Moving to O'z Ark

Friends and Family,

I am moving all of my blogging to O'z Ark-I have found that, perhaps, one blog is all the world can stand from me!

If you will just click here, then you will automatically be taken to O'z Ark.

thanks for always stopping by,
Jeanie

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Reesa's first riding toy

Reesa has her first riding toy, but when put on it just goes backward. The back comes up and can be pushed, but it gets away from her and that option has to saved for later.

Here she poses with her new bow created by cousin April.

Aunt Ruth's 80th Birthday Celebration

I am quite late in getting this post to the blog, but I had a very sick spell in the ensuing weeks following this good time and just forgot. The preceding sentence was a long diluted excuse! We went to the Lake of the Ozarks just north of Lebanon MO for Eddy's aunt's 80th birthday early in September. Ruth is Eddy's dad, Frank's sister. You can see right above here, a picture of she and Frank in which I almost cut Frank out the picture with the picnik collage. They were properly situated for the actual, real-time photo. I won't go through every single picture, just touch here and there on the highlights. The cake-we don't have Costco around here, but if we did, I would be back on the credit card 12 step program. This store has EVERYTHING! It's crowning contribution was the cake from the bakery which had buttercream frosting and some kind of cream cheese filler. You can see cousin Julie(Ruth's daughter) holding a lantern over the cake as we did not have 80 candles or even a campfire or the fireplace lit. We needed some vast light as a tribute to Ruth and 80 years!

Another big note-the celebration was held at Verl and Jan's(more cousins) lakehouse. What a glorious place. The yard goes right down to the water and a walkway leads onto their dock. They have a sampling of every type of boat one could wish for, and Verl took us for a trip around the lake to see the homes(million dollar homes). It was quite the adventure for all of us. One relative not viewed above, but attending the big day was, of course, me! I was there in my place of duty behind the camera.

Picnik Collage

My niece-in-laws, Megon and April, told me about a site called picnik.com. I checked it out and really liked all the options one of which is making a collage from pics and then uploading the collage. This is, I think, I lot easier on the reader who probably doesn't want to go through hundreds of pictures of the grandgirl, anyway!
We spent some time last week at Bentonville, and even were trusted to keep Reesa on Friday while Codi made up a day at work. Let me tell you, it takes 2 grandparents to do what I used to do by myself 30 years ago! Reesa is pulling up and jabbering away. I think she will walk before she is a year old just because she is so mobile.
We tag-teamed all day then at about 3 pm it dawned on us that she had not had a real nap all day. Well, we managed.
We went out the night before to Guido's and had the usual great meal. Tommy met us there for a great visit. We even ran into Tommy Wren and his sister, Amanda, and her fellow. Tommy and Amanda are Josh Hamby's first cousins. It's a small world.
Sach took Eddy and I (with Reesa) out to breakfast at Highfill which will be their new address when they build on the land they bought out by the airport.

Scrapbook pages

Okay, my favorite subject, also the only pictures that I take anymore!

My dad-I didn't want to take too much from the picture.

Scrapbook pages

Tara and Abby, Tara and Madelene dancing while the karoke is playing!

Reesa on the day of her first tooth-pretty self-explanatory!

New pages in my scrapbooking career-this page shows the girls outside on a cookout night preparing to roll down the hill.

Bailey and Oliver-Reconstructing the Front Entrances

Sach and company are redoing the front of the office in Bentonville. They have pulled up all the old sidewalk in the front in order to upgrade and add new landscaping. Here you see all the plants that were pulled up. They will be added back in with other ground plantings.

These are probably my favorite photos of the whole project as Sach carefully explains to Codi where each and every aspect to the upgrade will go and why!

I must say that she gives him her undivided attention!

Me and Crazy Daisy in July

Okay, the other day I just was feeling the sickness in a bad way so I just wanted to make sure that I managed to get these pics attached to the blog then I would come back and explain what was going on so here I am! I followed Kim Whitten into July with her idea for a July journey and I did a page for every day. This is the front of my journal. Jake left oodles of stuff from college and whatnot in big blue bins and I went exploring and found these black bound scrapbook journals that had never been unwrapped. For the cover here, I used a mixture of elements from the June and July kits. I cut the papers and glued them on then the words, "Me in July". The bumble bees and flowers are actually from Dollar General. Who knew?!

In August, I will be better about explaining and put the names of all the companies and such that are found in the kits. Before I go any further, you need to go to www.crazydaisykits.com and check out the whole shebang. You join and they send you all this great stuff for one great low price. They put the kits together for you with letters, embellishments, and so on. I got my August kits today, and it is like Christmas! The only problem is that for a couple of days I just lay it out in the floor like you do with your Halloween candy and just savor it. I can't bear to start cutting and such until I have touched everything!

This page was for July 3 and was Cindy's birthday. My trouble is that I want to put too much on the page. I should have just given her 3 pages and made them all glorious! I am still mixing my June and July papers and letters here.

Me and Crazy Daisy in July

You know, I make more sense when I put the pics up on one day and come back later and add text! I was very ill on the 4th of July with the first of what they hope are ocular headaches caused by the parkinson's and not some sort of mini-stroke. So I missed my own cookout--so on July 5th, I could do very little but lay around. I decided to go through my shoe box of sayings and pick out inspirational ones and plaster the page with them-better than a pic of me in my pajamas with ice packs taped to my noggin!

Here, I actually went back to the old-fashioned scrapbooking that I used to do all my younger life before it became an art. I used to keep every little thing and keep journals of everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING. So this day, Eddy took me for yet another MRI and then we went for Chinese so that explains the fortunes, and sweet and sour. Do you realize that if we keep celebrating every medical procedure with a new restaurant, that I will be the size of a house?! OOOH, I also got my first iPod that day, and you can see my instructions on this page.

These were papers that I already had leftover from something else with my crazy daisy thicker letters to celebrate the day that our new great-nephew was born.

Okay, I have already lamented that I didn't give Cindy 3 pages, and now I wish the same for Amy. This month, that is my new goal--one picture and a more artistic arrangement surrounding it. I have been over a Debee Campos' blog perusing her methods, and I am wanting to emulate some of Kim's work also. Kim is at www.kimwhitten.blogspot.com and Debee is at www.debeecampos.blogspot.com