Come and meet Austin at our picnic

I’ve order a tent, found a place in the yard for volley ball, croquet, and horseshoes. My husband is bringing home a wagon full of hay for hayrides. We’ll have lots of good food, hopefully good weather, with lots of family and friends. All we need is you!!

From previous parties:

If Jori feels you up, it counts as a monogram.

No deep fried twinkles or snickers bars- Tim will be out of town :(

Boobs are not to be exposed in my driveway, house or yard!

Remember too any one under 150lbs, no matter how much you drink, you won’t be able to lift up my husband.

We need a new person for Easter Bunny, but the bunny might also scare the kids.

Eating white bread with a box over your head does not get the alcohol out of your system any faster.

Any one sneaking onto the roof will stay up there until all the gutters are cleaned, and then will be used as target practice.

Yes, you can bring both your x-husbands.

When you’re drunk there really is a word “pajambo” and it does have a meaning.

Please keep fingers and toes out of the pond, we do have a wild snapping turtle that took up residence there.

We’re not responsible for fabricated rumors that are spread around after the party.

I need to keep away from Stephie and her box-o-wine.

What A Day!

We are planning a nice picnic to be held in our back yard on Saturday. With a menu to be made out, weeds that needed to be pulled in the garden, and plates, cups, napkins that need to be purchased, I woke up this morning bright and early so excited to start my day planning what needed to be done. I couldn't wait to get started.
After a phone call I realized I had this important 3 pages form that needed to be filled out and in the mail today. So I could win a van to carry Thomas in. Oops, there goes a good hunk of my morning filling out theses forms and writing letters to go along with them. By lunch, the letters were in the mail and I am at the store shopping for a few things.
As I arrived home and start unloading the car and the phone rings. My sister-in-law had cut the side of her thumb off and needed to be taken to the hospital. Of course I drop everything and call my parents to watch Thomas and I'm off to take Ev to the hospital.
As we enter Toledo Hospital I was upset to find a waiting room full of people. Then I was even more upset when I found out that this was a pre-waiting room before getting into the real emergency waiting room. After waiting over an hour she was sent into this room were a nurse made her wash her clean uncut hand!??! Then we were sent to the “real” emergency room to wait. After waiting in there over another hour, yes, her thumb is still bleeding everywhere, we were told it would be another 3 hours before she'd be seen. With that news my sister-in-law wanted to go.
I just couldn't take her home, so I brought her to my house. Once at home I tried to band-aid it up but four hours after cutting her thumb, it is still bleeding non-stop. I suggested another hospital.
As we walked into St Anne's hospital and we were warmly greeted. Not by the people who worked there, but by the people who were also at the Toledo Hospital, that like us, gave up on waiting and went to this hospital instead. It didn't take overly long for my sister-in-law to been seen. The cut was cleaned and treated, shots were given and we were sent on our way.
Am so tired and didn't get much done around the house today. Saturday my house might not be as clean as I'd like, but I still can't wait to see everyone.

Kathy, Kathy quite contrary,

Our garden on May 26









The garden on June 26









Today, July 26

Sisters

Please don't laugh; So we’re not photogenic! We sisters are really beautiful people who are just prone to be making weird faces right when the shutter on the camera opens.

Do They Look Alike To You?

Here are a picture of Austin and Georgia. Don't you think they look a lot alike?

Swimming in the Dark

How does your garden grow?

Would you like some tomatoes for a BLT? In your salad? I do have cherry tomatoes too. Or just a slice for you sandwich?





I have lots of wonderful zucchini recipes and my husband has planted many different kinds of zucchini and they all taste wonderful.






We have many different types and colors of peppers. The later in summer it gets, the more tasty they are.










Cucumbers are one of my favorites. We usually have cucumbers on the dinner table every night.

I did kind of let the spinach go to see. I would like to replant this again in August. I think a fall spinach crop taste even better then the spring.

There is so much more in the garden, but I planted more flowers than vegetables plants. Can't wait to show you them!

He fits in just right

In keeping up with everyone else in the family, Austin was born on a Thursday. That means every year, my husband and all my children and all my grand children's birthdays will fall on the same day of the week. Only Case and I don't follow this pattern.

I am so mad and angry right at this moment.
Yesterday while finishing up cooking a spaghetti dinner, I opened a loaf of frozen Spartan hearth bake garlic with crushed garlic & sweet cream buttermilk. To my surprise upon opening the bread the garlic sauce was on top the loaf and not in between. With dinner and company ready to eat, I cook the bread anyways. The top of the loaf was tolerable and the bottom of the loaf was thrown out. It didn’t ruin our meal, but it just wasn’t up to what I would like to have for company.
The next day, today Tuesday, July 3, 2007, I thought I would call Spartan and let them know about their bread. I call 1.800.451.8500 and 11:54. The woman on the phone asked what the trouble was, when I told her about the bread, she told me to return it to the store for a refund. I told her I couldn’t we cooked the bread and ate some of it and threw the rest away. She said because we ate some of it, there was nothing she could do. She didn’t want to see the pictures I took, the package code, or even what store I got this from.
On the back of the package 11213 35484, it states, “Satisfaction*Guaranteed*” Or double your purchase price refunded. Upset with how little this woman carried for my concerns about a produce we purchase often, I began calling other Spartan company phone numbers that I found on line. After many minutes of being transfer from one line to another, I ended up talking to “Top Care” in Chicago. They took my name and address and could have cared less about the bread, my time or the difficulties I had it trying to just nicely let someone know that there was mistakes make.

Favorite Weekend Photos