Flower Fun

More premature birthday planning

Therin wants more Legos and is driving me nuts asking for them. I keep telling him, "Wait until your birthday!" This is not appeasing him; so to cope with the 50 some days left, apparently we needed to start focusing on the planning. I asked him if there was a theme he was interested in and immediately came up with Legos. I searched for some ideas online and thought making letters out of Legos to spell "Happy Birthday (name)" was cool so Therin went right to work. I can't believe how fast, he assembled all of them but is now BEGGING me to take him to the store and print pictures so we can make invitations (Who knows when we'll be having his party but the invitations will be ready). Needless to say, his birthday can't come fast enough (I'm sure Uncle Josh can relate.).......

WHAT???!!!!!

A rather frequent expression of Kya's. I think she always feels jipped about something.

Projects and forts, Oh my!

The most recent fort. Tonight we might have to set up the tent to sleep in-the weather has been in the high 60's, low 70's with a breeze. It feels heavenly to be outside or inside with ALL the windows open!


Therin's own "tiling" project that now looks like a gravestone. We gave the kids this little space in the yard to do what they want with-it changes frequently.

The Bathroom

Getting closer......



Ahh, the bathroom remodel....this is what has been taking up most of our (mainly Travis') summer. There is always something to work on-tearing, plumbing, drywall, painting, installing glass block windows, etc. We have finally lightened the load and are paying someone to do the tile work. We are hoping to finish this project by August, two and a half months later. Clearly, the time and money spent will be worth it but I will be oh, so happy when it's done (no matter what it looks like). It may be a long while before I agree to any other major home improvement projects, indoors at least.

Unfortunately, I have no good pictures of the bathroom before the tear but there had been several BAD patch jobs with the tile, linoleum floor that had not been cleaned well around the toliet, etc.

This is the way we sleep

Looks inviting doesn't it?

4th of July

Uncle Sam: tired and not happy about wearing a costume.


Lady Liberty for Cresent Lake's boat parade.


Kya reminds me of Aunt Mary Binder with all her prize rings on.


Watching the fireworks.