Sweet July highlights

My bff B came down for a visit it was awesome! We went all over Colorado it was so much fun to see her. I was inspired by B after her visit to get myself a grandy bike and ride at least 70 miles of the Colorado trails. Things I would say to do in Colorado because we did and enjoyed them:

Cog rail at least once

hiking Mt Evans

Baujo's Pizza is classic

Platte River trail

After B left we moved, down the street. Pretty fun... we now have a garage! My big sista and niece Thunderstar came down from Vegas to visit. We had an amazing time with them didn't hike at all like with B.

Awesome things we did:

Banjo Bill's Bus Ride

Smash Burger

Phoenix gold mine

Drive Mt Evan's in a cloud quote from Thunderstar "there's no service in heaven"

Dye hair wild colors with manic panic while watching Mr Bean's Holiday

Tiny Town

DAM

Waterworld with King of the Cabana (oh yeah)

Molly Brown's House

Mt Rushmore again the black hills have not changed

Almost got hit by a herd of Buffalo

Hammond's Candy Factory behind the scenes tour, we got to make lollipops and candycanes while looking like caferteria ladies in hair nets. The workers laughed at my cobra shaped lollipops.

All in all hanging with B, big sista, and thunderstar was awesome! We wish they lived closer. But B we will see you in Pangea, Papua New Guinea, Phillipines or Paris. We are headed to Paris next year so join us. Got to freshen up my French first though.

Garage Sale REI style

So, we went to REI for their garage sale... it was awesome... if you to take the time and see if a used $399 Base Camp 6 tent has all the pieces and functions well. Mr. Incredible was behind the store setting it up and checking in 97 degree weather, while Peanut ran around and I chased after him. Mr. Incredible clearly knew what he was doing and people thought he was a worker and were asking him if that tent was taken. After all that work, we definitely were taking it. So excited to camp!

And the winner is...

Me! I won a daily tea tee shirt from a local business. Love that store its the second time this year. Peanut has a great wardrobe, from them. I get a thrill out of it. Mr. Incredible picked out the tee-shirt this time!

Gasoline and milk shoppe

Normally filling up your tank does not include getting milk at the same time. Yesterday it did. I have been told that there is a local milk shoppe but thought it would be embarrassing to ask my friend exactly where... after she had told me a while ago. I was to afraid that I would say the wrong words like gased milk( or leche con gas). Dumb... I know.

So we had made a meal for our friend that just recently had a baby, and were coming home. Mr. Incredible saw the milk shoppe off the road, we stopped got our gas and went in for milk. They carry Crest Farmers the kind that is at Sunflower Market and Royal Crest the delivery milk. Which in my option has the best chocolate milk ever and I thought you could only get through a door delivery. I was surprisingly wrong.

...Still going on the fabric flower kick

So, I saw a way cute DIY on headbands with flowers and I bought the wrong nylon instead of using the obvious chiffon I got tulle. This project I want to make flowers on a tutu. So here are the resources I found that were hot with tulle and flowers.
The wedding project amazing and the little birdie secrets are cool but not as cool as the wedding projects but has awesome technique. With the aid of my pyro man, tulle went flame at least trying to curl the edges. Tulle melts in fire like all nylon which I knew but forget while getting the fabric, so it's a delicate balance. ... So, I'm off to melt tulle!

Lame Felt Flowers

I'm on a flower kick. So I made flowers out of felt, seeing that I had felt laying around. I hate using felt for stuff ( I only discovered that when I made them)... at least the cheap kind. So I cut different sizes of flowers (some were lop-sided), put them together and sewed them together using a button. Probably will make a homemade ugly doll out of them, it is a disaster in the making...I'll keep you posted.

Father + Son Campout

Peanut and Mr. Incredible happily went on a father son camp out this weekend leaving mommy to watch chick flicks on her own. The line up was Sabrina(1956), Grease, Sweet Home Alabama, Penelope, and regrettably Valentine's Day. It was so great to watch, clean and sew, while the boys were gone.

They came home dirty and happy. Peanut had fallen a few times so had a big scar on his upper lip. He loved his little camping chair and Daddy brought his pack and play. Which he enjoyed and took a nap in while Daddy went shooting with the other guys. I would have never guessed that grunting young Peanut would love the great outdoors so much, but he did. Just like his Dad.