Pizza & Fireworks

Did you know that Papa Murphy's Pizza has a build-your-own personal pizza?  In Oregon it only costs $4.99 and it's fun for the kids!  

 

This was one of the items on our Summer Bucket List and the kids loved it!

 

 

Check out Tatym's new shirt!  :)  We love Duck Dynasty and she's always walking around saying, "Happy, happy, happy!" 

 

Today just so happens to be the 4th of July and I was so excited to try to take pictures of fireworks!  My friend Rachel is an AMAZING photographer and I was super blessed to be able to take her first ever photography class last year and in the class she told us how to shoot fireworks.  If you have a free minute, you should go to her website and check out her work!  Rachel Diane Photography and you can find her business page on Facebook HERE.  She did our family photos back in May and they are by far, our most favorite family pictures EVER!

Anyways, 2 of my sisters are here visiting us and we had so much fun playing with sparklers and the camera tonight!  Here are a few pictures:

 

 

 

 

To get these shots I used the settings:

f/11

13"

ISO 100

 

:) HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!

 

 

Red, White & Blue

So I've admitted to being a total Pinterest addict and I'm determined to do as many of the projects that I pin as possible!  I don't have a whole lot of 4th of July decorations so while I was taking care of my sick little girl and surfing through my Pinterest boards today, I came across THIS super cute wreath tutorial.  I remembered that I still had quite a bit of red felt leftover from the Valentine heart-shaped wreaths I had made like 3 years ago.  (You can visit my old blog post HERE and see how those turned out.)

So I went to town cutting 6 sheets of red felt, 6 sheets of white felt and 4 sheets of blue felt into 2x2" squares.

I was really regretting the fact that I had sold my rotary cutter at my garage sale last year!  Must add one to my shopping list!  :)

Then I started pinning the squares to the wreath:

The nice things about projects like this is that it's not very messy and although it's time consuming, I can watch tv and visit with my hubby without having to be fully engaged in the project!

I found some cute glittery star stickers at Walmart and I usually use them to dress up my Scentsy customer's orders and I decided to hot glue some to the blue area on the wreath and added some shimmery pipe cleaners.  And here's the final product:

I'm really happy with how it turned out and it's on display on my mantle now!  :)

I'm really looking forward to the 4th of July week as we get to celebrate my precious daughter's 5th birthday and we've got family coming up to stay a few days with us too!  Life is good and God is even better!  <3