Nationals VS Dodgers

We love going to Baseball games. It's true. I hate watching sports on TV. I hate having sports on TV at all in my house. It's just noise and I can't follow it. BUT I love attending sporting events in person! How could you not have fun cheering with the crowds, dancing to the music, eating the five hundred dollar hot dog with the two hundred dollar soda, listening to Mitch explain the game to Marshall, while sitting under the bright lights?




Go Washington Nationals!

A day at Virginia Beach!

What makes the perfect Saturday?
We woke up Saturday morning, at 8:30 (the perfect time to sleep in)...no plans for the day. "What do you want to do?" "I don't know, what do you want to do?" (Sounds like the perfect set up for a day trip to me!)
By 9:30 we were in the car headed for a three hour drive south to Virginia Beach. There were no crowds. The weather was warm, but overcast (no sun burns...I'm okay with that!)

We had ice cream on the board walk. Marshall really enjoyed it.

We made quick work out of some buffalo wings. Okay, so really I took the picture because I didn't want my BBQ smeared face in any pictures. yum!

You know, Mitch and I lived in Hawaii for a little over two years. We would go to the beach together quite often. In all of those trips we never looked at each other and said, "I want to bury you in the sand." Somehow, now that we have a three year old boy, I end up to my neck in sand. It was awesome. I think everyone should have "Be buried in the sand" on their life to-do list.

We played in the ocean. Wrote our names in the sand. Chased after the seagulls. Played tag with the waves. Swear we saw two dolphins in the distance. And walked around the pier.
Marshall fell asleep on the way back home. What more could you ask for?

I like to make junk. You know, useless random things that only I find aesthetically devised for my personal home display. Here are a few things that I have done this past summer.
I learned to crochet. Yep. Kind of. Well, actually I learned to make hats. I can crochet hats.

I had/have this brilliant idea to find a way to contribute to my community. I thought that I would learn to make hats, then donate them to a battered women's shelter. If anyone wants to help out - I'd love the help. I am thinking of donating them towards the end of October. Email or facebook me if you want to donate hats.

This lamp is one of my favorite things that I've done for my house this summer. My mother-in-law gave me these old lamps; they were originally a blue and mauve colored. I wish I had taken a before picture. I took my obsession with modge podge out on them. I choose a color and design scrape book paper that went with my house design. I am pretty happy with how they turned out.

I made this a little over a year ago. I really like the vinyl lettering. I think the possibilities are endless. That makes me happy. My mother-in-law asked me to help create some things for her super saturday in November. I'm going to teach this and the family name plaque pictured below.

You know when you have a a picture in your mind of how you want a project to turn out. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This turned out exactly how I have pictured it. I was thrilled!