Whhheeeee!!!!!

Mama moved Mariah's swing!

From this tree branch she can swing

WWWWAAAAYYYY higher!

Mama gives an "underdog"!

Pheasant Update

They're THIS big now!

They are flying too... Next project is

an outside pen with a roof!

Relay for Life 2008

The SURVIVORS are lining up for the opening lap of the relay.

St. Peter gave them each a blue t-shirt

with SURVIVOR on the back!

(Mom has white crop pants on.)

There were 4 generations of our family there!

Mariah and Papa off to inspect the festivities!

Father's Day 2008

Aren't the pheasants getting BIG???

Mariah has absolutely NO fear of them.

They fly around her head and at her face and she LOVES it!

Mariah and Gabe...

She wanted to pose and he wanted to PLAY!!!

So much food to haul to the goats

she used her shopping cart!

A break from the work to play with Gabriel.

Happy Father's Day!

Big Girl Room

Do you think she likes it?
Advice: When having a hard time selling your house

it is always recommended that you paint

a room Pepto-Bismal Pink!
It's kind of hard to tell from these photos but

below the border is painted in large, dark and light stripes!

Party Dress

Mariah had her first fitting for her

party dress.

Our friend and neighbor, Tammy, is

seamstress extraordinaire for daughter Becky's wedding!

Mariah doesn't want to be flower girl.

She wants to be PARTY PRINCESS!

Still enough length for growing and for a crinoline!

Reading with Mama

These are my girls...

The Garden Nymph

Relaxing in the sun
Our Princess
Mariah, 3 and a half years old
In Nana's garden
Mariah had a sleep over, without her moms!

When she came home she said,

"I ONLY want to live at Papa and Nana's!"

and she refused to get out of the car.

Should we be worried?

NAH!

Another Weekend in the Country

Heading out to do chores...
Feeding the goats...
Look at how BIG the pheasants are getting!

They are starting to fly, or at least JUMP really far!

Taking new bedding in to the pheasants.
Spreading the new bedding around...

Just imagine: 95 degrees, 5 foot ceiling, dusty...

And she loves EVERY minute!

It doesn't get any better than that!