Friday, August 31, 2007

Cedar Point

Tony, Ben, Kathy & I went to Cedar Point while Grandma & Poppa Bailey watched the girls. Jeff & Jamie met us in the evening, to share their expert take on the park.

It was a great time with great weather...


Ben & Kathy on the Sky Hawk - far left


Tony on the Sky Hawk - middle in the red...

On the horses...

Ben & I...

Kathy - molesting her horse (it must work though, she did win...)

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Simple Pleasures...

Answer: "Oh, Claria, I am so glad you are back!"


Question: What did Zoe say when she opened the box containing her blankie and bunny (who were accidently left at my mom's this weekend)?

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Make-up Lessons

On the way home from my parents, I gave Zoe her new Dora lip gloss...


Apparently, she needs a few lessons in application...

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Zoe's 1st Scrapbook Page


To purge my scrapbook supplies while Zoe was gone, I gave a bunch a stuff to her. Today, I let Zoe scrapboook our trip to Zoo from last Friday. This was the end result...

Sunday, August 19, 2007

A.S.K.

The children's sermon today at church concerning prayer...
A - ask
S - seek
K - knock
from Luke 11:10

For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Meeting at the Toledo Zoo

All the girls met today at the Toledo Zoo to return all children to the appropriate homes...

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Zoe & Shannon

Here are a few pics from when Zoe spent a week at her cousin Shannon's...(courtesy of Aunt Kathy)


Zoe's 1st day of *school* with her new lunchbox...

Zoe & Miss Pam


Not sure what they are doing, but it is cute...


Master Bathroom Paint

While Zoe spent the week at her Aunt Kathy & Uncle Jason's with Shannon, I did lots of projects around the house (apparently, I am not much for relaxing while on *vacation*). This is a picture of the master bathroom that I finally painted (the last room in the house to be painted). I am not sure that I love the color...but I can always repaint it (& probably will as anyone who knows me, knows my obsession with painting).

Lanudry Room Cabinets

Another project while Zoe was gone was putting up cabinets in our laundry room. We had wire shelves before that were filled with stuff...

The plan was to use cheap ready-to-finish cabinets from Home Depot which we purchased & I disassembled & sanded & primed & painted the cabinets (but not the doors yet). However, when Tony & I went to hang the cabinets, I realized that one of the larger cabinets was the wrong size (having been primed & painted it was unreturnable). Also, I apparently did not do a very good job sanding as the cabinets did not look that great either, so I made a last minute judgement call to buy finished cabinets from Lowes of which I only had to exchange two because we somehow managed to buy the wrong size for the upper cabinets.

The finish matches our kitchen (& bathroom cabinets). Due to the installation technique, I also ended up having to paint the room. It's just a "basic grey" & I don't love it, but there's always tomorrow...
It does look very nice & Tony did a great job hanging the cabinets.


Front Door Sidelights


Having previously painted the front door black to match the screen, I painted the side lights black this week also...


Thursday, August 09, 2007

Roller Skating

This morning, I asked Zoe if she wanted to go roller skating & she said "Yes, yes, this time I am going to skate by myself..." So, we met the Saunders at Skatin' Station II. Zoe did pretty well by herself (although she still wanted to hold my hand a lot). She actually did some "skating", but was mostly concerned about when snack time was. After being fed, Zoe was much more receptive to the gaint skating "Roller Roo" & actually did the chicken dance (sort of anyway).



Tucson Scrapbook Pages

For those of you, anxiously awaiting them...I have completed ALL of the pages from our January Tucson trip. Yeah!!




















Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Zoe's Ballet Recital

Here is the 1st part of the recital... Zoe is the cute one in pink (2nd from right - next to Brooke who can be a little distracting...)

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Here is the second part of the recital...