Jubi time

AOrganizer. Opinionated. Likes things nice and neat. Focused. Determined. Independent. That's my girl. 

Pick-uh-nick

Courtesy of jubi

And here she is "{"wooollin" (rolling) the money. We gotta make it nice and neat for our babies. }" 

Then you gotta stack it nice and neat. 

Not like that mom.  Like this. Verrrry gentle.  

Then she looked at me with those round, blue eyes and said "I'm the boss, mom."

Tuesday. 8-26

J set up a birthday "pawtee"

She loves getting in his bed. And requested I take this pic. 

Finally. Last week my boss gave this little doll a dollar. "doll-lew". He told her to buy an icecream. Of course, I was happy to fulfill this request.

That's chocolate Oreo. Underneath lemon custard.  Yes. Thank me later.  Actually thank Roy .  He's the one that introduced me to this delightful combo. 

Too bad the icecream wasn't actually $1.00. More like $6.47. Or close to that. 

Smurf baby.  Her lips stayed blue after much scrubbing. What a giraffe tongue!

I'm Enjoying all the time with my girl. Ready to plan a Gabriel date though. 

Progress!!

Painting is in it's third week.  Ol' delphino is taking a little longer than was planned.  

Roof supplies delivered last week. No--- that load  wasn't all for our ginormous house. I thought it was though. 

8/21

Roofers showed up yesterday.  I was glad they stayed. We've actually had people come to bid a job, Creep slowly by and drive off. 

And. Since we're on the subject  A week or two ago  I was so excited to see a crew of painters here (instead of the usual 1-2 guys.  For a whole week- only one dude showed up to scrape.) so-- yay! There's finally a crew- I asked them to move their truck blocking the driveway-- and the truck drives off.  What!!? I stopped one of the cars-- the dude tried to explain "too dangerous... Have to talk to boss".  Those peeps have not been back.  I guess delphino found a different crew.  That ain't skeered.  

roofers first day to work. 

8/27

View from inside looking to the Nunn's house. 

This crew is getting after it. 

Yowzer.  

8/28

All that noise and work calls for a tent nap. In the carpet room, of course. 

Hope it works.  I even put the sound machine in there.  Ya know-- we gotta keep this napping thing a habit. 

10 minutes later.  The tent is wiggling a little, but she's staying  in there. 

Success!! Thank you  Jesus! 

Restoration. Redeemer.

Over and over again these words come to my mind.  

I did a search for repairer of broken walls and found a great blogpost about the isaiah 58:12 scripture   

http://peebles.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/isaiah-5812-niv-you-will-be-called-repairer-of-broken-walls/

Of course--- Nehemiah was God's tool to orchestrate the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem.  

Nehemiah means comforter. 

Just jubi

I love it that she loves snails.  And dirt for that matter.  She loves playing in the dirt. And manages to wipe it all on her face too. 

This made me laugh.  Jubi said she was a snail. Love that dotted shell. 

And. I Just love this beautiful girl. Period. Those golden brown ringlets. 

Rookie

First tball practice. It was so dern cute. 

Water break.  And a few selfies. 

A few pointers from coach Jeremy. 

And he got a hit on the first try! 

All smiles. 

Another hit

What a stride!

Matchy matchy

That moment when you realize your pajamas and your blanket match... Like.  They're exactly the same. Gena purchased  these items for me.  Christmas gifts. (Probably 15 years apart).  This blanket is oh, so soft.  

I heard on the news today that we officially hit triple digits for the first time this year.  Fall will be here before we know it.  Here's to cooler weather right around the corner.  

Hotter than the 4th uh July.

But it's been so mild all summer, praise god! Well, except this week it really started heating up.  

We went to VM for the parade.  Got there extra early.  Impressive.  Sat in front of the Methodist church again. 

Here they are waiting for it to start.  It was a "long" wait. 

 The day before my little Betty Crocker helped me whip up these no-bake delights.  She loves helping me in the kitchen.  Sometimes she's helpful. ;0)

Yes, yes, the parade was fun... But much different than last year.  jubi ran out in the middle of the road-- during the parade and ran about 10 yards down the road. Roy didn't seem to notice as quickly as me b/c I beat him to her.  She was going for a lollipop.  Seriously.  I may bring a leash next year.  

we did get to see cousins.  A special treat! 

Grandpa drove some of the cousins in uncle Steve's convertible.  

Afterwards we went back to M&P's for a big ol' lunch.  The kids sure had fun with cousins.  Jolee has an extra little spark ;0b reminds me a little  of jubi.  

Gabriel and I ended the night watching the downtown fireworks from the manzanita room window. The pic barely shows a splash of color in the window jut superior to Gabriel's left wrist.  It was a pretty good look.... Of course, we had plenty of neighborhood fireworks action too.