It's Thursday

Happy Thursday morning everyone! Isn't that sunset absolutely gorgeous? B. loves taking pictures of sunsets lately and she took this one with her ipod the evening of June 29th from our front yard.

 This is just a (somewhat) quick post before B. and I head out to the Kids' Movie this morning. The local movie theater has this summer kid's series every year when the tickets are only $4 to get in and that includes a small pop and popcorn. And it's for all ages. I usually forget about it until the summer is almost over. But this year, we only missed the first two. Not bad. So far I've taken B. to see Turbo, Dispicable Me, Dispicable Me2 (last week) and today they're showing The Nut Job.

I applied for three more jobs within the past couple of weeks. Two dental office jobs for some anonymous person in the paper (don't you just love that?) and I filled out an application for a retail job for a small local store. I was in there the other day buying, what else, but nail polish (my weakness) and decided to ask the manager for a job. He was really nice and gave me an application, which I took home and then promptly returned all filled out within a couple of hours,   He said he'll "keep my application on file." (I've heard that already a million times).

Ok getting really depressed again...... moving on.....

We had a small cookout up at my husband's parents' house on the 4th of July. Not the big blowout shindig like they used to have every year. That doesn't happen anymore.  

We came home and my husband worked some more on our deck and new swing. He's also worked on it throughout this passed week. It's coming along nicely....

On the evening of the fourth, B., my husband and I went to see the local fireworks from off the highway. The were really nice, although the street lamps were a bit annoying. But at least we had a bird's-eye view of them....

The next day, we headed up to my aunt and uncle's house around 1:30 for their annual 4th of July cookout. My uncle is quite the host and loves to grill. As always, we had a great time and it was nice seeing everyone again. 

On our way up to my aunt and uncle's, we saw the American Queen on the Ohio River!  It was getting ready to go through the lock and dam and I took this picture as we were driving up the highway 50 mph. Not bad, eh?  My husband honked the horn, and I waved out the window and a bunch of people on those balconies waved back. We thought that was pretty cool. :)

And without further ado, here is my scrapbook layout this week....

Patterned paper and cardstock are from the DCWV Harvest Gathering collection. Pumpkins and flourishes were made with Sizzix dies. I cut the flourishes up to make them fit how I wanted them to.  I embossed the pumpkins with a couple different embossing folders - the Tim Holtz swirly one and Cuttlebug houndstooth.  This is the second time I've used this particular SG sketch.  The edges of everything were inked with Vintage Photo.

That is all. Movie starts in less then ten minutes and I'm not even dressed yet....

Happy 4th of July!

We have a busy weekend ahead of us. A cookout tomorrow at my in-laws' and then my uncle's annual 4th of July shindig on Saturday. I made a Red, White & Blueberry Pinterest-inspired trifle dessert earlier this evening for tomorrow....

And I'll be making some food to take up to my uncle's in the morning. Then next weekend we have another family reunion to go to up at my mom's since my cousins from Berlin, Germany with be here on July 10th and will be staying for 2-1/2 weeks. They come to America to visit us every three years. I'm looking forward to seeing them again. 

We went to see some local fireworks last Saturday...

My little aspiring photographer took some beautiful pictures of the sunset with her iPod on the way to see the fireworks last Saturday. The sun looked like this huge orange ball in the sky that evening. She was trying to get a picture of it since it looked pretty cool....

We started getting some tomatoes within the past few days (yea!)

I found this picnic tablecloth at JoAnn's yesterday on clearance for a little over $3 (reg. $12.99). It has a zipper so that you can put it on a table with an umbrella. This is absolutely genius and I don't know why someone didn't think of this sooner! Love this....

My mother-in-law gave us a porch swing that she bought but never used. This has resulted in a project for my husband. He knew he would have to build a frame for it and was planning on putting it out in the side/back yard. But I said no one is going to want to sit way out there in the blazing sun. So he is putting it next to the patio in an area where the sun won't be anyone's face. It's also hard to grow much of anything there. We went to get the composite decking this afternoon from Lowe's and he's gotten the frame for the swing built and cemented in the ground so far. This will be so nice when it's all done and it takes care of where to put the swing and we'll be finally doing something with that corner by the patio.....

Here is my layout for the week which I finished up earlier today...

I used patterned papers, brads and a chipboard border from the My Mind's Eye My Girl collection, my Curvy Cutter & various circle punches, enamel dots, word stickers from K&Co, black soot distress ink, Thickers, and a Allison Davis sketch.

Well I hope you all have a safe and Happy 4th of July weekend ahead! I am keeping those in the path of Hurricane Arthur down in the Carolinas in my thoughts and prayers tomorrow. They're saying 100 mph winds and calling it a Category 2 Hurricane.

Til next time....