Sunshine in a Box

One of the ladies I go visiting teaching to has been having a not so fun summer.  I had seen this idea at the beginning of summer---somewhere---and the idea stuck with me. When I was at Wal-Mart today---I thought I really should do that and take it to her.
 It's Sunshine in a Box or a Box of Sunshine. I just bought things that I could see that were yellow---tied some yellow ribbon around some of them. I had this cute tin box that some scrapbook stuff came in and I thought it would be perfect. Just put all the sunshine in the box. I did put some yellow cardstock on front, made a yellow flower (with a pin on the back), a cute tag---and we're good to go. It would make me smile--so I hope she knows we're thinking about her. I'm going to try to make up some quick cards to put in the bottom of it.

4th of July shirt

Mom sewed up this cute shirt for Kenzie for the 4th of July. She used red shirt from our DI bag, cut into strips and then gathered it for the red stripes. It really was a quick, simple shirt to make.

Better Late than Never

Here is what I did to get ready to for summer this year.  We first enjoyed Melanie's graduation - which had to be held inside because it was SOOOO COLD!!  It also poured rain between the graduation and the all-night party.   So in 5 days after that I went to where it was already warm.  It was 45 degrees when we left Boise on June 1 and 58 degrees when we came back on June 7.  But it was a nice, sunny 95-100 degrees the days that we spent in San Antonio, TX!!  It was great and it helped me hang in there until summer really finally arrived in Idaho.

This is Sean and his best BMT buddy, Austin.  Wow don't they look handsome in their 'blues.' The picture below is the parade grounds where they did pass and review on Friday morning.  The flags were so cool looking. 

 After the graduation was over, we drove into San Antonio and had lunch at a restuarant on the Famous Riverwalk.  That was great and then we took the boat tour of the Riverwalk.  It is beautiful and our guide was a real entertainer.  Here are just a couple of the pics I took while we were on the boat.