Day 24

Hayley(Top Left): This is a cute little basket of flowers I saw at my office job.

Melissa(Top Right): Did you know that you can change the color of this flower, the hydrangea by adding either aluminum or acid to the soil which will change the color to purple or deep blue........ I have a large box of aluminium I use on mine:)

Aubrey(Bottom Left): This is the art on my front door. It's still a work in progress!

Lily(Bottom Right): "huaff" drop monster!

Day 23

Hayley(Top Left): Life is Good!
Melissa(Top Right): This flower is traditional used for funeral arrangements, but they come in a large variety of colors. They are thick and full.....simply beauty

Aubrey(Bottom Left): New runner in my foyer entrance! I love it :)

Lily(Bottom Right): Missing in Non-Action!

Day 22

Hayley(Top Left): Love these pastel tulips that were used as a center piece.

Melissa(Top Right): Kentucky Lily- One of the "tango series", this soft orange flower is decked with dense patch of dark purples speckles, for a very exotic look. Large-flowered and fragrant. Very showy and bold in the garden! Asiatic and Easter lily hybrid. Can't wait to see these bulbs bloom!

Aubrey(Bottom Left): And we have 6 sprouts! It's hard to see but my friend assures me her valentines flower has begun to grow!

Lily(Bottom Right): To be determined......

Day 21

Hayley(Top Left): This is the largest violet I have ever seen and it continues to bloom. It sits int he office of the Executive Director of Community Action. I work there part time as an office assistant.

Melissa(Top Right): Abutllion Red Tiger- My fabulous find at this years home and garden show!

Aubrey(Bottom Left): I started sketching in class one day and my friend requested I draw our professor's face in the center or a flower. This is what I came up with instead! I try...ha ha!

Lily(Bottom Right): "Eyeball-Eyeball" She wants to go to school. (Kids these days have no patients, for using up a new package of googly eyes or growing up!)

Day 20

Hayley(Top Left): Did some classy tattooing with the girls! Face tattoo? I see what I am going to be in for when she hits her teens!

Melissa(Top Right): Seattle's famous market, so many BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS!

Aubrey(Bottom Left): This is the design on my Barnes & Noble reusable tote bag. I love it, and B&N!

Lily(Bottom Right): "Crow Bird Crow" He went on a walk and coughed up a crow! (Sweet Lily has a stomach virus too. She told me, "I am just not having a very good day." Poor thing. Feel Better Lily)

Day 19

Hayley(Top Left): I had to do a couple of things in my preschool classroom today. The kids don't have school of Fridays so I brought my two little girls with me to play while I worked. As we were leaving we noticed the bushes were blooming!

Melissa(Top Right): Ashton with his "flower" shorts, we were camping and on a hike!

Aubrey(Bottom Left): This is the official insignia of the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Branch. This is what my Army husband is branched  The official description: "On a dagger point, a heralding sun all in gold charged with an oriental blue rose. The sun, composed of four straight and four way alternating rays, is the symbol of Helios. The four straight rays of the sun symbol also allude to the four points if the compass and the worldwide mission of the military intelligence branch. The partially concealed, unsheathed dagger alludes to the aggressive and protective requirements and the element of physical danger inherent in the Intelligence mission. The placement of the sun symbol beneath the oriental blue rose ( an ancient symbol of secrecy) refers to the operations and activities of the Branch being conducted in secret and under circumstances forbidding disclosure. The color gold signifies successful accomplishment. "

Lily(Bottom Right): "Finally, Were are you going?" He is getting sucked down a volcano. He has small eyes and he can't see. He is doing this......(Lily squinted and scrunched up her face).

Day 18

Hayley(Top Left): Here is another beautiful purple orchid. This poor guy is left over from Valentines at Freddy's, so if anyone would like to give this guy a home please go to the store and buy him! 

Melissa(Top Right): This is witch hazel in my yard, it only blooms now and will soon will up with green leaves and in the fall they will urn to the color the blossoms are now. it it nice to have some color during these rainy days.

Aubrey(Bottom Left): This illustration is by one of my favorite childhood authors: Roald Dahl. This particular picture is from the story Esio Trot, about a man desperately in love with the woman who lives below him. He is painfully shy though. The lady who lives below him loves her pet tortoise but while feeding him one day she laments to her upstairs neighbor Mr. Hoppy she wishes her pet would grow. Mr. Hoppy devises a genius plan to win his lady love and has her read some magic Words to her pet to make him grow. While she is at work he chooses a larger tortoise from the 100+ he has purchased from the pet store and places it on her balcony in place of the previous one. By the end of the story the woman, Mrs. Silver is so tickled she invites Mr. Hoppy down to her apartment, he is so taken aback by her smile he purposes to her right away! And that is that, they love happily ever after and the original tortoise finds a new home with a little girl named Roberta.

Lily(Bottom Right): "John" He's a boy because he has a beard. He is wiggling his arm around and doing tricks. (juggling, perhaps)