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Hi Friends, I thought I'd write an update on our landscape and sports court.   The company we ordered the court from is running a MONTH behind (we ordered it in March!!) so it's been a bit frustrating but it "should" be here next week.  /-: As much as I know a lot about interior design, I will honestly tell you landscape design is new to me! The next step in our landscape is picking out the ground cover we want to use whether it be bark chips, rocks, pebbles, gravel, slate, shale or weeds ;-) .....OH the choices!   Really, I just can't wait to get some landscape help dealing with all the WEEDS! :-) Landscape fabric will be plentiful under whatever choice of covering I use! For our landscape, I'm thinking on some sort of slate chip - I believe in the industry this kind of landscape rock is called " Woodstone ".   As much as I LOVE the natural look of bark, it is something that needs to be replaced every fe...

Happy Friday! This post is for all my wonderful frugal baking moms (or dads) that dislikes spending lots of money on  birthday cakes from the store. :-)  This is an EASY, non fondant birthday cake idea.  PRESENT and BOW cake! My youngest daughter's birthday was yesterday. :-)  She had a blast jumping for HOURS at a bounce house with her friends.   Last year, I was caught off guard by how fast her birthday came up that I didn't bake her a cake but spent nearly $40.00 on a dumb :-)  unicorn cake from the store.  I told myself I was NEVER going to buy a store bought cake again.     Last years expensive store bought cake. /-: I am happy to say, that I like this cake a lot better AND it cost me under 10 bucks! The funny thing is, I let my daughter look on Pinterest with me in attempt to find the perfect birthday cake idea.  When we came to this one, I said, "HEY, what do yo...

I hope you all had a great Father's Day weekend.  I thought I'd do a quick mid week post on how our Father's Day weekend camping trip went. It was drizzling rain most the time but when you have 5 silly kids (2 belonged to the friends we went with) a tennis racket/ball and 2 dogs how can you NOT have tons of fun? :-) OH, and the most gorgeous location ever! Seriously, this was a FREE camping spot located on forestry property.  Of course, being that it was a area just off the side of the road we had to "dry" camp which means there are NO bathrooms/showers etc.  For those that have read my blog for a while, you know that if I can catch and stab a crab while it's still alive I can handle not taking a shower for a few days - hee,hee. Since it was drizzly most the days, we had a big warm fire from morning till night - I loved that!  The fire pit was huge! In the picture below, I am proud to say my daughter was officially th...

I haven't written a Fess Up Friday post on my blog for a very long time....... I believe it is very long overdue. :-) For those that are new to my blog, please do not let this scare you away - hee,hee  I promise to be back to my regular design posts soon. :-) I'll start off with a quote of the day from my youngest daughter, and yes, she wears those classy pink goggles for many daily activities. “Sometimes I think with my head, and sometimes with my feet. Good things are in my head and bad things are in my feet...... I try to think from my head.”  :-)                                                                    Before I start all my fess ups - I need to remind you that I live in a town where people find it normal to put large concrete Godzilla apes in their front ya...

Hi Friends! Summer has officially hit!  Well, not officially, as I believe June 21st is the official day but it's been hot and feels quite summery over here in Idaho. Oh, and today is the last day of school for my kids! I'm actually thrilled for the school commute to be over with. :-)  Three kids in three different schools.....driving them to and from has been challenging! The sports court is coming right along......we got a few more trees planted. :-) I told our landscape friend that I have always wanted fruit trees in my yard.  Growing up we had this odd, lonely plum tree that I had SO much fun eating from.  (yes, it is the little things in life that make me happy!) Well our friend just informed me that he had a nice big plum tree to plant.  We have a lot of deer though so he had to completely net the yummy tree.  ;-) I hope is now, MY kids can have the great memories of picking fresh fruit off OUR trees!  I'm aiming to h...