Prom Dress Disaster Day

So here's what she came up with for Prom Dress Disaster Day!! Love the toilet paper and the hat!!

Duct Tape Day

It's homecoming week at our school and Tuesday was Duct Tape day. Monday was an Inservice so Tuesday started the week. Emily and I decided to make her a duct tape skirt. So, we looked up directions on the Internet! Wow! There are lots of cool things you can make out of duct tape!

Emily fondly calls it her trash can!

She decorated the skirt with leopard tape, her name and an orange star!

Then she also made a bow for her hair!!

She rocked duct tape day. Today is Prom Dress Disaster!! More pictures later!

Purple Potatoes??!!

This is Al's favorite thing about a garden: Harvest! I didn't plant much (some of which that I did plant got washed away since I put the garden in the middle of a waterway!! Al told me it was a waterway, but I didn't listen very well...). The other thing I didn't do much of was weed! UGH!
     One thing we did plant was purple potatoes! Only because they were purple and that was intriguing to me! The other night I looked out my deck door and saw Al and Carter digging my purple potatoes without me!! So Emily, Casey and I headed out to take part in digging potatoes!

Since I have a funny quirk that I don't like to touch dry dirt, Carter did all of the "digging" around for the potatoes and I took pictures!

They weren't very big and there weren't very many, but this was our first year in this spot, so we'll see what next year brings!! They are fun anyway!

Emily is getting quite creative when she takes my camera...maybe we'll have 3 photographers in the family yet!! Now if I could just get them to love reading as much as I do, I'd have a book club right at home!!

They actually are purple through and through...

They turn a little bit gray when cooked, but still fun and intriguing and tasty!

A pic of everyone taking a bite of purple potatoes! Except me; they were all hungry so I just snapped these quick and sat down to eat with them!

Try something new today! It's kinda fun!

We've been flocked!!

We've been flocked!! This morning when I woke u,p I saw a "flock" of flamingos in my front yard!! The After prom committee of our school is doing this as a fundraiser. Ironically, I wanted to get flocked, cuz now I get to pass it on....I wonder who will be next...

Oh and as a side note. When we moved, I lost my GPS...imagine that! Anyway, I put on a jacket to take my "flocking" picture and wondered what was so heavy in the pocket?..

The Lost is Found!!!

I wonder what I'll find next?...Probably something I didn't even know was lost...

I Love Labor Day!

Good Friends and Kayaking on a beautiful day...

Al is totally relaxed and enjoying himself.

Here I am cooking Cheesy Chicken Italiano in my Dutch ovens for the crowd and my mom's birthday. My friend Vicky did a lot of help with this meal, but I think she took my camera and deleted some pics (gasp! I know) because I can't seem to find any...

More friends came for supper, but it was getting dark which also meant FIREWORKS!!! Al put on an awesome show...lanterns and all.

Super Casey! Emily took my camera and she and Casey played...

Check out the illusion. Cool huh?

Here, Casey has just slayed the dragon(dog) and saved the damsel (Emily).

Carter not caring that the river really is cold.

My kids could play in the sand and collect rocks and shells ALL day long...

My mom looked down and actually found an Indian arrowhead!!! For Real!!! Amazing! She's always wanted to find one and this weekend she did!! How cool is that?!

I think we all were ready for a little rest and relaxation and fun!! I love Labor Day!!

Check This Out!!

All I can say is WOW!!! The Thunder in the Valley Airshow was totally AWESOME!!! Check out these shots I was able to catch!!

Taking pictures like this makes you appreciate the ability to push the button and continuously take pics, but at the time was wishing for more zoom!! Now I need to just spend a little time playing with all 400+ photos, cropping and editing! But I just had to put a few up here to say WOW!!

State Fair

Oh Emily would say this is a terrible picture of her and I shouldn't put it out here, but it's important! She took her picnic table to the state fair and got a blue ribbon!!!! So exciting!

The kids wanted to get into the big army trucks and pretend to drive. Carter kept asking them if they had been in a real war...

Casey was collecting tatoos...he got 8. And a funky hat from the John Deere booth.

Emily also took her working exhibit to the State Fair and received a Seal of Merit.

Sideways, I didn't realize that...Ugh! I read something somewhere that it helps to keep you younger if you learn something new. I really need to work on that with pictures!

It was a fast trip this time. We made it through the Varied Industries building and that's about it. The rest of the time was spent in the 4-H building! Emily makes us so proud!! Whatever will she come up with next year??