{The Easiest Homemade Ice Cream Recipe // Just 2 Ingredients!}
Sunday, July 19, 2015
{Summertime bucket-list // update}
Friday, July 17, 2015
I can't believe how fast summer is flying by! I should have known, though, because Mase starts Kindergarten {wahhhh} in August. I am trying to milk every last second of these sweet summer days with him. We are steadily knocking things off of our spring/summer bucketlist. I started this back in the spring...but spring-time in Texas is so short that I extended it to summer-time as well.
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These are pretty much a fail...
Still left to do...
+ grill out dates at home
+ pick up food and have a park date/picnic on a Friday night
+ have suppers on the patio
+ go on hikes and long walks
+ go to the drive in movies
+ take a different class at the gym
+ play with sidewalk chalk
+ play in the rain
+ take Summer pictures
+ knock some things off our Texas bucketlist
+ go to Ranger games
+ clean out our garage
+ major Spring cleaning and purging {aka Mason's room}
Do you have a summer-time bucketlist? How's it coming along?
{#31PHOTOSINBETWEEN // Part 1}
Thursday, July 16, 2015
This month I am joining in with Helene's Instagram Challenge #31photosinbetween. There are so many of these challenges floating around, but I really liked Helene's prompts. And her feed is always so gorgeous, too! I missed a few days around the 4th of July because we were camping with no signal. Boo. Anyhow, here are my photos from the first 15 days.
1.) Cool, calm & creative
2.) Up, Up, and Away - missed due to camping
3.) How I see It - missed due to camping
4.) Let Freedom Ring
5.) #HowISummer
6.) The Furry Folk
7.) The Time is Now
8.) Some Like It Hot
9.) #PrettyLittleThings
10.) My Kind of Night
11.) Oh Thank Heaven
12.) Cozy
13.) Monday Motivation
14.) What I'm Reading
15.) #ThatsDarling
I also want to mention that Betsy has created the hashtag #ItsABeautifulSummer and there are so many beautiful photos under that tag.
Are you following any IG challenges this month? Any other tags I should be following?
{It's the Little Things // laying in the driveway}
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
I posted this on Instagram yesterday and knew it was something I wanted to also post here on the blog. It's just one of those little things I love and want to remember always. One Spring day Mason and I were hanging out outside while Nathan was mowing and doing yardwork. I laid down on the driveway and Mason came up beside me and giggled and said "what are you doing Mama?" I told him I was just laying on the warm pavement and looking up to the clouds. He put his bike up and came and snuggled up beside me. We laid there and talked about everything under the sun {literally!} for what felt like an hour or more. It has since become our thing. Mason will randomly ask me, "Can we go lay in the driveway Mama." And I happily oblige every time! It's just our thing.
{You're the reason God made Oklahoma}
Monday, July 13, 2015
This past Sunday we traveled to Oklahoma to visit Nathan's side of the family. His Grandfather had surgery a couple of weeks ago and we wanted to go visit with him and to see how he was doing. He beat us to the front door ready to pass out hugs!! We were so happy to see him up and around and doing so well.
We had a wonderful visit! And Mason was on his very best behavior and was so sweet to his Great Grandparents. He cuddled on the couch with his Great-Grandpa for hours! It makes my heart so happy that Mason is able to visit with his Great Grandparents and to have a relationship with them.
As I was sitting there soaking up the family time I couldn't help but think about how much simpler life is there. No computers, no smartphones {although MeMaw does have an iPad, but she doesn't use it much}, no social media 24/7, no hustle & bustle...it's just simpler. People actually pick up the phone and call one another or they stop by to visit face to face. The town has history and everyone knows everyone. I loved to sit there and listen to Papa Johnny's stories and to hear him talk about calling an 'old friend' to reminisce. How cool is that? And just the simplest of things made me smile from the inside out...like hearing that he has a pecan tree in his front yard that is over 82 years old...or that he helped with a cattle drive {getting cattle out of the Red River bottoms}...How many can say that?
How was your weekend?
{Sunflowers in Texas}
Thursday, July 9, 2015
When we first moved out to the country {8 years ago} I remember being intrigued & in love with all of the sunflower fields out here. Coming from the city this wasn't something that we saw everyday. But, as the years went on it seemed like they were fewer and farther between. Well, this year they were back and they were beautiful! I was quickly reminded of how much I just love these things. I could drive around for hours just looking at {and taking pictures of} all of the sunflower fields. We also have wheat and cotton fields out here, but they're just not as pretty.
Then, a couple of weeks ago my brother in law asked me to take some pictures of him & his girlfriend in the sunflowers and I was so excited! I just love how beautiful they are.
They say everything is bigger in Texas....and I think that's true with the Sunflowers this year!!
Are Sunflowers common where you live?
{My Canton First Monday Marketplace finds}
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
In yesterday's post about our fourth of July weekend I mentioned Canton and how I found some good stuff there. Well, today I am here to share my finds. Each Canton trip is such an adventure...you never know what you're going to find. And it's gotten so much better since Pinterest came around! You know...all those projects you pin, but never make? The ones you'd happily pay someone else to make? You can definitely find those at Canton. Those wreaths I made? That chicken wire photo frame? There was a plethora of them at Canton.
