Summer's here . . .

with raging temperatures, between 99 and 102 this week. Unfortunately those high temps have been raging through the body of this poor little guy. He's spent the majority of his (usual) waking hours like this:
Napping two to three hour naps everyday this week.



Sylvie and I were starting to go a bit stir crazy staying in the house everyday when the weather was so beautiful and since Rhys was starting to feel better we went to the beach for a little while today.


We were only at the beach for about an hour or so but shortly after we got home this is how I found Rhys. Poor little guy, I hope he gets better soon so we can really begin to enjoy our summer.

Entertainment in the condiments

So over the weekend, while helping a friend get ready for her graduation party I found myself in a fast food restaurant that I haven't been in, in years. While waiting for my order I was perusing the selection of condiments only to find an assortment of witty comments on each on one. These were a few 0f my favorites.

No, you cannot say "we meet again" because quite frankly I've never met you before.

I burst out laughing when I first read this one. Right up my alley and quite entertaining, don't you think?

No. No, I will not marry you. And quite frankly if anyone should ever happen to propose to me in this manner no matter how much I loved him the answer would still be, no.

What a story that would be to tell your children. "Well, honey when your father proposed he took me to a fast food joint and ever so slyly slide the sause packet across the table and waited patiently and expentantly while I read the text written on said sauce packet."

I've heard some engagement proposal stories over the years. It's always fun to hear how your father or mother or brother or sister or friend or whoever asked (or was asked by) their significant other for their hand in marriage. Come to think of it I have no idea how my dad proposed to my mom . . . hmmm, I think I may need to ask him. Do you have any good engagement stories?

Well, I'm going to make another attempt ...

we'll see how this goes. So where do I start? How about with the most recent events and I'll slowly work my way backwards until we're all caught up, how about that?

This past Wednesday (June 9th) marked the "official" beginning of summer for the kids and I, as it was their last day of school. Let me just say Thursday and Friday were somewhat unpleasant as the kids didn't really have an idea of what to do now that their usual schedule as been completely abandoned. I've got to figure out a daily routine for us to follow otherwise we're all gonna go crazy. I tell you these kids need a good schedule to follow.

One of the things I've decided to do with them, now that they're older, is cooking. They both love cooking and helping out in the kitchen and they're more likely to eat what's in front of them if they are the ones who made it. Right now there's not a whole lot in the house to work with but I found this recipe for Marshmallow Fluff over at this website and let me just tell you, I didn't make the whole recipe and we still ended up with a TON of fluff but Rhys and Sylvie loved it.

This girl loves her fluff!

Rhys wasn't so fond of getting all sticky so while I cleaning up he was spending some quality time with Zoe.

Marshmallow Fluff + Nutella + Graham Crackers

= S'Mores!! mmmmm, yummm

Wow, whatever made me think having a blog was a good idea?

What was I thinking when I started this blog? I must've been crazy, I've never been able to keep a diary or a journal. What possessed me to think I'd be able to keep a blog? Well it's been a good six months or so since my last post, and honestly, except for one thing, there isn't much of anything worth noting that has happend in the last six months.
The only thing truly worthy of noting is Isaac is home! I haven't been able to get home to see him yet, as he's located in Minnesota and I'm out here in New York but I'm hoping to go home for a few days sometime this spring.


Well, umm that's about it, I can't think of anything else to say at the moment so I'll leave you with a few new pics of the kiddos enjoying the "blizzard" that hit today. *I must be biased or something cuz quite frankly if you can still see your neighbor's house across the street than it doesn't really count as a blizzard. Plus it was barely below the freezing point, the first few layers of snow melted as soon as it hit the ground.

Ok so here's the deal. So far these are all the cards I have made, umm 22 in total? While I'm home the next couple of weekends I'll have copies of each one printed up for you to see, if you're interested in placing an order I'll definately be intrested in taking any orders. I don't know for sure the pricing on them yet but I'll have that all figured out by the time I'm home. Enjoy!

http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/?action=view&current=f40fa165.pbw



p.s. I should also add that any of the cards can also be ordered as prints of all sizes, mugs, magnets, etc.

hmmm

ok so maybe I've figured out what to do with my pictures, seeing as so many of you keep telling me that I need to do something with them. The idea came from talking to Mom the other day and her telling me how forgotten Isaac has been feeling and that basicly he needs more mail from people so I was thinking what can I do? and I thought postcards. I started looking at one of my favorite sites (christianbook.com) for discount postcards or notecards or any small little thing that I could send to him and as I was looking through their postcards slowly I began thinking I could do that. So I did and here are a few of what I've made so far, let me know what you think. Are they good? not so good? need a little work? alright as they are? would you buy them or do you know anyone who would maybe buy them? is it something worth persuing and investing in? Please, please let me know what you think show this post to your friends or family or anyone you think might be interested. I've only just gotten started so these are just the beginning few. Thanks!

just click on the links to bring up the pictures



http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/atrest.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/blessyoukeepyou.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/blessed.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/glory.jpg (my least favorite)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/liftmyeyes.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/mypromise.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/eewabob/postcards/thinkingofyou.jpg (my favorite one)

Chickens!!

Yes people, we have chickens. Kevin (a farmer at heart) found out back in March that an ordinance was passed allowing people to keep chickens in their backyard so naturally he jumped on that bandwagon and over Memorial Day weekend we added four new, feathered companions to the family. So meet the newest members of the Hagen/Pike family. They don't officially have names yet but I've dubbed them Estelle, Mabel, Beatrice and Rhoda but if you ask Rhys what their names are he'll tell you their names are Eegie, Ooggoo, Oplopo and Eegie, yes two Eegie's. I'm pretty sure those names are not going to stick.

from L to R,

in the back is Beatrice,

the black and white speckeled one is Estelle,

the red is Rhoda and the buff colored one is Mabel

Estelle

Rhoda and Mabel

Mabel and Beatrice (so far Mabel is everyone's favorite

and nobody really likes Beatrice 'cuz she just "looks dirty")

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Rhys and some of the neighbor girls checking out the chickens

Milo, he likes to run up to the coop and scare the chickens

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Sylvie blowing bubbles

Rhys being crabby

"now what do we do? we're bored"