Vacation...

Tomorrow Molly and I are heading out with most of the rest of the Galbraith clan for a few days at the cabin in Island Park (unfortunately Justin will be here working, darn it). I don't think I've been for 2 or 3 years...so I'm excited to go.

Usually our schedule includes the following:

-A play or musical at the Playmill theatre in West Yellowstone

-Riding four wheelers one day

-Games and yummy food

-Roasting s'mores (a personal favorite)

-Going on walks

-Floating down the river (this may not happen with Molly)

-Spending time with Grandpa who turned 93 this month!

The picture is of Big Springs, which is really close to the cabin. It makes for a fun destination on the four wheelers.

It's official!

Zack and Emily are engaged!! We are soooo excited for them! He proposed Saturday night at the Thanksgiving gardens in the little secret garden. There were rose petals leading up to a bench where he had a big basket of goodies including lots of chocolate (nice work Zack!) and 2 dozen red roses. She has a beautiful ring and they are both so happy. For a more detailed account, check out Emily's blog. Congratulations you two!

Table topper

This past week I made a table topper (yep, that's really what they're called). I had leftover fabric given to me by my MIL (you may remember that I posted a wall hanging that I made her with the same fabrics). Anyway, I've been trying to decide what I can make since we don't have these same colors in any of our rooms. My mom made me this adorable table topper for Halloween last year, so I decided that this fabric would look great on my coffee table for the summer or whenever!

I had some leftover little blocks that I was able to use so I just kind of made them all work by sewing them together and then cutting to make them all even-ish.

Here's a close up. It was actually a quick project, which makes it all the better!

Wheeler Farm

Today we headed over to Wheeler Farm. It's really close and the best part is it's free! They have all sorts of animals and old farm equipment. You can go on wagon rides, feed the animals and milk the cows too if you want. We just walked around and checked out the animals and that was enough in the heat!

Also, Justin's mom has been in town for the past couple days and that's been a lot of fun (she had a hair/nail appt. so she didn't come with to the farm). But we're glad she's here and we'll be sad when she leaves tomorrow.

4th of July pics

Zack (Emily's BF), Major, Lexie, Preston, Natalie, Molly

The moo moo

This was where most of the entertainment was!

Baby Shay! Her cute little onesie says, "Tweet me nice." Check out her long fingers!

The cupcakes I made

Let freedom ring!

Happy 4th of July! I just wanted to say how grateful I am to live in America! I feel so blessed to be able to enjoy freedom, peace, and prosperity because of the sacrifice of so many people who fought their whole lives so that their posterity could enjoy these things. I know that I definitely get caught up in my little world and I forget that life could be much, much worse!

I'm sure about 80% of Americans are having barbecues sometime during the day, and that includes my family! We're having our family over for dinner and I'm making some festive cupcakes as my contribution! So hopefully they turn out (kraftfoods.com has some great patriotic desserts that are easy to make, which is where I got my recipe). Have a great day!

The Latest

Yesterday I was checking out a website and found someone's blog where they make "tatertot hair clips". Check out her blog, they are really cute! http://tatertothairclips.blogspot.com/.

I decided I'd give it a shot and make a similar hair clip to match a dress that Molly doesn't already have a matching bow for (I know, can you believe that?! ;)) Anyway, here is the result in the pics below.

Here's a close up. Pretty cute, huh? The ones on the blog are cuter than this, but this matched the dress very nicely. Molly's cousin Lexie has this same dress, so I also made a similar one for her, so hopefully she'll like hers!

And here is a video with Molly clapping, at least we think that's what she's doing when she makes this move! She finally claps towards the middle of the movie, just in case you get bored watching the beginning! We think it's pretty funny and cute at the same time. Enjoy :)