NASA

Matt, Millie, Mike and I decided to go see NASA while we were in Houston. Here are a few pics.


This robot with the golden head has fingers that can type on a blackberry. Pretty tricky.

This is a gynormous rocket. It's a lot bigger in person.

"Houston, we have a problem." Here is the control center.

The inside of a space shuttle. As you can see, you can't be very tall to be an astronaut.

Space man flying overhead.

B.I.G Texas sized wedding.

This is me being "drunk" on all the juice drinks we had over the weekend.

This is the bed and breakfast where we all stayed.

(Yea, I know, sideways...again.)

This was the view from the window at the reception.

We had a lot of fun over the weekend. We laughed. A lot of laughing. I always have fun with my siblings and their spouses. We ate. A lot of eating. We drank. A lot of juice and diet coke. The food was pretty amazing. I should have taken pictures. It was fun having a few days without the kids, but I was really glad to get home to them and back to my normal life.

I have a problem....

So the problem is that I love fabric. I love looking at fabric. I love dreaming of fabric. I could spend hours in a fabric store. And I have. Anyway, I'm just not crafty enough to know what to do with it. I was blog hopping again, and I saw some cute tea towels that a girl had made, so I decided to give it a shot. They were pretty easy. I actually did two in between Parker leaving for school and when I had to take Conner. A fun project to pass the time. Try to ignore the bottom left one. It's upside down. I guess I'll be keeping that one!

First day of School!

It's back to school time! Parker starts middle school this year. I think I was more nervous than he was. Logan was put in a 5/6 combo class. I guess he is a better student than I thought. I would be scared to be in with all those big sixth graders! Conner started kindergarten. I'm not sure if he was nervous or not. He doesn't show emotion about these kind of things. All I know is that it is really quiet around here!

Today's project was......

A new cover for my ironing board! It was really easy. My old one was literally falling apart. Now I have one that matches my new (and still unfinished) laundry room. And it's a good thing tomorrow is Saturday, the special day, the day we get ready for Sunday, because my house is a D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R! I know, it's sideways, but I can't figure out how to rotate the darn picture.

Craftin' up a storm

What does one do when they wake up one day and realize it's time to cut back? No more Target when I'm bored. No more lunch dates. No more Diet Coke. This is what happened to me. I pulled out the old sewing machine and scraps of material I had laying around and I went to town. Recognize the red and blue skirt? It was a dress I made for Paige a few months ago, but she never wore it because it didn't really fit right. So I chopped it in half and made it a skirt. Now she loves it! I even made matching hair clips. Now I'm exhausted.

Then I made some bags.