TICKTICKTICKTICKTICKTICKTICKTICKTICK*DYNAMITE

There are seasons in life that seem waaay complicated.

Top of the list...

JR. HIGH.

Especially if you are a girl.

Can you say DRAMA???

But there is tucked away,

between rolling eyes and mean girls,

one redeeming factor.

Before the jr. high volleyball games,

each team does chants as they warm up.

Did you do these when you were young?

It's awesome.

The coach tosses the ball for the girls 

to bump it back,

One girl starts out the chant 

with her team-mates echoing back.

Listening to it fills me with delight.

It is a picture of middle school,

the fun sing song chants of a little girl.

mixed with the confidence of older competition.

And the beauty of hearing the unity;

a team, and a place to belong,

Delightful.

My name is Josi and you know what I got??

What do you got?

I gotta team that is hotta than hot!

How hot is hot?

Bump set spike and aces too.

uh-huh uh-huh

Now let's see what "Suzy" can do!!

Our team is what? DYNAMITE!

Our team is what? DYNAMITE!

Our team is

TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,

BOOM! DYNAMITE!!!!

Your team is what? DYNAMITE!

Your team is what? DYNAMITE!

Your team is

TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK,TICK...

Hold on, Wait a minute...

You ain't got no BOOM in it!

The Baby Shower

Remember a few weeks ago

when I had the privilege of taking belly shots

of this gorgeous girl??

Well from her perspective,

time is inching along.

But for me time is

flying closer and closer to baby!!! 

In order to celebrate

she let me throw her a little

Baby shower luncheon.

Of course, I do not have the brain power

to remember to take pictures of the

actual event

but I had a great time

obsessing over it in preparation!

This is the fabric

she picked for baby's room.

So i decided to just roll with it!



I decided to make the invites.

Which required a trip to the paper section

of the craft store. 

Wow.
Did you know they have brads

that look like little screws??? 

So after snipping and punching

and attacking the paper

with my handy-dandy sewing machine,

this is how they turned out:



Another fun project we did

was a cute little white felt bunting.

(I say we cuz Milo

was the official white button hunter)

 We hung them across the windows

 in the screen porch.

Using this tutorial 

I made little chocolate kiss containers

and loaded up some old trucks

that Larry had as a kid.

Like a true farm town girl,

I raided a harvested Millet field

for leftovers and added some

trumpet vine flowers from my yard. 

Can you believe that these

quircky little berries were

growing on the vines on my porch?

I looove it when I'm making something

and stumble on what I want

right under my nose!!!

So I added these arrangements

to the windows.

And of course,

being the super cool chick that she is,

miss mama brought a tray full

of these delights for the tables!!

Add in food, some Grandmas, and some great Pals,

and there you have a baby shower.

Now just bring on the little tike!!!!