MSD

I finally got my second MSD doll a few weeks ago and boy is she cute! I named her Wilhelmina - or Mina for short. Poor girl only came with underwear so I had to make a dress for her. At the moment it's the only thing she has to wear. I made a few things for Juste, and she can wear those, but she has to have more than a couple pairs of pants! Mina is officially Juste's older sister. Maybe one day I can bring Juste's twin sister home - but it'll take some time. After all, it took several years just to get his older sister. :)

Mina and Juste together at last:

Hail (on) the 4th of July

So we went up to Florissant on the 4th because my sister-in-law tells me everyone's going to be out there on the property having a picnic. We were a little late (the car started to over heat) but it was still before 5:30. They should know by now that there's no way we could even be there before 4. We hit a nasty hail storm when we go to Divide, but it stopped when we passed the light. (There is only 1 light in Divide.)
We were really close to the property when we saw a deer right next to the road. I had to get a picture!
Of course when we got closer Alice started barking like crazy at the deer and it ran away.
It was still light out and it wasn't even raining when we arrived, but everyone had left. We walked the dog around the property a little bit, but we didn't stay. I did get a picture of a tree that fell though.

On the way out from the property we saw another deer and it was hiding behind some bushes.

We went back to Woodland Park to my in-law's house and stayed until almost midnight. Everyone went back to their house. Apparently we had just barely missed them coming back from the property. Jessie(my sister-in-law) and her family showed up about 30 minutes after we got to Woodland Park. They had gone swimming in the river. We weren't the only ones who went all the way to the property and missed everyone. My other brother and sister-in-law also went out there and had to come back. (It's like a 40 minute drive from Woodland Park to the property in Florissant.) Jessie wanted to see the fireworks which were scheduled for around 9pm, but it started to rain. And rain. And rain. Then came the crazy hail, and more rain. The kids brought in some of the hail stones and they were about ping-pong ball sized. They made an awful racket hitting the side of the trailer. Of course this meant no fireworks. It rained until almost 11:30 then it finally let up some. Then we headed home a little while later. We live about 40 minutes away from my husband's parents, so I wasn't sure how much of the storm we got where we live. When we got home though, I found out. It had apparently hailed buckets at my house too.
I took these pictures several hours(like 5) after we got home - and there was still piles of hail! There are leaves everywhere and my rose bush got shredded. I had made a little homemade bird feeder(the red bowl in the corner) and it got ripped apart. The plastic was actually broken.

I kinda thought this hailstone looked pretty exotic. Looks like tree rings or something.