hello people.
i have been taking pictures again.
and i am loving it.
one picture from each of my first five sessions of the year…..
it's going to be a FUN season!
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the registration for blog sugar is closing june 7. it's going to be a really fun day!
i am still nerrrrrrrrrrrrrvous about speaking in front of all of you there but i know it will be fine. maybe i will wear my tap costume…..do my routine from my junior year to jail house rock….. what do you think??? ohhhh…..craig can spin a basketball on his finger tip. i could teach my kids baton twirling, ribbon dancing and juggling. just think of what a show stopper it could turn into! i am cracking up at myself. so….GET YOUR TICKET.
******************************************* :) can’t wait for blog sugar!! so looking forward to meeting you and all the other fantastic ladies!! woohoo!! xo hi meg..i followed you here from tatertots and jello..you are so funny..i like reading and everything here..I’m just a SAHM here in the Philippines..you make me smile.have a wonderful day.:) I was planning on attending but w/our soccer academy & school, it’s not in the stars for me this year. Boo. Unless… $ is not an issue & I can hop on a plane for a quick ride instead of driving! This could work! =) lol! craig can spin a basketball…matching outfits! I will be there! (I’ll be shaking in my shoes and scared as heck, but I’ll be there!) I tried to talk my husband into going with me but he says it sounds like a girl thing. But, you know, you ARE the only blog he reads. ;o) I have been thinking about this forever. It scares me to death to go to a conference where I know no one! I decided to be brave and just do it! Can’t wait to see you there… loved seeing you and your family today! made my morning! I have got to meet Pam. You were sounding like a home school family there for a minute…baton twirling…matching outfits. Oh my. 😉 That sounds like so much fun!!! I am off to check it out:) It’s in my neighborhood, it’s in my neighborhood….nothing is ever in my neighborhood but this is!!! Run it by the husband and hopefully buy my ticket tomorrow. 🙂 And I would really love to meet you in your tap costume….lol. 🙂 i can’t wait to go to blogsugar. have been saving $ one headband sale at a time. pffft – brilliant. I can see the sparkles Now! love you. bring waffle, too. and those birds should be grown up by then and ready for a little cross country jaunt. one woman circus. big hit. i can’t wait for september!! 🙂 I just got my ticket! I am SOOOOOOO excited to meet you and the other wonderful speakers! Gosh, I really can’t wait! Which hotel are you staying at? Not sure where I should stay? I got my ticket and I am so excited to see you. You don’t need to tap dance or where sparkly outfits. You should just be you and you will be amazing. I am back on forth on this one. I am going to blog sugar!!! Dont be nervous…you could just make me one of your margaritas and i would be happy….i just want some creative girl time with new friends…no pressure….:) Just looked at WHERE it was. If it were a little more local I would try to go. It sounds fabulous! What is your favorite blogging conference? Something similar to this, but maybe longer (if I’m going to travel, I want to make it worth my while). I’m really not that familiar with the blogging world. I was so excited to see you were going to be there. I blog stalk you, yes I do. Always have. Don’t be alarmed if some crazy red head comes up to you and wraps you in a big bear hug and swings you around in circles. Sometimes I forget that we aren’t long lost frinds. I will be there !! I am sooo excited !!! I do wish I could go. I know you will do great! I just found Gussy’s blog. She’s cute. I wonder what my blog would turn into if I quit working. Hmmm? Now I’m thinking… lol. Break a leg at Blog Sugar. I’m sure you’ll knock ’em dead. 🙂 well i took tap too. but my teacher told my mom it just wasn’t for me. so that was cool. i am very excited and can’t wait to meet all these people. You are too funny, Meg! I so wish I could go, maybe I can talk my hubby into letting me go. 😉 I know it will be a wonderful experience. Oooh, it looks so wonderful! 🙂 I know you’re going to do amazingly well…you’d KILL that tap number! Go for it. lol 🙂 Can’t wait to see you and hear what you’re going to share. 🙂 So excited for you! Wish I could go, but with 2 little kids, I can’t. Boo hoo. Good luck!!!! I just wanted to know if you have anyone to carry your bags yet because if not I just want to volunteer!!!!! I’m so excited for you! annie came running inside during the wiffle ball game with everyone while i was fixing dinner and yelled "mom…did you see me out there?! i was beasting it up!!!"
we both thought her new swimsuit looked like a leotard for gymnastics. ……………………………………………………………….. our baby birds on saturday. unbelievable how quickly they change!!
……………………………………………………………….. on thursday night craig took me to see Tim Mcgraw in concert. oh my. i have loved tim since i was in high school. he is timeless. i was so happy. craig isn't a big country music fan…..not much at least….so he gets big points for bringing me. but seriously now…..tim mcgraw is awesome. not this song…but this one is a recent, catchy, happy one and looked like what i saw at the concert. as much as i love kings of leon, U2 and the black keys…..i love country music that much too. and he is my favorite of all the cowboys. best thursday night evah……
Tim McGraw is awesome with a capital A, isn’t he? He’s so electrifying on stage. Even if you’re not a fan, you can’t help but admire and respect the man. He is country music at its best. k i want to know if you slightly suggest these outings or plan it your self or does he surprise you ALL BY HIMSELF??? just want to know how stellar he is because he sounds pretty stellar. SWEET!!!!! I like tim McGraw too. and I love that his marriage has stood the test of time. Annies Comment totally make my day!! I am a kindergarten teacher and she would be AWESOME to have in class!!! I too love me some Tim McGraw!!! Happy Monday!!!!! Hey Meg, That video made my rainy, wet Monday! Country music is the BEST, and not a lot beats a hot cowboy like Tim 🙂 “beasting it up” Gotta start using that! i felt like that at U2 this weekend. i may have shed a tear. I couldn’t remember where in Kansas you live. I hope it’s not anywhere near where the tornado came through. I’ve checked here several times this morning, hoping to see something from you. Praying you’re okay…. I live near Nashville and was shopping at Old Navy one day and guess who walked in…yes, Tim McGraw…I thought I was gonna wet my pants!!! He was on the phone and nobody bothered him. He picked up a pair of jeans and threw them over his shoulder!! Who’d of thought that he bought his jeans at Old Navy!! He is very handsome in person,btw!! And I loooove Annie’s leotard!! So cute! LOVE Tim McGraw. I’m not really a country fan, but LOVE him. I saw him on Who Do You Think You Are. It was really good and he seemed so real. Rich, but real. Isn’t he the guy married to Faith Hill? I love Annie’s suit. cute. that girl is a hoot. It’s nice to see someone else has as eclectic taste in music as I do! that song makes me happy! Love country music and Tim McGraw! Craig does get big brownie points for this – maybe he could talk to my husband. . . :o) Love country music but my all time favorite anything is James Taylor and my hubby is taking me to see him tomorrow night!!!! YIPPPPEEEEEEE!!!! Have seen him multiple times before but every time is special! He is amazing in concert. Anyway, i get the whole surreal thing, have had those moments myself. Glad ya’ll had such and awesome time together. 🙂 Love TIM. Love. Haven’t seen him in concert since the last Soul to Soul tour with Faith Hill; he is so great onstage. My all time favorite song of his is Angry All the Time. No idea why, it just has always been my fav. (Even though I am not particularly angry all the time.) 😉 That is so awesome. I love me some Tim too. You just went up 10 points in my book for being a country music lover 🙂 Whoah, that guy is a major stud, how hot is he? That basic tshirt and jeans (practically skin tight?) with the big guns, oh my. So cute. Great stage movement, thanks for sharing on a Monday morning. I believe he’s tight with Faith Hill so I guess there’s no chance for the two of us, huh? lol Tim McGraw – say no more. He oozes with “hot NESS”. I saw him in Las Vegas and I also saw him many years ago and Faith Hill was his warm up – before they were married. i love that annie says beasting it up..my kinda girl OK…have you ever seen Keith Urban live? I sort of liked his music before last summer, when I saw him at an outdoor concert…and I have been the biggest fan ever since. He is also amazing. And his songs….swoony. aaaah – i love country music, and LOVE that song! Your man is hilarious – such a ‘Tim’ pose.. haha – way to go Craig 🙂 glad you got some time away with your hottie! I love the trampoline pic! hahaah go annie!! lookin good little lady! 🙂 Tim McGraw, my heart be still. Glad you had a great time with your hubby that definitely gets points for taking you to his concert. those baby birds are so ding dong ugly. 🙂 I had baby birds and before I took pictures, I kept meaning to and kept forgetting to, they grew and flew! I also love Tim McGraw . Saw him once in Champaign IL with Martina McBride. Awesome! Glad you had fun. Annie is a doll! My Annie is almost 29 *tears* I am a girl from Texas, so my all time fav cowboy is George Strait! That cute swimsuit gave me some ideas for my girls. Annie cracks me up. Love her “leosuit” and her “beasting it up.” Shes awesome:) It’s hard for me to fully trust anyone who dislikes country music. Just fyi. I love that Annie walked the dog in that outfit—we would be perfect neighbors–our son rides his bike in full iron man costume, except the helmet hurts so he drapes a bath towel down the back of his head under the helmet (I think he likes the way it flaps when he rushes down the sidewalk!). I knwew you were a girl after my own heart and cut from the same cloth….this post proves it!!! Love me some Tim McGraw!!!! There was something about that Tim McGraw video that reminded me of Friday Night Lights (the television show). . .ha! Wasn’t he in the movie version? Love Craig’s picture — what a good sport. So funny you post about Tim Mcgraw. I feel the same way about Jason Aldean. I lurve Jason Aldean! SO cute too, ha! Dude I just posted about how big our baby birds got!!!! http://www.dishesinthedryer.blogspot.com. We saw them one day and it was only a few weeks before they busted out of the nest and we were lucky enough to be there when they did!!! Our kids loved these little guys. Yes Tim was fantastic! Great meeting you! What about Luke Bryan… HOT! Fantastic Thursday night! I love Annie’s style and Tim McGraw….and Garth Brooks. I need to find my old CDs…. Thanks for the video too – he’s fun to watch! Love the swimsuit and love Tim. What a great midweek date! Good for you. ~Kelly Annie in the swimsuit as a leotard stand in…awesome! I like how this girl thinks. Walking Waffle, that much better.
