new pictures on my wall!!!

Dear Lily and Sam and Momma,

Today was a very fun day for Gigi!  I took the turkey hats to the post office so you should be able to wear them in time for turkey day!  Then I came home and found my special order of PICTURES in my mailbox!  I just ordered them on Monday and they came today - - YAY!

I had to go back to the store and buy more frames (oops).  I already bought most of them before I ordered the pictures, but I didn't know about the 5x7 pictures I was going to buy!  But then, silly Gigi only bought 2 frames for the 3 pictures - - I don't know what my brain was thinking, but I forgot!!!  When you see the pictures of the pictures, remember there's one more picture to be framed and put up!

Okay, so here are some pictures of the pretty display that I made out of your momma's pretty pictures!

First, we had to get the set-up just right before we started hanging them up on the wall!  The kitty helped.

Then Grampa put them up on the wall . . .

You have to imagine one more 5x7 in a 'landscape' frame in the middle of the top - it's the picture of momma with Grampa and Gigi.





















Also, Aunt Stephanie is pretty proud of the picture on the bottom right - she used photoshop and she took out the tower that was wrapped in a tarp (the part under construction) - - she made it into the sky!  It was the coolest castle on the river, but then there used to be an tower that wasn't finished!

This is a close-up of the pictures in the collage frame in the middle - so Momma can see which pictures we chose - - they're all our favorites!

You'll have to see them all when you come to Gigi's house the next time - I can't WAIT!!

Love,
Gigi

I love fall!

Hey Girlses!!!
I love you so so much!  I decided to take some pictures of my 'fall' display on my dining room table before I send you the pictures of the kitchen. I keep telling you about the kitchen (and it really is nice) but I sorta want it to be "all the way done" before I take pictures of it!

So, I went to Hobby Lobby and a few other places last week and made a beautiful autumn table-scape - I really like it!

I actually have that table cloth in TWO sizes (this is the bigger one because the leaf is in the new table) because we really like how it goes with the room color. Grampa likes keeping the leaf in the table, but I like the table smaller especially since there are only 2 of us home right now!  One day a week, Uncle Brother eats dinner with us, but he fits at the table when it's small anyhow!

So, I got that tiny hay bale because I thought it would look cool - - and it does, but you know what?  Hay bales are MESSY!!!  It sheds little pieces of hay all the time - ugh!  but it is cute there, so I'm keeping it for now!  The yellow and orange daisies were from Wegman's - and see the 2 yellow roses at the bottom?  The were left from 6 yellow roses that Rachel got us when we came home from Germany. (they died a couple days later and I had to throw them away).  The bowl of candy corn isn't lasting very long either . . . I got some for you, too!  I sent you a fall package last Thursday (October 3rd) so it should get to you some time this week!  Hopefully before mommy and daddy go on their trip, or you won't see it till next week.

Right now it is raining really hard, but it was funny because when I woke up it was bright and sunny out! Bright and sunny lasted for about an hour and then it got windy for an hour or so and the clouds rolled in! The rain started about 10:00 and it's been raining REALLY hard for almost 2 hours!  Weather is funny.

I love you - and I'll talk to you again soon!
love,
Gigi

hi - remember me?

Hi Lily and Sammy!
Remember that time I used to send you pictures and letters on my blog every once in awhile?  Well, I kept forgetting to post anything for a really long time and I'm sorry!  I will try to send you blog entries more often from now on.

Guess what happened with our kitty Caesar when we got home?  He missed us SO MUCH that he slept in Gigi's big huge suitcase for the whole day until I had time to unpack it.  These were our clean clothes, not our dirty ones (I had already put those in the laundry) . . . I think he was happy to get to sleep on something that smelled like his people!  Such a silly kitty!

Later this week, I will try to send you (and mommy) some pictures about Gigi's new kitchen.  You probably won't be able to understand them until you come and see it yourself, but it's really pretty!

I love you very much and miss you too!
Love,
Gigi