thankful five

 This year  I'm very Thankful for...

1) My whole family.

  

   This picture was taken a year ago, but it is the only one that has all of us.

...and then later on came Yoanna!!

She has changed a lot.

2) Shyann. The BEST dog in the whole world!!

We've had her for at least 3 years.

3) My awesome flute teacher!!  No, I don't have a picture of her. I been taking from this new teacher for over a year now and have felt very, very blessed with all I'm learning from her.  

4) Starbucks or you could say coffee in general. :)

5) All my great friends. I don't what I'd do without them. You guys are great. There are a lot more I just can't fit them all in here.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!!!

~Susanna

something...

Something pretty

very pretty

Something precious

I like cowboys!!

Something sweet

I'm going to have to make this

Something VERY different

I need one of these :)

Something fun

I want to play more

Something for your house

for someone that feels tired. :)

Something beautiful

Warsaw, Poland. Going there next.

Something cute

like I said, I need one of these...

Something for you

You all have an awesome day!

~Susanna

dogs, dogs, dogs

I wonder why I love dogs so much and yet I hate them. Now if I change that sentence around it would sound like this:  I wonder why I love MY dogs so much and hate my NEIGHBOR'S dogs. I love our Australian Shepherd and wouldn't know what to do without her. Actually, before we got her we used to lose a couple of chickens everyday to hawks. After she came to live with us we've only lost one chicken in 2 and a half years!! 

Well, one morning last week my mom and I took a walk down the road. One of our neighbors has a dorky chihuahua that looks like the one below.

Don't they all look the same??? By the way, I don't like chihuahuas, so that didn't help. (No offence if you like them.)

Then I have no clue what the other dog is. It's about a medium height, has pointy ears, no tail, and it speckled black and gray.

On a normal day these two will come out to bark and snap at us. (That freaks my mom out because she hasn't had a good experience with dogs.) Today they decided it would be fun to follow us. Their owner must have been gone because they followed and followed, right along all the way home.  You don't know how annoying it is to have 2 ugly dogs hanging around you. At our house no one was going to want them.  

They hung around for awhile to sniff everything in their reach. Not until I tossed a bucket at them did they take off running like the world had ended.

All that to say, they finally went home.

  Someday if I could have a dog of my own, I'd got one of Black Lab like this.

or one of these German Shepherds.

What kind of dog do you have or would you like to own?

~Susanna

letter tag

I saw this type of a post over here and thought it looked fun.

All you do it pick seven letters from the alphabet and put a picture for each.

1) p: paper cards. this one is very cute.

2) b: black lab puppy. someday I am going to own one...

3)  d: dove chocolate. bliss...

4)  h: heels. I got my first pair of sliver heels the other day. I can't ever seem to find anything my size!!!!

5) c: cinnamon dolce latte. no, it's not pumpkin. it's cinnamon.

6)  s: stride gum. my favorite.

7) y; Yoanna!!!! I get to see her in a couple of weeks!!!

I tag anyone who wants to do this. Tell me if you do.

Today I'm going to see COURAGEOUS! It's a late birthday present from one of my brothers. I'm so excited!!!

~Susanna

4th of July (with pictures)

In the evening we went to a friend's house, because we'd already done our celebrating.

The main attraction there were the puppies.

Yes, my sister Addy, can multi-task. Hold puppies and talk at the same time. :)

Their little girl, Gracie, wasn't very happy with me because she wanted the one I was holding.  

Really Gracie, there are 6 of them!!

Victory!

While we held the puppies, Mama went for a swim.

Some kids were having fun with these smoke bombs.

One of the families brought so many fireworks that they decided it was better to tie 12 roman candles together and light them with a blow torch then to do them one at a time. Really, they are a lot more fun that way.

The reason there aren't a ton of interesting photos is because we kept having fun with the host's family camera. Elaine takes some great photos with that thing.

I hope you all had a great weekend.

~Susanna

3rd of July (with pictures)

Yeah, I know it isn't the 4th. But who said that it had to be?

Ok, in the afternoon we had my Dad's side of the family over. We had the usual hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, potato salad, watermelon, cookies, ice cream, and my Grandma's pie that is usually gone before supper. :) 

I'm kidding, no one is allow to cut into it until after supper and then it is gone in ten seconds. Thankfully, I don't like pie so I don't have to worry about it.

After supper you either went out to fish in our pond, played v-ball, or sat inside and talked.

Our international friend was the only person who caught anything that night.

My cousin, Anna, found our dog, Shyann, and seemed to like her.

I think they're both cute.

The colors are pretty at this time of day.

Once it out dark we started blowing things up, or at least we tried.

After the second fountain I'm tired of them, but everyone else likes it.

 

And who doesn't want to do sparklers?

 Yes, I used them to write people's names in the sky...

Well, after all the artillery shells, roman candles, fountains, etc. were cleaned up my cousins Josh and Sarah, my brother Titus, and I went for a raft ride in our pond. Now that I think about it, it probably wasn't the best idea since it was dark and you couldn't see very well. Anyway, we had a lot of fun trying to find the glow sticks we had thrown into the water.

 It was almost 11 o'clock when everybody left. I guess you could say it was bedtime...

~Susanna

Beautiful...

Yesterday I went to a surprise lunch for a friend who is leaving for the summer. At the end the girl who planned the whole thing gave eveyone roses.  They are so pretty.

I guess roses are one of my favorite flowers.

While I was taking the photo, our dog Shyann was sitting on the porch so I took one of her too.

Almost as pretty.

~Susanna