pics from camping finally....

The kids and I talking a walk around the camp ground...
There's my boys playing cards.... Oogie won just about every game of go fish we played... must have been beginers luck....
The kids coloring and waiting for dinner to finish cooking richard made some great food while we were out there... we ate like kings....
Late at night the kids were finally asleep and we were playing around with the timer on the camera...
playing with the camera pic is sideways sorry this is the fire right after we threw another log on...

Our camping trip was awsome... We went for three days i could have stayed for a week.... We took Jess' two daughters Kayle and Lexi... Always interesting when you add more kids but they had a great time... We let them bring pirate swords and binoculars and they played pirates alot... We had a really nice site that was right by the beach so the kids could swim all they wanted...
Hoping to get out again this fall and hopefully we can wrangle the canoe away from my mom and dad and going canoeing as well.... well thats about it....

craftiness...

I finished the first attempt at calorimetry from knitty. It was a bust turned out way to big despite do a gauge swatch... so i am going to frog it and start it over. However, i did finish the second one which is a gift to my sick self to keep my ears out of the wind untill i am better... It worked out great and i also finally found my buttons so i was able to complete it. I finally got around to taking pics of all the wonderful items, however i don't have enough time to post them before i go to work... so if we're all lucky it will get posted tomorrow.... tata

Pictures from our trip to the family reunion...

My boys right as we arrived in Racine we stopped at our favorite spot and took a rest before we went to meet up with all the family... i love my boys...
This is the church we attended on sunday with several other members of Richard's family it was established in the late 1800's and some of richards ancestors were founding members.... It is a very beautiful church and there was a very wonderful service.
The oogie boogie playing on the tire swing that hung from an old walnut tree in the front yard of the family homestead.
being goofy at the the hotel... On our way home from the family reunion we stopped at the brookfield zoo in Chicago, we got ther pretty late and didn't have to much time be did have fun and got to see lots of animals... Jesse's favorite was the baby giraffe that is under a year old...

Oogie and mommy have some fun at the zoo....

Oogie picking out our next destination on the map he was the "line leader" of the trip....

loved these two monkeys just chilling on the cliffs across from each other....

After the zoo Richard indulged me and my love for sushi and took us out to a very nice sushi resurant in Chicago, it was great and Jesse even ate some sashimi .halibut, he didn't like the wasabi very much though.....

Our last day of the trip out to lunch with Richards mom brother and sister at a wonderful resturant called the yellow rose in racine.

This is the first set of pics from the last few weeks were we have been out and about exploring the world. We also went camping and have pics from the county fair where jesse and i entered several things those will come in the next few days... enjoy

love the covells

link-a-do

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a tutorial on how to make wrap around pants from miss kreant on live journal on our crafty grrl blog thank you thank you thank you..... so excited to make my own pair....

an interesting thought...

"My mother always told meif your enemy knows you and you know him really well and the better you know each other the harder it is to maintain a fight." ~ Dal LaMagna

In stating this he was talking about his trip to iraq to meet with various Iraqi goverment officials to discuse the posibility of a cease fire. He talks of how if we get to know these people more and understand them and give them an oportunity to get to know eachother better and maybe find a way to resolve so much more of this. The focus is that both sides do agree that al qaeda is this biggest problem. I find it so amazing the things that this man is doing and i feel that he is an amazing person who is so admirable.... I could only hope that i would be able to follow through so passionatly about my beliefs. Needed to put that out there....

home again home again jiggity jig

Well we made it home miracles never cease... relly dreading heading to work today especially since i have the house to myself as R is at work and oogie is at omas. Being a little lazy this morning.... working on getting pics up today before work or maybe after work depending on my motivation cause as we all know i have none most of the time... really need to get cracking on harvest moon festival... going to send in my aplication hopefully tomorrow... we will see if i send it in the mail i should be fine, i hope.... anywho... going to get some breakfast going will post more later...

Eyes to the skies...

we are off tomorrow morning at 230am we leave the house to fly to chicago. Looking forward to spending sometime with my boys and getting to do some fun stuff the first day the rest of them well it is a family reunion so it doesn't really qualify for a vacation but hopefully we will be able to drink enough i won't have to deal with the stupidity. Well here to getting on our flights stand by... will post pics upon return