Dadddy's little "Helper"

We got a new water spicket with our sprinkler system and I now get my drinking water from it. Yuppers, I'm a "hose" drinker (or I WAS). All the other water sources on our house go thru our softener and I HATE the water. So Mark added my very own spicket onto this new one and I no longer have to go thru the hose. It's so fresh and yummy! Loooove it.
Kylie is such a big "help"...not!
Hmmmm just maybe she WILL be an engineer like her daddy. Or a plumber???

Remember when......

Dancing with your Daddy was COOL!
He even let you stand on his toes......
He would twirl you and you would giggle.....
Oh and the dip.....aaaahhh!

So proud of my flowers!

Look how GREAT my flowers are coming and it's not even July! Whoo hoo! I love Geraniums because they grow like weeds and are so colorful!

This is Kylie's "attempt" at flowers. I let her pick out seeds and she went for some Irish Wedding Bells. Or something like that? They're suppose to be real tall green looking things. I think we have a ways to go. But don't tell her...I added whole bunch of Allysum seeds (white and purple) while she was gone this weekend. So we should have some pretty stuff in a couple of weeks. But she's so cute...I told her she has to talk to them and it helps them grow. And so she tells them how pretty they are...they can do it...keep growing etc... :-)

Close up shot of her wedding bells...they're teenie tiny.

The "boys" of the house

This is William Tells It All aka Willie. Yuppers, he has the fancy name because he's was a show dog who just couldn't cut it in the ring. Guess the pressures were too much. He came from a rescue Pekingese group out of Washington.

Lucky aka our pound puppy (he's a little of this and a little of something else). We think he might have some bulldog in him? He came from the local animal shelter.

Both are Pekingese and are 7 years old and have been in our family since 2001.

Summer Firsts

A first summer bike ride
Off I gooooooooooooooooooo.......................
I love my new neighborhood and all the sidewalks!
First summer flowers...pretty huh?!
Going down the slide all by myself!

Dancing with my Daddy

Kylie and Daddy were dancing in our front room (before the new curtains were put up). Kylie loves music and anytime she can get her Daddy to pick her up (which isn't too hard most days!).

Kylie is now 3 1/2 + years old but she still WILL NOT claim the 1/2 part. So funny...if anyone asks how old she is I say "3 1/2" and she will IMMEDIATELY pipe up "I am NOT ! I'm only 3!".

This Friday Kylie is going to Nana and Poppa's for a sleep over (Yea! And THANK YOU B & B!) I have to work at the Griz Golf Scramble and Mark is going to home improve while he is kid less for the full day. We heard a "rumor" that our contractor just "MIGHT" make it over to our house next week to work on our covered porches we are building. But again he told us 3 weeks ago he'd be about 2 weeks. So till we see the whites of his eyes it's folding chairs and a card table since Mark won't let me buy new patio furniture till the construction is done. We're covering the back deck and then putting pergola over part of the brick patio and across the front of the house for some architectural ummph! and then I'm getting a hot tub...I hope to this Fall anyway. So after that we're done with major renovations and spending money. So stay tune for pictures of progess.