Our Week in Review

A few of the happenings around here this past week:

Daddy was off work Monday, and we enjoyed spending some extra time with him. J. is becoming pretty good at smacking balls — we're thinking it's time to upgrade him to the real deal!

I let E. feed K. again. They love it and it keeps them occupied while I'm making dinner. It's a mess, but it sure is cute!

I made a bittersweet discovery yesterday. We have a plum tree that I never knew about! It's way in the back mixed in with a bunch of other scraggly trees. The plums are small, but they are sweet. It's too bad I discovered it when there were only 2 plums left on the tree. Hopefully I'll remember next year that's it's back there!

My mom and I took the kids to yard sales this morning, and it was an absolute waste of time! We found nothing, and I got everybody up early for nothing. The positive to that? They're all taking good naps!

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Our Week in Review

What did I do this week?

Well, I put the camera I-have-no-idea-where for one thing.

Otherwise, it was a pretty quiet week with not much going on, other than celebrating Independence Day yesterday.

I did throw together a dress for this little lady to wear on the 4th of July.  I had the fabric, but I honestly had no idea what I was going to do with it.  I started cutting (no measurements whatsoever), sewed a few seams, and this is what came out!

I was so happy this turned out, and what's really neat is that is has elastic up at the top of the bodice, so when she's older I can cut the straps off and it will fit as a skirt!

Yesterday we did our typical: We went to our town's parade in the morning.  It's, um…interesting in our small town.  If you own a bike or golf cart, you can be in the parade.  So everybody rides down the street and waves at all their neighbors and the kids get lots of candy thrown to them.  It's great fun just because it's such a tradition.  In the afternoon we went over to my parents' house for lunch.  Usually there are cousins galore, but all of my brothers and their families had gone to various other places this year so it was just our family there with my parents.  A very quiet, do-absolutely-nothing kind of day.  We went to see fireworks last night, and today we're just doing a little housecleaning and some more relaxing.

Hopefully I will figure out what I did with my camera!  I know I took it with me yesterday, but after that, who knows?  I am way too scatterbrained.

Our Week In Review

I realized the other day that I focus so much on whatever's on the blog calendar, that I never take time to just post about our life!

So from now on, I'm going to try to post a little bit our past week each Saturday.

I'm doing this for myself more than anything, so I can preserve some memories that will too easily be forgotten otherwise.  But you are more than welcome to take a little peek into our lives!

Monday evening we went and picked blackberries as a family.  I shouldn't have put a good shirt on E. — he had smooshed blackberries all over him.  He even had a bunch stuffed in his pockets!  You all shared a bunch of great ways to use the blackberries over on Facebook.

Tuesday evening we had a baby shower for my sister-in-law.  For some reason I always get chosen to do the games for showers.  I guess it's good for me since I tend to be a little shy.  I'm forced to get out of my comfort zone and come out of my shell a little bit.  Here's me, all out of my shell:

We have been seeing these strange colored birds flying around every afternoon across the street. We didn't have any binoculars to get a closer look, so we used the next best thing: the camera zoom.

That mint green one is especially interesting.

Thursday evening E. wanted to feed K. a mashed banana while I was making supper.  For some reason I said yes, even though I had quite a bit of cleaning up to do afterward!  I'm not sure who was happier.  They both had a great time.

Friday we had an awesome smoothie for breakfast.  I was pretty impressed since my husband is usually a lot better at making smoothies than I am.  It wasn't too hot out, so we sat on the back porch and drank them (or did we do that because I didn't want purple stains all over the kitchen floor?  I'll never tell!)

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