this was not my breakfast but i wish it was. ……………………………………………
…………………………………………… …………………………………………… …………………………………………… i forgot to tell you that as of spring break this year my kids have been doing i help annie by putting it in the dryer for her because she is too short.
…………………………………………… annie came into my dark bedroom to my bed and woke me up to ask if she could have oatmeal. "please can you help me mom?" "ok….i will be right there"
it's not oatmeal. HA.
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here are our babies this morning….in one day they grew SO much…and have teeny feathers too. i found this sweet short video on youtube of a robin hatching.
happy friday! You have been on pinterest- I marked that shark watermelon too. Love it! I love this shark watermelon!!! My son is a huuuuge sea life/shark fan. He is going to love this. Thanks for posting it. First I have to tell you my husband took me to Target to buy a new purse and I picked up this cute yellow bag. When we got home with it I thought it looked familiar and sure enough it is the same one you got from The Pleated Poppy (only without the cute flowers)! Second, my inlaws have a birds nest that had 7 eggs (3 blue and 4 brown) and now there are just 3 babies. No sign of the brown eggs or birds. It makes me wonder if there were 2 different birds going to the same nest. Are you on Pinterest? I would love to follow you if you are. 🙂 I’ve seen that rainbow braid on there is why I ask. And oh lordy, when my babies are old enough for laundry it.is.on! YOU MAKE MY DAYS HAPPY 🙂 that is all. oh..except…. Can a person who is not crafty but wants to learn to be crafty come to the craft weekend? just checking. {insert giggle} Wow! that video is awesome! The mama taking the egg shells- that explains why I sometimes find robin’s eggs in random places, with no trees about! I think they must just dump them wherever to keep the nest clean. That shark is awesome! My three year old loves watermelon and would love a shark like that 🙂 So, I clicked on the picture of the french toast, then clicked on the picture again, then clicked on the link in that post, then read the original author’s post, but she never says exactly how she made those french toast kabobs. I assume she just made regular french toast and then cut it up and stuck it on. They must have been cold by the time she served them. The bridal shower she made them for looked awesome, though! The laundry room–awesome! The rainbow hair–eww. Tell me how a mother robin can just bop around the nest & poke & prod & her baby thrives, but whenever bb birds were discovered in my childhood we could never keep’em alive, even the best of efforts. Must be God. In case you wanted to see more of the rainbow hair, here is her photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wisely-chosen/ LOVE the laundry idea – the best part would be the no mountains of laundry to fold!!! And I bet it would cut down on number of outfit changes per day – I have four girls -the number is RIDICULOUSLY high!!! Hello Meg, I love the french toast kabobs! We did those for my husband on Father’s Day a few years ago and were a big hit:) I saw a lady at the grocery store today that had rainbow hair and it looked totally cute! I think you should still do the pink:) We did that exact shark watermelon about 2 years ago, I saw it in the newspaper and my husband said he could do it. We made it for a party and had to transport it (that was kinda hard). It sat on my lap the whole drive to the friends house!! Hit of the party though!! Thought you might like to make these for your robin-inspired crafty thing… your nest photos reminded me of them. http://oakhillsacademy.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/im-nesting/ That laundry room could be my happy place, for real. The watermelon shark is rad. I don’t think I’ve used the word rad in 10 yrs. I may just need to bring it back to my vocab. If Annie accidentally ate the onion soup instead of oatmeal she may have never ever wanted oatmeal again. That experience just might ruin a person. Glad you stopped that from happening. Have a great weekend, Meg! In response to Quinn’s post… It is amazing to see (although it’s poop)… they position their little bottoms toward the outside of the nest! Then when mom (or dad) comes to feed – they clean the nest too!! These birds are fantastic! I found your answer… unless someone else already posted it hhahahah. I can only go from personal experience with our pet chickens, but I think the mama ate the shell. Our chickens do it all the time, but maybe robins are more sophisticated than that. I know it’s weird but we have a collection of robin’s eggs in my family. When we are out for a walk or anything, if we see them, we pick them up. I will e-mail you a photo. The mother (and father) clean the nest! Crazy! Not only do they take away the eggs once they’ve hatched… they clean the poo too! I included our story in the link with my name, we just saw our first 2 babies leave the nest successfully! I totally saw that rainbow hair on Pinterest a few days ago and thought of you! 🙂 Hello Meg! “did I ever tell you you’re my hero” I love the food. So creative and fun. Also I have loved looking at all the bird photos. Thanks for those. just watched that video (and saw annie doing her OWN laundry) with my 5 year old. we were both very impressed by both. i was explaining to her what “instinct” means…like how the mommy bird knows to take the shell out of the nest. too bad it doesn’t mean that kids automatically know how to do/want to do laundry. omgoodness! i am so trying to make that shark for the last day of school party! My kids are starting their own laundry also. Its good. an older mom of 6 told me the secret of each kid keeping their laundry basket in their own room. .and then each doing their own clothes. . .it has transformed my life!!! We used to all just throw our clothes down this laundry shoot and a mountain would grow in the basement. . not anymore. I sometimes will do a load for a kid as a special way to love up on them. . .but even that is way easier cause you do not have to sort and try to figure out whose socks are whose. . .I love this laundry system!!! And yes, our kids will leave the house knowing how to do laundry!! Thanks for your regular posts. . I stop in almost daily. . .love the inspiration and happiness. So, when are you going to do your hair like that?? It would probably make a hair dresser cry. I don’t think it was me that gave you the idea of having your kids do their own laundry, but mine do too. I used to feel guilty, like I’m a bad mom for making them do their own, but it really is a great thing. Not only do I not have the burden of making sure it gets all done and keeping track of what they need when they need it, i.e. baseball uniforms, etc., it does give them life skills and responsibility. I think we are actually good moms for having them learn to do their own. Yay for you Meg, good mom award! P.S. that is a really fun watermelon monster…might have to try that one! P.S. – Thanks for stopping by! Sorry it made you cry…if it’s any consolation…I cry every time I read it too, and I wrote the darn thing! LOL!! I’ll say it again…you are easy to be kind to! I LOVE your blog…I can’t tell you how many days you have perked me up with your pictures and words. I went back and got ‘caught up’ so to speak. It’s a little sad, your blog was my before bed read. My husband is probably glad though…’cause now I don’t wake him up with my laughing out loud!! Seriously…thanks for your kind words! hugs! wow, i’m impressed with how independent your kids are. i’m thinking i need to give my kids some more responsibility. thanks! HI Meg, I believe Kate S. (above) is right about the egg shells. We have a robin family nesting on my truck tire and I found the egg shells in my melon patch about 50 feet away from the nest. Meg, I know I don’t comment here much but I read your blog ALL of the time. Anyway, the kids and I just made silhouettes, inspired by you. Here’s the blog post: http://pressedpetals.blogspot.com/2011/05/profile-of-inspiration.html The laundry. Wow. I am in awe. I have hope for the future! Too funny about the “oatmeal.” I didn’t even notice the words on the package until you said it wasn’t oatmeal. 🙂 Oh, and I’m pinning that laundry room! Oh how funny (the onion packet)! And just today I was thinking (while dealing with mounds of laundry), this is silly – one person taking care of 5 people’s laundry. Not silly… INSANE! So I will be training my troops this weekend!!! Yay for me!!! I think I will be making the French toast kabobs this weekend too! Thanks for sharing! Have a happy weekend! Love the rainbow hair. I let our girls get a couple of strands of colored hair put in for the summer only. They think they are cool. I’m glad you went and checked out the oatmeal situation. LOL. AND I’m so all over the do your own laundry. Great idea. Are you doin’ your summer list this year? Love the shark head, and birdies, too. 