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Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Summer Lovin

Hi friends! I hope you are all staying cool, which is very hard to do when it's 108 degrees out, I know.  There are so many things I want to be spray painting right now, but even at dusk its in the 90's so its not happening. I can't believe summer is already coming to an end :(.  Did it not just start?!?!  I am usually so ready for summer to be over and the heat to go away, but for some reason, I think it's just going too fast and I'm not ready for it to end this year. OK the heat I could definitely do without, but not the summer just yet.  I'm usually always wishing for the next season, in the summer I wish it was fall,  Winter I wish for Spring and so on but now I really just want to stop and soak in the time and not wish it away.  Carter is getting so big too fast, it's like once he hit 3 he became so grown up and independent.
Everyday is more and more fun with him, as he has his own personality. I thought I would share some pics of our summer fun. 
Riding his bike before it got too hot, he keeps saying I wanna take my training wheels off! lol might be a while on that on buddy. My heart can't take how fast you're growing up.


On the weekends we like to go get pizza downtown, the streets are so quiet on the weekends, we will walk around looking in the old buildings trying to envision what life was like decades ago when they were built.  For Fathers Day I made Jamie this picture with all his boys "hand" prints on it ;) It took a few tries to get the dog's to look just right, as you can imagine.  Marty, our little dog, his pencil legs will never not make me laugh.


These are our other kids, Weezy and Marty. Of course they go by many other names too, Wizard, The Martian, Weezo, Martini... and so on.  Marty with is constant smirk, feeling perfectly happy in the 100 degree heat, and Weez playing in a rare moment of energy. That dog loves to sleep.


This Forth we stayed in town instead of going to my sister's house in Dallas like we usually do.  Carter and my nieces played in the sprinklers and ate popsicles. 
After one run through the wet grass, it was stuck like glue to Carter's feet, to which he then sat himself on the swing determined to get it all off, before going further with any fun.  He is one boy that does not like to be dirty! lol  
The kiddos with the shirts I made, I love making them shirts! If I had time I would make a shirt for them to all wear every time we saw each other lol.  They just look so cute all matcy and personalized ;) One of these days they will probably be embarrassed for having to wear stuff like that, but until then they will look cute! For these I used old shirts I found at the Goodwill to make the letters and embellishments.  I used heat transfer and just ironed the cut out letters on. Very Simple.
Jamie and I spent the weekend with our friends who live a couple hours away, it's always fun hanging out, we have been friends for so long and have been through pretty much everything together, Im lucky to have such great best friends, hence the Friendship Bracelets I made them ;) 
Jennie, Me, Jessica, Katy


As the summer comes to an end, I think back to summers when I was a kid and they seemed to last forever, I forget that, from Carter's perspective the days and weeks seem like a lifetime. I wish for his outlook as the last few weeks go by before we enter busy school and fall schedules. I want to soak up the long days and not miss any of the small moments. I hope you all try to do the same! 


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cupcake "burgers" {4th of July}

The forth of July is one of my favorite holidays, red white and blue, summertime, BBQ's, and of course fireworks! Last year I made these adorable "burgers and fries"cupcakes and cookies for our family celebration. I honestly think they are the cutest things in the world! I just love tiny stuff especially tiny food, these were so fun! And Bakerella has really amazing instructions on how to do these tiny treats! She also has the printable for the basket and a blank "fry" holder, I just added God Bless America on it before I printed it. I used Microsoft Word and typed "happy 4th of July" over and over then printed it onto tissue paper to add to the basket.  So festive, cute, and easy! 
They were made with white cupcakes cut in half, a brownie cut into a circle, and sugar cookies cut to look like fries. 

When I first saw these I thought they were the cutest things I had ever seen, I though oh my, it is my mission in life to make these at some point! lol I'm so glad I did, everyone loved them! Go here to Bakerella's site to get her detailed instructions and printables, they were perfect for the 4th! Now I am trying to come up with something to top this for our 4th of July this year, but I don't think anything will beat them in the cute department. :)



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fun in the sun ~ summer gift idea

Last weekend I went to a friend baby shower.  She and I have been friends since before we could drive and it is hard to believe that we have our own kids now?! It seems like only yesterday we were passing notes in the hallway about boys in our class, and now we are talking about breast feeding and birth stories! lol!  So anyway back to the gift, I started thinking about what to get her, I thought back to my shower and the things that I received.  I knew she would be getting a lot of the usual stuff, like blankets, and onesies, so I figured I could do something different.  I really loved getting things that were personalized with Carter's name on them, and since my friend and her family like to spend a lot of time by the pool in the summer, I thought that it would be cute to do a summer fun gift!  And what is cuter than a baby in a swim suit and sunglasses???

So for this gift, I found a plain tub at Hobby Lobby, and went to Target to grab some essential baby pool accessories. :)  Swim suit, sunglasses, towel, and toys! Other things that would be great to add would be sunscreen, swim shoes, hat, floaties, etc... the possibilities are endless.


Once I got all the loot, I simply drew the baby to be's name on the front of the tub using these paint pens. 




After the name dried I filled it up, going largest in the back to smallest in the front.  It took a little arranging and re-agrraning to get it to look how I wanted.

Then to finish it off I used a clear cellophane to wrap it up! I think you can put just about anything in cellophane and tie it with a bow and it will look cute.. ok maybe not everything, but you get the idea! 

I stuffed some tissue in the top to give it a little more color and then tied it off with some toile.  I glued on a little turtle to the front that came with the toy pack, to make it complete!

As I was putting this gift together and dreaming of sunshine and days at the pool, we were under a tornado watch all weekend! Luckily it only rained and never got severe around us.  I've lived in Oklahoma my whole life, and I will never get used to tornado season! ugh! 
I'm glad I had this little gift to take my mind of the weather so I could daydream about laying on the beach instead! :)

This was so fun to put together, and would be great for any age kid who has a birthday in the summer as well!  

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day! 

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