Moon rise

Ok, I should be in bed, but saw the moon rising and decided to pull out my tripod and give it a whirl, I tried a bunch of my settings with and without flash just to see... boy is it cool! Check it out, these are the best moon pics I have ever got... can't wait to get a professional camera one day :-)

Lightning!

Just a lightning strike on Elephant Mountain outside my house!

Busy, busy busy!

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, in fact I didn't get to even post pics from Daves bday party so here they are! We had a good time and I sang Smooth! lol

More pics from the last few days

Nothing special, just wanted to put up other cute pics... also I am starting a baby sitting service, a house sitting service, a pet sitting service and my graphic design company... hey, I have a lot of experience in these things so I thought why not! Might as well do what I know.
Enjoy the pics!

Check out the big boy!

Wow! David is holding his head up so high now! He loves playing sit up and does "power crunches" when he is propped against a pillow at a slight angle... he actually fell on his face today he sat up so much on his own! I was watching, it was my pillow top on the bed and he didn't cry until he was upright and had a moment to think about what happened, lol... he got over it pretty quick though and was back at it again.
Tonight was Business After Hours for the Carbondale Chamber and Dave was playing/singing Karaoke... he got me to sing two songs with him... just wait for his b-day this sunday! A great time was had by all and the food was almost as good as the entertainment!
There was an awesome rainbow after I dropped some of Daves equipment off at his place (it started raining) and my camera actually picked up the colors pretty well, I am surprised, usually they look way washed out.

Tickle, tickle, tickle!

Yes, David now understands tickle! He laughs when I say it now as I tickle his feet, tummy or cheeks. He now understands it feels good and is a funny thing! Such progress. He tries to sit up on his own sometimes if he is on a pillow or my lap laying at a more upright position. He loves his chairs that let him sit up and look around and play with toys, he is batting at them and grabbing and holding them now! I made him a photo album (thanks Ralph and family!) with pictures of him with different familyl members so he can hold the memory of them at least a little bit. Won't be long till he knows everyone and remembers them when they are gone. He looks for me when someone else is holding him and he hears my voice, makes me feel wonderful! He follows Daddy with his head when he walks by and stares up at him with wonder... it is sooooo cute!
Sorry it has been so long since I posted, here are some more fun pics. Uncle Dave came for a visit, he is Davids Godfather too! Quesa is our roomates dog, and David has really taken to Katie.
Poor Charlie the water heater has been leaking since before we bought the place (Charlie will be talking to the inspectors who saw water dripping under the house there and did nothing to further investigate!), so Charlie is tearing up the floor in the laundry room, partway into the kitchen and into our bathroom next... seems we may get a new shower out of this, but what a pain!
Well, I am trying to unpack the office so I am standing in piles of my stuff (bedrest when we moved, yuck!) so I better go now.

Cattle Drive

Here are a few pics from Jill and Chucks friends... they are pretty cool!

Ok, last one!

These are:
1. David and Charlie by the John Deere tractor... he isn't wearing his outfit though :-(
2. Our last sunset on the ranch Saturday night... I saw sunrise on Sunday (and a few other mornings), but was dealing with an unhappy David so didn't get the picture... maybe next time.
3. David in his Great Grandfathers bassinette! Jill can correct me or add more to that one also!
4. The ranch from the road as we are leaving.
5. David, back home and fast asleep. Boy did he smile when he woke up and saw the front windows, he couldn't decide if he was more happy to be home or more upset to be wet and hungry!
I will email a link to all of you of the Walmart pics, when I get them uploaded, in the charlieandjenwebb email address list, if you do not think you are in the list, send me your email in a post (again, I will not post your email address or the post if it contains your email address so you don't get junk, so comment separately if you want it posted), and I will make sure you get to look at all the pics!

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These are:
1. David smiling at me while Grandma Jill held him in the kitchen.
2. Their orphaned calf that they feed a bottle twice a day, too scared of us and Vodka.
3. David, Charlie and me in front of the horse corral.
4. David asleep in the Baby Bijorn just before we set out to visit the dogs, horses, chickens and calf.
5. Vodka and Cole playing in the pond.
more to come...

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Just had to put these on too... I am here and have them open, so this way everyone can see the best ones... these are:
1. A cool metal work piece on the wall at the ranch, I was astonished at the quality my camera got of the details! Jill probably can post more info on this though.
2. Grandpa Chuck in his waders after working on irrigation (I believe) in one of the fields.
3. David smiling for me :-)
4. Sunset at the Dixon Fairgrounds on 4th of July.
5. Grandma Jill on Dewey (my dads nickname!) as we dropped them off for their cattle drive.
more to come....

Wyoming

Sorry to everyone that I forgot to tell we were going away for the rest of the week to the ranch in Wyoming. I have way too many pics so I will upload them to Walmart just as soon as I can... for now here are a few highlights.
David saw and touched his first chicken! He saw cows and slept through the cattle drive we went on (we drove the truck) and met a few horses. He has started reaching for things and hitting his toys that spin or make noise! What a new step. He is growing so fast. He loves playing "sit-up" where you lay him down and pull his arms, he lifts his legs when he is ready and tightens his arms up... he is holding his head up great now and can almost sit up without falling over, at least for a few seconds anyway. He slept almost the whole way to Wyoming and mostly all the way back. What a great traveler! I am confident that he should do good when we travel for the rest of his life since he is getting all this practice in. This was his first out of state trip! He slept through the fireworks on the 4th, but I taped them for him to watch later (ok, for me too, lol) and is close to sleeping all night, just one wake up around 3 am right now, then asleep until almost 7 am every day except today, he got really cold and woke up very upset this morning!
Well, thank you to Grandma Jill and Grandpa Chuck for a wonderful fun filled visit... I even got to nap most days as Grandma Jill took David and played with him for a few hours (Grandma Anna was also very helpful with this when we visited her!) and got to bond. We are all glad we got to visit for so long since we don't get up there very often. Vodka even went this time and got to meet new dogs, play in a new yard and pond (she even got her feet wet!) and met horses for the first time... she is still afraid of them! Cole over did it the first day, going on a bike ride with Charlie on the continental divide, running around the ranch with the other dogs and then catching every piece of wood Jill threw down stream from a beaver dam she had to break up as it was blocking their irrigation water, so she had to rest most of the rest of the time. She is better today though. I can't wait for our next visit in late September.
Check it out, we even got the three generations pic of the Charles'!