{5 on Friday} Birthday Edition

Hello friends, it's Friday!!! 

In honor of my birthday being tomorrow, I thought I'd have a little fun and do something different!

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So here is my Birthday Edition of 5 on Friday......FIVE things I'd love to receive for birthday gifts!!

{ONE}

These cute Organic Bloom type frames! Not quite the price of OB, but oh so cute!! Found here!

{TWO}

An adorable new garden flag! I mean teal and chevron...yes please!

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{THREE}

I've been eyeing this bad boy for awhile now! I love this family name sign!!

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{FOUR}

I'm always in need of a good book! I just finished "And the Mountains Echoed", and this one looks like a perfect summer read! I read her novel "Summer Rental" in book club, so I know this one would be good!

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{FIVE}

And lastly, I know it's a long shot, but I would love a new phone! My sad little iPhone 4 is in much need of an upgrade!

Thanks for stopping by!! I can't wait to read through everyones five things!! 

Happy Weekend!!

{Summer Camp #2} VBS

For the past three days Lane has attended vacation bible school at Gateway. We don't attend church there but heard about it through a friend! This was his very first year to be old enough to attend, and I'm so glad that I signed him up!

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Gateway put on an amazing, over the top VBS! The theme was 'Wacky Week, Candyland". On the first day, walking in, it was like we walked into the board game, no lie! Lane and Levi were both in awe! It was awesome and Lane had a blast! He was a little hesitant at first, but at the end of today, when I picked him up, he said his day there was great!

I mean seriously, it's like he was at a concert or something!

The only picture I took of him there!

I am so glad that he enjoyed himself this week!

{Summer Camp #1} Basketball

Last week Lane attended his 1st camp of the summer! He had basketball camp at Keller High School! It was for kids in kinder through third grade! To say he had fun would be an understatement.....this kid LOVED it!! He had so much fun and learned alot! He even earned all sorts of awards!!

He got three awards on day 2.

Two on day 2.

And on the last day, he brought home two medals, a t-shirt, and a basketball!! 

I loved watching him learn new skills and play. By the end of the week he was dribbling pretty good with one hand! For three hours a day he was one happy boy!! I'd say his first camp was a success!!

{5 on Friday}

After missing last Friday's link up, I'm excited to be back today!! I've loved reading different people's favorites!! Head over to the good life blog and check them out!

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Anyway...here we go...5 things I'm loving this Friday!!

{ONE}

 

I picked up these shoes from Old Navy Wednesday for the boys and I love them!!! Plastic, light weight, slip on....perfect for summer!! The boys love them as well!! And right now they are on sell, score!!

 

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{TWO}

 

I'm slightly obsessed with Big Brother! And it's starting back up for the summer on Wednesday...YEA!!!

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{THREE}

 

I have a cute little tray on my island that I kinda decorate for holidays....so  I used this pin for inspiration and spruced it up for the 4th of July!! It's right around the corner!

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{FOUR}

 

I'm loving This fun chalkboard print that I recently purchased!! I'm diligently trying to put together a gallery wall for my entryway and knew it had to have a touch of chalk!

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{FIVE}

 

I recently saw this post about homemade laundry detergent...which happens to be one of the girls hosting this blog! Anyway I thought I would give it a try for two reasons: 1. It would obviously save money and 2. Wanted to see if it would help Lane's skin, which reacts to alot of commerical detergent! So far I have done about 5 loads with it, and so far the report is good! Smells fresh, cleans our clothes, and like I said, it makes a TON, so we won't be running out any time soon!! I put some in a cute jar and all I am missing is a fun label...which I'm working on!! Check it out, you might like it too!!

 

 

So that's my 5 on Friday!! Can't wait to read yours!!

 

First Week Fun & Father's Day

Our first official full week of summer 2013 is in the books!! I love being able to sleep in, no schedules, no places to be! Much to my surprise the boys slept in almost every morning till about 8 or 8:30! We went to the pool every single day last week!!! This is our first summer having a community pool and I love it! We also spent time coloring, going to the library, lots of playing, and just having fun!!

             

Tuesday evening we went to Arlington for a surprise retirement party for Robin! It's was lots of fun!!

             

             

Friday morning we got up and went to get donuts!! 

              

Then came home and watched baby birds!

                    

We had TWO play dates this past week! The first was with our neighbors on Thursday. We went to the Trophy Club pool, which was a huge hit with ALL the boys!! We will definitely be going back! Unfortunately  I didn't snap a picture b/c I was in the pool most of the time! 

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And Friday we met some friends from school at McDonalds for lunch and then to the bounce house place! Lot's of fun and the boys loved seeing some of their friends!

                     

                   

Friday night Paul and I went out to downtown for dinner and drinks with some friends!! Saturday we spent all day in Burleson watching my cousin play baseball. Lane and Levi love to watch Jared play!! Since most of the family was together we decided to do some early celebrating and all went to dinner and then to see the new Superman movie!

And today we celebrated Father's Day!! Very low key, but fun nonetheless!! I had this waiting for Paul this morning! I loved putting together this "man bucket" for him!!

We spent some time at the pool this afternoon, played softball, went grocery shopping, and that's about it!

Look at these three!! Those two are so lucky to have Paul as their daddy!! We are truly blessed to have such an amazing man love us!! 

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I hope everyone had a great Father's Day weekend!! This week Lane has basketball camp every morning! I can't wait to see how he does!!

Phone Dump

Here's just a phone dump of pics from our week!

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Taking a quick swim break for snacks!

Sunday morning we played with sidewalk chalk.

                

                       Monsters U this week with some family! Although this wasn't Levi's first movie, it was the first one he has sat through!!

Wednesday morning summer movie with Braedon!

                 

Levi and I hit up Barnes and Noble while Lane was at VBS one day!

                    

Thursday morning I whipped up a little letter recognition activity for Lane to practice with! And what better way to grab his attention than with his cars!

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Super simple....uppercase letters written on tape going across each "parking spot".

Lower case letters on each car.

His job was to "park" each lowercase letter car into the matching uppercase letter "parking spot"!

Of course little bro wanted in on the fun!

Stinker!! Lane seemed to enjoy this activity!!