IF YOU BUILD IT - THEY WILL COME

Check this out. We took Emily to see this rocking chair, it's huge, I am talking HUGE. We drove and drove to find it-down the mountain, up the mountain (as I was throwing up my lunch in a Walmart bag) due to the winding roads.

I told Nick, get lots of angles cause I want one for my backyard. My theory (or stolen one) if you build it, they will come! LOTS OF GRANDKIDS!

Ty Ty and Hunter Boy

This of course is Tyler with Skip



This one was on Natalie's blog and made his granny want to cry.

THE DRIVE TO DELIVER EMILY SAFELY TO MOM

I believe that the Lord makes Grandparents nerves out of steel. He gives us our children first and then our grandchildren to spoil but somehow gives us the grace and patience we never had with our own children.

We drove Emily safely back to her mom and dad and we weren't an hour down the road and she announced from the backseat "Emily Kelly is now bored". Nick and I looked at each other and said, it's gonna be a long trip! We only wished we had started counting how many times she asked "when we would be there, how much longer it was gonna be, how many hours till we arrive..... We had to remember what we said the last report because she is sharp as a tack and she remembered if we told her wrong.

I think though that the highlight of the trip was when she took the straw out of her drink and wadded up pieces of paper towel from the back seat and shot them at us. There was a time when she asked if she could try it with water from her glass and I promptly put that idea to rest with an instant NO. When she was safely delivered and we were back in the car and on the road, we looked down at the floorboards and there had to have been 60 spitwads on the console and floor. We chuckled. It kept her occupied for about 40 minutes, didn't hurt a thing and I think at some point during the sharp shooting I dozed so she no doubt hit me a few times and I never knew it.

She is a trip to say the least.

The Crops are coming in

Pics of the garden. We are eating squash everyday and everyday and everyday. When we get home, Emily and I run to the garden and check out the harvest. It's been incredible everyday to see how they change. Today was the first day we got beans - that would be pole beans - Patti.

VISIT TO DENTIST

We have had dental insurance for over a year and "finally" (Nick hates that word) got a call to get appointments and they had one for me today as a cancellation so I opted to go and took Emily with me. OH BOY. She was totally bored. We had our little talk before we went in. She filled in the Highlights order forms in the magazines in the waiting room and then asked a million and one questions in the dental asst. area.

At one point she said, why are you getting blood from my Grannies teeth? I quickly chimmed in, because your Granny doesn't floss like she should. Right away, she said, well Grampa flosses AND he brushes his teeth with an electric toothbrush!!!

I had to laugh to myself. The dental hygenist was no doubt snickering behind that mask that Emily asked WHY WAS SHE WEARING IT - and then Emily told her it was so she wouldn't spit on her Granny.

I was so very thankful to have my teeth cleaned today. She will remember our visit to the dentist and no doubt will tell her classmates, her Granny bled at the dentist cause she don't floss like she should. Oh well, maybe after Granny stops working 2 jobs and going to school, she MIGHT find time to floss.

Side note, I did see some guy driving down the four-lane flossing the other day. That was safe. Multi-tasking at it's best! Floss away buddy boy! Your next visit to the dentist will be rewarding - if you get there!

IF HE ISN'T HIS MOTHER!

Hunter looks just like Natalie when she was a baby! Uncanny.

RAYAH LEE IS THREE

HARD TO BELIEVE SHE TURNED 3! "I A PRINCESS" AS SHE PUTS IT!

HUNTER & TYLER

THE TWO BOYS!

SAD DAY

I took Lincoln to the vet after school today. Emily went with me because she had to, I had no where to leave her. The news was grim. Lincoln was so sick, he was needing to be hospitalized or put down. He could hardly walk anymore due to his lack of eating. The vet and I had several discussions, made a few phone calls and decided I had to have him put to sleep. They said he might not even make it through the hospitalization and that it would cost over $1000.

Emily had not ever experienced this sort of thing. We sent her to the waiting room to pick a toy for him to be buried with (her idea) and the vet didn't want her to be in there. She came back and when it was over, we put him in a box, she carried him to the car to bring home to bury in the backyard.

It is ironic that just the night before in the car, we had a discussion on graves/memorial sites we see along roadsides where people have died from auto accidents. She wanted to take the flowers from one and we explained to her that the person that put them there would be hurt if she did that, because it is a special memorial for them. We recommended that she put flowers at one of those sites someday because that would make someone happy. We related the story to where Robbie is buried and how he has a gravestone and flowers. Nick and I were amazed that she rationalized all this from seeing a bouquet on the motorcycle trip previously with her grampa.

Her and I came out to go home (Lincoln in box in her hands) and the battery of the car was dead. So I drove to the auto parts store and she said she was NOT going in WITHOUT Lincoln. So into the auto parts store we went, box in hand with Lincoln, to have the man come out and test the battery so I could buy a new one. She walks in, and gently puts the box up on the counter. Announces she has to go pee and tells the man Lincoln is in the box.

As I stood outside telling the auto repair guy the story, he chuckled, apologized, by then I was chuckling because to see this 7 year old in the back seat, holding this box with a dead cat in it, it was priceless.

Now one last thing, she did tell me, and one day I will tell her this as she walks down the isle to be married, she said granny - you have lost your mind to have chosen to have Lincoln put down and not hospitalized. Someday, I will have to explain it better to her. Right now, I just wipe the tears, hold her close, continue to tell her NO we cannot take one of those black kitties home from the vets lobby they are giving away and hope she will forgive me for making the choice I had to.
It was a tough day! BUT I HAVE HAD WORSE! P.S. Emily was the one who helped me get his middle name of Folger.

LESLIE MADE ME DO IT

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SHE IS LIKE A FISH

We went to Meeks Park - which is right up the road from our house and has a pool. You can pay to go in on a daily basis or buy a pass. We went for a couple hours today. As Grampa and I sat on the edge of the pool, she about wore the hair off her grampa's legs hanging on to him. She has goggles and swims like no other 7 year old I have ever seen. She is a fish. She even wanted to take a bath tonight after all the water today.

She especially liked swimming UNDER the ladies floating on rafts. Talk about making them mad! That would be Emily.

THIS WAS BREAKFAST FROM OUR HOUSE GUEST TODAY

Emily is visiting. She asked in the car on the way home from MS if she could make breakfast for us in the morning. She promised to NOT use the microwave or the oven. Soooo, this is what I found when I came down this morning! Eggs Emily! Now this is Selmonila waiting to happen. I smiled and said, oh honey, this is good. I had to chuckle.

She didn't burn down the house!