More from Melha

This is just a small sample of the photos shared with me from our night at Melha. 

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Thank you Chuck for sharing these wonderful pictures.

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Shriners Ball Photos

Pics of the 'anchor'

Busy day (second attempt to post)

Ashtyn is off enjoying old orchard beach with grammy and grampa, and jeremy is working so taylor and I joined jeremy at work. Today st. johnsbury is having this sort of summer fest with a farmers market, bounce houses, you name it. Almost every business in st j has a tent set up on the street to entice you to buy their goods. And because it is a town wide 'fun day' they have a special passenger train (which is why jeremy's working on a saturday). Taylor and I went on the first run which took us from st j to barnet and back, the next one went to lyndonville and the last one will go to barnet again. We had a nice time. We got to enjoy different scenes than we were used to going on the bf to chester runs back home. I didn't even know that the connecticut river (pic posted) was up here too. There were some local celebrity types on board with us, radio djs, photographers, etc, all excited to see a passenger train run through their town. Jeremy and bryan did an excellent job 'driving' the train. It was a little speedy at one point I thought anyways, jeremy laughed at me about it, but whatever. The other kinda scary part was the zillion 100+ year old bridges we relied on to carry our tonage of trains and people across the connecticut and passumpsic rivers the whole trip but I guess if jeremy has to do that daily with 40 cars full of freight it could handle the engine and our three cars of people. I got to feel like the technology goddess for a little bit as I uploaded pics to facebook during the trip. This guy, who I found out later was the dj, was talking to brian (our train tour guide from bellows falls) about how the train should offer wifi and they both grumbled back and forth about not having cell signal (get verizon!!!!) I laughed when I heard him on the radio on my way home as he told his listeners about how he couldn't broadcast from the train because there was no signal available on the route..... Could have used mine..... He also could have done his blog post that he wanted.... But nope, I figured it out too late.....sorry. I felt bad about it really, especially after hearing his really great plugs for green mtn on the radio. Jeremy's embarrassed.... The radio crew took pics up on the engine and he's in them...haha, they weren't posted yet but the blog where they should be is www.vermontradio.blogspot.com .... Wicked funny! Anyway, I wish taylor wasn't so tired, it seemed like it would have been pretty fun to roam the streets of st j for a while but she was out before we left the parking lot. Oh well, maybe next time.

Lovin' her new arm

Thank you Shriners Hospital- Springfield! Taylor had an ot appointment today and she was uncooperative to say the leasy but once she had a nap and some more checking-things-out-on-her-own time she's doing awesome. She was picking up little sticks and her straw wrapper....all sorts of little things. She doesn't mind the harness at all which was a big fear I had. She's just doing so awesome. I can never thank SHC and all the Shriners enough.

-- Sent from my Palm Pixi

Shrine On 2010 Pictures (Thanks Mom)

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Lovin' her arms



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Happy Easter

Bektash Shrine, Concord, NH

Hopefully the weather (and girls) cooperate tomorrow so I can attempt to get some better pictures on our way home.

The pictures I took of Jeremy and Taylor came out pretty good, with the exception that neither of them were smiling :( The sun was being kind of evil though....it was blindingly bright.

Happy Birthday Jolene!

Ha ha!

Calm and Relaxation-ish

Both the girls have an evil cough and I'm stuck with a stuffy-nose.....but all is not overly horrible. I taught myself to knit over the weekend and rather than do something easy like a pot holder or wash cloth.....I made Taylor a sweater. You can't tell from this pic but the left sleeve is shorter to allow her smilie to be free when she's not wearing her prosthetic. Its a little shorter than I would have liked but I just went at it without a pattern or anything....so keep your criticism :) Ashtyn's a little jealous so now I'm going to start making her one.



And even with the runny noses, booger faces and tears, the girls shared the love with one another. Cute as always!!!

Photos of the month(s)

I have been so busy I can't even see straight. You'd think with less kids to take care off and no money to go out to do anything I'd have all the time in the world.....nope! Here's a tidbit of pics of the 3-4 weeks. Bump after bruise, gash after bite, a little snow, a little camp, a ton to talk about, and no time yet to do it. Maybe nap time will be kind today. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.

Guess who

After looking at some pics the other day and having a total ball when people guessed wrong....I'm sharing some pics with others......Can you figure out who is who?


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Jeremy















Julie (ha ha that was a trick photo)



















Taylor














Ashtyn













Ashtyn