Finished. All 27,000 stitches of it. Its so soft and blocked up very nicely.

Remember the song "Working on a Chain Gang"? My kids were probably singing it right about then. Not one of them thought well of me that afternoon. Oh well, I've always told them that I'm the meanest mom around. Do you think they believed me then? Later after all the rocks were back in their right places.....

We had a visitor stop by and take in the view from the corner of our deck. Quite tall he was.

After all that and the sprinkling rain had definitely started all the kiddos were rewarded for jobs well done. The ice-cream man (quickly becoming a fast friend) made an appearance and soothed every ones minds with some wonderful ice-cream treats.




Go! Jolie Go! Can that girl hula hoop! Wow!

Olivia's first date. Yes, I mean date. Though I have to admit to ignorance until the corsage showed up. This is Olivia's special friend, Tanner. He asked Olivia to go to the Sock Hop and low and behold he showed up all decked out and with the corsage. They were so cute together.

Olivia admiring her first corsage.

Above is the first race of the LandSharks. There must have been 200 people there, at least. This is the beginning of the 800M and Olivia started out in the front of the pack. She's the only brown headed girl in the red shirts. She didn't win, but she didn't come in last either.

Just a nice pic of Max relaxing. Wish I could do that. "grin"