Summer

We've been camping lately.......and leaving again today for at least a week, maybe two! We've taken Kadee & Kami with us for a week at a time and had a ball with them. Kadee goes out and finds friends, brings them to the trailer to introduce them to her family and then off to play!

Kamryn is just so much fun to watch.......discovering new things. Even Brandi had a new experience ........ she met a frog face to face! She was excited!!

I'll post some photos when I remember to bring my camera home!

Jeannie is looking frail, thinner every time I see her. She's getting scanned again this week to determine if she is going to try another chemo. Floyd is looking exhausted.......poor guy.

Memorial Weekend

Every year we see this sight at a union hall just south of Fremont on Rt 82. It is awesome to see. I stopped on our way home from camping. Apparently there are names attached to each flag because I saw a couple of men walking thru the flags and reading what was attached. I didn't get that close........I had an impatient child in the truck! Sarah, Odie, Kadee & Kami went camping on Fri. with me. Loni picked up 3 of the girls on Sun. Kadee didn't even want to come say hi to her! She was too busy playing with her 'real friends'. (That came from a discussion her and I had when she told me she wanted some real friends, not just pretend friends.......like Pablo and Austin and Uniqua........they are Backyardigans........a cartoon she watches.) She had a ball!! One of the grandmas took a golf-cart full of little girls to the frog pond and Kadee got her first polywog!!

Kami liked the little bathtub. She had fun once she got used to Harry. He was the only one she seemed to want to pucker for.

I got to spend some time with Jeanne. She's looking thin and frail and she sleeps allot. She said she feels better since she stopped the latest Chemo. They're going to keep her off it until July then try a new one.

We had a good time, ate too much and the weather was gorgeous! Not too hot and we had a breeze most of the time. Lynne and Harry are leaving for Nova Scotia the end of this week. They'll be gone for a month visiting her family. We're hoping they'll bring back some lobsters again!!

April Fun

This picture is just for the fun of it! Kami is so much fun......great personality......great sense of humor already!!

Happy Birthday Sarah! Aunt Leilani made the cake for her! (She's into wolves)
We went to Comfort Inn with a bunch of her friends, for a pool party!! They had a ball!

I finished a quilt for Marsha, Leilani's Mom-in-law.......a sweet lady who works full time and still insists on making the huge holiday dinners for anyone who wants to show up!! I machine quilted it ......free hand.......using a little leaf design. You can see it on the black block.

It fits the top of a full bed with about a 4-6" drop. Big enough to use as a cold weather cover, over the bed spread!

Here's the label. Marsha did like it! It was fun to make too!

Kamryn Grace turns 1 !!

Her Happy Birthday cake........made by her Mommy. (at work) She got her own cake for free!!

And she knew exactly what to do with it!

She ate all but what ended up on the floor (and in my hair while I was trying to clean up the floor!)

Then came clean up time!

And then PRESENTS!! She really got into this part.

The swing came from Nana and the girls. (Cute outfit, huh? Aunt Lorie got her that a while back.)

I think she likes it!!

Just a Little catch-up

Kami had fallen asleep.......folded in half!! I don't know how she could breathe!

The oh so infrequent sink bath! It looked like so much fun Kadee had to join Kami!
We did some mopping after this bath!

This is Lovely Odie.......Valentine dance nite I believe. I did her hair, make-up and nails for the occasion. Surprized some of the girls that the old Nana could do such good work!!

We made the Papers!!

This is what kept us busy all weekend. The show was a riot!! Dad, Dave & Linda, Loni, Odie & Kadee, Grandma Marsha & Aunt Lorie all came on Sat nite. Rob, Kim & Skylar came up on Fri.
Sarah had a fever all weekend and is still home. She performed beautifully Fri & Sat nites and 2 shows on Mon. She needs the recovery time! Her throat is still swollen and sore and she still has that nagging cough.
By Sat nite I had the crud. The kids have all had it as has Odie & Loni. I had a follow-up appt. yesterday for the sleep apnea and since I'd be in town I thought I'd get my B-12 shot. I called the Dr. on my way in to town and made an appt for the UTI that was back again after a couple of weeks. While I was there she noticed my cough so now I'm on another pill and an inhaler. Seems to be a touch of pneumonia.

I'll try to get some of Sarah's photos on here when she gets her camera from school. I was busy helping with costumes, makeup and hair and never got a shot. It was fun!!

I went to put the photo on I promised and my computer is doing weird things! I managed to get it done with Sarah's computer!

Turned out kinda cute!

My new CPAP machine must be working.........I woke up at 8:30 this morning. The kids are at friends this weekend so I know it wasn't them that woke me.
I've been fighting a UTI the last couple of days so I broke open my bottle of cranberry capsules and they have helped. My doctor isn't in her office on Fri and of course today is Sat. I was there Thurs but didn't know this was coming!!
I'm trying to stretch my creative arms (just can't keep up with Deb and Kathy). Loni switched the girls bedrooms around putting Odie and Kadee in the big room and Kami in the little room in her crib. The room is blue (Odie's fav) and she wanted to decorate it for Kami (without painting). She added shear curtains with delicate designs, suitable for a baby girl and Winnie the Pooh and friends stick-ons to the walls. The room has a vaulted ceiling so there's lots more room. I suggested we use some of the 'HAWLEY' pictures I've collected!! I told her I had an idea and not to do any more to the room until I finished this project.
Well, I actually framed them with fabric! They are a rigid material. I made a quilt and the 6 pictures slide into the corner pieces (which are squares folded on the diagonal so they have some give due to the bias.) I forgot to take a photo before it went home with Kami (also didn't get it labeled).....I'll post it later today.
After I finished it, I discovered I had 7 picts, not 6 so I had to come up with something else. This one is the only one with words on it too! It says "Good Night". I finished it after 10 p.m. so it's still here: