Family Day with the Harty's

We had to help dad and Ann with a few projects around their new place, so we took the opportunity to do a little prairie dog removal.

Mikaela and Mathew spent some time with Grandma Ann

Mikaela was saying bye, bye and I caught her moving her hands. It was so cute.



Uncle Eddie showed up and Mathew sure enjoyed him.

Cooper and Mathew were busy playing, but Mathew wasn't so sure about the mufflers.

The hat looks so cute with his little boots.

Grandpa Hugh with Mathew & Mikaela

Grandpa with Cooper, Mathew, & Mikaela, the other grandkids hadn't arrived yet. Cooper is my little brother Ed's son and he is 5 1/2 weeks older than Mathew.

Since it was Father's Day I made sure to take one with Mathew & Mikaela with daddy.

Cooper loved sitting on top of the tractor tire.

Embroidery Names

This weekend we spent at my parents. On the agenda was embroidery on mom's machine. I had this panel I wanted to put a name on and it went on so easily. I designed it on the computer and sent it to the machine and it worked so well.

So then I did another one on the embroidery machine. This one was a little trickier! It worked out well though.

Then I did my brothers cap and sweatshirt. It actually worked out pretty well and I was able to get them both done.
Sat. night we all went fishing at the river. I caught 1 and Paul caught 3 catfish. On Sunday morning we went shooting at my brothers. I hit a few clay pigeons and we shot through a whole box and a half. We picked wild plums in the afternoon so dad could make jelly this week. The weekend went by very quickly, but it was a lot of fun.

Mothers Day Weekend

This weekend I took off from work early on Sat. and we went to my parents for the weekend. On our drive Sat. afternoon it rained off an on, but at one point we saw this beautiful rainbow spanning the horizon. The best part was you could see all the colors, both ends, and the top, which I rarely see. Since we were driving I couldn't quite get a picture of both ends. When we got home, Paul installed the quilt rack he made for my mom for Mother's Day. It's awesome! I have pictures, but they haven't uploaded yet.

We planned to go home this weekend because my little bro also had the weekend off and wanted to have a family shooting event. He had bought 3 boxes of clay pigeons and we were shooting them. Paul was using his new shotgun and the shell release stuck, so he'll have to get it fixed. He used my dad's double barrel and got quite a few pigeon's. Clay pigeons are round disks the size of a small planter bottom and they are painted neon orange, so you can see to shoot them.

He shot quite a few of them, as did both my bros. I shot Ed's new 12 gauge and I hit more than I missed, which was pretty good considering how many my bros missed. I have a very sore shoulder today though, since it has no butt pad, and has a kick to it. We had a lot of fun and I got a nice sunburn on my head. We spent the afternoon at the river fishing and I took quite a few pictures of the full river, but they haven't uploaded yet.

We had lunch at my bro & SIL's house so I took a picture of the pillows I had made them for Christmas. It's the first time I remembered to get a picture for my journal.