Summer Adventure #10

Hollywood Connection

Earlier this year "City Deals" had an offer where you could buy Hollywood Connection passes for $5 each. I grabbed the offer before I even knew when we would use them. But my whole family got in for the price it would have cost to buy 1 and 1/2 normal passes on a weekend. You could use them anytime, not just on special days. We didn't tell the kids we were going, we just drove there. The kids always want to go there and spend the whole day, but we NEVER do that. This time we did!

 We did the bumper cars.

 We rode on the  Dragon roller coaster too many times to count.

 The Balloon ride about made Dad throw up...the kids thought that was really funny.

And the Carousel.

We even did a little roller skating. The younger 2 have never been on skates so it was a true adventure. There were lots of bruises but no broken bones :)

We played mini golf too, but I was competing for the best score so no pictures were taken. Hubby even got a hole in one on the last hole and won a ticket for free french fries. 

It was a long but fun day. I am glad I got those discounted tickets when I did, totally worth it.

Summer Adventure #9

We went to Mr.N's baby blessing in Logan. This would be the baby that my sweet younger sister had NATURAL!!! He is a cutie!!!

Gotta have a picture with the Mom and Dad. 

Now for the Adventure...we floated down the canal on inner tubes with the cousins. The water was FREEZING! Miss. K was riding on my lap and barely even touched the water and said "mom my bum is frozen, I can't even feel it."

The kids slept in tents out in the yard. There was a "BOY" tent and a "GIRL" tent. The girl tent only had my 3 girls in it. 

The "BOY" tent had my 3 nephews and Mr. A in it....it is a 2 man tent...they could have slept in the other tent, but they said it was full of girl "cooties". So they all squished in!

Cousin time....can't ask for a better adventure!

A tutorial wanna be.

I always see these fun sewing/craft projects on other blogs that show exactly how to make/create them. I thought it would be fun to do one of those. So what happened???? I started my fun project and took 1 picture and then didn't take any pictures until the very end :) oops! I was so excited to get my project finished that I forgot to take pictures at every step....so this is more of a "Before" and "After" tutorial. Hope you enjoy...and next time (if there is a next time) I promise to take pictures with every step.

I started out with these cute dress shorts that a friend gave me (they didn't fit her anymore) so I figured if I messed up it was OK, because it didn't cost me anything :)

I never wear dress shorts...I am more of a jean and t-shirt kind of girl. But, I am a church-going girl so I can always use a new skirt....so with a little unpicking, a zig-zag stitch here and there this is what I turned them into:

I even added a few flowers....

So that is my new skirt, it actually turned out better then I thought it would. It wasn't too hard and I would definitely do it again. As far as doing another tutorial....who knows. I am usually more of a copier of crafty stuff, not a lot of original things come from my brain, but there is always the possibility that lightning will strike twice :)

Summer Adventure #8---a tragedy!

So this week we headed off for #8 and tragedy struck.....I FORGOT THE CAMERA!

What kind of mother am I? 

Does it go along with the saying "if a tree falls does it make a sound if no one is around to hear it". So if I don't have pictures of Summer Adventure #8 does it mean that it didn't happen? I'm writing about it anyways :)

We first went on a tour of "Sweets Candy Factory" ( we have a thing for candy this year:) The kids review: It is bigger than Taffy Town.  They make a lot of different kinds of candy, not just Taffy.  But the taffy from Taffy Town was WAAAAAY better.

Then we went to Liberty park and played in the water. The kids had a great time....lots of photo ops there...stinking camera where were you! Then we let the kids go on 2 of the rides. They were having a deal, 8 tickets for $10. Each ride was 1 ticket. They had a Carousel, Big Swings, Airplane Swings, Little Cars, and a Farris Wheel! Yes that is the same Farris Wheel from the amazing movie Charly.  Guess what, I found a picture of that :) The older girls went on it and thought it was so fun. After that we went to lunch and then home. So it was only a 1/2 day adventure.