My Little Soda Jerk

I inherited a large cut of super awesome vintage polyester from my Mother-in-law, and it has been sitting around waiting for something to do for quite awhile...

Wait no more!

What might not look great on his Momma, looks great on a four year old!

My Garden

There are two things to be learned from this post:

1) I cannot make a straight line

2) Everything grows better in bunny poop.

(Look at those cute little kohlrabi!)

Jam Jam Jam!

Denise and I spent four hours last Thursday making jam.

We made 31 pints, and stopped because we ran out

of jars, sugar and pectin (but not fruit!)

Strawberry-rhubarb. mmmMMMmmm!

I love rhubarb in jam, but I always spread it on my toast

and then wonder, "why are there onions in this?"

My rhubarb plant barely noticed we cut any.

I guess I'd better make more.

Pirate Birthday Party!

Last Friday was Mr. Eli's 4th birthday party!

We were all pirates. (Nice pirates, not mean ones!)

Iris was a baby pirate... she practiced her "Arggghs" all day,

but they came out more like "Waaas"

Daddy's present to Eli was a cool pirate ship fort (100% reclaimed materials!)

Grandpa with a mustache gave him the ship's wheel!

Mom made the pirate flag

We had cake

There were four candles on one side, (for Eli)

And 28 candles on the other side (for Jeremy)

Please learn from my mistake, and NEVER EVER light candles sideways.

Especially when there are paper sails on the cake!

In spite of (or maybe because of) the huge amounts

of frosting used to hold the cake together,

it was really really good.

(Eli is one of the Pirates Who Don't Eat Anything)

The pirates went on a shark hunt

(The weather was cruddy, so we had to have it in the garage.)

and a treasure hunt, which we didn't get any pictures of... oops!

And we all had a great time!

We even sang a round of sea chanteys!

Look at all those pirates!

And It Shall Come To Pass

Who thinks I need a craft room makeover?

Meeeee!

I am entirely too OCD to keep working in this this space. If I do, my head may explode. Although surprisingly, the room looks a LOT more tidy in the photo.

Oh honey....

(Pics coming soon) (I hope)

Sleeping Babies

They could be twins!

(Except for all that hair on Eli. Sheesh!)

Iris' First Camping Trip

Iris went camping for the first time this Memorial Day weekend.

She went for a hike,

where we picked up a LOT of garbage...

She had her very own camp chair!

Batman was there, and he helped her a lot!

Eli had Jeremy cut a branch off a tree, and he

"planted" it in the middle of our camp.

Eli spent lots of quality time with the 4-wheeler...

So did their cousin, Scotty...

The place we were camping didn't have any seating,

so of course the Heer men had to make some

I don't know what they'd do with themselves if they went

on a trip and didn't get to use their chainsaws!

We went for a hike and ended up in the creek

I love the Batman-like flapping of his cape in this pic!

Anyhow, Iris did great, she loved being outside, she slept great in

the tent in Mom's sleeping bag, and she was sweet and happy

pretty much the whole time! I think we'll be camping a lot this summer!