Clean Sweep

 Hello!?  I'm Back.  Oh my! What a mess!

 Julie?  Jose? Are you here?

I go away for one weekend and this is what happens!

 Oh no! What a mess!

bark! bark!

Hush Grace!

zzzzzzz

 Jose! Julie! What happened here?!

Julie! Jose! Wake up!

Jose: I'm up! I'm up!

Julie: zzzsnort,  what's happening?

Nell:  I'll tell you what's happening, get up and get dressed 

we have work to do!
I'll clean the kitchen, Jose you do the living room and Julie you do the bedroom.

Hey that's my Michigan State tee you better not get it dirty!

I'll be careful I promise.

I can not believe what a mess this place is! 

I'll start in here, you better go to the Living room.

Boy I guess we did let the place go a little.

 Humph, mumph, grumble.
Why does the house need to be SO clean!?

Dust & sweep, mop and clean. 

*whistling*

 Well I think that does it.
It does looks better in here.

Our room looks great Julie. I will finish cleaning the floor.
Thanks Jose.

 Wow, our room looks good!

So does our living room.

I guess it is nice to have things tidy.

 Ahh, I love having tea in a neat, clean kitchen.

I wonder how the girls are doing with their chores?

Nell, we're done.
And it didn't take very long because we all worked together!

Great! That was fast! Let's all have some tea.

This is nice, relaxing in a clean, tidy house.

Get down Grace!

Emma and Savannah Ann in Hawaii!

 Our first day of sightseeing and it rained but that didn't stop us.

 This is an old building in Kohala our first stop.

And here we are in front of the King Kameameha Kohala civic center.

This is a close-up of the statue of the King.

 Back at our resort we saw this fella in the lagoon.

The next day the rain had stopped, but it was still a little cloudy

Here we are in front of St. Benedict's painted church.

Flowers left in the church

Such a lovely church, all hand painted.

 All the beaches we saw were lava rock.

Careful don't fall!

What a beautiful place.

 Next day we took a helicopter tour.

 We saw an active volcano!

And beautiful scenery.
We even saw some whales far below us.

Hawaii is a beautiful place we will never forget.

Aloha everyone

Girls Day Out

By: Sophie Savage

(and Mommy)

 Hello everyone, Jose here.  Sophie and I are having a day out together.

I am so excited, we are going shopping for clothes for Sophie.

 This is a new shirt, Sophie liked it SO much she wore it out of the shop!

 We love books and we found a $1 bookstore!

 Hmm, do they have any American Girl books?

Here I am at Ruby's Diner (our fav!) with Sophie,

Hey! no bunny ears!

Look Sophie there are planes going around the ceiling!

Hmm, let's share a milkshake.

Yum!

 Hey a toy car for Sophie!

 Well, it's been a great day at the mall shopping

Bye everyone, thanks for looking in!

Introducing Isabelle!

2014 Girl of the Year Isabelle.  Isabelle is a ballet dancer who enjoys sewing.
She comes with pink streaked hair pin-ins.

Isabelle has her own barre dance set.

This is Isabelle's sewing studio, a little pricey, but so cute!

And, this is Isabelle's kitten who is named Tutu.  Very cute.