Miscellany

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I went over to Michelle's house last week to help her paint Eva's bedroom. It's hard to believe that it's time for an update, but it's over 8 years since I helped her paint that room the first time!

We never know what wackiness Whitney will come up with! She made a mustache out of duct tape one night and then played the part a little too well, it was creepy!

Whitney has been making more fun Barbie creations and totally wowed us with this flute! It is made of toothpicks and eyelets!

 

 She also made this patio table, drinks, nachos and a taco out of paper.

I took Landon for his 4th and final meeting with the guy from the city who worked with us on Landon's Eagle Project...the paperwork is almost all done now!

One of my favorite things about summer is watching "So You Think You Can Dance", this season is looking good so far.

Amie and I got together for a long lunch and some bonus shopping (we ended up having way more time than we thought we'd have), so it felt like we got away with something.

Amy M. was kind enough to have Whitney over for a couple night sleepover (hooray) so we drove up there Friday night to hang out with Adam, Amy and Lori  and to pick Whitney up. It's always fun to see what chalk art will be on their wall.

 Michelle and I got together yesterday for lunch and pedicures. We got our toes done in the same color OPI "Fly" which we're both loving right now (apparently Eva is too). I was sporting my new glittery Rocket Dogs, yeah summer!

I spent a couple hours cleaning out Whitney's side of the closet, this was half the stuff she had shoved on the floor in there! It's best for everyone if I do this while she's at camp otherwise we'd all be crying! I fear she'll be a hoarder when she grows up.

I spent 3 glorious hours sitting under our big shade trees reading (taking small breaks to move the sprinkler) and enjoying our gloriously cool (68 degrees) weather today!! I would love doing this any time, but felt particularly grateful not to be sweaty and miserable at camp in St. George!

Creative Friday--SYTYCD Edition

This is a Creative Friday flashback post because I wasn't able to get it done in a timely manner due to my computer woes, but they were resolved in 5 minutes today when the internet guy (I believe that's his title) came over and declared our router corrupt. Woohoo, I can upload pictures speedily once more!! It's so liberating. I feel like doing a jig.

Michelle and her kids came over on August 6th for Creative Friday (though it was a Thursday) because their power had gone out the evening before and they'd missed most of So You Think You Can Dance. Landon and I were very happy to watch it with them (his 2nd time, my first).


We all camped out in the family room to watch the 2 hours of heaven, complete with popcorn and m&ms. We all love this show so much and were very happy with the final two dancers and winner!!


Later we taught them the new game we'd learned on our family camp out. It turns out a bowl of full of Flips goes much faster when shared with 5 people instead of 2.


Eva had Tang Mouth thanks to our lovely treat of pebble ice and Tang.

Doesn't Michelle look rather angelic in this picture?

Michelle won!

We also played Bananagrams for awhile and were entertained by Eva's desire to yell "Peel" each time we needed to draw a new letter from the pile. Even when she ended up leaving the table to play nearby we'd say, "Eva say it" and she'd yell "Peel!".

It's a very rare Creative Friday that doesn't involve actual creativity, but it ended up being fun anyway.

Our self-portrait from the day.

Give Away: I have the July, August, September and October 2009 issues of Creating Keepsakes Magazine that I don't want. I will mail them to you if you're interested.

**Have you ever had a router go bad?
Can you feel my excitement?
Do you ever do catch-up posts?**