Itchy My Backy!!!!!

S~

C~

D~

Not the best photos, but I had to document the nights, days, minutes, seconds, hours and every waking and sleeping moment scratching the itches. I felt so bad for them all. C got it worst. She got it swimming and then she didn't swim, so instead, she collected snails and clams. (Swimmers itch comes from snails), so she got re infected. D had them cover him. On the night he got them, I thought he was over reacting and was so frustrated to scratch scratch scratch a night long! Then the morning light shown on the situation! S had it least bad, but he wanted me to take a photo of his itches. It seems sad to say that 20+ dots were "not that bad". No trip to Urgent Care this year, but, I think this makes up for it!! K~

Fishing Fishing and More Fishing

We, of course, needed to fish right away at the lake. We pretty much didn't stop from there! It was a very fun. The kids loved having the ability to fish when ever they wanted. At one point, S just parked himself on the end of the dock, with a chair. Fish aplenty!! Rock bass, Blue Gill, Pumpkin Seed, Large Mouth Bass were the ones caught the most.

K~

"Sugar Donut"

We knew the first thing Bing would do at Gull Lake was to get into the water. I also knew, that he would be dirty and full of burrs.

BUT..... This I didn't anticipate!!

This falls under the category of "No one ever told us about the sand bath!"

Last full day

It is our last full day at Gull.

Things that have happened:
Connie and I have been to Ernie's for bloody mary's 2 times.
I had part of a day to myself yesterday while the group went mini golfing.
Went to a neat swimming place called squaw point.
Watched the kids play baseball.
Fished some.
Took a lot of pictures.
ITCHED A LOT of SCRATCHES!!
And Lost my voice.

Soon there will be photos of our trip.

K~

Gull Lake Update

Well It has been 42 hours at Gull Lake. I am unable to download photos from here, so that will have to wait. Here is the re cap so far.

Left at 2:30 - Nala our cat was not interested in showing up, so we needed to call our zoo sitter Marsha to come an let her in later, so we could finally leave.

2:40 - Are we there yet? came from the back of the van from our 5 year old

3:15 - McDonald's stop.

4:00 - Bathroom stop

5:45 - Gull Lake

5:55 - All the kids and Bing are swimming. Bing is in the water WAY past his head, and he snorts like a piglet as he swims

The unexpected - Bing comes out of the water and rolls in the sand over and over again. He looks like a sugar donut.
- C and D get small red dots all over their body.....Swimmers Itch!!
-Had to make scrambled eggs and toast for the father in law on Sunday morning, oh, and coffee, oh and clean up his dishes, in their cabin, not ours.
-S gets swimmers itch
-Get an invite for bacon and french toast by the father in law, while I ( and the entire family) am still in bed. He apparently needed some more eggs too.

I am now doing my first load of laundry. We have had a very full almost 2 days. So far so good?? K~

You'll want to hear this one, hope it works!

Ok, Thanks to my friend Cindy, who finds stuff so perfect to share, it's not funny!!! This is so worth watching. And to all you mom's out there starting Summer Vacation...... You can share my new mom ode. Enjoy, and turn it up!! K~

Done

I have been working on a book about our family Sweden Genealogy for....well....for forever!!!! My dad liked this painting of a clipper ship. The title of his book is Waves, Ports and Clipper ships. So I set out to do a simple rendition of the painting. I finished yesterday. I have not done anything like this in a very long time. I traced the ship and then colored over the tracing and added black ink for detail. Kind of highschoolish, but I was pleased with the outcome. It could be, that I am just pleased that it is done!

K~

TOO MUCH!

TOO MUCH GOING ON!!

I am, yet again, overwhelmed!

I need to pull back, but how, when everyone has things goin' on!

I am going to go to my happy place this afternoon.

And if I can't sit still there, I am just going to bed!!

K~

Vitamin D

Well, I spent part of my Memorial Day setting up my nest area on my porch. I have a place for the animals and me to get our vitamin D. I am not quite sure Puff is happy. He seems to spend most of his time turning the color of his outside enclosure. The turtles are a bit ticked off too. But, I am happy!! K~

One big Bubble!!

This was a fun picture to take. C's "bubble gum" bubble.

She has a pink balloon, you know the ones you punch.

She had the idea of making it look like a bubble gum bubble.

Cute.

K~

Just a thought

Lord, please let me be the person my dog thinks I am! K~

mini veggies

I need some feedback.

I have created these mini veggies, etc. for a while now.

I was wondering if they would be worth pursuing as far as for a sell-able craft. Can you all let me know what you think about them and if they look interesting enough to go further with?

K~

In the last 10 day!

I feel like I have been out of circulation! The end of the year can get quite crazy at the Walsh home!! Updates are needed:

After S's birthday on the 1st. Our nephew from New York came into town with his mom and dad! That's him on the far left. He is totally in love with C. That's my God Child M in the baby bucket. He is the brother of I, T and F. sitting to the left of C. Then there is my crew, C, D and S! What a bunch!

My God son M. Chewing the finger off of my sister-in-law J. (not here child)

We entertained them until the 12th.

C had her 10th birthday. We celebrated it on the 12, 13, 14th (actual day) and 20th!!! So I guess that makes her 40 like her mom will soon be!! We had a teacher retirement party. D's teacher. Look out FALL!!


Bing had his surgery on Friday the 18th!

C got her yellow belt in Karate (self defense - it's all too confusing for me!) And broke a board in half.

D had his first baseball game and hit a home run!!

C and D passed into level 4 of Swimming and S is 1/2 through level 1!!

And a new little addition to the zoo - Peanut!

I am sure I am forgetting something. Oh yes and tonight, I am doing my first Pampered Chef Kitchen show since February! AAAHHH.

K~

Truly a Sandwich!

OK, I was just about going to check myself into the

nut ward ( that's what they call it, right?) at the hospital last night!

I have totally and fully entered the sandwich generation!! I am NOT prepared for this stage of my life.

K~

Happy Mother's Day!

What better Mother's day gift then

that beautiful smile from my now 10 yr old!!

Happy Birthday C!!!

Mom.

K~