September Events - Day 1 (Birthday Girl)

Someone turned 4 in September and today I'm sharing a few photos from her birthday celebration.  These first 2 were taken the morning of her birthday.  The rest are from her birthday party later that day.

Some of the many (Under the Sea) decorations that her mom and sister set up for the party.

Waiting to open presents and opening them.  There were lots more but I figured these 2 would be enough to share.

The cupcakes, blowing out the candle and enjoying the cupcake.
 

Grandma and Grandpa playing along with some of the props that were available for everyone to wear and have fun with.

It was 94 out that afternoon so I didn't get many pictures of the kids playing on the playground equipment.  They had fun, we did too but boy was it HOT.  Maybe next year she can have an indoor party.

Easter Part 1

Welcome!  - I'm up and running again with a brand new computer system.  It may take me awhile to get use to this as I accidentally published this post to the wrong blog and then deleted it so I had to start all over.

Every year the Exchange club puts on an Easter Egg Hunt at Pioneer Park.  This is the banner that was on the Gazebo.

Jojo (Joelle) waiting for the hunt to start.

The large duck from the upcoming Ducky Derby (May 18, 2024) was there.

Both the Easter bunny and the duck were available for photos but with such a huge crowd it was almost impossible to get one.

Candy, eggs and rubber ducks were all over the place.

Jojo wasn't afraid at all of heading out into the crowd to gather eggs.

Big sister followed her out along with her mom while I tried to keep up and get pictures.

This was just a small section of the huge crowd of people that were there. - I forgot to get a picture of Jojo with her basket of eggs but she had a great time and that's what matters.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed this little slice of our life.

Giving Thanks - Day 1

 It's November and I thought that I'd (try) to post every day this month.  Not just any post but a post about being Thankful and Grateful for all the blessings in my life.  I hope to encourage you to do the same.

Today I am thankful I was able to walk around the block and take a few photos (this is one of them) before it started raining.

I'm also thankful for this sweet little girl who brings a lot of joy into my life.

Thanks for dropping by.  Don't forget to count your blessings.

Birthday Celebration #3

Hello  - Remember me? - Yes I seem to have a hard time finding time to post here even though I have a bunch of stuff I could post about.

 

So today we are doing a post to celebrate (Red's) aka JoJo or Joelle's 3rd birthday.

 

                          The birthday girl and her balloons.

 

 

                          Telling everyone how old she is.

 

 They gave her a birthday crown at Day Care so she had to wear it.

                                                                                                              
 

  Posing next to her presents.  She likes to say, "Cheese" before a   picture gets taken.

 

                         Opening up one of her presents.
 

                  Blowing out the candles on her cake.

 

                  Enjoying that cake and her birthday.

 

Funniest thing that happened...On her very last present she opened it was wrapped in a box.  After she tore the paper off she held it up and very excitedly said,   "I got a box!" -  Everyone laughed and then we told her she had to open the box to see what was inside.  Pulls out a pair of pants,  say, "Pants" tosses them on the ground and then pulls out a sweatshirt with a Butterfly on it and gets all excited again,  "I got a butterfly!".  Kids are so funny.
 

Awww Mondays - August 7, 2023 (Strawberry Girl)

 

Joining today for Awww Mondays.

First off - It's raining here!!! First real rain we've had all summer long.

 

One thing that I love about summer here is that we get the most delicious strawberries ever here.  A family named, Klicker has been growing them for many, many years and I wait patiently (sometimes not so patient) each summer to enjoy them.  

Our little Granddaughter, Joelle (affectionately known as, JoJo) has become a lover of them too.  All summer long she would ask Grandma for strawberries.  These shots are the last ones of the berries that I bought this summer.  Oh how she enjoyed them.

 

So long sweet strawberries, we'll be waiting for next summer!

Ducky Derby 2023

 Welcome.

 

Another May event:  The annual Ducky Derby.  This was held Mother's Day weekend as well.  In fact that weekend 4 different events were held here.  You could attend all of them or pick and choose which you want to attend as they were all at different places and times throughout the weekend.

 

This year I don't have as many photos of different things from the Ducky Derby as it was way to HOT outside for me so I spent most of my time sitting in the shade.  Coleen/Jupiter took her little sister, Joelle (aka JoJo) around to do all the fun kids stuff.

 

                   The two sisters in front of the Big Duck

Izzy the Camel - JoJo did reach out to pet him.  Just didn't get a good picture as there were too many people in the way.

JoJo got a duck painted on her cheek.  She looks like she's about to cry here but she wasn't. - Her cheeks were already getting pretty rosy from the sun.

                           Waiting for the ducks to be released.

                                            And they are off!

The official photographer for the paper taking pictures of the ducks.

                A sea of ducks racing toward the finish line.

                Up and down they go on their merry way.

                                  Ducks and more Ducks

I always like to find one lone duck in a shot with a bunch of others ahead of it.  That's this years shot.

 

Normally I would have pictures of the ducks at the finish line but by then I was so hot I needed to just go home where it was much cooler so we didn't even stay to see the end of the race. 

 

 Once again none of my 5 ducks won but I'll try again next year.