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High Five for Friday Post!

1. Playing outside during this beautiful weather with E's bff, Max.

2. What I'm currently reading and I'm loving it! Bringing up BeBe by Pamela Druckerman.

3. On Tuesday Jared and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary by ordering a huge amount of Arabic food.

4. Playing at a playground in a little bouncy car.

5. We felt like getting all dressed up today and visiting Daddy at work for lunch!

Linking up with Lauren Elizabeth

WWWW

Eek, forgot to post a WWWW, so it's late!

I'm pretty awful at remembering where I buy my clothes. Most of them I've just acquired over the years. I can honestly say while I LOVE designer brands, I'm not a label snob. If it looks cute I buy it. If it doesn't last more than a couple weeks, whatevs! :)

My favorite brand though is Banana Republic. I have several items that I am just trying to fit into again, but I don't know that these new baby hips will allow it...I'm still keeping them in hope though!

Anyways, I was feeling vintagy last week and decided to watch tutorials on how to use scarfs in one's hair. I watched the videos while Emilie napped. The.entire.time. A full hour of watching and practicing, just to tie a scarf!

My little bug on the other hand...just easy. Top from Baby GAP, capris from ? and the little Jelly sandals I bought at Babies R Us!

Homemade KoolAid play dough!

Emilie is super picky when it comes to textures. She wasn't very impressed with this greyish purple glob in her way. It smelled like grape though! 

I did try a piece. Haven't we all tried the play dough you buy? Maybe it's just me. This stuff though, don't try it... :/

The ingredients for the play dough. Nice, because there was no cooking involved. Some other recipes require stove top boiling and cooking to form the dough.

Here's a link to the recipe and a few more. 

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1. Monday was the thirteen year anniversary of my brother's death. Normally my mom and I travel together to put the wreath on the cross, but I made the trip alone this year. 

2. I usually am pretty awful at making pies, but my Grandma's Lemon Custard pie turned out delish!

3. I spent at least an hour watching Youtube videos on how to tie a head scarf, pin-up style.

4. I finally painted my toe nails: Fuzzy Dice.

5. My 10 month old hit pony tail status this week!

Linking up for H54F this week!

A week in the life!

Our first week of summer vacation went something like this~

We played outside and watched Daddy power wash the picket fence.

Walked downtown during the Festival of Arts and walked through the Art Museum.

I baked some Snickerdoodles that were delicious and shared at Jared's work.

Emilie came to the doctor with me to get my shoulder checked out again. She was a little angel.

Mommy made pop bottle toys that sparkle and swish when tossed around.

Emilie played with her baby doll as Mommy talked on the phone.

We attempted artwork for Father's Day. We named the art piece "Disaster."

Emilie hated the paint, and it was like pulling teeth to get her to put her hands on the canvas. Instead, she wanted to paint her face, which meant a quick splash in the kiddy pool...except it was ice cold and Emilie was angry, cold, and had goose bumps. She got a warm bath afterwards, but when I came back out a bird had pooped on my phone in the meantime. 

Standing and pulling herself up!

Books, books! She loves tearing her room apart each day and going through all the books as she reads to herself. This gives me time in the morning to put my face on!

Mommy went to a meeting in Holland and Emilie got to see Auntie Amy again!

Sun room fun!

The taste of sweet cherries is just so yummy!

We visited a book store, hoping they'd have story hour, but they didn't. Instead we picked out a book for Daddy to read Emilie for Father's Day. She claimed the book by chewing off a few bits of fiber :).

My little kitchen helper.

I made some fresh raspberry scones, all they needed was some clotted cream!

Pretending to be a 50's housewife, I guess?

Spaghetti dinner for the win!

Cutting teeth. This was a horrifying site to come into, but the bleeding stopped and Emilie was all smiles. 

And lastly, a trip to the farm to visit Grandma again!