Vacation and Re-purposing

Emrie, Molly and I went to Gilbert for a whole week just last week to see my sister Rochelle who was visiting also. Chad sadly couldn't come since he was so busy with school and work but we still had some fun. I got to stay with my in-laws for a couple days and Rochelle at my Grandma's house for some of the week which was really nice. Here's the kids. Emrie, Molly, Lincoln (rochelle's newest- he's a month younger than molly), and Elijah.
She is getting so big....so talkative. She also worked very hard the day before yesterday trying to roll over. She was so so persistant and would not lay still, just grunting trying to get over, and that night she finally did it, all on her own! She's also started trying to sit up wherever you put her, even in her little bathtub. She just wants to grow up fast I guess.

Superstition Mall does a Kids Club every Thursday at 10 for free with music and the kids get a free Merry-Go-Round ride. Here's Emrie with her clown nose on...she loved that thing.

Lots of swimming in Grandma's backyard. Kids eating their popsicles, Emrie kinda looks like one of the boys with her shirt off....So sad, that poor hair :D

The day I left we went to Chandler Aquatic Center and played. It was perfect temperature all around. So Fun!

Soooo....remember when I made some leggings for Emrie out of a long sleeve shirt a bought at old navy for $0.50? Well I just used the arms, so I had the whole body of the shirt to do something with. Well I found this post www.makeit-loveit/2010/05/re-purposing-shirts-to-skirt-with-tie.html and decided to go for it. It only took a couple hours :D

I also got out my little curling iron and curled Emries hair :D ha ha...Makes her look more like a girl for sure, what do you think?? Of course it's back straight by lunch no matter what product I put in it.

I'm itching to decide what else to make...since I still have 12 more shirts all different colors and stripes. If you have any suggestions let me know!

Festivals and Fairs

So we've been able to do a couple fun things these last few weeks. There was an annual kids music and arts festival in the park for free here which Emrie loved! You could pay $3 for a wristband for them to have unlimited train rides and bounce house time, which we did. Here's daddy and Emrie on the train.
Molly was such a good sport for us. We were there for like 3 or so hours and she was happy the whole time...of course it helps that it was a nice day with a cool breeze and Lots of shade.

Emrie loved the bounce houses. What kid doesn't.

They had face painting, streamers and hoola hoops, toy instruments they could play, puppet making, painting, and balloon animals. Emrie had so much fun.

We also celebrated Chad's 27th birthday! He's getting up there :D He'd requested Chocolate Molten Cake (like at chilis) so I made little individual ones and they turned out very yummy!

And I forgot to post, but we also celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary! Can't believe we've been married for 5 years!

Labor day weekend we had the county fair, and I have to say county fairs are way better than state fairs. We saw all the animals:

Molly playing with her feet (she's been trying so hard to roll over the past couple days).

Bounce house slide. Man, emrie would come zooming down this thing. The second time she came down she goes "Wow!! That's FUN!" ha ha

And the carnival. We decided to go on a ride each, so we took turns watching the kids and went on the ship ride and then took Emrie on a ride.

It was a lot of fun. They had the Kent Family Circus that performed in the middle of the fair grounds and a variety show later that night that performed. Can't wait for next year.