!!


Just a little smile...

~2009 Graduate~

Congrats Class of 2009!!!

Saturday my little brother graduated from High School. I'm so proud of him. He's such a smart guy (kinda like Einstein). He'll be attending UC Davis, on a scholarship, in the fall double majoring, Physics & Chemistry. It's hard to believe that he's almost an adult now.

He realized that he didn't decorate his cap...so these are the ever important and unique decorations he came up with Saturday morning...

My girls love their uncle very much. So Friday night we had a little project. To show how much they love their uncle, Anna & I made shirts and hair ribbons to wear for the big day.

Uncle Tyler's nickname at school & pretty much everywhere is T-MO.

And of course the girls had to model their new shirts before we left home.

We love you Buddy & wish you the best of luck and success as you continue your educational career and acheive your goals & strive to reach your dreams!

!!!HUGS!!!

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...And now Seniors of 2010....

If you are interested in earning some extra cash & having your photograph used in my 2010 advertising contact me between now & June 30th by

Email or by visiting The 2010 Senior Rep Page

Family Camping Trip

::A Lake that I can't remember the name to, somewhere up by Gumboot::

Our first camping trip of the season was over Memorial Day weekend. Granted we didn't go far (Lake Siskiyou, 40 miles from home), we still took the trailer out and had a wonderful famly time.

Saturday morning we headed out with a low tire, with plans to stop at the tire shop on the way out of town, only to find that he was shut for the holiday weekend. Plan B, drive 6 miles to the gas station that's right on the way. Get there, put air in the tire, it's not holding, rubber around the vavle stem is cracked; put on the spare. Off and running, stop to pick up paycheck that was supposed to be ready Friday, look in the envelope, check is wrong dollar amount, made out to wrong person, check out spare tire, its going flat. On our way, stop at the tire shop, fix original tire, air up spare, on our way again.

::6 miles from home, and already a flat!::

::My entertainment while tire changing is going on (the little 'soso' theif)::

Get to where we are camping, hubby gets out to register, slams his hand in the door, the whole hand. Finally at our campsite, setting up camp, unhitching the 5th wheel, lever breaks off. Things are going along just fine, looks like we're in the clear....WRONG. Eating lunch and hear water flowing, look under the trailer only to find that the hose split in half...ugh. Oh well, fix it later, right now we're going to go down to the lake for a bit and try out the raft. On the last trip in, broke a paddle. And it's only 2pm. Thankfully, nothing else went wrong for the rest of the trip & it was a wonderful time.

We spent our days fishing and just being a family. The oldest caught her first fish while in the 'boat' with Daddy. We would have gotten a picture, but the fish totally freaked her out. I think it was the flopping around. Or could have been the fish that hit her in the head as it came out on a pole?!? Regardless, she LOVES fishing with her own Princess pole.

::"Sishin, roun' it in" (2 year old for I'm fishing, reeling it in"::

::My try at something other than faces::