🙂 Oh how I wish we werent STILL having those family laundry folding nights! I also have five kids, so I know the amount of clothes we’re talking about here. Ahhh, maybe this summer they can begin to learn this task, only two weeks of school left, hooray! what a great Friday post!!!! little bits of everything from food to decor to baby birds!!! Happy Friday Meg <3 Love the post. Awesome mom teaching of life skills. Laundry on their own. Perfection. And now, all I can think of is mango. Great post…..you sure saw a lot of stuff this week. We have a bird garden and the birds greatly appreciate it. Every year robins nest in the Silver Maple there, above a large stone birdbath. And, every year, I find the cracked robin’s eggs in the birdbath . . . a sweet little sign the chicks have hatched: ) Supposedly, the robins are supposed to carry the eggshells and fecal matter far away from the nest to help deter predators from finding their hatchlings, but ours seem to figure the birdbath below is far enough. Okay… that video freaks me out a bit. That hair is amazing! I would love to have the kabob recipe too. Yum! And I think I’m going to make granola and buy some clementines and mangoes to have on my yogurt!! 🙂 Fun random post. That’s great about the laundry! My daughter is only 3, but I’ve started getting her involved by having her bring her laundry down and she puts it in the washer. We make it a fun thing to do. Hopefully she’ll still think it’s fun when she gets older! What a great post- F.T.Kebabs(gotta try em!), rainbow hair(I flippin LOVE it but would never do it), that laundry room(I have it pinned in Pinterest myself…total LR envy here), the shark watermelon(so fun, esp for a pool party!), Annie doing her own laundry(go Mama Meg!), the birdies( I almost cried when you said the 3rd one is nowhere to be found…sniff sniff) and the onion soup mix/oatmeal story…awesome. Ok…if little Annie can do it, my boys sure the heck can…but what happens when they wash a crayon…or toilet paper (don’t ask…I don’t even want to know) i used to wake my mom up to ask what the weather was going to be like. i know one day my payback will come… hopefully it has a funny ending like your “oatmeal” story The “oatmeal” CRACKED ME UP!!! So, I was hungry when I first started reading this post …. then I watched the hatching video – yikes!!! That was kind of … weird – for lack of a better word! I don’t like birds much though, but I am intrigued – where does the mama take the egg shells??? Happy weekend! These pics have all made me smile 😉 Wow. Love that shark head too. Maybe for a beach party??!! My nephews are with me this weekend and I was leaning towards chocolate chip pancakes….but man those french toast kabobs look awesome! And what’s up with baby #3? Seriously gone?? Strange and sad… When I read there was no third baby, I really was sad. I’m curious too where she takes the shells? Ok! I think I’m gonna try it…the laundry thing, not the rainbow hair:). I don’t think I’m a rainbow hair kind of girl. Hi Meg! Thank you for the new birdie picture. And for finding the video! Very thoughtful, Mrs. D.! School children everywhere will appreciate it! 🙂 ok,so now I’m craving french toast…and rainbow hair! And we are outta bread!Dang it! there will be many more details to come. there is a very limited number of spots that will be sold….VERY. i think i will be doing more than one….if you really want me to. it will be ALL inclusive. once you get here all you will need is your jammies and your toothbrush! and i bet even if you forget your toothbrush i could get one for ya! it will be here in kansas. there will probably be a field trip to the barn….. here is the link to my first craft weekend with my bloggy friends. i can't wait to meet YOU at the next one! you can come by yourself and hang out with me. or you can come with a friend…….or a few friends!
so…what do you think???? can you come?
I live here in McPherson and am a crafting and antique nut. you keep mentioning a trip to the barn that i am not familiar with but would love to be. would you tell me where i can find this wonderful (i hope) place. where’s the waiting list?? sign me up! I’d love to come!! me, me, me!!! i would LOVE it! I’m actually in Kansas that weekend for a wedding! My cousin is getting married 9-10-11 in Overland Park. Please do it again. I’d make the drive from Colorado, no problem!!! I would completely love to come and craft with you!! If only…….. I am definitely up for this!!! 🙂 i will totally come!! that is if i can secure a spot:) Sounds like so much fun! I’m in Missouri and a total Tiger fan but we could probably get along for one weekend right?!? Can’t wait to hear more about it! I would love to go! If you are going to do more than one weekend though, can you let us know before you open this one up??? That weekend is horrible for me but…if it is the only one, I will figure out how to make it happen…if I can afford it and air fare from MA. I’ll be really close to you after we move next month – yipee! The weekend away sounds like so much fun. I’m new to your site, though, so I might wait for the next year! It sounds fabulous and I love reading your blog- Are you near an airport? I’m on the East Coast! OK, so 300 people want to come. Make that 301 including me. I always tell my husband we could be neighbors. If it doesn’t work this time, I sure hope you want to do it again sometime! You are so brave! i’ll be over in a minute… I would totally be there!!! I can bring goodies; treats of bribery. 🙂 That sounds so fun! I’m in Leawood (KC area). Where are you located in Kansas?? I would love to come if you have available space! I live in your hometown 🙂 I dreamt I met you the other night. We went to a bakery and bought muffins for breakfast. Ha. Maybe this was a premonition. Would love to do a craft weekend with you. that would be amazing!! That is the Alzheimer’s Walk Weekend…. 🙁 will have to miss it and you 🙁 I would love to, however, I don’t have the money. Rotterdam – Kansas is a long way you know! =D But I’ll craft along Side with you here in Rotterdam! PICK ME! PICK ME! My friend and I would love to come! We already have connections to Newton! Hope we can sign up 🙂 yes, please! i think this would be so amazing to getaway w/ some girls and do some fun crafty things! Can’t wait to hear the details!!!!!!!! Clearly a grip load of women want to come to this fabulous event of yours and I am yet another person who wants to come. Can’t wait for more details. 🙂 Yes!! I want to come!! Crafting and me time with other women is just what this Mom needs 🙂 Hi Meg! I would love to come!! I live in West Kansas and just met Beki at the Barn Sale and also Amy D. and Amy J. I would love to come craft, hang out, and get to know ya guys. I hope there is still room. Just let me know and I’ll put it on my calendar! Thank you! if you’re not an amazing crafter can one still come? Yes! Yes! Yes! I’d love to get more information. Do chocolate bribes get you to the top of the list? LOL ummmm…. of course! how can we make that happen? I would love to come and spend a weekend crafting with you. i wanna come!! it would be a perfect 29(ugh) birthday away from my 3 little kidlets. Oh goodness I would LOVE to be there!!!!! Count me in and I will be there with BELLS on!!! I can’t think of a better vacation!! YAY!!! Yes, yes, yes! I would LOVE to come…Georgia’s not too far away, right? hmmm – so how far is Kansas from Southern Maryland? I bet I could drive it with blissful thoughts of crafting and eating those french toast kabobs. keep me posted, this fellow crafter may just may show up on your doorstep. 🙂 Oh my GOSH!!! I would LOVE to come!!! I can’t wait to hear the details. Perhaps I can swing it… depends on how expensive airfare is from ATL to Kansas! So fun! me too!! me too!! when, where, how much?? That would be so absolutely amazing! I wish I could go! I’m doing the flowers for a friends wedding that weekend, and it’s going to be a busy one. But a whole craft weekend with you!!!! That would be the best!:) I’d be there in a heartbeat! Would totally love it! Your house seems so cozy and you and your family seem so fun! Unfortunately, I don’t sew, but I do scrapbook. I have a good friend that loves to sew and maybe I could bring her. We live in CO, so that is fairly close to good ole Kansas…. Would love…and BTW you and I have a friend in common (the fabulous Fremont, Nebraska photog). Just thought i’d throw that in there cuz it’s a darn, small world if you ask me. 🙂 yes yes yes yes yes …. wow never been to kansas! I would love to come! close my eyes and click my heels…there’s no place like Kansas….there’s no place like Kansas…. Sounds lovely! You have NO idea how much I wish I could. But, I currently live 8511 miles away from you 🙁 Wah! If I happen to be home (Oklahoma) the next time you have one (next spring, just in case you want to plan it around me, haha!), I would MOST DEFINITELY try to come! Oh my goodness! How insanely cool is this?!? I’d love to come to Kansas, have a super-fun crafty weekend, and visit Cora’s Playground. My daughter and I crafted and raised money for that & I’d love to come to Newton and meet you! I would love to be there… make sure there is enough Toilet Paper though! 