August Flowers

I love the garden this time of year.

The sky is blue.

And the flowers

Are absolutely gorgeous.

I love walking out into the backyard on a Saturday morning.

And cutting my own flowers.

I LOVE Zinnias.

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned that before on my blog or not.

But the colors are beautiful.

I also LOVE Cosmos.

They are so delicate. 

The zinnias and the tomatoes are fighting for space in this area. 

And the cosmos are sneaking out into the yard. 

And I LOVE these various shades of purple. 

Happy Wednesday!

School Clothes

Well, obviously these aren’t school clothes…this is Pudgey…waiting for food to fall…

Isn’t Bryan cute?  He looks so stylish!

Trying to keep Ralph from jumping on the new clothes. 

And then there is this…

So Cool…

and Ralphy. 

Happy Monday!

Sunflowers 2011

I love sunflowers.

I went out to the backyard earlier this week to start thinking about design ideas for Alisa Burke’s Surface Design Class.  (You can sign up here.)

I took several photos.  I love this color combination.

Yellow, Green, and Blue:  Analogous colors on the color wheel…

And I love a bright blue cloudless sky. 

So pretty.  And as you can see the sunflowers are pretty tall. 

The ones that haven’t fallen over. 

So I’m thinking about how I want to use these for inspiration for class…

happy Friday.  Seriously.  Couldn’t come at a better time.

First Day of School 2011

I love the first day of school.  I’m just like a kid .  I’ll be really bummed when the kids are out of school.

One of Bryan’s friends kept calling him and wanting to know when he was coming to school.  Finally, he was like, “I’ll get there when I get there.” 

Ralph looks like he is getting ready to bark, here, but he stayed calm and got his photo taken.

So cute .  And very well dressed. 

This is about as close to a smile as I could get out of William. 

Bryan was nice enough to smile for the camera though.

And as always, one of the kids is blurry in most of the shots.  And I only had two in the photo this year. 

Don’t they look sharp!

And oh so happy to be going to school.

I didn’t get any photos of Elizabeth because she had to go work at the daycare at 7:00 am.  I will try to catch her when she gets home. 

Happy First Day of School!

Isabella’s Baptism!

One of Mom’s Hummingbirds

Mom and I

Since we arrived 40 minutes before mass we had some time for a photo…

Awww-look at cutey!  I think we’re boring her. 

Before the festivities begin.

Poor Mom and Dad.  She cried during most of the ceremony. 

we definitely won’t forget it anytime soon.

My babies. 

Parents and Godparents and Great Grandma.

Happy as a clam now

Parents and happy grandparents

 

Godparents

Katie!!

Lots of family. 

Keeping the holy water and the papers separate for my brother….

Elizabeth in front of the rose of Sharon bush.

Grandma.  She looks so happy here!

Menfolk!

 

The happy family.  So sweet!

Merlin!

Photo for Sarah from my phone.

On our way home.

We had a great weekend.  Now…it’s back to school.

Happy Tuesday!