Slime

Slime! The one thing I wanted as a kid, but my mom would never buy for me. As Kyle said "my mom would never buy it for us because she said we would put it on the walls and make grease marks" So Gus' friends/cousins came over the other night to play which gave me the perfect opportunity to make one of my pins off of pinterest!

All you do is dissolve one teaspoon of borax in one cup of water, set that aside. Then pour 1 full bottle of Elmer's school glue into a bowl, and add a little water and food coloring. Once the borax is dissolved pour into the glue mixture and knead. It will start to clump up and that is when you take it out of the bowl and need on the counter until you have your desired consistency!

Teddy

I started noticing a couple of weeks ago that Gus always woke up with his blanket and bear by him. I have two stuffed animals in his crib an expensive rhino I bought at Anthropologie and this brown teddy bear I got from Meridee Gibson at my baby shower. I really wanted him to like the rhino, but he loves the teddy bear.

The blanket is another story. I made this boy soooo many cute blankets, blankets with silky on the opposite side, blankets with flannel, all types of blankets. Guess what blanket he LOVES the most, yep the cheap Walmart blanket. It already has a hole in it. I am slightly mad he doesn't like my rhino or my blankets. I keep thinking back to when I was pregnant. I just wanted the boy to come November 2nd or 3rd, but no HE decided to come the 12th. Same story with the rhino and Walmart blanket, he is the boss and will decide EVERYTHING! Silly boy:)

He reminds me so much of Michael from Peter Pan with his teddy bear. I usually only let him have his blanket and bear in his crib, but I brought them out to show Kyle and to record his reaction to it. So I left it out all evening, I would come and check on him and one minute he would be by his toys with the bear, then the next minute he was on the opposite side of the room with his bear. Everywhere he went the bear went also.

Jets Jets Jets

Kyle bought Gus his first Jets jersey. It was like Christmas when he got the mail and the jersey was in it. Kyle is so proud! Kyle has a Jets jersey he wears on Sunday game days, so now Gus can be just like his daddy.

Projects

Kyle and I have a little bit of a problem, we get really attached to t shirts. So we started making a pile of shirts to make into a quilt. The pile grew and grew and grew and by the time I got to it we had enough t shirts for a king sized quilt. Some of the shirts are from our trip to Europe in 2005 so they are pretty old!

I made the below quilt in February, and just finished it last month. The plan was to hand quilt it, but after just 20 minutes and only two inches of quilting done I decided I would just pay for it to get quilted. My neighbor has a fancy quilting machine so I took it to her. I love how it turned out!

My photo collage wall was the brain child of our fabulous friends the Funderburks. It is still a work in progress but I am loving how it is coming together. I made the B with yarn and a wood B. I think I am going to make a smaller pendant banner, well not smaller just smaller pendants with more patterns and texture to them.

derby 2011

Untitled from Emily Wright on Vimeo.

Saturday my mom had one last party before school started for the kiddos. She got the giant slide again and the kids had tons of fun. They went down it at least 100 times the hour we were there. After the party we went to the Washington County Fair for the 2011 derby to watch Rowdy and his SP car. He got stuck during the first round, then made it into the grudge match and won that, then went to the finale. He had some good hits during the finale but Gus was too wiggly to record it. Gus wasn't so sure about it, I think it was a little too loud for him. The above video is Rowdy in the SP car during the grudge match. He won $200.00 for that one hit.

scope eye

Kyle had a little mishap last week. He went on his nightly 22 mile bike ride, and when he was riding past M&I Greenhouses he saw two innocent little coyotes. Well, after his bike ride (an hour later) he made me and Gus go out with him to see if they were still there. Unfortunately they were still there so he gets out of the truck, grabs his gun, and crosses the road. I was mad (I hate guns and thought what he was doing was lame) so I didn't watch the rest. I hear the shot, look over as he turned to me and his face was covered in blood. I get out to go see if he is

okay and just then 3 or 4 cars pass by (I wonder what they thought). Kyle gets into the truck and I am yelling at him to put pressure on it still not knowing what happened. I honestly thought he got shot somehow. I make him let me drive home and this is the story he tells me. He was so excited because the dumb coyotes were out in plain sight during the day, so he rests his gun on the barbed wire fence. He couldn't see through his scope very well but still shoots. The gun came back (recoiled) and smacked him right between the eyes. Gun people call this scope eye. I was so mad at him, I told him Gus was never going shooting or hunting with him EVER. So now everyday he comes home with a new story of someone he knows that got scope eye trying to convince me that scope eye is sooo unbelievable common. I still hate guns even after all of his stories.

The next day Kyle went to see if the coyotes were still there, and guess what they were. So he changed guns and shot one of them, and found out he also hit the one that gave him scope eye the night before.

Circleville

My father had his big number 60 birthday on the sixth so we made the trek to the small town of Circleville. The girls drove to Marysville during the bash to see the cutest little house that Amy's co-worker remodeled.