Weekend O' Fun part 1

This past weekend I hade such a good time with my family. We went to my parent's house and went here: http://www.sweetdreamsday.com/ This was our second year going and we had a fantastic time again! This time we participated in some of the contests including:
The Little Debbie look-alike contest

The Cherry pie eating contest:

We also had fun doing arts and crafts

Playing games

Climbing the Rock wall

The Sweet Dreams festival did not disappoint us this year. The only bad thing was I forgot to put on sunscreen and got a horrible sunburn

This was the worst sunburn I've gotten in a long time, but it was worth it!

The Riva'

Our family trip to the river was awesome! We walked around and explored and played and climbed and ran and just had general fun!

Watching the river flow...

Posing in front of some ruins

Found some slate and iron scraps (don't worry we don't take anything home)

I have such a great looking bunch!

Yea! It's Back!

My camera made its' way home thanks to the mail and my Mom! So I was able to download some pictures from this past weekend. We attended the Sweet Dreams Festival and it was a blast! http://www.sweetdreamsday.com/
There are tons of fun things for everyone to do. There was also a lot of free Hershey's products everywhere! My Twizzler addicted son even got enough! The only problem is that it was SO freakin' hot!!! There were a lot of people giving out water but it was still so hot!
There were inflated play things:


There was also laser tag! It was located right next to the cornhole tournament, that name still makes me laugh.



My rugrats also went on the climbing wall. My youngest was ready:


She made it almost to the top!

My son made it to the top, but I don't have a picture of that. Here he is on the wall:

We also participated in the bubble blowing contest, but none of us won. I was blowing huge bubbles until the contest started then itty-bitty ones... We also got to look at lots of vendors. It was a great festival that I highly recommend if you are near the area at all next year. I am keeping my fingers crossed it won't be a million degrees again though! After all our fun there the fam' went to the lake and cooled off for hours. It was a super fun weekend!

The Great Outdoors, sort of

It's a bit overcast today but I thought I'd share some of my crafting of my front yard area. I recently made these adorable boot planters:

I used an old pair of my kids boots that I have been saving for a while. You could also get a cute pair at the thrift store. I used an awl to poke holes in the bottom for drainage. Then I put gravel rocks in to just over halfway full. Then dirt and plants, these are lemon balm. You could use colorful plants or ivy, whatever you'd like!

I think they are super cute and easy to make!
In addition I thought I'd show off my lavender plants, they have grown so much!



In the above picture you can also see my birdbath made out of an old satellite dish. No birds have ever used it but it is pretty to look at!