WARNING NOT A PRETTY SIGHT

Alright, as embarrassing as it is, here is my backyard. Not to appealing I know. It's a work in progress. I have decided not to fix the grass until I have finished the landscape. I want a flower bed right in front of the porch with lots of colors. Hopefully my peach tree will give us peaches next year. No blooms this year.

Here is Jer cleaning out our free pond. This is were it's home will be when we install it. We are thinking of putting a water fall in the corner there by the house and porch, there will be a garden surrounding the front of the pond. And maybe even misters around the porch. I can't wait to have cold lemonade on a hot summer day relaxing.

I also have flat rock that will be making a path from the shed to the RV parking. The RV parking is going to get it's new wood chips this year and up against the fence to the left I am adding another garden for squashes and pumpkins because the take over a garden quickly so they get there own. And yes I do know that pumpkin is squash. Keep checking back I will, hopeful, have new pictures soon of progress. :)

Jessica's Performance

Jessica was is the Up with Kid production of Enchanted with Alvin and the Chipmunks. They spent 9 months working on this performance. Of course my daughter was awesome. She has a minor roll of Dorthy. There were a few kids who were INCREDIBLE. Josie was great and boy can that girl sing. Her mom say some days it gets old though because she will sing every word she speaks. Being that it's not my daughter and I don't have to deal with it I think it cute and funny. I am sure I might not think so if Jessica did that. There were some others that did very well like Tinker Bell but I don't know them as well as Josie. Over all I was quite disappointed in the performance. Given that the had 9 months of practices I expected more. Especially after Lori had 3 months to put together our church's Christmas program and it was pretty much flawless. All except one of the only 2 adults had a brain fart and forgot for a second what his next line was. But I wont say who. (I love you Jer.) Jessica has already decided not to do this again next year. She thinks that she might like to have some piano lessons for a while. I guess if she does a piano performance I might have to learn to put video on here.

The nose KNOWS

Spring is here for sure. Who needs that darn old groundhog, just follow me around to know when it's spring time. ah... Ah...AH...CHOO. The weather warms up, birds begin to serenade us into our day and the flower make there appearance, along with the weeds. Who could resist a warm beautiful day outside weeding, soaking in the vitamin D, smelling the flowers, and enjoying life. I can't at least not that first day. But day two I can't make it more then a few feet from the tissue box. Thank goodness those things can go outside with me. Since I don't have a grassy back yard Missy and I are going to have a huge garden back there. She said she wants to plan a million tomato plants but I think I might just talk her down to 20 or so. We are going to plant all the ingredient for salsa, then we want some corn and a pumpkin patch. My brother suggested watermelon. Why not, I have nothing better to do with all that back yard. I can't wait to post picture of our progress. So stay tuned. Oh and if you live near by and need tomatoes please don't go to the store, stop by here and get them for free. Missy is very persuasive she might get her million.

The 100 year old Bible (at least)

I have decided to make it my mission to return this bible to it's rightful family. Years ago, about 1983 or 1984 ish time frame, my family acquired this bible. Legally mind you, but it's not a very interesting story so I will skip it. Anyway upon it's arrival my sisters and I were interested in it and opened it up to look through it's very old pages. I realized that it not only was once someone else's bible but that is was a precious heirloom. This bible contains hair clippings from some ones first hair cut, lots of births deaths and marriages are recorded in it's pages along with news paper clippings. I figure this blog would be a good start to begin. I will be posting this post about once a month or so with different titles so that maybe some day someone surfing the web looking for their heritage will stumble across one of my postings. I will gladly hand this bible over to the family. Although I do have to mention that this thing is HUGE and if it needs to be mailed I may need to ask for shipping cost, I estimate it to come to $25+ dollars at least.

Family names in bible:
This was presented to a Mr. George Fred Hale by his mother Mrs. Annie Hale
Other names that appear William W. Hale a civil war vet. who died in 1910. My guess is this would be George's father. Then there is a McLean family mentions with death dates in the mid and late 1800's and my guess is this would be Mrs. Annie Hales parents.

The deaths and burials of these people were Prince Edward Island and Dorchester, Massachusetts. The bible was acquired in California near Fontana.

I pray that the rightful owner shows up someday so I may return this heirloom. I have no idea what to do with it if no one ever clams it. Also I am up for suggestions on how I can get this more public so it can be found.

Tyson

When I started to babysit I realize how easy it would be to blog all day long about this cutie pie. But I decided not to because it wouldn't be right. I would be taking away from him momma and it would take away from my kids. But toddlers give you so much to talk about and laugh about. Not that my kids aren't funny it's just well they are mostly funny in there words not in there actions which is more difficult to blog.
Well the other day Tyson just did something that cracked me up so much Jeremy heard me laughing from the shower. So I asked his momma permission to share and she said yes. I had my Wii fit out and he had got one of the Wii motes stood on the Wii fit and knew exactly what to do. Now not only do I use mine as much as I remember but I know his parents also have one. I thought oh I have got to take a picture so I got up and got the camera. By the time I got back he was done. I told him "oh but I wanted to take a picture of you" so he got right back on through his arms up in the air and yelled "CHEESE". That is when I lost it.

April Fool's

Jessica really wanted to get her brother and father in an April Fool's joke. Her rules were not hurting anyone and no making food taste yucky. She got an idea from the Disney channel to switch the cereals to different cereal boxes, i.e. the Trix cereal was put into the Lucky Charms box and vise versa. This morning both kids arived to the counter at the same time and Jessica patiently waited for her Brian to choose his cereal. When he did he became confused and Jessica's tiny morning voice said "April Fools". Brian just smiled that ' you got me' smile and went about with his breakfast. She counldn't see her dad's reaction because she had to go to school but I was getting ready to take a quick shower when I here "Why is the Lucky Charms in the Trix box" in a very accusing tone. I told him "Oh yeah, Jessica told me to tell you April Fools" I could tell he was proud of her behind his smirky look. I also know my husband well and Jessica watch out dad is going to be thinking all day long how to get back at you.

A day with Aunt Tiki

It's no surprise that I love being an Aunt. I enjoy so much seeing there faces light up when I walk into the room. It's the best feeling ever. So I have to spoil them a little so that I can keep their faces lighting up like that. So from time to time I take the girls out on a one on one date. Recently I took Ana to barns and noble for a "special" drink at Starbucks (coffee free of course or Missy might end my dates with them) and to buy a book. She adores books. Unfortunately I didn't think to bring the camera on our date so you will just have to take my word on it when I tell you that she loved it and had lots of fun.
A couple of weeks later I took Mia to the living aquarium. She had so much fun saying OH WOW over ever little thing we saw. Even the not so interesting things. I loved to see the amazement in her little face every time she saw a new fish. Her favorite was the octopus. He was pretty cool. Then at the end of our date we stopped at the gift shop and she instantly fell in love with a stuffed fish she carried it around while Jessica picked out her prize. Then right before we were leaving she threw it down and didn't want anything to do with it anymore. We picked out a new prize and left before she had time to change her mind again. It was fun. I can't wait to go on our next date.

BTW Tiki is the nick name Ana gave me. Isn't it the cutest.