Day 371: Sofa

This is the sofa where I spent most of the day, in Mom's hospital room. If you look closely, you can see Ashley and Mom in the window reflection.

Day 370: John Wayne Adventure

For Father's Day, we bought Dad a cardboard cutout of John Wayne, because really at this point, what do we get him? And then I got the brilliant idea that we should take John Wayne to locations throughout Midland and take pictures of him with us. I'm going to put them into a photo album for him.

Day 368: Rodney

Day 367: My Birthday

This is what I posted on Facebook: Friends and family, thank you for all the birthday wishes today, but I have decided to remain 30, sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Day 366: Piano Recital

Kayla was the star of the piano recital. She played 5 songs: 3 solos, the opening duet with the teacher and the closing duet. All the other kids did 2 solo songs and only one other kid did a duet with the teacher. On top of that, Kayla played without sheet music, including "The Entertainer". I was uber impressed and gave her flowers after the performance.

Day 365: Pool Party!

Day 364: Strawberries!!

Yesterday I went strawberry picking with Dennis. Together, we picked about 15 pounds. I put the medium-sized ones in the dehydrator and the small ones in the freezer. The large ones are in the fridge for eating fresh with fruit dip. The ones that were already starting to turn a little were used to make strawberry bread and jam (I used honey instead of sugar and I cooked them longer in hopes that they will last longer). I also made strawberry butter to go on the bread. And I made strawberry cream cheese cobbler and even though it's yummy, it doesn't look pretty, so I didn't take a picture of it.

Day 363: Birthday Bonfire

Tonight was Kevin's birthday bonfire. Happy Birthday, Kevin!

Day 360: Runts

Working on stuff for the Godkid Adventure. Of course, I got the idea from Pinterest, though I'm modifying it for my own purposes.

Day 358: Loon's Game

Ed won 4 Loons tickets from work and invited Ashley and I to go with him and Carrie. It was fun, but I can't believe we didn't get sunburned.

Day 357: Smart Ass

We had Dan, Nina, Baby Sophia, Dennis, Marc, and Sarah over to play Smart Ass. I love that game! (Are you surprised?)

Day 356: more monsters!

I got another etsy order for monsters!!

Day 355: Me

Had a first date tonight. He was nice and I had a nice time, but unfortunately there was no chemistry. I looked pretty good though, if I do say so myself. ":)

Day 352: Memorial Day

Papa - 2004
Uncle Bruce - 2007
Uncle Tom - 1988
Grandpa Ed - 1984
Ken - 2002

Day 351: T-Shirt Crafts

Today I made a couple braided T-shirt headbands, yesterday I made the grey shrug (in the photo). I dyed the pink tank top (it was white). In addition to the pictured items, I also dyed several PJ pants and PJ shirts. I also did a couple pairs of socks.

Day 350: Rodeo

My coworker's brother-in-law is a rodeo clown, so Ashley and I got to watch the rodeo from the other side of the arena (where the cowboys are). It was pretty cool.

Day 349: Pool Party

The third annual poolwarming party was kind of a dud in that it wasn't warm enough to swim. However, we did have fun playing ladder golf, hanging out, and having a bonfire.

Day 348: Ruby Tuesday

Tonight was Carly's first quilting lesson. After, we went to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner since we had a 25% off coupon. The food was delicious. I can't wait to got there again.

Day 346: Lilacs

Lilacs are my favorite thing about May.

Day 345: Dinner with Friends

Had dinner with Ashley and Marc at the Mexican place. The picture is blurry because I was laughing when I took the picture.

Day 344: Pool Clean Up

Spent the day cleaning the pool.

Day 343: Pinterest Party

Amy hosted a Pinterest Party. She served lavender lemonade and I brought garlic-roasted chickpeas. We made resin-filled pendants and bottle cap magnets. I even chalked my hair for the party.
Next time we are going to make scrabble tile necklaces.

Day 342: Talent Show

Gage dancing in the 5th Grade Rock Party at his talent show.

