Wedding flowers

As the flowers started rolling in Tuesday, it was a little kind of nerve wracking (Have you seen how squished flowers look when they send them in the mail?!?!?! scary.)  But Mom helped me get extra buckets for them (Yes, I forgot I needed more buckets) and flower food (They don't come with that?) and everything turned out quite like I'd hopped. :)

I couldn't get these two to rotate...

 

 

But don't they look so happy :)

 

The bouquet turned out quite nice

 

All in all, I think florists have it easy, in a way.  The master design of the plants and flowers was done well before people began arranging them. 

Quiet books! :D

This has been my project for the past few months and I’m so excited that its DONE!

I had a lot of fun with this, but it has also been frustrating, time consuming, addicting, overwhelming, stretching….

Anyway, the pictures pretty much speak for themselves.  I got the ideas from the quiet book we had growing up, pinterest, and my own ideas. ( www.pinterest.com/semilyanne )

Lily Anne's

 

Button-on flowers

 

Garden with Carrots, Potatoes, and radishes.

and Set the table... with cookies!

 

Save Jonah from the whale (zipper mouth)

Help find the lost snap-on sheep

 

Seasons tree and farm animals

 

Running horse

 

Weave the pie crust

 

Getting dressed

 

Laundry and sock matching

 

Do my hair

Williams Book

 

Velcro shapes

 

road with snap-on stop-light 

 

Snap, buckle, belt, tie shoe

 

CAMPING! 

 

Help Peter catch fish

 

Jonah and the whale

 

Faces!

 

Viking

 

Pirate

 

Glasses

 

King

 

Pumpkin

 

Memory Matching

 

Build and Ice Cream Cone

 

Telling time!

 

Don't look too closely ;) but overall I was very pleased :)

10 Reasons I like to walk.

 

I have several things and walking is definitely one of them.  Here are 10 reasons I like walking:

10: Less gas to buy.  Sure Weston works for big oil, but there are enough people buying oil without our help!  (It's expensive up here in AK!)

9: No parking: parallel or otherwise, I like not having to park which brings me too...

8:  No finding lost parked car! Blame lack of sleep, or distracting kids, I can rarely walk strait to my car out of a store when I do drive.

7.  It lets me use my stroller.  My double stroller is really great, but it really shines outside.

6. It gets me outside! Basically, if I don't get outside, I go crazy.  Crazy Em = Bad Em

5. Its low impact.  While I throw in a run here and there, (and I'm trying to run more) walking is so low impact, I never have sore knees when I'm done.

4. I can wear whatever I already have on! Sandals, jeans, skirts, nice knits, button-ups, t-shirts.  It's comfy to walk in just about anything

3. The kids love it (most of the time) Especially if I throw in a trip to the park, which I often do.

2. Its low stress.  Actually De-stressing would be more like it, driving gets me all wound up--no bueno.

1. IT JUST FEELS GOOD.

Counting in Julie-o is not for the faint of heart!

Today I started practicing "Julie-o"  John Boyle gave me the music YEARS ago when I met him in Miller.  He told me he was sure I could play it, I'm not as sure, but I think I can figure it out by practicing.  Which is what I started doing this evening, since Weston is still out on his intern field trip... And by practicing, I mean I watched you-tube videos of awesomely talented people playing Julie-o.

After listening to that, I tried to clap the syncopated rhythms... Yeah.  Half hour later I'd figured out a good three lines.

...And then I decided to take up Blogging.