July 25th

Today to kill some time this afternoon we transformed water bottles and the kids made Bubble Snakes. It didn't last quite as long as I was hoping but they did have fun. Someone blew bubbles into Kat's hair (the horror), someone else blew bubbles into Dane's eyes (maybe I used too much soap) and then someone else inhaled the bubble mixture. They kept busy for 30 minutes or so which I will admit is better than 30 minutes in front of the tube. Though, in my mind they were going to play with these for a couple hours... Maybe next time.

It used to be craft magazines, good old Martha was one of them. Then came Google, oh how I used to love to dig the pages of that search engine for something to craft or copy. Now we have Pinterest, can that really be improved on? Someone does all the searching for me, categorizes it and ta da, lots of crafts and ideas are 'pinned' for me to copy. Just my style.

Today is my friend Sheri's birthday. We used to live on the same court and even 8+ months later, we miss that street like crazy. We've been friends for over 2.5 years now and this is the first time I made her get in a photo with me. She had been swimming and I was currently interrupting their dinner but she's still humored me with a photo. I handed her daughter the camera and said, just get our heads. What a good listener, no cropping here. Thanks Taylor. Happy Birthday Sheri, I'm grateful we are friends.

Today is also Milo's dad's birthday (he would be 58). We made a couple desserts to celebrate Grandpa Ken's birthday. He loved Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream so we made a mud pie type dessert with that ice cream and

we also made BYU Mint Brownies.  Those may have been in part for me, yummo. We took Sheri a plate too. I'd do way too much damage with 1/2 a pan of those left sitting around.  He also loved Ande's Candies but I thought we should probably save a dessert with those for next year. A little mint can go a long way.

We blessed Nathan just 2 weeks before Ken died.

The kids don't know their grandpa but a birthday is a good day to share stories and memories and celebrate such a fun guy. He is definitely missed and would have been the funnest Grandpa around, I just know it. Will they have tractor rides in heaven??