Chinchilla

Today Jess brought a chinchilla over for Sierra to see. Guess who wants a Chinchilla now.

DuBord Backyard Get-Together

1^st Annual DuBord Family Party

Wednesday, July 18^th, 2007

We started out sitting around the deck area talking and eating. The rest of the evening we played:

• Horse Shoes
• Bocce Ball (new to most of us)
• Norwegian Golf

The temperature was perfect after a hot day…it had cooled down just right. The sky was clear. The lawn games were a hit. Everyone stayed busy and had fun. The party ended when it got dark and the mosquitoes came out. Most of us had used the new bug spray that doesn’t feel oily, but the mosquitoes seem to find all those areas that you didn’t spray, like your forehead. It was a weekday evening so 10:30 was a good time to quit anyway.

It was suggested that we do this each time that Bekki and Jason come home.

Click here to see the pictures that I took:

http://barbspictures.phanfare.com/album/333840/478978#imageID=21820114

A Day at the Zoo

My granddaughter, Sierra, loves the zoo. This week my daughter, Jamie,
invited me to go to the zoo with them.

Sierra's favorite animal is the horse.

They always end their visit by riding the carousel and checking out the gift shop.




What a nice way to spend a day with my daughter and granddaughter!

Christmas Card in July

Our son, Jason, and our daughter-in-law, Bekki are currently here from Denver. So our family got together for supper. We realized that we might not all be together like this before Christmas, so........... this would be the only time we could take a picture for Christmas cards. So here it is folks........... a preview of our Christmas card picture, taken in July.

Running Thru the Sprinkler

Remember when getting wet was this much fun?
This is my granddaughter, Sierra and her cousin Zak.
They're both three years old.

Shingling the Garage

Our house was shingled years ago but we never got around to shingling the garage. Well..........finally it's done! Dave stripped the old shingles off on Friday, July 13th and our son-in-law, Ryan came over Saturday and shingled the whole thing in no time flat. (He does this for a living.) I helped.....ha, ha.......I carried a bundle of 5 shingles to Dave. Dave handed them up the ladder to Ryan and Ryan nailed them down. Ryan was so fast that it took him the same length of time to put them down as it took me to get another bundle. It looks nice. (So why didn't we do this ten years ago?)

4th of July

We had a good 4th of July again this year. We always get together at the lake with all the Grovers. This tradition probably started before I was born. About twenty years ago, we started taking a yearly group picture. One of the walls of our cabin has of most of the pictures displayed on it. They are fun to look at. It's fun to see to compare one year to the next. This is the picture that we took this year.

Fun Funeral?

Last week I went to a funeral with my mom. Joy, a friend of mom's, died. I know that this sounds disrespectful, but I really enjoyed myself. We sat with a couple of my mom's life-long friends. These gals have all belonged to Homemakers together since I was born. Being with these women and listening to the reminiscing took me back to my childhood. This is a picture of my mom, Edie (in the middle) and her two friends, Betty and Norma.

Summer School Field Trip

On June 27th, I drove a bus load of kids to Cash Wise for a tour.

Cash Wise sent home a goodie bag with each child containing fun things like magnets, pencils, candy, pop, and more

The kids had a good time. Thanks Cash Wise!