Look at the similarities.
ANGELA (Phoebe gets her crazy hair from her mommy)
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Spring has been giving us a preview around here. The trees are starting to bud out and as you can see the flower bulbs that are planted all over the front yard have started blooming. The yellow daffodils were already here from the previous owner but the bulbs that are sprouting around the tree are all mine that we put in last summer. I plan on putting bricks around all the flower beds that are all over the place. It will be easier to mow and to know where things are planted in the winter. We received 9 of our trees yesterday that we ordered this past winter. More is coming but we have been outside preparing the ground to plant them tomorrow.
Monday, March 9, 2009
MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO
I got a phone call tonight from Bella telling me to look at her blog. On it was funny faces she made with her hair all in curls. Alex came in my room and saw the pictures and talked with Bella for a few minutes, actually more like they talked AT each other :) but they enjoyed it. So after we got off the phone Alex tried to imitate Bella's faces and I took them and then put them side by side on here. So cute. I love my grandbabies sooooo much.
Friday, March 6, 2009
WEATHER, CAMPING AND HENRY
We have been having the perfect weather. It is up in the 70's every day and mid 50's at night. It is the kind of weather that people get anxious and start putting their garden in then there will be a hard frost and kills all their hard work. Right now we are getting ready to put in our hardy crops, that do better in the cold weather.
Drew and Frances have bought a lot of camping equipment and right now they, Alex and Henry are camping out in their tent.
Clay grew up with "Henry" a stuffed dog. It had originally belonged to his younger sister who died from a kidney disease. But then we made sure that we had "Henry" dogs around as our children were growing up. Well this past Oct. Angela sent Alex a small stuffed Henry and he cannot sleep without him. Every night Frances reads him a story at bedtime and the other night after Alex had already had his bedtime story and lights out and all tucked in we overheard him "reading" a night time story to Henry. He can't sleep without his Henry.
Drew and Frances have bought a lot of camping equipment and right now they, Alex and Henry are camping out in their tent.
Clay grew up with "Henry" a stuffed dog. It had originally belonged to his younger sister who died from a kidney disease. But then we made sure that we had "Henry" dogs around as our children were growing up. Well this past Oct. Angela sent Alex a small stuffed Henry and he cannot sleep without him. Every night Frances reads him a story at bedtime and the other night after Alex had already had his bedtime story and lights out and all tucked in we overheard him "reading" a night time story to Henry. He can't sleep without his Henry.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
FEELS LIKE SPRING
We have been having 70 degree weather pretty regular. It is so nice outside, a little breeze and warm sunshine. Been thinking about how I can't wait to have a fresh tomato off the vine really soon. The trees have all started budding out and soon everything will be green again. These are pictures of Alex waiting for his daddy to get home from work.
Here Alex is encouraging his mommy to slide down. "come on mom"
It seems that he is going to have naturally wavy hair. I like his hair short, long and in between. With his hair like this he is SO a carbon copy of Drew at his age.Saturday, February 28, 2009
LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW
I don't know why I haven't been writing. Lots of thoughts and feelings but not sure about putting them down on "paper."
It started snowing this morning and now the ground is covered and the snow is coming down fast with big graceful flakes. Very pretty. It is a surprise, this snow. It just doesn't snow enough here for me but I am grateful for when it does. I guess I long for the days of my youth. In Indiana we would wake up and be snowed in, and we lived in the city. We had a front porch and I will always remember one time that we opened the front door and all there was, was a wall of snow. We tunneled out, off the porch and around the side of the house to get to the back yard. All tunnels. The world was so quiet and beautiful, all dressed in white. I am enjoying this snow, it most likely will be all we see until winter comes around again.
I have had a terrible flu this week. Knocked me on my butt. Finally am feeling better. Drew, Frances and Alex went to a birthday party that was held at an indoor water park not far from here. It is at a resort up north. They had so much fun, did the water thing then went to the arcade. Got home late and exhausted. Alex had so much fun. Our home isn't very big but there are days and days that I don't even see Drew. It seems weird how we live together but separately.
