The little pianist!

I am sorry...I had published this post and then decided to make the pics larger, but I see Mandy and Cindy had left comments, and I think I have lost them now. Anyway...just wanted to tell the story of how Emily discovered this piano in the back of a restaurant, and she touched a few keys and it made sound...she was surprised. I was watching her from our table...she immediately came running over and said, very excitedly "Grandma Julie, come see this big black thing"!!! We laughed so hard.

Anyway, she charmed the manager and we had the best time watching her...she played it very theatrically (just banging on the keys)and cracked us all up!

Here are the little musicians pink toes in her newest pair of thongs!

So sweet!
xoxo- Julie

Happy Labor Day!

Today Donovan was at his cousins house, so we had a holiday with Emmie.  First she played in the zebra pool, while Grandma Julie watered and picked okra. Then I put a few natural elements together for some art fun outside. (Pics to come). We all went to the Ale House for lunch, then to get Emmie some new shoes. She got a pair of Croc- like Tinkerbell ones...purple with sparkles...and a sparkly pair of flip flops.  Then we took a nap and. ..oh...the two shots of the stump with flowers growing out were found outside the Ale House...I just thought they were beautiful...such a lovely surprise to add to our already perfect day! Hope everyone had a great weekend too! P.S. The cute grasshopper came to visit us on our balcony in Orlando Saturday night.
Xoxo- Julie

I'm in Orlando!!!

Newly refurbished Lego World one place we visited. Here are a few pics of some Lego statues outside. I drank a rum runner, and 2 beers and now my feet and ankles are swollen...I am to be up ay 7am when the pool opens. This trip is grownups only...starting early with a few laps in the pool before breakfast.

After dinner fun!

I raced home from work, and made a stop at the scrapbooking place for some Halloween papers to use to cover my mini book that I am making in the shape of a haunted house. Oh yes...I found everything cool for it. Then I raced home to find my DIL had made dinner. I raced in to eat. Then...the most amazing thing happened...

The kids and I started turning an empty diaper box into a haunted house!





I used all my papers to decorate floors and walls. We have one outer wall of the house that has a spooky black tree and owl silhoutte, and my daughter made windows for the outside that showed ghousish figures inside the house. I cut out big blocks of one paper that had different characters on them, and glued them to the indoor walls. We got this far in about 2 hours...and we have a pretty cool looking haunted house! Now each day until Halloween we are making paper furniture and I think a black chandelier, and a few hanging spiders would be cool. Donovan really had fun watching it come together. It's a group project and we are all contributing. Daughter is making an orange couch as we speak! What a really fun evening! Gooooooooooooooodnight!

Emmie turns 3!

Emily turns 3 on this upcoming Tuesday...she had her birthday in advance at a park yesterday where there is a little water play area attached. Loads of fun for the kids, for sure. Her Mom made a butterfly cake for her. Pink and purple, of course!