After being in Missouri off and on all summer, i have seen several Dillard but never when i had my camera with me! Well behold this evening i got an up close and chance to grab my camera and get photo’s of Dillard. Most people don’t care for them, but i think their neat looking.
After a fun filled weekend, it was a busy week with lots of things that had to be done and to top it off. Hailey was born with a birth defect in her upper neck and has to be extremely careful in things she does. Anyway a high school boy picked her up and slammed her down even after being told her neck is very fragile. So Thursday was spent rushing her to the doctor in Springfield, IL to be checked out by her specialist as her neck was hurting after it happened and her mom was called after she got to school. Hailey was upset as she thought she wouldn’t get to get to go camping with us this weekend as we had planned.
Luckily she checked out okay and xray showed no injury and she got the okay to go camping with us from her doctor. So after an hour and half drive back to her house and around 5 pm it was time to get her packed up and ready to go with us. Hailey is spending 4 days with us in Missouri for the holiday weekend. It will be the first time this summer that we’ve actually gotten Hailey to ourselves without having to share time with her little brother.
We are all so excited! It was a very long day and lots of driving and finally arrived around 10 pm!
Of course the first thing Hailey wanted to do when she got up the next morning was for papa to take her fishing! She loves to fish and as you can see she is proudly posing for a picture with the fish she actually hooked and reeled in all by herself with no help from papa. She was so excited about her catch and she thinks her fish is as big as papa that he caught.
Later that day Hailey and papa went fishing again and Hailey proudly shows her catch.
Here are some pictures of Hailey, Sierra & Gordon showing off Hailey fish. While we were down at the fishing hole they showed up with their parents.
Dailey showed up with her grandma, papa, mom & dad and wanted in the picture too.
After they finished playing with the fish, papa took it back to the camper and we headed to the swimming hole. The kids wanted to play in water where they wouldn’t bother the fisherman and they wanted to hunt for crawdads. As you can see they found some nice one and had a blast searching for them.
At the end of the day new friends said goodbye and it was a weekend full of fun and pure enjoyment of spending time with our precious princess and new friends we’ve made this summer. The next morning we got up around 7 am and by 9 am was on the road back to Illinois.
It was a long drive and i was glad to arrive, drop Hailey off and went to spend the night at Gabe’s place. I had several errands to run and then it was back on the road again to head to Missouri to pack things up and head back to Illinois. Our summer at the ranch is close to coming to an end.
Aug 28 – Sept 3, 2009
After a day of kids, it was time to get dressed up and go out for the evening. Friends of ours daughter was getting married and we promised to come back to the wedding. Here is a picture of us with our granddaughter Hailey, we took her to the wedding with us.
I did manage to capture a picture of Kevin & Jeanette our friends i mentioned earlier in my blog.
Here is the proud parents of the bride. Our good friends Roger and Sandy. We all seem to clean up nicely!
Here comes the bride & groom. Hmm there is no sun but they don’t seem to understand that … think it’s because of the flash or is this a new trend?
Uh oh … look everyone i caught grandma doing the jitter bug! Wow can she ever jitter. Guess no one has let Aunt Mae know that she is suppose to sit and look pretty as grandma of the bride … Aunt Mae you go girl ( Mae is not our aunt, she is actually Kevin aunt .. his dad’s brother wife, but we have always called her aunt mae too)
Here is Aunt Mae & Deana maid of honor doing the jitter bug and i finally got their front side … hehe (deana is the bride’s sister and aunt mae grand daughter)
Oh now, look! 2 rotten teeth guys hugging … OH my what is gonna happen next at this hoot of a party?
finally we have the father/daughter dance, what a sweet precious moment for both
Then they had the traditional dollar dance and here is hubby and i both doing our part. If there is any DJ’s out there reading this. I have a question??? Why do you always wait until later in the evening to do this after most of the generous elderly people have done left the party? I have never understood why the dollar dance is not done earlier in the evening before those older folks who don’t like the loud music leave and who are also the generous ones … anyone got a answer for me?
Of course i had to fight my way to the groom as these two were trying to cut in line for their turn to dance with the groom! I had to beat them off with my cane! Since i wouldn’t let them cut in front of me, look what they did. Look out now guys i have it in color and you better be digging up some big time green backs now …. LOL
Well Mr. Billybob finally got his chance to dance with the groom, although i’m not so the groom was a thrilled as Billybob … LOL
Billybob finally got the laugh he wanted, the groom just couldn’t not laugh esp when Billybob hair got out of place .. I’m telling you all this Billybob is a hoot and the belle of the ball … ooops wedding.
