Sidewalk Chalk, Water Blasters(thanks Steph), Bubbles and Our Very Own Air Show

FYI: DAY 2 OF COUSIN CAMP IS BELOW

On Tuesday, the girls and I went outside to play. Little did we know we'd see an air show right outside our house. The Air Force Academy had their graduation yesterday so they had a practice on Tuesday. We got to watch them both. I love watching air shows, probably because of my dad.

Hope it's not too boring, it's just a bunch of pictures of jets.

I told you, right over our house. Ours is that ugly yellow colored house. ha ha ha

Isn't that so cool though?!!!

I love this one with the bird caught in it too!

That is our neighbor's house.

I caught this one with my zoom lens, how cool are those jets!!!

Those are our neighbors across the street.

There's my cute little family.

DAY 2

Day two was pretty relaxing but still a little chaotic.

This is what the mornings looked like, trying to get up and get ready. Annie was always up and going early.

The weather ruined some of our plans so we had to make other plans.

We went to the Great Mall to get out of the rain.

THEY LOVED THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, WE COULDN'T GET THEM OFF.

There was a little fighting over the zebra so they compromised, what nice sisters!

Brampton's ready for take off!

Cardston and Cheyenne taking a ride.

They also got to do some crafty things.

Cheyenne's horse that she colored.

Aden's horse.

And Ayva's, I missed getting shots of the others.

Then Grandpa took them all out for rides on the "BIG" bike.

Cheyenne looks like she's thinkin', "I'll just lay back while grandpa does all the work."

Not sure exactly who started this but I found Cardston and Cheyenne doing this all week and thought it was so funny. Silly kids!!

Payzant Cousin Camp 2010

So my awesome cousins the Jardine's gave me this wonderful idea of cousin camp.

Last week we had cousin camp in Kansas and had an amazing time. We had 6 of the 9 cousins there (we missed you Leisel, Kira, Kamber and Kendi).

It was so fun hanging out with everyone. Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us do the camp at your place, we had a blast!!!

Aden, Ayva, Brampton, Addison, Cheyenne and Cardston

Stephanie did an amazing job with the shirts, they're so cute!!! At the bottom she had little hand prints with each of their names.

FOR THE BOYS

FOR THE GIRLS

Isn't she awesome!!! She is so creative!!!

We all hung out in the basement and the kids loved sleeping in tents.

Cardston and Stephanie

Getting ready to go to the Kansas City Zoo.

TUESDAY AT THE ZOO

Annie and Addison

They love the elephants.

It's hard to get a good picture with the girls.

I had to hold onto them.

Cheyenne and her faces.

Ayva got tired of walking around.

We finished off the Zoo day with a few rides on the carousel.

After the zoo we stopped by the library to get some books for story time. Then we had a little down time, mostly for us oldies.

Always putting on a show!

Story time with Grandma and Grandpa.

After that, bedtime (sigh), now we can relax.

That was DAY 1, the rest will be coming soon.

How long does it take to paint 2 little toddler beds?

Roughly 3 months!

Well, if you live in Colorado Springs and it can't decide whether it's spring or winter and the wind blows like crazy.

And of course if you do projects like me. I'm quite the perfectionist when it comes to doing projects. Everything has to be perfect and if it's not...START ALL OVER AGAIN!!!

I was so excited when I bought these beds for the girls and couldn't wait to get started. After a while I just wanted to throw them in the dumpster.

But I didn't, I kept going. I was determined to get these puppies done.

And here's the end result (they were white)...

BLACK BEDS FOR LITTLE GIRLS

They will look girlie when I make their quilts and other bedding (along with another project that, hopefully, will not take another 3 months).

I'll spare you the details of this dreaded project but lets just say I had to start over a few times (I hate sanding).

My poor family had to suffer through all this. I took over the garage as my workshop, sorry Josh and got the family HIGH on many occasions with the never ending spray painting. Wind and spray painting don't go well together. Snow and cold weather and spray painting also don't go well together.

The girls were just sleeping on a queen sized mattress on the floor. Fun for them, they loved it but I've been wanting to get them their own little beds and decorate their room....girlie mixed with my style. So these beds were the start. They love their new beds and are sleeping very well in them.

THANK YOU FAMILY FOR BEING PATIENT WITH ME ESPECIALLY JOSH!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!!

Happy Mother's Day

Hope you all had a wonderful day!!!

I just love this little thing, she's so darn cute!!!

Today at church she crawled over to me, sat on my lap and said, "I'm safe now."

Sigh.

That just melts my heart.

My New Hero...

Leisel Payzant

If you haven't checked out her craft blog, you need to.

She amazes me with all the stuff she's been creating and a lot of it! Where does she find the time?

She has these tutorials and giveaway going on right now. It's a single dress pattern for the giveaway and the tutorials are taking that pattern and changing it up a bit. She has put up so many different versions and they are adorable!!

Not only is she doing that but she has a contest going on too--So you think you can quilt. Every month the contestants enter a quilt they made and every month is a new theme.

Go check out her blog.

This is just one of my favorites!

And isn't that little thing adorable too, she's my cute niece!