World of Color

Yes, another science project!
Love them! It makes it fun.
Her lesson was on the spectrum today.

Weekend Fun!

This past weekend, we headed down to my sister's house to attend my niece's birthday party!! She is turning 11 next weekend. She had a bowling party! All the girls had lots of fun. I was going to bowl also, but left my socks at the house. Maybe next time. I did not take many pictures with my own camera because I was to busy taking some with my sister's. I have never shot with a canon before and thought I would try it. Let us just say I was lost with all the menus. I have not seen any that she or I took with her camera, but I am looking forward to it. Here is the only one that I got of Mana with mine.

Science is FUN!

One of the advantages to homeschooling is that I get to be there to do fun science projects with Mana! We had the best time today. She started the chapter on Light. We talked about translucent, transparent, opaque and shadows. Here are some of our pictures from projects in her science book...

My 38th!!

Most women I know do not like to tell their age. That does not bother me that much! So I turned 38 yesterday!! It is nice to know that everyone this year was celebrating on my birthday even though they might not have known it!! I love when my birthday falls on Labor Day!! The weekend started off well with the hubby off work, barbecue and Alabama football with family, a photo shoot and lunch with my friend Sherry! Then, I come home to my hubby with a stomach virus. I was about to call a redo for my birthday weekend!! My dad came up to visit me for my birthday and helped fix the lawn mower and cut the grass since Brian was sick. Mrs. Jean and I trimmed bushes. Thanks Dad & Mrs. Jean!!! We got a lot done!! So that made things better! It does not look like I live in a jungle now. Brian felt better on Monday. My sweet daughter made me an artist cat, card and decorated the house with streamers! Very festive. We had pizza and watched television all day! Just a nice relaxing day! Just what I needed. Plus I had several call and sing Happy Birthday!!

My Birthday Breakfast

The Artist CatMy Birthday Card

Birthday flowers from Dad & Mrs. Jean

High School Senior Photo Shoot

Sherry asked me to help her on a photo shoot on Sunday. We were to take pictures of a high school senior at the gardens. I thought I set my alarm when I went to bed the night before. I woke up at 5:30 am to let the dog out and found out I did not set the alarm. So I set it. Then I woke up late. To find out, I did not turn it to ON. Thank goodness I was only 10 minutes late!! I arrived at the gardens and Sherry handed over the camera to me. We took turns through out the whole shoot. We had a bunch of fun and worked really well together. I miss doing photo shoots with her. We have both been so busy here lately! So here are a few of my favorites from the day....

Locks of Love part 2

Wednesday, Mana decided that her hair was long enough to donate to Locks of Love again. The last time she cut her hair was when she was in second grade. It has been two and a half years to grown her hair out 18"!! I wish my hair grew that fast!! Last time she cut 14" off!! She was getting a lot of tangles and it was getting to long for her to wash well by herself. A sure sign it is time to cut it all off! She has an audition on Saturday, so I told her that she had to cut it this week or wait until after she found out if she got a part in the musical. She would have to wait two weeks for that. I emailed a friend of mine for an appointment and she got her in for Thursday. Mana had a hard time deciding what length to cut it. She decided on chin length again. I love her hair what ever length it is, but it is really cute in a chin length style!! Since the audition is Saturday and the only headshot I have of her is with long hair, we had to have a quick photo shoot! Now, I will have to go and pick up the headshot today. That was not in the plans, but I am sure glad I thought about the headshot before Saturday!!!!

The first cut!!
Mana and Ms. Jessica after she cut her hair!!

Flip Flop Cakes

Mana and I went over to my sis-in-law's house today to help her with a very special project. RK's birthday cake!! It has been a long time since I decorated a cake and I would have to say I was a little nervous about the whole thing. Carlye had the cake cooked and cooled by the time we got there. It all went well if I do say so myself! Of course, I could not resist eating some of the outside cuttings of the cake. They are always the best!! Cutting the cake into the flip flop shapes was not to hard, but icing the space in between the two flip flops was. We managed to do an acceptable job. We had to put the icing and fruit roll-ups in the refrigerator several times because it was just way to hot and everything started melting. It did not feel that hot in her house, but it was for the cake. Pulling the fruit roll-ups off the plastic to form the straps was the hardest part of the whole thing. Overall the cakes turned out well and RK loved them. That is what really matters!! Glad I could help with her cake!! Happy Birthday RK!!

Happy Birthday to my nephew Justin also!!
He just had a birthday!!

The girls had a great time playing dress-up while we made the cakes!