A Summer Outing

Minnesota Fountain

A trip to downtown for ice cream, and after the circus!

Who doesn’t love a pony ride.

Cousins enjoying an flavored ice during intermission.

Changes

Pottery Studio Turned Play Room

The kids were so excited and super helpful in creating this space for themselves today.  They wanted to put in all their toys but I limited it to a reasonable number of toys.

When the rain stops I can finally move the rest of my pottery studio from the hallway into my newest space...  my new pottery studio is by far the ugliest studio I have worked in, but it's a studio nonetheless and I am grateful to have the space.

Here are pictures of the start of the pottery studio to my new space:

My First Pottery Studio on Main Street in Park Rapids

My SECOND Pottery Studio on Main Street (off 3rd) in Park Rapids

My BASEMENT Pottery Studio where I kept my pottery wheels...

but eventually I moved the bisque here too, before I sold the paint-your-own pieces.

My Pottery Studio in Menahga

As 'RUSTIC' as the old milking house is, it is now the home of my studio... and it holds all the things I need including my kiln, which is actually the first time I've had my kiln in the same room as my studio space.  What a blessing all around, I still have a pottery studio and now I also have a play room!  

Happy Birthday...

Lulu Turns 5 Years Old

'Buld-a-Stuffy' at Jilly Beans at the West Acres Mall in Fargo

Special Birthday Dinner in Detroit Lakes

We had to go to Fargo for a Doctors appointment, so unfortunately 4 hours in a car for your birthday wasn't so great, but she and her cousin did enjoy the Fargo mall! 

Redoing the Flower Garden

I Want Flowers!

I pulled all the rock out a five years ago, and mulched but the Chickens kicked out all of it in about 2 years.  

So after 2 kids, a few years lots of thought and some planning The Green Thumb  and I pulled out 3 bushes, a dozen Iris' (which I will replant elsewhere) I weeded, layed railroad ties as a border along with landscape fabric.  

Now I need some flowering plants, shrubs, a climbing plant for my topiary and flowers for my window box.

I also need to finish pulling out the left over rock on this end of the flower garden, fix the siding and figure out a new way to drain the water from that area.

I also was given the FABULOUS hanging planters, which hang from the porch.  These kicked off my summer project list!  Thank God because I needed the motivation.

Butterflies

Catching Butterflies

Leo obviously gets his patience from Daddy. He's been outside 1/2 the morning and he finally caught a butterfly! Then he said Lorelei can have it for her birthday.

*We did let the butterfly go, after they said their goodbyes.

There was a little time to play Pirates too!

Super Hero's, Bad Guy or a Princess

Made by Nana

These two kiddos we're running around flying through Nana's house.  I also learned that the 'Fun Size' candy bars actually "Make me fly faster!"