Blizzard of 2008

Well, I am sitting here in Rock Island, IL, while my poor husband is back at home with our 4 year old son and ……drum roll please…….16 inches of snow and still counting because it has not stopped.  Oh and by the way, the mail carriers do not live up to the motto.  The mail [...]

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Our house…

It has been so hot this summer.  We have had 16 days in a row of 100+ degree weeather. We have managed to keep the lawn watered with our sprinkler system, but it hasn’t been easy.  Friday night it rained really good.  The first good rain in about 3 months.  

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Waterslide fun

We have two local outdoor pools. One of which is the YMCA. The outdoor city pool’s short diving board was broken (Benjamin was very disappointed) so we decide to give the YMCA’s a try. Benjamin loved it. It has 2 water slides instead of diving boards. It sure was nice to be able to go [...]

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Diving Board Fun

Benjamin has taken a few swim lesson classes, but has never liked getting his head wet.  Well we finally hit the jackpot!!!  We were swimming today and he saw a few of the bigger kids jumping and a few kids his size jumping.  He said he wanted to try, so I said ok.  He got up on the board and [...]

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Burritt on the Mountain

I have been behind on posting.  We are getting ready for Benjamin to move up to the Pre-K (4 yr old) Room.  He is somewhat excited.  I really don’t think he wants to leave his current teacher Ms. Beth.  We keep encouraging him though.  He had his end of the summer party at school and [...]

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A Very Rocky Evening -Part 2

Here are the pictures I promised. We put rocks around all three flower beds. and around a couple of trees whe have.

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A Very Rocky Evening

What an eventful day. Griff and I both worked and came home and started our new rock border around our flower beds. Those rocks were HEAVY!!! We managed to ge the rock done in the front yard and tomorrow night we plan on getting the back flower beds done. Benjamin has been a big help [...]

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Weekend Yard Work

I promised pictures and here they are. We created this bed…I know, I know, where is the color?? It looks so bland. We are going to put flowers in a couple of weeks. The flower shops didn’t have that many flowers because it’s still a little early. It took us a half a day to [...]

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Warm weather and Flower Beds

I haven’t posted anything in awhile. There has been beautiful weather here in Huntsville,AL. It has been in the 70s, close to 80s. It’s suppose to get colder by the weekend, but after that, the weather man says it’s going to pretty much stay warm! WOOHOO!! We were busy this past weekend. We made a [...]

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