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Okay, elfa totally, completely rocks. If I could marry elfa I would. I wish December would hurry up and get here already so I can do the rest of my closets with a 30% discount. I am actually shocked that the pantry has remained in order. Normally a week after a clean out things are already creeping out of place and back into wreckage mode. So far everything is has ended up right where

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Yesterday Molly kept herself quietly occupied for a good twenty minutes or more by covering herself in (washable, thank heaven for washable) markers. She removed every single cap from every single marker. Her hands and forearms were covered in blues, purples, greens, oranges and pinks. Her knees were scribbled to bits with violet and indigo. Her lips were a lovely shade of green. All

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Go here to find out! All I can I say is it's about dang time :).

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from the land of busy, busy, hot, miserably hot, people. Logan and I are attending his Reconciliation and First Communion prep classes all this week and next. We have Lynn's mom and dad in town lending us a hand with Molly and Caleb and the house this week and next week my parents will be in town to the same. The kids are really enjoying the idea of Grandparentpalooza 2008 and Lynn and I are

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these. Why? Well, it's not because you're going to find me slaving away in my garden any time soon. But in November, when it's not three degrees from boiling I will SO be sporting these to plant something. Or at least while I pretend to plant something. Yeah.

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send a normally pretty laid back four, almost five, year old into hysterics: tell him there's a hole in his head. Allow me to explain... This evening Caleb sidled up next to Molly and me in order to dole out "bed nite" hugs and kisses. As he was snuggled up with us I was scratching his head and noticed a bit of his hair at his cowlick was clumped together dreadlock style. Caleb yelped a

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Do you like letters, fonts, typography in general? Me too. So does this person and they have meeleeyons and meeleeyons of tasty typography related links. I could spend an entire day wandering the links from this site.

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How freaking adorable is this? You should bookmark this artist's pages because her Halloween stuff is pretty danged sweet and should be coming up in the very near future and then after that she'll have Christmas stuff to knock your socks off too. Just do it. You'll thank me later, after you're done cursing me for finding something so easy to spend your money on :). * * * * * Jeebus, I just

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But we had a very busy day today here at the Lyons' Den nevertheless. The boys wrapped up swimming lessons. I planted our first two letter boxes! If you're curious to hear the tale of the precocious Ella and her lovely beau, Sam, then head on over here and have a look. I tucked the little doodads above into the boxes as first and second finders prizes. Apparently you can do that when

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Last Thursday while Lynn headed to Houston for business the littles and I meandered our way down to New Braunfels for the weekend. Lynn met up with us on Friday and took Schlitterbahn duty. Momma doesn't do waterparks if she can help it... We did a bit of letterboxing along the way, stopping in Hillsboro and Jonah before finally hitting New Braunfels. We took Aunt Jana out for her first

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I hope everyone's July 4th weekend was a blast. We had a nice long weekend visiting with friends and, I'm sure this will come as no surprise, letterboxing. The letterboxing? It's like crack, I tell you. And here's proof: this morning at the breakfast table Logan wanted to know what we were doing today to which we replied, "nothing." In return Logan suggested we do something fun, something

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Momma needed a pair of letterboxing shoes.

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It's official, the kids and I are slightly obsessed. We went out again yesterday and found three more letterboxes. We're taking a break today so I can catch up on laundry and housekeeping. Plus, momma's lily white arms got sunburned so they need a break from the heat...the upside of the sunburn is my farmers tan will be evened out. These are the boxes we hunted: Camelot: Heraldry and the

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We spent this past weekend checking things off our honey-do list. I removed the old ceiling fan and installed this one all by myself. Lynn did take everything out of the box and left it scattered about on the carpet. He then promptly decided to take his nap. Molly saw her opportunity and leapt at it...trying to snatch little baggies of screws and such. This is the only reason I did the

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Lagniappe - Suesue's blog is brand new but already brimming with charming photos and tales of her Louisianian lifestyle. She is also a maker of things (like so many of us!) and her things are often winsome, always lovely. The rest of this week's link back love is a list of previously noted friends so click HERE for a visit. And now onto some fun links! I think these playing cards would make

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We arrived early to complete chaos and disorganization. And face-melting heat. Then we moved into an elementary school gym to fix the chaos (or at least move the chaos to an air conditioned space). That's when we discovered that Caleb got to stay and play at the Tot Lot while Logan did Cub Scout stuff and Lynn did walking-den-leader stuff. We also discovered we should've made swaps for

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Progress Made., originally uploaded by mkpdesigns.My parents are expanding their patio DIY style this week. Go here to see progress on the project, and as a bonus you can see how cute my folks are AND you can also catch a glimpse of my baby sisters' fiance too.Also suffering from patio fever: my sister and her husband as well as my grandparents. It seems to be catching so be sure to wash your

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It's Friday already!! Funny how a travel weekend makes the following week run in super fast motion. This week's (and last week's) link back love is a list of previously noted friends so click HERE for a refresher course! Go on now, there's lots of really lovely links to be found :). And now onto some fun links! Mimi is making the most charming pin cushions I've ever laid eyes on! I hope

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the upstairs A/C is cold again and it only cost us $960. Only. Ha. Time to get some new work up for sale...I've already dug up all the couch cushions and raided the laundry room coin stash. I always hate to take money out of savings, especially for things like this. Lynn reminds me that's what the savings account is for...but, but, but I don't like to think of it that way. The savings

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Logan turned seven. Seven! I have a seven year old child. And a bunch of gray hairs to prove it...although I already had at least a third of those gray hairs when he was born. We made a trip down to the hinges of hell. Also known as San Angelo, where when Lynn returned home from Fiesta on the Concho he proclaimed, "it's hot outside. San Angelo hot." We had hotdogs and chili and

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Molly just dialed 911 from my cell phone. Thankfully she managed to turn the speaker on too or we surely would've ended up with police, an ambulance and fire truck in front of the house in a few minutes. Do you think I'll get fined for this? I'll tell you this...it's the first thing in a VERY, VERY long time to embarrass me that's for sure. My cheeks were tingling red there for a couple

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This is awesome.

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what we like to read and play here at the Lyons' Den I set up a "book store" of sorts through Amazon.com. Have click and check it out if you like! Save yourself some gas and mileage while you shop in the comfort of your own home and don't forget! There's free shipping available too. It's a work in progress, always changing because we like ourselves some books around here. I still need to get

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Friday again and as promised: some fun links! Ceramics that will make your heart go all a twitter. Pillowcase pajama bottoms. Too cool! The Good Neighbors Club reprised for this summer! Gorgeous flower photos. Bottle cap mosaics. Makes me wish I had more bottle caps. More whimsical, slightly wonky, totally charming pottery. And they're always displayed with the most stunning floral

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*Houston and Victoria and New Braunfels and San Angelo and Denton and anywhere else someone might be interested in knowing, we have pigtails and mohawks. Logan wanted a mohawk for Crazy Hair Day at school. We agreed as long as he understood it was going to be a short-term mohawk. Caleb wanted a "mow-hog" too. Only he didn't want me to use the clippers on his hair so he got a faux-hawk

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