A Grandma's Happiness!

Happiness is...12 wonderful, well behaved, creative, fabulous Kids in our backyard. Having a fun time together and sad when it was time to go home! The only thing better...13 wonderful, well behaved, creative, fabulous kids!!!

Sacramento Smiles!!!

I traveled to Sacramento on Friday to spend the night with the kids so that Jen and Dave could have a date night! We went to Molly's dance class on friday night and her bff Savannah spent the night too! Desmond is the perfect baby! Slept most of the night and woke up so happy in the morning! He is eatting solid food and Lydia did a great job of mixing the cereal and feeding him! We went to Rowan's gymnastic exhibition at her gym's grand openning! She did fabulous!!! We had a fun time and had a lot of smiles!!!

Collin came for a visit!

Melissa had a meeting today at school so Collin got to come to Grandma's house and play for a couple of hours! We had a fun time in the front yard! I gave Collin a small shovel and let him dig in my soft dirt! He was very excited when he could fill the shovel all by himself! I put him in my beautiful new pot so that you could see it too! He is one of the 7 most beautiful flowers in my garden!!! Thanks for making it a fun day Collin!

Happy Birthday Super Star!!!!

Rowan Lenore Watson turned 4 on September 6th!!! She is a very special kid! Actually she is a super kid!!! She is on the exhibition team at her gymnastics gym in Sacramento! They don't usually look at a kid before they are 4 but when Rowan began doing perfect backbend kick-overs they decided that she could be a super kid before her birthday!
Grandma Susie and Papa bought her team leotard as a birthday gift!
She is very bright in many other ways! Her personality is like the sunshine, Her eyes shine like the brightest stars, she has a sense of humor as huge as the milky way!!! She didn't have to be in gymnastics to be as super kid! She already was one when she was born!!! I waited for 17 days in San Francisco for her to show her beautiful face and it sure was worth the wait!!! Happy Birthday Sweetie...I hope it was a really fun day for you!

I have been called a foodie!

I am so excited! I have been classified as a foodie!!!
I had a planning commission meeting tonight and the City Planner called me that! I had to think about it for a while but I think this is quite funny! I would actually call him the same thing! Kim and I went to the Cascade and participated in one of the four weeks where they had a Food movie and restaurants came and tried to make food and an alcholholic beverage to go with the theme of the movie...We went to Like Water for Chocolate (it was in Spanish so we had to actually read the movie!) We had read the book and thought it was a weird book and it was a very wierd movie!!! the food was done by the Tapas restaurant in Redding and they made a moule' which had chocolate in it. It was way too hot for me and we didn't buy the beverage so we ended up going and splitting a pizza when the movie was over!!! It was fun anyway! Then last week Kim and I went to the Julie and Julia movie on openning day. It was the midnight showing on Thursday night which really is Friday morning but we left the house and got to the theater by 11:00 so that we could get great seats!
We were the first ones in the theater and just a few minutes before the movie started 3 more people came in!!! We did have the best seats!!! The movie was so good. I gave it 2 thumbs up!
Kim just got the book from the library and says the movie is very different! Oh well!!! I am a foodie!!!! I guess I will have to figure out what else I need to do to keep this title!!! What do you suggest? Oh we saw the city planner and his wife at the Cascade and he told me they had gone and seen J&J and really enjoyed it!

Yard Work...

Thursday morning I decided to get out and do some work in the yard...just a couple of hours worth...well to make a long story short, I moved about 300 bricks from one side of the house to the other and decided to move this oldwashing machine too...well, I somehow broke a water pipe and my couple of hours turned into an all day thing Thankfully Floyd was able to come and help me and repair it. It looks like it might have been leaking for a while. He also cut down some small trees that were too big for me to clip but had really been bothering me! I will post more pics of the yard another time!

We had a very nice day!

Wednesday morning Riley and Drew got the choice to play in the water before lunch or to scrapbook first and then play in the water after lunch...they decided to scrapbook before lunch and do the water later. Scrapbooking was so much fun that they never did play in the water! Even Collin got to do his first bit of stickers and coloring! He lasted about 5 minutes!!! He played outside in the backyard with Drew some and rode the horse some! He gave Minnie Mouse a ride on the horse too! He loves Minnie as much as the girls do! It was a very nice day!
Oh, and my Cricut was delivered and we played with it too! It will be a lot of fun to use!