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I love her work but it is from France. It can't be found in America. I wish I have her charts. She does the beautiful work.

Here are more new charts. Check out her website:

http://www.madame-la-fee.com/

Our rainy day yesterday!!

I was dog tired yesterday. I thought rain do make you relax but nope! When we got there, the weather was cloudy but not too bad. But it rain on/off more like showers. But we thought it would stop & move on but we had couple of downpours. Every time I go on rides with girls, it is downpour & when I get off, it stopped. That's funny!! I keep going on rides with girls & girls look at me & said your fault for making it rain. LOL Mike didn't go on rides ~ just couples. So we went on biggest roller coaster & Faith is allow on it but Sarah isn't. Sarah is one inch shorter than Faith & Sarah threw a fit & crying. I took them both down & said we cannot go on it. But Mike told me to take Sarah to other ride when he take Faith on it but I didn't agree. Sarah got upset all over again when she noticed that Faith is gone with Daddy & she knew where they went. She was crying & I comfort her. Mike took Sarah on SkyRide & Faith said she is happy to give that up to let Sarah have the experience. LOL She sure was nice to do that. Sarah begged me to go on water log ride & I said fine but last time we went on it & I got wet very little but the time ~ different story, I got wet big time (double wet from rain & ride). I was soak to my bones. We went on several more rides & Sarah said she was getting cold. We were about to leave. They have big pond with small metal bridge over it & only 5 people on it. So...Faith & Mike already went over it with 3 other people. So Sarah & I wait til they're off the bridge. We saw mama duck & little duckies trying to across the bridge from one side to other side (not across the water) & the boys behind me want to touch the duckies but Mama duck was upset & I told Sarah don't! She said Mama Duck is upset. I said I know. Not safe to touch duckies because Mama can bite you. So I blocked the path to let anyone on the bridge & let the Mama Duck & duckies to go over it. Mama Duck quacked at Sarah after we wait for her last one to cross over. LOL I told Sarah that she said thank you. Sarah smiled & we went on over the bridge. Sarah was talkactive to Mike & Faith about the ducks. That made her day.

Many people at the park but the lines for rides aren't too long. Just perfect. Many parents with kids especially little ones like one parents with few weeks old twins & toddler son. We saw some twins but a lot of kids.

Sophie stay home with Sallie. I'm glad that we left Sophie home or we would be worried about her & the rain.

We saw the sign on the way to park ~ it said "Dump body wanted for $600.00". LOL It meant dump body cart. They need to change that phrase. LOL Mike wished he could pull over to take pic but the problem is it is 2 lanes road & no room to pull over.

EDITED TO ADD **We went to Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, PA**. I'm sorry that I forgot to mention that we went there on Friday.

Girls' haircut (done by Daddy)

What do you think?

They're happy with it. They love the light feeling but they want shorter like Sophie. LOL

Sneak Peek of LHN's newest design ~

http://littlehouseneedleworks.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!31A6A0D667AEFF70!453.entry

I'm so tempt to buy it. LOL It's so beautiful!!

Finally finished JBW Love...

for our friends, Bry & Svea who are getting married this Saturday (7-18). Don't mind the bottom ~ I haven't close it up yet when I took the pic but now it is all ready.

I got this idea from another blogger. I love it. It's for my orts.

Here's really cute pic of Sophie. She love to stand. She's happy that Mike gave her the bag of Welch's Fruit Snack. She just love the sound & feel of it.

Happy Birthday, Rusty!!

Hope you have wonderful birthday today!!

We love you!

Car window repair

Mike said that the roller thing that comes with motor is broken & need to replace the whole thing. Mike think he might have broke it when he took the door panel apart few weeks back to fix the lock on door panel & he did some damage to the roller & Mike said the other guy at shop did rough around with it last summer when we took it in to get the window fix. They both being too rough with the window roller & they think they did damage to it. LOL Now Mike have to buy the whole new roller & we laughed at him because it's his fault & he gotta pay for it. LOL He think it's funny that it is his fault. We have rule here that one of us break it & pay for it depends on how you break it. It cost $320 to replace it including parts & labor.

This is small part that cannot be replaced by itself because it was built with the entire roller. That small part is the one Mike believe himself & the mechanic broke it (from last summer or so).

Here's the entire roller & you can see the small block (on your left) is a motor:

My neighbor's trees ~

My neighbors, Mark & Sharon, hired tree service to cut down their massive row of pine trees.

