Photo Challenge Days 19-25

I suck at posting these daily. Check out Motherhood{honestly} for more frequent pictures. And to see the awesome photos other people are taking.

DIY. Lois Lane made these for me as a birthday gift about 3 years ago.

After Hours. Tim the Toolman adds wood to the campfire.

Morning Routine.

Hands

Majes Me Sad.

In Your Bag. Yep, I keep books in my purse. The Outlander series is AMAZING. The first boom is called Outlander ( go figure). Read it.

Movement

To My Left. Photo Challenge Day 12

This cute thing is almost always sitting on my left side. Honestly. Even if it means she has to sit on the arm of the couch, she prefers my left side. Don't know why. Also, she hate when I take her picture while she is eating. In this case, it's a frozen strawberry banana Go-Gurt.

Something I Hate

Don't get me wrong I have some wonderful childhood memories involving the ice cream man. It was always super special when mom gave me money to buy ice cream. But the ice cream man where I live now, lives right across the street. That means at least twice a day my kids hear that music and start begging, sometimes 3 or 4 if he has to restock.

Photo challenge Days 9 and 10

Drives Me Crazy

Compute. This is my figuring out how many 2x4s I need to build a picnic table. 

Sleep

Motherhood{honestly} photo challenge day 8. Sleep.

Furry Face

Day 7 of the Motherhood{honestly} photo challenge is furry face. This is a great time to introduce you all to the new member of our family. He was born late last summer and came to live with us in mid fall. His name is Jasper and just like my kids I love him but sometimes I just want him to go away.

Johnny Turns 7

My first baby turned 7 at 6:42 this morning. I wasn't as upset as I thought I'd be.  Although I did tell my mom, or maybe it was my bestie to shut up when they pointed it out as I lit candles on his cake this afternoon. Today was also his last day of 1st grade. They grow up so darn fast.

Johnny wanted a Seattle Seahawks birthday party this year. Seeing as how they are the Superbowl Champions and I grew up in Seattle and they are the closest NFL team to our location and that we are just huge Seahawks fans anyways (even when they sucked), I said ok. The theme went as far as his invitations and the shirt he chose to wear today. Although I did make a football field cake.

Johnnhy talked me into inviting all the boys in his class over after school. Thank goodness only 5 of them were able to come. But I learned something. Seven year old boys in a group will entertain themselves. Also, if you ask if they are hungry, they will say no, but if you tell them you have pizza, they will run you over. And 6 first and second graders can drink a gallon and a half of Kool Aid in less than an hour.

Tomorrow we will have a family BBQ for the aunts and uncles and close family friends (read my bestie and her three kids who weren't invited to all boys party). Since it will be a Saturday, I will be writing another installment of "Saturdays in Redneckville" Sunday afternoon or Monday Monring (smart money is on Monday after the company and the hangovers are gone).

If you don't want to see a bunch of pictures of my son's party, stop here and come back later, otherwise, here are a bunch of pictures of my son and 5 little boys whose faces you can't see. Oh, and a close up of the letter T on Johnny's birthday cake for the Motherhood{honestly} June Photo Challange.

Lily doesn't know it's already busted and completely empty.

One Year Later

I cannot believe it has been just over a year since I last posted. There are a couple of reasons for that. My husband will tell you I pick up hobbies for about a year and then I drop those hobbies and come back to them later. That is only part of what happened. Shortly after my last post, I started DBT therapy for my BPD. (More on that later.) I have also gained a best friend, seen my first born through 1st grade, and gotten marginally better on this housework thing.

I decided a couple months ago I needed to start writing again. But, as usual, life got busy and between turning 29 , enjoying the Sun, and planning my son's 7th birthday party, I just never sat down to do it.

So, I'm coming back, and to make it easy on myself, my first month I am participating in a daily photo challenge over at Motherhood {honestly}. Jamie is pretty awesome. And she lives in North Idaho, so that's a plus. And while she's a little bit liberal for me sometimes, what is the world without diversity? So you should definitely check her out, and see what everyone else is posting for their pictures.

Here is the daily challenge list

and here are my first 5 photos:

Summer Selfie

Favorite

Something Green

Present

Organized