My Two Munchkins

Sunflowers

I don't know if you remembered but my late FIL was a gardener.  He was a great gardener.  Every other saturday, he will drive down from his house and do the gardening at our house.  He love it because he gets to come see the girls and also go out to lunch with hubby.  And also our yard is the best looking because we had a Japanese gardener doing it. 

Well sadly a couple of years ago, he was in the accident (he hit the wall of a market - he blanked out and he thought he was hitting the brake but he was pushing the gas pedal).  So after that accident, he gave up his gardening job here at our house. 

We hired another gardener but he isn't the same as my FIL.  So in front of our house, we have a half moon for growing flowers.  But we can't never grow much in this plot of dirt. 

Well, the girls decided they want to grow some sunflower seeds they got from Target.  I told them to see if they can grow anything in the dirt in front of our house.  Well, they dug a hole and put in 5 sunflower seeds.  Well, guess what, 2 out of the 5 germinated.  See below:

 

The one on the left is still growing and has not flowered yet. The one on the right you can see the flower petal and the seeds are still green.  The two plants are over 6 ft. and still growing.  I am wondering what our present gardener is thinking when he sees these two plants.

Big Basin, CA

Early in June we went camping.  This is going to be our traditional thing we as a family I think will be doing as long as the girls want to do.  The weather was great and our campsite was great.  The only fall back to this camping trip was we were eaten alive by the mosquitos. We had a late raining season so the bugs were in full bloom.  Of the this trip, I took this great foto of the girls and hubby.  Noone was around to take the whole family pic but that is okay - I don't really like to be in the picture.  Here it is.  The branch actually bent - mother nature way.

 

I have decided

I am keeping this blog but only to show you my amateur pictures.  I bought myself the Canon 40D a couple years ago - I was tire of getting blurry and yucky pictures.  I am still doing it but I know better.  I took  a very basic photography class on how to shoot that perfect picture without really trying.  Yes, also I took another class Canon was offering when we were in Yosemite last year.  So with all that knowledge - I am still an amateur.  One day I will get there.

Here is another picture I took while were in Alaska:

 

this and that

I was trying to figure out what to do with this blog - in the beginning I wanted to log in on all the stuff for the girls - it was heaven sent because I had a great time with them.  Now they are both entering soon to be "tween" and they don't want me to follow them anymore and yes, they want to be alone.  So my big debate, should I shut it down because I am on Facebook most of the time or just keep going with this blog but writing about something else.  The big problem is what is this something else???  That is where I am going.  So I am going to think this over and come back with my decision soon.

 
 

This is for your viewing - one of gazillion picture I took when we went to Alaska.

She is growing up too fast

Well, last week we went to the eye doctor's office and pick up her new glasses.  These are the glasses she want because she is currently reading book 6 of the Harry Potter's series.  When we were in the office, I could not get her to try on any other frames - she was so determine on this "Harry Potter" glasses.  So without much ado - my nerdie girl - new glasses, new braces and new haircut.

 

 

done

Yesterday I took the girls for their school clothes shopping.  What a big mistake but at least I am done!!  Yeah, I can actually say I am so done with all school shopping.

We went to 3 shops - Gap, Justice and Children's Place.  In each of these stores, both of them just went their separate way and came back with piles of the clothes they want to buy.  Being the Mom, I had to say "no" to this and that.  They both have a firm idea what they want and luckily Justice had a 40% off on all items. 

So after 2 hours and Mom just keeping her cool, we were done with clothes shopping.  I don't want to go near anymore shops with these two unless all their clothes have holes in them.

I told their Dad he is so lucky he doesn't have to take them - they are both so much into "tween" clothes and they are happy with what they bought.

Here is the updated picture of them:

 

test pattern

Recently I have found out I cannot upload my picture(s).  So I have sent a trouble ticket to the wonderful people at Typepad.  They advised me on what I needed to do  - I had updated to Internet explorer 9 and I put in the adjustment.  So here is my first attempt to upload again.

 

 

Waaalaaa - here is my test picture.  An F/A-18 F Super Hornet on top of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln docked in San Pedro, CA during Navy week.