Mmm Bop-The Second Happiest Day of Erin's Life!

Last Thursday was the 2nd happiest day of Erin's life...with the first being her wedding:) She had been wanting to win tickets to the Hanson Concert, but she didn't.  Her and Cody tended Addy for me that night while I was at work and when I went to pick her up I told Erin that I was sorry she wasn't able to go to the concert.  She jokingly said, "It isn't too late. Hanson probably hasn't started singing yet." I asked her if you could get discounted tickets if the concert had already started and she let me know that you don't actually have to go in to hear it. She had gone the previous year with a friend but they weren't old enough to go in because they serve alcohol.  So I said "ok lets go!" and so we did!  Do you remember Hanson?

 

Here we are outside the concert waiting and listening and waiting to meet Hanson.

 

Remember how I said I just got off work and this was a spontaneous thing...yeah..I came as I was...gross.

It was fun going with you Erin:) I tried to post videos from then and now, but I couldn't get it to work so if you are interested go check it out on you-tube:)

VACAY AND AISLE 17

Addy and I just spent 2 weekends in a row at my parents house. Some people questioned mine and Jason's relationship after that;) jk.  Sadly because of work, Jason wasn't able to come with us. The first weekend some other family members were going to go down, but thought maybe if they went the next weekend that more people would be able to go. I still decided I would go the first weekend, but then decided to ride down with family the next weekend too:)  Not to worry besides work and school and home projects, here is what Jason did while we were gone:

play and watch football

Eat Yucky..er..I mean delicious food:) He is the cook of our fam so if I am gone he doesn't just have cereal he makes foods that he enjoys that I would only eat to be nice:)

Watch guy movies

Note: Guy movies include: explosions, funny one liners and girls in bikinis

quote: "All the good stuff" unquote

While we were there we had a great time watching movies, shopping and crafting!  Here are some pics from the trips (plural)!

Trip 1: Addy playing with the toy kitchen!

Addy in the sunglasses Grandma bought her

Addy in Grandmas glasses

Trip 2: Grandma let Addy pick out what fingernail polish she wanted to keep! Thanks Mom! Addy is starting to get pretty good at doing this herself!

                                    Addy helped uncle Cody fix Grandpa and Grandmas car

Trip 2: Addy had the choice between a cars cookie and a Tangled cookie.  It was so cute and the cars on the cookie are also rings.

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While I was there my mom and I decided to make these twine balls

Here is how hers turned out

Here are how mine turned out (Suzy here is what I did with the vase you gave me..thanks!)

Here is how we made them:

We went to the dollar store to find twine and foam balls, but they had neither!! BUT they did have these that we thought would work.

One item down to buy and one to go..so we searched and searched for twine...well we found twine but not the hairy kind that we were looking for...so finally we found it on aisle 17 at Lowes:)  So if you need some go to that aisle.  I'm pretty sure it's the same aisle at all Lowes because when I needed some more because we both were making a set it was on the same aisle at a different lowes! Of course they were out of it, but I found some at Home Depot (didn't take note of the aisle) he he.  

You can do different designs if you want or the same.  As you saw on my Moms there were two different kinds and mine are the same design but painted. You can really do what you want as long as you cover the ball in twine you are all set!

If you are interested in making a set here is what you need:

Some type of ball to cover whether it be foam or other

Hot glue and glue gun (glue the twine as you go)

Twine

paint and a paint brush if you wish to paint it

It was so fun and saved a lot of money! Here is the price break down for us both to do it.

We both got 6 balls each

Balls pk of 4 x3 =$3.00

Twine x2=under $5.00

Glue gun and glue= already had

paint=already had

Vases= already had you could also put it in a fun bowl or something

So for both of us to make them it cost about $8.00! for 12 twine balls!

We had a fun time!

Thanks for letting us come Dad and Mom! Twice!