Friday, July 27, 2012

Pinterest...

I love pinterest...
it's so fun and such a great idea for whomever invented it...
awesome!
I found this tutorial and wanted to try it so bad...
and it turned out really cute...
I love it!
First you take any clothing item you want to dye and put something under it to protect the other side...
here I used a lid from a bin...
then I wrote on it with Elmer's blue gel glue, apparently it has to be the blue gel or it won't work...
and then I let it dry...

after the glue was totally dry I dyed the shirt with Rit dye...
it didn't take long to soak up the color but in hind-sight, I would have let it soak longer...
after the dyeing process, let the shirt completely dry...

When it's dry, soak it in some soapy water for about 15 minutes to get the excess glue off and wash as usual...
see how faded the color is, this is the reason why I would have liked to have soaked it longer...
but, I really like how it turned out and it was super easy...


Sunday, July 22, 2012

Randoms and drama from this stay-at-home-momma...

You know how it is when summer rolls around...
too hot and too tired to do much...
but it is my most favorite time of year...
I sit outside all day watching the girls play and working on my tan...
I love it!
It seems that when it's time to do the laundry or dishes or clean the house, I just don't even care cuz I would rather be outside with the kids...
sometimes when Chris comes home from work he pulls out a chair and joins me...
it calls for the 8 o'clock dinners and 11:30pm bedtimes...
but if you know me at all, you know I couldn't give a flying squirrel's A$$ about any of that...
I just love to be outside taking it all in!

This year for the first time in ten years, we attended the Bountiful parade for the celebration of the 24th of July...
they had planned for a very special ending to the parade that we had only heard about a couple of days before...
there were 2,000 boys dressed up as the stripling warriors from old time Mormon stories and it was breathtaking...
super cool to see...
I looked at Chris and asked to think about if this was all real, like when it was real and what their parents were thinking watching their boys all join together like that...
it was sorta surreal... 
apparently the span of the boys marching was 400 yards...
it was truly spectacular...

but to this little girlie...
it was just another loud and boring parade...
hahaha

my good friend and neighbor invited me along for a fabulous girls day...
it consisted of eating the very best cheeseburger ever for lunch and getting our tootsies pampered and rubbed and painted all cute...
it was heaven!

We were looking at oldies of Chris the other day and these were a couple that had us all in stitches...
sorry it's turned but it was on my phone and I couldn't right it out...
seriously...look at all those dimples

We spent a few days at my parents cabin and it was delightful...
but the very instant we got home and unpacked a few bags, miss Adders found my make-up and applied some mascara to her eyes all by herself...
it was pretty funny...


Our new favorite thing to do is paint ourselves with wet chalk...
it's so cool when it dries on your skin...
it's all bright and fun...
except I warn you to shy away from the blue chalk if you do this...
it tends to look like bruises on the skin and it stains your clothes...
poor Jenner still has a little bit of blue on her scalp...
and even worse than that, the next day her neck looked all bruised up and suspicious...
it was crazy looking, like someone had tried to srangle her...
so, stay away from the blue for sure...

Toodles!

Friday, July 6, 2012

Forf of July...

This was our last day of school party on July 3rd...
we filled 500 water balloons and had 3 hoses going...
it was so much fun!


Chris and Jodi trying out for the Olympics...


My two littles hangin on the side of the pool...


Love those super cheesey photo faces...


This girl stole my cheeseburger and devoured it almost completely...
we were laughing at how huge it looked when she was holding it...
I wasn't too upset cuz it saved me a bunch of calories that day...


I don't even know how I could give birth to a firework hatin' girl...
seriously...


Since I never take/post pictures of myself...
this is me and my niece Haley...
she's so pretty!


All tuckered out from a very, verrryyy long day!

all images from my phone