Garden Recycling

I found an old power pole with antique glass insulators along an abondoned rail road right of way in Chicago. I had a brainstorm about how to reuse it.

It was really hard to clean the insulators but, once clean they are really pretty.

Summer Color

This summer has been really mild. We really just started to water about three weeks ago. After a long, snowy winter it is great to be out in the yard. The consistantly deep snow cover really did wonders for the plants especially, the perennials.

People in Chicago always complain about the winter. They just forget about the pay back in summer. Besides, If it is cold one can always bundle up. When it is hot, once your naked there is not much more you can do to get comfortable!

Number Six is now Baptised

Clara VerJean had her 8Th birthday on June 5Th. Summer birthdays rock! Poor Emma gets the shaft every year! She has to share her special day with the savior of the world. No contest who is going get all the attention. Of course, it is her own fault! She just had to be born a month early. To top it off, she mistook the umbilical cord for a bungee cord and jumped over the edge yelling Yeee Hawwww!

Anyway, back to Clara. She had a special day with lots of friends and family in attendance. Her aunt Liz made her beautiful baptismal dress.

Stephen's Graduation

Stephen's graduation was really nice. The choir sang which he is a part of so I circled him so you can find him. Or you could play Where is Stephen. It was suppose to be outside but it was raining so they had it inside. But by the time we got out it was really nice. Hyrum and I were an hour early so we got to listen to the band play. They are great. It was really a nice day.

Congratulations Stephen!!!!

Stephen is Graduating

Yes, Stephen is graduating. Yes, I am old enough to have one graduating. (if you weren't thinking that you should be). Here are some pictures we took for his announcements. Plus I will try to post his announcement. Some will receive them in the mail as soon as I get the right postage on the envelopes. I cant keep up with how much it costs to mail something anymore.

I also put in some prom pictures. He went to prom and had a lot of fun. I am glad he has made some good friends that he can hang out with.

--I cant figure out how to do the pictures and stuff so please bear with me......

doctored pic.

Can you tell a difference between this photo and the first I posted. This one I used picnik on. It is on the internet and part of it is free. I really want to get photoshop, but until then I guess I will play around with this.

Quilt

This is a quilt I made for Clara's school teacher. I was a little worried because they are not your normal baby soft colors. I like it though. All you quilters dont look too close.