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Since my mom will be arriving home this afternoon its time I take Ziggy home so he is there to greet her when she arrives.  We've all enjoyed having him here.  With the two dogs (one young and one old) it is quite a contrast.  Ziggy sleeps a lot and is slow in all his movements.  Shaggy pretty much bounces everywhere he goes!  You can see that Ziggy has really aged when the cat and he have become...

So yesterday we went to see Bill Engvall at the fair.  And while I love Bill Engvall's comedy, I wasn't quite sure what we were in for?
Since I'm not a HUGE fan of the fair we decided to go up about 6:30 to walk around before the show started at 8:00 pm.  You know the kids are growing up when they just want to hang out with their friends and no longer want to go on any of the rides!  That's what...

I really enjoyed working with the kit this month and just love what the entire design team did with their kits!  You can see their work here 

Wow I can't believe we are almost in the month of August - where does the time go?  Soon its back to school and a quiet house with Chelsea gone to college and Zach into high school.
Chelsea's done with work until she's home on breaks throughout the year so we decided to plan a few days out together.  We want to get to the zoo, the Columbus Zoo but the day we wanted to go the forecast was rain all...

While finishing up my projects with my Work In Progress Kit I also wanted to start with some creative ideas for Christmas.  I know its only July... 
I don't know about you but it seems every year I have the best of intentions to make more gifts and yet when I get into that time crunch, I run out of time.  So my thought... start working on them now.
make a list of people who I need to get gifts...

Got this idea from Jen and some of the links were also found there!
I had a warning which I did not heed and have found another addiction, which I will warn again here...  This link is to a highly addictive game Bubble shooter Here you can find your blog's readability level. Spending some time today making my own bows - you can find instructions here Seen a family tree at reunion and was told you...

At least for a little while...
Chelsea came home from camp and had a blast!  She loved it!  Got to make some new friends and learn the routine for guard.  This weekend was for the new kids and then regular band camp with start in the middle of August.
After she arrived home and Joel finished up some of the yard work we headed out to the park for the family reunion.  We got there kind of late...

Another quiet day here with Chelsea still gone at Color guard camp.  She should be home later this afternoon then we are going to a family reunion.  One which we haven't attended in a few years?
Before we do that I have to go clean the clubhouse for Lisa.  It was a job I did for 6 years until I decided to give it up and have Lisa take over.  Now I just fill in here and there when she needs help,...

I was so sad to hear Randy Pausch passed away yesterday.  He was the professor from Carnegie Mellon University who gave "The last lecture".  An amazing in site into life and how to live it from a man with only months to live.
It is time for me to begin The last lecture as my next book to read
You can find his last lecture here
And here are a couple amazing quotes from Randy Pausch
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Is this a preview of what its going to be like when Chelsea leaves for college?  The house is so quiet, even my phone hasn't rang at all today and I'm used to phone calls and texts throughout the day. 
Not so much today... since Chelsea is at her first weekend of band camp for Kent Color Guard.  The only conversation we've had today was via text messaging when they took a break for dinner. They...