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goPro reunion 2

 

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so i am back in beautiful colorado at a Blue Lily GoPro Reunion.
it's fabulous.
i love listening to people talk about photography and what they learned and what they want to learn.
having this many photographers in one room is so cool.
i already teared up this morning.
even if i am not taking family photos for other people at this time....i still take photos everyday.
and i still want to to learn new stuff about my camera.

AND....this house has quite a collection of really HUGE taxidermy. 

how random right?! 
you can't even grasp from the pictures how GINORMOUS they are!


 
and here's me.....all sleepy-eyed and tired (really sleepy) from meeting new people and talking till late in the night.
but smiling with a full and happy heart.
what an awesome community God provided for me to enjoy.

what are you doing on this friday afternoon?

 

 

pretty.

i was working on some projects over at the craft house yesterday.
i love being in my sunny craft room. 

i have been hoarding embroidery hoops.


that is my favorite photo of craig. 
when i make him laugh that is the face i see.  
i love that face.




a rainbow gift from craft weekenders.


you've got mail...again.
because why not?
sometimes its better than music.

thift store birds spray painted yellow.
i need to find a place to hang them up.


i love my glass star from Piggie&Dirt.  i want to buy them all and hang them all over the ceiling!


hello new fabric i ordered from Hawthorne Threads.
please tell me you smiled really big with that combo like i did!


my grandma's flower frogs.


hankies.




more hoarding.


mr. duerksen....i love your shirt.


ummm....yeah.
this is... by far... the best fabric ever to exist in all of time...past....present....future.
the farm will get curtains with BIG rainbow chevron.  
and if i could i would just wrap up everything around me in the other.
my furniture, my kids, my dog..all wrapped up in rainbow chevron.

it's by riley blake and i ordered it from hawthorne threads also.

a lot of it.  :)


doiles.


sparkles.






happy maps from elizabeth st.


wire rack from the barn....i love rust.


i need to start decorating my gloves!
ha.


and whatever i can't drape with rainbow chevron....i will cover in vintage quilts.


vintage sparkles.

here is the other fabric i ordered.... 




i am determined to create more now that the kids are in school all day.
i NEED to be using my hands.
i need to work my mind that way much more often than i am.
it's calming and helps me think clearly.
so i am making a schedule and at least one day i AM creating.
no matter what.

do you make time for something like that in your life?
what is that important part of you that you don't want to miss out on?

 

 

 

 

 

 

odwalla.

I was delighted to be asked by BlogHer to share this episode of Weelicious Lunch Crunch sponsored by Odwalla Fruit Smoothies For Kids with my readers. Enjoy!

mondays.

 

 

 

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                                                        annie - 2nd grade                                                            talby - 5th grade
 

                                                          sean - 6th grade                                                             scott - freshman
 
 


dorks.
i didn't see that the boys were not smiling....
oh well.
memories.

school is in full day swing already and i am enjoying the quiet days.
i can say that because then i love when they come home so much more than when there is no break for months.

lauren's first day was on a day with two-a-day volleyball practices so she left on her first day before 6 AM.
that is why she is not pictured.  :)

 

ok...
now i want you to click over to read about the CRAFT WEEKEND that we had two weeks ago.
it was another amazing time.
God is so good.

 

last day of summer F U N!!!

i was really ready for school to start but feeling like this summer was missing some FUN.
you know...REAL fun.
i felt tired and busy all summer.
and a bit checked out.
at the store i got the last minute school supplies i had forgotten before and as i grabbed the shaving cream that was on my grocery list...i had the idea.

                                

shaving cream fight.
it's been two years.
we needed to bring it back.

after dinner that night i called them out for a surprise.
i was nervous they were going to think they were too old for it.

           
 


clearly they were not too old for this awesomeness.
well, scott was...but you could tell he really wanted to come out.  
isn't it a bummer to get older and put all these "rules" on yourself?
because are you really ever too old to be in a shaving cream fight?
the answer is no.

       
 



 

 
i keep a few wet rags nearby for when someone gets it on their eye or mouth.
there were no tears this year or fighting.
YAY!!!



        





the yard smelled amazing.

         







waffle really wanted to come out and play.







        

                      





she did throw it at me.
it wiped off my camera.
and i had it all over my shirt....but that is no biggie.


best picture ever!!!



i sent them to the trampoline which was like i told them to get a third scoop of ice cream!
they were so happy.
         









THEN i turned on the sprinkler under the trampoline and they cleaned most of the shaving cream off of them.
they eventually went in one at a time and showered while i sprayed down the deck.

                   

it was the pefect last night of summer activity.
they said so many times how fun it was and how awesome all that shaving cream felt.

smile.

at least we ended on a good note.

goodbye summer.
you were too hot and kind of sucky.....autumn i expect more from you!

my advice today:

GO BUY TEN CANS OF BARBASOL AND TELL YOU KIDS TO GO NUTS!

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craft weekend post is coming on monday!
did you think i forgot?
no way.... those posts just always have so much goodness they take a long time to write.  :)

 

window shopping

 

i had some time to myself last Saturday while Craig took the kids to Worlds of Fun.
i think i am the one who had the fun.
i only spent money at the Gap outlet...everything else i enjoyed with my eyes.

 

francesca's and pottery barn.

 

 

sur la table and anthropologie.
 

 

 

 

pottery barn had the world's biggest lamp !


 

my mom and sister joined me later and we celebrated my mom's birthday with an amazingly yummy dinner outside on a second story patio...it was so nice.
we talked till it was dark.
had birthday desserts and laughed a lot.  
i needed that night....thank you to everyone who made it happen. :)



the next morning we visited my grandmothers.  
they are both living in the same assisted living facility.
Sean wore his new hat he won at Worlds of Fun.
it was my favorite.

where is your favorite store to window shop?

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winner of the Kaboo Purse....

Lindi said...

Love the yellow Tina! Such a fun, happy colour and perfect styling. :)

ReplyAugust 07, 2012 at 08:31 PM

send me your mailing address Lindi!!!!

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