George and kitten

George is holding his favorite of the kittens who were born in our yard while we were on vacation. These kitties were eventually taken to the human society and hopefully adopted. Our kids filled their first weeks with lots of love and harrassment.

Dan

I hope Dan will forgive me for posting this but it's just too good not to.

Three crazy guys

Jack, George and Nan found Nana's dress ups and went crazy! Well the picture speaks for itself.

Gabey and the Parrot

Summer 2005 Mckinney, Tx. A parrot flew into Nana's yard. We were all amazed and decided it must have been someone's pet who flew the coop. Gabey was the only one brave enough to invite it onto his arm. It did sit on Tricia's shoulder for a while but she didn't ask it back. It finally moved onto the next yard after a while and was never seen again. It was like magic.

Nan, sprinklers and boot

Summer of 2005 Nan broke her foot at Finch Park in McKinney, TXduring the second week of our visit. She and the other kids had been running through these cool sprinklers and then sliding down the slides (not pictured). Nan slid and landed on her foot. She wore that "boot" for the rest of the trip.

Katie's Bday cake

Nan made and decorated this cake herself! Tricia had fun decorating a little of it too when Nan said it was ok! We had so much fun. Nan's friend Katie is coming for the day and we didn't get to celebrate her birthday yet (it was about a month ago) so Nan decided to go all out! Hope she likes it!

The top of "A" Mountain

We climed to the top of "A" Mountain on Sunday Oct. 29th.

Bloody Eyeballs

Cream cheese and Jello

Monster Toes

Little Smokies in Tortillas with Mustart, Ketchup, or BBQ sause for toe nails.

Witches' Fingers

Almond flavored cookies with almonds for the finger nails with red jell underneath.

Bloody Hand

Cranberry juice frozen in a latex glove floats in Nana's famous piano recital punch!

Halloween fun

Nan the indian, George the Clown haired wizard, Lucy the little wich fairy, Gabey the Darth Vader ad Jack the clown haired witch hatted camo clad wizard are about to enjoy some spooky treats.

Nan's new glasses

Nan got glasses on Oct 2, 2006. She says, "I love my new glasses!" And she sees clearer too. Her eyes are nowhere as bad as her mom's. They are more like her dad's, just slightly near sighted but the glasses really help. Hope they stay that way.

Zoo day

We took one long day to drive out to a little zoo near Gainsville, Tx and it was worth the trip! At least this year we got to ride on a little train. One of these years I will get my kids on a real train!

Nan's 9th Birthday

Nan's 9th Birthday was a wonderful one! Aunt Honey and Nan took a day to make this wonderful cake and Lucy is helping Nan enjoy her presents!

Sweet Summer Rain

This is out on my mom and dad's drive way. It finally rained after taking weeks and weeks, it was sweet indeed. Lucy got so wet she lost her clothes! From Left to right it's Gabey, Barret and George, Nan, Lucy, and Jack.

Herd path

This is on a path at the Herd Meuseum in MkKinney, Tx.

Ellie

This is Ellie, Just one month old. She is perfect!

At the end of June we got to visit my highschool friend Cheri Morgan and her 4 kidos in Pooleville, Tx. It was a beautiful day!

Nana loves to have watermelon seed spitting contests but she had a dickens of a time finding melons with seeds, this is one of three different times when we found the white seeds just don't go as far!

Swim days

This is the Janita Maxfield pool in McKinney where we swam 2 or three times a week! In the background you can kinda see the floating snake that the kids loved to fall off of.

George is so cool

George made this cool hammock for this bear.

George got these cool shades at his last guitar lesson where his teacher told him that all guitarists are cool so of course they all have cool glasses! George is way cool!

bebe Gun

Gabey got pretty good with the bebe gun. Don't worry the little kids are not even allowed on the grass and there is no one begind those bushes.

swim lessons

Jack, Andrew and Owen took swim lessons together. They did great!

finger knitting

On the first day of "Nana and Papa Camp" I taught all the kids how to knit a tube chain on their hands. Nan and Truett had a contetst to see who could knit the longest.

Dandilions

Lucy blowing dandilions at Bobby and Ellens house. June 2, 2006

Tractor ride

We visited Cousin Ellen and Bobby in the first week of our visit. Truett is actually driving this tractor with Gabe, Nan, George, and Jack in the scoop. Thank you Bobby for a once in a life time ride!

Bikes

My dad "Grampa Jack, or Grandaddy" got bikes for all my kids even Lucy and I got to ride. We had some great bike rides on the streets of McKinney.

Dinner time!

Papa did the honors and cut that fish to smitherines. We all got to taste the crumbly deep batterfried goodness with Powell potatoes on the side!

What she caught

She caught a big one! A Catfish with wiskers and everything!

Fishing with Papa

First, Nan had to find the worms herself.... Georgie helped a little.

Lucy turned 2 in Texas this year. She eventually decided on the cake over the thumb!

Lucy loves her new backpack, a present from her Aunt Honey!

Nana's play room is the best. Summer of 2006, The Harris kids made the most of it!

Almost all the girls

This is one of my favorite pictures from the summer trip to Texas. We are all here except Mel, we missed you Mel. Dorothy is showing us her wedding pictures!

Dorothy and Daniel Kent were married on Sun. May 28th amid addoring fans and family!
It was great! And by great I mean really really hot, beautiful, but hot!

The Bear's Lunch

Here is a story that Nan wrote for a Writing Placement Assessment for the online school K-12-Arizona Virtualy Academy

Once upon a time two friends named Katie and Nan had lunch with their bears. Nan asked Katie, “What should we make for our bears?” Katie said, “Let’s make eggs.” So they made eggs (which actually were leaves) and this is how they made them. First they had to pick the leaves and then they got them wet so that they would be soft after they cooked them in the sun.

While Katie and Nan waited for them to be done Nan said to Katie, “Now while we are waiting for the eggs we should make pudding.” So they made pudding and this is how they made it. They had cups and they put pencil shavings in the cups and added a little water to it so it would get thick enough to be pudding. So they stirred and stirred and stirred until it was like pudding. And then it was ready to be served to the Bears. But the bears had to wait because the eggs were not quite ready yet. A few minutes later the eggs were done so the bears each got two. And they were quite delicious. After they finished the eggs they could have the pudding . They were very happy that they could have the pudding and it was very yummy!

And when lunch was over Katie had to leave because she was only a friend of Nan’s so they said good bye and so did the bears. “That was a very good day,” said Nan. She was happy and so was Katie. “Next time we will make the same thing even better,” said Nan, and I think they did.

By Nan Harris April 11, 2006

Easter Dresses

I love our dresses this year. I made each a diff. style and the material was only 2$ a yard so in all our dresses cost about 7 $ and we will definitely wear them again!
















Lucy is all ready for church Easter morning and is taking her kitties for a walk. My mom sent a big birthday box that we opened on Easter morning and she knitted Lucy the Mama and the kittens from the nursury rhyme about the kittens and their mittens. Lucy loves them so much she insists they are in her bed when the lights go out!

Bionicles in the shade