Our Spot: Five week Recap

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Five week Recap

We've had a really eventful summer since Dane's birth. Two weeks after birth we celebrated my Mom's 60th birthday. It was a huge event that took months of planning and it really came off rather well. All siblings were in attendance, friends from out of town came, and the best part was that Mom was VERY surprised. The boys then had two weeks of swimming lessons, which they did fabulously in. The biggest success for Gage was swimming through the hula hoop without help and climbing down the "fireman's pole" to collect rings. Cole was successful at being totally comfortable climbing around the pool rim without his life vest. That stinker wasn't supposed to do that but that's why I enrolled him in lessons, he's got to learn to swim for my sanity and his life! Then, over the fourth we had family join us from Oregon, Utah, and Cascade as we blessed Dane on Sunday. After the festivities Gage went home with my parents and I had a couple days with Cole and Dane. Closing up this week we went swimming with some friends on Friday and today capped it all off with a trip to the lake to watch Daddy flounder around in the water to prepare for his triathlon.

The boys making strawberry ladybugs, recepie found in thier "My Big Backyard" Magazine

The boys with their wonderful swim instructor!

Dane waiting for swim lessons to be over! FYI Dane now weighs 12 lbs 4oz!

Dane's baby blessing. I thougt this picture was so cute of the boys.

Cole at the zoo. He was most impressed by the Zebra's and was most dissapointed he didn't see the lemur's.

2 comments:

Ruby said...: Wow. I need a breather after just reading all the activity; July 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Vicki said...: Wow Dane is such a cutie, just like his brothers! :); July 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM

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Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.