Wordless Wednesday

I took this pic when we were at the Relay for Life

A HOT Home project

We had been talking about building a fire pit in the back yard, you know just a simple one dug out a little with a circle of rocks around it. Nothing too fancy. Then I came across this picture of a fire pit on Pinterest.

I really liked it and thought ..we could do something like that. How hard could it be?  So I showed it to my husband and he agreed it shouldn't be that hard. It wouldn't be something we would get done in one day but we could do it. And so After a couple days work, here is our version of the picture above.

I just wish I had gotten a picture before we started burning in it.

Christmas lights turned into Summer Lights

Now that Summer is here I love spending time out on the back deck. Even at night it's nice to just sit out there and relax chatting with my husband or the boys. To make it more inviting I like to add some lights out there. Using some strings of old Christmas lights and whatever else I had laying around,( A basket ,an empty concrete planter and an old jar), I made a few light pieces for out there.

An old concrete planter that I just stuck an old string of lights in.

The planter in the corner

Here I took an old hanging basket and put an old string of lights in it.

The basket hanging on the railing

Here I took a string of lights and put them in a jar on a table

A close up of the jar

This past Friday in to Saturday we did the Relay for Life Walk for the 3rd year. Again it was an Awesome time. Here are some pics

Jordan getting recognized for being a 3 yr survivor

Jordan walking the survivor Lap

Hope spelled out in luminaries on the hill

And then there was 2

Well The 2011- 2012 school year has come to an end. Tanner has successfully completed his 9th grade year in the stem program with All A"S as well as being on the School JV soccer team  participating in several travel soccer team tournaments and still participating in Church youth activities.  We are Super Proud of Him...

   Jordan has successfully Completed his 8th grade year while still continuing to take part in church youth activities, keep up with home chores and be his usually fun social self. He also took place in a school Geography Bee this school year and won First place We are Super proud of him too.

 This leaves us to what the next year holds. Not only will Tanner be in High school but Jordan will now be going in to HS too. I just can't believe that Both of my boys are HS students. It just seems like yesterday that they were in Elementary school.

   This brings  me to something that I thought was pretty neat. When Jordan graduated from 5th grade, we got his picture with the school principal. Well that school principal was transferred at the beginning of this past school year to the middle school that Jordan was going to. Now not all of the students  at the MS had this principal in elementary because we had moved and so our district changed. Anyway I thought it would be neat to get a picture of the two of them together now and compare the difference since 3 years ago.

On the left is Jordan 3 years ago at his 5th grade promotion with Mr. Edwards his principal. On the right is him today at his 8th grade promotion with Mr. Edwards . What a change in him in just 3 years. The plaque behind them on the wall is for the Geography Bee that Jordan won first place in earlier this year. I wish I had gotten a close up of that.