Summer Odds and Ends

Good Bye Aspers... We will miss you! This song is dedicated to you sniff sniff. Tucson will just not be the same without you.

Ed Hardy who?

Bradeigh being cute and content

Let's work on that diving shall we...

So this is what we have been up to this summer, and a few bits of what I have learned.

Parks and Rec swim team. Best twenty dollars I have ever spent. Morning and evening swim practice, which gives me an hour in the morning to walk the track and bleachers at the high school while the kids swim.

Lot's of reading: Our new library is awesome. The kids have been getting prizes for hours read. I have learned old Hardy Boy books are great-the new Hardy Boy series not so great...

I've been taking lots of pictures and meeting some pretty fun people in the process. These lovely ladies taught me who Ed Hardy was- Well that's not entirely true they all wore Ed Hardy shirts and when I got home I googled him. Ed Hardy is or was a tattoo artist who's tattoo art is being used by some middle aged french designer Christian something or other who in my opinion is a nut case. Thank you wikipedia.

Sewing camp hosted at our house (taught by someone else) What I have learned...A Bernette is not even close to a Bernina machine even though Bernina manufactures it. Sewing machines are temperamental, frustrating to trouble shoot, and not worth the money spent on them, unless you have a daughter like mine that has been enamored with sewing since she was three and insisted on watching the PBS sewing shows Saturday morning. (Yes, she would rather watch sewing than cartoons any day-much to Noah's despair.) She has turned an unusable table cloth that was my grandmothers into very cute tea towels, extra material from her Hawaiian dress (now used as a cover up) that GG made her into a satchel that holds her goggles, sunscreen and American Girl Mysteries that she likes to take along to swim meets. Next week she makes PJ pants. I'm pretty proud of her. We went shopping the other nights and passed all these cute Juicy Couture baby suits which spurred a conversation of what kind of bathing suit Hannah wants. I asked her where she saw it at and she said it was just something in her head she wishes someone would make. We laughed about how she should create her own girls swim line and name it Hannah Banana,(how do I copyright that name). You should have seen her eyes light up. Anyone know how to start a clothing line?

Music lessons are pricey but having our children fill our home with hymns and holiday music is priceless. Hannah and Noah are working on the Star Spangled Banner. Gets me a little vaklempt.

Our stake boundaries have changed-we are now in West Stake.

A ton of families are moving out of our ward...sniff sniff including my good friend Errica. I will miss them so much.