Fried Snickers and a Ribbon

Us girls went off to the county fair today to see Arielle's entry in Computer Graphic Art - Poster category. We couldn't find it at first which scared us a bit because only those that place are displayed. We finally found it with a pretty blue first place ribbon on it. Yeah for Arielle!!! Click to make bigger.



She uploaded the original onto my hard drive so I could share it with you all.



The fair was unbelievably crowded. Here is the line to the bus to get to the fair. It's only about 1/3rd of the line. We waited 1 1/2 hours to get on the bus.



It was $2 Tuesday - which means that everyone got in for two bucks and every food booth had $2 tastes of their food. Just about all of the food was fried - white castle burgers, oreos, snickers, frog legs. The one that made my heart constrict was the deep fried Krispy Kreme chicken sandwich consisting of two original donuts sandwiching a breaded chicken patty (then they deep fry it). We shared a deep fried snickers and deep fried s'more. The s'more was pretty good. I wasn't brave enough for the frog legs or the Krispy Kreme sandwich.

Our fried goodies and a huge lemonade that we kept refilling. It was HOT!



Michelle won a big dragon throwing darts at balloons and Isabelle chewed on a BBQ'd corn cob for a few hours. It even made it home. It was a great day.

Arielle's Graduation

I tried to freeze time, but I couldn't. My little girl graduated high school.

Rod and Kristy flew in from Bremerton this morning. It's so great to see them!!

The day couldn't have been smoother. Doug took Michelle and Dakota (neighbor's son) to school and let me sleep in until 8:00am. That put Isabelle and I in a great mood. We cleaned up a bit and had breakfast. Isabelle and I got dressed for the big day, dropped off Arielle for her senior breakfast and rehearsal, and then went to pick up Rod and Kristy from the airport while Doug went shopping and picked up the kids from school.

I pulled up to the terminal just as they walked out the door. Everything was going so smoothly, I was just waiting for something to happen. Well...exiting the airport we saw a Honda and a Lexxus collide right in front of us. I sat there in my Jeep, gritting my teeth, praying to the Graduation Fairies to make it all go away. They did! After the two drivers talked and then laughed, they both drove away. Yahoo! We were back on track and flew home after a brief trip to Trader Joes for cat food - so Charlie would allow us to cross the threshold without some scars - and a much needed nicotine fix for Kristy.

We swung by the Pier, grabbed Arielle, bought lunch (authentic Mexican of couse) and went home.

We only had a short break before Doug had to take off to save us seats at the ampitheater and Arielle had to report in.

The rest of us joined them an hour later to a great view. Her graduation slide show.

After graduation - I was good by the way, no hysterical sobbing - we walked to the end of the pier and ate dinner at Ruby's.

I'm so very proud of my baby girl. Graduating with honors and with two art scholarships. She's going to do great at UAT.



Arielle accepting one of her scholarships a few days ago.

It's 11:00pm and eveyone but me is happily passed out. I'll be joining them all soon.

She's growing up

Tomorrow is Arielle's last day of high school. It's so hard to believe.


Here we are together when she's 18 months old. I miss the snuggling.



With her Daddy at the zoo.



Hanging out with Poombah.



Hugging Michelle on Halloween.



Dirt biking it in San Diego.



A snowball fight in Tehachapi.



Saber Princess



Senior picture.

I'm so excited for her. She's heading off to UAT in September and starting a new adventure, but at the same time I want her to stay forever.

And ever.

Socks

I bought tons of sock yarn from my favorite online yarn store, grabbed my knitting needles and waited for the yarn to arrive. It did and I was sooooo excited, but wow that's a lot of socks to make!



So, naturally, like any overwhelmed knitter...

I made these kitchen hand towels instead.



And then this dishcloth...



Alright, enough fooling around...

I ignored the pile again and grabbed a pair of socks I started for Arielle before Isabelle was born. Then I put down that project to "organize" my yarn and unfinished knitting projects for a few days. But I persevered and finally finished Arielle's socks. I dragged them everywhere that my hands wouldn't be occupied by steering wheel (that one's negotiable) or Isabelle.

Here they are...



Feeling great about finishing projects, I picked up a sock I started for Isabelle a while back. It's so cute with pink fur on top. Of course, by the time I finished it the sock was way too small. Isabelle likes to play with it, so it lives in her toy box.




Now I've started a pair for Michelle - dragging them everywhere too.



I'm sure I'll be "re-organizing" my stash of yarn and unfinished projects soon. Or maybe, I'll get adventurous and pull out and "organize" my unfinished sewing and quilting projects.

Or, maybe I'll join Charlie and take a nap.

Isabelle's First Easter

Doug's mom used to tell me that I was the most disorganized organized person she knows. Which would explain why I am so behind in my blogging. All the entries are organized and pictures picked, just nothing posted - yet. I'm about a month behind...

Easter was a lot of fun. It was just us this time and we stayed home. Isabelle had fun hunting for Easter eggs in the backyard. She caught on pretty fast and she liked the one's that jingled (money makes a fun sound surrounded in a plastic egg). Being more excited about the eggs themselves, she willingly donated all her money to Arielle's college fund.

I made a crazy cake that took me a couple of hours to put together. It was a Rocky Road Death By Chocolate Cake. It was pretty good and very rich. We could only have little pieces.

Our neighbors liked it too!