J.J. comes over

Yes, I realize that there has been a terrible lack of posts. But you know the holidays. Even a doll has to prepare for Thanksgiving. Mama is visiting relatives for a big feast. Us doll sisters just can't sit around on the big day! At the end of this post is a plan that all of us decided on. But for now, here's some pictures!

One of Mama's besties, J.J. came over not too long ago. And she brought all the Gold Valley Dolls! 

Arizona here! May I introduce...

Stephanie Antoinette!!

*applauds*

Stephanie is a new arrival from France. Luckily for us, she speaks a fair amount of English. Every week we talk to her, the more she improves in her speech and grammar. Jubilee and I have been helping her. She's very nice, and even Ivy loves her.

Oh, you be quiet! Ivy again. That's enough for Ari anyway. ;) My blog anyhow.

 New faces, and old friends. Here's the well loved Sunny. She's been going over fashion changes. Her vest looks rather cute, but I'm not quite sure what to think of the green eyebrows.


I like them.


Of course you do! You'd be rainbow colored if you could help it. :)

 Isn't Jubilee so chic?
My sister is a pro at fashion.
Yes, and she always looks adorable. She went preppy that day. Elizabeth went casual in softly worn denim.
:D

Ari and Joy!
Meeeeeeee!!!!!!
YES YOU!!!
Can you see a the pic of Elliebob on the bulletin board? In case you were wondering, the photo next to that is not Mama. :)

 I don't really know why this is here. I love Mama's camera's macro setting. :D

I'm not even sure if my blog posts are interesting anymore so...
SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!
Tell me what you'd like to see, and I'll try and do it. :)


So! Let's get to the Thanksgiving plans.

Mama leaves.

Start cooking Thanksgiving feast!

Play in some leaves outside

Have a mini dance party.

Eat Thanksgiving feast! YUM!

Watch a movie while falling asleep

Get up and rampage the living room.

Play a game on couch.

Mama comes home. 

:)

I don't know about you, but it sounds fun to us. XD

Don't forget! Suggestions for this blog. :) Anything! :D

Ivy                             and       
Arizona

Welcome Summer and Bring on the Heat!

Bring on the scorching heat, it's summer! Woo-hoo!
In the mornings at 7:30 it's already 80 degrees! Ouch! But I'm cool with it. How can anyone mind when it's summer, and therefore water time?
Yep! I am using too many exclamation points. ^-^

Ha ha ha, well, this morning, we took some pictures for our Blogger readers, and here they are:

My 4 special friends and I. Marie and I forgot to look at the camera, silly us!
Now here's a funny picture below...

3 Friends guild! Except none of us looked at the camera. Whoops. XD Joy was looking at a dragonfly, Jubilee was getting squished, and I forgot that Mama was taking the picture. Hey, that's my banner! Do you like it? I worked hard on it.

HAPPY SUMMER EVERYBODY!

Yeah.

Low exposure. It was way too bright outside! You can see that Jubilee and Marie are still sticking with their barefoot thing. :)

Yep, put on your sunblock folks, for it's time for some fun in the sun! Hooray!

Holding hands. Awwwwwww. :)

Oh, remember how Joy was looking at a dragonfly? We snapped a pic of it before it flew away! Really!

How pretty!

Anyway, I must go. I gotta put on some shorts for wading! Since I'm a doll, I can't swim, but I can wade! So...see you later!

~Sunshiny Ivy

My eye

I'd like y'all to know my eyes are doing great now. :)
This is how happy I feel...

Arizona in AGC had eye problems too. She has a surgery in July, then a short recovery stage before she can come home. We're excited!

~Sunshineeeee Ivy!

Ooo, backyard pics!

I'm like so happy. The backyard looks so much better!
I decided to post some photos now, and some later. :)

So this morning, Joy and I woke up and rushed to the sliding glass door. The landscapers were here! Hooray!

 It's hard to get a good picture of Joy, so I had to post this photo!

 Rototiller!

Rototiller in action! Or, not.

Drain thingy.

 Headerboard/yard liner! Nice and curvy. Perfecto!

 Seriously. This afternoon, Mama and I took a nap. When we woke up, we looked out the window to see brilliant green! She grabbed the camera much faster than I thought was possible and snapped a picture! Here it is. Wow. I was stunned! How could this much progress occur in half an hour?!

 As I said, pebbles. And here are the boulders! Don't they give the area a strong look? So lovely. And you know what? Before you know it, the Rose Hollow Dolls are gonna be climbing all over the boulders!

 Ah, grass. Of course one of the workers stepped up as soon as I took the picture. Oh well!