Wow Grandma (aunt Mae) finally jitter bugged herself out … or hmmm did someone remind her that grandma’s are suppose to sit and look as beautiful as she is here?
Billybob ( Mike’s … brother in law of the bride .. wife of the maid of honor) daughter Sierra decided to take her chance at the outfit, although she is adorable … love ya Sierra
We had a great time at the wedding reception and it’s been a wonderful day of visiting family and friends. We were both exhausted, Hailey was wore out from her day of fun and it was time to say good bye, hugs and head on the road to an hour drive back to our son house.
Hope you all enjoy the pictures, i can not began to describe the fun we’ve had tonight
Aug 28 – Sept 3, 2009
We got up very early, around 5 am and headed back to Illinois for some time of visiting family and friends.
Papa went to look her old bike over to fix it and he told her she was right, she needed a new bike the old one was worn out. she ran into the house grabbed the picture of the new bike she had already picked out and said let’s go to Wal-mart papa. He tried to convince her to wait until tomorrow but she politely let him know they had enough day light left to go get the bike and for her to get home to ride it. Yep, you got it, off to Wal-mart we went and we were back with plenty of daylight for her to ride her new bike. Of course i took these pictures the next day.
Of course Toby man had to have his papa time in as well. He is a papa boy big time! For me he screams and throws big time fits, but for papa he does great with no problems! Yes, you got it, makes grandma furious … little fart!
Of course, he couldn’t pick the cereal off he plate, papa had to pick it up and hand each one to him. Then we needed some milk with our cereal. Of course as you can see Lexi was a bit jealous and had to get as close to papa as she could also. She doesn’t like sharing and is very jealous of esp the grandkids and the other dogs, esp our Lucy dog who is a daddy girl big time as well.
Hailey was eating her basic junk food she loves to eat when grandma is around and Tob man was chasing the dogs with his sister stroller. Hmmmm i remember Hailey doing the same thing to poor Bambi (her dog) when she was the same age … LOL We spent Saturday babysitting for the grandkids while mom and dad were both working. It was a blast but man exhausting.
Another day of fun fishing! I guess you can imagine we’ve been eating lots and lots of fish! Although i have to admit i can eat fish everyday and not get tired of it. Well trout anyway. I love fish and freshwater trout is one of my favorites.
As you can see these are nice size trout and they make a tasty meal. Were having a great time just relaxing.
Several people on the ranch are having slide out problems. Hubby is finally beginning to understand why i keep saying i do not want a slide out. Once they start leaking most times it’s too late the damage is done and they are a real pain and very expensive to get repaired. One poor couple just bought their camper less then a month ago and the husband just recently had foot surgery and now their having camper problems.
Skip took us in his truck to Lowe’s to get the flooring on Wednesday i believe and it flooring had to sit inside our camper in the middle of floor for at least 48 hours before being put down per the recommendations per the instructions and for the warranty.
The dogs have been great and have stayed in the front of the cab part of the RV while the men have been working hard. Although Lexi kept her eye on Skip the entire time he was inside and when he first came in she was okay, but the minute he turned his back to walk in the back part of the camper she went for him. Luckily i was there to catch her and scold her. Although it was hard to scold her for protecting her domain.
I’m so excited to be getting my new flooring, it’s going to look really nice once it’s done. The guys have worked all day cutting and between an afternoon shower. Tonight after finishing up for the night, they have the flooring installed to kitchen sink … Yeppie i love it!!
PS … Ignore the messy camper in these pictures, but the guys are working and gotta have their stuff everywhere. I’m not complaining and esp since Skip is such a good sport and cleans up after he is done. Lenny take notes!
I’m finally getting the wood floor i have wanted for over 2 yrs now! The carpet in our camper was most likely as old as the camper as it appears to be the original carpet and even though it wasn’t completely stained up it was getting harder and harder to clean and this year i made the statement the one thing i wanted done this summer was the old carpet pulled up and some type of wood or linoleum flooring put in. Well my constant complaining has paid off and today is the day!
Hubby and I worked on tearing out the old carpet and what a job that has been. Man oh man they didn’t go sparely on the nails they used! After the carpet was removed and man am i ever so glad we did it by ourselves. I am embarrassed to say the dirt and sand under that carpet was so embarrassing even for me to see. After sweeping and then scrubbing the wood under the carpet.
A tip to anyone who uses the sprinkle carpet cleaner. When you vacuum and you think your getting it all up … think again you will be shocked how much stays hidden in under your carpet!
Sorry guys, no pictures and i glad i didn’t it was just to embarrassing to see the dirt under there. It’s been a long day and were both exhausted and calling it a night.
After a long shower were going to go sit outside and visit with friends.
