Little girl and her dinosaur

Her newest love . . .

Definitely worth the $5 I paid for it at a garage sale!

Weekend Review

Our garage sale was a HUGE success! I made over $300 just getting rid of stuff we didn't want anymore! It was so much fun, I am still exhausted from all the activities over the weekend. And this is what I got at other garage sales for a grand total of $21!!! (It's not all for Isabella, I got some of it for my niece.)

That baby doll is the biggest baby doll I've ever seen! I got it at our church rummage sale, I was only wanting to get the doll carrier, but Isabella fell in LOVE with the doll, she kept saying "baby, pease, pease, pease mommy!" So I figured for a dollar she could get it. It's huge, she can hardly lift the thing, she drags it around the house by it's arm. It's wearing her 3 month sleeper in the picture. Her preemie clothes I originally got out for it go to it's waist! Also, when I was leaving the church with it, it fell out of the carrier onto the ground. I very nonchalantly looked at Isabella and said, "oopsie, we dropped the baby". I then heard a loud scream, it was coming from a guy who thought it was a real baby! He and I both got a good laugh out of that!

Pool fun at home

Light Blogging Ahead

Summer time is definitely a busy time, but I love it! My mom came for a quick trip yesterday, and left tonight. While she was here I organized and priced all of my "stuff" for my upcoming rummage sale. I also painted/stained our deck on the front of the house, I changed the color of it and it turned out better than I thought it would. I also did a couple of other outdoor projects I have been wanting to get done. This weekend we'll be going to Monte's parents, followed by a quick trip for my mother-in-law, Isabella, and me to his sister's at the beginning of the week. My sister, niece, and my mom will then come out on Thursday, and Friday and Saturday I will be having a rummage sale. It is also rodeo week for our town, which is HUGE around here, so Monte and I will be going to at least one rodeo since we'll have some babysitters here! We also have a church fundraiser I will be trying to help out with sometime during those few days!

The days are flying by! Isabella and I met a great group of new friends at our weekly bible study/book club and we have been getting together practically every afternoon at the park/pool. I can't believe that she is not scared of the water! I (along with almost everyone in my family) was always terrified of the water when I was growing up. I'm so glad that Isabella likes it. One of her little friends was sitting next to her on the edge of the kiddie pool, and when he started crying she patted his arm and said "nice". It was so cute!

What I found this morning

My rose bushes survived the winter!! This is huge for me because I have not had the best luck getting my bushes to survive through the winters. We've already had to replace two other bushes this spring, but that was because of a stray tomcat that seemed to take a liking to them. Grrr.

Father's Day

We had a whole Father's Day weekend this year. Last year, on Monte's first Father's Day, I had to work the entire weekend, I felt bad. On Saturday we went out to the lake for a while. We had a picnic and did a little fishing.

Monte got spoiled with lots of good food this weekend! I made him toffee bars and a cake, also I made a huge breakfast this morning after church, and this evening after Isabella went to bed we grilled steaks.

Wearing her Daddy shirt. (And what it says is true) :)



I was really excited about giving Monte his Father's Day present. I wrote the little story (which took me back to my high school creative writing class days), uploaded the photos, and My Custom Story did the rest. He loves it, and so does Isabella! I realized after I did this that to keep things fair I'll have to do this with any children we have in the future also, but that's okay, it's a wonderful keepsake.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to spend any time with my dad this weekend, but hopefully will get to soon, I wish we lived a little closer.

Zoo Book

I thought I would post this in case anybody else wanted to use the idea. It seems like kids love looking at pictures, so when we were at the zoo I took pictures of a lot of the animals. Then, when editing the pictures I added the text (which you wouldn't have to do). I bought a 99 cent mini photo album, put in the pictures, and now Isabella has a book all about her trip to the zoo, which she LOVES looking at! You could do this with just about anything - vacations, holidays, birthdays, family members that your child doesn't get to see very often, etc. Here is the cover and a few of the other pages . . .