material remnants pennant

i saw a material pennant on another blog and thought it would be so cute to replicate.  i have plenty of cute material remnants, so i cut some up and popped them on some twine.  i think it is adorable.  my lovely hubs on the other hand (and my cousin too) think they look like hanging underwear or bathing suit bottoms.  boo hiss!  i disagree!  i think they are cute for my spring/summer mantle.  

maybe they are a little too wide...hmm.  but i'll never tell them that!

 

here is the mantle from a front view.  the "spring" blocks in the middle can be flipped to spell "summer."  

p.s. do you love the NBA play off game in the background (compliments of the hubs)

the garden in full bloom

we waited kind of late to start our spring garden this year.  with all of the rain, it has been quite an unusual season.  although not all are pictured, we have tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, onions, 3 varieties of peppers, raspberries, broccoli, oranges, and sweat peas.  crossing our fingers that all produce yummy foods.

 

this is a picture of addison's hands holding a BUNCH of catapillars.  we have some shrubs that had TONS of these catapillars on them, so we decided to keep some and hope to "harvest" them into butterflies.  we kept feeding them the bush branches/leaves.  it has been so fun to watch the metamorphosis of the butterflies.  well, i am sure it would have been cool to see them turn into butterflies, but unfortunately we figured out that we had been harvesting MOTHS...argh!!!  that can't be good.  oh well, live and learn.  it was still fun!

adorable-ness

here are some recent pics of my little angels

 

i love this picture because it was before baby jack was born and august was trying to 

mimic auntie sarah-she told me she had a baby in her tummy.

 

mark took this picture and texted it to me with the words 

"this girl has such a chip on her shoulder."  ha ha ha

 

these are the girls' easter outfits.  unfortunately they were not feeling well on easter and didn't get to wear them until a few weeks later.  they look so cute in them though.

spring cleaning...and the beat goes on

well, i must confess that i did not finish my week 2 list...i got through about 4 or 5 hours of cleaning out my closet and drawers and a bit of the girls closet and just pooped out.  i did buy mark a new mini shelf to put his shoes on-since i stole his-...but decided HE COULD do his own closet...which is located in the office/playroom b/c our closet is too small.  my closet does look great and i feel like it is so organized.  i was able to rid it of clothes i haven't worn in many, many years, but have held on to for one reason or another.  anyway, i suppose at some point i must finish week 2 before i can jump to week 3 (maybe????)...but i'll post my week 3 in an effort to get motivated.  mark and i did manage to complete several mini jobs this weekend...well, more like finally finish projects, left undone for some time (some of the kitchen cabinets have been without the doors for about a year or more.  i think people just started to think it was supposed to be like that...uh, no!).
here goes nothin'-and this is probably my favorite picture, too:

WEEK THREE:

MISCELLANEOUS and GARDEN (weather permitting)

• Clean the Baseboards

• Check on Supplies Stock

• Wash Windows

• Clean Doors and Casings

• Organize Hall Closet

• Clean Walls

• Wash Curtains/bathroom and kitchen mats

• Repost Craig’s List Items or Donate

• take pics of the finished products :)

spring is right around the corner...

enjoying some of those california rays.  i am convinced spring is soooo close!  see, the flowers are beginning to bloom....:)