My Cousin Jim and his wife Deb

We spent Saturday at Jim and Debbie's house on the lake.

My Favorite Aunt!

My Aunt Mary, she is my mom's sister and she is going to kill me for posting her picture. My mom's sister's are all passed away now and I can say she is my favorite now since I don't have any others to get mad at me.

Katelyn Putting a worm on her hook!

Jim was so proud of Katie when she put a worm on her hook all by herself.

Nap Time

My favorite cousin!!!

Love ya AL!

Happy Birthday Liberty Belle!!

Libby is 7 today, the 4th of July!

Katelyn found an awesome arrowhead!

Katelyn found this arrowhead along Baugo Creek at a party we attended. It is the real thing! How cool is that?! She was so excited she was shaking.

This is the other side.

Taffy gets a bath

Taffy is all lathered up and getting clean. She is not real fond of getting a bath but puts up with it and will not try to get out as long as I hold onto her and she can see me.

Piggy is cold, wet and wants out.

All done. Now to dry piggy off and keep her warm!

Frequent Feeder

Picture of one of our humming birds feeding on a feeder that is stuck on my bay window above my kitchen sink. It is impossible to keep the window clean because of the splash of the sticky sugar water that I feed them. They are no longer scared of me when I am doing something at the sink and come right up and feed anyway.

Serving Back

This is a parody of Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back. It is called Serving Back and is reference to serving the lord.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENERGY SAVER LIGHT BULBS!

Here are some pics of our garden and its progress from the last pictures I posted. It is growing fast and doing good. We have had plenty of water. The spot we picked was not ideal, maybe little too shady. We wanted to keep it in the fenced in part of our yard because most of the neighbors loose their gardens to the high deer population. The rabbit population also is a problem but we have not had that since we put up a small chicken wire fence. We did have a mole come up and make a huge amount of paths under most everything we planted. Hopefully it will not damage what work we have done. The moles are a big problem for our hole yard no matter what Jim has done to try to stop them. The year he tried to poison them, he ended up poisoning my squirrel friends that I had been feeding and enjoying in our front tree.

Tomatoes looking awesome!!

If you look closely to the left of the tomatoes you will see peppers

Butternut squash coming along nicely

Beans Looking good!

Schools Out for Summer!

So sweet and innocent. What did I hear the first day school was out. Mom, I'm bored, I don't have anything to do. Worst part is, she had a friend over when she said it! She would stay up all night and sleep all day if I let her. How many days is it till school starts?!

I spent a little time in Wisconsin at the Bead and Button Show. It was awesome! I was overwhelmed. It was really hard to decide what to purchase since there was so much. There were a couple of items that I can get online but wanted to find at a better price. The prices were alot better! The one company that I had been thinking about purchasing from online, I finally got a upclose look at their items. This watch is made from some of the metal sliders that I found there. I had purchased a copper watch along time ago with the idea that I would like to make something in copper. I don't think I am going to sell this watch. I think I will call this one mine. It is not too often I make one for myself. I can't wait till the Bead and Button show next year!

This was a present from my husband and lovely daughter, Katelyn

Our Fountain is up and running

How does Mary's garden grow?

Lots of Tomatoes for canning!

Right hand corner are 2 eggplants

The Green Peppers are looking peppy

My Bike with chicken & hens from my mom

Green Beans recently popped their heads above ground

24 Tomatoe Plants-Several different kind

Butternut Squash is a little squashed yet.

You have 1 guess where my husband spent our aniversary!

Kristi Yamaguchi with the green flag.

Jim went with Ron

Rusty and Julie went too!

I did get these!

Thank you honey!

Edwardsburg Memorial Day Parade 2008

The weather was fantastic! What a great day for a parade. This year we had Aaron marching in the band, Katelyn marching with the junior girl scouts and Ava marching with the brownies. The parade was moving so fast that we never got a picture of Ava. If anyone got a picture of Ava please email it to me so that I can add it to the blog!

Here comes the Band! Aaron will be in here!!

Here comes Aaron 3rd from the left!

Great Shot of Aaron!

Looking Good Aaron!!!!

Katelyn Handing out Candy and Necklaces!

Katiebug Marching with Girlscouts

Jim, Camilla & Moose Krause

We spent a lovely day Thursday afternoon with our friends from Atlanta, Jim and Cam. We tried to show them as many interesting places in South Bend as we had time for. We enjoy having them so much that when they come it is never long enough. The weather was spectacular and the Notre Dame Campus was in beautiful condition. Thank you Jim and Cam for taking time out from you hectic lives to come see us. Katie misses you already!

Golden Dome

The Grotto

Life Guard Training on the East Race

David Cook - Guitar Hero Commercial

I had to add this to my blog! David Cook was my pick from the beginning. This commerical was great.

Volunteer Celebration

Granger Community Church did one of the best skits I have seen them do in a long time. We totally enjoyed it and I have added it to my blog so you can enjoy it too.