Pictures from the past couple of weeks...

Not a lot going on, just enjoying summer, but getting excited for school to start.  The girls have been playing a lot with our neighbors, who sadly, just moved.  It's a total bummer, but....they only moved about ten minutes away, so we will still see them.  I can honestly say they were some of the best neighbors you could ask for!  A sweet, funny family!  We will definitely be keeping in touch with them!

 Helping put the carrots and potatoes in

the crock pot for pot roast.  She loves to help, but
always wants to do things I don't think she is big enough
for, like cut the carrots.  I'm such a worry freak, I didn't even
want her to use a butter knife, but....she begged and I
let her.  I freaked over a butter knife?!  Yikes!  I need to
learn to relax and let this little girly grow up :)

We went to a local farmer's market and picked up six 

packages of strawberries for two dollars total!  I normally

am not a huge fan of this store, since the fruit often seems

overripe, but they actually looked great!  I am trying my

hardest to stretch our dollars, so this was a smokin deal!

What did we do with all of those strawberries?

We made yummy freezer jam....Mmmmmm.

The girls enjoyed mashing them.

Eating homemade brownies outside.  They had them the day

before on my freshly mopped floor, and I was not

about to let that mess happen again...haha.

 

 Addy helping make homemade bread.

She LOVED kneading the dough.

The house smelled SO good with these baking in the oven!
This is my grandmas recipe that my mom makes.  I have
tried other bread recipes, but I always like this one the best.

Jaren is such a good dad!  He reads to the girls
just about every night.  To prepare Hailey for first
grade, we went to the library and checked out some
books.  This one is called First Grade Stinks, and
it's really cute.

 Our cute little fairy!  Hailey picked out this little dress at
the dollar store, but it was WAY to short for her, think
hoochie mama...haha.  So, Addy gets to wear it now.

 I remembered doing this when I was young.  You draw a face
on your chin, and hang your head down and talk or sing.
The girls and I laughed SO hard!  We recorded Hailey
and then watched the video a bazillion times.

 While Hailey and I were busy drawing faces on our chins,
Addy was in my bathroom giving her self a makeover...haha.

 Addy loves to play doctor.  I was SO exhausted this day, I was
just sitting on the floor.  Addy wanted me to play with her so
bad, but I was so tired.  She started checking me out, looking
in my ears saying "this one wooks fine, and this one
wooks fine".....haha.  So cute, I couldn't resist playing
with her after that, she's at the funnest age right now.

Hailey LOVES to craft.  She wants to do
crafts anyplace, anytime!  I feel bad that I
don't make the time to do them more often,
but these girls run me ragged!!  This day
we were making clay Christmas ornaments,
in July...haha.  But, it was fun, cheap
and easy, the perfect craft.

 Painting them.  Too bad I forgot to poke a hole in the
ornament before it dried...oops, guess we will be
making these again before Christmas :)

 Smiley girl.  Addy loves to paint.

 This was so cute!  Hailey got dressed (in her
WAY to small dollar store dress) and put headphones
on and used a ladle as a microphone.  She was busting
out Carrie Underwood's song I Will See You Again.  I need
to get this girl in a little singing class, she would LOVE it!

This little squirt was SO tired, she fell asleep on a chair.  She
won't nap, but man, she gets SO tired since giving up her naps.