Fun Loving Blakely Turns Three

I will never forget where we were the day Blakely was born.  We were in Spain at a little English Pub after feeling ready for some 'different' food from the Spain massive buffets.   We had ordered Fish and Chips with Mashed Peas.  It was yummy!  About the time our food arrived, the waiter brought the food and we told them we just received word that our granddaughter had just been born.  The entire restaurant celebrated with us.
After that marveleous 2 - 3 week Medeterarrain trip, we rushed down to see the little angel,  Blakely Oneal Scrivner.

And today we drove back to Texas to help celebrate her third birthday.

Arriving on Friday Night

Papa shows off funny faces on his IPhone

The Party Sign is Hung ....

Where Are My Little Friends

I'm Getting My Shoes On And I Am Ready

My Cake Arrived and It is Beautiful

Almost Time For the Party To Begin

DeeDee Decorated the Tables

And Hung  The Balloons

And Children Began To Jump on the Trampoline

Daddy Gets One More Love

Some Cousins Arrived

Watching The Zoo Go Together

Then They Began To Sit Up The Petting Zoo

Uncle Chad and Lauren Came Too

Hello Nanny Goat

Finally, Everyone Could Go Into the Animals.

A Brush for the Goats

My Party Is Fun

Forget the Chicken Nuggets and Fruit, It's Time For Cake

Blakely Eating Her Sugar Pig

And Slidding Down the Slide

Daddy Helps Play With The Toys

Barbies, and More Barbies, and More Barbies.

Finally, I put on my Hat for DeeDee!

Birthday Parties Are Fun.  I wear my Hat with The Barbies

Life of a HomeSchooler

Rosie, Lily, Elijah, Devin and Hailey are all homeschoolers.  On this particular, they were gathered at our house at lunch time.    It was a beautiful day so we had lunch together out on the deck.  Elijah was at his co-op Latin class and had to wait and eat later. 

After lunch, Devin and Hailey had Deuteronomy and Shakespear to read.  They take turns reading while the other listens. 

Come on, pretend this is a lot of fun. 

Take note of Devin's new haircut and Hailey's new braids. 

While in the house, Lily is working on writing her paper about Russian Eggs. 

And Rosie is doing her Math and writing a poem. 

April calls Papa her 'substitue teacher.'  Interesting job for the Papa.

Man's Best Friend



A Man's Best Friend


A Faithful dog will play with you
And laugh with you and cry...

He'll gladly starve to stay with you

Nor ever reason why...

And when you're feeling out of sorts

Somehow he'll understand

He'll watch you with his shining eyes

And try to lick your hand.




Come on, let me lick





 His blind implicit faith in you


Is matched by your great love

The kind that all of us should have

In the Master up above.



When everything is said and done,

I guess this isn't odd,

For when you spell dog backwards,

You will get the name of God.



Ahhhh, that's better








Max's grooming by Pawcasso