The Art of being a flower girl...

Three flower girls...Ashley, Grace, & January...

At my son Kirk & Lindsay's wedding last month- niece's Ashley, Gracie, & dear friend's daughter January (Isn't that a beautiful name?) were the angelic flower girls... White chiffon flowing gowns, little caps sleeves, hair brushed---and I must tell you- they each had shorts underneath because after all being a flower girl on the water---there's a lot to do after the ceremony!

January & Gracie (the little one)

You get ready to take pictures with the beautiful bride...

Bride Lindsay & her flower girls

When picture taking is over~ you head straight to the dock to do what you love to do...find crabs, fish, etc... Oh those beautiful white dresses!

The girls had so much fun! It was so special to be part of this wonderful & blessed event.

Soon they will be flower girls again...

Like sweet little fairies~ my granddaughters ran up our family property to the ceremony just before the bride made her entrance~ last May-08

Last May our granddaughters were honored to be flower girls for our oldest son's "Uncle Joey's" wedding ... This year they were asked to be flower girls for our youngest son's "Kirk" wedding, along with a dear family friend's daugther... My granddaughters have grown by leaps & bounds~ and are looking forward to make this exciting trip to the next wedding ceremony... I'll post pics of this year's wedding in September.... Stay tuned!

Girlies~ with beautiful bride Jodi

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Broken Arm...

Oldest granddaughter with a boo-boo...

It's the call we all hate... we were away taking our granddog to the vet~ when our daughter called. Our oldest granddaughter fell out of a tree and broke her arm. Did I mention she is always climbing trees? And as we know what goes up---must come down--and down she did. She will be alright- 5 weeks in a cast. And did I mention this is the SECOND time she has broken her arm climbing...ummmm I think she needs wings- all tomboy.

I couldn't wait to have a "girls" weekend...

We made soap in my soap kitchen...the fan is to allow the soap to "cool" faster....clever.

My youngest granddaughter looking quite sassy & happy at her creations...

The final project. My oldest granddaughter decided to label and package the soap all by herself. She named the soap "Mystery Soap." I thought this was genius because she can make soap of any color, any batter, any fragrance and they all can be called "Mystery Soap." Now why didn't I think of that? And she's selling them to family for three dollars each.

Settling down for bed. This was the first time we all slept in the Carriage house on our property... It was fun- the girls had fun and so did our dogs.... I told the girls they could stay up all night... I think I heard snoring by 9:30 (smile)....

Also if you have a minute... Ginger from Enchanting Cottage had a beautiful post for Spiritual Sunday about "A pray for Grandchildren."

Let it Snow!

Youngest granddaughter with sweet Sam~ Charlie & Bella in the background

The girls...at the top of our driveway...

I had an unexpected visit from my granddaughters last nite. It snowed and both their mommy and daddy had to work through the nite. My daughter works at a hospital emergency room; while their daddy was out clearing streets... SO the little ones got to play a bit in the snow. It was fun, and cold and our dogs bee-lined all over having some fun too!

Hey what a one-two inch bit of snow will do for a lot of fun!

Homemade Biscuits...

Start with wholesome ingredients...flour, egg, peanut butter, water

(don't worry it's an older jar used many many times!)

Weekends are great~ especially when we have visitors...it can make life so fun! Tonight~ to give mommy & daddy some quiet time- we grabbed the granddaughters and made Dog biscuits.

Don't worry about getting messy! It's always okay at Gigi's house... In fact the messier the better the batter will taste! Hey they worked real

hard so they should sleep real good tonite (smile)...

The spectators were hit by flying flour!

Charlie & Bella~ Cinderella wait for "anything" to fly off the counter....

Here are the final biscuits~ let's just say they are super floured! That's my girls!

The house smelled like warm bread baking---yum!

POST SCRIPT~ I used recipes from the THREE DOG BAKERY

book by Dan Dye & Mark Beckloff (thanks Teresa I meant to add this...) and one more thing that was fun for the girls to clean up with Twin Birch foaming hand wash! See pics below.

Whaaaa--almost gone! This was one terrific and

long lasting foaming hand wash

from Heather at Twin Birch Bath & Body...

Little Money Makers......

Making Pine Cone ornaments for their tree (ha!)


This weekend started by having the kids & grandgirls down to our Eastern Shore home...Grandma (me!) would do an ornament project with the girls and let the big girls go shopping for the day.... So what started out as a Pine Cone decorating display turned into a little money making venture for my granddaughters... The conversation started out like this, "Gigi- maybe we can sell the pine cone ornaments for 25 cents to your neighbors (they were suppose to be for their tree)" and I said, "Ummmm...let's wait for mommy to get home" (smile).


But instead my oldest granddaughter then decided we would take them to the holiday party (at my oldest son's home I blogged about here) and perhaps they would sell them for 25 cents each there or 2 for a dollar (cute). So later that night- the 25 cents Pine Cone ornaments soon went for 1.00 each because the 1st sale -turned out to be a 1.00 (ya know keep the change...)

Beautiful glittered Pine Cones...

My granddaughters made LOTS of money...even took the Pine Cones that their mommy bought and re-sold them!

That's my girls!!!!