A life full of faith, hope, love, and laughter.
When Preston and Lexci came to our house after visiting Nana and Pompo in Utah. They brought some gifts from Nana for Isabel.
Nana sent her bread-presses, joke CD’s with booklets, clothes and a bed cover. Isabel’s favorite thing… the bed cover!
First thing this morning she asks if she can try it on her bed.
Thank you Nana!
Last year Gino told me about this new company that is creating toys for girls to get them thinking about other things besides being a “princess“.
Well, I’ve had my eye on the toys at Target and when I noticed they were all on clearance the other day. I bought all 3 kits.
Today with nothing else to really do, we got out our first kit: building a parade float (and other cool stuff).
The parts to our kit include: 1 book and miscellaneous building parts.
Her first words… “Oh, this looks interesting!”
After following along with the story in the book we come to our first project build:
a pageant/float seat.
Using the exact same pieces… Isabel’s seat is on the right and my seat is on the left.
Isabel beginning to build the parade float from the book.
She’s focused on her work.
She finished!
(this is just one of examples from the book)
I tried getting her come up with a different float idea, not in the book, but she didn’t want to, today, maybe tomorrow. The book also mentions adding a paper banners to the float and I know Isabel would be interested in doing that. She’s always cutting out things and assembling them into larger paper art projects. The ideas are endless!
Notice anything missing around our house?
We had our lawn taken out!
We hired a man to come and clear out the north side of our backyard on Tuesday (the 2nd of July) and we decided to put in sprinklers in the front and backyards. So out came the yucky grass. Next weekend (the 12th of July), another gentleman (and his crew) will come and add the sprinklers to the front and backyards.
This is the yard BEFORE the lawn was taken out.
We’ve had terrible grass ever since a lawn service we had hired several years ago over-seeded with a yucky grass type. Now, we will put in good grass.
We finally arrived at the Space Needle and the line to go up was long. So we decided to head downtown to Pikes Place Market.
We’ll come back to the Needle later.
Isabel at the Needle.
Aaron at the Needle.
Preston and Lexci at the Needle.
Us in the gardens by the Needle.
Today we met up with family from central Washington to visit with Preston and Lexci while they are here.
Left to right around the table:
Preston, Gino, Me, Jeannie, Linda Jean, Abni, Aaron, Isabel and Lexci
All kids. All cousins.
Left to right: Abni, Aaron, Isabel, Preston and Lexci
After lunch we all headed to Seattle to show the kids (Preston and Lexci) downtown and the Needle!
Isabel made this fish bowl ornament for Preston.
She used all blue molding clay. She got the color like in the fish and the rim of the bowl by coloring the clay with a marker. She would then mix the clay and then shape it into the desired shape. The fish is from a molding clay mold. She had started working on it a few days ago and today it was finally dry and ready for him to have.
I loved it so much I had to get a picture of it.
She really took her time making it, a lot of love went into her gift.
It’s beautiful.
Today I took Preston and Lexci to Northwest Trek. Today was a good day to get out and see the animals because they were ALL out! We even saw 2 (both female) of the 3 moose (the other is male) in the park!
We even got to see a huge flock of Canadian Geese that were grounded due to their molting feathers. We saw all the babies that were born in earlier this year. It was a great visit!
I didn’t take pictures of the animals because I already have pictures of the animals!
I took 1 photo…
of the kids out front by the moose.
Today the man and his bobcat came to clear the yard.
Coming through the fence at around 9 a.m.
By 9:30 a.m. he had his trailer full and was back for more.
Another hour later and he had all the dirt and debris gone.
Looking east toward the back of the house and shed.
Time for the grass to go!