DIY Clay Bracelets

I found a new blog that I am in love with! Check out Delighted Momma! She has some of the coolest DIY projects. My favorite was her polymer clay braided bracelets! You can check out her post here. I have never used polymer clay before, but it was so easy! Don't be surprised if everyone gets one of these for Christmas! I'm taking orders now. What colors does everyone want? I have included directions on how to make these bad boys. Roll three pieces of polymer clay. Mash one of the ends together. Braid them together.
Once you have braided it, cut the ends off.

Using your own wrist as a guide, or a bracelet that fits you. Mash the two cut ends together at a length that works for you.

Bake in the oven according to your polymer's clay directions. They are all times a bit differently depending on what brand you buy.

The finished product!
I made a few for the girls at work. I had to represent the yellow and brown!

Aren't they cool?

Delighted Momma is also giving away Jamberry Nail Shields. They look very cool. I'm mentioning it on my blog to try and win a set!

Check those out too!

Colton's Kodak Moments!

Every chance Colton gets he uses our camera! He loves taking pictures! I think for his 4th birthday we will need to get him his own "fisher price" camera. He has actually taken some pretty good pictures. Please see below. I don't think Casey actually reads my blog, so he will not know i posted the picture above ;)

He has taken hundreds of pictures of Thomas, good think for digital cameras!

He asked for the camera specifically to take a picture of the cookies that he "helped" me make.

So artistic!

Jenks, OK

This weekend C3 took a drive to Jenks, OK (Just south of Tulsa). We were there a few months ago to see a movie and saw this great fountain. We had our fingers crossed that the water was running. Not only was the water running, we had the place to our self! Colton had a blast playing in the water.

View of the Arkansas River!

Colton had the camera for a bit. He is quite the photographer!

After playing in the fountain and singing and dancing on the stage we had to check out the waterfall and tunnel.

We had a nice time at Jenks Riverwalk Crossing!

10 minutes into the car ride home and he was out! So sweet!

Like Father Like Son

Colton has been big into building houses lately. They normally always have a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living room.

His house this weekend also had a garage.

Look at what is stacked up in Coltons garage!

Longboards! This is a picture of our messy garage! Colton wanted to make sure the Harvest Longboards were in his garage too. So cute!

Bucket List

If I had a bucket list, owning a pair of Birkenstock sandals would be on that list. I'm sure I would have more interesting items on my Bucket List like going to the Great Wall Of China; but I have wanted a pair of Birkenstocks since middle school. However I could not bring myself to pay over $100 for a pair of sandals. That was just not going to happen.... until my trip to Louisville KY!

Zappos.com has their website fulfilment house in Louisville. If you buy a pair of shoes online and they don't fit correctly or you do not like them, you can return them. Zappos opened a retail store to sell all of the returned shoes. I went twice over the two weeks to look for work shoes. On the second trip I found my BIRKENSTOCKS!!! They were originally $108 and I got them for $25!!!

Aren't they pretty! (the shoes, not my toes. I need a pedicure bad!)

I also found a pair of work shoes for super cheap (well under $30).

A girl could get herself in trouble in the store. So many good deals.

I now have one question. How long does it take to break in a pair of Birkenstock shoes? My feet are killing me :(

I have looked on a few websites. Some say the automatically fit, some say it takes a few weeks, and other say they never fit just right. I will let you know that I'm not giving up on breaking in my Birks.

Home Sweet Home!

Its good to be home after spending 2 weeks in Louisville, KY for work training. The training part was great, I learned lots and met a lot of great people "networking".

One of my favorite parts of the training and Louisville was visiting UPS WorldPort. This is the hub that almost all UPS Air shipments go through.

1 million packages go through WorldPort a night. We got to see it action.

It was very impressive.

I'm pretty sure Colton thought I was on an airplane the entire two weeks. Casey and Colton dropped me off at the airport two weeks ago. I spoke to Colton every night and each night he was ask "Mommy are you still on an airplane? Just get off and walk around."

Meeting Casey and Colton at the airport brought tears to my eyes. Colton saw me down the hallway and ran as fast as he could yelling "Mommy!!". It just melted my heart. He was holding a toy airplane. Casey said he played with it all week and would point to it and say "Mommy is in there, mommy is at the airplane port".

It's good to be home!

Natural Falls State Park

Today C3 took a small road trip to Natural Falls State Park. We wanted to check out an Oklahoma State park and see the waterfall.
We enjoyed the falls; Dripping Springs.

You could view the falls from above,

and below.

Both view points were pretty easy to walk to.

Colton had fun, however he was a bit worried about the

bears and tigers that may be in the jungle! We had to reassure him that there are no tigers in the forest and the bears were sleeping. Colton then talked in a whisper the rest of the hike, worried we would wake up the bears!

Parts of "Where the Red Fern Grows" were filmed at this waterfall. I have not seen the movie or read the book. On our drive back home I downloaded the book to my Kindle. It is now on my list of books to read!

Daddy was pointing out Ceder and Pine trees to Colton in this picture. Too Cute!

We are glad me made the road trip to see the falls and glad that we did not decide to camp there. The camp area seemed more like an RV park, not a campground. We will have to research Oklahoma Parks and plan a camping trip soon. However Natural Falls State park will not be on the list of places to camp.