The Ord Family

So I tried to start a craft group last year, and after much trying, it just didn’t work out. But, I’ve been talking with a bunch of friends and they’re all excited to get together once a month just to have a girls night and to get some projects done!

So far, here’s my project list!

The girlie onesies and t-shirts will be made into boy themed things for Master G.  In addition to those things, I would like to get TONS of scrapbooking done. I haven’t scrapbooked Gavin in over a year… yes, I know, I’m a slacker! And on top of all my personal scrapping, I have a HUGE stack of stuff to do for my mom!

I can’t wait to get started on these girl’s nights! It’s a no-stress, non-planned night of pure craftiness!

Friday the 12th, we went with our trusty outing pals, Sam and Annelise, to the Springville Art City Days Balloon Festival! I moved to Mapleton (the neighboring town to Springville) when I was 12 years old… and NEVER ONCE have I been to the balloon launching during Art City Days. It was amazing! I can’t believe I’ve missed out all these years!

Gav had a blast, it was quite chilly at first and he kept telling me his hands were chilly (it didn’t help that he was holding a sippy of cold milk either!)  so we tucked him into his stroller and he sat really well until his buddy, Sam got there. 

It was so amazing to see the wonderment and awe on these little boys faces! I can’t believe how big they are! Gavin talked about “boons”, “piggy boon”, “tractors” and “buddy sam” all day long, making sure to tell everyone at the school what he’d done that morning! I’m sad we didn’t get to stay longer!

I love scrapbooking but I never thought I’d live to see the day that my name would be in a national publication. Even if it isn’t a scrapbooking magazine, it’s something!  I also love that it’s my design and my work, a lot of the really cute announcements in this spread weren’t created or made by the people that sent them in. This is ALL MY work and ALL MY idea.

I can’t believe it happened!!!! I love that it did though! Maybe this is just the beginning!

So, my friend Emily gave me this GREAT idea to make a list of things to do this summer. Fun things. Not our typical to-do list. And in true Triana form, I decided to make it fun and cute and hang it on our fridge!

Here’s what’s on our list:

*Go to the aquarium

*Make homemade ice cream

*Paint w/ water colors

*Pick berries

*Cook dinner (all of it) on the grill

* Feed ducks

*Eat corn on the cob

*Ligh sparklers

*Go tailgating (easy camping for those that don’t know what that term means in the Ord Family, I thought it was something you did at football games..hehehe)

*Attend a parade

*Keep a summer journal

*Girl’s night (because I NEED one!)

*Go to a baseball game

*Saturday Farmer’s Market

*SWIM!!!!

*Mirror Lake

*Face paint

*Teach Gav to fish

*Run through the sprinklers

*Camp in the backyard

*paint w/shaving cream

*Arches

*Star gaze

*Play in the sand

*Organize a neighborhood BBQ

*Take a road trip

*Mount Olympus

*Go to the zoo

*Make homemade playdoh

*Have a picnic in the park

*Make fresh lemonade

*Go to a carnival in the evening

*Swing on the swings

*Make a sand castle cake

*Blow lots of bubbles

*Go for a family bike ride

*Make homemade popsicles

*Draw w/sidewalk chalk

*Have a water balloon fight

*Make cup cakes

*Eat peaches (from a certain favorite peach tree!!!)

*Feed horses

*Watch fireworks

*Have a bonfire

*Hike Timp Cave

That’s our Summer Fun-do list.

What’s something fun and different on your Summer Fun-do list?

Gavin and I have been discussing emotions lately, sprung from a few bouts of really good friends crying because he’s bit or scratched them, trying to get him to understand that what he’s doing not only hurts them physically but emotionally. That being said, tonight before Chris got home from a work trip, we were sitting on the couch having a tickle war when he saw some brides on tv crying over finding the right dress. Then out came this:

G:”Gavin need towdle (towel… aka Paper towel), Gavin need towdle”

M:”Gavin needs a towel?”

G:”Yes, pweeze”

*I hand him a paper towel

G:”Pank you”

*Gavin puts the paper towel up to his face and says:

G:”Gavin crying ’sniff sniff’”

M:”Are you sad?”

G:”Yes, Gavin sad.”

M:”Why are you sad?”

G: “Gavin crying, sniff, sniff”

*Gavin throws the paper towel to the floor

G: “Gavin crazy!”

My son… He may be a true guy after all and won’t ever figure out how the whole emotion thing works!