Peachy king!

It was pioneer week so we participated in some pioneer activities such as picking our own food, making our own ice cream, and churning butter. Thanks to courtney, the girls even looked like pioneers with their cute little bonnets.

Little pants

Well, i have been sewing for the first time in my life and i think i am in love! All I can think about is what i could make and i just want to buy every fabric in sight. It all started with these little pants... my friend courtney taught me how to make them and i have seriously made like 10 pairs. These are the pants and the onesies i made for my sisters new little baby AND the cutest thing about them is that they are reversible! In the picture it is the back of the pants you are looking at, because the bum is a different color of fabric. The pattern is found in a book called Handmade beginnings.

Celebrate!!

We had a lovely 4th of July this year...we went down town to check out the festivities and the kids played in the water fountains at the park and they played on some bouncy toys they had set up for the festival. Then, after the kids took a long nap we had a BBQ at the pool and then we had our own little fireworks show with the office. Thanks to grandma we had some fun accessories for our 4th of july pictures!

Little Track Stars

This past month the kids have been training a couple of times a week to run in some races that are held at the university...They love, loved this. Kelty is VERY competitive and wants to win! I think she just loves the satisfaction of accomplishing something. She has a very hard time accepting anything less than first place but i think having her run in these races really helped her understand that participating is still fun even when you don't win. She actually really has a nack for running and she definitely has good endurance. Walker on the other hand is just happy with whatever...he just wants to be like his sister kelty, if she does it, he wants to do it just the same. They both ran the 50 yd dash and kelty ran the 100 yd dash. I think they both came in last for the 50 because they weren't paying attention to the starter and kelty got 5th place in the 100...i was just so proud!

Poolside Luau

We have been playing a lot lately... at the pool mostly, because it has been hot hot! The husbands have been traveling far for work to Chattanooga and so the wives have been finding fun stuff to do as we pass (i mean enjoy) the time we have together. Courtney got caught up at walmart the other day and came home with decorations for a Luau! We drank Lemonade smoothies and the kids made their first attempt at the limbo...Ellie was so cute when she did it. After the party kelty kept telling me that it was the best party she has ever had...thanks to you court:)

little cuties

Downtown

These kids have been having the time of their lives with permanent friends to play with all day, every day this summer. Today we went downtown and checked out the city for a bit...the city is kind of small but it has cool waterfountains for the kids to play in and there are lots of cute shops and restaurants.

Knoxville zoo

I can't get enough of yummy fresh picked strawberries this year, i've been making chocolate covered strawberries, strawberry jam, and i must have strawberries on my frosted mini wheats in the mornin!

Time for Tea!

Kelty loves to have "Tea" parties, so the easter bunny brought her a cute little polka dotted tea set. I had brought the stuff to make the little paper baskets for easter but never got around to it...thus we had to use them for something important like a tea party... And Ellie looks really distraught in the picture because i told her she couldn't have any treats until she tried the egg salad sandwiches, now i feel bad looking at this picture court!

A few things...

We made it to Tennessee!! We did suffer through a major hailstorm with golfball sized hail that ruined the face of our car but I scored this playground for walker's room at a garage sale for 40 bucks!