Sunday School

I help out in the Pre-K Sunday School class at church. We have a great group of kids and they are always a barrel of fun. One of the young mother's loves to craft and has kindly volunteered to start crafting with us. We had our first new craft class on Sunday and it was a huge success. I was so busy running around helping with everything that I didn't think to get pictures, but fortunately the main teacher did so here is our little band of angels.

The lesson.....

Just chillin'

Playtime

Not sure how Cameron felt about having his race track mountain invaded by girls. 

The Shelby Gals. That is what everybody has started calling these two. It is Shelby Rayne and Shelby Kay and they have become BFF's. Both of their Daddy's are Mustang enthusiasts so both the girls were named after Carroll Shelby, the inventor of the Shelby Mustang. 

All boys love their cars. 

It was an awesome Sunday and we had a record crowd. We normally have 4-5 each Sunday and this past Sunday I think we ended up with 9. Can't wait to see what this coming Sunday brings. 

Monday, Monday

This is going to be a strange week with only working four days and the day off being in the middle of the week. But it will be a good way to spend over the hump day...by not working.

I had a friend stop by Friday who brought me this little antique tea cup.

I had a miniature tea set with the same color scheme that I was using on top of a chest in my office. 

So I put the cup in there with it. I like the look. I want to find some more of these wood cats to set around the house. 

My first watermelon. He's just a little feller right now but we have five on the vine so far. Very excited about it. 

Hubby's first little cherry tomato is ready to pick. He was getting ready to pick it and I yelled WAIT! He said why and I said "So I can take a picture and blog about it." I think I drive everybody crazy when I'm looking for blog material. 

We have three baby robins in the nest in the apple tree. They are getting their little fuzzy feathers and are so cute. The Mom is very protective of them and we give her wide berth until they are ready to fly the coop. I didn't take a picture of them because it was too hard to get them for the leaves and I sure wasn't going to climb the tree! 

We got new neighbors last week. Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause judging by their looks. Both have long white hair and the Mister has a full white beard. Every time we see them, they are dressed in red and white or green and white. We laughed and said Santa was moving in. Then a truck came the next day and unloaded 15 or 16 artificial Christmas trees and tons of other Christmas paraphernalia. We got a good laugh at that. But when they finally moved in and parked their car, it is a jeep (my hubby says for helping deliver toys in the snow.) On the back is one of those spare tires with a custom tire cover. It has their names on it and one of the names is.....are your ready for this...KRIS as in Kringle! Now, I am not sure what is going on, but I'm going to make sure I am a good girl from now on!

For those of you who are on Facebook and who love vintage kitchen items or vintage Pyrex, I have two groups you need to check out. I love these groups and the members are awesome. One is Vintage Kitchen Collection and the other one is Pyrex 4 Trade. 

Our weather is breaking records for the daily high. At 4:45 yesterday evening it was still 105 degrees with the "feels like" at 107. It was miserable. Not a tree was stirring or a blade of grass moving. It was oppressive. I could never live in the dessert. I can't take this heat. It was wonderful to wake up to the sound of rain this morning. It is supposed to cool down to about 95 today. 

Welcome, July

You just gotta love July. 

It is like one month long birthday celebration. Red, white and blue everywhere you look. The month of patriotism. America loves a good party. And we use July to celebrate in style. Family reunions, picnics, days at the lake, trips to the beach, camping, cookouts and grilling everywhere you look. 

Here are some neat red, white and blue things I have seen on the web.

I couldn't believe my eyes...

I got up early yesterday morning and headed out to see if the yard sale I visited Thursday would be open again. Remember the glasses I got Thursday at .50 cents each? The vintage peanut butter ones from the 50's?

Well, after seeing them hubby asked why I didn't buy more of them. Frankly, I wasn't sure what he would think about me buying any glasses because we have a cabinet full. But when he saw these and realized they were vintage, he sent me back to get some more and they were already closed up for the day. So I went back this morning and she was open and I was the 2nd customer. She still had the other 8 glasses. I wanted a set of 8 to go in an antique glass rack. So I picked out four more at .50 cents each. 

Then she said "Everything is 1/2 off the price today so you can have them for .25 each." YES! So I picked up the last four.

So now I have the entire set of 12, at a total cost of $4.00. I am beyond thrilled! I saw a set of 8 in a rack on E-bay for $149.99. So I would say I have good reason to be thrilled over $4.00.

I did stop by one other yard sale and found some more items that I liked. I got this little pillow to go on the front porch for the 4th.

A couple of cute dishcloths.

These two little thermal cups.

And this neat little vase with grapes on it. 

Not counting the glasses, my other items were just $2.00. Not bad for a quick run to a yard sale.