Happy 1 st Birthday Miss Fynnlee

It is hard to believe but it is ever so true, our Fynn turned one on Sunday. We had a family birthday party for her Sunday afternoon, the weather was gorgeous and it was a fun family gathering. So happy for Whitney and Fynnlee that they have had this beautiful year together. Whitney is a fantastic mom and adores her baby girl. They are perfect together. I think she had a pretty fun day on her first birthday.

The birthday girl in all her glory

Whit and Fynn getting ready for some cake

 

 

 

She loved the frosting

Jaxon and Fynnlee

Brayden loves the pool

 

 

 

Helping herself to mommys food.

Bed hair, bath and other goodies

Fynn spent the night the other night and this is what she looked like when she woke up... that is some bed hair!

 

I gave her a bath in the kitchen sink and love this expression

 

She was sooo tired at family bar-b- q today.

Georgia enjoying some chocolate pudding!!

The Story of 2 pianos

Oh where do I even begin... When George and I were married for about 4 years, we bought a little Baldwin Paino for $1,500, we made $50.00 a month payments on it until it was paid off..for a little struggling family this seemed to take forever!! This little paino has brought so much joy and happiness to our family, it held up well with all of our moves and has a beautiful sound to it. Back in 2010 we had the piano for about 26 years and it was looking haggard..it needed refinishing and I had intentions of doing that, but one day George and I were at St.Vinnies and it just happened to be half off day, we were there looking for something in particular and there in the back sat a baby grand paino for $500.00, it didn't look so great and was in much need of some tender loving care and George asked me if I wanted it, I hesitated but decided that I could make this piano beautiful once again. So we paid $250.00 and during the summer of 2010 I refinished that piano... there is a blog post about it back in May and July of 2010... so in the meantime I gave our little Baldwin to Melanie and her family, then they moved back to SC and she gave the piano to her friend and they kept it for me for a year or two and then they moved to Spokane and she asked me to come and get the piano.. well I had no where to put it since all the rooms in my house were full.... so my good friend from work offered to let me keep it in her garage until I could get it back into my house...well Whitney bought her own house and moved out in April so this gave me a spare room... Logan and I loaded up the piano and brought it back home. For the past month or so I have been busy refinishing this little piano.. the sound is still fabulous and it is back where it belongs... the baby grand sits in the LR... I now have a music room... pics of that to come soon. So that is the story of my two favorite painos.

Dont think picture loaded.

This is a picture of the top of the paino...varnis was coming off and it looked a mess

All kinds of scratches in the music stand....another hot mess

all kinds of stickers on the keys

this is the bottom covering during sanding

I had to completely sand the whole thing down, it was hard work but needed to be done

Ta Da... the finished product! So happy to have it back in my home!

Look Who's Turning ONE!!!

It's hard to believe that this little Nugget is about to turn 1 on Sunday... it has been such a fun year watching her grow from from a tiny baby to an almost toddler! We love her so much along with the other grandchildren, they bring such joy into our lives! Fynnlee is not walking yet but she is very close, she will stand but gets a little scared to take a step, she loves Itsy bitsy spider, and patty cake. She knows "more" in sign language, she is crazy for Gram Gram ( me).

 

 

 

 

 

 

River Front Park

Last week I had Friday off and it was such a beautiful gorgeous day so the girls and I and the kids met at River Front park for a picnic and some playtime. So fun watching them play together and basically grow up together, Makes me so happy to spend my time with them.

 

Jaxon, Brayden and Georgia waiting to get on the Merry go Round

Kim and Brayden

Jaxon blowing bubbles

Brayden helping Georgia with her binky

Jaxon playing on slide

Georgia

Brayden

Brayden and Georgia

Steph and Jaxon

Georgia

It's going to be a fun summer

Whitney hosted her first family dinner at her house the other night for a little going away party for Logan who will be leaving on Saturday for a 2 month road trip with his friend...anyways the babies were drawn to the pool and that is where they stayed for at least an hour... like I said..it is going to be a fun summer with these little ones.

 

Fynn is skinny dipping!

Jaxon

Oh how these two love the water

 

 

 

cute expression on Brayden's face