January Overnight 2010

The big meet and greet at Grandparents house
Davanni's

Pizza

Whistling Straws

Marco
Polo

Walgreens

Outdoor Christmas Lights

103.3

Apples to Apples without Kevin

Apples to Apples with Kevin...way more fun!

Elf

Rob Roy

Kevin Home - YEA!

Spoons

Pokemon Cards

Drawing Dogs and putting in frame

Reading Manga Books

Pokemon trading card game

Charlie #3

EAR WAX removal

Gordon Dioxide

Catherine's Sketchbooks

Awesome!

Taz the spaz and the mirror

Email card from Taz

Melted the Carpet with the Iron

Squeak the Rabbit

Land of Fantastic Names

Captain Hammer Appearance

3 Blanklets

Lizzy jealous of HP blanklet

Make Bed Area

Multigrain Cheerios to eat

Multigrain Cheerios as damage markers

Who sleeps Where

Nighty Night

Morning light

Cat up first

Sam and Jozie Next

Jozie writes Part I

Chris Up....beautiful as ever

Kevin showered!

Last up is Lizzy but way early for her

French toast - secret ingredient

Family Tree-the beginning of the project

Kevin leaves...tear

Pack-up

Load Car

GLEE soundtrack

Havin my baby

The big drop off and parent reunion

Whew...we made it another year!

Thanks....it was fun!

Orpheus

Grade 6 rendition of Orpheus during their Greek Gala (12/09). Sam plays Orpheus. A friend of ours made the lyre. They also had a planetarium, presentations and more. The entire team (all subjects) worked on Greece/Greek things and this was the culmination. They all had a lot of fun planning and executing this event.

Simba - Auggie

In case you don't keep up with my personal blog or my facebook - Simba went to a not-for-profit on Tuesday of last week - he was given lots of kisses and love and so far is enjoying playing with all the other dogs in his transition home. They will analyze and background check potential owners & determine the best fit for him, he just really struggled with meeting new people, especially boys & kids and bit a friend of mine on Thanksgiving & tried to nip a 5 year old and was getting worse seperation anxiety. It was very tough becuase I love Simba very much, but I am confident that he will be happier. (and can check up on him & so far he is doing great).

I would like to introduce you to the newest Potts family member, Augustus - Auggie for short.

His birthday is 9/30/09 and has been with me for a week now. Joe surprised me (he went to look at Auggie but told me it wasn't the right fit/time but than turned out Auggie was curled up on the couch when I went over for dinner after work!) So far he is awesome, and will never replace Simba but I am enjoying having him in my life as a new buddy.

PS Grandma I will email you the rest of the puppy pictures per your request :)

Labor Day Weekend

Spider web in the Pinecones by Lizzy

Catherine took this photo but it was Lizzy's Idea!

View of the lake thru a glass of wine!

Cornflowers by Cat

Wind Blown Flag by Cat

Paper Wasp Update

So the bees were sent into another plane of existence.

In the pics below you can see the clump of bees. At this

point they were all mushy together decaying in a clump,

probably around the queen, which we could not find.

In this pic you can see the white honeycombed

protection over the cells where the bees are

turning from a wormy thing to a bee. If you

look close you can see a bee that had been emerging

just as the nest came into its demise.

This is what it looked like after I took the saw

to it and cut it in half....It was a very interesting

experience but it did have an oder of rotten trash.

Click on pictures to enlarge.