Some scenes from home...

I spent the entire day at home today doing laundry and tidying. I've also been working on a very housewifey project. I'm not ready to share yet though.

I did play with my camera today.

These are the candle holders we always used for birthdays when I was little. I don't know why the monkey is so unhappy. He looks upset. Is he lost? The other animals are happy. Does the monkey know something that they do not?



I found this is my great aunts basement. My uncle had used to hold sandpaper. I use it to hold cooking spoons.


What did they use 10lbs of lamb livers for?

I found those little white plates with the red ruffle at the junk store last week. I love them. I want to marry them and have their little red ruffled plate babies.


I found these polka dottie borders at Michaels. They're really for teachers to use in their classrooms, but I used double-sided sticky tape and put them on my bookshelves.


I have such a weakness for Feistaware.


Rebecca found the colorful little change purse for $2 dollars at the junk store. She's a good little junker.


Here's Phinney. He works so hard. His job is to sleep 23 hours a day.


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Summer begins...with a trip to Target!

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Today was the first day of summer vacation for us and since it's been raining for the past 157 days we did not go to the beach. We did however, go to Target! We did not go to my usual Target. Sometimes the girls and I yearn for a little adventure, so we went to a newly renovated Target.

It was so fancy! The carts were brand new and the mossimo was in abundance. The best feature of the new and improved Target? A Starbucks. There is a Starbucks right there in the store! I concentrated really hard and ordered my favorite drink: decaf tall iced mocha latte with 2% milk and whipped cream. I'm always terrified that I am going to forget some key element of the drink and end up with sludge.

One of the things that I really enjoy about my girls is that they completely understand the appeal of Target. They helped me pick out a fancy red bathing suit and we all tried on shoes. Rebecca now wears a womens size 7 1/2 which means that she has to try on every pair of glittery four inch heels that Target sells. Lily tries to keep up, but more often she falls down after taking two steps in gigantic pink glitter pumps.

The most exciting part of my day was when my anniversary present arrived. My dear sweet husband bought me this beautiful camera, so that I will no longer torture my readers with lousy iphone pictures. I plan on spending the next few days eating chocolate and learning how to use this camera. I can't promise that the pictures will be any better, though now when they suck I won't be able to blame the camera.

Here are a few test shots.



Not The Pioneer Woman, but a girl's got to start somewhere.

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