The Building Continues

Google Maps has been updated!!!! Here is a birds eye view of where Ashley and Danny's house will be. The orange space is the 'house'.

The kids have been working on the parts they do, putting in so many hours a week. My husband and son are very concerned about the way the houses are being built....no where near code!!

Work is being done on our front yard too....but I haven't taken pix......I will...soon.

The Rock Broke

"Gup, take a family picture of us"

Phone rang. It was Steph right outside, calling from her phone.

"take a picture of us mom"

Saturday night, this Rock broke.

{{Steph explained it this morning: "You are always there for us, we forget that you need love and encouragement too mom."}}

I had all the kids here and my husband too. [he works nights]

I have been caring for my mom since she moved in 2 years ago. She has been slowly giving way to dementia. It has been hard to be encouraging and creative with her negative remarks, her anger towards Ben, her being nasty to Meg and Lily but not Rhiley.....being sick myself this week, taking care of sickly Meg, the weather turning hot....I lost it.

My first call went out to Steph, "bring the car home, NOW, I need to run away." Steph was in the middle of a golf course...GOLF, people!

She called Dad and Ashley.....and the phone tag went on until all of them came home and held me and loved me.

[]mom, or at least the woman in moms body, hadn't a clue what was going on, and that is so painful for me[]

Really Really Random Stuff

My son in law has a large family and recently they started adding animals to the mix. Ashley calls it a Petting Zoo. Anyway, Danny came by and stuck something in our freezer. Turned out to be pork. Not this pork-ine, this is Bonzo...or Betty....whatever. No, we got some of her brother. His name was

Boner.

Boy did we pull out the stops to the jokes the day we fried up some Boner for gravy.....yummmm

I have these pix mixed. I took the darker shot first, when Page was looking so cute...she moved while I changed the camera settings.

Man, it's a jungle out there.

Free cake for the bday girl!! [when you order another cake]

Lily and her Daddy, Ben, had their birthday [19th] before Rhiley.[22th]

No bib for that child.

my own little Elfin Girl.

2 Birthdays 2day

Happy Birthday to my Ben and his Lily! Lily is now 2 and Ben is....older than her....{insert happy face}

comments----->>> WM+on the beach wallie==suggested making a story up about a shark eating the rest of the body that went with the foot-in-shoe [tongue-in-cheek] thing....now I am on a mission to find a small shark!!!!! anyone got a small rubber shark they could spare? I have random things I could even swap with you.

Grandchildren in my life.....

loud noise outside.

*Gup*....what the heck was that.

Megan.....[neighbor] on the mow lawner.

ahhhh....nothing like passing on something as useful as a Spoonerism!

We have a moose toy like this one. Ours is an older version by Schleich,

with slightly different antlers, but you get the idea. Anyway, Megan loves playing with this guy. He scoops up things, gets his antlers decorated, drives Little Pony's around, etc etc. Meg showed me the Moose can bend his antlers down completely. I didn't tell her it made him look like one of my houseplants in it's usual state of desperate dryness.

Great toys these are.

*Gup* is what my grandchildren call me.

New Word...."exotionc"

exotionc was the *WV * on another blog....I really do get a kick out of new words.

ex0-tionc= exoskeleton on a bionic ....critter? my brain cells disappeared after bionic...it happens.

gotta go hang the happy birthday banner...

** W-ord V-erification

Genius....Sheer Genius

Quilting Fitzy suggested sewing a button[s] to the beach wallie and gluing the shoes to the button[s]. !!!!!!!

Dorothy said she was rather creep~ed out by the shoe thing, I had said she got a kick out of it. I used the wrong phrase, sorry D.

Random Stuff-ola

Mahnahmahnah....do do do do the girls and i have been do do doing this as we bee bop around the house. So I got the first disc of the first Muppet Show hoping to find it. Wowzers, jackpot, bingo....this was the first skit on the first show!!!!! And it was the only part of the show I could get them to watch...sheesh.

The link will take you to youtube who has muted the volume, darn it.

Yesterday I caught the cat keeping her eye on this crow...the crow left in a huff....the cat....she yawned.

So this is my beach wallie....

and this is a pair of doll feet and shoes all in one.....

One of the kids removed them from the doll so I snagged them for my embellishment drawer. What? You didn't know I was rather weird?

Course, it all has to do with the "human foot in shoe washes up on beach" thing a couple of years ago. This is the first thing I thought of when I noticed these shoes, with feet. Dorothy got a big kick out of it too and blogged about it back then. I am not sure how I want to attach them.

Dan was supposed to get a chain-saw-carved eagle from a friend who knows a chain saw carver. Instead he was given this 'used' bird. Dan was bummed...I am still trying to think of a way to display him in the yard.

It got hot here in western Washington so Rhiley got to play in the pool...don't worry, she wasn't in the sun for long.

It's A Bird....

in that there tree. An Osprey, we are sure.

Sorry about the blurry pix. I zoomed as much as my camera would allow and then cropped it from there.

I Forgot.....

my blogoversary completely!!!!! I put the little button on the right to remind me, but I guess I forgot to add an alarm of some sort....like tin cans tied to a bumper. Ah well, say la vee!, kay ser-a ser-a. [all spelled my way of course]

Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate. I know most consider this a family day. I stay home with the freaked out dog because I don't care for the noise of the fireworks these days and neither does the dog!!

Summer starts tomorrow, July 5th, for us here in western Washington, as usual. I prefer the rain today because of the fireworks....I have found them in the backyard in years past, and would prefer not to find one on my roof, thank you very much! Ben may take the girls out for the fun of it, so maybe I will have pix in the days to come.

My Bad...Omitted info for Banner

I forgot to tell you all where I got the felt for those fun letters, nor did I mention that the letters were free-hand-cut, or where I got the charm squares to make the banner! Sheesh.

FELT squares came from England, via Lupin Handmade @ etsy

Charm Packs.....the triangles between the lettered squares are

American Jane Pindots

I used the Kona Cotton Dark Palette for the squares that the letters are stitched onto. This picture came from eQuilter, though that's not where I got the Charm Pack....I can't remember where I got those.

The ribbon I stitched the whole she-bang to was from Joanns.