Birthday cake

We had a birthday dinner for Relyssa today at noon. It was fun to have our other kids home with us for it, & this weekend too. (yes, you too Mark!) Sorry you missed it Jeanne, Dalayna...etc.
I'll have more pictures to post from our weekend, but for now, I'm going to catch a nap before heading to G. meeting!









No, I didn't get a cake made...Walmart had to come to the rescue again. Relyssa doesn't really like cake that well, but she did request homemade ice-cream, and we hadn't done that for a long time. This was peach, and it was YUMMY! We scraped the bottom!
Oh, and by the way in case you haven't figured it out, the other person in the pictures is the big topic of discussion in an earlier post of mine, along with the last post on his brothers blog.

"She's 17, she's beautiful, and she's mine!"

I realize that a few other people may in the past, or currently, thought "she was theirs" and we won't talk about how much of the time SHE'D prefer not to be MINE but, that doesn't change the fact!
Happy birthday my dear girl, YOU ARE LOVED!

http://sisofeleven.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-birthday-resse.html
http://dalayna.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-birthday-reese.html
http://theweedas.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-birthday-lyss.html
http://jelly3.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-birthday-to-reese-aka-lyss.html

So I'm really really irritated here....no, no, not at HER! (this time!! lol!)
I finally found a digital scrapbooking program I can use easily, quickly and I really had fun with it designing a post for Relyssa's birthday pictures. Well yes, I'm sure I spent "too much time", but then again it would have taken me several weeks (I speak from experience here!!) to do the same thing "manually".
I'd been playing around with it earlier, and had some misc. pages done that were not related to her pages, and then when I finished the project for her & tried to post it, the other 2 pages kept coming up too & I couldn't get them off. In trying to delete those two, I somehow managed to delete the whole book, and now it's ALL gone.
I'm crying. Big buckets of frustrated tears. Not because you all care, but because I wanted it posted today, & I spent time & effort on it, (and it was great! :*) LOL!
So, for now, this is it. I have to get ready for the weekend here, kids, family & "other" are coming to help Leon re-shingle our barely surviving roof. Before the next rain/hail/tornado storm hits.
Have a great weekend everyone!

Funny things........

Oh, many, many years ago
when I was just a girl
I was at convention preps
where I met another friend.
She was married to the man,
who worked there at the ranch,
they had a little boy and
soon there would be two.
The years passed swiftly by,
and the family now had three,
little boys with saucy grins,
days were really pretty wild.

My life was changed as well,
I was married now with ten,
four teen girls were in our house
and things were going well.
The teasing grinning little boys
had grown up to be young men,
when all too soon the day came round
That one began to call.
.....................O.K....that's enough, For the "rest of the story" & better comedy, read more HERE"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeYIOT-MqJY

Happy Birthday to my "little sis"

It would have been more fun to find the "oldies" to post, but would have required too much "digging" so...
Here's just a sample of just the last 5 years great memories we've had.
Happy birthday Luanne, & wishing you the very best year ever!!
Here's hoping we'll have many more memories to celebrate!
'03
Down on the farm
'04
Great laughs....OH! yeah!
'05
Working fun
'06
walking down memory lane--isn't it time for another sister's day?

'07
Meal time memories- Breakfasts, lunches & birthday partys
"08
Happy birthday to a classy sister! *Hugs*

Miss Jessi--Flashback

Just a normal day in a girls life~~ "Which shoes do you think goes best with my outfit?"
While we were all watching/helping Jeanne get ready for her wedding, some of us had kicked our shoes off, & Jessi made good use of her time trying them on!

Our company this week

WHY can't they just all behave so I can get ONE good picture of them ALL?? Even the threat of putting them on my blog doesn't help!!







We're delighted to have Jana & Darla together for a couple weeks while both their co-workers are away at other conventions.

Just today

*I'm making bread

*I have more grapes on simmering for jelly

*I have a table covered with pears that need canned

*The workers are here for 2 days~~one being our daughter Jana because her co-worker went on
to another conv. This is the first time J. has been in her "home field" (even tho it's just for a couple weeks)

*Middle school & grade school kids are out of school tomorrow & Friday for parent/teacher conferences, but not the HS. WHY can't they schedule all the schools in the district the same days off so families could go/do something TOGETHER?

*We're having beautiful fall days. Could we just please have them until AT LEAST the end of Oct? The end of Nov. would be even better! I love fall. It's my favorite time of year except for the fact that winter comes after it.

*My sister G.K. is going to be at BW Missouri. Conv. If you see her there, tell her hi :*)....she doesn't read my blog unless she HAS to!! :*) However, she's addicted to P.W.'s. blog & reads it all the time. You can see how I rate. I can't help it I don't have as exciting a life as P.W....or am not as good a writer!!

*My "little" sister is heading to LV/ NV for the weekend to see her kids/grandaughter. So if you see her, Ditto to the above except she's not addicted to P.W.'s blog :*) It's her birthday on the 30th this month, so tell her happy early birthday too!

*My older boys & Relyssa plan to go to B.C. KS conv. this weekend, you can tell them hi if you're there & see them....It's good for them to know you read my blog & check up on them too! LOL!
(The boys don't read my blog either, but Lyss does some....mostly to see if I have any pictures or videos she can "steal" for her facebook page!!)

*This blog/writer has been such an inspiration & encouragement besides beautiful photography. However I was afraid the news wasn't going to be good, so cried when I read the up-dates last
night.

*I need to post my photo results for this project

*Thinking of all you who are heading to conventions today.

*I must get to work before the fruit flies take over my house :*(

*OH YES! I love, LOVE the new blog links that let you know when people's blogs are updated! I don't spend near as much time "hopping" to see if anyone has posted something new!!