😉 JK… Nice meeting you! I would definitely love to come craft and make a few friends while I’m at it. Can’t wait to hear more. Wow from the length of this list I will be there in a couple of years! I live in Missouri so this sounds great! My BIRTHDAY is 9/11 !!!! I WANT TO COME!!!!!! You are so very crafty and as a Kindergarten teacher I need some lessons that don’t just involve school glue :)!!!! I would love to come. I would love to see Kansas and make new friends! I want to come! I want to come! I want to come!!! But I can’t cause it’s just a little far from Australia. So sad!! how long is the flight from Sydney Australia to Kansas???? Oh Meg how I wish I could be there crafting it up with you in your beautiful home… If only I didn’t live in Australia. If only Kansas was next door to Auckland, New Zealand.. I WOULD LOVE to come!!!! Maybe you need to have one over here! 😉 Love your blog Meg! xxx There are now direct flights from Sydney (Australia) to Houston. And then it would just be another flight to Kansas from Houston I presume? I want to know where you got the cute little picture background thingies that you’ve used on this post- did you make them yourself on the computer? Soooo cute!!! Oh how I would love to come…you have 254 responses….I think you need to have more than one! 🙂 my bag is now packed waiting by the door,i even packed my oversized footie jamms;)do you do background checks??? lol.just.K.I.D.D.I.N.G.:) How far is it from Denver….I just read your blog praying that one day I will be able to be crafty and cute and a good mom all at once. Wow. Looks like lots of people want to come to your craft weekend. You may have to have about 25 of them 🙂 Let’s see…a weekend away with GIRLS??? Yes, please! =0) um, yes, please! 🙂 Have I ever mentioned that this is how I got my start in crafting? Oh Meg! You are so brave! and generous:) When I saw this post this morning I was giddy. and nervous! I told my friend and coworker….we have to go! We work at a non profit and have a major event the following weekend. So we are free! How cool is that? And we live in KS so we’ll have a fun road trip. I can’t wait to hear the details. Good luck narrowing this down! Are you feeling the love from your hundreds of fans?! I hope so! I might be starting a new job in August, in which case I probably wouldn’t be able to come. But if I can make it work, absolutely! You’re gonna need a bigger house! I would like to come pretty please with sugar on top! Oh yes, road trip from the Windy City! I don’t have a blog, but I would totally start one if it’s required! Would love to go thrifting in your neck of the woods. *Have sewing machine, will travel. :)* oh wow I would love to come – I’ve never been to Kansas before, but I do live in Australia so it’s unlikely I can make it. oh well I’ll join in by looking at the photos and imagining how fun it would all have been! I so wish I could come, but please do have a great weekend – and share all about it! I would love to do this!!! Beast! 🙂 I live in Australia and I would love to come! 🙂 oh my gosh, would i love to come. wowzers, how very tempting. if i could pull it off financially and scheduling wise i’d so be there. maybe i will be! just maybe. if i’m lucky. oh my gosh, would i love to come. wowzers, how very tempting. if i could pull it off financially and scheduling wise i’d so be there. maybe i will be! just maybe. if i’m lucky. Oh my goodness. I would love to come!!!!! Seriously. I’m just in CO. That’s not too far. I’m anxiously awaiting more details! Oh my gosh, yes!! You’re going to need an even bigger house. 😉 yes. really that’s it…yes, i would simply be so blessed to come! we are on vacay or you know i would be there!! hoo. I would love to come! Please, please, pretty please post the “all-inclusive” price before you put the spots up for sale. I’ll have to get permission from Dave Ramsey. Oh, and my husband, too. 😉 I don’t want to miss it! I’d LOVE to come! I don’t get many chances to get away….and do craft projects? How awesome would that be?!? Oh I want to, so bad! And you’re SO CLOSE… but we’re moving into a new house close to then and life will probably be pretty hectic. Do you have any idea how many times you plan to do these weekends? The last one looked so wonderful! Aw, if only Kansas were an hour drive from So. Cal!! Count me in. I am worried though…with over 200 reservations, who has to sleep on the floor? I want to come! Would drive there from TX if need be! Can’t wait for more details! Sounds like so much fun!! Awesome! That sounds like the most fun weekend ever! I would love to come!! I would love to come craft with a fellow Jayhawk fan. I think it would be so amazing to attend a craft weekend and meet you and some new awesome people! I can’t wait to hear more details! I would LOVE to come hang out with you. I think when our powers combined, we’d be an unstoppable amount of fun and craftiness! 🙂 To make up for the fact that this is indeed a cruel teaser for those of us on the other side of the world, I would humbly request THE MOTHER OF ALL POSTS detailing every polka dot, pom-pom edged pillow, margharita, chocolate indulgence and hot glue gun craft that takes place. Can you please send me your postal address so I can forward some essential items to add to the experience? If I can’t be there in person, I can at least send some chocolate on my behalf, right? Meredy xo Are you kidding?! I would love too!! 🙂 Sounds like such fun. Oh, man I would love to come meet you! Ever since I found out you were in Kansas too I’ve wanted to meet you. Sept 9 is my hubby’s bday 🙁 …maybe another time? pick me, pick me!! OH I wish!! One plane ticket from California to Kansas, please. yes please!!! Megs I can bring the milk, cream, cheese, butter and cupcakes whatever it takes to get there!!! I’m so excited that you are doing this! You are AWESOME!! Could you send me info about it please? Meg…i wasn’t able to get my family pictures taken with you this summer, so does that mean i am a shoo-in for a craft weekend with you? j/k! but, i totally would! I will check back & keep my fingers crossed that i can get a spot! 🙂 PS~if you have any photo cancellations for the Lawrence area, my family & i would love to have it! 🙂 oh my goodness, oh my goodness…I hope i get in! My husband laughs when I talk about “Meg–you know, my virtual friend that’s never met me before…” Even if I don’t get one of the coveted Golden Tickets, my happy thoughts will be with you and your guests! totally would be in but my sweet second baby girl will be turning one 🙂 I would love to and I don’t even craft, lol. MEg, I will give up my November Disneyland trip to come to Kansas and craft with you!!!!! Holy moly, I want a spot!!!! Dream come true! I would so make the drive from Alabama to come to your craft weekend! Wow. You are going to have to have like 27 of them. Your fans are going Ka-RAY-ZEE. Oh Meg you’re killing me! I would love to come but feel guilty about spending the money right now when we’re trying to get Sergey. Please do another one!! yes!!! It sounds like a BLAST!!!!!!!!!! I would love to meet you! I visit your blog EVERY day!!! It’s my little “treat” of the day to see what you’re up to ‘down there’ in Kansas. 🙂 I’m in Texas (pretty far) but I’m IN!!!! Definitely! Not sure about the school calendar yet, but if I can manage airfare, and everything else, I would so be there! oh my goodness, i so so so would love this! you have become my color inspiration and I live close enough! I would be thrilled, excited, and honored. None of my friends share my love of crafting so I would love to be able to spend some time with amazing ladies who share my interest. Oh Amazing… from far far faaaaar away Cape Town!!! Sounds amazing, but we’re broke. I’ll be crafting my heart out with my ladies here in Portland instead. Have a blast!!! The last one looked like an absolute hoot. Yes, please! wow! this would amazing! a weekend away from 3 kids under 4 years old to be “me”??? hmmmm what to craft? the wheels are already rolling! I will so be there!! I live in Weston, Missouri on the Kansas border…I think I am only three hours from you. I have followed your blog for a couple of years now and really enjoy it. I am a crafter as well, so I can’t wait to hear the details!! Are you feeling the need to rent out the Hilton or maybe the Intrust Center yet? LOL!! Would love it… but from the UK? For a weekend? Unlikely… Oh yes, yes, yes! depending on the price of admission, I’d totally drive from NC to KS for that!!! Oh pick me! pick me! You’re just exactly far enough away for it to really feel like a vacation! megan, I wanna come plus I only live like 30 min away! Love crafts love love vintage antiques and love love love photography!!!!!!! I would love to join you! i was just wondering about this. oh please i hope this works out for me!! sounds. so. awesomely. awesome. YesYesYesYesYes!!!!! I’ll come from Seattle! I’ll find a way! I’ll find childcare! YesYesYes!!! I know just the girlfriend who would come with me. . .we both love your blog. . tell us details. i’d give my eye teeth to be able to come….and would consider sacrificing other things, too!!!!! it’d be AWESOME to say the least. You may just be the coolest person I”know” {maybe “blog-stalk” would be more appropriate!