Clay got good news about his college courses. It seems that he will be teaching sooner than we anticipated. We actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. He substitutes quite often now for 2 of the area schools and he enjoys it so much.
We have fruit and nut trees ordered and will be arriving in about a month. Persimmon, Peach, Pear, 50 strawberry plants, a Honeysuckle bush, Pecan and Chestnut. We also are receiving 7 trees from the Arbor Day Society. Oh I also ordered some quick growing shrubs that we are going to plant out front by the road, in a couple of years it should be a big green privacy fence between us and the road. The road is a long way from the front of our house but still I would like to not see the road, just a long expanse of lawn and trees and then a beautiful wall of green.
Clay has already expanded the garden and beside the usual things we are trying our hand at new stuff. One is artichokes, would love to have enough of them to be able to can them and then use them for lasagnas and pizzas. Angela had the best recipes for vegetarian lasagnas and pizza and can't wait to make them with things straight from our garden. I can't think of the other new things but when they get planted will update then.
Drew has ordered some very expensive marine wood and is going to be building a shelter to start building his sailboat. Was Clay's dream at Drew's age and now is Drew's dream. We have some fantastic lakes around here and Drew and Frances have also been getting camping equipment. They are going to camp out up in our woods where they are going to build their house and also to go camping at some of the lakes around here.
It started snowing this morning and now the ground is covered and the snow is coming down fast with big graceful flakes. Very pretty. It is a surprise, this snow. It just doesn't snow enough here for me but I am grateful for when it does. I guess I long for the days of my youth. In Indiana we would wake up and be snowed in, and we lived in the city. We had a front porch and I will always remember one time that we opened the front door and all there was, was a wall of snow. We tunneled out, off the porch and around the side of the house to get to the back yard. All tunnels. The world was so quiet and beautiful, all dressed in white. I am enjoying this snow, it most likely will be all we see until winter comes around again.
I have had a terrible flu this week. Knocked me on my butt. Finally am feeling better. Drew, Frances and Alex went to a birthday party that was held at an indoor water park not far from here. It is at a resort up north. They had so much fun, did the water thing then went to the arcade. Got home late and exhausted. Alex had so much fun. Our home isn't very big but there are days and days that I don't even see Drew. It seems weird how we live together but separately.
Clay got good news about his college courses. It seems that he will be teaching sooner than we anticipated. We actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. He substitutes quite often now for 2 of the area schools and he enjoys it so much.
We have fruit and nut trees ordered and will be arriving in about a month. Persimmon, Peach, Pear, 50 strawberry plants, a Honeysuckle bush, Pecan and Chestnut. We also are receiving 7 trees from the Arbor Day Society. Oh I also ordered some quick growing shrubs that we are going to plant out front by the road, in a couple of years it should be a big green privacy fence between us and the road. The road is a long way from the front of our house but still I would like to not see the road, just a long expanse of lawn and trees and then a beautiful wall of green.
Clay has already expanded the garden and beside the usual things we are trying our hand at new stuff. One is artichokes, would love to have enough of them to be able to can them and then use them for lasagnas and pizzas. Angela had the best recipes for vegetarian lasagnas and pizza and can't wait to make them with things straight from our garden. I can't think of the other new things but when they get planted will update then.
Drew has ordered some very expensive marine wood and is going to be building a shelter to start building his sailboat. Was Clay's dream at Drew's age and now is Drew's dream. We have some fantastic lakes around here and Drew and Frances have also been getting camping equipment. They are going to camp out up in our woods where they are going to build their house and also to go camping at some of the lakes around here.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
FIRST HAIRCUT
Well it finally happened. Frances cut Alex's hair and Drew isn't happy with it. Oh well. Sorry Drew. Now we will see if the curls come back.
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