This Entry is for Travis

This entry is for Travis :) Its his garden that he did a great job growing! (and his best doggie in the world, Red)

(Oh, and Dad is the toughest cookie of them all!!!!!!!!)




Awwwww Red! (no, she's not in trouble she's just happy)







Here's all of our squash type plants.
--pumpkins, acorn squash, butternut squash, eggplant, cantaloup,
watermelons, and zucchini. Yum!















Our little homestead view :)


















These were supposed to be cauliflower, but they turned out to be cabbage!














Lettuce!!
















Lots and lots of green tomatoes!
















Lots and Lots of peppers of all kinds.
:green and red bell, banana, jalapeneo, hungarian wax(?) etc...













Our first red tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes. Yummy!

Hank Video

Hank eating the water from the hose. He's special!

Nothing Much

Aren't my dogs so cute! Why was I not able to type in this yesterday? Why do those things always happen to me? So I'm down here in Vienna enjoying my visit with the family. Today I went over to Lois & Garlands to ride my girl Friday with Garland (he was riding Hank) Besides Hank rolling on top of Garland twice it was good. Your a tough cookie Garland! I know that had to hurt.....and still does.....and will for a few days. After all the dramatic events of the separation anxiety crazed horse, Friday and I enjoyed a lovely, much needed, ride around Ray's property. I miss her soooo much!!! Will someone please buy me a few more acres so I can get some horses again? Think of it as a gift for Blake---does that help my chances any? After that we went over to Grandma Burdette's and stayed for quite a while. We had a yummy dinner and played with who else but the entertaining Blake-mister (how do you spell that...my-ster???) Tomorrow is a trip to Grandma and Grandpa Riddle's and then who knows what. Heres some pics and a video of my doggies, Red and Hank, attacking the water-hose as fill up their pool

My Super Cute Herb Garden
Polo Game Travis and I went to with people from my work last weekend
Civil War reinactment we went to last weekend at Beaver Creek
Our first batch of pickles we made, ever! Too bad I hate pickles so don't ask me if they are good.
Our little family at our cousin's wedding
Aww poor Blake....he's so sad!




Here's my goofy dogs. Push Play

I'm coming to parkersburg on wednesday so i'll have more time to post pictures then.

OK, so i have no new pictures, but i can still type. but really, does anyone really care about what I write? The exciting part that you want to see is the pictures right? Well too bad!!!! Now your gonna listen to what i have to say! Just kidding.....theres not really much to type. I'm just keeping my blog updated so i dont lose the few readers that i do have. :) So Blake is now officially all over the house and climbing on everything. He is pulling all the way up to his feet now and has his first bruise to prove it. (its from falling and hitting his cheek on the stool legs. Sorry Blake, but there will be many more bruises to come.

New news: I am picking up some more hours at work. I'm now going to be working a long Tuesday 9am-8pm (the only day i have a free babysitter available all day so i gotta take advantage of it) and also Thursday evening from 5-8pm and then 2 saturday mornings a month from 9-1. Travis is going to watch Blake thursday nights and saturday mornings. A few more hours a week will suck as far a being away from Blake, but will be good for the wallet.

Pics next time, I promise.

peace

July 4th 2009

Happy July 4th (belated) everybody. Travis, Blake and I went to Josh and Jackie's for a party-harty. It was a lot of fun! I played bad-minton all day. Its a good work out! My butt cheek muscles are sore! ouch.....they still hurt.
Blake is a crawling machine now! He's all over the house at full speed and with full intentions of getting into things he isnt supposed to get into, even though every single toy he owns is on the floor. He doesn't want his toys, he wants the dvd player and the phone machine and the lamps and the cords and the curtains and the heating vents andeverything else he's been scoping out for the past 8 months thinking, "Wow! When I can move around i'm going to go play with that!!!!" He has pulling up to his knees mastered and is now working on pulling up to his feet. He pulled to his feet for the 1st time on july 4th. He pulled up on his Aunt Jackie(Butler) while she was laying on the floor. **there, jackie, you made it onto my blog!:)** He also loves to pull up in his crib and play with his mobile. Here's some cute pics! (when are they not cute?)
He isn't actually smiling in this pic....he was crying.
He loves pulling up on his purple bumbo chair. It's is favorite.

HI!!!!!

What a sweet face.

This is his new bath place....a tight squeeze huh?