} I would love to! Can’t wait to hear the details! that sounds wonderful!!! I am in…. sounds exciting! I would love to come and bring my friend from Lawrence, Kansas. She’s a Jayhawk! My craft BFF and I would LOVE something like this!!! I would love to come! oh my goodness! i SO WANT TO COME. but…i will have a 3 week old baby at that point…so i’m thinking i won’t be able to swing it. sigh….please, oh please, do this again!!! yeah!! if it’s not too steep a price. that would be awesome!! Yes, I want to come! I would LOVE, LOVE , LOVE to meet you! More details PLEEEEASE!!! omg…when? how much? I would love to come! Well, thank you for asking. What time should I be there? well duh id want to come. I will be just two months away from due date… so driving there would probably be uncomfortable and take forever due to the number of times id have to stop and pee. and can you fly that close to your due date? im not sure. but last time i was there i vowed i would drive the next time especially if there was a barn visit cause i could have cried because of the items that wouldn’t fit back on the plane with me. I think I might have to go RIGHT. NOW. to buy a lottery ticket so I can afford the airfare from Western Canada. Would LOVE to come!!! Of course I would come!!! Who wouldn’t?? The response to this will blow you away! It may be your new business, who knows. Would love to share time, creativity and meals with you and others! Oh, that would be SO MUCH fun! More details please! Um, yes! And it woudn’t even be wierd. It would be awesome. And I would love it. And ohmygosh I could use the break! Would luv to come wonder how long it would take to drive from Ohio. … Where will your kids and your hubby go? They could come to Alabama and camp out with my family. Waffle would just love Jack, our black lab. Do we get to submit a craft idea? Oh the questions…. but the answer is YES!!!!!!! Where are you going to send your kids and hubby?? They could come to Alabama and camp out here with my family. Waffle would love Jack. Do we get to submit craft ideas? Oh the questions… oh the ideas… YES!!!!!! Sounds like so much fun…Look forward to more details! I would love to come. Keep me posted!:) OK YEs please! Sounds like so much fun. When do we find out more? I would LOVE to come! It sounds like a fabulous weekend to me!! hmmmm….I’ll have to think about that 🙂 I have been trying to dream up the best 30th birthday gift my hubby could give me- this would totally be it!!! I would LOVE it if this worked out! YES YES YES!!!!! I want to come!!!!! SERIOUSLY?!!!!! I am there!!! That would be the most amazing birthday present ever! Wish I lived in the States – I would SO be there!! 😀 This would be so awesome, totally out of my comfort zone, but awesome. 🙂 okay. Oh, honey. I’m so there. Guess I’m gonna have to start stalking your blog so I’m número uno to sign up. Not that I’m a stalker or anything. Please don’t blacklist me or anything. 😉 I would love to come!! How much fun it would be!!! But I am stay at home Mama to four boys with a busy working hubby. BUT, I will tune in via web & look forward to seeing all the fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and color!!!!!!! Who wouldn’t want to come?? I’d love it! ohhh.. i wish i lived closer! I guess Toronto is a bit too far for me to travel 😉 sounds very fun! I need to know the cost so I can budget it in. This California Girl has always wanted to go to Kansas!! So fun!! Hope you have room for all these ladies. 😉 will i have to stay up all hours of the night to make sure I get in on those limited spots??? i just realized my 30th birthday present. More details….sounds like fun!! i am heartbroken! i would BE there in a heartbeat. but. i am off to cruise the Mediterranean, and will be flying home during craft weekend. i hope you’ll do another. 🙂 but i’m thrilled you are coming to blog sugar! only a few weeks later! so i’ll definitely meet you then! <3 I’m a mom of three…a Getaway is just what I need. How fun it would be to come and meet you and some other ladies as well!! I’d love the opportunity! I would LoVe to come!!!! I always read your blogs and craft Thursday’s give me inspiration and to be there first hand would be awesome and I’ve never been to Kansas before 🙂 count me in!!!! Oh Meg, I’m in, I’m in!! I could just drive across town and be there! But wow – I mean, WOW! – look at all the others who don’t live here who should have the chance. Oh my, you could really have a houseful! 😀 Yes! Count me in! We are moving to Wichita the first week of July from Indiana. I was hoping I’d see you in the Joann’s sometime! Yes, please. I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to come….but I can’t that weekend 🙁 wish my credit card balance wasn’t already so dang bigg :/ OHMYGOSH! Sounds like a dream weekend! For sure. And I am already in Kansas- bonus! Or do the cool kids say beast now? I am so old! YES I would love it if you would share some of your tips for planning a weekend. Some girl friends and I are planning our own out here on the east coast and would love any advise you could pass on! ooooooh sounds enticing. what if, um, you’re (and by you’re i mean I’M) not very crafty? as in clueless around glue guns and thread and buttons and such 🙁 i do bake and would be happy to observe, take photos, bake the whole gang vanilla scones and pumpkin bread and listen to awesome folks. xo Heck yeah! I can drive there, it’s just down the road from my in-laws. Woudl love to spend the weekend with you and other crafters! Hi Meg… Yes I would be in, yippee! I’m in SW MO so I could just hop over. It would probably be just me, ahhh, that makes me nervous to do something on my own, but what an AWESOME chance to make some craft friends! This mama needs a “me” trip and I think this would do the trick! MEGAN!!!! I want to come!!!! I see there are a MILLION people ahead of me but my father-in-law owns Barely Makin It in Marion so nothing else I would love to meet up with you girls and say hi when you visit the barn! YOU ARE MY FAVORITE PERSON EVER!!!!! I would love to come. I do not have any crafty friends that live near me that would do this. Flights are only $216 from Philly. I may have to go for the next one though. It is my 10yr anniversary this Nov and we may get a weekend away. With my husband just getting back on his feet after 1 1/2 years of no work, it may be tight. I love your blog meg. I talk about you to my family like they know you. “I got this recipe from Meg”. They think it is funny. Yes please! ME ME ME!!!! sign me up:) i’d LOVE to come as well! though i’m not sure you’ll have room for all of us. =] that would be so much fun!! sounds like an ideal weekend! What a fun idea. A weekend away from husband and child, and getting my craft on. Uh, yes please! It would be soooo fun!!! I want to go too! If I met you I would cry like a big dork. BUT, that’s okay because I know you would get it. 😉 LOL I would love to join you – got to check my calendar! Stinkola. I’m excited that I’ll be 37 weeks preggie at that point (yay!), but bummed that I can’t fly out to craft. I’ll look forward to your post about it, though! 🙂 Very fun, Meg! I’m going to watch airline ticket prices starting NOW! The Banana will be there!!! Sooo need some craft time with the ladies!!!! Oh my, yes! This spoke to my heart today. My husband is going on yet another guys’ weekend soon, and he pledged to fund a girlie getaway for me…I just have to pick what I want to do. Yes, yes, yes! I’d fly from CA to be with you! YES! i would love to come 🙂 OMGoodness. I can’t believe you are doing this.!?! You are, by far, the bravest woman I “know.” I am DYING to hear how this turns out. I have no extra vacation time this summer, so I’ll watch from this side of the computer screen. Knowing you (as I do) there will be LOTS of pics. I recently found your blog and LOVE reading it. Your posts inspire creativitly, it’s wonderful. Also loved reading about the last craft weekend, looks like such a good time. Can’t wait to read about the next one. I want to come!!!! please please pick me!! Oh how fabulously fun that would be! The hubs is always asking, when o tell him a story, I I know the person in real life or if they are one of my internet “friends”. It would be super cool to be able to get all crafty and say BOTH! That’s right before my birthday. What a PERFECT 30th birthday present!!! =) Are there direct flights to Kansas from Australia? Count me in! A craft weekend with you would be AMAZING! Uhhhh yes please! I think that would be really fun! And I would clean your kitchen! would so love to come! Never been to Kansas before! This sounds FUN! women, crafts and shopping what could be better. I just live a hop, skip and a jump away…whoohoo! are bribes allowed? 🙂 Would looooove a girly weekend away… That sounds like fun! I would love to come! I would love to come with my friend! We love junking and picking stuff off the road and doing something with it-love crafting-its right up our alley! Can’t wait to hear about the details! oh would so love to…and I would in a minute if I wouldn’t be too nervous meeting strangers, if I had enough money, and if I could handle missing football games and other kids activities that weekend…oh and I’m also not really crafty…although I would like to be 🙂 Oh, yeah, I’m in!!!! Absolutely! Sounds incredible. I would love to o me o my! yes, please! *standing on tippy toes, arm stretched as high as the sky-loudly saying* ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!! that weekend is perfect for me…. ahh man! I just checked with my husband because I knew we were going to visit his folks over Labor Day weekend (it really is going to be cool because ALL of the siblings and grandkids will be there, even the family who lives in Wales who I’ve only met at our wedding) and we don’t get back till the 11th. 