Dear, Oh Deer

Last night we discovered that deer have been feasting on our garden! Here's my proof:

Pictures of the hoof prints and my beets that have been eaten:


And my awesome purple beans that the deer also enjoyed:

Hum, deer must like purple foods!

Oh well!

Here is a shot of my onions which I have tons of, but deer don't like onions! Thanks Dad for getting me lots of onion sets! They are really yummy.

Here are my Lilies that I'm proud of, they smell soooo good. Every time I walk out onto my deck I can smell them.

Right now I've got some new potatoes cooking in the crock pot for dinner, I can't wait to eat them! The deer apparently didn't want to get it's paws dirty digging up potatoes because those weren't harmed! My Dad and I sure had fun digging them up though, it was so cool to pull the soil away and see fresh potatoes!

Summer Stuff

I'm putting the contents of several posts into one post because I've been having a hard time finding the time to blog lately. So this is sort of like an "all in one special", you get more for your money that way anyway.

A few weeks ago we went to the Cleveland Zoo, mainly to see the dinosaurs. Karilyn loved them!

Heidi was absolutely terrified of them. She kept saying "Go back, go back!" But then when we were done she kept asking to see them again. Hum...two year olds...?


We couldn't resist pretending to feed Diana to one of the dinosaurs, please don't call CPS.

Our sweet little Diana Rose turned 1 month old! We're enjoying her so much, right down to her cute little toes and button nose.

Last week we went to Tuscora Park in New Philly. We had a blast riding the rides and pretty much had the place to ourselves.

It was Heidi's first time to miniature golf, although I'm not really sure she understood the concept. It's a wonder none of us got hurt the way she was golfing...



Our sweeties on the 4Th

Karilyn has reached two major milestones!

She has learned to tie her shoes and...

She can swim on her very own. I'm very excited about this and so proud. Heidi is excited about it too, so excited if fact, that she wanted to take swim lessons too.

This is the before picture...

She did manage to get her toes a little bit wet, but that's about it. She wanted nothing to do with the teachers. Perhaps we'll try when she's a bit older.

And finally, here is a picture of Karilyn at her tennis class, which she loves.

Rolling Ridge Ranch

Yesterday we took a trip into Amish country to go to the Rolling Ridge Ranch. It's an 80 acre farm/zoo with all kinds of animals. We rode in a horse drawn wagon and got to feed the animals. Heidi was a bit afraid of the horses at first, but once we got going she was alright.

The animals would come right up to the wagon and we would feed them right out of our buckets. My favorite was the big elk, he was so cute. My least favorite was the ostrich, he tried to steal the bucket of feed by biting it and yanking it out of my hands. Some of the animals would follow behind the wagon hoping to get more food. Here are lots of pictures:

Diana Rose

is here!

She was born on May 27,2009 at 11:14pm.
She weighted 9 pounds 7 ounces and was 20 inches long.
She has blue eyes and light hair and is just perfect!

We all love her so much!






I delivered her at the most awesome hospital ever! It's located in Orville close to Smucker's. Dave, Karilyn, and Heidi took a field trip to the Smucker's store while I rested in the hospital and they came back with matching socks for all of us.

Here is our sweetie pie at one week old:

My awesome find

Today we went to do some fun shopping after church. I had to get my mind off the fact that I'm not at the hospital yet. So we went to Treehouse Toys, because they are having a moving sale. We got Heidi's birthday present and also found...



A card rack!

I was going to buy one pretty soon for craft fair purposes, but I was putting it off because by the time I pay for shipping I'd have to pay over $100. We found this one for $5.00! It has 64 slots. My other one only has 24 slots, but between both of them I will have 88 card slots.

Well, I can't go into labor now, I've got some serious card making to do!

Honey almost-done List

Dave has been hard at work getting a lot of our projects done.

The playroom is completely painted and done.

The crown molding is almost done. It would be done, but we need one more small piece.

The dining room and the laundry room haven't been painted yet because I haven't picked a color.

The garden is all prepared for planting and we've already planted raspberries (red and black), blueberries, strawberries, cherries, and grapes.

And the cat house is coming along nicely. He'd probably be done if I hadn't drawn him such a complicated design. It's going to be part scratching post/part house, complete with chimney.






I'll post pictures of our other completed projects when I get pictures.

What Heidi was up to last week:

So she may look sweet and innocent in this picture, but she has been up to some mischief this week!


1. She got out all the puzzles and mixed up all the pieces.

2. She smeared body glitter all over her hair, we gave her a bath.

3. She smeared shampoo all over her newly clean hair, we gave her another bath.

4. She ate all the tops off an entire batch of cupcakes.

5. She smeared puffy paint on the white living room carpet.

6. She caught my parent's bed on fire, it would have gone up in flames if my mom and I weren't right there huffing and puffing the fire out.

7. She fell down the stairs.

and last, for the grand finale,

8. She cut the cats' whiskers off while they were sleeping. Here is the picture, look closely. Poor Sparkleworks has whiskers that are about a centimeter long, and Smokey looks just as bad.



They will, thankfully, grow back, but in the meantime the cats may run into things. We haven't seen any of that drama yet, but we're watching and waiting.