Sunny Saturday

I worked at my sometimes Saturday job last weekend and that put Handsome in charge of the kids. This man is amazing! Not only did he watch the kids, but he was able to re-landscape the front of the house and deck at the same time! I have the best husband anyone could ever ask for! I think he did a GREAT job! The best part...he found strawberry bushes and was able to work around most of them!!! Yea!!!!!!!!!!Princess is also working on learning how to pedal her bike...the whole 99 cents it cost me when she was just 2 months old!They also got a chance to ride their BigWheels...which they again do not have the pedaling down...they had fun regardless, and slept very well that night!

Grandmas Visit, Day 1

My Mom came September 25th and stayed with us all the way through October 4th! We were so happy to have her here, and want her to come back soon! Between her and myself, we took TONS of pictures of our activities through the days, and I am behind once again! So I will pick some of my favs from every day and share with you, my loyal bloggie buddies!

After Grandma arrived, it was time to make some supper! While Mom and I chatted Ethan and Ada Grace were showing off in their toy room...this picture cracks me up! Ethan's obsession with hats doesn't just stop with his ~ it has now even moved on to Sissy's bling bling hats! Heehe Too handsome, I mean pretty, I mean HANDSOME!
Of course, the kids just loved having Grandma here...they ask about her often!
Grandma made a call to Grandpa to tell of her safe arrival and Ada Grace wasn't going to let Grandma go!
We played outside for a while.
Now this may be due to the fact that I am a hopeless romantic, but when my roses are 'past their prime' I cute them down to the first 5 leaf, and spread the petals all over the sidewalk. I just think it look pretty and is very inviting, maybe the mailman doesn't care...but I think it is pretty. Well anyway, the kids have made a game out of it. When I toss the petals into the air that say, "WOW!" With much 2 year old (and almost 2 year old ) gusto! AG has even gotten to the point that she picks them up and does it again!
"Pretty PRETTY!"
"WOoooooW!"

Stay tuned for the rest of Grandma's visit!

My Most Beautiful Rose

On Sunday we had a beautiful rose open up, the prettiest of this season for sure, and maybe of our entire 6 years of growing roses! It is rather large and perfectly shaped! The fragrence is wonderful....just another perfect example of God's BEAUTIFUL creation!

Sunday Evening

On Sunday Evening while Jason and I were sitting in the living room it all of a sudden looked to be a very pretty, almost pink, color outside. I grabbed my new camera (I love it) and ran out and got some really neat pictures of the sky. None of these have been altered...this is truely what the sky looked like that night!






I love how there was a "V" shaped cloud in front of the sun that made the pretty colors on these clouds from where the suns shadow was!

I also snapped a few pictures of our roses. Now that they have over come the over spray from the yard (we have talked to the people that do it and it should not be happening again) they are really going to town again. My climber is way over my head now, and we only lost one rose bush of the 18 in the over spray accident.
My purple rose with a little rain on it...

And then after the boys went to bed, AG and I spent some time together, just the girls...how fun was that? Well, AG was wound up that night and just was a hoot to be around...as usual!

Beautiful Flowers

Just a little bit ago there was a knock at my door and this is what I found...well they were in bunches and I "dressed" them and arranged them and look how beautiful they are! There is this wonderful family in our church who think of all these wonderful ways to encourage their Pastor and family and I would have never thought of sending flowers to someone for their son's adoption! Thank you so much! She is also making Sunshine's cake and I cannot wait to see what she has up her sleeve. I gave her a napkin from the party deco and told her that I trusted her and couldn't wait to see what she came up with! There will be pictures for sure! Anyway, enjoy the beautiful roses as much as I do...the pictures do not do them justice. There are all sorts of different colors in them: reds, peaches, yellows and all combos of each!
Also notice the cute little picture of my brother and Christy peeking around the vase!

Misc. June leftovers...

This one cracks me up!!! I noticed that Ethan was fussing a little MORE than usual and saw something dragging on his ankle...only to realize it was his diaper!!! I still have no idea how he managed to get that thing down under his one piece romper...but he did! Crazy boy!
Ada Grace playing in the pool while Daddy works on the Rose garden.
I do believe this is my son being a stinker...pretty sure! Cute though!
We were waiting for Daddy to come so we could go somewhere...Ethan loves his blanket!
Daddy working in the rose garden.

Some of my roses....

Anyone who knows me know I LOVE roses! We have planted roses in every house that we have lived in. I didn't think we could ever top the way the front of our Huron home looked, we had a peach rose there that had over 50 buds and blooms at one time! However, we have 18 rose bushes here with room for at least 1 more when I find the "perfect" one! I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do!



This one is peachy colored and it looks like someone has been dropping little speckles of yellow paint on it...it is one of my FUN roses!

Golf Ball Size Hail

This is what our first rose looked like after golf ball size hail last night!!

Roses

I thought it was maybe time to share a some pictures of our house! You don't get to see inside yet because we are no where near finished unpacking and it is very disorganized!










Here is a picture of my first rose bloom this year! We have 10 rose bushes in front of our house, 9 regular bushes and 1 climbing rose! I am really excited about them, and it looks like I will be having 3 yellow roses open today or tomorrow!

Here us a picture of our new house. We still have lots of work to do in order to get the outside looking great, but we have come a long way....I don't have any before pictures so you will just have to take my word for it! There used to be rocks on the other side of the sidewalk, but we took them out and planted grass. The rocks also were in front of the house where the rose bushes are. On the side of the walk where the rocks are, we have Day Lilys planted all along, with a few pink & white daffodils, pink Canterberry Belles, and there will be deep blue Wisteria growing up the arbor! We cannot wait to see what it will all look like when in full bloom, we will have to wait for next summer to see some of it. The house is being resided, and it is a surprise as to what color it will be, all I know is that it isn't going to be white. There will also be two bleeding hearts, lily of the valley, and hydrangea to the right of the door.