🙁 Boo hoo hoo. But! I live so close to Kansas I can taste it now that we’re in Colorado so I would love to come to the next one! Kelly Booo…I’m doing an art fair that weekend 🙁 Otherwise I’d have been there in a heartbeat! I want to go! I have 3 kids age 7 and under and have never been away from them except the hospital to give birth. Seriously! Crafting is right up my ally! I would so come in a heart beat – as long as kids’ schedules allow or I can get coverage for them. 🙂 Details please! Yes please!! Yes, yes, yes. My husband is deploying in June and won’t be home until Christmas. This would be a perfect distraction to get me past the halfway mark! I’m anxious for details… Man. Wish I could make it. I’m sure you’ll all have a lovely time. Can’t wait for all the blog posts afterwards! I would so start saving my pennies!! Tell me more! Did you really even have to ask?! Of course people would love to come craft with you!! And that includes ME! YES, I can! Count me in! i think you should start a day early and come to crafts with the preschoolers. Wow, by the looks of the comments, you could auction off some spots and make a big.fat.killing on this Meg!:) Id love to come. In fact, my crazy(but safe)obsession with your first crafty weekend is what made me sign up for BlogSugar so I could meet you. And now you go and plan THIS for just a few weeks before. Ugh. I soooo wish I could come but the airfare to Cali from NY is gonna kill my budget as it is. This would be my dream weekend though. Count this Texas girl in!! 🙂 How fun! I’d love to learn some new skills! yes! i would love to! Oh my goodness! This would be a DREAM come true! I’m in like Errol Flynn! MY BESTIE AND WOULD LOVE TO COME!!!!! We love you Meg!!! We have often thought about stopping by to see you.(just joking)But seriously, Missouri (where we live) is not that far from you!!! I am in love with your style!!! Rainbows are my fav!!! Can’t wait for more details!!!! What website did you use to make those cute graphic signs on this post? Yes! Count me in! Totally interested! Oh I SOOOO wish I still lived in Wichita, I would SO be there! 🙂 Sounds like fun! I’d love to do something like this if there is slot available. As an Olathe KS girl it would be just a hop, skip and a jump away for me. Fun fun!! 🙂 I would love to come!! I would drive from the middle of Missouri to get crafty with ya’ll!! I would love to come. I also have a wee girl (she’ll be about 7 months old by then) and she’ll have to come with me. 🙂 Um yes! Sign me up! heck yes! This would be amazing!!!! I am due at the very end of October so this would be a fun get-a-way before baby!!! Amazing! I want to come too! When will you let us know!? Oh man! I would love love to be able to come! Definitely do more than one…if you can handle us! Love you Meg…is that weird to love a blog and blogger you have never met (or even commented on) before. Omg, I would totally try to come! I just moved to Kansas from San Diego, and my family would always plan craft weekends – so I’ve been craving one! But none of my new friends here are much of crafters…. Oh wow!!!! I actually COULD come….my hubby has those days off…and that is a HUGE thing…he has to schedule his vacations like a year in advance??!!!!!!! Hmmm, are you already full??? I soooo want to come!!!!! I’m very close to Kansas so this would be very doable and SO awesome! BUT…. does one need to be crafty to attend craft weekend? ;o) I’m good at copying other people’s ideas, but not coming up with my own. i really, really want to come! (even though i would probably cry on the way there because meeting new people scares me!) 🙂 your craft weekend is my daydreams when my boys are driving me bonkers. It would be a perfect solo-journey for me 🙂 this mama needs it! Kansas is a long way from Alabama but when i read your blog, i feel more like we’re neighbors! I think you must be a southerner at heart! I have thought about a crafting weekend for friends at my house… would love to experience one at yours first! What an amazing treat that would be. Thanks for thinking of those of us who were green eyed monsters when we read your post about “craft weekend with your bloggy friends”! Oh my goodness…I would love to and maybe bring a friend…I will have to see about the details and cost. I am in Ga so as soon as you have details so I can check prices. I AM SO THERE! ooh – can’t wait for the details! that would be a fun trip to try and swing!! and after all…SC to Kansas isn’t really that far, is it? 😉 I want to come..its a little drive from Texas..how fun! Looks like you will need to get a bigger house with so many wanting to come! I’m in! I remember. 🙂 Me!! I want to come!!! I will be done nursing then! And Girlfriend I have been preggers or nursing CONTINUOUSLY since June 2004. No joke. I am ready to GET AWAY!!! YES! Good thing I’m in Kansas and super close!!!! that sounds like a total blast. I’ll see if I can swing it! I live really far away, but when we meet and you find out where i live, you’re going to want to come to my house, and quickly. You’re amazing for going through with this. Love the design of this post, too. I would love to come but my baby will be a month old. But it may be doable!!! Please keep us posted!!! I’m in the Texas Panhandle and would love to come! oh what fun! I would love to come! I want to come!! Have to check the hubby’s work schedule so he can watch our kiddos!! that would be wickedly awesome! I would love to come … and alone! Just me … ME ME ME! 🙂 YES!!!! That would be amazing! I want to come!! Oh my goodness. I sooo want to do this!!! Would love to meet you and be crafty together! It would be so BEAST!(did I use that word right?) That sounds like SO much fun! You could host them once a month and fill up the spots easy peasy every time!!! OOOooooo. OOOOOooo. I wanna come! Maybe even bring my sisters!!! I’m guessing that it will be a big resounding Y- E- S from all of us who follow you! Would I get some art hints from your kids too? 🙂 Sounds like so much fun!!! What an awesome idea!! I’d love to spend a weekend crafting. I would love to meet some crafty people. =) YES!!! I already told my husband back when you first mentioned it. WooHoo! Can I bring a baby!?!?! I doubt I can afford it, but I would die to come play! Would SO love to… I could come! Yes! I’m not a blogger, but I read a ton of them. Yours is my favorite! I’m recovering from a double mastectomy and I can tell you now, I need a break from the real world. A crafting weekend sounds perfect! Can’t wait to get the details. Meeeeee…… OMGSH!!! Details please…..this tired mama needs some girly time away! Meeeee…. Tooooo…. More details please …… Ohhhh yes please! September is my birthday month so it could be a birthday gift to myself! This sounds right up my alley…ahhh! 😉 no way! i totally had a dream about a craft weekend with you LAST NIGHT!!! i was up most of the night with a sick baby, so my sleep was in spurts with strange dreams all mixed in throughout. and i promise, this was one of them!! i went to your house with a bunch of my high school and college friends and we had to whisper the entire time. you had a puppy named “puppy”. (never said my dreams are original!). i don’t remember what we made but before it was over, i had color coordinated all your craft supplies! 🙂 Fun! I would love to craft and meet you ( and Waffle?). Awesome! that weekend doesn’t work for me, BOO. you’ll sell out in no time. if my plans change–i’ll look for tix on stub hub. hahaha, or maybe scalpers in your yard? 🙂 (that’s kind of creepy–sorry–no scalpers) I would definitely drive the 10+ hours to be there! Exciting!! can you believe i already have something planned that weekend!? it’s MONTHS away. DANG IT!!!!!! you all will have SO much fun. craft weekend = my dream. I would love to come, but I live in Australia and I don’t think I could fly over for just the weekend. Maybe sometime in the future. okay…well THAT sounds fun 🙂 OHHH MYYYY GODDD !!! HOW I WISH I COULD GOOOO AND MEET YOU….But I live in Brazil !!!! Is a land far, far away from Kansas…It’s a bummer !! I’m sad for myself but very happy (and a little bit jealous…rsrs) for those who will go… I am already in Kansas… I would totally love to come! And I even have a couple of friends who might be interested! Very tempting indeed! Would need more details to know if we can swing it in our budget but would certainly be interested!! xoxo ML That’s a silly question, of course I’d love to come!! Heck yeah! That barn has been calling my name! I want to come and meet you most of all…can’t wait to hear more about it! Count me in! after we moved into our first house in Illinois we started hosting our small group.
he was traveling in kansas for work and came for dinner this week! after games, talking and dinner and dessert….suddenly our house turned into a WWF event….. we told the boys to say goodnight and goodbye to peter….. good times. see you in july peter.
