Never Too Old

 I will never be too old to get my face painted. Yes, that will be me when I am 80 years old with my face painted like a cat.  I'm in a wheelchair...I can do these things.

In other butterfly related news. My caterpillars are huge and eating things they shouldn't be. I should be seeing chrysalises any day now.

Caterpillar Mail

 

 Several weeks ago mom bought me a butterfly habitat. Isn't she the greatest!  Well, it gave a website (www.ribbitsgalore.com) where you could order live caterpillars. I then spent seven dollars to have painted lady caterpillars shipped to me from across the country. 

 They were delayed due to the extreme heat parts of our country are experiencing. But they arrived today! The mailman was kind enough to bring them right to the door.

There are four of them and they have to stay in their little plastic cup for two weeks before I can move them to their lovely new home.

Bound for the Kingdom

We went to kingdom bound again this year. Sometimes its sad to be a grown-up with grown-up friend that have to work ...all the time. I am blessed to have a wonderful job that alows me to work whenever I want to or whenever I don't what to. So considering our work schedules our little entourage consisted of Samantha and I with Spencer joining us in the evenings.The music, of course, was great. It always is. Some of the highlights were:
                                 

 Switchfoot- Good show, I liked their lighting.

 Nick Vujicic- Amazing Speaker! If you haven't heard him, you need too!

TobyMac- I dont really like his music but his show was entertaining.

Family Force Five- You could always hear the tambourine...always.

Tenth Avenue North- Always fantastic!

For King and Counrty- They didn't have a base player. But you could hear the base. Weird.

And more. Much, much more. Hopefully next year more of us can make it.

Amid the Crazy

 Two of the latest tattoo designs I have done. 

And I have decided to do pants. Send me your pants and I will draw on them for $20 a leg.

Bear Scare

This has been sightings of a bear in town. It was said to to have been seen on the porch of the funeral home and then running across the street. And it had been suspected to be in our yard! One of our bird feeders was broken in little pieces and dragged through the yard. Samantha swears she heard it running around the other night. Precautionary measures are being taken to protect the animals and cans of feed in our barn.

In The Garden

I have recently built a fairy house I my garden. I had seen several very cool little houses on Pinterest which I used as my inspiration. But I have been building fairy houses for years. There is something about little houses that I can't resist. Here is mine.

Can you find the frog?

I do believe in fairies I do, I do.

Vacation Recap

Thirty nine uncles, aunts, and cousins. Two big houses. One week on fun and laughs.

Pretty Big Janga was a pretty big hit! (Super Aunt Brenda really out did herself on this one!) We played almost every day. It falls pretty hard so watch out.

 The horses were a lovely addition. I love horses so being able to see them everyday was perfect.

 This was my first attempt at mini golf. I lost pitifully. Golfing was harder than I thought it would be but I still had a lot of fun. I think I may even try this again, so long as no one laughs at me for putting left handed and backwards.

 A trip to the zoo/animal park/petting zoo is were the non zip-liners hung out. I got to hand feed a kangaroo and pet a large cow ox thing ( he was my favorite).

 Just a few of us visited the local covered bridges. We also had a large family bike ride (which I have no pictures of). I biked 21 miles. They only had to tow me five of those miles. I believe it goes without saying that my arms hurt. My cusain Amanda covered our ride on her blog. http://amidawn.blogspot.com/2012/07/tour-de-savage-cannibals.html
A day at the Spa was just what I needed to recuperate.

 I also did a bit of painting. This was the view off the back of the Sundance house.

 There was a Kan-Jam tournament. I can tell you nothing about it because I don't know who played or who won.

 A night of Bananagrams showed me that I need to work on my spelling. Shame on you, you silly game.

And I painted a rock for my grandma. She like it.

There we all are. All 39 of us. I love them all more than anything.