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52 Fridays

June 20, 2014 By JulieK

Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Photo taken in Yosemite National Park

Every year I try to make a little something “crafty” for the teachers at the kids’ school (links to previous gifts below)… As a teacher myself, I know how hard they work, and I like to share a token of our appreciation. I always chip in on the big class teacher gift… But that doesn’t cover the specialist teachers who work very hard too (says the music teacher :) ).

This year, everywhere you look, mason jars are “the thing” :) So, I found a cute printable tag (free printable here) and personalized it, cut it out, mounted on watermelon colored card stock and attached to these little 8oz mason jars that I topped with cut daisy lids and cute red/white paper straws. I filled them with some packaged drink mixes and some candies and the kids delivered them to school! That’s 24 adorable little gifts, just to show how much I love the teachers at the school!

Happy Summer!!!

Here’s links to some of the past end of year gifts I’ve made:

2013 end of year teacher gifts

2012 end of year kids’ gifts

2012 end of year teacher gifts

2011 end of year teacher gifts

2011 end of year more teacher gifts

52 Fridays

June 13, 2014 By JulieK

Colossians 4:5-6 Make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Photo taken in Glacier National Park

52 Fridays

June 6, 2014 By JulieK

Psalm 139:13-14 You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Photo taken at Mount St. Helens

Our First Car Show!

June 2, 2014 By JulieK

This past weekend we took “The Midlife Crisis Car” to its first east coast car show :) I can’t remember if I posted here on my blog or not, but here’s the story of the car, and some pics of our first car show!!

When we got married (14 years ago!!) we had a SUPER COOL car :) a 1967 Corvette Convertible… I always say that that was the one and only time in my life that I was actually cool :) When you drive down the street in a ’67 ‘vette, people literally stop what they’re doing and look, most also wave!! It’s really fun to go for a ride!!

Here’s a picture of us, at our wedding, in our first Corvette, just before we left!! Funny, once we managed to squeeze my dress in, we went for a drive all around Andover… My veil was wild in the wind, but my hair didn’t move :) (it’s a cell phone picture of a picture from our wedding, quality isn’t the best, but you get the idea).

I seriously LOVED that car!! But, when we had Sean, Mike thought it was more responsible to sell it, you know, ’cause it only has 2 seats, and we were a family of 3 :) so… A couple of years later, we bought a Mustang convertible… 4 seats, and pretty cool :) The kids call it the “race car” and we go out for rides in the summer…

Fast forward… This year, Mike decides he “needs” a new Corvette (and by new I mean ’67, and it needed a big block, side pipes and be a standard… he’s not picky!) :) I had to agree with him, we definitely did need one:) He finds the “perfect one” and buys it… Only problem?? It’s in Carson City, Nevada… Over April vacation, he and Sean fly to Nevada, rent a truck (for parts etc) and a car carrier and drive it home!! The epic adventure!!!

This weekend, we took the new car to its first east coast car show at Skip’s Hamburgers in Merrimack, MA. There were 320 other super fun cars there in the show!! We had a blast, and everyone was so nice!! We’ll definitely be back again!! (and you just can’t beat those burgers!!) I followed in the Jetta :) and we all met up for yummy burgers and fun!

Here’s a few images from the weekend!!

This is an overview shot of the show from where our car was (with many other Corvettes, including a 2014 that was parked right behind ours, what a nice looking car that is!!)