I love your chore board, especially “pray” – can you post a close up? Waffle, and the look on Peters face- lol I’ve said it before…and I’ll keep saying it. Your husband is HAWT. I just totally smiled my whole way through that post. Thank you for all that happiness that just spilled across my computer screen 🙂 I miss these kind of things too. We had a good friend like that, who came over all the time. He even came over once when my husband was at work just to show me the deer he shot while hunting LOL! He got married and life moved on. I miss him. Watching him throw my little (not so little anymore) ones around was fun. We have other friends now, of course that wrestle with the kids and it’s still funny to watch (especially since one of them is usually half drunk when he’s doing it haha). Whenever my son starts doing this to his younger sisters I tell them that it’s like he’s saying “I love you” and giving them a big kiss. It always makes him stop. I agree with Mrs. Lamb! I have been sharing birdie pictures with my first grade class and my 8 year old son . . . we are anxiously awaiting pictures of the 3rd birdie! Can’t wait to see how those naked little guys change. So cool!! I love Annie’s face in the 4th picture. She looks so determined! this is the stuff of great memories. craig’s muscles! That looks like so much fun! But in all the craziness, I am admiring the picture collages on the chalkboard in the background. Super cute! Where did you make them and order them? Please share! Thanks! these pics made me smile. 🙂 looks like fun! Ahhh! I love good friends. 🙂 I love that your husband joyfully plays along with WWF.. Our Labradoodle does the SAME thing when we wrestle. He barks super loudly at the biggest person, like he’s protecting the smaller one. It’s always interesting to see who he chooses to “protect” when my husband and I are wrestling *eyebrow raised* I LOVE that we’re not the only crazies with wwf matches like that! The boys usually end up in a hog pile on my husband and he comes roaring up out of them like Thd Arnold in Kindergarten Cop! Cracks me up everytime—thankfully they know that momma don’t play that! friends like that are the best! also, my kids need to do chores. I love stories like that. It’s really what life is all about right? I have been sharing your pictures of your “hatching nest” with my class each day. We printed the pictures and are enjoying the progress of God’s beautiful, amazing creation. My class asked me today if you had posted a picture of all three birds. WE NEED A NEW PICTURE!!!! Please post and tell us how they are doing. So sweet that you guys still get together! It’s so hard to maintain friendships when everyone’s lives are changing! Holy moley is that your front door???? I have a thing for front doors, wow that is amazing! Would you be so kind and give us a tour of some of the architectural details of your home? Please, pretty, pretty please!!!!! I love it! I had an uncle that played like Peter. Loved it – so much fun!! I’m glad you and your family got to visit with him. your pillows sure are durable,lol! Great pictures! Great pictures meg! When my brother is home (he is in the Army) my boys play with him and my husband just like in your pictures here, they wrestle, and have pillow fights. Love, if you ask me 🙂 Haha! I love Craig picking Scott up to throw him down. It doesn’t matter that he is 13 and huge, he still does it like he’s 3! And Waffle’s open mouth is too cute. My husband, daughter and just had a wrestling session like this last week! Good times. oh my goodness these pictures made laugh out loud! I LOVE how guys show how much they love each other. It’s a little violent and scary, but I LOVE it. Thanks for the pics and I long for a loving small group. my favorites. please enjoy a bazillion giant pictures of my peonies…..with some ruby slipper and white daisies mixed in.
my grandmother loves to garden. so i cut my peonies and put them in the vase she gave me. my dad goes to visit my grandma every morning and has been reading my blog to her. hi grandma! when i was a little girl i remember picking strawberries in her yard…near the door of the fence. don't you love to go back in your memories to times that are warm and fuzzy? i have more flowers to plant….gotta go. 🙂
oh yeah….baby #2 is here. these are robins….in case you didn't know.
i guess i should also clean the porch today.
The peonies are beautiful and I am in awe of the baby bird photos! Thank you for sharing and Go God! I love peonies and am anxiously awaiting mine blooming. So jealous yours already are! Don’t the mama and papa birds dive at you when you walk under the nest? Years ago I looked into a robin’s nest and then every I went by they were diving at me and really after me. You are so lucky. I am loving your baby robin pictures. They are amazing. You could sell them! 🙂 Simply spectacular 🙂 Love em 🙂 And congrats on baby bird #2!!!!! I’m planting strawberries today….I’ll think of your grandma….and I’ll think of my poppa’s HUGE garden I used to “help” him with 🙂 sigh….. love your flowers …. wow it looks beautiful and warm and sunny where you are …. the snow has finally melted up here in Fernie BC although its on 7degrees Celsius here at the moment and there’s a frost on the ground. we hope summer is coming soon 🙂 Lovliness…pure and simple. your blog totally cracks me up – absolutely love it! peonies make me so happy…. I drove by your house this week and your flowers looked so pretty. My peonies just started blooming and I LOVE them too. Definitely my favorite. Oh, and the bird pictures are awesome. 🙂 God is at work right in your yard and on your porch. Absolutely beautiful pictures. Thank you for brightening my day! Gorgeous … I also love the back-lit, light pink peony photo … about took my breath away, sooo beautiful! These photos seriously made me wish I had a yardful of peonies! The baby birds are amazing, thank you for sharing your peeks of the peeps with us! 🙂 love the bird picture!! What a beautiful collection of Peony’s you have. Mine are a week or 2 away from blooming. Unfortunately they always seem to bloom around Memorial Day when we are away and when I get back rain and wind tend to make them disappear way too fast. I saw on Martha Stewart last year that you can actually freeze the buds just before they bloom and take them out of the freezer as needed. I thought that was such a great idea that we ordered about 8 more plants last year so we can give it a try. I’m not sure of the specifics but if you search Martha and Peony’s I’m sure you can find the info if you are interested! You’ll have to let me know how you keep your peonies bug free. Mine get covered with ants! UG! Thank you for taking me back to my house I grew up in and remembering the beautiful peonies that lined our driveway each Springtime. I LOVED those bushes and my mom had many of them alongside our drive. It was SO pretty! I really should plant some of those myself, they are gorgeous! Loved the baby birds pic too…awesome especially since I unfortunately saw a dead baby bird (a robin) on my neighbor’s driveway this evening…sniff, sniff. Happy Spring to you…hopefully it shows up in Michigan one of these days…sheesh! Oh, and I’m SO envious of your beautiful porch…sigh! Thank you for taking me back to my house I grew up in and remembering the beautiful peonies that lined our driveway each Springtime. I LOVED those bushes and my mom had many of them alongside our drive. It was SO pretty! I really should plant some of those myself, they are gorgeous! Loved the baby birds pic too…awesome especially since I unfortunately saw a dead baby bird (a robin) on my neighbor’s driveway this evening…sniff, sniff. Happy Spring to you…hopefully it shows up in Michigan one of these days…sheesh! Oh, and I’m SO envious of your beautiful porch…sigh! Your peonies pics are so pretty. I made one my screensaver. thank you. and you need to send those baby birdie pics to national geographics or something. they are amazing. I think I need to go buy some peonies and plant them right this minute. Yours are absolutely gorgeous! Great photos of beautful flowers. I especially love the 7th photo – sunlight filtering through the green leaves of the light Beautiful flowers!!! Ooh, I can’t wait until my peonies bloom! crazy. i just posted a pic of the peonies i purchased today!!! i cant grow them bc my husband is alregic to bees. love THEM though Your pictures are awesome. Peonies, or pinies, as my mother and grandmother used to call them are one of my favorites. They bring back many childhood memories. I’m not very lucky in raising them so will enjoy your photos instead! Thanks for sharing. Your peonies (or panties as I used to call them as a child…) make me smile! They are gorgeous, so so beautiful. They are never that good in Atlanta, so I enjoy your pictures. wish your pictures were scratch and sniff… peonies are my favorite! what lovely photos. happy day. Your poenies are beautiful! I wish I could grow them down here in South Texas but it is too hot. And I am glad I to see I am not the only one that has a messy porch sometimes. haha…By the way loved all the colorful images from the other day. Make you feel happy. Oh my goodness!!! If anyone ever asks me “Julia, what are you missing out on by not living in Kansas?” I’m going to say “Seeing Miss Meg’s garden in person.” they’re gorgeous. nothing smells better than a peony. yum. I really loved the pictures of your peonies! My grandma loved peonies and grew them all around her yard. After she passed away last February, I dug up some of her plants and transplanted them to my yard. I am so happy that they survived, and two of them even I love peonies!! I wish I would have planted them years ago. Our small town restaurant had a vase of them on their counter yesterday. I about died with the beauty of it. Not really, but could have. 😉 I am SOOOO Jealous!!! I love peonies, but I don’t think they can grow in Texas. As I sat down after lunch… I said in my head… ‘ok, meg, make me smile.’ And LOOK! You did it! hugs to you! my sister and I just had a discussion yesterday on how to pronounce them, so which is it? peoooohhhhnies or peuuuhhnies?? I grew up saying the first, but now everyone corrects me with the second! Love, love, love the Peonies!! I so wish we could grow them in the south! Enjoy your beautiful flowers and sweet little porch visitors. 