summerfest

This weekend has been very eventful. I made a few cards, here they are:

On Friday we filled their kiddie pool, & had summerfest in stephen so I brought the girls to 'art in the park', and to the parade, and off to my nephews birthday party.  Peter worked in the morning to try to get a little more prepared for harvest (boo) so I took the kids to the "art in the park"- they had lots of fun activities for the kids- i'm really glad we went. They had bubbles, necklace making, face painting, several painting (finger, Easel, etc) play dough, and a few other things. Then the helicopter came right over us and dropped paper plates with dollar amounts typed on them. You could cash them in. We got a couple, but they were only $.50 a piece, so we gave them to a couple kids who were older, and crying because they didn't get one! Then we went home to nap, where I fell asleep and woke up just in time to bring Kate to the kiddie parade. We met up with Tom and Robyn Widner, and Nathan and Michaela Sustad. It was fun to be with friends. Stephen was really packed with people this year!!  Here's some pictures from the weekend.

Cards Galore!

In the past few days, I've had to make many cards. I am pretty pleased how they turned out. Two birthdays, and 3 father's day cards.

Lots to do

Today I have many goals. Get some laundry done, upload photos, cut material for kate's quilt, and possibly stain a few grills in the door. I am almost done with it. I also want to work on a rough draft for Kate's birthday invitation. I realize I cannot get all this done during naptime but I want to do a little of each, as I have so much projects going on at once!  As the pictures were uploading I cut 4 peices of kate's fabric into 12 sections for her quiilt. So i am getting double done at one time. 

In the previous post I talked about Aria. If anyone feels on their heart to donate to her family, you can contact brookchelmo@hotmail.com. (Aria's father)  They are doing some fundraising this weekend, so pray that it would be successful. Also, all this rain and wind is really discouraging. Pray that we wouldnt get much, if any, rain this weekend. We don't need it at all. Yet, I am confident God will provide, even if this isnt what we want.

Also, last night I was with some ladies at church and met for supper in Hallock, and went to the green house to get some planting tips and to shop around a bit. I got a rose bush for the backyard and some vegetables for our brand new garden! Hopefully the rain will clear up so we can plant it soon.

I did a little picture taking this week. Here they are! None are edited, b/c photoshop could not be downloaded on our upstairs computer.Some need to be lightened, and some need to be toned down. One is a card I made recently, and the next is our growing flower bed in our front yard. Everything is getting huge!

Todays Over, Finally

First of all, here is an almost updated picture of the swingset. He is over half done, believe it or not. He built the picnic table (right where he's standing, under the first floor). He might finish it this weekend!!

And here is a card I made a few days ago. I am liking using fabric and buttons: my new favorite thing.

Right now I am eating cheetos. I just recently had a frustrating day and I am blaming Satan 100% for that! I just recently have been hearing so much about Satanic attacks and I am so glad that God is equiping me swords to fight him off. Today really wasn't that bad of a day, but I know it was Satan because it was a series of things that happened that were putting me in a bad mood.

1. I set the dishwasher to delay so it would run when we were done washing up the night before. It ran, but the soap never released so when I went to unload it at 11 am this morning, I had a dishwasher full of dirty dishes and lots more to load.
2. It seemed like every second I'd put something away, Kate and Maddy would drag it out, or drag our 3 more things. I was completely over-whelmed with a house that I could not keep up with.
3. I was trying to vacuum and make dinner at the same time and it just seemed like every possible thing, like phone calls, crying or sad children were keeping me from doing anything.
4. Tried to eat my cold tomato soup and noodles but due to crying and tantrums I could hardly finish my meal.

Doesnt seem very bad, but I was pretty much sweating and banging my toe on things and spilling liquids and etc.  I said outloud, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE SATAN! and I prayed that God would kick him out. (read Luke 8: 4-15, Luke 8 22-39, and especially Ephesians 6

So anyway, it is really frustrating but I am trying my hardest to read and memorize scripture this month. Once a week a new one I will memorize, or maybe a couple a week. That is a goal of mine, and to stay focused. I need to read my devotions every day, not just 4 out of 5 days or 5 out of 7 days, every day. I need to prioritize.  

Tomorrow is Maddy's appointment and we are going to GF. Hopefully that goes well. It's hard because she cries almost the whole way to Grand Forks, and when I give her milk, she drinks for 5 minutes and then purposely drops it. Same with a pacifier. One day when I went I stopped 3 times to pick up whatever she had thrown and then listened to her whine the rest. I just dont know what I am doing wrong or how to end this. She whines when she eats too, and throws her food on the floor. That is why I am vacuuming so much. Any advice would be appreciated.

Happy Birthday Cards

Just a quick post of the cards I made for my mother in laws 60th birthday. The smaller one was from Kate & Maddy, of course :)

Valentine's Cards

The last two days I have gotten to take some time after the kids had gone to bed to make some cards...that means trying to be creative. I realized you have to be creative when you dont have a lot to work with...meaning embelishments. I have plenty of paper, but not a lot of really neat ribbons etc.  So, I used what I had, and came up with these:

These were for "k"ate & "m"addy

The next is for Peter, and the one after that is a Birthday card for my sister