Annual Franklin Carnival

On Friday we took all 12 kids to the carnival! They had a blast. From 5-9 they could go on as many rides as their little hearts desire for 18 bucks per kid. This is our 3rd year in a row going and we hope for many more!!! Zander is a die hard rider of the gravity ride where you get sucked to the side walls while it spins around. He went on it probably 10 times!!! 

 Brody was scared so Spencer being the big cousin that he is put his arm around Brody and tried to comfort him!

 My brother Todd and his daughter Haley eating cotton candy!

 Brody almost lost control!!! I caught every step of it on camera. It was pretty funny to watch.

 After a long day of swimming and the carnival Brody was not wanting to go to bed. When I opened the basement door to go to bed I found him asleep on the top stair. It is a good thing he didn't fall down the stairs onto the hard basement floor!! He is sooooooo stubborn these days!!!

4th of July

Wow I did a horrible job at taking pictures on the 4th of July! These are all I took. Opps! Hopefully my sister in law got a few more them me! My battery was on the charger so that is part of my excuse. The other part was that it was sooooo hot that is all I could think about! Here is Carleigh at the parade in the flag dress I made her. Her and Lissie had matching ones but I didn't get a picture of Lissie.

 Carleigh Zander and my nephew Spencer

Carleigh and my niece Sarah

 My sister in law Michele and I. Wow that is a horrible picture of me! Oh well!!!

 Michele and I made strawberries and lissie and faith made pretzels

 Lissie was very excited about these!

The kids at night before fireworks. The mosquito's were out so must of us watched the fireworks from inside my parents house.

Wisconsin summer!!

We we got to Wisconsin all in one piece! We left Thursday at 4pm and got to Wisconsin on Saturday morning at 1:30am. We drove 32 hours straight! We stopped and got out of the car to eat once on Friday night for dinner and that was it!!! The kids did awesome!! 

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When we first got here to my parents house Carleigh was deathly afraid of Penny the cat. The 4th day we were here carleigh fell asleep on this chair and Penny jumped on her lap. If carleigh knew the cat was on her she would have been screaming bloody murder!!!!!



 Faith my baby sister, my dad and Lissie on Father's Day morning!!!

 Carleigh holding my friend Sarah's little boy!!!

 These two are having a blast together!!!

 Faith loves reading to the kids at night and they love it also!!!!

Carleigh loves the Barbie 4-runner!!!

 Zander hanging upside down on the tire swing!!!

 Carleigh sitting on the couch that I got at a garage sale for $5! It is by step 2. It has two cup holders and the kids think it is pretty awesome! The pad unfolds to make a "bed"

 Finally nice enough weather to go swimming! Grandpa heated the pool fopr the kids on Sunday!

 Lissie has been going down this water slide since she was 15 months old!!! She still loves it!!!

Grandpa, Reid, Lissie, Natalie, Carleigh, and Brody after a long day of swimming. They were all cold so they were warming up on the couch with Grandpa!!!

Today was make your own PIZZA DAY for lunch!

I made a huge batch of pizza dough and Robyn made sauce and then we let each of the kids make their own pizza for lunch. They all had a blast and ate like champs!!!!

 Allanna with her HEART pizza!

 Eating all the olives!!

 That is some stringy cheese!



That is all for now...

more coming soon!!!

This is what PGA tour professionals do in their down time.

Shameless plug for my company... but funny too.


Doesn't it just make you miss the Boy Band Heyday?

Happy Sunday randomness!

Like our new swing set in the back ground?? We got in from our neighbors for 75 bucks!!! What a steal!!! We left our old swing set in WI and I was really regretting it until we got this one!!!!

Nothing like eating corn on the cob nude!!!! We had tons of butterflies in our house that night!!!!
Carleigh is one in style chica!!!!

Should I go to the beach...mountains....or bed?!?!?!?!

Once there was a MULLET and....

And now there is NOT!!!!!

This week we have been up to a whole lot of nothing besides sewing!!! I have been a crazy busy worker bee!!! I am loving every minute of it!!! Crazy 8 and Gymboree are having an awesome sale right now so I was about to stock up for Lissie when I got the idea that I need to just sew all the fabric I have in my garage! So that is what I am doing!!! I still bought some things like skinny jeans and bootcut jeans for 6.99. I can't really make them for any cheaper then that!!! I have been inspired by many wonderful sewing blogger's that make up their own sewing patterns so that has been what I have been doing. I have taken a few of Lissies' tops and dresses that I love and drafted patterns from them!!! Check out my craft blogs for pictures of my creations and trust me there will me a lot more to come!!!!