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1.  Trim willow tree
2. Edge bed by willow tree
3.  weed
4.  move 10 ton of riverbed gravel to beach and willow tree
5.  cleaned out fire pit
6.  add stone to beach area
7. add stone around pool
8. add  stone to front yard
9.  add stone to walkway around barn
10. dig out trees in back bed
11. trim trees and shrubs in back bed
12. watch a movie and relax
Before

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but today its back to work.  With 10 ton of gravel in the barn driveway and 8 yards of mulch in the house driveway, I'd say we have our work cut out for us!  I'm hoping we get lots done with no poison ivy encounters?
Here's some of our 4th....
We celebrated Zach and Cameron's birthdays and Deb found these adorable Horton bags at Target and I don't care if the kids are 20... they still love getting...

my new camera bag.  The camera bag arrived today and I absolutely love it!  After getting another new lens I knew I would want to change them more often and realized it was time for me to get a good camera bag.  I had been looking online for a while and kept coming back to the Tracy Joy bags.  I love how you can buy additional flaps to change out the bag.  Here's what I started with.

Did...

summer day at Cedar Point.  It was for Zach and Cameron's birthday except Chelsea and Ben had to work...

 
The kids went on this one!

We were hoping to get more pictures of Terry and Chel this past weekend, but we ended up not going camping.  Since Terry loves getting his picture taken and doesn't have a daughter - Chelsea tries to fill both those voids for him! 
And just the fact that I haven't posted any pictures of Terry for a while...
 
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to think about or check out...
Something I read on Slacker mom's blog that really hit home... along with a lot of other things to think about! If God led me to it, he will lead me through it...
If your not a stalker, I mean reader of Christine Middlecamps blog than you might not of seen this bit of information on easy to use daily wallpaper quotes for your computer?   Check it out here, ...

The gallery is up at Work in progress - Here are my layouts that I did for the July kit.




For my 911 book I found pictures of the kids in 2001 to document how young they were during this time.  I journaled about my feelings of what was going on at that time.

I can't believe how much I'm into this show!  In fact I've even gotten Chelsea into it and we are both hoping next week she picks Jason.  But for anyone that knows Ron who works with my husband, would think that Jesse and he are brothers?
Jason
Age: 31
Occupation: Account executive
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
Currently Resides in: Kirkland, WA
Jesse
Age: 26
Occupation: Professional...

Not much going on today, and that's a good thing!
Joel did his usual working in the yard and Zach and I ran some errands this morning and then came back home to get some work done around here.
Then it was back indoors to work on some more cleaning... are you ever done? and some scrap projects.  I ran out to Cord Camera to pick up a few more things at their clearance sale - all of what I got was...

Wow, saw this over at Two Peas.

Best Wedding Toast Ever!!!! (Amy's Song) - Click here for the funniest movie of the week