Anyhow...here are some of my Canton finds...
The metal "H" and the metal Texas are going on our gallery wall. I also got a metal arrow and a wood cutout that says "HOME" and has a Texas cutout as well. I think I'm going to paint it royal blue.
A Mason jar because I am obsessed. It now resides with two other "perfect mason" jars I have on my windowsill above my kitchen sink.
The turquoise eggs. I love all things turquoise and these eggs were just precious. I already had some eggs in this basket...but they were tiny and definitely weren't this cute.
A metal H that lights up! I have been wanting a piece like this forever. I'm still on the lookout for a light up star...let me know if you see one somewhere! :) And this is what it looks like at night all lit up...
A new flag for my little flag-pole. The front has a letter H {starting to see a theme here? give me all the letter 'H' things. ha} and the back says welcome. I needed a little more red for our porch as it was leaning mostly towards turquoise.
And a big Texas wall decor made out of old barnwood. We haven't decided if we're going to 1.) leave as is, 2.) paint it, or 3.) paint a star over where we live in Texas. Taking votes.
And not pictured...I also got 2 pairs of earrings, 2 headbands, a necklace, a bracelet, a pair of Texas earrings for my brother in law's girlfriend, and a few other things.
Have you been to Canton? or do you have something similar where you live?
{Our fourth of July weekend // camping at Mill Creek Resort}
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
What an amazing weekend we had! I think with each passing year I love the Fourth of July more and more. The festivities, the patriotism, all of the red, white & blue, the bbqs, the fellowship, fireworks, ALL of it. It's almost becoming a tradition for us to camp at Mill Creek Ranch Resort in Canton for the 4th weekend. I saw in my timehop app that we started coming here over 6 years ago! We stay in Nate's parents camper, but you can rent cabins there too. It's such a nice resort and they have different activities spread out throughout the weekend. So incredibly fun!
And the best part? It's right down the street from Canton First Monday. What is Canton First Monday? Oh...it's AMAZING! It's a humongous flea market that comes to the town of Canton, TX the weekend before the first Monday of the month. They have all kinds of goodness...home decor, furniture, rustic metal pieces, wood cutouts of anything and everything, metal yard art, crafting supplies, trendy boutique style clothes, purses, shoes and jewelry, anything & everything! It's such a fun place to shop. So much of the things in our house are from Canton. I will show all of my finds from this weekend soon. :)
Nathan, Mason and I went down on Thursday after work. The majority of our group was already there. We hung out for a bit until everyone reached the point of starvation and then we headed to Jalepeno Tree for supper. We came back to our campsites and hung out a little more before calling it a night.
Friday morning the ladies got up and ready for Canton while the boys stayed back to swim, paddle boat and fish. Once we got to Canton we split into a couple of groups because some wanted to visit the arbors and others wanted to go to the junk/antiques outside! I was in a small group with one of my girlfriends and we found some amazing stuff! We couldn't believe how non-crowded it was and there was also a nice breeze. It was a perfect day for Canton! We all met back up a couple of hours later and shopped a bit more before leaving to grab lunch. Then we went back to the campsites and a group of us went to the pool! Nate swam with Mason and our friend's 4 year old while April and I sat on the side with our feet in the water taking pictures. The only way we could get Mason out of the pool was by bribing him with the Rt Beer floats they were making at the lodge! But as soon as he got it he wanted right back in the pool. Ha! That evening some of us went up to the Grand Lodge for some live Texas Country Music. Matt Bradshaw was playing an acoustic gig and he was pretty good!
Saturday we got up and hit Canton once again! There were a few things we wanted to go back for. That always happens to us! We decide against something when we're there...go home and sleep on it and decide we really wanted it! ha. We didn't stay long because the heat was brutal. But, there was still no one there. We were shocked. We've been there in July when you're basically shoulder to shoulder with everyone. And since it was so hot we came back for a swim. This time the whole family plus some were in the pool! Mason was a little fish! He did so great in the pool all weekend and swam all over the place. We kept floaties on him because the majority of the pool was deep and there were other wild kids in the pool! Better to be safe! But, we were so happy with the results of his swim lessons! He was jumping in, going under water, holding his breath under water for a good amount of time, etc. I will definitely recommend our swim instructor to anyone!!! She's amazing. Mason joined in the bike parade at 2:30, but was having issues with his bike so he didn't get to finish the parade route. {we later had to take this bike back because the pedals were messed up}, but he had fun! And then later we went back to the pool/lodge for s'mores. YUM! But, it sure was hot at the firepit and with the Texas heat! We got one and booked it. ha. That evening we cooked burgers & hotdogs and then let the kids play with sparklers and other smaller fireworks. Then we watched the big firework show from town! It was a good night. Sunday was coming home day. Womp. womp.
#merica
How was your holiday weekend?
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