250/365 Celebrate the French?

OK so I popped a bottle of champagne tonight to celebrate...champagne?  I can't really say I just was so

glad the temperature might drop below 80 at some point this evening, that I decided to stop at Bevmo to see

if there was any sort of liquor I can add to champagne, that I haven't tried yet.  Champagne & Chambord

cocktails is one of my favorite drinks.  So I decided I needed to branch out, so I found some Chateau

Pomari and some St. Germain, and can I just say ... Vive la France!  They invented champagne and these

other two jewels that I am enjoying tonight.  Chateau Pomari is a pomegranate liquor, that is pretty tasty,

not as sweet as the raspberry version (Chateau Monet).  But the St. Germain is like nothing I've ever tasted,

it is made from Elder flower blossoms.  I will be slowly working my way through the list of cocktails they

have on their website!

249/365 Ring -a-Ding check out the bling!

Do you remember the sapphires we found in Montana?  Sapphires I had a few of them cut so I could make

jewelry.  I didn't have them heat treated because then they turn the bright blue that all sapphire's have

which is fine, but I do like that Montana Sapphires come in so many colors.  Here's how they turned out.

248/365 Labor Day

Spent most of today relaxing and taking naps!  Lazy I know but it was great.  Then Kristin and the Brown

kids joined us for burgers and a beautiful sunset.

247/365 Feelin' Beachy

Sophia is so lucky, she is getting picked up again, to go to the beach, again.  She went yesterday with the

Balls, and today with the Elders.  Now who's bored!  I took this picture with a weird plastic lens

attachment that let's me put a Holga camera lens on my Canon.  You have to self focus , but it gives a sorta

fun vintage look to the picture without editing!

246/365 Best Friends

Today we celebrated Madison's birthday.  She wanted to get her hair and nails done with her best friend

Sarah, go walk around the mall then have their pictures taken together.  That sounded great to me so that is

what we did today.  Madison and Sarah have been friends as long as I can remember.  I even have pictures

of them together before they were a year old!  I love that they have each other for everything!

245/365 Getting Gas

I ran errands all over town today.  It wasn't really an amazing day or anything.  But we have big plans

for tomorrow!  Sophia made me so mad today, she said "I don't want to sit around the house tomorrow,

like we always do!"  We are the least sit around the house people I know!  I am always dragging them to

do fun stuff and letting them take their friends.  She is jealous, because we are celebrating Madison's

13th birthday tomorrow.  It still make me so mad that she said that!

244/365 Homework

Sadie will take a very long time to get readjusted to the idea of homework.  Since I wanted to play with my

new toy, we sat on the front lawn while I took pictures and she attempted to recite her memory verse.

There were many tears, and lots of discussion about how smart Jacob Memmelaar is.  Apparently he can

do everything, that Sadie cannot do.  Poor Sadie.  Picture explanation:  There is nothing wrong with the

color she has dirt all over her face from rubbing wet dirty tears and snot all over the place.  We'll get them

 next week Sadie!