Remembrances of Paris and Rome

We loved the riverboat cruise on the Seine.

Castle views as we traveled on the ship.

Linda, embarking on a Roman excursion.

Making a wish at the Trevi Fountain

St. Peters Basilica was stunning.

Site-seeing in Rome.

U.P. Pics

Here are some more pictures from the visit to the UP.

Hope everyone is enjoying the last days of summer. It went by too quickly!

Love, Debbie

Blokus

I gave Adam and Isaac the game Blokus for their birthdays. Hope they love it!

Welcome To the Double Digits!

We had fun at family camping. It was a great time also for Adam to celebrate his first double digit birthday. Most of the rest of us have been in double digits for some time.

Adam and Isaac were checking out the greenbacks in his birthday card.

New Furniture . . . addendum

By the way, even though they don't look like it, both chairs are recliners. Yeah!

New Furniture

Carol and I went shopping in Green Bay and I found two chairs that I really liked. Unfortunately I couldn't come to an acceptable deal with them, but I was able to make a great deal with a shopkeeper in Pestigo. Would you believe that he had relatives in North Lake just like we did? He is even going to deliver the chairs free of charge. They should be arriving in five weeks.

I had to make sure that the chairs complemented Ziggy and my couch.

Heavenly Yard

This is one of my favorite pictures of my yard.

Angels Looking Over Us

Angels looking over us.

Windchimes

I love my new wind chimes.

He Really Loves It!

You can tell he really loves it. I like to think it's a designer bowl for a designer dog.

Ziggy's New Water Bowl

This is Ziggy's new water bowl.

2010 Ping Pong Olympics

Firstly, I want to thank Joy for organizing the 2010 family camping (a.k.a. Cousins Camping).  It was so nice to be able to drive up and not have to worry about anything.  That was a real gift to me!  Joy also started a fantastic tradition - The Ping Pong Olympics. It was a blast.  We were having so much fun that the folks at the campsite across the road asked us if they could buy a ping pong ball from us because they wanted to partake in the games as well!  Like a great sportswoman, Joy gave them the ping pong ball free of charge!  Way to represent Joy.  They returned the ping pong ball in the morning and insisted we also take their professional grade orange ping pong ball. I love the community in action.  In the picture above Ryan and I were trying to bounce the ping pong into the plastic cups from a fixed distance.  The ping pong ball had to bounce once before it entered into the cup.  We then had to retrieve our own balls.  It was a battle to the end when I had a lucky hop off of a piece of gravel and landed the ball in my cup.  Victory!

Adam and Isaac had a great competition trying to blow the floating ping pong ball in one cup into another.  Isaac made swift work when he landed the ball in with a huge breath like that of a dragon! 

Linda must have been practicing this at home - look at her technique.  She edged out Carol but Carol received the best splash caught on film award! 

Umm.  What kind of face is that?  Ryan schooled me in one swift blow.

 

Winner!  Addy!

Faith really held her own!  She loved her prize:  beautiful smelling lotion!

Look at the concentration on Adam's face - it is unparalleled.

Winner! Joy!

Happy Birthday Lovely Linda!

L: Lovely Librarian

I: Intelligent Industrious

N: Noble Nurturer

D: Doll & Dahl

A: Angelic Admirable

We Made It

Another Edition of the Outlook!

Another edition of the Outlook is done. I was quite happy with how it turned out. If you take a look, you might notice that Tracy and Emily Ann inspired me in the selection and composition of the cover.

Linda