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WHIRLWIND OF A WEEKEND...LITERALLY

There's nothing like taking shelter from bad weather in the stock room of a Toys R Us and having people around you freaking out there kids. Taking shelter in the back of that store isn't really going to help you out. If weather is bad enough that roof is going to just peel back like a sardine can. This is how our weekend in STL started. We were turning into the Toys R Us just as the sirens were going off. We got inside just as it started to rain really hard. I went looking for socks, that was my goal, when they announced over the intercom to get away from the front of the store and head to the back. Yikes. I didn't see this but Chris said the windows, which is the whole front of the store, where shaking.
Wild!
We went to STL so I could attend the opening for a plush show that I was involved in and had some pieces in. You can see what they looked like here. The show, Crammed Organisms, was located at Star Clipper Comics in the Loop. A hip artsy fartsy area with lots of indie shops and galleries. It's the first plush show I've been able to go to since most are always on the east or west coast.
Violet had a melt down that night while we were gone of course, we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary with bar-b-que, and I had a girls night out where I had a tasty martini that just tasted like fruit punch.
It was a busy busy weekend.

FROM SMILES TO FROWNS

How quickly expressions change.

SITTIN' PRETTY

DECK PICS

The main part of the deck is pretty much done. Still have the other set of steps to finish and then we are on to the pergola,

MY BIG DAY!

This photo pretty much sums up the day. Not happy. But we got some good photos anyway.

LOOK AT ME

Violet is pretty much holding her head up now. In fact she refuses to lay her head on my shoulder anymore and would rather look around.

I swear I don't stuff her cheeks.
Here she is watching tv. That's bad...right?

I AM INCREDIBLY STRONG

Not really. It's just cedar. More deck pics.

DECK IN PROGRESS

Just about ready to put the floor planks on.

THREE MONTH PHOTO

Disgustingly cute I'd say. Violet gets Baptized next weekend and she'll be wearing this after the Baptism. During the Baptism she'll be wearing the gown that I wore, my sister wore, my brother wore and my nephew wore. I made this back in December. I just wanted something to keep for myself that I had made and can hand down.

HAPPY RAINY MEMORIAL DAY : (

FLOWERS & A DECK

Because of the cool spring and lots of rain everything in our yard is doing great this year. Most plants are seeing their third spring and they look great. After that late freeze last year I was pretty sure we'd be pulling out some plants this spring. But not so. All my roses ,except for one bush, look great. I've got 10. I've been trying to keep up on their feeding and fungicide spray.
We also started working on our deck. Eventually it will have a pergola above it too. Here's what we've done so far. Got the posts in the ground. That's about it.

MIMICKING

We do this every morning. She gets a little too excited sometime. As you can tell from the video her legs and arms are going crazy. She's a little to interested in the camera. And of course I never seem to have the camera when she's really into it. She's usually gets real serious and focuses on my mouth and she's real still. It amazes me she can do this. And most of the time she keeps up the same beat as I do. It also blows me away when we stick out our tongue at her and she starts doing it. How does she know. It weirds me out. It also weirds me out when monkeys can put on shoes and tie them.

YUM!

I watched her for about 15 minutes this evening trying to hold her hands steady. She puts one hand in her mouth and then uses the other one to hold it in place. Brilliant. That is till a spasm occurs and they go flying in all directions.