Peir One night stand and windsor cottage lamp.
The New Bed!! Bigger and with a new mattress. Bed frame from Windsor Cottage painted and revived. Lamp from Ballard clearane.
Dille corner
Hansen corner
N. Dickens corner
Pingree corner
Thanks for looking. I know this is not that exciting for others, just us doting grandparents!
Flowers bought at walmart- 10$ on Valentines Day and probably 4$ every other day!!
Bird napkin rings bought at Target after Christmas sale.
The whole look. Glasses from Goodwill and candle holders made by glueing vases to candle sticks.
New bird plates to go with the rest of the "bird thing" going on here. As Noel would say silver "coasters"
When the Sister Missionaries came for dinner they liked my table so much that they wanted to take a picture to send home. I liked it but did not realize it was that spectacular. I need to spend less time on table decor and more time on food prep!
Ruffle "balls"
Bunting done for Hayley
Bunting for Les
That's all folks!
This is another attempt to try to catch up on some of the events from this past summer. Actually, this event took place in September when Les and the kids were visiting with us for a week. That weekend Noel came up to Roch. to ride in a 100 mile bike race/ride with his friend Greg Creighton. It took place down in Bristol and swept along the lake by Naples. It ended up being a beautiful day with great temps and sunshine. We took Luke and Julia and attempted to be there at the finish line when they crossed. They were taking a lot longer to complete the 100 miles due to some detours they made along the way. Therefore, we tried to drive along the end of the route to cheer them on. Above is a pic of Luke and Julia climbing on a rock at a "rest stop" for the bikers. See the beautiful scenery behind them. It was glorious that day.
Papa with one little monkey.
The two amigos near the end of the race. They had just completed this really long uphill climb and were still smiling. We passed them in the car and when we passed Greg we yelled out the window to him. Julia was in her car seat in the back and did not quite get the fact that the Greg we were talking about was not Gregger her little cousin. When we mentioned Greg's sister Laura (wondering if she was in the race as well) Julia was very confused. After a little silence (where she was really thinking-wondering how she missed the fact that little Greg had a sister) she asked us if Greg's sister was older or younger. I said she was younger and Julia said "Is she one, since Greg is 2?" It was a definite "Who's on first" moment. What a fun day!!
I am so far behind on the blog that I cannot go so far back because it would take me too long to catch up. Therefore, I thought I would include some behind the scenes photos from the day before the wedding. Here is Julia, jet-lag and all, doing something different-dancing around the yard. While we were setting up tents, chairs, flowers, etc. she spent many a minute twirling and finding dangerous places to climb and jump from.
Jordan was so lucky as to be one of the guys to haul, mow, move and in general do all that we asked him to do.
The fearless photographer faced with the monumental task of taking the family photo. His biggest job was to be considered the "boss". Not an easy task with certain very bossy family members.
Trying to get the children and dogs to cooperate and stay clean at the same time.
The bride and groom to-be. Jordan is picking bugs off Maren and me in a constant state of hyperventilation.
After the picture taking we still had this to deal with. Check out Hayley's pix on Facebook for the finished product.
I decided that maybe I would like to get going again on my blog. Although, I am doing it all backwards, but I will get the hang of it again soon. Above is Grandma's bday gift. A Topiary arrangement that I thought looked particularly good on her table.
close up of the topiary
Just realized that I am doing my posts backwards. The above picture is the apartment door wreath.
Yesterday was "Crafty Saturday" up on the "Ridge". Enthused by the fall like weather that we are having after a 90 dgree Thursday I decided to make some fall accesories for the back door and the apartment door. This picture above is the back door.
This has nothing to do with anything from Christmas, New Years or the kids. I haven't posted for a million years and wanted to start getting into the habit again. Here is Rusty this past fall in his favorite spot up by the pond and the field by our house. Doesn't he look as though he is smiling. Wouldn't it be nice if all it took to make us happy was a jaunt around the pond and a dog treat!! Have a great day!!
HAYLEY'S SENIOR BALL
Hayley and her date Chris Van Zandt- notice the matching vest and tie on the date!! They look like a commercial for toothpaste.
Brian, Maureen, Hayley and Chris before the dance. Maureen is about 12 inches shorter than Hayley.
After our trip to NYC we then ventured to Utah to see Maren graduate, the Dille fam and the Hansen gang. Here is Master Luke in B&W.
Julia showing the 6 pack.
Grammy and Luke.
The graduate with her sippy cup.
Since I have no graduation pics with this camera-here is the proof- Maren's fav-Costco cake.
Three Hansens and a Dille at the FREEZING picnic in honor of Marz
Mark- the son of Allison (Dille) and Chris Whitney in the Francisco Park Ward, Las Vegas Nev.
Maren and Les at midnight walking the strip- we were a wild bunch.
Les walking into Gordon Biersch- a very yummy restaurant in LV. We had garlic fries and ginger glazed chicken wings for appetizers. We were not even hungry for dinner.
We are finally back from our 10 day spring break extravaganza to nyc, utah and las vegas. I tried to down load all the nyc pictures but could only do the ones you will see here. When Hayley and I got to JFK airport on Sat. 4/18 we spent 3 hours riding subways, train and lugging our 49 lb. bags up and down countless subway stairs and through turnstiles to get to our New Jersey hotel room. It was 1:30 in the afternoon and we had been traveling for almost 6 hours- it would have been quicker to drive! After a short nap we ventured out of the room to see some of NYC After another long subway ride we got back to Manhattan. We spent the rest of the day shopping at Century 21, glimpsing at Ground Zero, buzzing around Soho, and eating. We went to Lombardi's- supposedly the first pizzeria in NYC. It was YUMMY- then we went across the street to the place above-Rice to Riches- a smorgasbord of rice puddings. We had a combo of "French toast" and" vanilla extraordinaire". We thought we would never be able to eat all of it but we rallied and finished the whole thing.
Sunday am- Got up and conquered the subway again to go to church on 14th street. A church where the chapel is upstairs. It was a very busy crowded ward and the missionaries were from Russia and Brazil. Then we met up with GSD (who flew in that am) and we went to see the Manhattan temple across from Lincoln Center, then to get a really bad lunch at a little Greek restaurant. Then on to see the Little Mermaid. This is the back drop to the play. It was wonderful and we wondered about Julia and how we would ever get her to see it.
Hayley and I FREEZING out side of the theater.
A picture of Time Square after the play.
We dragged GSD to this very popular Freeman's restaurant. In a very old, hip building in Soho. The atmosphere was cool, but the food was expensive, not that good and (as i most NY restaurants) the people at the next table were touching elbows with us. GSD is still talking about the warm water and watery potatoes.
GSD waiting in the only chair at Urban Outfitter- it was in the window. He got the funniest book ever and made us laugh so hard we were crying when he read it to us at the subway stop.
Monday- spent touring Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty- it was foggy but still cool.
Me and Hayley FREEZING at the Statue of Liberty
All in all we had a good time and left saying what we always say- "I would never want to live here-but it is very fun to visit"
