Our 4th of July

Friday Shoot Out

Our subject this week is... The Fourth of July in your Town

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We spent the evening with our oldest son

and his wife and our only GRAND~girls!

It was a most delightful evening

with a nice cool front and great breeze.

There was a lot of sister love going around.

Their daddy helped them practice the art of "sparklers"

in the day light so they would know what to do in the dark.

They caught on fast and really enjoyed playing with them.

This was the view in front of us.

Behind us, the parking lot.

I feel like I captured fireworks a lot better this year than I did last year.

We missed Jor Jor and Big Baby.

They celebrated with her family in another state.

Great July 4th, 2010

She Did Good

Her taking a picture of me.

Me taking a picture of her.

Mid~Week~Blues

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New Windows

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Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with that expensive double-pane energy efficient kind, and today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago and I still hadn't paid for them.

Hellloooo,...........just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I told him just what his fast talking sales guy had told me last year, that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves!

Helllooooo?

It's been a year! I told him.

There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up. He never called back.

I bet he felt like an idiot.

I hope you enjoyed the little laugh.

Have a great day!

Trouble Makers

We have no Internet service or telephone again!!!

The Sweetheart was mowing grass on Saturday and when

he was through, I had no phone service again.

He is blaming the Dogs

and they are blaming him!!

We did find a wire in the back yard that had been dug up and chewed.

Not sure if it is a phone line or not.

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Thanks to the Darling DIL, I have Internet.

She brought by her work Internet card.

She goes back to work and school tomorrow

so I may be in the dark again soon.

Speaking of trouble makers...

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Bentley Boy is almost 7 months old and weighs in at 53 pounds.

He still has the cute ear problem.

One lays over and the other is always standing at attention.

He's a real mess.

These two, oh my gosh!

They are just one big ball of hyperness!

They wrestle and play ALL THE TIME!

They love each other and they LOVE Bentley.

They are 8 months old now.

Walgrin is the biggest brother and weighs 22 lbs.

Dawson is weighing in at 19.2 lbs.

Life around our house has changed and

we are beginning to adjust to that change.

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Sorry I haven't gotten around to visiting

everyone, lack of Internet does that to me.

Collin's 4th of July

First little tooth shot. If you click to make the

picture bigger you can see his two bottom teeth,

In this picture, Collin looks so much like his daddy!

9 Months

I've been photographing Collin monthly since before he was born.

(I took his mom's pregnancy pics)

Mellow Yellow Monday and Monday Macro

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Sunday~Stills

Sunday Stills

This weeks challenge is : "Frame It"

For this challenge, take a photo that is “framed” by something.

For example you might use some tree branches

to frame the moon or a window to frame a child.

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Hope you all have a safe and

Happy 4th of July weekend!

Saturday~Photo~Hunt

Saturday~Phot~Hunt

This weeks theme: Open

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Abandoned

Thursday Challenge ~ Home I bet this was a wonderful home back in the day. I always wonder about abandoned homes. Why is it empty? Who use to live here? Were they happy? Did they have children? Where are they now? So many unanswered questions.

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Arts and Crafts

When we were at the timeshare with the kids last week

I noticed that they had a scheduled arts and craft day.

So on Thursday at 2:00 pm, I sent the Sweetheart, aka Pop Pop

off with the girls to do arts and crafts.

For Pop Pop, it wasn't the most pleasant of experiences.

They got there 5 minutes after it started

and didn't get a covered picnic table.

We didn't know it was even going to be out side in the 100 plus Florida Sun

or maybe we would have skipped it all together.

They had all showered and had on clean clothes but NO SUNSCREEN!

Everyone of them came back with bright red faces

and these adorable "Bucket Hats."

Of course, Pop Pop didn't interfer with their creative talents.

They made them all by themselves.

They were very proud and happy girls.

But they were all mad that it was so hot and they had to sit in the sun.

Bucket Hats: $10.00

Spending time with the GRAND~girls: Priceless

Tasty Tuesday

When it's to hot to bake and you need an

easy recipe that won't heat up the whole house try these.

They are just right.

I first saw the recipe here and since I've seen it on other's blogs.

Salted Nut Rolls
1 large jar salted peanuts
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 pkg. Mini marshmallows
1 pkg. Peanut butter chips
3 Tbsp butter
Melt butter and peanut butter chips in microwave until melted. Stir in sweetened condensed milk and cook for 1 minute. (make sure not to make mixture too HOT). Stir in most of marshmallows and microwave for 30 more seconds. Layer ½ of peanuts in 9x13 pan. Pour on marshmallow mixture. Sprinkle rest of peanuts/marshmallows on top. Refrigerate 4-5 hours

Mid~Week~Blues~Birds

I'm staring at 2 1/2 Five Gallon buckets of Tomatoes that have to be canned.

I'm also making Strawberry Jam and Wild Blackberry Jam today.

I have no business on the computer this week.

But I wanted to play along and post my "Blue" pictures.

The first shot is a Blue Heron.

I have no idea what the next bird is

but I thought he was really pretty.

Hope you all have a great week.

I'll be around in between canning jars!

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