Happy Retirement Dad!

Dad and Mom
Kelly, Eli, Jaymee and Lexy

Dad and Mom with Jaymee and Lexy

Dad and Mom with Bailey

The flower arrangement. The colors don't really show up in the picutre.

Colby and I hosted my dad's retirement party on Sunday. We had about 30 people come and celebrate. I didn't get a chance to take any other picutes, someone really needs to help out with that (Kelly?). After 37 years of hard work, he now gets to have a some fun. So far, he's painted my cousin's new condo (Hooray for Sally!), waxed my mom's car, Kelly's car, his car (I'll get to that in a second), my car, and Colby's is next. He's flying to my aunt's house in Washington to help her paint her house, and to visit of course. Not looking like much of a retirement??? Well, he did go out and by himself a bright and shiny new red corvette. It is the second car he has had new that I can remember...he normally drove my mom's hand-me-downs. Everyone that he tells seems to have the same comment, "Good for you, you deserve it!" And he does. My mom and dad are going on a crusie through the Panama Canal in September, and then on to Germany in 2010, I forgot the month. It seems that I am going to be spending a lot of time with my two four-legged sisters, their dog's Maggie and Katie. We are so excited for my dad and mom to be able to have some fun together and travel. Congratulations Dad!

No De Ja Vu Here!

This kid likes to crawl under things...about 10 seconds later he was screaming his head off because he couldn't get out.

Bailey would have never done this!

I'm Ready for Fall!

I went to Home Goods yesterday and found these two scarecrows I couldn't live without. I'm itching to decorate for fall. The weather is telling me it's fall and so are the stores! Just a few more weeks and let the decorating begin!!!

De Ja Vu

Raif telling me Lily needs to come in.
Bailey at our house in La Jolla telling me I needed to let Boomer in.

I love when they do some of the same things and I get to revisit when Bailey was a baby. Raif is also looking at the wine rack thinking he might try and pull off one of the bottles!!

The Jail Bird Strikes Again

As I'm sitting here updating the blog the little jail bird decided to crawl under my chair, again. It's hard to tell but there are posts going across all four legs, so he has to crawl under one of the taller ones to get out. This time, he decided to scream until I rescued him!

Painting is So Much Fun!

Bailey creating her materpiece
The masterpiece in the works.

Don't all kids love to paint? It was probably one of my students favorite things to do, and my least. It was always such a mess and there was always at least one spill. But, I did do a lot of painting with my students, and now with Bailey. We taped on a big poster board size piece of paper to a chair and voila, there was our easel. We managed to have no spills, but a little paint in her hair. The masterpiece is not quite done, we'll have to continue tomorrow.

Raif the Jail Bird

He crawled under my chair and couldn't quite figure out how to get out

He finally got it and crawled out successfully!