Day 341: Goodwill

I went to Salvation Army (or Celebration Army as Lily calls it) looking for a Scrabble game so that I can use the tiles for pendants (thank you, Pinterest), but SA didn't have one, so I went to Goodwill and I'm glad I did. Not only did I find a brand-new Scrabble game for $4, but also got these other treasures which include chalks for my hair (thank you again, Pinterest) and fun mugs for Ash. The icing on the cake? I ran into Lily, Gage, Sarah, and Scott. Lily hugged me and said, "I hugged you because you're my BFF."  ":)

Day 339: Band Concert

Kayla plays the snare drum and two different xylophones in band, plus she plays the piano outside of that.

Day 337: Mum's Day

Day 336: Aww knots!

Day 335: Fruit Cycle

Because plain water gets boring, I made fruit water (which I discovered on Pinterest). But then what to do with the used fruit? It's still goodish, though the flavor is watered down. I also found a recipe for Oatmeal to Go on Pinterest, and it calls for applesauce, but we don't eat applesauce (because it reminds me of baby food... ick) so I don't buy it. And really, it doesn't have to precisely be applesauce in the oatmeal recipe... it just needs to be fruit in that consistency. So, I took the leftover fruit from the fruit water and put it in the food processor. Now I have fruit-sauce for the oatmeal and I don't feel so wasteful with the fruit. ":)

Day 332: The Raven

I started reading The Raven in preparation for the new movie starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe. I didn't finish the book before we went to see, the movie tonight, but that was okay. I was familiar with most the stories and poems they referenced in the movie.

Day 331: Gram's Place

Day 330: Soft Pretzels

Day 329: Cinco de Mayo

The (5th or 6th or something) Annual Cinco de Mayo Hat Party.

Day 328: Fruit Water

This is my new favorite thing to drink. It's just water and fruit, but it's so much less boring than plain water. No sugar added!

Day 327: A Storm is Coming

Day 326: Yum!!!

Loaded Potato & Buffalo Chicken Casserole

Day 325: Quilt for Sale!

For Sale on Etsy!

Day 324: Chiminchangas

Day 323: ScrapFaery

Day 322: The Next Quilt

Day 320: Spring Flowers

Day 319: Organization

I love my new cube shelf. I am finally getting my room organized.

Day 317: B-dubs

Day 316: Quilt Day

At quilt day, I finally finished piecing this one. It only took me 6 months or so! Now to quilt it.

Day 315: Hanging

I hung up several things that have been a long time waiting. First, with the help of Dad, I finally finished hanging up the tree painting in the stairwell (for a very long time, only the bottom two paintings were up). Ashley and I hung up the roman shades in the office. And I hung up the cowboy hat pictures in my room.

Day 314: DJ's

I went to Diamond Jim's to have drinks with Jodi right after work. Because  I work in the plant, I didn't have my camera on me (they are not allowed in the plant). On top of that, we were going to have just a couple drinks, and four and half hours later, we finally decided to call it a night. I had a great time, but no pictures for today.

Day 313: Spring is Coming

Day 311: Goodies

I've never gotten so many goodies for starting a new job before: steel-toe shoes, hard hat, ear plugs, goggles and glasses, gloves, and a tough backpack for my laptop and a billion other things. Seriously, it has so many pockets, I don't know if I can fill them all.

Day 310: Aaah! Monsters!

These monsters are for an Etsy order. It was pretty cool. The customer came to me requesting my monsters. I think they turned out super cute. After I take a little break from them (I'm a little burnt out from doing such a quick turnaround), I think I should make some more.

Day 309: Sophia

Ashley, Marc, Dennis, and I went down to Sterling Heights to see Blue Like Jazz, mostly because I'm an Associate Producer for the movie. Of course, we couldn't get that close to Berkeley without seeing Dan, Nina, and Baby Sophia. ":) The BBQ was pretty awesome too.

Day 308: Dirt Party

Mom and Dad bought 140-some bags of dirt to put in flower beds (etc) around the yard, so Ash and I went over to help. We unloaded 56 bags today and will do more another weekend.

Day 307: Harvey's

The perfect meal at Harvey's: crab cakes and ultimate mac and cheese. Yes, that is bacon on top.