Summer in Review~ 2010

The initial purpose of this blog was to give family and friends who live far away a fun place to go to see what our daily life is like. So I could post pictures of the kids where I can write a little something more than a caption under the photo and tell them what we were doing on a given day. It has since turned into something so much different. I realized that I liked talking to other moms and blogging about crafting.
Who doesn't like to get gratification on what they put so much hard work into?
Whether it be motherhood or the arts.
 I love keeping up with other moms and realizing that I'm not the only one who has difficulty on the subject of raising kids . Being a mom is the best reward, and the love of your children outweigh the hardships, but sometimes it gets hard. So it's nice to know you're not the only one out there.
 I love the crafting outlet that this blog allows me. You know you can spends hours, days, heck even weeks trying to finish a project and you show it to your husband and he looks at it for about 10 seconds and says, Looks great honey. Really? Are you sure you looked? I know I've been lacking in the department of posting crafty stuff. The truth is that I haven't really done anything. I know, its crazy. Our summer has been so busy that I can't find time to sit and do anything.But I am currently little by little working on a quilt for my sister. It's going to be super special and very meaningful. I will share when I'm done piecing the top.
 The last thing I love about blogging is photography. It's a long time passion of mine and I'm grateful to be able to talk and share with other people who share the love with me. I've learned alot and love the outlet that snapping pictures provides. I may not have been sewing, gluing or glittering, but I have been taking alot of pictures!
So now that school has started, and it's safe to say that summer is officially over (YAY!! I can't wait for fall!!!) I will wrap up with our summer in photo's. I have so many from all our journeys, and I didn't chose the best ones to share, but the ones that mean alot to me!!
This is what this weeks theme on I heart faces is!!

                                                      P #3 Learned to ride his tricycle.With lots of falling of coarse!~ June 1st

Our Garden grew lots of yummy veggies and fruit. I hate to say it, but I'm kinda glad it's over now ~June 2nd

Flying to my sisters. P #3 Waiting for our flight and loving the planes! ~June 4th

Longwood Gardens, PA~ June 6th

Rehearsal dinner for Carmen's wedding ~ June 10th

Carmen's Wedding ~ June 11th

Family BBQ ~ June 12th

Washington D.C. ~June 14th

Camping at Knoebles P.A. ~June 16th

Amusing ourselves at the amusement park. This was honestly the coolest place. I can't wait to take the kids back.

Rehoboth Beach, DE ~ June 18th. I was so bummed that my battery died in my camera and was only able to get a few shots while we were there. Beautiful beach, and it was hot!!!

Dust Devils Game~ June 27th

The hubs and I managed to sneak in a date!! We went to dinner and to see Eclipse~ June 31st

4th of July on the river

We had MANY MANY days of playing on the slip and slide. This picture just cracks me up!! ~July 15th

P #1's  9th Birthday~July 16th

Birthday party at the pool ~July 17th

Visiting great friends that I miss very much! ~July 25th

We took a long drive to Long Beach, WA. It was dreary and cold but SO much fun! ~July 30th

P#2 cut off all her hair and donated it. ~August 3rd

Water Park with Family who came to visit.~ August 18th

Playing at the local park with my niece (and nephew, but he was at the skate park) ~August 22nd

Football Started!!! ~August 30th

And the end of summer,Thus the begining of school

What has everyone been doing? I haven't really been keeping up on my blog reading either:( If you've posted something share a link and I'd love to see what you've been up to!

Grow

Our weekend and week so far have been pretty uneventful. We went garage saleing on Saturday, and I picked up the most terrible, HUGE polyester MooMoo dress, but the print is fantastic. My husband gave me this look like " I hope your going to NEVER wear that" I just smiled and said," I will make this cute!" So stayed tuned for a refashion. I'm also working on a tutorial for the bag I posted here. My posts will be sparse until next week, and I'll share then what I've been doing!!! It's ridiculous and exciting.

Everyday here we've been outside working on something. We FINALLY removed all the big peices of bark that were out in the back yard. I must say that whoever put that in must not have thought too thoroughly about using big chunks of bark as landscaping in the desert, it was home to some BIG nasty spiders{including black widows.} and other things that crawl, BLEGH!

Onions

Spinach

Green Beans

It still amazes me that things can grow and suvive in sand. Have you been working on a garden? What are you growing?

For the love of garden

Here whats going on in the gardening department of our lives.

Apples Blooming

Day Lilies

Raspberries {So excited for these} They didn't produce that well last year

Still don't know what these are

My potted herbs that will go in the ground once they're big enough

Sweet Basil sprouts

Strawberries

Other things growing that I didn't get pictures of because the irigation was on them:

Red and WallaWalla sweet onions

Sugar Snap Peas

Green Beans

5 Different types of lettuce and cabage

Things to be planted that we're waiting for the weather:

Cucumbers

Watermelon

Pumpkins

Carrots

Tomatoes

Red and Green peppers

Jalepenos

Weekend in reveiw

Sorry if these posts bore you:) I havn't really had any time to do fun crafty stuff latley. I've been working on P#3 tent all week. It really shouldn't have taken me this long to comlpete, but with only MAYBE an hour to myself each day makes it almost impossible to get it done. And if any of you have toddlers and sew from your kitchen table, you understand how annoying it is to get your stuff set up, and then to start, its time consuming.

Anyways this weekend was beautiful again. We started our garden. Planted onions and some herbs. Its still too early to do anything else, but it satisfying to just do that. Took the kids to the river and park, and played in the sunshine!

What did you do this weekend?