Dismay

While out today, we stopped by this delightful antique store that I spied from the road. Cole picked out some antique license plates that I'm going to make an album out of for him. Seems so incredibly appropos for him, my CAR FREAK!!! But my most exciting purchase was a set of 2 lead flower frogs. One is tiny like 1 inch across and the other is about 4 inches. I'm in LOVE can't wait to use them to hold up pictures on my scrap desk plus they'll be so cool to use for flowers too! LOL

We've been working on a new garden pond for about two weeks now. Matt dug and dug and DUG while the kids and I were in Ocean City and now it's MUCH bigger than it was. For a week I've been in and out of the pond laying the stone walls and waterfall, Matt's been moving stone, dirt and messing with the pumps. It's been really fun but we are both ready for it to be finished.

Today while shopping for pond plants, we got an urgent call from my father. My nephew, Marty, while racing motocross, possibly broke both ankles and was rushed to Christiana Hospital. Luckily, it's been discovered that only one is broken and the other has either torn ligaments or deep tissue bruises. I know Marty will not enjoy the rest of summer and it is SO unfortunate that he'll be out for the rest of the season (I'm assuming) but I am so thankful that it wasn't any worse. Marty was in first place in his class this season and has a VERY promising motorcross career ahead of him. Here's a link to a pic of Marty doing some "freestyle" riding, this was apparently going across the finish line earlier this season... http://www.poppopsimages.com/Race4Class9/pages/4-23-06%20Budds2-%20270.htm