If only...

If only I had a picture of my jog yesterday morning. I was running on a dirt road past a little farm with lots of goats. One was in the street running towards me with horns. As I ran towards it I was praying it was a nice goat. Unfortunately it turned out to be a little too nice!

It started running with me, right next to me. I tried to take it back to it's home and talk to it like my dog, I really didn't know what else to do. I told it to go home but it kept running with me. After two times of taking it back home I gave up and decided to run and maybe it would eventually turn back.

It was a little hard to ignore because it ran so close to me that it was pushing me off the road. After a half of a mile I found another little farm with goats and led the goat to them and after introduction it made friends and stayed with them luckily! That was the craziest thing that has ever happened to me. I could see our shadow, me and the goat on the ground... it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. He was quite a runner! I have to admit it was nice to have some company!

Repurposed Hairbow holder

If you are like me you spend money on these cute hair clips or spend a ton of time making them yourself only for the girls to take them out and shove them in a drawer where they get a little banged up and never as cute as they were. I knew I needed something to keep these clips looking good as new. I saw a picture of something similar on a blog (sorry I have no idea which since it was a very long time ago) and knew I wanted to make it. I found the frame at a garage sale. Unfortunately after telling myself to take a before shot of the frame I forgot. It was an old goldish brown color, very ugly but it had great potential as you see. This was the quickest project and the cutest. Now I just need to find all the hair clips which are somewhere in my girls' rooms.

Cold Pack

Anyone out there with a toddler or older needs one of these. I am constantly putting ice in a bag and wrapping a towel around it when my girls have bumps that need some cold on them. Then they always play with it and a hole gets into it and the melted ice leaks.



So I found this at Homespunn and I knew I had to make one.



I am almost out of my great Ikea material that I have used on so many things and originally covered my chairs with. I love leftover material.



Its filled with rice and then there is a cover for it because it will most likely get really dirty so I can just wash the cover when needed. Great idea!! Then you just leave it in the freezer until needed.

San Diego!!

So we finally got out of Cedar. Usually we travel a lot during the summer but this year we have been working on the house so much and Adam has been in summer school so we've stayed around town all summer until now!
Bella boogie boarding. Isn't she great?? She did so good. She loved the ocean. We all had so much fun boogie boarding. We'll have to get a surf board next time.


As always we don't really plan anything, we just do what we feel like doing but we always seem to pack a lot into our trips. Here are some cute pictures of the girls at Cabrillo National Monument which was free to get into. I love how the National Parks have been free occassionaly this summer!


We had so much fun just chillin on the beach. We would spend most all day at the beach. Here we are waiting for the sunset. We were walking on the boardwalk and bella was scootering. She loved the soft pavement.


this lovely family photo is after we had all been swimming so keep that in mind. the twins were afraid of the water at first but by the end of the vaca they were laying in the water and running through it. They loved it and I loved watching them play.


This photo of Lili is getting blown up for my wall.


We also went to Balboa park and listened to the Navy Band play, Went to La jolla and listened to the Corvettes play rock 'n' roll music and watched the wild sea lions, Went to old town, Coronado and ate at our favorite place... P.F. Chang's. Yumm!

My new adventure...

This is the 180 mile route for the Redrock Relay Race. I'm on a 12 woman team called the Punch Drunk Jello-legs (who knows?), but I am so excited. We each take three legs of the race. We are running from Brian Head Ski Resort, through Zion's and through St. George and ending at Tuachan. Its starts at 8:00 a.m and we have to finish by 4:00 p.m. the next day.

Isn't this so cool? I can't wait!! It is going to be such an adventure. Of course I only have two weeks to train... YIKES!

New Sewing Project!! - Car Trash bag!

yea! I finally crafted something again. I guess I have been working on our home addition which is lots of work so I haven't had time to do fun crafts.

So if you have seen my car you know that I definitely needed to make this project!! Don't you love how kids throw trash on the ground where ever they are, even when they are a few feet from a garbage... well at least mine do that.

So we are heading to San Diego for a much needed vacation. Which is why I made this today to help with the garbage on our trip. I will let you all know how it works.

It has a boning in the front so it will always be open for the little ones. Plus, my friend is going to get me some plastic liners to keep it a little cleaner but lets be honest... its going to get dirty so luckily it is all able to wash.

sisters!

so bella is off to her Grandma and Grandpa Hahn's house for a few days and she isn't the least homesick. Good thing I have these two to keep me busy. It was so quiet outside that I looked out the window to see this picture.
Isn't it cute. They are picking peas, Sophie of course picks them for lili to eat since she doesn't eat vegetables. They have been playing like best buds while bella is gone. Its so cute.


Don't you love those really cheesy smiles for a picture!! Lili looks like she is crying but that is her smile for the camera. Don't you love gardens? My girls spend a lot of time in ours. They are the reason I grow a garden.

day at the park!

Water... Park! Those can't go wrong in Bella's eyes.
I think I have been promising Bella I'd take her to the canyon park all summer so I thought it was a perfect day for it. We invited the neighbors to come along.

All my kids love the neighbor kids. Lili doesn't know there names, she just calls them neighbors and Sophie loves christina the oldest.

All I can say is thank goodness for the Talbot Reunion. The neighbors were a bit bored with the shallow creek so I was able to tell them about the boat races. I of course had to show them how to make a boat but once I got them going they were boat making kids.

Aren't they great boats??