Home By the Creekside

Last week my parents were in town for my nephew's birthday. The kids wanted to go fishing. Clayton got a fishing licenses and we dusted off our fishing poles and went fishing. I wanted to go up towards Ashton at Warm River but we had a late start. We went out to check Ririe Resivoir. I have never been at the lake. We have driven out to see it but that's about all. I would say that we needed a boat and life jackets. Cause it wasn't fun fishing off the dock and I was scared that my kids didn't have life jackets. Needless to say we lasted about 20 minutes. That's  my nephew, in case you are wondering. He turned 11.

We have been in our house for 5 years now. We are not what you call handy people. It is not that we are lazy. It just doesn't come natural to us in thought and skill. We saw online about this stuff called Restore at Home Depot. Our deck has been looking really sad and needed some stain. We researched over the internet. Most people were satisfied. Then our neighbor did it as well. So we thought why not. We get the west sun and it gets hot. We thought we would go lighter. It came to my mind if we could solid stain our railing white and then do a gray on the bottom. The colors were nice. We are not quite finished. We underestimated how much we needed. We need 1 more gallon to do the job and at 33 dollars a pop for a gallon. We are waiting until pay day. I took plenty pictures of the railing and just one picture of the deck floor. I think it looks great. 

The day after I hurt my back, I had to drive into town and take Lyndee to the doctor. After a wasteful trip to the doctor and more time to wait for what I want for Lyndee, we sat out on the porch and watched the rain and took some pictures from Instagram. Now all I need to do is figure out to make them bigger and not soo blurry. 

Just in case you were wondering, I am alive and kicking. On the fourth, I chose to let the kids sleep in instead of going to the parade. They vegged all day and even Brayden said he was sick of fetching candy and its really not that fun. Well that made me feel better that I did have to have him endure another parade. After husband got off work, we spent the fourth of July at my brother's house. We had dinner and fireworks. It was a nice day to celebrate our country's birthday. . That day, I messed up my back something fierce. How did I do that you ask? I was putting my pants on and I angered something in my lower middle back.  I couldn't sit or lie down unless I wanted to be in pain. Ice and motrin were my two best friends for about a week.

I love crafting. Anyone that knows me knows I love to be creative. For activity days last week, for developing talents, we were inspired to teach the girls how to make little clutches out of duct tape. However, it is really hard to teach 20 girls how to do them. We tried to go basic as we could.  Here is the website that hardly has any directions that inspired me. I loved the picture of the little wallets on the website. They looked really easy and instead of a chain, we could use a thin ribbon. I had a crop a dile and eyelets. As we got started, I showed them how to cover one side of the felt with duct tape, and then they grew impatient and took off with their own creations. Most girls wanted the ribbon and some did not. They all looked cute. Well, Lyndee was excited to get my samples of wallets. But Brayden not so much. I told him they had cool skull duct tape for a wallet. Everyday since Tuesday, he reminded me to get the tape. Finally, husband got the t...

I went visiting teaching on the last day last month. I was aweing and ooing over her pretty irises in the yard. Then early Sunday morning, she knocked on my door and gave me a bouquet of them to enjoy.That was probably one of the sweetest things ever as I was having a bad weekend, bad month, bad year, or whatever. I have been so depressed lately. It is pretty lame for me to admit. And I know that it is just plain crazy. I feel lonely. Having gone from 29 students in a classroom, grading papers, planning, and all that jazz and then go to being home with my two children. I am grateful that I get to stay home in the summer with them and watch them grow like weeds before my eyes. However, I have never in my life been one of those depressed women that need to medicate themselves and I don't plan to either as I have been pretty happy all the time. However, I am trying to crawl my way of this funk and I know that I am close to banishing the dark cloud overhead.

Not sure why we got another cat! Maybe it has to do with fact that we are surrounded by unkept fields and that equates to field mice. Lots of field mice..However, after watching our other cat Sunnyside, chew up a mouse in front of us, I am so grossed out so this new cat might be an inside one.  Brayden especially thought it was way cool. I still have images in my mind and I keep hearing him say, "Eww, he is eating the mouse's head and we can hear the bones crush." Anyways, the new cat, Boots...we like him or her. Not sure what it is either.