12 On The 21st

Since I TOTALLY missed my "10 on the 10th" I am going

to go with 12 on the 21st.

Here is what is brewing in my yard right now:

Handing plant on the back step 

Chives 

My rosebush is about to burst! 

Don't recall the name of this, not that I could

spell it anyway!  

Sweet Peas....that came up from last year!

A rose

My whisteria.....if only you could smell it on the computer!

Yellow beauties

And Gramma Ruth's purple iris

Kyle put this ladder up for me today.  Kinda different but

I think I really like it!

And here's tribute to Kyle's mom, Blanche.

She loved collecting butterflies so this Butterfly Bush is

for you!

Miscellaneous

Scarey!  Coming at you with a chainsaw.

These are pictures taken within the last week or so, but just was

too lazy to put them on the blog until now.  Or too busy??

The apple tree got frozen on 2 of its 3 parts so we took

down 2 of the 3 trunks and now we have only 1.

BUT, we (he) got to use his chainsaw so all is well!

Little Miss and 2 of her brothers came up the other night

to play some baseball with Briar and Nick and to

play with the cats and the dog.

Nice to just hang out!

Briar got a new (to him) car a couple of weeks ago.

He obviously thought I needed to have a couple of

pictures on my camera so he took it upon himself

to do just that. 

And finally the other day Paxton had to show her grandpa

the initials "WSU" not WSC.  Also she had to point out

the picture it was making was that of a cougar.

What she didn't know (that my dad knows these things already!)

didn't hurt her....being able to point it all out to him.

She thought she was pretty clever! 

Mother's Day

Mom and Dad came up and we hung out this afternoon.

Kyle and I had gone and picked up a "5 Games In 1" package deal. 

We chose to set up the badmitton net and had a fun time!

I came from behind to beat Paxton for the third time.  Then

mom and Kyle partnered to take on Briar.

Don't really know what the final score was there....

TOO much laughing for sure! 

Nick took on Briar.

Not sure who won there either.

There was also baseball going on.

Paxton was afraid of either Ryan's hitting OR

Nick's pitching.  Or maybe BOTH!

She tried her hand at pitching the softball.

I think everyone had a fun afternoon.

Briar pointing out a stinkbug for Sadie to get. 

The weather couldn't have been more perfect and the yard

was like a darn park!  What a nice day, spent with great people!

Hope every mom had a WONDERFUL Mother's Day. 

You all deserve it!!!

Mabton Softball

Played 2 games at Mabton this afternoon.  Won them both.

Pictures

Last weekend Paxton and I went to the cemetery in Kennewick to see

Grandma's marker.  It was beautiful.  I miss her.

We also took a few pictures.  This one is one of my favorites.

This was taken by the Cable Bridge.

We then went over to the lighthouse on Clover Island and took a few. 

They turned out really good.

Found a train with grafitti on it and decided to

mess around a bit.

She has to pick a few for her announcements that are going to

have to be done sometime REAL soon seeings how

graduations are coming up soon! 

This is my favorite!

Awesome Measuring Cup

Mom got me this awesome measuring cup for my birthday.

It is the best!  Cute too!!