Craft Tuesday

We had Craft Tuesday at Steph's house with her boys and Lily (somehow, she is missing from all my pics).  We are going to the zoo soon, so we decided to use the kids' handprints to paint their favorite zoo animal.  The kids were waiting patiently to get started!

We went around the table and the kids "acted" like their favorite zoo animal.  Can you guess what Grace's was?

A giraffe, of course!

Andrew's favorite was a giraffe too!

Tripp's favorite was a elephant and then a tiger because it says, "GRRRR!"

After the zoo craft and destroying the boys' playroom, we came home ate lunch, took a nap rested, and got out the slip~n~slide!

Ahhhh!  I LOVE summer!!!

cupcakes

Grace filled up her marble jar again!

This time she was working for a cupcake.  She had a HUGE decision to make...which cupcake would she pick!

Miss Princess

(white cake baked with fresh strawberries, topped with a cream cheese frosting,

pink sugar crystals, and a pink fondant crown)

Strawberry Shortcake

(white cake baked with fresh strawberries, topped with a strawberry

buttercream frosting and red sugar crystals)

She chose...

...Strawberry Shortcake...

pink cake AND pink frosting!

It was a delicious choice!

SUMMERtime

and the LIVIN' is EASY

Two weeks into summer break and I finally got my house clean and ready for summer.  On the mantle, I put a picture of Grace at the beach from a couple of summers ago and a starfish in a shadowbox, some seashells, and a basket.  I also added some yellow pompom flowers and our pet butterfly on the other side.

On the picture ledge, I added some more seashells, a starfish, our vacation jar from last summer, and a pinwheel.

My favorite little table!  I am in LOVE with pinwheels right now!

On my desk, I added another jar.  In this one, I nestled a pic of me and my 2 favorite kids down in some sand.  This makes me smile!

Here is a box that John made for me filled with candles and some seashells.

Our book basket is filled with summer-y books.

A lantern, a buoy, some seashell art, and our SUNSHINE craft complete our "Summer Home." 

And...my very FAVORITE scent of all!

Mmmmm!!!

fun & games

Last week, we went to Chuck E Cheese's for a birthday party.

Our sweet cousin, Aubrey, turned

2 years old!

The birthday girl, Grace, and Tripp had fun dancing on TV!

We ATE a lot of pizza, PLAYed a lot of games, WON a lot of tickets, and had a lot of FUN!!!

swim.

Yesterday, we went swimming with Steph, Drew, Tripp, & Charlie at Aunt Terri's pool!  We had a  SpLiSh-SpLaShIn' GoOd TiMe!  It was Carter Man's first time swimming and he might of actually enjoyed it for a little while!  We hung out, swam, ate lunch, and swam some more!