My Little Entrepreneurs

Landon really wanted to have a lemonade stand last summer. I promised him we would....and I failed. We ended up moving and it took up pretty much all of our summer. So, this year I couldn't let him down again.

We had my neice Savanna come and join Landon, Mackenzee, and my nephew Talon so they could all share in the work.....and in the profits. :0) They had so much fun making their poster for the corner by our house. It was supposed to direct traffic our way as we live off in a little culdesac and don't get much traffic. It didn't do much...but that's ok. We have awesome neighbors who happened to be thirsty at the same time our table went up.

We had both regular lemonade AND pink lemonade...because Kenzee wanted to make sure there was something pink there for the girls. And actually, the pink lemonade is what everyone wanted! She's one smart girl! And our neighbors....such good people...actually paid MORE for their glasses of juice...just to be nice. One guy gave them $1.50 for his. The kids were SO excited! And honestly...it was a great way to meet some of my neighbors I hadn't met yet.

The older three kids each ended up making $2.20 each! Kenzee was contect with a handful of pennies. :0) They begged me to take them to the dollar store tomorrow so they could spend their earnings. Heaven forbid they save it! It might burn a hole in their pocket! :0)

All in all, it was a fun little adventure for us. I told Landon we could set it up again when we had our yard sale in a couple of weeks. He'll rake in the quarters then! :0)

Just Mackenzee...

I've talked a lot to people before about how much my daughter LOVES to wear dresses......and then get dirty. She doesn't really fit into the "girly" category...but she's not 100% tomboy either. She just......

Mackenzee.

Future Father

That's what Landon told me yesterday in the car. "I'm almost a dad though!"

I think his definition of "almost" is quite different from mine.....

Happy Belated Fathers Day!

One of the perks of living so close to both families is that we are able to see everyone on holidays. Most of you know how important family is to me, and I want to pass that on to my kids.

Anyway...Sunday afternoon we went out to Jerome to visit Grandpa Burnham and wish him a happy Father's Day.

And then that night we went to Grandpa Casperson's house to visit with my family and see my dad. I'm a bad daughter and amidst the hubbub at my Gramps' house I forgot to nab a picture of my kids with their Papa. I think this is the first year in a long time that I won't have one. :0( I did get one of him and Mackenzee on Saturday night as he opened our gift to him....but it's just not the same.

Anyway....happy belated Father's Day to everyone! I hope you felt loved and appreciated! To our fathers....we do! Thanks for all you do! To my Jaysen....I think I've already gone on and on enough about him lately on my blog. But, I love you like a crazy and appreciate having you for the father of my kids. :0) You are a great example of love for them. Thanks so much!

Mackenzee

Just wanted to remind you how cute my baby is....as if you needed reminding.

Father's Day Weekend

I know, I know...I'm a little later than usual getting this post up. It's finals week, yet again...so I am busy as a little bee trying to get my work done. Sigh. In fact, I should be finishing up one of my papers now instead of posting this. But, if I don't get it up now, it may never happen. :0) And, since this blog will go down in history {once I get it transferred to a book} I need to make sure that I keep up.

On Saturday morning we went over to my mom's house to visit as my sister, Melanie, came to visit for the holiday. My kids have been dying to see their cousins. Dear Shelby humored my Mackenzee and read her story after story. This is one of Mackenzee's favorite things to do now. All of the books on the bookshelf in the playroom end up on the floor as she "reads" through each of them telling her own little stories based on the pictures. It's awesome.
As it was Father's Day weekend....golfing was on the brain {also because the US Open was on}. Jaysen bought a package of spongey like golf balls so that he and my dad and Stephen could play a little "yard" golf. They set up fake holes around the house and played 9 holes.

I set up the slip and slide for the kids and they had a grand time racing each other to the end.

Kenzee just loved following Savanna around and had to do whatever Savanna did. She just idolizes her cousin.

That afternoon we took the kids to see 'Kung Fu Panda'. It was such a cute movie. Of course, afterwards the boys only wanted to play Kung Fu and sing 'Kung Fu Fighting'...but what can you do?

And to end the night....we helped Papa plant his Father's Day present. I won't go into details...but big trees are heavy. Just so you know. But, we did it! And now my dad has his big oak tree in the yard. Though...we tied a blue ribbon around it...not a yellow one. :0)

Getting my scrap ON!

On Friday morning I ran away to my mom's house for a three day scrap-a-thon with her and my sisters. No kids....no hubbies...just girls, scrapping, gabbing, and food.

Here's me and my sisters and my mommy. In order...me, my mom, my OLDER sister {in green}, my younger sister, and my sis-in-law.
We all had a fabulous time scrapbooking and chatting and eating naughty food. It was great! I got 21 pages done! Are you impressed? Sadly, this doesn't even come close to putting a dent in my pictures to scrap...but alas, such is the life of a scrapper. :0)

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