Summer

Gotta love summer time. So many fun things to do. Taz had his friends over and introduced them to Walking Dead.  Yes, they got permission from their parents to watch the show.  It's a little intense, but such a good show.  They had a little marathon and finished Season 1 in two days. 

Cynjyn has been going to the swim parks a lot with the Hollands.  This day after swimming the preteens came over here to hang out.  Bethany, Cynjyn, Grady and Sean. They sat up on our potshelves for an hour just talking and hanging.

Then they had a wicked game of Just Dance.

Karen is the first counselor in YW and over camp.  She texted me earlier in the week to see if I was interested in helping her make tutus and wands for our skit up at camp.  We are the Woodland Fairies of Light as our ward theme.  And that's how we roll, making stuff we need at the witching hour approaches.  So, we enlisted the help of Tanner and he cut tulle while Karen and I wrapped them around elastic. 

So, here is how we made the wands:  a dowel wrapped with tulle and a styrofoam ball hot glued to the top. 

Then we took little squares of cut tulle and bunched them at the bottom and pinned them to the ball.

Tanner was kept pretty busy cutting enough squares to keep out little pile of tulle stocked since me, Karen and Amanda were all doing wands.  In between cutting tulle, he helped pin wands.

Pinning, pinning, pinning all afternoon...14 wands to make!

Then we tied a strip of tulle around the bottom of the ball and wahlah, we have wands people.

Not Tribbles, wands!!  So cute and we loved how the finished project turned out!