As promised!

So I actually did this project with my mom-in-law quite a while ago, but better late than never right! I got the idea of paper roll (toilet paper or paper towel rolls) from Homemade Mamas and Growing Up Creative. So here it is!
I'll show off the finished project and where it's hanging later this week!

I know...I'm a bad blogger.....

But I promise that is going to change starting next week! So in the mean time, while I'm getting myself organized, here's a pictures of Delaina (my littlest sis) to put a smile on your face, she's so goofy!

Sweet Maggie turned 3!

More birthday pictures later!

June

So here's my take on the cute shadow boxes that my SiL has been making every month. Here's the one she made for June. So mine isn't a shadow box, but it is interactive! It's a picture frame that is also one of those puzzles where you move the squares around to make a picture! Daryl's mom gave it to him a few years ago, and I've finally put something in it!

Father's Day/Summer Cookout Cupcakes

While hanging out with my mom-n-law yesterday, we came across these cupcakes in Disney's Family Fun Magazine. They were so cute we couldn't wait for Father's Day, we had to make them immediately! They were so much fun, we may just have to make them again...

After making our cupcakes we brushed the tops of the cupcakes with a little watered-down black icing to make sure the red/orange sugar would stick.

We mixed some of our black icing with white icing to make gray icing to use for the grill grates.

Hot Tamale hot dogs! Use a tooth pick to dab on some black icing to give your hot dogs that fresh-off-the-grill look.

For you kebabs cut fruit slices and caramel creams into pieces. And for the pork chops just smush up some more caramel creams till they look like pork chops....

And to finish them off, add black icing to the pork chops and put your kebab pieces onto tooth picks!

Lastly, decorate your cupcakes and enjoy!

I love spring! Everything is alive and green, and it's warm enough to get back to work!

We (I mean the hubs) tore down the old nasty pool!

We got a grill

And deck furniture (I built the table!)

New hot water heater

With the help of mom♥law the office got a fresh coat of paint

And clean carpet too!

We found out we have an azalea bush

Our Bradford Pears went from this...

To this!

Granger's Birthday Party

My little brother is 4!

Bryant connecting with his inner crafter

The Thomas the Train cake that Nonna and Aunt Kim made

Granger's mom having a little too much fun with the balloons!
I told her not to blow them up so big!
Maggie

Delaina chillaxin' in her chair

Blowing out the candles, Maggie is getting ready to help!

Birthday boy opening presents

Birthday boy having some more cake after the party was over

Big brother Bryant not too happy about the cake and five hot dogs he ate...