Garage Sales + Strawberry picking = GREAT Saturday

So...I have been extremely jonesing for garage sales this summer! Savannah is doing soccer and the games are Saturday mornings @ 9am. Being a good mommy I want to be there and support her but this is putting a serious damper on my bargain hunting season! ;) Today soccer was cancelled due to rain...so went out & hit up a few neighborhood sales! Not as productive as usual garage saleing since I was unprepared and spur of the moment but managed to get some goodies!

Beautiful platter for 50cents!

Amazing antique hanging planter for $1!

Awesome gold chunky frame for 10cents!

Later this afternoon, the rain had stopped and the sun came out so we went to Tre-G farms in Manlius and picked strawberries..the crops are ready EARLY this year so we took advantage..STEAMY afternoon to pick berries but my plan is to make strawberry jam for Savannah to hand out as "thank yous" to all her teachers @ school! Never made jam before in my life but found a super easy recipe for freezer jam from one of my FAV blogs http://thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com/search/label/I%20am%20cooking%3F So I am gonna try it out!

I am ordering some super cute personalized labels from a website I just found when I googled canning labels, this lady is SOOO super nice and can do anything you can dream up!!!! http://www.labelcreations.com/ & I plan to get fabric and ribbon and all the vintage cuteness goodies tomorrow to put these gifts together! I will post a pic of our completed projects before we take them to school next Friday, wish me luck!! :)

Memorial Day 2010!!

I know Memorial Day has come and gone.....but with a house full of guests I didn't manage to get a lot of computer time!!! My mom brought my 3 nieces and 1 nephew from AZ to spend the holiday weekend! Such an amazing week spending time with those kiddos, its been WAY too long since we have not made it back to AZ for a visit since Spring of 2009!

So fun to see all the cousins together and getting to spend some great quality time with them. I have such an amazing family, these kids are all fantastic and I love them so much!!! My 3 beautiful nieces teaching Auntie Nichole how to text, watching those crazy girls be silly together and seeing Kellen & Savannah hit if off so well and have so much fun playing together!!! The time went by way too fast and I am already looking forward to our next visit with them!

Vote for Emmie!!

Soo..on a whim I entered Emmie's picture into a contest Parents magazine was running....well she was selected as one of the finalists!?!?! WOWEE!!!! So, here is the link:

http://photos.parents.com/category/vote/photo/298083

Please go and vote for her..you can vote once a day thru 5/30!!! :)

You Scream, I Scream...we all SCREAM for Icecream!!!!

Our first trip of the season to Drift Inn......no better way to celebrate this amazing weather we are having than a trip to the Drift Inn to have soft-serve icecream cones with rainbow sprinkles.....2 SUPER happy girls tonight and a happy mom and dad watching them enjoy the treat!!!

Curb shopping!

gotta love it.....driving down the road....scanning the curbs just on the chance someone put out their "junk" a.k.a: "fantastic freebie"! :)




On the way home this morning and found this beauty in Manlius.....just waiting for me to pick it up! Now....I have no plan for it but need to find somewhere to hide it before Dave finds it! Wish me luck! Oh yea, cannot forget the best part....as I am cramming it in the backseat in Savannah's car seat since the back was full of groceries, Emmie says to me "oohhh, pwetty table momma!" now thats my girl! ;)

R.I.P Molly

A little piece of my heart broke yesterday, its actually been breaking a little all week. Molly, one of our dogs passed away yesterday afternoon. She was our first "baby", we got her before we were married, had her for 10 years and it just wasn't long enough. Pitbulls have such a bad reputation but she proved everyone wrong! She was the best dog I have ever known, truly amazing and so good with our girls. She will be missed for a long time to come. Poor Savannah is having a really hard time and Heidi, our other dog is so lonely its sad. Here are some memories of Molly girl.

Kindergarten Kick-About!!

This morning was the 1st game for Savannah's kindergarten kick-about soccer team. It was cold, rainy & windy so not a great way to start off the day but oh well! They are the "yellow" team & she is #1! Not because of her talent but because the smaller the number the smaller the size of shirts! lol

Given that she knows nothing about soccer and they only had 1 30 minute practice earlier this week, I was not quite sure what we were in for...but given that they are all kindergartners or going into kindergarten this Fall & most have never had anything to do with a soccer ball I wasn't too worried! :) They did GREAT and her team WON!!!! She had a great time and played quite a bit, whenever she was sitting out and the coaches asked if she wanted to go back in she said YES and was excited so I was thrilled!