~Kids target game with swim noodles~

 I wish I had pinned the idea when I saw

it so I could give credit where it's due......

but I didn't. So-let me just get it out there

that this wasn't my idea-I saw it on Pinterest

at the beginning of the summer and made it

for my kids the following week.

Materials needed:

7 swim noodles

clear packing tape

re-bar or shepherds hooks to hold it up

water balloons or a ball

This was all done by taping the noodles 

together with clear packing tape and then

attaching them to our hooks in the grass

with tape. We used water balloons and made 

this part of an obstacle course.

The kids LOVED it!

Total cost of project:

$8

A very cheap afternoon of fun with the kids.

~hibernating flowers and chalk people~

 This is the last of the flower arrangements

from our own garden for the season.

It's been SLIM pickins the last couple weeks.

 I love the beads of water on the rose petals.

I could have shaken it off before I placed

it in the vase but chose not to. I picked these

on a rainy morning last week.  

I still have a couple tomato plants with lots of 

fruit I'm hoping can ripen on the vine before it 

gets too cold....which reminds me, I need

to cover them tonight.   

The weather is getting cold FAST and my

husband is hard at work preparing the flower beds

for the winter now. Cleaning up and pruning the plants

and re-planting all of our bulbs that have been sitting

in the dark all summer. I almost choked when

I walked outside last week and saw that he

had cut down my ENORMOUS sunflower plant.

I replaced the sunflower plant with

something else that was enormous:

A chalk outline of myself.

My kid thought it would be fun to do 

outlines of our bodies in the driveway.

I'm not gonna lie....I thought it would be fun too.

Until I saw how short and SQUAT I really am.

I thought maybe it would look better if I drew

some clothes on it. WRONG!

Looks even more short and more squat.   

 My kids outlines turned out cute :

 It rained the next day and washed 

our little chalk people away.....  

 Next time I'll draw a more slimming 

and elongating outfit on my bod....

maybe some stilettos?