Safety Gear

So here's a picture of my boots! Katie tells me they look like high school goth boots, but I assure you that I will not be wearing long black trench coats or black nail polish with dark eye liner!
These boots are very comfortable and from what I'm told riding boots are important.
Here's a picture of our jackets, I know it's small, but its all I can find.

A dream come true!!

So the beginning of this month Gordon and his dad had a conversation about why Gordon has not bought a motorcycle. Simply put Gordon said "Dad, I'm not going to take a loan out for a motorcycle!" Not since Dave Ramsey! The following week, we got a check in the mail, and in the memo it said "no strings". It was enough to pay cash for the cycle, license, insurance for a year, and all the safety gear we needed!

A boyfriend, a job, and now...

A CAR!!!a 1997 Ford Taurus
Katie said to say under this picture:

"Mom your dumb coming here to take my picture"

I drove to Mc Donald's to take her picture getting into her new car for the first time!

She saved for most of it herself

Oh Dad!

Camping in the great outdoors??

Nope, not yet, it's just our backyard!

This spring Megan once again begged her dad to start camping this summer. We had no camping equipment. There are a few essentials that one needs in order to camp, or so I'm told. One of them is a tent, so to Costco we went in search of a tent. As you can see we found one. It just barely fits in our backyard! For Gordon's birthday we got him a lantern. Now I'm told we'll need to get a camp stove, and then the basic essentials should be met, and off camping they can go! I'm sure I'll go a time or two also. The last time I went camping I was 9 months pregnant with Megan. No wonder she likes to camp, and I don't. It was a warm memorable experience for her, wish I could say the same. I'll be glad to go and just be with the family in the great outdoors!setting up the tent for the first time

Bird Identification!

Bird watchingWhat's this?
Maybe if I make some noise they'll come
aah! I think I'll pick a fight with my sister Mo

BBQ

Out with the old......and in with the new!
it has a rotisserie, and searing burner
It even came with a cover!
It became obvious that we were not going to win a grill, and with as much grilling as we like to do, we needed to invest in a new grill. We looked at grills for weeks. We found this one at Costco, and for the price we could afford, it had all the options we wanted. Price is debatable Gordon said he'd be fine with another $100. grill from Wal-Mart! I'm hoping this one last long enough to prove my point that if we buy a little nicer one it will last a lot longer. Sure does work well, it even lights without using matches!

Basket full of fun

Today I decided that it was time to finally plant some flowers in my hanging baskets. It is mid June! So I begged Megan to help me. She came and brought some help too, Marley! This was a first for her, planting that is turns out she loves it!!

Hmm! What's this?
Aah fresh dirt!
I can help myself to more
Yea! I think the flowers will fit in here!

Good place for a nap too!

Now I'll have to go find someplace else to nap!

As you can see she was a lot of help, NOT!!By the time I was done planting the flowers, she had eaten some and played with all the big red begonia flowers and knocked them all off. It reminds me of planting flowers with a two year old. It tried my patience a bit, but she's so darn cute most of the time that I couldn't stay mad at her very long. I'll just have to use a lot of Miracle Grow, and hope the flowers pull out of it!