emerald lane

It feels weird trying to write after such a long time away fom this spot. 

We’ve done so much.

I don’t have time nor do you want to read every last detail.

Where do I begin? 

Well, I love pictures, so I’ll share a few.  Few being the key word, since I didn’t take many pictures on our little weekend getaway to Cedar Key, FL.  We travelled southwest to the Gulf Coast for a weekend with friends.  Our friends live in South Florida and since we moved from that area 4 years ago we’ve managed to see them at least once a year.  It’s great because their girls’ and our boys’ are the same age and they get along so well.  They have lots in common, high energy, they like to be silly and they love to swim and ride bikes. 

I don’t know how much I will be posting this summer, it just seems like the time to take a break from writing put on some sunscreen and lounge by the pool with a book when the baby is napping.  I’m sure I’ll pop in from time to time, so check back and there might be something new!  Until then happy summer!

Days seem to go by and I’ve had no time to sit and share in this little space.  I’ve been adding pictures to Flickr and keeping up with the Six One Way group.  I added this set for the week.  Outdoors is still our favorite place to be these days.  If you are interested in making some yummy popsicles, you’ve gotta try these:

Homemade Fruit Yogurt Pops

Fresh Fruit (Blackberries -shown in picture, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, etc.)

Plain Yogurt

Powdered Sugar

Quantities: varies based on molds, in other words, just wing it!
Blend all the ingredients and pour into popsicle molds and freeze.  Enjoy outside!

1.Swimming - time in the pool on Mother’s Day.

2. Reading - to a captive audience.

3. Making - pretending to be indians.

Here is a rare photo of me and my husband of almost 9 years-I can’t believe that.  This is from my nephew’s wedding from last weekend, which was held at my sister’s almost finished new house.  The wedding was lots of fun, the DJ was really good and got everyone to dance, guys too not just the girls.   

There are deer in the backyard.  Sean took this picture,  I think he took the one of the pond as well.  We were feeding the deer grapes and apples, yet Erin thought the grapes were for her.

Here are the ducks that are sharing a nest, you remember, the one that sneaky snake tried to invaid.  Yep, this is it and if everything works out, we’ll have lots of baby ducks running around. 

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Here’s a look at another week.  Ian sanding the picnic table, Erin’s little hand picking a blueberry and Erin and I on a walk.  Check out more here.

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It’s hard to see, but there is a nice little pupa hanging from the top of the screen.  It is another monarch butterfly, like the one we had one last year.  Grammie brought over the largest catepilar I’d ever seen and the next day it was busy forming it’s outter shell called a pupa/chyrsalis.  I really wanted to see what it looked like while it was changing from a catepillar to a pupa, but it was so fast and we caught it a little late, but we did see some change.  The butterfly should emerge 10-15 days from May 5th and we’ll have some pictures to share then of our spring butterfly. 

For now, I’ll leave you with a picture of Ian reading to the pupa, The Very Hungry Catepillar.  He read it on his own without my help, very exciting and I’m sure it helped the little guy not be so bored.

Spring blueberries from Aunt Leslee’s new Farm, Kellerosa!  We’ve already made pancakes, muffins and a blueberry pineapple upside-down cake with these fresh blueberries.  I also found a recipe for a blueberry compote to go on top of french toast.  I think we’ll have that for Saturday breakfast - Yummy!

We found this rat snake trying to make this duck egg his dinner.  It’s mouh was desperately trying to stretch over the egg while we watched in awe.  But, out of respect for the two ducks that are taking care of these eggs, we removed the snake and relocated it far from the nest.  So, if these ducklings make it until hatching day, we will need homes for them.  If anyone is interested, say, my sister who has a pond, they will be available.

Okay, I’m not going to go on about how long it’s been since I’ve posted.  I know you all are sick of seeing the same pictures and have probably stopped checking to see if I’ve posted lately.  So, I’m just going to say we’ve had great weather and I’ve joined the local YMCA and leave it at that. 

This Nature Tote was inspired by the need to use the new fabric that a sweet friend brought back from a trip to NYC.  She visited this really great store and was so kind to think of me and bring me back some lovely fabric.  Thank you, thank you!  Also, I’ve been reading this really cool blog which is all about education, specifically the home variety and art.  So, I love checking in for some good inspiration.  Anyway, Lori over at Camp Creek Press invited the readers to join her in a nature journaling project and the first step was to make a field bag.  This one is made out of an old pair of child’s corduroy overalls and the afore mentioned fabric from here.  It was fun making this tote because it did not come from a pattern.  I just started cutting up the overalls and working with the new fabric and this is what I came up with.  There is also a zippered pouch for pencils and supplies.  I’ll make two more, one for me and one for Ian .  Sean gets this one because he is always pretending he’s a robot!

Happy Monday and I hope it isn’t two weeks again until my next post!