Check out this blog and wonderful fundraiser!! This family is trying desperately to bring their beautiful daughter home. Please check it out and chip in if you can! Every little bit helps!

Frustrating!!!!

Every now and then, I pull out my old camera (you remember the non-digital ones, right?) and have a little fun! It's funny because as soon as I take a picture, the girls will ask to see it! I have to admit to a bit of impatience there as well!! I also get annoyed at not being able to snap a bi zillion pictures to get the one good shot! Yes, it sometimes takes me that many to get a good one - ugh! I just have to point, shoot and pray!! This time, however, I had the feeling that I had gotten some really great shots and delivered the precious film to CVS to await perfection!! I was greatly disappointed when I noticed that about half of the pictures were not there!! Either the old camera needs to be put out of it's misery or CVS really screwed up!! Do they know how hard it is to get my kids to pose for a picture???? Anyway, here are a few of the survivors!!

Fruit Salad - Yummy, Yummy!!

Ok, so you have to be a Wiggles aficionado (try getting that one right without spell check) to appreciate the title of this post, or have a couple of 3 year olds living with you!!! However, I decided that we would make like a Wiggle and create a fruit salad. It's healthy and delicious and oh so Summery (is that a word?)! It looked absolutely beautiful when it was done, but... Christian kind of liked the green things, Charlie would eat the red things and Lizzie liked the purple things! Caleb liked none of it and Em and I, well just let me say that we would have made Wiggle Anthony proud!!!!



We also decided to balance the healthy stuff with a little sugar!!! We made cookies!!! Once again, the sprinkles reigned supreme! I swear, when these girls get married, they are going to want sprinkles on their wedding cakes!!!! UGH!!!

Another Way to Help

With permission, I have posted an email sent to one of my yahoo groups. Please take a look and help if you can!!! She has some really cute stuff and it is for a beautiful cause!!

Hi friends,I'm a PAP and mostly a lurker here. Through blogs and groups I have been privileged to have become friends with several families who have mentored me and encouraged me as I wait for His timing to begin the process to bring our daughter home. One such dear friend has two daughters from China and has recently felt called to bring home a 4 year old girl who weighs just 15 lbs and has Downs Syndrome from Eastern Europe. I am donating 100% of the profits from my business thru July 22 to the family's adoption fund. I have a hair bow business. Would you please consider stopping by my blog to read about the fundraiser and click on the links to Reece's Rainbow about Hailee and the Salem family? If your girls will be needing bows, headbands, clips, etc. for back to school it would be wonderful for your purchase to help being a child home. I also have great adult headbands and wristlet key fobs and if you don't have girls but you blog you can help spread the word! I'm up to $70 in the first day for this little girl!!

Thank you,Kelly
www.GirlyGirlBowtique.blogspot.com
www.GirlyGirlBowtique.com

Kendal has a home!!!

Our very sweet foster dog, Kendal has finally found a wonderful forever home!! Kendal is a very special, older Golden Retriever who lost his elderly owner. The family was sending him to the pound (shame on them) when Grateful Goldens found out about him. One thing lead to another and he found is way here until he could be placed with another family. That was January!!! We have had Kendal for a very long time and it was very hard to say good bye to him today. I do know, however that he is going to a great home, an older couple who are looking to spoil him and love him forever!!! We will miss you sweet Kendal! Have a wonderful life!!! You deserve it!!!

Wordless Wednesday

YUM!!!

A Day at the Ballet

OK, so yesterday the girls wanted to dress up in their tutus. Being the crazy, camera toting, Mom of 3 boys that I am, I thought, "Great, we will have some fun, girly dress up time AND I can get some beautiful pictures of my sweet, gentle girls!! Yeah right!! Who was I kidding??? I will post the beautiful picture (notice the the lack of a plural there) that I got AND what happened after.

What sweet little girls - right?




Let the Ballet Brawl Begin!!

Marsh Ballet

After the ballet brawl (no ballerinas were injured during the taking of those photos), the kids and I decided to take a bike ride, tutus and all! We have some really beautiful bike trails in our neighborhood and we ended up on one of the trails that takes you over the marsh. We decided to stop and get off the bikes for a while to enjoy the view. Good so far!! The kids loved the fiddler crabs and before I knew it the boys were in the marsh chasing the crabs, quickly followed by the girls - tutus and all!!! Big brothers are great, aren't they??? I had to laugh and wondered what would our neighbors think if they looked out their windows and saw two tiny ballerinas tromping around in the marsh!! Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me so I was taking pics with my phone!! Enjoy the pics of our Marsh Ballet!!




Crabs!!

What Crabs? Where?

Right here!!!

Do I really want to be in here???

Notice the mud!!!!

All is well!!!


So after the wonderful ballets we enjoyed, it was time to go home and relax! As we were eating popsicles in the backyard, I saw it!!! The weed! Although I do not garden (well, pretty much never), I do love to pull weeds!! Strange, I know but I just love to pull up a weed, root and all!!! Insert maniacal laughter here!!!! Anyway, this particular weed was, um, just a little bit, um, shall we say large!! As I pulled up this weed, I felt just like a big game hunter!!! Hehehe!!!!