Renee Pebbles!

Cute as Pebbles Flintsone!  See the bone in her hair?   Pants a little long, but bet she'll wear this again.

Learning to make a "piggy face" for Grandpa Steve!

Daddy brought home a new kitten for Renee on Halloween morning!  Her name is Boo!

 Jessica says Boo isn't afraid of Renee.  She sure is a cute kitten. 

I've been busy outside the last couple of days.  Didn't get pictures taken, but will in the morning to show you what I've been doing.  My back is sore from all the shoveling!  I'm now in my way to bell practice.  Have a great evening everyone!

Our 2010 Halloween Visitors!

Our Halloween Visitors last evening!  They were all so cute.  We had 20! 

Popeye and Olive (granddaughter) stopped by on Saturday nite.  Too cute!

Waiting yet to get baby granddaughters pic from Louisiana.

Busy Hands

I've been busy making hats (crocheting) and also made granddaughter Renee a Halloween costume.  She is now 15 months old, and Jessica pulls her hair into a little pony tail directly on top of her head.  So she is going to be Pebbles Flintstone for Halloween.   I got some  cougar cat looking material and made her a little off one shoulder top and pants.  I hope they fit her.  Kind of hard when she is so far away!  Then I made her a little bone and tie for her pony tail.  Of course, couldn't just send the outfit.  Had to get a little pumpkin for our pumkin!  I had some books, but they didn't fit in the box, so will have to send them later when I'm using a bigger box.  The postage on this little box was over 8 dollars. 

Then I've also been busy making the hats.  Sit and do that when we're watching tv at night.  Not every night, but I'm getting quite a few done.  Want to get more done for a little craft show that Leah and I are going to have a table at in late November.

When I had the camera out the other day Odda, sat down, and I felt her saying to me,

"I'm good, take a picture of me!!!!!

Yesterday I started cleaning out the little barn shed that we have stored all our extra outdoor stuff in for years since the girls got done using it as a horse barn.  I'll have to finish today.  What a dirty, dirty job.  This is where all my garden stuff is stored, and overflow of everything from the barn to yard to house!

Start of another nice weekend here.  Have a great one y'all!

Halloween Memories

Steph (3) and Leah (8) with their pumpkins in 1975.  Jessica wasn't born until 1979, so only the two girls in this picture.  Uncle Vern and Georgia were here helping them.  A get together every year!  Pumpkins with curly hair!

Goodbye Halloween 2009!

It snowed yesterday and last night, and woke up to this...........

Later this afternoon, as it was warming up a little, the sun tried to peek through. Forecast for next week is looking better.

Some of our trick or treaters!



We had the normal number of kids come, and our last visitors were Vivie and Gabby - they walked right in and made themselves at home!

We had a good visit with them, their father and grand father. I wonder if they already had enough sugar in their system. Look at those smiles! The girls played with Hooch, and shared their suckers with him. He sure liked that!!!!

The bottles of candy were hits with the kids, and the kids had a good time trying to figure out how to get the candy out! Most of them were small enough to think that all they had to do was to take the cap off.

Vivie and Gabby helped themselves to our other candy (less for Steve and I to eat later) and they had Hooch doing tricks for dog treats. They especially like the trick where he is sitting on hind haunches and front paws up in the air with a dog bone treat on his nose, sitting for a minute, and when we tell him to "get it!", he tosses the treat up with his nose and then catches it. He was in good form tonight and crawled on the flower, rolled over, danced and played dead when they shot him!

When they left at 9:45 pm, there was frost on our wood patio out the front door. It was slippery! So as the temperature gets lower tonight, I'm sure the roads may be a little slippery. Glad I'm home and not having to go out in the cold. Hope the snow melts off tomorrow.

Now we wait for another year til next Halloween.

Happy Halloween!!!!

Happy Halloween to everyone! Pictures of grand daughter Renee all ready for Halloween! She had a doctor visit yesterday, and now weighs 12 lbs 11 oz. She is growing good! Still has the heart monitor on, but hopefully soon that will be off.

It will be a cold evening out for trick or treaters this year. Will have pictures tonight of them. We have snow on the ground - yuk! It was really nasty yesterday afternoon and evening with big wet snow falling, and staying. It should be warming up next week, and then the snow will melt - we're not ready to have winter quite yet.

More Halloween Memories 1979!

Stephani got water up her nose! Cousins Max and Daryn waiting their turn to bob for apples.


Great Grandma Arvilla and Jessica when she was 4 months old. I think little baby Renee Arvilla looks alot like her mommy!

Treats for Halloween!

Today after getting home from buying groceries, I've been busy making Treat Bottles for the little goblins that will be coming on Saturday - Halloween evening. We usually don't have over a dozen kids come, so I figured this would be fun to do for them. I saw this at a craft show and thought it was a very cute idea.

I bought the small bottled water and saved the water in another jar. I don't usually buy these small bottles, but it'd take way too much candy to fill the bigger bottles. I used a serated knife to cut off the existing label; saved it and used it for a cutting out a new band out of craft paper; it was about 2" by 8 1/4". Then I cut the bottle almost in half. I didn't want to wait for them to air dry, so pried the bottle apart and dried them out with a dish towel.







Filled them with candy and then put scotch tape on to hold the bottle together. Then I put on the new decorated band and used double sided tape to hold that, then put a Halloween sticker over that seam to hide it a little. Then I put some more filler candy in through the top, put on the cap and then tied on a scrap of halloween material to cover the opened seam on the cap.



The kids will get a bottle of candy and I made up extra hot pads out of left over Halloween material, so the Moms will get a new hot pad! I'm sure some of the smaller kids will wonder how I got the candy inside the bottle!

Getting ready for Halloween 1978

Leah, age 11, (of Living It Up Country) and Stephani, age 6, with our dog "Blue", a barn kitty and their pumpkins! Pumpkins are so fun!!!!!!!!

That was about the time we started our TUB for collecting Halloween clothes, and dress up clothes. One Tub grew to two TUBS, etc. and finally, the clothes and accessories took up two of the largest TUBS you could buy. We had old nighties - really pretty ones that I picked up at garage sales, etc. An old wedding veil that was mine, a Chinese outfit, square dancing dresses and puffy slips. Old mens suits, shoes, canes, suspenders. Old sequened dresses that the guys used to wear to dress up like fancy women; wigs; hats; dog and cow costumes; containers full of makeup and lots of other stuff. We used stuff out of those TUBS for 4-H Share the Fun skits throughout the years, and everyone in the neighborhood would come to borrow from those TUBS for Halloween! Lots of neighbors (Adults and Kids) for their parties. We had collections of masks from pig noses, to very scary ugly rubber masks, with my favorite, the big guy and gal rubber mask, that we'd wear the largest bra we could find (it was HUGE) and long flowing skirts, and the guy in pillow stuffed big overalls.



It was 2 years ago that I finally decided that the TUBS of clothes HAD TO GO! Someone else could be caretaker for all that stuff. Well, the girls each took some, and the rest got donated! Kind of miss all those fun days with little girls getting so excited for dressing up to play make believe; for Share the Fun skits; Halloween with kids in the house! I know our girls instill that fun in their families, which is good, because I'll still get a call from one or the other asking - "Do you know where that mask is? I want to use it this year!"