365: week 34

233/365:

Happy 1st Birthday sweet Aiden!

234/365:

It's an eclipse kind of day. We made it outside several times to enjoy the view.

235/365:

For the longest time I really disliked taking I-17 to work. Then I realized I could shave a few minutes off my morning commute and I decided I could probably tolerate it. Just because .. I check the map on my phone every morning as I'm leaving the house. Not that accidents don't wander into my path even then ...

236/365:

Do you love clocks as much as I do? Are you as cheap as I am? As much as I like them ... I won't buy a big one. I'll maybe take some pallets, put them together, draw some circles, add some paint and then see if I can get something to keep time. I'm still working on the keeping time thing. It's really just resting here until it moves out of the house. In the meantime, I get to enjoy it!

237/365:

Moving on up to the north land. Good bye and good luck party.

238/365:

Once in a while they play nice together. Most often these two, who are the eldest boys of their families, spend their time trying to be alpha. Maybe they each feel as if they're top dog at Papa and Nana's house. I don't know. It just gets a bit challenging sometimes. And then they surprise you!

239/365:

My goal for the day. Oh my. Who ever thought a side by side fridge/freezer was a good idea anyway.

365: week 33

226/365:

After a quiet night on the water, the kids joined us the next day. We have found a cove that we will call ours for the next many family picnics. The bright side is that unless you're able to get across the lake ... you won't be joining us. Perfect play place.

227/365:

Wyatt doesn't know what that music belongs to as the ice cream truck makes its way around the neighborhood. Being as they are soon leaving ... it was safe to introduce him to the yummy treats that come with that sound. If I was a really sweet Nana, I might have change sitting around here in a jar just for the occasion when the music travels down our street. Maybe someday!

228/365:

Sometimes you just have to relive a day .. over and over. Our boys live too far away to be joining us on the special outings, but the girls don't! Found a selfie on my cell phone after Sunday at the lake.

229/365:

Pure delight out there in the water. Tarron is an avid fisherman .. he's always game to hit the water with a line anytime. The big tube gets more of a workout floating around the cove piled with little people than it does getting pulled.

230/365:

I think this was the last of it. Finally!

231/365:

Between canning peaches and whatever else goes on around here, I've been make trees from felt. Must have cut miles of felt ... twisted them around wire and formed trees out of them. Will have to remember to share a finished photo with you.

232/365:

I pulled into the mall parking lot on a mission. Quick in and out if I was lucky. Some nice little sporty BMW was just pulling out of this space. Apparently he needed some new shoes and was above disposing the old ones in any way that might be considered mature. Behavior certainly didn't match his car. Maybe his trunk can't even be soiled with the likes of these. Go figure.

I hear my mom's voice in my head every time I'm tempted to leave a grocery cart anywhere else other than the cart corral! Imagine the words she'd have for me if I dropped my shoes in a parking lot.