My Family Home Evening Craft!

I really wanted a Family Home Evening board-but didn't really want to pay $40 for it so I tried to find ways to make it. I have to explain it because i am so ridiculously proud of it.

I spent 2 hours shopping with mom-who gave me the idea to use a picture frame(I found the frame at home with an old picture in it.)

I then spent 40 minutes in Michael's with Lucie and spent $5 on scrapebooking paper for it.

I used knobs from a rummage sale I had bought for the kids dressers and had extra of so I painted the front wood part a cream color, cost .25

I bought the tags with names on them for $5.

I spent 4 1/2 hours at my Ruthie's house saturday morning making my masterpiece with her, she is very good at the cricut and was such a help I credit her with it looking sooo cute.

Glue and decopage(sp) $4
I think this is the cutest thing I have ever made and it cost less then $12!! I am way to proud of it. Here is the final result!!

Our First official Flood!

We have been in our house a little over a year and we had a lot of pretty strong storms last night. We woke up and went outside to let the dog go potty and our side street is horribly flooded. The strong winds knocked over my gladiolas-most of which are broke and I will need to pull them out. The kids were amused by the street and thought it was hilarious. We have been told that behind our house has flooded in the past so we went to look and sure enough it flooded, but then I noticed my GARDEN!!!




Almost all of my corn was blown over and broke. My cherry/grape tomatoes that were as tall as I am are blown over and I can't tell yet if they will make it. Some of my normal tomatoes are tipped and their wire cage was pulled out of the ground!! Oh I am so sad!! I love my garden, I am a little sad because this was my first year gardening and I had great plans for my garden!! We were however fortunate with no tornados that we could have gotten!!

Bedrooms

So my neighbor gave me a dresser that was painted red/white/blue/yellow and wasn't very cute. That gave me a great idea to repaint the dresser, Grant's room and Lucie's room. I painted the dresser a light brown and two of Grants four walls light brown. Eventually I want to do a blueish gray on the other two walls but he loves green so we will leave it for now. Lucie's room I painted two of her walls green and left the other two pink, I repainted just the cute flowers and got rid of the ugly ones. I love both their rooms.

4th of July!

For the first time in years we decided to go to Milwaukee for their lakefront fireworks. Josh didn't want to go so it was just me the kids and my whole family. There were so many people there but we got there around 2 in the afternoon and the kids rode scooters, sidewalk chalk, squirt guns, we walked all over, played uno, etc. They also had a firetruck the kids could explore. Lucie loved it but I think she enjoyed being lifted up by the cute fireman more then the truck! it was tons of fun. those were on the 3rd, on the fourth we went to my sisters house and then saw our local fireworks. That was nicer just because they shoot them off 1 block away from our house so we left our house 15 minutes before they started, sat in the front and had a great seat with almost no wait time!! I think next year we will just do the local ones but it was fun spending time with everyone on the 3rd!!

Just funny and cute

I have a love/hate relationship with my dog,at times he is adorable-like when these pics were taken, at other times-like when I just chased him a round the neighborhood I really don't like him.




ANY BOYS BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOUR AND EIGHT LOOK OUT!!
I know I have said it before with lucie being wedding crazy-like the time she was looking out our big front window humming here comes the bride while a bridal party was across the street doing pictures BUT this may take the cake. I was making my jam and lucie was playing at the table and she got out a body wash bottle (the groom) and a body spray bottle (the bride) wrapped a tissue around the bride and proceeded to give them a wedding. Oh I love her.

Our Local Pool!

While my sister was in town we all got together tons and it was lots of fun. A couple of times we went to the pool by my house. It has a bunch ofroped off areas one is shallow enough for both kids to touch, there is also a waterslide that the kids can slide down. it is tons of fun. We go at least 4 times a week, it is only one block away from our house. We love it.

Strawberry Picking/Jam

Back in June-ish we went strawberry picking and I made so much Jam, strawberry lemonade and strawberries in syrup(which I use to make the best strawberry shakes) The funniest part was that Lucie doesn't like strawberries so she refused to help with any of it. The one pic I got of her helping was totally staged!! It is so fun to do something yourself from beginning to end, I can't wait for my billions of tomatoes to be done so I can start canning those!!