Broom Hockey

I wish I had a picture or video of this to share, but I do not--because I was holding the broom and trying to sweep the crumbs on the dining room floor.

Bright has a little person sized broom--and in their pantry closet they had 2 swiffer things--so one day when I was straightening up a little--I took off one of the sections of the swiffer(to make it shorter for Bright) and put a wet paper towel on it for her to "help" me.

The last several times I have tried to sweep, Krue runs to the closet and gets out the short broom or swiffer to help me and I have to hurry to get the "mess" into the dustpan before he can get to it with his little broom (or mop)to "sweep" (more like push)and the pile of dirt and bits goes flying across the floor I just swept.

As I hurry--HE hurries and I try to out-maneuver him and our handles bang repeatedly into each other--like the "dirt" is a puck and we are battling it out with hockey sticks. I laugh every time.

ANYWAY--I wish I had a video.

Wow--New Youth rooms almost finished!

This is especially for the people we miss--People who are now living far away but close to our hearts and may think this exciting--or at least interesting!

Over a year ago--our church decided to build an addition on the farmhouse

for storage and a SR HI room--while they were at it they gutted the old back room to be a future JR HI room

It is nearly done--the floor is linoleum tiles and all I can say is

COOL BEANS!!




The Senior hi from 2 angles:

The jr. hi room from 2 angles
There is an adjacent new bathroom--Bright Blue--not done yet and a storage room and upstairs walk up attic storage.

Thank You Nancy!

My dear friend, Nancy, was a friend indeed today--She helped fill in a time gap watching my grandchildren.
Added Bonus!!! Nancy likes to take pictures with her fancy pants camera! These are so sweet!
Hudson is almost 2 weeks old--wow.

BROTHER SEE, BROTHER DO

We were at a Sarah Meadows gathering at the Townsends--and I saw "the brothers" whooping it up--they looked so cute laughing--I went to take a picture--of course they had stopped laughing by then--so I just parked there outside their conversation looking through the view finder waiting for them to laugh again--taking random pictures while they were talking--hoping they would turn in my direction and laugh again.

I never got the picture I was hoping for ...

BUT when I looked thru my pictures of that night to see which ones I wanted to delete--I realized something kind of funny happens when they talk to each other...

Yeah--they are definitely brothers.

do you see what i see?

ps i am a rotten picture taker:-(

LOVE at FIRST SIGHT

Monday Morning, Bright's grandparents (Nick and Martha) brought Bright home. She was so excited and happy. These pictures were taken those few first seconds Bright met Hudson.

Krue on the other hand didn't seem too impressed. He seems to like Hudson but isn't very interested yet. Actually this whole past week he has been unusually moody.

Bright acted just as excited and loving when Krue came home--and she was the age Krue is now--1 and 1/2 . Is it a girl thing?

(what she said is "I have a present for you")--she's holding it --a peepeeteepee--good grief--you are supposed to use it to cover little boys while changing their diaper--I think Martha sells them at her shop---What will they think of next?!

Hudson isn't this "tanned"--I was holding him and didn't want to blind him with the flash up close:-)

TA DA! (part 2)

HUDSON KNOX SHELTON

(more pictures tonight I hope)

TA-DA!

Born today--Friday April 4, 2008--3 o'clock in the afternoon

8 lbs. 2 oz.

21 inches

Sweet Little No Name Boy

Mother and Baby doing really great.

He has a fair amount of hair under that cap.

Beautiful skin.

When his eyes are open--reminds many of sister Bright.

Ears and Chin--all Jack--looks alot like brother Krue.

5 hours old

Daddy Jack and Sweet little no-name shelton:-)

Pops, Daddy, and sweet baby boy.

Happy Birthday Jamie Peipon

Grandma Cindy's Helpers

BRIGHT washing the dishes

KRUE "drying" the dishes

I AM CURIOUS...

If you go to the VERY bottom of my postings--there is a survey I have concocted because...

well, because I COULD! --

while freshening up my page look--I noticed I could add page elements--and this looked kind of fun--but I didn't know it would be on the very bottom--

A Ferry Nice Day

THE OTHER DAY--Mae and I were driving around--seeing the sites :-) and we planned to take the little ferry across the Wicomico river to go to Foggy Bottom--a shop of neat stuff--It was about 1:20 pm and the ferry had no line--but wait ...the ferry was closed--Aha! I have the ferry information number in my phone--since last year--"Ferry is closed due to high tides--2 hour delay"

So we drive all the way around---beautiful day for a drive!

THE VERY NEXT DAY--5 pm--as I leave work in Fruitland I think--I am sure if I take the ferry--I'll only be 5 minutes later getting home--(the ferry is in the opposite direction of my usual route--which is to go through town and around in lots of traffic!!) Beautiful day--quite breezy but just lovely-- Get to the ferry--NO CARS--This is great!...but wait...the ferry is closed !!!??? You couldn't have high tide at 1:30 one day and at 5 the next ? I call the number--(are you wondering why I don't call this number BEFORE I drive all the way to the ferry?? I was!)

Ferry closed due to high winds. The water was rough and even the ditches on the side of the road leading up were full of water--Made for a nervous 3 point turn to go all the way back and around to my usual route home--

This past Tuesday I thought as I left work--it is a beautiful day--I'll try the ferry--I'm no dummy--I called the ferry number first! (Gomer Pyle always said--Fool me once--shame on you--fool me twice--shame on me!--well--it took me 3 times to learn the lesson)

a long wait behind a dozen cars(the ferry holds 3 at a time) That's okay--something about being out on the water for just a minute or two--being carried along under blue skies--windows open--just a lovely place to be.

I am so happy!--and so is Janie! I was told to go home early from work and there is NO choir tonight--So it's like getting extra time!! I feel like I am 12 and just got a SNOW DAY--even tho it was 3:30 when I got sent home--

AND------ I had made extra last night--so no cooking tonight either---

AND--last night was young adult Bible study so the house is kind of clean.

Plus I love snow--grew up in the Lake Erie snow belt--been away over 2 decades. I think I miss it alot--but probably I'm just like most old folks--if I lived with it all the time--I wouldn't be so nuts about it. But since I don't get it every day--wheeeee.

Buddies

What can I say?

I love these guys.

Sweet Mama

This was a bit before Christmas--some quality cookie time with Stacey, Bright and Krue.

This was Bright's decorating routine--over and over--Bright was the only one using the purple--and we didn't save the cookies to actually serve--but Linnea told us she used to do the same thing when I wasn't looking--therefore--I never knew (I should have guessed) --therefore--those cookies were---you know.

Before I forget

It is too late tonight to post more pics or videos--but THIS is what is new to the decorations this year--Jason brought it home--CHarlie Brown comes up out of the chimney and back down--It's not too big and Jared very wisely set it up close to the house and other lights--

Last week we were blessed with a real snow that stuck---




Krue and Pops Monday night out looking at our lights--Uncle Jared does a great job--not quite done yet--maybe a picture when we finish--we have something new this year--it's pretty neat----
ah--the suspense...

Snow Magnet

Janie was so happy and excited when I got out the leash--late that snowy night.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

had more pictures but getting errors on blogger--arrrggghhhh.

WooHoo!

Bright the Spright! Perpetual Motion.

I started to fold up this big stretchy blanket and I got the brilliant grandma idea of making a tent between the 2 sofas--Bright sort of got the idea but Krue seemed to think it was a really cool hammock--they both had more fun On the tent, than In it.

2 peas in a pod

just noticed this as I was downloading a lot of pics from my card.