Peanuts and Crows

One of our little grandgirls grew a peanut plant this summer.

 

She picked it out at the garden center, brought it home and planted it in a pot, watered it all summer, and last week she pulled it up and look what she grew!

 

 

 

Peanuts!!

 

 

Not usually a desert crop!

I saw these cute crows on Pinterest and thought I should make

a couple.  The undecorated crows are from the dollar store.

 

Then I just made them hats and necklaces and crowns and signs.

 

So fun!

 

Summer Fun

 

How's your summer?  Ours has been lots of fun.

 

And very busy!

 

 

 

 

Our adorable little grand girls and their Mommy came to live with us this past spring.

 

 

And of course they brought their baby brother with them.

 

 

 

 

When there are kids in the house it means we get to play at our local water park, Cherry Hill.

 

And go on little trips to the Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti, Utah. 



And camping at our beautiful state and national parks.

 

We've watched a fun baseball game played by the Salt Lake Bees, a farm team for the Anaheim Angels.

 



 

 

On the fourth of July cousins came to visit.

 

We watched the parade in our festive attire.

 





We had a bbq with the family and a watermelon eating contest with the cousins.

 

And of course what kind of  4th of July would it be without fireworks and mosquito bites.

 



We picked lots of strawberries from our garden.

 



And now we're waiting for pumpkins, watermelon, cantaloupe, green beans and a peanut to get ripe.

 



 

I can't believe it's the middle of August already!

 

Our little sweet peas will go back to school in a couple of weeks!

 

We still have time for some more summer fun.

 

Hope your summer has been a great one too.



Lunch With the Boys

 

A couple of weeks ago I had lunch with these two handsome boys.

 

And their mothers.

 

Born just one day apart in January.

 

Three months old already!

 

So much fun!



Doggy Silhouette for the Nursery

This was my contribution to daughter #3's new baby nursery. 

She wanted a silhouette of a black lab.  I googled dog silhouette free images and a boatload of dog silhouettes magically appeared. 

I printed the one I liked, took it to the UPS store, where the nice kid at the counter blew it up for me.  I took it home, cut it out, traced it on a canvas and filled it in with black acrylic paint. 

Not exactly Pottery Barn quality put pretty darn close.  And the price was a lot better too.

It's Another Boy!

 

6 lbs 4 oz

 

January 15, 2014

 

27 hours after his cousin was born.

 

His brother thinks he's pretty cute.

 

And so do we!

 

Mommy and baby are doing well.

 

Another little treasure from heaven.

 

We are blessed.

It's A Boy!

 

The first of the grand boys is here!

 

 

8 lbs 11 oz

 

 

Isn't he cute?

 

 

His two sisters are so excited!

 

 

Mommy and baby are doing well.

 



Hello 2014!

The weather has been cold and there's mostly gray skies above our little part of the world.  Time for us to get out of town for a few weeks and go somewhere that's warm and sunny. 

 

Only this year we're staying in town for awhile until our new little

grandson is born.  He's due on the 14th of January to our daughter #3 and her husband. 

 

But wait, there's more!  We have another grandson due in January.

Daughter #2 and her husband are expecting their third child and first son on the 15th of January!

 

So we are waiting (im)patiently for two little boys to join our family.   We are so excited! This will make ten grandchildren for us.  Six boys and four girls. Every single one of them a blessing straight from heaven!

 

Hope your 2014 will be as happy as ours will be!!

 

And wishing you all a healthy new year too.

The Little House Under the Stairs

 

We have stairs down to our basement, and under

those stairs was the perfect spot for a little

play space.  So the Mister cut out a small square of

drywall for a window  and a bigger rectangle for a door and

trimmed them up.

 

 

 

Of course there'd have to be a window box with flowers

and a mailbox for love letters and notes to tooth fairies and

Santa Claus.

It's the perfect little space for the vintage 1950's (60's?)

Betsy Wetsy

 

that I found at a yard sale.

 



 

 

And a great place to hang a cowboy hat.

 





 

There's a place to store some dishes and have a snack.



 

 

And what would a little house be without a kitchen?

 





The hutch in the little kitchen is a wicker bathroom shelf

turned upside down.  The perfect spot for little dishes.

 

 

Our grandkids (and some of the neighborhood kids)  love this little space. They spend hours playing here.

 

 

And there's not an electronic game of any kind in sight...

 



The Urban Barn

A couple of weeks ago daughter #1, her cute little family, and I made a quick trip to California to visit  daughter #2 and her cute little family.

 

We had a great time!  I enjoyed almost every single minute of it.

 

We did lots of fun things with the kids.

 

AND we did something fun for Mommies and Mimi too.

 

 

We visited the Urban Barn in Escondido.

 

 

 

 

I love this store! 

 

If you're ever in the neighborhood you should go! 

 

 

Every now and again they have a flea market in their parking lot.

 

You could find the dates on their website.  Here

After all that fun shopping we needed lunch.

 

 

So we went to Islands and made a big mess.

 

And had a delicious meal.

 

And some of us took a little nap on the way home.

 

 

 

A Sweet Treat

 

When the Sweet Peas were here we decided to try a new recipe I saw on Pinterest.

 

It's a sweet and gooey treat!

 

 

 

 

It's the Rice Crispy Treat recipe only instead of Rice Crispies (crispys??) you use Trix cereal. 

 

 It was a huge hit with the kids.

 

And also the son in laws.

 

And probably the son.

 

 

 

A little too sweet for Grandpa though.

 

I just loved all the pretty colors.

Our Fun 4th

We had the Sweet Peas and their parents here for a fun in the sun 4th of July week!

 

We decorated a few sidewalks.

 

 

We swung on the swing.

 

We played with balloons and giant flyswatters from the Dollar Store.

 

We watched a parade.

 

It was sure hot!

 

We spent the day at Cherry Hill, a local water park.

We went to the Children's Museum in Ogden, we celebrated a birthday, we played on the slip n slide, we ate, we watched some fireworks, we ate some more. and we sure had fun!

 

And now the house is too quiet.

 

There isn't a pile of dishes to be washed.

 

No big meals to be made.

 

No hugs and kisses from little people.

 

No sticky fingers to wash.

 

 No little voices floating up the stairs.

 

 

Sigh...