if you are my facebook friend, then you are no doubt aware that we’ve been at the beach for the last week. just in case you’re not, i’ll be posting some pics and stories here. 🙂 on sunday, we woke up. loaded up. and hit the road for myrtle beach. the ride seemed incredibly long. […]
index card a day… 2.
saw this on my friend paige’s blog and decided to join in the fun. the idea is that you make an index card every day for the months of june and july. whatever you want. drawings, paintings, stitchings, stickers, lists, notes, etc. and then you post them on flickr (or instagram or your blog or […]
the week in review…
we had a pretty uneventful week this week. we started off with memorial day, as did the rest of the country, i suppose. derek made a bucket of guacamole and we headed over to our pals the p-salls for a little cookout. the buddies. derek took this picture of his burger, and thanks to apple’s […]
tanglewood play day.
on saturday, we decided to get out and do something outdoors. as a family. wanting to avoid any memorial day crowds, or spend a lot of (any) money, we decided to stay rather low key. so, we headed over to tanglewood park. first, we went to the bigger playground, since we had just been to […]
i’m a winner!!!
so, if you’re a sewing/quilting world bloggy friend, you know about all about the big giveaway week that we just had… if you’re my mom, or any of the other various random people who reads this blog, you don’t. so i’ll tell you. last week was a big giveaway week sponsored by the sew, mama, […]
summer so far.
we’ve had a number of popsicles. we made a sidewalk chalk town. complete with target. played with/in the sand and water table. we went to a concert in the park followed by ice cream at alex’s. (with my kid’s favorite person in the universe, nadia)…. derek built a swing set for the lid kids, so […]
end of childhood year picnic
so, i lied a little. i said that friday was isaac’s last day of preschool. and it was. but, he still had one more event to attend, to cap off his year. an end of year party at joanie moser park. monday. first things first, ike had to show off his swinging skills. there were […]
granny progress.
so far, i’ve made eight squares for the granny square quilt. or quilts. who knows. #1-4… #5-8… all 8…
last day.
friday was ike’s last day of preschool. he has a party at the park tomorrow, but that doesn’t count, because i have to be there. it only counts if i have the morning off from two kids. 🙂 anyhow, i thought i would document via iphone photo. if i was awesome, like the moms on […]
nine.
nine years ago today, this happened. it was unseasonably cold. and rainy. but, made for great pictures. (my brother jake, when he was the cutest kid on earth.) ps. that’s the moses cone manor house on the blue ridge parkway, if you’re thinking it looks familiar. 🙂