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summertime

Summer has not always been my favorite season.  Maybe it was the summer basketball camp and outdoor games that made me mad at the heat.  It could also be the fact that my family did not have air conditioning.  It could also be that I am really pale and burn easily and sunless tanners were not perfected in my teenage days.  But now that I am a mom, I have central air and sunless tanning lotion, I love the summer!  I have even enjoyed this summer being extremly pregnant.  I love going to the beach or the pool.  I love not having a regular schedule.  I love having the kids stay up late and sleep in.  I love that it stays light outside until 9:00.  I love eating lots of ice cream (that might be because I am pregnant – but the boys are taking advantage of it).  I love visiting with family.  I love baseball and fireworks and parades… there are too many things to list!

I saw this idea on a few blogs and decided to make a summer bucket list for our family.  It has been really fun crossing out the things on our list and looking forward to the activities to come.  Jackson who is six loves to read all of the items… he keeps waiting for us to make slime.

graduation

This post is a little late. I have been on vacation and finishing  a few projects, but better late than never…  I designed these graduation announcements for Steven who is graduating from the High School in the community where we used to live.  His mom Peggy is a friend of ours and she shot the photographs behind the church where my husband was the pastor.  She did a fabulous job taking the photographs (it helps that Steven is a handsome kid) and I love the golden colors in the background.  I remember the graduation announcements that I had in high school were really expensive and foiled and embossed and not my style at all.  It is great that teens have more options today for how they announce their graduation.  I designed two options and they decided on this first one.