MOMMY'S GIFT

Bella in her new jammies from her mommy.

ANOTHER GENERATION MADE

I made a big batch of Fried Green Tomatoes. Bella and John LOVE them. It is a great recipe that I use. Every bite that Bella took, she would go, YUMMM, every bite was YUMMM.

I really like trying new recipes. It is my new thing.

PLAYTIME AT THE FARM CONTINUED

Breaktime

Playing is hot sweaty work.

Taxi service

WORKING ON THE FARM

Feeding old vegetables to the geese, turkeys & chickens
(we just call them all chicks)

In our corn patch, John prefers to show off his zucchini on his head. In a couple of weeks they will pick corn off the stalks and then cook and eat. They think that is so cool.

They ate broccoli ( Bella says, block-lee) and green peppers right off the vine. They also pulled up carrots but there was too much dirt on them to eat raw.

Resting in the garden, Bella contemplating that blade of grass and John just being John.

Making sure the chicks only eat the bugs in the garden and not the food. Bella thinks it is really gross that the they eat bugs:)

They have no fear of the big chicks. They act like they have always been here.

All the morning chores done.

PLAYTIME AT THE FARM

I LOVE HAVING THEM HERE.

SO MANY BLESSINGS

I have many things to be thankful for. During this summer I was able to see Erin and visit with Angela and her family for quite awhile. I now have the kids back here with me for another visit. Also all the pictures I have posted on the web I have used a digital camera that Angela gave to me a few years ago. It was a camera that had been given to her and when she bought a new one she gave me her old one. There are times that it doesn't work so well but without it there would be no pictures for the entire lives of my grandbabies. Well when I went to unpack John and Bella's things lying in the suitcase was Angela's "old" digital camera. She is buying herself a new one and I get her old one. I was so surprised and happy. It is such an upgrade to what I have been using so I can now look forward to many more years of picture taking. I have such wonderful children for so many reasons. Their love for me makes my life a really good thing.

2nd VISIT FOR THE YEAR

We are lucky enough to have John and Bella back visiting for awhile. Angela is busy making another incredible grandbaby for me:)

They sure had a busy day. They got to ride on 2 different planes with their daddy coming to Nana and Pappy's. We picked them up at the airport and then went to White Castle for burgers. I asked Bella why is mommy sick, and for all of White Castle to hear she announces, "mommy's pregnant, again" and she stressed the word again. It was really cute and made me laugh.

We then drove awhile longer and stopped at a super walmart to get pappy something to swim in. We walked all over walmart and by the time we got back in the van Bella couldn't keep her eyes open. They both fell asleep and had to be woke up at the hotel. We had a free night coming from a promotion that Holiday Inn had and it was suppose to be just a regular room but we asked and they upgraded us to a Kid's Suite. The kids loved it and was sooooo excited. According to them their bed had an upstairs and a downstairs.

Bella decided she was going to sleep "upstairs"
Luckily as you can see the beds were not so tall, John is not very tall and they weren't much taller than him so as to not be any real danger.

They loved that they could touch the ceiling.

Even though it looks it Bella really wasn't jumping on the bed. Just caught her in a weird pose.
John could NOT climb up and down the ladder enough, over and over. Not just to the top of the ladder but onto the bed all the way to the pillow and then back down and to our bed then back to the ladder again.

Getting a ride down to the pool.

Nana already in the pool trying to take pictures. Not easy considering they had more important things to do then posing for pictures.

OH NO, they had to hurry and get away fast because the "underwater Pappy Monster" was coming to get them.

At first Bella was going to sleep "upstairs" then a couple of hours later John was going to sleep "upstairs" and as you can see they both slept, "downstairs"

This morning I had to turn on their lights and that didn't wake them up, we talked loud and that didn't wake them, turned on their TV in their room right next to their bed and only then after a few minutes did they wake up. They were so tired from their adventure yesterday.

At Nana and Pappy's playing with Alex.