Service projects

I never realized until my wonderful friend Christy informed me that I was always doing service projects, so I decided to list a few different things that I have done over the last couple of weeks as a reminder to myself.

I've been working on some felt food for a distant cousin that is adopting a little boy from Africa. Check out her amazing blog & her etsy store http://johnamandaandkids.blogspot.com/. I was able to meet her husband and give him the box of goodies that I had been working on for a few weeks. She was going to be working a craft fair, unfortunately it rained tons so it made it a little difficult but overall she was happy with the amt of money she raised.

Couponing gives me the ability to help others in need, a dear friend has been going through a tough time right now so we gathered up a few toiletries & cleaning supplies and delivered them. She was very thankful to receive them.

Dominique was going to the beach, this was a first trip for Lizzie, I ask her if they had a beach bag & she said no. I decided I would fix her up so I bought her a beach bag, beach towels, snacks, sunscreen & tylenol, went ahead & put some ziploc bags in there for her camera & phone. Then we had beach toys that our boys had outgrown so I got another bag for her toys. I forgot to take a pic of her goodies :(  She fixed supper for us on Thursday night so we dropped off the bags. She was so thankful that we were doing that for her that she bought us this candy bouquet. It's really too yummy to take apart lol

My wonderful friend Christy is adopting from Ethiopia check out her blog here http://www.davisfamilymoments.blogspot.com/ She sold another pillow case with Africa symbol in pink so I got it all sewn on & taken to the PO.

The purple stitch program is something I learned about on the quilt block of the month that I'm doing, here is their website http://purplestitchproject.org/ I found several skeins of purple yarn in my stash so I was able to make the following 4 scarves, 2 little dudes & 2 ponchos. I'm excited to get those mailed out this week too.

Panama City Beach, FL

We had a wonderful time with great friends, memories that will last a lifetime! We didn't get there until around 7:00 pm, everyone else was waiting on the beach for us.

                                       Michael is like a kid at the ocean, he loves getting in :)

Levi & Michael

                                                       Logan, Triston & Tate
                                                 

It was very windy

Beach bums LOL Randy, Michael & Tutor

At the Back Porch for supper one night

He ate nasty raw oysters, yuck!

All of the kids taking a banana boat ride, my camera was all fogged up so I didn't get any really good pics :(

After the ride, Laiken fell out of the boat & Brooke was scared LOL The boys all had a great time though.

There was lots of this going on lol

My love

On our way to parasail and it was a blast!

lots & lots of this :)

Headed to Margaritiville

Love my Levi :)

That poor lady that was making these balloons for these nuts!

They were fixing to do the reverse bungee

Up in the air they were lol

Levi was too funny & tore up about doing this. The guy had them checking their harness when we hit the button & up they went, the look on Levi's face was priceless!

Everyone riding the go carts

Our view from the condo

Let's just say this is a memory that will NEVER leave my mind, a poor guy fell from the 3rd floor and landed right below us. This is a site that I NEVER want to see again!

Always have to play putt putt, they kids ran off & left all us old people.

Once again riding go carts

At Hooters, we ended up having a terrible experience & didn't even get to order our food here. The kids ended up eating at Taco Bell across the street before they headed to Club Lavela.

Yes, I'm married to a nut lol

That's much better :)

Not sure why these pics got out of order but this was at Margaritiville, this was all the boys.

I have to say this was a wonderful family vacation for us & everyone had a great time!

Triston's 15th Birthday

It's hard to believe my baby turned 15 yesterday, of course the most important thing that had to be done was taking his permit test. I ran around yesterday & got his truancy letter from school & a copy of his birth certificate so Michael wouldn't have to do any of that. He was so thrilled when he passed his test. Here he is driving Michael home :)

There were also blessings shared with several friends, his friend Tate got his driver's license, his girlfriend Madison passed her permit test, his friend Logan & his parents were able to get the finalization of their adoption completed. Levi had an accident riding Sissy, the horse decided she was going to roll on top of him, while it smashed his phone he was fine so we were thrilled about that. Overall I'd say that lots of friends/family had a great day on July 6th :)