bits & pieces

tons of pictures today. just a little glimpse of what we've been up to lately...


mckinlee got this great shot of a butterfly that landed on her zinnias.
when she's not taking pictures, she's been creating one of a kind art with hand sanitizer and food coloring. (she calls it her "germ-x art"! funny, yes?)

i just love little glimpses of summer around the house. bright beach towels just scream summer, right?

a couple of weeks ago, a friend from our hall and i got together a picnic at a beautiful park here in frisco. it was one of the hottest days and when i got home, i was comatose for the rest of the night. but we had a fun time and quite a few from our congregation got to come.

the kids cooled themselves with spray bottles of water...

and fought over who got to hold baby z!

the music was so loud from another group at the park that the girls got to do the cupid shuffle!

isn't this the cutest family? they recently moved into our congregation and have the cutest identical twin girls!

we've tried to be sure mckinlee reads at least 30 minutes everyday during the summer (it hasn't always happened!) but this evening she and chris (who has decided he likes reading--go figure!) sat outside on the porch and read. how cute!

this is part of a scrapbook page from my stampin' up lady's open house. it is kind of hard to see, but it's a glass of lemonade made out of transparency material. isn't that clever? i've got to try it out!

i made "romy's chocolate cake" and thought it looked so pretty, i had to take a picture! it was so good.

we finally got our passports! yippee! now we can go somewhere.

while mckinlee had a friend over last week, cosmo crawled into my lap and watched tv with me until the camera scared him off!

then he got to enjoy what the girls were making for him... his own cat corner. every blanket and pillow we have is in there for him. they worked so hard, i just couldn't make them clean it up. he has been in there probably 22 hours a day for days now!

the fruit right now is so good! sprouts had their pineapple on sale for $1.50!! you can hardly buy a can of pineapple for that. and it tasted so good. mckinlee likes to "shave" it--as she calls it.

check back tomorrow. i'll try to post pictures of a "first" for mckinlee.