Krafting with Kari

It was real mom stuff: 

trips to the fabric store, glue guns, and banishment of children in the name of focusing on a craft project. 

How else does a Halloween costume come to life?????

Work work work including burning our fingers to the bone! :) These are NOT lo-temp!

Who wore it best? :)

Mmk now to train for the 5k...

Big Improvement

After a summer of having a hole in the driveway, our fighting position has been improved, and in a big, aesthetically pleasing way :)

Before and after

And around the fire pit too!  Ooooo!!!

Please stop over, we'd love to have you :)

Are you green or blue?

In our house we're both and thanks to the UofM punter, Peter still has his flag flying over the driveway, I think he was starting to sweat it a little though :)

Saturday night we hosted a neighborhood backyard party, I thought it was a noon game, but it wasnt! oops! so we ended up watching the end of the game with a dozen of our neighbors, most of whom are green too.  What a finish!

Then is was time for dinner and s'mores and petting/chasing/scaring the kitty :)

We had so much fun chatting with our neighbors, it is a small, small world!

To the bitter end

Actually not bitter at all, very sweet!

We helped Frosty Boy close for the season, someone had to do it.

Goodbye Frosty Boy! Until next summer!

When eighth grade graduation eludes you

When that happens, you get to continually go on Jr. High retreats; which is exactly what I did over the weekend. We had a great time at Lake Ann learning how to strengthen our faith and share it with others. Our group (of all girls) paired up with another church and hit it off so well, I was very thankful for and proud of our students.

On the bus we got off to a great start with MASH and junk food. #classic

Chapels were full of helpful lessons - lots to learn and think about!

We had beautiful weather - just perfect!

Game time! Everyone participated and didnt complain - that's a youth leader's dream-come-true right there!

Scavenger hunt and archery tag...ask them about this one...hehehe ;)

Hanging out

Hair styling - a Jr. High MUST.

 Keeping warm around the bon fire

Our girls and Pastor Jack - dont say 'Hi Jack!'

Some of our High School students tagged along and got to help with the weekend. They made great tribal members!

Maybe having a baby will help me graduate...maybe, but probably not, and that's just fine.

So much fun I forgot it was work!

Last week the DeVos Place played host to our annual GFS Food Show, so Karla and I ventured down for a 'light' lunch :)  

Tables of bacon beckoned to Karla

Gelato made me feel like I was back in Italy, and Mt. Gordoncheesemore was hilarious, the lady was there carving, I felt like she should have been in the lobby as an ArtPrize entry :)

It was a great year, lots of new items to try and old favorites too! Yum!

Later in the week my team went for an outing to Robinette's Orchards - we did their corn maze (maize?) and enjoyed donut and cider delicacies.

What a great work week!

Out and about

I've been doing a bit more out and abouting lately, it's so fun to spend time with friends!

Artprize Seven

Coney Island: Peter and the ladies! :)

Whom shall we meet with next!?