The history behind the neighbor's house & trees. Mike's friend used to live there & he moved away. Then Gwen & her husband move in sometimes in late 70s to early 80s. She is gardener & love plant many flowers/bushes/trees all over her yard. She planted those trees to lined up her property to obstruct the view of traffic. Gwen & her husband had to sell the house in mid 90s to move in with her husband's mom who was ill. Mark & Sharon moved in late 90s & live there ever since. In June 2006, the storm destroy Galestown bridge/dam which caused insects infested on our trees, bushes & flowers & it gotten so bad & killed a lot of plants/trees. They finally built the bridge/dam back in 2007-2008 before our Sophie was born. Sallie (Mike's Mom) have been living here since late 60s & saw so much change in the neighborhood. Her aunt, Rita, who live across from Mark & Sharon (just around the block from us) have lived here nearly her whole adult life. We don't know what's going on with those trees being cut down ~ all we knew is they want to cut them down for years. We will find out more from Ms Rita what are they planning to do ~ leave it like that or plant new trees.

Sallie is kind of happy gal right now because she always love the view of pond & her neighbors' houses for years til Gwen planted those trees. Also the breeze always come off the pond & those trees always block the breeze to our way.

Those trees are the ones they're cutting down along their property (those are remaining trees that haven't been cut down yet or not). Took this pic from the backyard:

Here's beautiful view of the pond & the bridge. There were trees that obstructed the view for us & we couldn't see anything before this. Now it would be easier for me to watch for girls' school bus coming home. We are happy to see they cut down those trees.

Front of our driveway ~ all trees are gone. Now we are able to view our neighbor's yard:

Those trees haven't cut down yet ~ don't know how far they are going to cut down those trees. As you can see right in front of you, the trees are damage due to insects.

That's where the crew left off from yesterday (see the difference between closure & opening)

Opening view (where they did most of tree cutting). Is it beautiful? She got beautiful yard. Every year, they did Christmas lights show & they did amazing job. My girls love seeing it every night & waiting for them to turn on the lights & screaming thru the windows that they turned on the lights.

View from our front step (on your left):

Our Fourth of July ~

@ Hebron Firemen Carnvial, MD

We love it there at Hebron, MD ~ family friendly & carnival was opened & oh man! Many people but fun & friendly. Girls went on 2 rides & the rides were closed due to fireworks. The fireworks started at 10pm. We are going back next week to used up the rest of ride tickets. We park at good place because we could put girls on car hood & we stand next to them. Girls were impatiently for an hour but they were happy when the fireworks went off. The traffic wasn't so bad & the people were friendly on letting one other to take their turn. Much better than Laurel, DE where there are more aggressive drivers & full of teens. Definitely going back there next year. I met a grandmother of 4 going onto 5 yrs old twin girls ~ their birthday is on August 15th. She couldn't believe my girls are only 3 going onto 4. LOL Because my girls are taller & thinner than her girls ~ her girls a little short & chubby like babies. But her granddaughters are so cute. We didn't bring Sophie because we don't know how she would react & she might be upset & girls will get upset that Sophie is upset & leave in the middle of fireworks. But she had her own fireworks right at home & we were surprise that our town held fireworks show that we never knew.

Here are the girls deck up in red, white & blue (Sophie's first Fourth of July):

Watching the fireworks
Sarah:

Faith:

Faith & Sarah:

Here's small video of fireworks. Enjoy it

Mischief Sophie ~

She love to get into girls' bookshelves & take all the books out.

Happy Fourth of July

Hope you have wonderful Fourth of July!

Stay safe!

Flag Day Cake & Water Balloon Fight

Girls mixing the batter.

Sarah put the blue food coloring in white cake mixture ~

Faith put in red food coloring but it came out pink & she scolded at me for giving her pink. LOL


Girls are enjoying the mix batter ~ good old days

Here's Faith ~ all high & sweet




Here's Sarah ~ she won't put down the mixer

Here's Sophie ~ noticed her mouth. We spoil her by giving her mixture. She love it.





Water balloon fight while cake being cool off. I got wet more than girls did. They keep freaking out if I plan to throw them the balloons. I was trying to play balloon catch & they think they're gonna get hurt. LOL

Faith sprayed at Sophie & she got upset. Here I took the pic & doesn't she look like Elvis? LOL






Icing on the cake ~ Sallie helped out to cover the cake & we do the remaining.

Sophie was upset that we weren't pay attention to her til I pulled up her high chair & gave her the cars to play while we work on the cake.
Finish touch on cake with blueberries & strawberries

Ta-Da!

Proud girls ~ make their first flag cake