A Peacefull Friday Evening Spent with Oreos

Jeff took a lot of the kids to the Morristown Dam Days parade this evening. I opted to stay home and have a little down time. I did not get much done but I did enjoy chatting with some of the kids who stayed behind. I also enjoyed a little special snack. I have not dunked Oreos in milk for years!

I have this wonderfully adorable mushroom fabric for sale in my Dragonfrye Supplies Etsy shop so I thought I would make a few things out of it this evening. I made an A-line dress and a bag. It is kind of like fabric shopping for free.

I thought my photos turned out very well so I will show you all of them!

Lucky day for you!!

Here is the dress.

And here is the bag.

Fun stuff!!

Enjoy your Saturday!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

A Wednesday

I thought doing some of the homeschooling outside would be nice.

More accurately, I just corrected their daily work outside today.

It is a very nice day out!!

No mosquitoes yet.

I finished two more little outfits today.

This little top and diaper cover is my favorite of my creations.

Did you notice the neat old chalkboard as my photo prop? Here is the story behind that little gem. This afternoon Josiah had an appointment in town. Lily and I walked him to his appointment. After the Josiah's appointment he ran on home but Lily and I made a visit to the coffee shop in town. The antique store close to the coffee shop is going out of business so Lily and I took a peek around to see what they had left. I got the chalkboard for $10.00! A reasonable price in my mind. I had seen the chalkboard there before and really wanted to buy it but at that time it was way too expensive. I bought it and Lily and I carried it home. I am VERY pleased!! Jeff bought Lily some chalk so she could draw on it. Pretty cool!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

♪♪♪ Because I'm Happy ♪♪♪

♪♪♪ Clap Along ♪♪♪

♪♪♪♪ if you feel like that's what you want to do ♪♪♪♪

♪♪♪ Because I'm Happy ♪♪♪

Guess what song I just put on my IPod?

And guess what I finished up this weekend?

♪♪♪ Clap Along ♪♪♪

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Another Pleasant Sunday

A fire pit.

Some hot dogs and onions.

A small tailgate party.

A small hotdog burglar.

Ok.

Truth.

The tailgate picture was a total set up.

It was a cleverly inspired photo by me.

I had two who were good sports about it.

Most of the kids ate around the fire pit.

The neighbors must think we are very odd.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Lazy Friday

I like lazy Fridays, don't you?

Joel's elaborate car road

Josh and I set out to build a new guinea pig cage for as little cost as possible and here is what we came up with.

It looks more like a guinea pig crib but they seem to enjoy it and we made do mostly with what we had around the house.

We are proud of our efforts.

Grizzly in the tree (again)

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Another Normal Day In Pictures!

It has been pretty nice out this week.

I thought I would just wander around the house today snapping pictures of 'my day'.

Today is a normal day.

Nothing special, just run-of-the-mill stuff.

Here is what run-of-the-mill looks like over here.

You know...

Just in case you woke up this morning with the though, "I wonder what run-of-the-mill looks like over at the Frye house?".

Ha! Here you go!!

Our typical daily dining room table.

FYI: Not much in the way of dining goes on at the table.

The school books, bags, balls, and other kid generated items are usually gone by the end of the school day, but if I would just move my sewing, I think dining could actually happen at the table.

An abandoned butterfly net/dance scarf baton-ish thing.

Evidence of our daily family Bible time

Our usual Thursday night meal.

Crock pot beans with chips, cheese, and salsa. I split the chips up this time to hide the evidence that I ate half the bag of the Frito's.

Darn you Frito's for being so tasty!!!

An abandoned sweatshirt by the driveway

Bikes

More bikes

and one lonely bike that was not put away.

Josiah, Joyce, and a friend taking a walk.

Yes, I might be labeled by some as that creepy, picture taking, stalker mom. Now, I will argue that it is actually not creepy and stalker-ish if I take the picture from our yard and do not switch to my long range camera lens. Wink.

Finally, our lone tulip shows it's pretty face.

Loki guarding the front porch.

There you have it.

An average run-of-the-mill day at the Frye house!

P.S. Not pictured:

A track meet that I could not attend.I heard Cyrus and Odell did great, though!

One bleeding bike wound

The unclogging of a bathroom sink

A few unhappy bedroom door slams

The washing and drying of about six loads of laundry

Water flooding the laundry room floor

One sibling helping the other sibling put self tanning lotion on

A pretty big Pill Bug

The release of a pet turtle

The capture of snails

Yes, very run-of-the-mill over here.

Hoping for another one tomorrow!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Like All Other Wednesdays?

Some homemade French fries.

Yummy!!

Grizzly being Grizzly

A late afternoon picnic ready for two special guests

And here they are!

Enjoy, my cute Guinea Pigs!!

Umm...my guests apparently are trying to escape so Loki encourages them to go back and enjoy the feast or they will be the feast

To which they oblige...

Now,let's see how the baby kitties are doing?

Yep.

Still cute.

Very adorable.

Heart melting.

Almost done!

Another finished dress

And Lastly, we have a cat in a hat as Lily delightfully showed me.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy