Making Birthday Cards

Yesterday, Mike brought the girls over so he could help Sarah move out of Eric's house. While they were here, all of them worked on birthday cards for Mike, who is 35 today! YIKES! How could I be old enough to have a 35-year-old son? Here they are, working on the cards and showing them off.

There was some drama when they tried to get Sarah's stuff---Neighbors called Eric and told them Sarah was there with a U-haul, so he came home. Since she had a restraining order on him, he had to stay away from her, and a cop showed up "just in case." Mike said Eric's mom showed up and called Sarah a tramp. (Actually, I've thought of calling her that also, but...) Anyway, they got Sarah's stuff out and the girls' furniture. Mike is still living with Sarah's grandma and Sarah and the girls are living with Sarah's mom. Sarah asked Mike to get a place with her as her "roommate" and he told her he would have to see how long she would stay away from Eric before he did that. They tried that once before, and Mike had only been there a couple of weeks before Eric moved in and Mike had to move out. I hope he sticks to his guns and waits at least a couple of months.

Beautiful Oregon Weather

Ever heard that silly rumor that it rains a lot in Oregon? Well, this is what it looked like on Friday. See all the hail in the chairs? And we have a couple of skylights in the house, so it looked really cool coming down on the skylight. Plus the sound was really awesome. My grandson couldn't believe all the ice coming down!

It stopped hailing and started raining, and hasn't stopped, except for a few "sun breaks." Now, that was a term I had never heard until I moved to Oregon. But the weatherpeople will talk about rain mixed with showers and a few sun breaks! And that's what really happens--the sun comes out and almost dries things up, and then the clouds come back and it starts raining or showering, or whatever you want to call it.

Birthday party picture

Finally got some pictures of my grandaughter's 6th birthday. Here she is hugging Dylan, my 4-year-old grandson. She's wearing one of her presents - a ballerina outfit. I think her mom is thinking of giving her ballerina lessons - hope so, anyway. I found out Aja (my grandaughter) is having to change schools because her mother is moving to another town, so she'll have to change schools when she only started kindergarten a couple weeks ago. I hope her mother will settle down now. She has moved my granddaughters I don't know how many times ever since s he and my son separated. Their divorce became effective a few weeks ago. I[m hoping my son is over her, because she hurt him so much. Anyway, don't they look cute together?

Rainy Day

Well, it's another rainy day in Oregon, and Dylan is kinda bored, so I gave him some water colors and markers to "create" with. It kept his attention for about half an hour, and now he's watching his hero, Spongebob.

So far, we've played indoor catch, worked on his letters, and did his art work. His mom is at work and his dad is studying, so it's up to me to keep him occupied. Sigh...

Any ideas, anyone?

Dylan

Today, I took Dylan to the park and he met a new friend, and he was so sad when we had to leave that he actually cried. He really should be in pre-school, he needs to be around other kids. I felt so bad for him!

Names

I found this on someones blog, who found it on some ones blog, who found it on someones blog...warning: Some of it makes absolutely no sense.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car), Sparky Bus
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie), Vanilla Snickerdoodle
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name), L-poi
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal), Blue Kitten
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born), Ruth Bloomington
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first), Poin-li
7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink), The Yellow Wine
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers), J.N. Elmer
9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy), Chantilly Fudge
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ), Fay Edward
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter), Thom Tampa
12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower). Autumn Lilac
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”) Banana Shirty.
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree), Coffee Weeping Willow
15. YOUR ROCK STAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”), The Scrapping Rain Tour

I'm BAAAAACK!!!

Been a long time since I've been here; but now I'm in a challenge by AMM to post to blogs, so I decided I'd better get going.

This is a picture my daughter took of me. She's a photographer for Lifetouch Photo Studios and she takes school pictures, so I told her to take one of me pretending I'm the student. So, after giving me the instructions, "lift your head a little, tilt your head to the right, raise your chin, etc.", this is how it came out.

Hmm, fascinating post, right? Sure hope I can get some blog tips.