Eggs

In response to my friend, Betty, whom I have never met, but love dearly through my blog, yes I sell eggs. We have farm fresh brown and green eggs that we sell for $3.00/dozen. I deliver eggs once a week to my dentist office in Bham. I never know for sure what day, but it is usually Mon-Wed. I can always put you on a list for delivery and meet up with you somewhere close to the dentist office. I don't want to start delivering eggs all over Bham or I will have to raise prices to include some gas money. But I will definitely deliver close to my dentist office. It is Meridian Dental on the Guide Meridian, across from the Country Club. Let me know Betty, if you would like to start getting some from me.

Seattle Sounders

Gordon took Evan and his best bud, Jacob to the Seattle Sounders soccer game yesterday. Jacob has never been to a sporting event like that and he has never stayed in a hotel, so Gordon decided it would be fun to stay over night after the game. Here are a few pics of the boys having a good time.

Girl's night out...

Gordon and Evan went to Seattle for the Seattle Sounders soccer game yesterday, so Sierra and I decided to have a girl's night out. We started out our afternoon with a little shopping. We went to Michael's, where I spent my $25 gift card, plus a little extra. I am planning on making special stones to remember our dogs that we have lost in the past, so I bought pretty glass and things to use for that. Plus, Sierra and I found fun blue hats to decorate for our tea party with Grammy and Aunt Jan this next month. Last year we had a pink theme, this year we are going with blue.
After Michael's, we went to the mall. I am not a mall shopper, but it was ok this time because I was very specific as to where I wanted to go. We started out at Kohl's, looking for bathing suits for Sierra. She has outgrown her ones from last year. Nothing exciting in Kohl's, so we headed out to Old Navy. I know, I said I would never shop there again after the snotty attitudes of the workers, but they usually have good deals on bathing suits. I was amazed that they had NOTHING!! I mean, NOTHING!! A couple of ugly suits for Sierra's size, but other than that, everything else was for little kids, or teens. So, we went and bought our tickets to the movie we were going to see and then headed down to Target. Finally, we found some cute suits. Of course, Sierra zoned in on the ugliest one. I had to convince her not to pick that one without hurting her feelings or thinking that she has bad taste. Anyways, after about 10 minutes of talking it through, we finally settled on two cute ones. She already has such strong opinions about her style, I think I might be in trouble when she gets older!!! Good thing I can convince Auntie Sherri to take her shopping!
Finally we went to see the movie. "UP" was entertaining, hilarious, and a very sweet love story for a Disney Pixar movie. I recommend it to all! I plan on seeing it again with Gordon and Evan sometime. The short movie before hand that Pixar always does was GREAT!! One of the best I have ever seen.
After the movie got out, it was close to 7pm. Sierra wanted to go to Applebee's for dinner. I agreed and off we went. After we got our food and started to eat, I remembered that I was driving the Honda, not my Suburban. Then I started to panic a little. The Honda doesn't have working head lights. If you turn on the lights, smoke starts to pour out of the steering column. Yikes, hurry up girl! Eat your food! We were eating and laughing an all of a sudden, Sierra spurts out, "hey mom, why are your boobs sitting on the table?" Of course, our waiter (male) was just walking up to our table. Instead, he tried to contain his laughter and turned around and walked away. He didn't come back for almost 10 minutes. I could have died!!! Thanks a lot Sierra!
We finally made it home about 8:30pm. It was just getting dusky, so we just barely made it. I did farm chores and watered flowers while Sierra played on the playground with the dogs, then we went in to take a nice bath and paint our toenails. Let's just say that we ended up painting our toenails around 11:30pm or so and didn't turn off the light until 1am. Sierra fell right to sleep, but I kept looking at the clock. I think the last time I looked it was 2ish.
The good news is.....I slept in until 10:30am today! Yes!!!!! I feel good.

My baby girl...

Yesterday was Sierra's last day of Preschool. She has learned so much in the two years of preschool and is now ready for Kindergarten. Can you believe it? I still remember a beautiful baby girl being handed to me by her birth mom. She looked up at me with her big blue eyes and I was lost forever. Time has flown by. Sierra was such a happy, easy baby and she has turned into a happy, fun-loving girl who enjoys every day.

This is her on her first day of preschool two years ago, her first day of preschool last year, and her last day just yesterday.

This is also her idea of what she looked like at the beginning of the year and what she looks like now. Notice how she went from a bald, fat monkey to a bodacious, long-brown haired girl with green eyes instead of flat, blond and blue-eyed. Ya gotta love the mind of a 5 year old girl!!!

I don't know if I am ready for her to be such a big girl. I am lucky that she still likes to snuggle and hug with me, and considers me her bestest friend and mommy in the whole wide world. (her words, not mine.)

When I asked her what she is most excited for Kindergarten, this is what she said:

"This is going to be fun; okay, I am going to have fun playing with my friends on the playground, coloring, learning my letters, and oh yeah, playing with the dinosaurs even though girls don't like dinosaurs, I just LOVE dinosaurs. Yah, that is great. It's going to be fun."

My amazing weekend!

Memorial weekend usually is cloudy, gray, and rainy. This year, we had wonderful friends come to visit that have never been here before. We spent the whole weekend outside, enjoying each other and spending quality time with all the kids. Albert and Gordon had a great time working on a couple of my flower beds and being creative with plants, flowers, and rocks. I think Albert is a closet gardener/landscaper. It was great to have someone else's eyes see our place and give us some great advice on what to do with these three flower beds. Don't they look terrific?Julie and I spent a lot of time taking turns holding Jonah, playing with Greta, and joking around with my kids and their oldest daughter, Hailey. It really was one of the most amazing and fun weekends we have had in a long time. The memories will last a life time.

Hectic week...

The last few days have been hectic. On Monday, Diann came over and we did 7 week evaluations on the puppies. These puppies are gorgeous!!! Scroll down to see the pics.

Tuesday I got called to jury duty and spent my morning in a courtroom.

Today Diann came over to take a look at a couple of the puppies for a second time. We needed some different pictures for a few of the buyers.

Thursday is clean house day while Gordon works outside, and then I have to go to work in the evening.

Friday three of the puppies go in for health certificates for flying to their new homes. One of the puppies will be going to her new home later that afternoon. Then our great friends, Albert and Julie are coming up with their three children for the weekend. Whew, busy times.

These pics of the puppies turned out great-thanks to Tiffani for loaning me her awesome camera. (Yes, Tiff, I think I want to buy it. I just have to work out the details with my hubby!!)

Anyways, enjoy the pictures.

Redneck BBQ

Last night we decided to BBQ a marinated turkey breast for dinner and then have a family camp fire. While BBQing, Gordon decided to sit and enjoy the sun and the kids playing in the back yard. It must have got too relaxing, because before you know it, he took a little "eye rest". Good thing I woke him up to check on the turkey!!!

The camp fire was very enjoyable. Of course, since it was just us four, the kids decided it would be more fun to play than to sit with us "old folk", so Gordon and I (and the dogs) sat around the fire while the kids used up a lot of energy playing around us. All in all, a very nice night!!