Monday, October 27, 2008

Corn Maze - Tuesday

Once you are in there , it's just corn.





It claims to be the worlds largest jumping pillow.
It is big, so I'll take their word for it.


This may have been her favorite, she loved racing the ducks.
Esp. when she had a pink duck.





Sunday, October 26, 2008

Hayride & Picnic -Sunday

Smore's anyone?
Lulu and her friend rode the hayride 5 or 6 times

Gman & his friends spent more time in the woods than anything,
not sure if he even ate.

Not sure if she ate either? Am I good mom or what?



We had a lot of fun & the kids really did.
Nothing is better than good food,
good friends & a crisp fall afternoon.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Costume Ball - Saturday

This was a kids costume ball to raise money for our
local family resource center.


Pink? Wonder Woman

This was made for her


My Indiana Jones



Afternoon at the farm

Gman & Simon are best buds. Not sure who loves who more.

I just keep taking pictures, until I caught her. I got several good ones.

I love pictures like these




One day this will be my front yard .

She had so much fun running around
One of Sophies' good days, she had chemo the next day
& one of her growths abscessed the next day (uck!)
And she hasn't been herself, it's breaking my heart.

Maybe I will find a picture for my Christmas card.

Yeah Pictures!

I have my laptop back & doing well. I have taken lots of pictures, got those downloaded and I am ready to do some posting. I wanted to do a life in the week post, but since I took all of the picture this past week I guess it will be a week or a few weeks in review. The end result is the same. So yeah some pictures!




I will start with a photo of my little "nurse". This was taken about 3 weeks ago.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

I'm still here - I think

Oh my! Since my last post 2 weeks ago life has been nuts. I lost internet on my laptop & still can't find it. Lord willing I'll be back up soon. I'm working off my desktop that likes to take naps at will and just go home for the day whenever it sees fit. Sometimes I really hate computers, one of those when they work we love them & hate them when they don't work.

My mom is out of the hospital and recovering at home. We thought Sophie's cancer was in over drive, growing by the minute (a growth on her back really horrible looking uck!) but it was trying to abscess again. It is better and we now feel that her cancer is in a holding pattern for lack of a better description. Simon gave us a scare this week. He began to loose use of his back legs & then all of his legs in just a matter of hours. We rushed him the the vet ER and after lots of tests & more money than I care to think about. We brought him home with medicine to treat what we hoped was a disc issue and not something more or worse. We were fortunate and thankful the medicine is doing the trick. Having both dogs sick and the thought that I could loose them both so close was rough for us. But they are doing better and almost their old selves again. I told you our dogs are our babies too.

We are working hard to keep our schooling up to speed even though the last 4 weeks have been especially trying and tough. At the same time knowing that such a large responsibility is on our plates may have been what was in part driving me & keeping us focused.

I do so hope to have some photos up soon. I like more photos than words myself, they do tell so much as well as pose lots of questions. I have been carring my camera everywhere and have several to share. We spent an afternoon at our farm, where one day I will get to call home again. I took several photos, O.K. over 200 there is a reason that they tell you not to work with kids & animals. But I was trying to get a Christmas card picture. Plus I have taken numerous others that I might post.

I'll be back soon, I promise.

Friday, October 3, 2008

I'm behind - in everything

Right after I started this. My grandmother that had turned 90 on the day of my 1st blog passed away. A true answer to prayer, she was not doing well. I was her only grandchild & we spent a good bit of time together. When we lived apart, she would come every summer to where ever we lived & get me, take me back to Georgia and keep me for 6 or 7 weeks every summer. I didn't realize until I was thinking back on her & my life how much that meant to me. That I was loved, wanted, and special to her.

During all of the funeral events, my mom ended up with compression fractures & is in the hospital trying to get treatment for her back. So we have been coming & going a lot. I've been too tired to think about much. Lulu and I are staying with her today, while my dad gets some much needed work done ( he has Gman). I brought school with us, we've gotten lots of questions and interest from the nurses & dr's.

Trying to keep our home school efforts up has been hard at times. We took most of the week of the 22nd off. Mostly we read, tried to take advantage of teachable moments, and anything that looked educational on TV. Thank you Magic School Bus on discovery kids.

Needless to say the last 2 weeks have been busy, emotional & tiring. I had wanted to do more with my blog, but hopefully I will get up to speed soon. Hang in there with me. It's already been interesting maybe now it can get enjoyable.

I want to do a week in the life - another blog that I keep up with is doing one this week. I hope to try one in the next few weeks, it looks fun. The idea of really seeing what our daily lives are like the little moments. So I would try to capture everything, no staging. Just real life the way we live it. The author of the blog that started this, comments that it really opens your eyes to what's important to you.

Just another day!

A typical day!
He may look cute, but what came out of his mouth after
I took this was - well Rude!

She made me take this picture after ballet last week.
Lulu is always dancing about & flipping everywhere.
I wish I had her energy, & could do those things without fear of injuring something -ME.


Sophie naps - she's such a sweet girl!
She's not feeling the best these days.
We've been to the vet a lot lately, she's taking chemo for cancer.


Simon's life is too hard!

You may have figured out that our four legged children are
SPOILED!
But they give so much love & are so good with the 2 legged kids
That might be part of what keeps them young.