Wordless Wednesday

Earning College Money

This piece was done at the request of our neighbor, Miss Charlotte. It's a shower gift for her daughter who is expecting a baby girl. Miss Charlotte brought us baby Anna Catherine's bedding and a paint sample from her nursery. She wanted a large canvas bordered with a painting of her bedding, the wall color in the center, and little Anna Catherine's name in the middle.


The bedding.


The result.


This is the first piece of art work 9 year old Abigail was paid to do. She was thrilled! And as her parents, Brian and I are too...whew! On her way to paying her way through college! Great job Abbygirl! You should be soooo proud!

Wonderful Memories

Abigail really enjoyed her trip with GranMom to the barrier islands off the Georgia coast.

She is my co-author today. We are taking excerpts from the journal she wrote in daily while on her trip.

"We got to the island today, it took us 6 hours to get here. It was exhausting. When got checked in, we unpacked and went swimming. Then we went to dinner and when we came back I actually found out that one of my friends was in the room next door. It was an exciting day."

Here she is upon arrival.


This picture was taken at site of the town of Frederica, built by General Oglethorpe as an outpost against the Spaniards in Florida. She was proud to announce that the wall was not made of concrete, it was made of Tabby. Tabby is a mixture of water, lime, sand, and oyster shells.


The entire town was destroyed with the exception of the building seen behind her in this picture.


They spent a day at the Sea Turtle Center where they take care of injured sea turtles.

"There were a few sea turtles with cracks in their shells. There was one that has lost a leg, but she was still able to swim around. Three turtles were being let go the day after our trip ended."


"We went on a shrimp boat. We caught fish of all kinds, crab, eels, puffer fish, jelly fish, shrimp, and if you can believe it at least 5 sharks at once!"




Pretty bird.


Oh and they also caught stingrays....


They visited the St. Simmons Lighthouse. This one...

It was haunted by a ghost named Frederick. There were lots of ghost stories....

The last morning of the trip they had a group come in and show some reptiles. There were a couple of snakes, a couple of turtles, and an alligator.

Who wants to hold a snake....


I think she really enjoyed this part.


GranMom and Abigail


A couple of picture from the morning GranMom and PaPaw left to return to Oregon.

EG really enjoyed her alone time with PaPaw.




Three generations.

Action, Lights, Camera

There is nothing like having a good friend, who knows you really well, come for a visit and light a fire under the projects that have gone ignored for far too long. Shannon got here Friday afternoon, we enjoyed a nice dinner and quiet evening here at the house. Saturday morning she and I ventured out on our own while Brian stayed behind with the girls. We did a little shopping and were headed home when we spotted an interesting thrift store...flea market...junk store that looked like it needed to be explored. So we did, and we found this.


and this


There was some other things too but that's going to be another post...the pieces we brought home helped me finally focus in on what color/style lights I wanted to buy to replace the ever so lovely brass originals from 1988. And their crazy ugly ceiling decoration thingy.

This stuff.


We found this on the back of the big one. All original...


So we brought the stuff home and ran off to Lowes to get the new lights. Replacing them was a great deal of fun, cough, cough. But the end result was well worth it.

Look April...pineapples!


Both of them!


This is the last one up for immediate replacement. It's 20' up in the air so once I figure out how to balance the ladder on the stairs and fight the thing off the ceiling it's outta here!

Cannonball!

This past Sunday when Dad, PaPaw, GranMom and Abigail took off for the Georgia coast to drop Abigail and GranMom off for their Barrier Island adventure I had to do something super fun for EG to cheer her up. Miss Lisa invited us over for a swim. (Thank you Miss Lisa)

We had a little lunch before we swam. (Breaking all the rules set forth by my mom when I was a kid)


With a full belly and a smile on her face she was ready.


She was a bit water shy at first.


So we took a popsicle break.


Updated our look with a new swimsuit.


Invited our bestest buddy to join us.


And we were in!


Quack!


After a HUGE water fight Wes was worn out.


Wyatt too.


So we headed a couple of houses down to Miss Monica's house to pick up our new family member.

Meet OC.


OC meet Korduroy.


It was a great day. EG hasn't stopped talking about her swimming adventure. She has said many times since Sunday that the only thing that would have made it more fun for her is if her sister would have been there too. Awwwww.

3rd grade...history

The 3rd grade was a lot of fun for Abigail. It was her first year in the ABC (adventures beyond the classroom) program. They studied everything from Greek Mythology to the Circus. The last day of ABC the kids got to dress up...

Like clowns.


The last day of ABC was all fun, food and games. Abigail loved it.


The following week was the last week of school. At the awards ceremony Abigail was presented an award for being on the A honor roll all year. Yay Abigail!


Abigail and Anna celebrate the end of the school year....