Goodbye My Daisy Girl...

Last night was a hard night for us. We had to put one of our beloved pets to sleep. She just wasn't doing to well the past few days. She was the first dog that I had ever had and she completely converted me into a dog lover. She had just turned 14.

We were both having a hard time when we had to say goodbye, but it is such a blessing to know that we will have her again when we return home. I can just see her running with her big floppy ears smiling from ear to ear as she's running. She hasn't been able to do that in awhile.

Keith and I were remembering the funny memories we had of her while we were going to sleep last night. She loved to be flung, gently of course, onto the sofa (or bed, or anywhere soft). Her little legs would go into skydiver mode and she would literally be laughing. She figured out a quicker way to go down steps that was hysterical. She would push her back legs back and put her front legs forward and toboggan down the steps on her belly. I remember when my dad had her outside without a leash because "she is old and can't move to fast" and in one second she was gone chasing a rabbit. My poor dad was in a panic.

She lived a great life and we are surely going to miss her. We will never forget you Daisy Girl!! Thanks for the memories. We love you!!

The art of picking teams...

So my wonderful hubby took me out for a date last night, and it was wonderful. We don't get to see much of each other alone anymore. :) We ended up going to see Eclipse...yes, I am a Twilight Mom, and very proud of it! It was pretty good. I'm not going to spoil it for anyone though. If you like Twilight, go see it!

Keith had my mouth gaping open in shock at one point on our way home. We were discussing what we liked and disliked about the film and he said, "This movie made me feel that Jacob was better for Bella, and I want her to end up with him. They should just alter the book a little bit..." After I picked my mouth up off the floor, I realized that my darling husband has become a Twi-nerd, and picked a team. I was laughing so hard, and he was so adorable defending himself with all the reasons he felt Jacob should be with Bella. He had a fairly long list. This makes me realize that I married a wonderful man, that knows a good story when he sees one...but I will forever give him a hard time about picking his team.

Hubby note. Keith here.

Just for the record, it is the same team that my wife has chosen. At least there is no animosity in our house over Twilight. Thanks.

GO TEAM JACOB!!

Easy 4th of July T-Shirt Craft

I know it's pretty late to be putting this up, but I just though of it yesterday. Enjoy!!

What you will need:
1. One clean, freshly ironed t-shirt
2. Blue and red fabric paint
3. Smaill star cookie cutter
4. Masking tape
5. Small and large sponges
6. Some type of cardboard to slip inside the t-shirt to keep the paint from bleeding through

*This is a very inexpensive project and that makes it fabulous if you need to do more than one. :)



First, go ahead and put your cardboard into your t-shirt. You want to use two strips of masking tape.Put the first strip across the shirt and have it sit where the underarm seams are. Put another piece of tape directly under the first piece. Remove the first piece and discard. The reasons I did that was because I felt that more blue was needed to I just added that extra piece of tape to give me almost another inch. It's totally up to you whether you want to do that or not.

Also, because I am a tad OCD, I covered up the color and around the sleeves with tape. The oddest little things bother me.



Then take the star cookie cutter and figure out where you want your stars. Here's where the pencil comes in. Mark where you want your stars to go. Then, take the cookie cutter back to wherever you want to start from. Use the small sponge and work your way around the cookie cutter with blue paint. When you are painting, you do not want a lot of paint on the sponge. You want to "dab" everything. If you use the cookie cutter, you get much cleaner stars. Continue until all stars are complete.



Next are the stripes. Once the paint up top dries, take another piece of tape and line it up over the stars to where the blue will meet red. This gives it a good crisp line. Figure out how far apart you want your stripes and mark them with masking tape. Again, dab away with the larger sponge with the red paint.



Once this is complete you can embellish any way you want. I used a little bit of glitter puff paint and outlined everything.

Hooray, finished product!! Quick and easy!! Here is how adorable Chris looked in it!!