Before, After and During

BEFORE:

AFTER:

DURING:

(taken by Shelby with strict instructions to not get Mama in the pictures!)

a dogs life

Must be a universal thing for a dog to use a pillow. I always thought it was a Sheffy thing growing up, but Rusty did the same, and here is Damien, sawing logs with a pillow under his head.

We had a really good day with him. Its raining (a LOT) so he was in the house with us ALL day. He was very good. YEAH!!!!!

Shelby's Debut

Shelby had her debut at church last week. She did offertory. She played "ode to joy". And did FABULOUS!!! I was so proud of her! I was going to try to figure out a way to upload it, but my computer skills are greatly lacking. Maybe someday we'll get to it!

"I'm not sad and I'm not angry. I'm completely happy I got a new dress."

Barbie via Colesy

A Sunday Morning Adventure

Well, Matt had sound this morning, so he needed to be there an hour early.

As is usual, I dropped Matt and the girls off and ran to Wal-Mart to get some errands done (yes, I grabbed a few Christmas shopping items too! AND got a fabulous idea too.....)

Anyhow, back to the story.

When I got back, I came in the back door as we always do, and I see Matt holding Colesy.

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Those of you who know Colesy, know that Daddy doesnt usually need to hold her. So I went up to them and asked what happened. Colesy was happy I was back (they were watching out the window) and as she turned to go greet me, she smacked her head on the corner of the track rack. Apparently it was loud enough a crack that several people heard it! So, Matt was comforting her.

I was making sure she was okay, and when she turned her head, there was a quarter size blood spot in her hair! I took her from Matt and was going to take her to the bathroom to clean her up. When I got to the bathroom door, however, I looked back to see Matt following me, so I changed plans and took her down to the kitchen so he could help too. By the time I set her down on the counter, she had blood pooling in her hair and down around her ear and it was a MESS!

Matt cleaned it out, and I had Shelby go up and find a girl who is/was! a nurse to come and check her out.

When Tracy arrived on the scene, Matt has cleaned up enough of the blood to find the source. Just a little cut. Way too small for the amount of blood!

She didnt even get a goose egg. Matt then carried her back up - clear up to the balcony, and we sat through church. A couple times during the hour it seemed to seep a little, but she is fine now.

In fact, she doesnt want to wash her hair until she is able to show it to her classmates and teacher tomorrow! I dont think THAT will happen!

I took pictures, but only had my phone, and I have no idea how to get the pictures from the phone onto the computer. so.....

Colesy: "Dad - can we go across the creek?"

Dad: "What are you going to do over there?"

Colesy: "Play. We are kids, and that's what we do!"

"I'd rather get hurt than be bored!" ~ Colesy

Alll about me!

Colesy had to write about herself in school. I LOVED reading it. It is so Colesy! This is what she brought home:

My name is Colesy. I am 8 years old. I have blond hair and blue eyes. My faverite food is anything fruit! My faverite holiday is Christmas because it is Jesuses birthday. My faverite game is apples to apples. I have one sister. My faverite colers are blue and green. I am 51 inches tall. My faverite movie is Sherek the 3th. I live with my mom my dad sister and my dog. I like to go to the tasty freeze. My faverite kind of ice cream in chocolate. It is very very good. I have five cosins and another on comeing. I have 8 antes and uncles. My mom and dads name is Matt and Krissy and my sisters name is Shelby and I like school. I like swimming playing with my dog and my sister. I love my family. My dog is a red Dobe. I like horses, dogs, cats, birds, turtuls, hamsters, dolfins, frogs penguins. I like flowers pink ones and white ones blue and yellow and purple ones. I dont like bees. I like the globe. IT is very interesting. It is cool. Books are fun to read. I like reading books. Bugs are funny. I love my teacher!!! animals are colorful. red is a brite color. I like catails. They are brown and furry. My teacher is nice. I like my teacher. I love my grama. bird eggs are cool. pink is a pretty color. apples to apples is a very very very fun game. Frogs are good at leeping. I love money. My tung is pink. Monkeys are funny. I like monkeys. Bible is fun. I like reading the Bible. I love the Bible. I love animals. I use a pencil to do my work. I like chocolate chips they are very very good. Erin and Gavin are my best friends. My birthday is August 24. I love my birthday it is on my birthday. My name is made up of 6 letters. I know the alphabet from A to Z. clouds are made of puffy white things. I like to play cars with my sister. I like to play with my friends. I can count to five hundredes. Love Colesy

I'm not sure if you can be more random than that! I laughed! That is about how I sum up Colesy. She has the most disconnected random thoughts. I love her!!!

Colesy.....

"I'm fatter than some people, but skinnier than most fat people."

Heath Station Fish Hatchery

We stopped at the fish hatchery on the way home. The girls hadn't been there before. It is a small place, but we had fun walking around and looking at the fish.

Can you see the trout lined up by the rocks? The dark ones were hard to see, and harder to take a picture of, because of the fencing and nets around the pond. There were a couple of feed dispensers, so we fed them quarters so we could feed the fish. That was fun - watching them leap all over for a nugget of food.

We had one more stop with pictures on the way home, but I am tired, and dont have time to wait for the pictures to upload - so you'll have to wait... :)

Beartown Rocks ROCK!

The girls LOVE Beartown. I like to take them because they have so much fun, and it amazes me to see the trees growing on them with no dirt. It is really pretty there.

At one point, you can see for miles. It is breath taking.

Labor Day weekend fun...

We stopped for lunch at Angelos. It was SO yummy! I dont think I have had a cheese steak there in over a year! YIKES!!! :) It was fun. Then we went up to Farmers Inn. It is a little "zoo" and has a few petting animals and a few wild animals. It costs a whole $1 to get in. We havent been there all summer. We tried, but it rained HARD last time we tried. Anyhow...
We really liked this goat and thought he was really cute. Then we realized that he was stuck with his head through the fence, so Matt tweaked him so he got back in. He was happy to not have to stand there on his back legs any longer.

What a FAT pig!!!!

A peacock looking at/taunting the coatamundi
He didn't have the long tail feathers, but he was so pretty.
I fed this guy a piece of apple. He kinda freaked me out. He's reach his long neck s far as he could go. He had a prehistoric look to him!
Giant turtle
Smaller turtle. The like the apples too.

Here is a cougar....
and anther fat pig! His snout cracked me up poking through the fence!
and the wallabys
and a donkey. We had fun, and the girls enjoyed themselves. The only thing we didnt do was get icecream. We were going to - that is 1/2 the fun of going, but we were still stuffed from Angelos. Oh well....

Shelby's newest retainer.

(Shelby took the picture.)

She only has to wear in after school and over night. Doc says her next teeth to fall out will be the fours. and then maybe we;ll have to pull the 3s to make room for them to all fit - but that is down the road. This retainer is just to keep her teeth from going back to where they were. We said good-bye to Mr. Bucky and we dont want him to come back!

First day of school 8/27/2009

She got these new "Sunday"shoes and insisted on wearing them the first day of school. How can a parent argue with that?! So, of she clip-clopped! :)

Shelby is in 4th and Colesy is in 3rd this year.