One Lovely Blog Award Acceptance Post

My first Blog Award has arrived!

The wonderful, Bethany from

A Fish Who Likes Flowers

has bestowed upon me the prestigious

One Lovely Blog Award!

FREEDOM!

Happy Fourth of July
Independance Day
Fireworks Follies
Freedom Fest
what ever you call it,
I'm PROUD to be AMERICAN!

To decorate this year I purchased another vinyl tablecloth from Target.
This time red and white striped.
Then cut out a big star (on my Silhouette) on blue sparkly vinyl.
Thirteen stripes made the perfect placemat.

I HEART My Lawnmower!

For my birthday this year I got a Lowe's gift card.

Our 13 year old push lawn mower had just about had it.

So we went looking for a mower.  Well, we found this

Fiskar's version and fell in love.

Claveries Visit

Paul, Alysa and Presley came in for a quick visit from Colorado.  We found out on Wednesday that they were coming Saturday morning.  Since Alysa was 37 weeks pregnant (she was given clearance to fly with Paul) we got together a QUICK shower for them.  There were all kinds of "boy themed snacks"

Nuts

Balls - gumballs

pee pee tee pees - bugles

ding dongs - cupcakes

Mom made a few onesies for baby Crew!

CREATIVE BLOGGER'S PARTY & HOP

SJ from the AWESOME blog

Homemaker On A Dime

is so graciously allowing me to co-host with her at the weekly

Creative Blogger's Party & Hop

She has some amazing projects on her blog.

Here are some of my favorites

Ruffled Headboard

Click Read more to see all of the AWESOME projects!