Well, hope you enjoyed the landscape update. :)

~Very Sunshiny Ivy

Our Backyard

Wow, so far the backyard looks awesome, and waaaay better! The grass gives it an organic soothing feel, and the pebbles give it a river look. I LOVE IT! AAAAAAAH! XD
I can suddenly scream like that. Beware. :) XD
Mama said they put in recyclable headerboard. I'd rather call it a yard liner. Well, they put those in in curves.
Curves gives a yard a soft organic touch, do you not agree? Everything has curves, and it's simply beautiful.
Pictures coming later! I don't think the landscaper workers like me taking pictures of them anyway. I bet they're all creeped out.
A doll with a camera?!
Well, I'll be sure to just pop out later after they leave. :)

While I'm waiting...

Well, the concrete guys are still here!!! I wanted to take a picture outside with the new concrete, but I can't. :(
So here's today's story! While I'm waitin'.

 This morning, as soon as I woke up, I rushed to the sliding glass door.

There was the wire netting, all safe and secure. The netting is to make the concrete stronger. :)

Then the concrete truck arrived!

I tried to snap a pic of the guys wheelbarrowing their tools in, but they were too speedy!

The tools waiting patiently.

Imagine my elation as they poured the first dump of concrete in! YAAAAAAY!

 Plop. ^-^

 Indistinguishable man and his wheelbarrow.

 More cement/concrete! Mwahahahaha! Erm. I mean I was getting so excited I started jumping up and down!

FINALLY! I finally got a photo of the guy pouring the cement out.

This is what it looked like at lunchtime. Pretty wet!

Without me in it. >)

They're finishing up now. Yay! I'm so happy.

~Sunshiny Ivy

Landscaping update

Well, we're all working hard at R.H.A. I didn't even see Julie today. :( Ms. Glendale kept us dreadfully busy. The other teacher, Mr. Zittle was in a tizzy!
Anyway, I have a bunch of photos on my laptop that we took yesterday. It makes me sad to see the backyard in such a sorry state.
Here we go!

Surveying the changes. This is where more concrete is to be put in.

Hmm. Not very pretty. I can't wait for the concrete!

Nice tractor, eh? That's where the other concrete's going. :)

Then Mama made me go inside. Wednesday, come quick!!

Wednesday is when the concrete is being poured. At 7am sharp! Ms. Jordan gave me permission to go home that day. I had to promise to do all my schoolwork, however.

But I don't care!

Wednesday come quick! :DDDDDD

~Sunshiny Ivy

Joy's B-day

Sorry I didn't post these yesterday, but we're busy. So!
We had oodles of fun on Tuesday. At 1pm, the guests arrived.

Yes, I wore my cherry blossom dress. Joy wore the pretty wraparound dress that Mama made.
We had a Princess Diaries style party! Remember in Princess Diaries 2, they mattressurfed? We did that too! Except we used pillows and our chaise longue.
Here goes Joy...

And her reaction...

Yep! Fidelia went on her stomach...

Hee hee! Jubi and I went down together.

We went faster than anyone else! Too fast for Mama to take a picture...

And Marie went last. Don't worry if this pic confuses you, I don't really understand it myself.

After eating cake, we decided to open presents.

That belongs to P2! Haha, will post later. :)

~Sunshiny Ivy

Almost-15-followers!

I would like to sincerely thank Mimi for being my 14th follower, and Chloe for being my 13th. Applause please!
Only one more follower needed to have 15 followers!

~Sunshiny Ivy

Happy Birthday!

It's Joy's 12th birthday today! Yahoo!!!!!!!!

H-A-P-P-Y   B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y   J-O-Y!

So yeah. We're all dressed, and the guests will be arriving soon. I gotta go, but I'll write later after the party!

~Sunshiny Ivy~

P.S. Wish Joy happy bday please!

Magic...100?!

Yahoo, 100 pageviews! I'm so excited. My next pageview celebration will be when I reach 1000.
:D
I'm also so happy about my 11 followers. I can't wait till I have 15! *squeal*
:D :D :D

Nervousness

I'm so nervous. I so want to go with Mama to the ******'s family camp. I can't use their real name, sorry.
However, one of the other girls might be going. I'd so love to take a night off away from boarding school. True, it's a Christian school, and I get to go home on Saturdays/Sundays, but I love to be away. 
The trip over will be so fun! And then, the campout will be totally awesome.

Hot dogs, salads, chips, and other various snacks for dinner! Capture the flag--at NIGHT! (too bad Mama doesn't like Capture the Flag--whether it's daytime or not!) A blazing bonfire and s'mores! D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S breakfast: muffins, omelette, and (drumroll) Danish Pastries! YUM!

What I said in bold is what we're gonna be doing there. Oh, I DO want to go! But I promise I won't be a sore loser if I'm not.
But be sure to tell Mama on her blog who you want to go with her.

Magic 10!

10! 10 what?
10 followers, of course!

Thanks SO much Emma S.!

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Thanks everyone for being my followers.