High Five Friday!!

1.  Hockey teams have been selected and we have the first of 3 games starting tonight.  This game is for Justins' team with the PeeWee AA's against Rosemont.  It's gonna be a great year - - I can feel it!
Sorry no kid picture, with middle school starting later this year I am out the door before the kids are dressed.

2.  Noticed a few weeks ago that my middle fur baby had been limping, spending more time in bed and not jumping on furniture.  Tried baby aspirin for awhile and noticed him becoming more active.  Took the meds away and he slowly declined.  So while I am sad to say he is getting older and must have some arthritis starting; I will high five that an easy remedy is in place that gets his little feet pattering again when its suppertime.

3.  My biggest fur baby and also the youngest, has a hard time understanding that he is not "little" and completely doesn't understand why I will not let him on my white bed...but he is slowly figuring it out that "uh-uh" means he cannot come up and only gives me those sad brown eyes on occasions.

4.  Holiday season is right around the corner, Kayla and I made this cute little candy jar for Thanksgiving.  We have others projects done and other plans, but this was one of four we did last weekend.

5.  Last but not least, I am just plain happy it's Friday.  I need a day to sleep-in (Hockey practice starts at 6:30 so the house has been getting up at 5:30); this old body takes awhile to get used to it!

 

 

Have a GREAT weekend!



High Five Friday

Hey Hey! Welcome back!

It's Friday again. Thank goooodness.

So that means I will bid adieu to another loooonngg week gone by with a few pictures.

1.  We found Rookie outside Kayla's door on Monday morning when we were leaving for work.  She was going to be home alone for the day...apparently he felt she needed a little extra looking over until she was awake.

Thanks Rookie -Roo!

2.  We went out to Blaine's work for me to take some sunset photo's and we took Rookie with us.  This youngster ran until he could run no more.  He went from this happy face waiting for me to put the camera away....

 To this look shortly after getting in the door (we didn't hear from him again until Wednesday).

3.    I finished my photography class on Wednesday feeling like I learned something, I am so eager to do more and am looking for more classes to take. 
This is the first time in what feels like a long time that I am really excited about something for me. 

4.  I took Kayla out for a girls night and Blaine took Justin out for a fishing night.  Kayla and I of course did some shopping and found some really great deals for school clothes. (I cannot believe it is that time of year already)

5.  Ice-cream for supper.  Yep - that's the kind of mom I am...earned my rock-star status tonight!
 (it does help to say that some of the proceeds go to charity - right??)

Happy Friday to you all, and I hope your weekend is da-bomb!

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I do have a great recipe to share, but instead of preparing that blog post I was out taking more picutures for my class on Wednesday.

 Here are my selections of pictures to decide between to turn in to my instructor...the only input we received was that we cannot bring in pictures of our kids (he doesn't want to critique something that might mean something personal to us) and only bring in between 4-6 photo's.

Please help me pick out my better shots by leaving me a message on which ones to print.

Dusk

Blaine's Tree

My daisy's

B&W Sunset

The music hand

Almost sunset

Set your world on fire

 Loving the sun

Prairie sun

The fly catcher

Rookie-Roo

It's all in the fingers

Sittn' on the dark of the bay

Taking a break

Love the colors

I really would like some help here, please...please leave me a message.

High Five Friday

Here we go again, another rendition of my highlights for the week!

1.  My Hydrangea's finally bloomed....and it's only mid July!  Guess my threatening to pull them out this fall and replace them did some some good!  Although I still think I might pull them and someoter and start over adding more color from spring to fall.

2.  This is my big red dog Rookie (Aka: Woozie), he is finally on the mend after dealing with an ear infection for a few weeks.  Every time he saw the meds come out he would try to run out the doggy door or hide under the table...lucky for me I know what gets him running back (it's another good thing that I know where the cookies are)!

3.  After dealing with Verizon's customer service (or lack there of) at one of the corporate stores, we left a little disgruntled and empty handed; we ended up at one of the premium stores in Moorhead where we purchased this little gadget for Kayla.  She pleased we were able to get her what she wanted, dad was happy on the price of the phone and I was tickled that there was no data package forced on us yet and to top it all off...she took $20.00 off the phone when we told her of our experience in Fargo..no question we will be sticking to Moorhead for all our future phone purchases thanks to her.

4.  I talked to my dad today and found out that the dizzy spells he had been experiencing have diminished.  That deserves an extra High-Five in my book. (Slap - slap)

5.  I finished chapter III of my Service Design book, whoa i'm trucking along now!  (Only 300 more pages to go before August 13th)