Charlotte's 9th Birthday Weekend

Sunday: Showing off the rewards of diligent lizard expeditions

This little guy had a turquoise highlights lining the sides of his belly + on his neck

Charlotte is 9! Grandma, Aunt Jo-Jo and Spencer came to help her celebrate

Kids at the creek on Saturday.

Taffy Assimilation

Bridget is only a **little** put upon by this interloper

And guess who **doesn't** care!

Phone Photos

A variety of photos taken with phone cameras.

No other child can pull off this look like Graceanne!

I believe Charlotte took this one of friend Meaghan.

Charlotte took this one of Lea and Meaghan

Lea at the gift shop in the Butterfly House at Callaway Gardens

Corbin Bleau sings "Take it to the Limit"

Click the button to see the biker chicks!

Cutsey Pets

The hermit crabs came inside tonight as the temp will go down too low tomorrow night for them to stay outside. Princess finds them extremely interesting.

Taffy sleeping with her wubbie

Taffy - being cute (comes natural)
(photo by Lea)

Hike in the "Creek"

We took a hike behind the house, where there is a creek when rainfall is at normal levels. Today, it is mostly just a rockbed with water in the deeper holes.
Click the photos to see larger versions.

Photos from phone camera - quality not the greatest. But the subjects make up for that!

Lea's New Puppy Settles In

Lea & Taffy take an afternoon nap together.
Taffy has landed in duck soup..

Lea's got a New Puppy

Her name is Taffy - 5 months old and all-american. Click on either image to see it full-sized.

2nd Grade's Over for Charlotte!

Charlotte's 2nd grade teacher has a ceremony every year for her students, recognizing their acheivements for the year. She is very exact about dress, shoes, etc for the students. Below is a photo of Charlotte ready for the day (incidently, she received Principal's Award for all A's in all subjects for the year, Most Improved Writer, and Accelerated Reader Award.

Speed Skaters

Lea and Charlotte have been part of the GT Speed inline speed skating club since February of this year and raced in their 1st meet this weekend. Below are photos (sorry no action photos - rinks are too dark for my little digi camera's flash to do much.).

Click on any of the photos to see the full-size version The only "action" photo that was usable. Charlotte in the heat of competition
Lea with her medal.
Charlotte with her medal.

Taking a water break. The girl in the middle wasn't skating as she broke her foot in a really dangerous activity: jumping rope!

Toad Abodes

Animal Planet's "Backyard Habitat" included a piece on making a "toad abode." Below are Lea and Charlotte's decorated renditions.

Buddies

Lea & Princess

Cars Coming and Going

2005 Mercury Sable replacing

1992 Olds Royale - 264,000 miles!

Horsegirl Charlotte

Charlottes 1st grade teacher helped fan the flames of horse love when her teacher. This Christmas, she got her own horse as a gift from her husband. She called Charlotte and invited her to come meet "Mr. Zanzibar." This is a photo from that meeting. Click the photo to see full-size.

Fall School Portraits

Charlotte, age 7 1/2

Lea, age 9

Lea as a Sprite

Fun loving, childish, innocent and pure.


You are a sprite of the Air: Fun loving and childish your naive nature only enhances how truly cute you are! You may come off as too childish but only because your not burdened with all the rules and regulations of adulthood.

You are carefree most of the time spending your days playing tag or naming all the clouds you see in the sky. You are generally kind to everyone because you have lots of love and happiness to share!

Making friends comes easy because they strive for the innocence you possess but be careful, being as nice and kind hearted as you are people will try to manipulate your nature if they have not already.

Don't ever let anyone mold you to their standards although I doubt anyone could.


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Girls in the Woods

Took a walk with the girls in the woods behind the house.

We had 1 tadpole (frogs had laid eggs in a bin full of rainwater earlier in the summer) still alive and still a tadpole. Figured if it had any chance to live, it would be better off in a more natural surrounding than the baby food jar that had been its home for the last few months.

So with jarred tadpole in hand, we went hiking. When we let it go, it seemed very happy to see leaves under which it could hide.

On the walk, I took a few photos, including this one.

Click on the photo for a better look

Can't Catch Me - I'm the Gingerbread House!

The girls decided today was a great day to create a gingerbread house.

Has it Really Been that Long??

I can't believe it's been this long since I posted to this blog. Spent my time with the funnies. Oh, well.

The birds are still here! I figured they would have been gone by now. At least 4 are still conducting daily aerial battles for 2 feeders containing more nectar than they can collectively consume. Makes for quite a show, though!