July 5th and 6th

My birthday!! This day only comes once a year, so I try to make it as special as I can!

Friday & Saturday:  I got up to help Dad set up the tent, played about four games of Monopoly with Jonathan, went grocery shopping with Dad in the Jeep with no top and no doors, started reading Tumtum and Nutmeg, and received some very lovely birthday presents.  Mom set up the kitchen in blue and yellow and with Beatrix Potter and Winnie the Pooh books. I Played with some sparklers, took photos of my two dear nephews, ate the two very first blueberries off my blueberry bush, ::laughed with joy:: as I saw that my garden was producing so many flowers!! And finished the evening watching Lord of the Rings! I *praise* the Lord for giving me so many people in my life that love and care for me! =]

Joyfully in Him,
   Diana<3

July 4th.

Happy Independence day!! Just think about it, 238 years ago, Thomas Jefferson and all of the other republicans, signed the Declaration of Independence!! Wow! I would have loved to be at that scene!!

I got up and started to make Strawberry Lemon Bread [number 14], snapped some photographs of the beautiful sun, started reading a really good book, helped make cookies (they are really patriotic! ) went to a 4th of July party and had such a fun time there! I played  Ultimate Frisbee and volleyball,  and talked with some good friends! Went to see a firework show (I think that this one was way better then last year!)  And I just stand back and thank my Lord for giving me all of my family members and my church family!! =] =] 

 p.s. I didn't take the picture of the fireworks! =P 

Happy 4th!!

Joyfully in Him,

   Diana<3

July 3rd.

6:00 a.m. I was intensely studying the insides of my eyelids, then my alarm went off. I didn't end up getting up till 6:40 a.m. But that was okay because I was planning on baking something and the sound of the Kitchen Aid would wake everyone up!  By the time it was 9:00, me and Jonathan were already having adventures in my little house! Then I started to make Chocolate Cherry Sweet Rolls [number 13]. I am not going to show you what they look like baked because I kind of let them rise too much, so consider this an the unfinished Sweet Roll recipe. =] It was a cloudy and rainy day. i snapped a couple of photo's of our backyard {I love how it looks when it's raining outside!}  I got a new t-shirt for the 4th, pressed the colorful flowers that were in my garden, and I organized my corner piece {I tried to make it look like one of those peoples blogs who have their entire house organized!} watched my *laundry* get all wet, {but I left it up on purpose!}, and practiced my photography on my feet and the flag on my house. =]

Joyfully in Him,
    Diana<3

July 2nd.

Tuesday:  my warm feet touched the carpet at 7:00 a.m. Went to visit my little house on a cool summer morning where the dew was still on the grass, saw that another one of my flowers in my garden has bloomed! (the one that I thought the rabbits ate). Picked bright colorful flowers and put them in little glass jars, cut fresh herbs and hung them up to dry on a wooden stick.  Serenaded myself on my violin, had a shopping trip with Kelle, (we went to Michaels and I got some scrapbooking supplies for 79 cents each!), stopped at our public library and picked up a the Cook's Illustrated magazine, created a brownie in a cast iron skillet [number 12], enjoyed the company of my sister and her family, (including Aidan!), had to stop laughing so I could throw the darts properly, tried to play a serious game of Settlers of Catan, (a few giggles popped out),  practiced my photography on some lovely flowers in a blue mason jar! =] And thanked my Heavenly Father that I am having such a jolly fun week!

Joyfully in Him,

   Diana<3