Lex is chalk art.......

Lex made me a play dough plaque

Lex channeling her inner elephant today

Multi tasking

Here's Liv working her ds and laptop all at the same time. It's all about the Pokemon......Silver and Gold versions have restarted the passion...that was temporally on hiatus for almost a year and half!

-- Sent from my Palm Pixi

Happy 4th of July!

Lex made this beautiful patriotic fruit salad.

We did something we rarely do...

we ventured out on a weekend day! We usually try to avoid crowds and it being summer in a tourist town and 4th of July weekend...it's like a triple threat. But free admission to Pfac intrigued us. We have never been before, so we packed a afternoon snack and headed out.
"The Common Object" exhibit had each painter incorporate an ordinary dishtowel into their work. Here are two of our favorites:

We got to meet and chat with the artist of the second biggest collection "Pencil to Paper" there. She lives locally and was working on a huge canvas piece...it was very cool to see her work. Other than sharpies, pencils plain or colored are Livs favorite medium to express her self artistically...so she really enjoyed her collection this one of glass bottles could have been a photo, it was really really good.

Here's Mary Lee Ruff talking with Liv (out of the shot)

This is a very different sculpture of St Francis by Emanuele De Reggi it depicts him in his youth at the moment of his discovery of his harmony with nature.Here Lex tries her hand at still life drawingsSnacking and playing outside the art center:

Our garden view this am.

These are limited views, the side beds are not shown. But it's come a long way! Tomatoes are just starting to appear and we're still waiting on zucchini...we've got our hearts content of cukes and they are very yummy! Milder temps made it quite enjoyable to be out here this morning. Next year we'll work more on pest control and maybe less variates...a lot of what we planted, herbs, broccoli ,peppers, beans, lettuce, melons, strawberries have been destroyed by various critters. Learning-takes, life's full of them!!!

Let these two get a bit too big and fat...they are from the side beds and both were growing on our neighbors side..the one on the right started growing tru the chain link in our fence causing the scarring and deformity.

Eclisped!

I met up with the girls today around 4pm ( they had a sleep over) and we saw " it"!!!!...#3 in the series. We loved it!

Real or Fake?

Fake.....Lex, my budding make-up artist has perfected her bruise making!

She been making them with crayons....we have all looked quite battered these past few days. = D

Avoiding the heat!

We may be turning into vampires...ok maybe that's extreme...more like nocturnal beings. We avoid the hot day(100 degrees + all week) sun and have started waiting till near sun down to go out and play. The girls already stay up later than both Wilks and I now ( at least when he has to be at work before noon). This past week I ran errands during 9-5 hours as needed, but the fun usually starts most days after 6pm!

Monday night the girls and I headed over to BG to see the new Ireland dance show “Celtic Fyre” and for the girls to ride the new 'Europe in the Air' ride, they got a simulated ride over some of Europe's most famous land marks. We did actually go to girls group Monday too from 1-5pm (they wouldn't have missed it for the world...not seeing everyone for over 3 weeks they couldn't wait to go!!!)

Tuesday we ventured out during sunlighted hours...but it was to a darkened movie theater. We saw "Toy Story 3" and "Marmaduke " On the way home we went thrifting. We got a new hamster cage for the new baby that's coming our way thanks to Amanda. We also got some great books.... dirt cheap.

Wednesday we had friends (Garell gang) over during the day....a few of us went bowling and some of us ran some errands. After 5 I packed a light dinner and we headed out to York River Beach.

Liv requested a hair trim after showering off from the night at the beach.

Thursday, hottest day of week...we waited till the sun was well on its way to setting till we headed to the first night of the James County Fair. Here is a picture of the setting sun near chickahominy park.
The main reason we wanted to go to the fair...was to try out the mega mess-less paint ball attraction...Lex discovered it was not pain-less ...she still has two bruised welts on her leg from the hits she received. OUCHY

They loved the petting zoo!

Good thing about the 1st night of the fair, it's usually not that crowed, bad thing more than half the attractions/events they advertise aren't there yet...the girls had the bouncy rides almost to themselves =)

We found this cool play ground when we where leaving the fair grounds.

Friday was Wilks day off and everyone slept in. He gardened, took care of some errands and took the girls to the beach after an early dinner...I thought they may want to go to WC since, Wilks has not gone this season yet...but the girls wanted to beach it.

Besides the over the top temps we wanted to avoid this week...we also tried to avoid all the bugs..several tick bites this week...tons of mosquitoes feasted on us....ahhh the good old summer time! But all the yummy fruits make up for it.... the peaches, cherries and melons have been scrumptious...we can't get enough. And now that our gardens' so well established we can't wait for some equally yummy veggies!!!