One Good Turn Deserves Another

My hubby is so good about shopping with me!  He goes into kitchen gadget stores, and thrift stores. 

So, when he mentioned that he wanted to go to a Bass Pro Shop, I couldn't resist. I plugged it into our GPS, and told him to follow the directions explicitly. He was wondering why it said we would get home so soon. ;-)

So, I was a good wife and followed him around the store. I even told him I would take the little boys off to see the fish so he could shop. 

Their prices were not too bad. Hubby got  a Bass Pro cap and shirt. Plus, we finally found a sling for the slingshot. 

Here he is with the Robertson's. 

 

Here the menfolk are in the entry. 

Blessings!

Vacation Time

After our crazy schedule, we are now taking a vacation, and trying to relax.

We went to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.  It was fun, and tiring!  My feet were hurting, and I was wishing for a stroller for me.  :)

Here are some pictures of our time at the zoo.

 Matthew in the jungle.

 Dan and Andrew touching a starfish.

 Even Sam touched a starfish!!

 We pretended we were missionaries in a jungle, crossing the bridge. 

Love my zoom lens!!!  Thank you, honey!!!

 This monkey was loose!!  :)

 This is called Monkey See, Monkey Do.

Whatever Matthew did, Sam had to do, also.

 This was in front of a beautiful waterfall.

 This post would be long, if I showed EVERY picture of Sam.  lol

He wanted his picture in front of every exhibit.  :)

 This is the beautiful aquarium.  I know it is dark,

but I just wanted to show the perspective of it all.

 See the shark above Sam and Matthew's heads??

 These jellyfish were beautiful, and very hard to get a picture of.

They were almost ghostlike in appearance.

 I loved the colors in these jellyfish.

And I love my camera. 

But, most of all, I love my husband for giving

me the camera, and this wonderful vacation!!!

And even more than that, I LOVE the God who

created all of this beauty!!

The Desert Dome

Blessings!

Sports camp

We have been very busy with sports camp.  We have 37 children that are coming regularly. So far, we have had two children give their hearts to the Lord.

Here are my two oldest doing the Honesty song. 

We are also planning a corn feed for our community.  I had to find people to bring potato salad and baked beans. Now I am looking for people to do face painting, juggling, and balloon twisting.  My boys have volunteered to supervise the bounce house and to make cotton candy. :-)

Hubby and I just celebrated our 32nd anniversary. I had just gone to the dentist and had a root canal done so I was only up for eating ice cream.  

I was able to find some PUL material for very cheap.  I bought two bolts of dark blue to redo a patio swing. I also bought some of this very cute duck material. 

 As well as this sweet cupcake (play on words) material. I am hoping to make a bunch of baby bibs, and other items with these materials. 

Blessings!!

Baby blanket still coming along

Here is the baby blanket. I have decided to take it slow on the blanket and enjoy my summer. But I do take it along in the car, or at dental visits. We have had a lot of dental visits. 

The weather has turned cooler, so we haven't been in the pool. Maybe I should go back to crocheting, then the weather would get hot again. 

I've been working on Sports Camp stuff. I ordered all the t shirts, ordered the iron in papers, as well as all the supplies for the coaches today the iron ons came in the mail, so I printed them off and it's all set for the ironing party next week. 

Blessings!

Fun summer days

It feels good to get stuff done! My sister and her husband, and Rick and I had central a/c put in our parents home. I am so glad we were able to do that. I wanted them comfortable. Today I put a part in their dishwasher so it will run. 

I put away my crocheting. The gal had her baby yesterday and I just don't want to spend all my time doing that. I will get it done eventually. I want to enjoy my summer. 

Today I vacuumed the pool and swam for a bit. Now I need to do some work on my computer. 

We went to Nelson's in Stillwater, and had a "child size" I've cream cone. Hubby and I have now decided to split a child sized cone!  

Baby blanket I am working on

Here is my latest project that I've been working on. I had the worst time finding the lilac color. Now I am trying to finish this before the gal has her baby. Lol 

Busy days, and computer issues

Well, summer is finally upon us!  We have been out in the pool, and getting ready for Sports Camp.  So, I've had a lot to do with getting posters, flyers, and website ready for the Sports Camp.  Whew!

We also had a wedding to go to in June.  Our niece got married, and they boys got all dressed up for it.

Today, I've had a very productive day, which is nice!!  I designed and printed off a bunch of labels for my hubby's tracts.  Then, I designed and printed off labels for inside the church Bibles, so that if people need a Bible, they can take it as a gift.

Here is a picture of the shirt I got my hubby.  He likes it, and he gets many comments on it.

My computer issues.  Where do I start??  I have a wonderful program, called Cook'n.  It is great!  It comes with a cookbook, and you can purchase extra add-on cookbooks.  Plus, you can put your own recipes in.  You can make a menu plan right from the program, and if you have certain ingredients, you can type those in, and find what you can make with those ingredients.  I had purchased some extra add-ons, plus, all my work of typing in the new recipes.  Lets just say, YEARS worth of work!!!  Well, there was a free upgrade, and I did the free upgrade.  Long story short, the new upgrade corrupted ALL my files.  Today, I finally reloaded the program and looked through my flash drive, hoping and praying I had a useable (and not too out-dated backup).  Well, I had backed it up last December!!!  That was very exciting to me, as I thought I was going to have to start from scratch.  So, a word to the wise--back up, back up, back up!!!!  I have reloaded everything (I contacted the company to send me the links of the extra cookbooks I had purchased), and backed it up.  My hubby is going to teach me how to use a drop box, so I will back up my files there, too.  My desire is to finish my cookbook, and get one printed of all my recipes.  You know how you have all these cookbooks, but only use a handful of recipes out of each cookbook, well, I was putting my favorite recipes into the program, and getting rid of the cookbook, to downsize.  Thought I lost everything when the files were corrupted, but now it's just a few month's work I lost.

We had a nice 4th of July, and had lots of wonderful, patriotic foods.

Like some of this yummy layered jello.

Or, some Red, White, and Blue Eggs?

                                                Or a flag cake??


Blessings!