4th of July FUN…

Need some 4th of July inspiration? All these came from Pinterest! click on any of the pictures for tutorials & recipes!! I am SO in love!!!! Hopefully in the next day or two I’ll show you what I’ve been cooking up for my family! :) Enjoy your day!

 

 

Picnic Ideas:

 

 

 

Decor:

 

Oh my word! SO patriotic & fun… definitely should have started on this stuff a month ago! ha! :) And this is just the beginning of all the ideas I’ve come across! I’m telling you. Pinterest is where it is at! :)

Jabber-walkie…

So when I was little my mom used to call me her Jabber-Walkie, because I never stopped talking, I always had something to say! My husband would say things haven’t changed. Recently I nicknamed Brooklyn my Jabber-Walkie, for obvious reasons. Like mother like daughter I guess the saying goes right?

Well it seems like sometimes I just have a lot to share. And I do love to share. Doesn’t it make it 100 x better to watch a movie, share a joke, go shopping or find a killer deal with another person? I guess that’s how I feel about sharing. It makes everything more FUN! :)

Like today, me were driving down this country road, and we have to stop because all these baby skunks & their mommy are crossing it! AHHH! CUTEST thing EVER! SO much more fun because my kids were in the car & I was on the phone with my mom! Fun to share. So I also want a de-scented skunk for a pet now. Seriously. CUTE!

Okay first off super excited about this. Did you see my post a week or so back about the Play Boy Club airing on prime time television this fall? Remember to make your voice heard if you want to help stop it you can see full details here.

Well my sweetest friend Lynn, e-mailed me and told me that already progress is being made… in Utah, KSL will not broadcast it, to see the full article go HERE! How great is that! Lynn reminded me that we can make a difference. Success starts somewhere, and I do hope our local NBC station will follow suit!

 

Okay, how about this- do you all love a cute font? well I found a couple tonight. and even better. They are free.

Download SF Happiness HERE.

 

and Ma Sexy Here. 

 

(doesn’t it look like Heidi Swapp’s handwriting?! loving it.)

So miss Brooklyn had a birthday part to go to this week, we put together a little beach bag for her friend… I went to the dollar store and picked up a little beach bag, flip flops, sunglasses, a water bottle, beach ball, threw in some lip gloss and some cute treats. You could also put sunscreen, a beach towel , nail polish etc. for a fun & inexpensive gift.

I thought it turned out pretty cute.

Another little idea for birthdays:

Give a single cupcake and a card to your neighbor or friend. They also sell individual pieces of cake in most bakeries in the grocery store!

Here are the handouts I made for the lesson this week on Eternal Perspective.

Getting my VT teaching done- Here’s a cute idea I stole from Pinterest!

Enjoy your weekend!

California + Pinterest = one happy me

This post is for Miss Kelie- who told me exactly what she thought of me going so long without a post. ;) No really, I had no idea it had been a couple of weeks. What is filling my time? Well a little trip to California,

 

which was bliss. Our kids have been begging to move there… WHERE IT’S WARM!!! haha. We hit up beaches galore!  

& Disney Land

Can you believe this is the ONLY picture of Mickey Mouse or any character we saw! We were TOO busy riding rides! Brooklyn was a maniac & LOVED all the rides! Her favorite was probably Soarin’ Over California @ California Adventures! Crazy thrill seeking girl! haha!

 

had a girls shopping day, had a few too many cups of yogurt land,

golfing, Jazz vs. Lakers game… you name it we packed it into our week!

Not to mention we enjoyed my little sister’s resort-like home! {THANKS ANGIE for letting us all crash at your place!}

If the kids weren’t at the beach, they were at the pool! We had a blast!!!

What else is consuming my time? A little thing called Pinterest- It’s beyond addictive! I love it and am totally hooked! It’s

There have been so many times I wanted to bookmark a particular website or photo from a website without saving it to my computer. Well, Pinterest solves that problem!  You drag their "pin" button to your bookmarks tab and then anytime you're on a website and see something you want to save, you click the pin button and it'll save the photo and link it back to the website on your boards.
You can create different inspiration boards in categories.  I've got a style board for Party Ideas, Style & Fashion, and boards for things like recipes, home design, books to read, Places I want to Travel & a bunch more!  Here are some of the things I've pinned:

Use a muffin tin to dye Easter Eggs! Idea from Parent Hacks

Cirque, Italy

EeEK! Aren’t these so Stinkin’ cute for 4th of July?!!!

You can find all kinds of goodness through Pinterest, from food to photography to shoes and everything in between.  But to get on Pinterest you have to sign up for an invitation from them, or be invited via e-mail from an existing user.  So if you're interested in signing up, just leave me your e-mail address and I'll send you an invite!  Once you're on, you can follow me here: http://pinterest.com/scattersunshine/. 

LA-LA-LOVE it!!!! I can’t hardly stand all the inspiration on there! I’m afraid I’ll be pinning much more than blogging from now on! ;)