What a week!!! (or last 10 days)

This is what I had to buy, (along with a CO2 detector), to pass my inspections for my business licence. The fire extinguisher I had before was too small. So I am just waiting on the paper work to go through, which it will now that I have taken care of all the requirements, and it will be official. I will be a small business owner!
We had Enos, Lindsay, Mica, and Matt over on Sunday. Josh did some of his "special tricks" for everyone. This kid is incredibly flexible. He can hold out both this arms, and rotate them 180 degrees, (which looks pretty freaky), and then bend at the elbow in a very twisted, backwards greeting. He think he is awesome. We all kinda do too. :)

It's hard to tell, but he is doing the splits, with his face on the ground.
Try this yourselves......bend your thumb down to touch the side of your wrist. Josh's thumb can lay nearly flat against his wrist. It's just freaky looking!

Eddie LOVES his "nana". He is all wet and dirty from being outside with me while I worked on the yard and watered plants. He got a little watered himself. I think he signs for banana a dozen times a day, but we try to limit him to 3 or 4 that he actually eats.

My herb garden. Thanks to my dad, my herbs are growing a ton. They may not look like much in this picture, but I keep cutting them back and it's been a yummy treat. (my little sage is dying though, and my garlic chives are still not big enough to plant in the empty space that is waiting for them)
We all know that "blog reality" does not tell our entire life story. So this is just an example. I have been feeling "some" stress lately, I took it out on this wall. It's not close to being done yet. I took a can of paint one afternoon, (and a brush of course), and just attacked the wall on both sides.

The brown was getting to me, so I just started painting. :)

It's a pale robbins egg blue, color. When I'm done with the flowers, I'm going to cover the whole thing with a glaze the same color, and do a linen drag technique, so it will look like linen wallpaper with a hint of a funky floral design underneath. It's hard to tell, and the frame is covering part of the design, (I removed it after taking this picture), but it's kind of a crawling painting. It starts on the side and the design kind of "crawls" along both sides of the wall. I'm not going to add more lines, just a few more flowers and that's it.

I have only done this a few times in my marriage, (stress painting on walls), but I think this one has more potential than in the past, and I'm kind of glad I was able to vent on my wall. :)

BTW- Josh took this picture. Jade and Morgan were making salt-dough Japanese food props for a film they were making, and Josh lined up every webkinz we had in the house for a photo shoot.

This is also the last week of summer school for the kids. They are happy and sad about it. They have LOVED Challenger school, but are ready for a few weeks of summer play before they head back to the regular school year.

Also, if you are interested in the new projects I have been working on for the upcoming boutiques, check out my art blog.