First Annual Highland Games 2010

We were invited to attend a highland games festival organized and hosted by our friends the Stricklens. Sadie was thrilled to get in the spirit of it all and learn to make costumes for her daddy and brother. Patrick & my mother (Mimi) worked with her to get the job done. Thank you, Mimi.

We had a set of flannel, plaid sheets that they used to make two kilts, five tams (hats), & four plaids (sashes) with a bit of fabric left over to splash a little extra plaid on Emilie and me. Sadie was able to borrow a skirt and vest from the Stricklens. With the purchase of a few other accessories, we were set.

Emilie and Daniel

Brave warrior

Mimi & Emilie

No, Abby, he's not killing the cat. Those are sheers and he's pretending to shave her.

Don't mess

with a man in a dress...

I mean kilt :~)

Willamina Wallace?

Fierce!

Patrick is so crafty and creative.

Thanks again, Mom

It's our Vision Forum pose.

Don't they look great?

The Franklin Clan in our teal and fuchsia tartans.

Emilie and Margaret

Daniel and his buddy Andrew Stevens

The Stricklen girls did such a wonderful job with everything.

Exploring

Will thought you were supposed to come dressed as an adorable little boy!

Two wonderful dads!

The young lads sack race.

CJ & Daniel

Ben & Sam Graves

Rachel Graves & Abby Stricklen

Mary, the official event photographer

Mr. Stricklen, Lord of the Manor

Mariah & Chelsea Waldman

Mariah with her hands on her hips. She is a force to be reckoned with.

The boot toss.

Getting ready to start the egg & spoon race.

Very serious business.

I was so proud of all these men for going all out to really enjoy the theme of the day.

"Does this kilt make my butt look fat?"

"No, ... it's not the kilt."

Michael Doolin
He kept moving, making it hard to capture his picture :~)

Mrs. Stokes & Sam Doolin

Preparing for the log toss.

Patrick & Frank Doolin

The fellowship of faithful fathers

That's my man tossing that log!

Yes, he had to take something for his back later.

Daniel in the boulder/rock/cannon ball toss.

"Put another shrimp on the barby."

oops! Wrong theme :~)

Daniel's second toss.

Mary, one of our lovely hostesses, prepares to serve the starving villagers.

Lovely Grandmother Harris

(Mrs. Frodge's mother)

Amanda McAuley

The world premier of the dramatic play "Who Stole Me Haggis?"

"Did you steal me haggis?"

"No, sir, not I sir."

"Please sir, forgive me. It was the best tasting haggis me ever had."

"What's haggis?"

A pretty Scottish song from a pretty Alturas lass.

Emilie won first place in the sack race and Sadie won first place in the "can you make heads or tales of these weird Scottish words" contest :~)

The dessert table. Yum

Thank you Stricklen family for a wonderful day!

Random Pictures

Fun in the pool!

I still can't believe the Lord blessed us with this beautiful pool.

We hope to eventually screen in around the pool.

Febe in one of her many favorite spots.

Looking towards the family room from by the pool.

One day this will be a beautiful patio.

Emilie has become quite the swimmer.

The first day we had the chalk board on the wall Emilie copied James 1:1 on it.

I did not ask her to do it, she just set about to do it.

Our first visit with Nathaniel Charles Stricklen

So sweet!

Emilie loves babies.

Pancakes served on my new platter given to me by our dear friends, Glen & Madeleine.

Daniel loves to help cook.

There were three smaller statue shapes within the Statue of Liberty puzzle we did a while back.

Well, I just thought I'd share a random grouping of pictures. I hope you have enjoyed.

Family Pictures

Resurrection Sunday we finally got updated family pictures taken.

Thanks, Mary Noelle

You can dress her up, but she still goes around without any shoes on.

Trying to Learn the New Post Editor ~ ARGH!

Okay, so I'm trying to figure out this new post editor.  So far, I think I like the old way.  If I can't figure this out I hope I can go back.  Sure I can move the pictures around and place them.  Let me clarify this, I can move them around.  They don't go where I want them and another picture ends up where I was trying to place the one I was moving.  And what is up with the text.  I don't want to be writing here...

"What are you all up to in there?" asks Febe. 

This text is supposed to be under the picture of the cat looking in the window, but it's not!

"I guess I'll go explore the yard if I can't come in and play."  This, of course, goes with the picture below.  ARGH!!!  I feel like Charley Brown dealing with Lucy.

I... have no idea why I'm down here now, but I'm going to see if I can return to the old post editor.