HOORAY FOR THE 4TH OF JULY....

We were in St. George on the 4th of July. We went to the early
morning breakfast and the parade and all the festivities at the
park and the fireworks that night....FUN!

We were sitting right where the temple was the back ground
for all my pictures, loved that!

Camels? Well we do live in a desert and it was a nice hot day!

Waiting for the parade to start, yes he makes a good pillow!

Yay for the awesome fire fighters, they have had

so many fires to fight this summer in Utah!

HAPPY 4TH AMERICA...WE LOVE YOU!

I love all the old trucks...

and red cars!

I won 4 tickets to go see a play at Tuachan...so excited!

The thing about parades that I love the most? The kids!

This guy caught my attention...
or at least his bird did!!! Pretty cool.

On to the park where they had, can you guess?
A watermelon seed spitting contest, great fun!

The park was full of people and children...they had a
100 foot water slide going on the kids who LOVED it!

I found some darling material...

at a thrift store in the form of Mini-skirts, and since I don't
wear those, I thought I would make them into this....

Two little pillows for my front porch!
They turned out cute, love them!

Found this little one at a thrift store too...so cute!

Oh, and I found the grasses in the basket at that same
thrift store too! So cheap to get the porch looking cute!

Our little St. George Cottage...we are really loving it! Still
hoping and praying for a buyer for our main home so we can
get fully moved here.

The fire works were shorter this year but awesome!

Loved every minute of it!

The city had them being set off from 3 different places...
it was so beautiful over the temple too.

When we got home, I open the door to the back deck to find...

Mrs. Hen...she had taken over my basket of flowers on the back deck,
for her roost! She said that she was just guarding the place...sure!

We have had some gorgeous sunsets lately...

See...I told you...gorgeous!

Then on the weekend, our local town held a 4th of July
celebration. That is our little grandson Kelton sliding
across the canal.

This is my husbands brother Newell. He was in the parade because...

He is running for county commissioner...I love his old red beauty!
I hope he wins because he is a great guy who could do a lot for
this county!

Our grand daughter Ronnie is a cheerleader and they were
in the parade too.

Way to go cute Ronnie...she is the tiniest, so

guess who gets to be the one they throw in the air!

Loved this darling team of tiny horses...

We were parked right by the canal, I think that was Cougar 's
favorite part of the whole parade!

Well, that it from me...3 posts!
Hope you enjoyed them.

If you don't hear from me for awhile,
I know, that you know, where I have gone!

LOVE YOU ALL
JULIE

WHILE WAITING FOR SPRING....

I am trying to keep busy while I wait for Spring to show her lovely face.
I changed out the winter bedding for summer bedding, that felt good...

although I keep reaching for more quilts at night, as the temps drop.

I took a walk around the property, taking pictures of our animals.
I love to see the horses happily eating, and the pole? It's because
the one on your left tries to to shoo the other one away so he can
have the hay all to himself, the pole seems to keep him on his own side.

I had to stop and give the chickens a treat and talk to them, a
couple of them are sitting on eggs, maybe we will have babies soon!

Samantha seemed to love to pose for me...she was sitting on top of
the chicken run. How do you like the background? I love it too!

Posing again against the chicken coop...
I loved the wood grain behind her.

Everyday, these two cats bring me 3 dead mice...
they love me you see and want to share their catch
of the day. They leave them on the mat at the back door,
I make my husband toss them away when they are not
looking, don't want to hurt their feelings you know. ;D

See that tiny little guy...well, he is the boss of the big guy!
Do you want to know how I know this? Well, whenever I
throw the big guy's toy, (see it in his mouth) he is not allowed
to go get it unless he asks the permission of the little guy! When
he finally gets permission, then he slowly sneaks up to his toy
and gently picks it up! Shih Tzu's are small but large in charge!

But Cougar doesn't care...look at that big smile! He knows that
he is the younger brother and it's just fine, he's a happy camper!
Yes, camper...he is sitting on our picnic table like he belongs there!

Samantha is showing off again, she raced ahead of me to show
me how fast she can fly up the tree and out onto the branches!

Then she was showing me her newest trick, of how
she can shimmy down as fast as she went up and
do it sideways too...I was impressed!

Remember Bobby? He is the little cat that came crying so loud at our
hotel room door. Starving and freezing on a COLD winters night. Well
of course we took him in and we even brought him on that 3 hour ride
home. He was so sick and he nearly died...but look at him go now!

He was up in that tree with Sammy and they were wowing at the
birds in the tree that would get just close enough to get them all
excited but not close enough to get caught! It makes me so happy
to see him so healthy and so happy. To think that he would have
died makes me sad...I am so glad we brought him home!

This is one of the cute little birds that was up in that tree teasing the
cats, I'm glad that the cats didn't catch it..isn't it a pretty one?!

For the last few days and next week too, look at what we get to have!

More snow...yes, it is pretty but where is Miss Spring? And what
is she doing? Off smelling the flowers some place else I bet!

I can't say that I blame her...if she is at your place, will you
please give her a message for me? Tell her to get where she
belongs right now, or I am moving!

I feel just like Cougar...I think I'll just stay comfy and warm
and bury my head in my pillow and go to sleep til Spring gets here!

"You did buy this new pad just for me didn't you mom? Oh,
and I just love it! Thanks for loving me this much!"

We went up to Fish Lake for lunch the other day, (see the ice
out on the lake there behind the dogs head?) Cougar stayed
right in the same position the whole time and every once in a while
he would lift his head up and give a "WOOF". I wondered what he
was doing? When we went out, I could see what it was that had his
undivided attention....

It was these scary critters...and they wouldn't stop looking at him!

This is my daughters new dog Bruno. He is a 9 month old St. Bernard.
Some one had him and they neglected him by just chaining him up out
in the middle of a big field and leaving him there. I guess there were some
complaints filed against the owners because he was taken away to the pound.

Well, Bruno has a family of kids now who love him so much! He is the
most gentle, sweet big baby. I am so glad he now has such a good home.

I saw this on Debbie's blog, (the gal who won my last give a way)
and I liked her idea of homemade cloth napkins. I get tired of just
paper napkins and it didn't take long to whip these up. I made 34 of
them because we have a big family! It's nice to use them and so easy
to toss them into the laundry and fold them back up for their little
basket again, love having lots of them on hand. I just made them about
the same size as a paper napkin and they are just a perfect size.

It's time to get the humming bird feeders out ladies and remember
to leave them out until October. Change the feed in them about
every 4-5 days. I like to make my own feed for them, it's easy.

Just pour 1 cup of sugar into 4 cups of boiling water and stir.
Store the extra in the fridge in a empty gallon milk jug.

I love to sit out on the deck as they buzz over my head, they are
so cute! And now if Spring will just get here, maybe the humming
birds will too!

Have a great week my friends, sending you tons of hugs!