What we're in the middle of.....

The "problem" with loving to create......
How can you buy something when you can make it?

Shower invitations... made by my very talented crafty neice Raimie
Flower girl dresses...sewing by my very talented seamstress Mother (She got all 4 of them put together except zippers & hems in 4 days after I got them cut out for her)


The wedding invitations & card inserts inside....These were mine and Raimie's brainstorm, coupled with Lynisha's talent on the computer & Thanks to joint effort of my sisters, niece & friends coming to my house helping me assemble them.

I did get the envelopes all addressed, filled and in the mail this week.
Today is Jeanne's shower, and promises to be a crazy fun filled afternoon/evening!
Other activities this week included having my grandaughter Kyrie here all week, my husband & oldest & youngest son gone on a job accross the state, a birthday party for my two youngest daughters with 5 other little girls, a shopping trip to Grand Island Friday afternoon after Jeanne, Lynisha & Trey got here for the weekend, and a 4th birthday party (Fancy Nancy/butterfly) for my great neice Felicity with a whole flight of other little girls (maybe 14??) They all dressed up as butterfly's, and it was quite a party! I'll have some pictures of that later next week.

Camping fun

So Ryan gave his girl-friend Kayleen a ring in April, and has been wanting to celebrate their engagement, and this is what they came up with. A camping trip with his/her families invited.
We went out to Ogallala to the lake on Friday afternoon, spent the night and enjoyed Saturday until about 2 p.m. when we had to head back home so Leon could go to work. A short trip, but since it's only about 2 hrs. out there, not bad, and it was worth it, we had a great time even tho the wind blew and it rained Friday night. The tent was fine although had to be tightened several times in the night but I gave up on the no-good air mattress, and went & slept in the van. Took a while to work the kinks out of my legs the next morning, but the fun we had at the lake made up for it.

OH! So this isn't really Ryan and Kayleen....it's just my two older boys being dorks :*)
Kayleen, are you SURE you want to marry this guy???



In fact...we won't blame you a bit if you dump him....
In the lake anyway!





We camped at Lake Ogallala, and went over to Martin Bay at McConaughy for swiming & jet skiing. It got pretty crowded at the start of the beach, but we were a ways down, and didn't have anyone crowding next to us. Maybe they thought they'd better keep their distance tho.... :*)








Hmmm...can you tell who my favorite photo subjects were?!

Can you tell what I had the most fun doing?
That was a great ride! It's been years since I've gotten to jet ski!

Those poor white legs came back home a "lovely" color of pink... They had a hard time complaining too badly about it tho, they had way to much fun!

I'll let this be all on here...Here's the link to my photobucket album if you want to see more. I'm really sorry, I'm very tired of editing, and the ones there are all mixed up and not in any order!

http://s511.photobucket.com/albums/s353/lmjelinek12/

Don't we love digital!!

We went camping Friday and Saturday...I just put my pictures on the computer...347 of them!
Gotta love digital :*) I need to go thru and edit, plenty to delete, so I'll be back with my favorites.

If you're curious about Trey's amber...check out Lynisha's post

Convention Preps

I found these on my mom's camera today, they were taken at our convention preps in June.
Meshayla and Kara went out for a week with Jana before convention.


The grounds--back in the sandhills!


Hiking up (and back down!) Scottsbluff Monument





Meshayla and Kara helping Jana in the kitchen

NOT a skate board!!

It's a "Rip-stick" and it's the latest thing around here for the kids to do. Two swivel wheels instead of 4. Can't balance on the thing myself, but it sure is fun to see the kids on them!