Thirty-Six Aprons

My Aunt Gail emailed this morning to let me know that a box was on its way. Thinking we had a few days we were super surprised when a large, heavy box arrived this afternoon. As I was chatting on the phone with my mom at the time of its arrival, and the girls had just headed out to play, we waited for a bit before opening it. 

We couldn't even begin to guess what was inside (it was HEAVY remember) but we all figured it was most likely doll related! Never in a million years would we have guessed that it was, in fact, thirty-six aprons! 

 January 

My apron matches the girls' aprons exactly. 

 February

 March

 April

This was, as you can imagine, an instant fave!

May

June

 July

 August 

I should have had Dave come in to take one of the three of us, as my apron is the same fabrics but the watermelons are the background with the flamingo fabric accenting it. So sweet! 

 September. 

Again, I should have had Dave come in to take a picture. Mine is very similar to theirs, though instead of a ruffle at the bottom it has the sweet fabric and ribbon on the top. I absolutely adore this apron! The fabric and the ribbon are very much us! 

 October

This one has me as a black cat. I'll be sure we get a picture of the three of us together wearing them next month. With dinner needing to be made before dance I decided to skip having a picture taken of the three of us and move on to the final few aprons in the box! 

 November

 December

These aprons make me think of my Grandma Ruth (my Aunt Gail's mom). I have no doubt she would have loved them all but most especially the Christmas ones. 

Birthday apron

Isn't the ladybug fabric darling?! 

Grace has said that she would wear that ladybug fabric as a skirt ("it's so cute with it's bow!")

Thank you Aunt Gail for the incredible surprise of these gorgeous aprons! They will absolutely be worn and cherished for years and years to come! xo 

Summer Crafting

 The summer box from Happy Hedgehog Post was full of so many absolutely incredible projects that I think it's safe to say that this one is our most favorite one yet! Normally, we get a monthly "envelope", thought it's really a package, full of all sorts of projects and the materials to complete them, but since Samantha (the creator of HHP) was nearing the end of her pregnancy she decided to do one summer bundle so that she could focus on her baby rather than the envelopes that needed to go out. What a smart mama (and what lucky customers we all are)!

 The first project the girls chose to do was wet felting soap. The most luscious smelling cucumber melon soap was included, as well as all the roving that would be needed. While we've needle felted before wet felting was new for us!

 Emma's completed soap (I forgot to get a picture of Grace's). It came out beautifully!

Since there is a pretty strict water ban in our town this summer we decided to forgo our usual vegetable garden. We're so sad to not have one this year, but we've all agreed it was the right choice. We were thrilled to see that there were materials in the summer box to grow a little window herb garden! It was the perfect way to still include that part of our summer rhythm but on a much smaller scale.

 A backyard bird list to check-off as they see each bird. It's like Happy Hedgehog Post knows us!

And as if this box couldn't get any better there were lots and lots of fairy house making materials! The girls divided it up and went out to scout out locations in which to build their fairy houses.

Our window herb garden today. The girls clearly chose the right place for this sweet garden to grow! It's clearly very happy in our bedroom window!

There are still a few more projects left to complete, too! I figured I'd hold on to them for a while longer so that we can have a few more things to do throughout the rest of the summer. We truly cannot thank Donna and Peter enough for this wonderful subscription to Happy Hedgehog Post! It has been such a treat and is so very looked forward to each month! xo

At The Library

Tuesdays for us is library day. Grace and one of her friends usually meet up for Book Club, and while the older girls are having their club meeting the younger ones hang at story time and for the craft afterward. Today our friends were unable to join us, but we still kept our usual Tuesday rhythm with Grace staying for both story and craft time. The girls love to craft and have always enjoyed the sweet projects at the library. Today's bird craft is one that they had done before but were excited to do again! The birds that they made years ago have since faded so it's lovely to have new ones to replace those with! 

Wordless Wednesday::Afternoon Crafting

Celebrating Solstice

Pancake suns began our Solstice Day.

And this fabulous mug from this fabulous wedding had to be used as well.

Then it was off to the salon.

The first day of summer (and a family celebration later today) calls for super cute toes, me thinks!

Then it was back home where we had lunch outside (on a gorgeous day like yesterday how could we not?) and to finish up the Solstice sun project they started before we left. 

Multi-sensory suns. 

While the suns dried the girls went and played. 

So much time was spent outside yesterday. It was glorious!

Later on we pulled out a gift they had been given at Christmas for even more crafting outside!

We found a place for these to dry, had dinner, and then headed to the first concert of the summer. 

Such a perfect way to end a lovely Solstice day!

8:35pm and still light out!

It was such a fun filled day spent almost entirely outside.There were a few things that I had planned to do that we didn't get to but we'll save them for next year. A trip to the beach and this sundial project being two of them. Our day just flowed totally differently than I had initially envisioned. Not that that's a bad thing, of course, just that it went in a different direction than I thought it would. All in all it was another glorious Solstice day! Welcome Summer!