Summer: day 1

Summer bucket list item:  Make swimsuits for the girls.  BAM!  Done on the first day of the season.  I'v always wanted to make suits for them, but was leery of lycra.  Instead of getting a proper pattern, I winged this with my tried and true (actually "hit and miss") trace-existing-clothes method.  Some areas need to be revised for bunchiness, particularly the rear.  

Since I am too lazy to convert my serger from overlock to coverstitch, the topstitching is 3-step zig zag.  

Also got 6 quarts of strawberries jammed.

Last day of school

Maya finally finished kindergarten.  What a long school year.  Poor girl was sobbing at bedtime wanting to go back tomorrow.  She listed all the teachers she will miss and even her bus driver!  

This weekend I'll let her fill up her wall calendar with our summer schedule.  Camps, classes, beach days, and lots of family visitors should satisfy her until September.  Oh, sweet girl!

We made Fairy Gardens when she got home.  Maya's has a tea set.

Genna's has a playground and maybe a dead fish.

Everything is falling apart

Part 1: Maya warms up for gymnastic camp by attempting to vault off the glass kitchen table.

Part 2: Genna, action biker, typically aims FOR the rocks and holes.  One got her.

The patient plays doctor.  She has not been in pain after the first day, just annoyed that she has to wear a sling and not go to the playground.

Then this.  Tooth #2

Spring 2014

School pictures, take 2.  Now they pedal school pics in the fall and spring.   

Pink and Pinker.  Easter 2014 

Maya wanted a stuffed chair but was short on funds after her headphones purchase.  So she made her own. 

FUN DAY!  Genna's last day of Preschool Picnic, and a visit from KATIE!

Memorial Day Weekend with Steve, Peggy, & boys at St. Joe. 

Wolfe Lake Fish Hatchery

Genna's angling attire.