Immortal Rose

First off, I hope the I spelled immortal corretly... no spell check on my camera phone :-(
Thought I should post some pictures of my latest hobby, origami ikebana. Japanese paper folding flower arranging. The rose pictured is made from a couple wires, floral tape for wrapping the stem, a piece of paper to make the leaves, another small square to make the calyx, and one square to make the rose bud. i'm very pleased with the end result. i have been making this style of rose bud for a couple weeks now, but i didn't make a stem with leaves untill last Sunday when i made a rose with stem and leaves all from paper for my grandma Delores. i made the one pictured last night at about one in the morning... i am a bit of a night owl. The thing that makes me ok with spending so much time on making a single flower is that this flower will never die.

Rainy days make me so sleepy.

I guess I'm not the only one! Kimi taking a nap under the umbrella I am using to grill. We are having the Bradys over for dinner. Make your reservations now! :-D

ET go home

Here is Dad in front of the house he grew up in (or didn't grow up :-D) In Appleton Wisconsin. it was fun to see all the places that dad knew. our classes were long and boring... well maybe that was only because they started in the middle of the night... 8am!

All cats all the time!

I also didn't want this to turn into a cat blog but Lana went all possessed and demanded that I post her picture. Now please, Lana, tell me where you put my family.

THE NIGHT IS YOUNG!!!

Marla Schumacher a I are off to meet Brett & Andrea for a movie in Maple Grove. Lots of fun! We are excited to hang out with them since it has been a while.
Picture 2: Marla, so happy that I am letting her out of the house... I do reward good behavior! :-D
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A New Day for Blogging!

Kimi pictures are always winners :-) This post is more or less an excuse to see if blogging from my cell phone is working. Any way, Kimi seems to go every where. So funny :-D
Picture two: Kimi looking innocent. Oh, and I promise this blog isn't going to turn into a "All cats all the time" blog!!

You wish

Don't you wish that this was your grandma? She's so happy. I saw this advertising while walking around in Wal-mart (a very frightful place, by the way) and it made me wish I had a yard to weedwack. I wonder how old the grandma is?

Lazy Lana

Here's a picture of my cat. Like me, you can often find her sleeping. This post is made via my cell phone. How rad is that? Super rad!

Mmmm bbq

Recently my brother Ryan and his wife Aubrey sent us a Weber big book of grilling cook book. Ryan got a grill for fathers day and has been grilling like a mad man since. So He wanted Rob to learn how to grill like him. So far Rob has been grilling really well. We had Bri, Lucinda, Andrea and Brett over for chicken kabobs. It was fun!

He's bringing sexy back

Last week Rob decided he wanted to bleach his hair. After a few hours of sitting and putting bleach on his hair, here are the results! I think he looks cute. He looks like a super hero now.