Grand Opening!! *TweaKsJewelry*

 just opened up shop on Etsy.com! finally!!!! please take a look and if you could help send the link to my shop to people who may be interested. thank you!

click on link below or click here.

We're going to the ZOO!!

Yesterday was my last time taking Judah to the zoo before he is off with mommy to a new state! Kevin was able to get off as well and we went with my best friend Betsy and her son. It was hot but we had no rain and there was a breeze. We packed a lunch and snacks and Kevin even held an umbrella for us to shade us from the hot sun while we ate. Such a gentleman! we made it thru 3/4 of the park before the adults got cranky and were ready to go home! We stopped at Wendy's on the way home for frosties to keep with tradition!



At the tiger exhibit, all of us and Tico (short for Santicos)

The new baby elephant born last summer and the momma. The elephants are Judah's favorite.

Judah and I at the new Polar Bear exhibit! It was nice you can view them from the top or under water in their swim tank. It was neat! There were two bears and the are twin sisters.

This one shaking off the water. Courtesy of Kevin the photographer of the day!

When we got home Judah and I went swimming in our pool while Kevin napped until it started to thunder. Kat picked Judah up and then i took a nap. Sadly when i woke up i was in incredible pain had a pounding headache and felt sick. Kevin took good care of me got me migraine meds and made me drink a ton of water. He called mom and she said I got heat stroke or heat exhaustion. I thought I drank a lot of water thru the day and had no pop or anything so i dont know why. Kevin got me a movie and food so i could lay and rest. besides mom he is about the only person i want around when im sick bc he takes such good care of me! As always you all can go here to view pictures of the whole day!

Kabobs!

Recently we busted out the grill and bought some skewers and made fun Kabobs!! I sliced some cucumber,and squash,lemon, mushrooms, tomatoes, and onion and i marinated chicken in Caribbean jerk for me and barbecue sauce for Kevin. We also grilled some corn on the cob!


Kevin cant wait to try it!

Finished product! Yum!

It was fun to put together and was very tasty! Plus I had enough veggies to make mom proud! lol!
I love summertime barbecue!

Yet another hobbie....

So here is a taste of some of the pieces in my collection of handmade jewelry. I still need to photograph a few I have given as gifts to people but this is a start. These I will soon be selling on Etsy.com to begin my hobbie/business for a while. Eventually I want to have a website of my own to sell them, I also want to come out with a line that profits will go to benefit missions as that is also one of my passions!


(no name yet)
This is made of olive green and copper cultured pearls, silver plated findings, and sea green spiral shells twist tight clasp. I would sell for $35- $40 for the combo and $50 if I use sterling silver for the findings instead.

"Honey Bee"
This bracelet is made of copper and golden yellow cultered potato pearls, with golden yellow died mother-of-pearl disks, and yellow bicones crystals with a honey bee toggle clasp. maybe $15

"Moonlight Tide"
made of steel blue mother-of-pearl nuggets, peacock blue potato cultered pearls, dark blue bicone crystals, and silver plated findings and spacers, lobster claw clasp.this is one of my favorites. about $25
Kat borrowed it for Kari's graduations and it looked awesome on her went well with her outfit!

Can you tell i like to work with pearls? lol! Well what do you think of prices? would people buy it you think? I will post more pictures later!
love to all!

Jana's Gift

So I finally got Jana's graduation gift all ready! I got the jewelry box idea from online and put stamps on the out side to decorate it. So cute! Her "piece" is one of my favorite so far and I will post pictures after she gets it! Yay!

Summer in Full Bloom!

Had a wonderful day today to start off my awesome 3 day weekend! We rode the Motorcycle out to lunch with Kat (who so generously treated us all) and Tommy, Anna, Jesse, and Judah at Mongolian Barbeque mmmm so yummy! It was a goodtime. It was hot but as soon as we got going on the bike its was nice. We went to Micheals to buys some fixings and beads and charms for Jana's graduation present and I just fell in love with the new line they have but thats another post....
Then we went to lowes and got some flowers (finally! I was dying to start on my front yard but it just now fit into the budget!)



Here I am planting red Bagonias and white and pink Impatients with a little English Ivy to accent in the flower box.

Kevin took this with our new dSLR camera, not sure what they are but they just started blooming today!

View from the street, Im going to get a few more shade type plants to fill in some spots (since this part of the house doesnt get sun) and a flowering vine to go on our pretty wire thing. It took forever to pull out this horrid viney tangled weed that had taken over the whole flower bed but this is the after photo.
Next year i may paint the shudders and flower box a different color.

Kevin got a shepherds hook for out old bird feeder its prooved to be a favorite among our feathered friends for 3 years. We have yet to see if they have braved the protective Maya though!

Well we planned a canoe trip with our lunch crowd from today so may have some more pictures and adventures to tell about! Plus its pool season and i have a pool that is calling my name this wonderful holiday weekend!!

Kari did it!!!!

just after walking across the stage!

everyone that came to see her Graduate!!!

the Felger's plus a COLLEGE GRAD!!

go here to see more pics of Kari's big day! we are so proud of her!

Proud Parents!