Jul 042017
 

Happy 4th of July!  Hope your Independence Day was as fun-filled as ours.

Celebrating the 4th of July at the Houlton Maine Parade

Started off the morning attending a local parade.  I hadn’t been to a small-town parade in over a decade, so it was definitely fun to check this one out.  Bubbles hadn’t been to a parade like this before, either, and she was very excited to see what it was all about. Continue reading »

Jul 042013
 

Happy Independence Day!  Hope you and your families are all enjoying nice weather (unlike the rain we’ve had here all day), some good food, and exciting fireworks.

If you’re grilling out you may enjoy these BBQ recipes from our friends at Monsters University.  Monsters make good grill masters, don’t they?  Click the images below to download recipes for Roaring Ribs, Scare School Steak, Cilantro Corn on the Claw and Mike’s Melonade, plus learn how to make a Mike Wazowski Watermelon!  Click each image below for the downloadable copies.

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Jun 292012
 

I really enjoy crafting and DIY, especially when it centers around holidays.  Now that Bubbles is on a better napping schedule, I sometimes find myself with 30 or so minutes in the afternoon where I can work on some of the projects I’ve had in mind for awhile.  The Fourth of July is less than a week away now, and it happens to rank right up there as one of my favorite holidays, so I decided to make a little something to decorate with.

I had a new set of Elmer’s Paint Markers that I wanted to test out and came up with the idea for a Fourth of July-themed serving dish.  It’s a really easy project and can be as rustic or as finished as you’d like it to be.

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