AAAAHHHH! Summer Fun

I'm trying to play catch up here. After posting about our vacation, I think I was blogged out. I did however continue to "spy" on everyone's blog. When I thought I could get back to blogging, the Olympics started and I just didn't have time for anything. Those people are absolutely amazing. I mostly enjoyed that my girls loved it also. They watched endless hours also. Thank goodness for DVR. Well, after the Olympics I had to catch up on politics because I was out of the loop so that took up my computer time. Trying to fit those things into everyday life left no room for blogging. Sorry. But hopefully I'll do better this time.

So, here goes some pictures from our summer. After our vacation pretty much I didn't want to go anywhere or spend any money. I tried to come up with some fun things for the girls to do but my lack of creativity left them bored on a few occasions. But they survived.

I saw these cute flip flops at a little boutique here in our town one day and was shocked at the price. They wanted something like $15-18. I thought, no way would I ever buy those, especially 3pairs. A few weeks later I was at Joann's and saw these flip flops for $2. I then found some ribbon in the dollar spot at Target. And so not only did I save a boat load of money, it entertained my kids on a hot summer afternoon. I think they turned out pretty cute.

Since my sister, Maren is such a genious, I have to copy her every chance I get. She decided that she would spend an hour each day one on one with one of her kids doing something that they picked. She kept telling me how great it was and a fun experience for all. I decided to give it a try. Although, I am not as flexible as her, I sort of convinced my kids that we could do a fun project together. I have this old doll house that my dad made for me when I was probably 6 years old or so. I still have the furniture (definite 70's style). It's pretty run down so we thought we'd try and "flip this house". Although, it won't be fore sale when we are done. Here's the sad house.

Here's the cute girls scraping off the wallpaper. Each girl picked a floor that they wanted to work on. Working on it one on one was perfect. It was great spending that time with each of them. I really saw how different they are as we worked and talked. Hopefully we'll get it done soon and we can post some before and after shots. We are re-roofing it right now.

Alexa
Olivia
Maya

One night the girls wanted to play some games so I told them to go pick out what they wanted to play. Here they are playing twister. Poor dad didn't last very long. We found that this game was alot easier when we were younger.

"Here's a story, of a man named Brady"

Tim finished the last section of shelves for the office. We found the girls trying to fit themselves into the cubes. Here is the finished product. I'm so glad I have a nice husband who does all these projects around the house that I ask him to - now if I could just get him to hang up his pants.