Summer...

I don't have any house pictures to post, although we are adding wallpaper to the laundry room and a closet today so hopefully I'll have some fun new photos in the next week or so, but I did want to share have some pictures of Lola reading outside in our new tent we found at HomeGoods. This is definitely is one of our favorite finds there. I love the pretty floral pattern and the size of it! Oh how we love summer.

I hope you all have a lovely Tuesday!

Summer Afternoon...

We are excited to introduce our newest print that is now available in our shop just in time for the start of summer! We designed a chalkboard with one of our favorite quotes by Henry James: 

"Summer afternoon, the two most beautiful words in the English language."

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I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Take Me Out to the Ball Game...

I grew up playing and loving sports. My siblings and I played just about everything, but we always had a special love for basketball and baseball. Both my parents played basketball and my dad was a basketball coach, and then I met and fell in love with Jon so my life will probably continue to revolve around basketball until the day I die. My mom's family has strong baseball ties and we grew up excited about trips to the ballpark and eating hot dogs, cotton candy and ice cream that was served in an upside down plastic baseball hat. There's just something about a warm summer evening that brings back memories of sitting in the stands at a ballpark as the sun set, with my glove on my hand, listening for the crack of the bat and waiting with anticipation for a foul ball to come my way...(and yes, Jon makes great fun of me for the fact that I used to bring my glove to every game... -haha!)

While we were in New Hamsphire this summer, we were headed to a baby shower for one of my cousins over in Vermont and drove by an old baseball field. I immediately fell in love with the old dugouts against the cornfields. The setting was so serene and looked so untouched by time. I found out later my dad used to play on this field when he was younger. A couple weeks later I met my cousin Cathy and her husband, Jason out there with their five little ones and we let them run around and play and I took some photos.

The setting was so beautiful!

I love Abby's expression in this one!

I wanted to get Lola and Benjamin in the pictures too but Lola was NOT cooperating.

She sure did have fun giving poor Auntie Jamie a run for her money though! We couldn't even contain her long enough to tame her crazy hair. =)

Auntie Jamie and Uncle "Dutch" corralling Lola for a moment...

Time to pick up and head home for the night...

I hope you all have a beautiful evening!

Fourth of July Fruit Salad

I didn't have time to finish editing the picture of some of the other projects we did for 4th of July, but I thought I would at least show you some pictures of a little patriot themed snack we had this weekend. I recently saw a fun image on Pinterest and traced it back to Amanda of Wit and Whistle. It looked pretty easy so I thought we would give it a try yesterday. Well, I have to say it was even easier than I thought! (We also used the star cookie cutter on pancakes on Saturday morning and it sort of worked but not nearly as neatly as this did!) It seriously just made me want to start cutting watermelon into any shape imaginable!

All we did was slice a watermelon in half and then sliced it so we had several 1/2 to 1 inch thick circles. And then we used a star-shaped cookie cutter (we got ours at JoAnn's a couple of weeks ago) and just sliced out some stars. Then we sprinkled on some blueberries and that was it!

 

Lillie absolutely loved the star shapes and ate more pieces of watermelon than I have ever seen her eat before. The whole time I was trying to snap pictures she kept sneaking pieces. 

 Lola, on the other hand, does not seem to like watermelon at all but loves the blueberries.

 

 I hope you all have a fabulous Monday! I'll be back tomorrow with the Fourth of July decorating we did this weekend and a Fourth of July download.

P.S. We just restocked the 12 by 16 Je T'aime pillow covers!