Summer Vacation ~ Days 25-28 ~ Picture Overload!

Here's how we spent the past few days....mostly in photos

{weird!}

{all airplane photos by Ryan}

{day two ~ minus the blue filter on the camera}

{finally finished! more soon on my craft blog}

{love our hollyhocks}

Summer Vacation ~ Day 24

{Ryan at his Scout Master Conference for Tenderfoot}

{coloring}

{cherry cobbler with cherries from our tree}

{happy 2nd anniversary to matt & dana}
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Ryan turned 11.5 yesterday;
Emma turns 7.5 tomorrow;
and school starts exactly two months from today!

Summer Vacation ~ Day 23

{just before Em's popped!}

{the prior owners of the house buried marbles and glass beads in this
flower bed....the kids are still finding them}

{composing}

Summer Vacation ~ Day 22

Monday was a quiet day...it's nice to have those occassionally!
We did go to the library so the kids could turn in their summer reading form.
There's a knitting club that meets there, and look at what they did!
I love it!

The bike racks are my favorite!

Emma with her favorite.
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I put together my to-do list.
Here's what it looks like:

I wish my "to-do" list always looked like this!
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Here's a quick little project that I did last night.
You can read about it here

Summer Vacation ~ Day 21 ~ Someone's 40!

Bob turned 40 on Sunday!

We had a few friends and family over to celebrate.
And we got to enjoy a delicious Texas Sheet Cake...

This time we used the Pioneer Woman's recipe.....yum!!!

I saw this idea somewhere ~ probably Pinterest.  It worked SO well!
Before everyone arrived, I scooped the ice cream into muffin tin liners and then put them
back in the freezer.  We had the cake outside, so I didn't have to worry about the icecream melting while I scooped and scooped and scooped.

Emma made Bob a crown....it originally said "I am 04."  Oops!

We found our spot of shade!

Ryan took orders from everyone on how they wanted their hamburgers and then
made them for us.  He did a great job!

Summer Vacation ~ Days 19 and 20

While the kids have had sleepovers and playdates, I've been working
in the jungle!  When you're mostly gone for a month, the weeds just keep on growing!

Added 13 bags of new bark nuggets to the front flower bed....smells SO good!

Our new raspberry patch is growing quite well.

Where I wish I'd spent the last two days.   :)