The Fighter's

Seems like just yesterday Ava was strapping on new shoes for her very first day of preschool! Today was her last day...school is out for summer! She was not so happy about the prospect of no school for the next 3 months (she actually got teary eyed - she loves school), but I explained to her that she would go back in the Fall and that we are going to do LOTS of fun things over the summer...swimming and art camp to name a few...and then her tears quickly turned into smiles. To end the year, her teachers hosted a cookout. The kids sang adorable songs, Doug reverted back to his 5 year old self on the teeter totter with the girls (and then tried to throw in some sort of engineering lesson by making Ava stand in the middle of the teeter totter to balance at the "fulcrum" - to which I yelled at him and took her off because I'm sure they probably have rules about kids standing up in the middle of the teeter totter), and the girls ran around the playground with some of Ava

Let me preface this post by saying I know I'm a dork...because I am now going to talk about how excited I am about pillows! Our family room needs some livening up. And...I don't want to spend a ton of money. So the girls and I went to the fabric store yesterday, got some cheap fabric, whipped out the $5 sewing machine my mother in law got me at a garage sale, and went to work as I watched American Idol. Whola! Here are my first two pillows ever. The green swirly one is completely brand new (stuffed with $1.50 polyester fuzz (I don't know its real name) from Hobby Lobby). The other pillow is a pillow cover, complete with zipper (I am so impressed with myself if you can't tell...hee, hee, hee. I think I need to get out more) and the inside is one of our old striped pillows that came with our couches 7 years ago. You would never know!! I have more pillows to make tomorrow...2 additional colors of fabric and a few more in the colors I made today. The pillows in this house