🙂 i have been anticipating your peonies post. my friend has scads in her yard and always gives me some. Your flowers are beautiful. They are really nice flowers…perfect for a wedding! ahhhhhh! I love my peonies too! How do you get all the ants off yours to bring them in the house? My grandma had peonies and I brought some to this house. They split really easily and well. You are so lucky that your grandma is still alive. Mine has been with the Lord almost 20 years and I still miss her very much! (I am tearing up just thinking of missing her.) The flower pics are gorgeous. What lens did you use when you took them? So sad I can’t grow Peonies in SoCal…they are seriously the most gorgeous flower ever. Yours are so pretty and I love your memories of your Grandma…grandmas are special. There are no ants in those peonies! Your weather must have been great lately. I love them. My little girl memory of peonies was dropping their flower petals in weddings I was in when I was small – 4 or 5. We would always practice with peony petals and have pretend weddings from that point on. I’ve tried growing them in zone 14 in the Bay Area of California. The bush will grow but never flower. After a few seasons of that – the bush got pulled out. No flowers – no stay. 🙂 Thanks for a blast of spring! Peonies mean birthdays (mine) and mother’s day to me. They are tied up in all my May/June memories — along with LILACS! Flowers = Pure Happiness! Kansas has some of the prettiest peonies I’ve ever seen (brother used to live in kc). Wish I could grow them here! they’re some of my very favorite flowers. What do you do to get rid of the ants, or do you just live with them? #1… my fave thing about that picture is that your porch looks like a normal person’s porch… thank you! Those baby birds look a little like miniature aliens. 🙂 But the whole thing is quite amazing isn’t it? I live in Southern California. That means no peonies. I *dream* of a day when I can grow peonies, but I don’t think we’re moving any time soon. I can almost smell them!! Thanks for sharing! gorgeous – love the peonies! I have 2 that bloom and bought 2 more this year…I just hate that the blooms don’t seem to last long. I keep thinking I need to look for a tree peony but have yet to find one. Your pictures are BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the intense color and can almost SMELL them! I love peonies! and your are gorgeous!! My husband and I just dug a bunch out of a flower bed at my parents farm that had become over run with weeds! I could not let them go:) Megan – your blog is my happy place. Thanks for sharing your flower pictures today! LOVE the pictures! Please make some into HUGE prints and put them in your etsy shop. Or just send them to my house. 🙂 We have several of my great-grandmother’s peonies but they’re not quite ready to bloom yet. By the way – Betsy Kate’s pictures are super sweet. Thanks! i.love.peonies. why don’t we have them here in zone 8/9??? i would so steal your peonies too! And i love that your porch looks like that. 🙂 Wow!! Your pictures and garden are amazing!! I absolutely love peonies! They are my all time favourite flower. I love them in the bud stage, so tightly wrapped up, carefully concealing the beauty beneath. Then when they burst open – they’re so huge! It’s yet another part of God’s beautiful creation that makes me smile. Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos. All your photos are lovely, but the one of the back-lit, light pink peony in the sunshine stopped me in my tracks- GORGEOUS! Be careful the kids don’t scare the Mommy bird away from the nest and make her reject her young – v important that they don’t touch or freak out the mother. Oh, I’m enjoying! And cursing myself for only having 1 peony plant when I LOVE them. Thanks for sharing! I love peonies and they are the main flower in my upcoming wedding 🙂 I got married 2 weeks ago and carried peonies…they are my favorite too! I hope to plant a yard full of them one day! WOW!!! I have serious Peopny envy!! SO gorgeous!!! And those little baby birds, my goodness! So sweet! Love the mohawk on the one bird! Your birdie pictures are awesome. Love that Grandma is reading your blog. Just makes my heart melt. gorgeous photos. the memories of time spent with my grands are the best. i heard that peonies require ants to help them open. is that true? ask your grandma, i bet she knows. 🙂 Great post. Peonies are my all time favorite. And the pictures of the birds hatching are priceless. Thanks for sharing with the class. Cheers, girlie. xoxo You do know how lucky you are, right? We just set a record overnight low here in Seattle…and might see our first day about 70 later this week. My grandma was a gardener, too – I have plants from cuttings in her yard which I treasure. Those peonies are amazing! do people ever steal your flowers? i would if we lived closer. I’m loving your pictures of the birds! Make sure to place something on your porch because the poop gets outta control! 🙂 We just place a cardboard box top and some newspaper and then it’s easier to clean up and change out. Because the birdies don’t want to poop in their nest so that means it just falls onto your porch! 😀 sigh… love peonies. Oh, how I wish we could grow peonies around here. I have too much sun and too much heat for them. Thanks for sharing. And the babies are beautiful. I LOVE peonies. It’s so sad that they’re only around for such a short time. So beautiful. And, your pictures, gorgeous. Thanks for posting. I can smell the peonies right through the screen, I swear! Love ’em! And now 2 birds? Get out!!! These pictures are just so amazing!!! I adore your front porch, even if you think it needs cleaned. Looks like a great spot to read a book or have a morning chai. Be blessed. Aaah Meg! The colours are to die for! Did you put those flowers up because its my Birthday? 🙂 haha! Also, Welcome Baby #2 x i adore peonies. i almost adore those baby birds more. kind of like sad, pathetic and helpless meets the cutest thing i ever did see. so precious. I needed that burst of color this morning! So beautiful! Lovely pictures as always. Your blog makes me so happy! Oh, thanks for sharing 🙂 I love photos of your home. My peonies are no where near ready to open…June is peony month for us. I also have baby birds, I’m jealous you can use your camera to take pics, our nest is on my truck tire(!), I have to use my cell to take photos! Your porch is gorgeous with or without cleaning it up. Love the birdie picture, especially yesterday’s…something hopeful about those two waiting eggs. I think you should submit that one somewhere. Hi, Im back to bug you about selling those as prints…now I think I love the 2 baby birds even more! That beautiful blue egg is so lovely…Gods handiwork is everywhere for us to enjoy. Amazing. So when will those pictures be in the shop?? 🙂 Im glad to hear your Grandma is able to enjoy your blog…she will love this post. I love these pictures so much! I feel so upliftd seeing such beautiful flowers this morning! Thank you so much for that. I love your garden, and hope to have one like yours one day! 🙂 The picture of those birdies is incredible. We had some mourning dove babies on our porch a couple of weeks ago. It was always so fun to go check on them. those babies flew the nest though… so now i am a 20 something single empty nester. ha! Gorgeousness all around. Can you A. adopt me or B. turn your house into a bed and breakfast so I can come stay with you? Every post of your home makes me wanna move to Kansas and move into the Museum next door. All of those pictures are incredible, but I really like the bird ones – WOW!!! Thanks for all the pictures of your peonies!! We lived on the my husband’s family farm for years and we inherited all of Grandma’s plants. Peonies were one of those treasured plants! When we moved to McPherson…I moved them with me and gave some to her daughters. When we moved to Hutch last year (in the coldest part of winter) I moved them again and transplanted as soon as I could. Sadly…they didn’t make it. Peonies are in my backyard plan somewhere…but it’s not the same as having Grandma’s Peonies. They always make me think of her! Loved every pic!! Back to quilting and then finishing some flower planting for me too! Amazing bird pics! Gorgeous peonies….I’ll bet your grandma is going to love this! don’t be surprised if you spot me crawling in your garden with a pair of scissors… |
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sona bran - “Would love to know where to find out about how to pose people and how to get those lovely natural smiles. any help?
Tiffany - these are good, u should come to PA. i think i ask u that every week. i think u should give photography tips, look how happy those kids are!
Emily B - These are lovely! So happy for your good and busy photography season. What a blessing to get to do something you love and to help provide for your family! Great work!
Lori Danelle - Ha! I grew up with Craig! Fun to catch a glimpse of his family.
I’ve been waiting patiently to see your “official” photos post workshop. Love them!!! Great job. 🙂
Sugar Mama - Great pictures and happy looking faces!
Emily - Love Brody’s pic…can’t wait to see them all!
Tammy @ The Sabourin Family - Beautiful! Oh how I wish we lived closer. My family needs to be captured like THAT. Great job, Meg. 🙂
Michelle from Australia - 3 options:
1. The cutest people in the world get you to take their pic?
2. You are the world’s best photographer?
3. A combo of the above?
Great pics Meg!
Keri ~ Forever Folding Laundry - Just checking in to see if you guys are in an area affected by the tornadoes. Hope you all are well….
Jodi @ The Un-Soccermom Blog - beautiful pictures!! you are such a grand inspiration! 🙂
Kerry - yay.. that means SUMMER is on its way 🙂 Beautiful pics Meg xx
lauren - yeah for picture time!!! i love seeing your work… and it is so fun seeing how much you have learned and grown as a photographer… inspiration left and right. 🙂
Tracey Garcia - I love that the baby girl only has one sandal on
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Tricia - Meg: I think that your pictures are wonderful and I’m glad that you are enjoying the process so much! Isn’t it a great feeling to be able to do something that brings so much joy to your life?
On a different note, I am trying to spread the word about a wonderful quilt raffle to benefit Joplin, MO tornado victims. Please check out the beautiful quilt that Dana is giving away at http://oldredbarnco.blogspot.com/
Have a wonderful day!
April M - lovely!
Amanda - You know the Stutzman’s! I live in Georgia and have been following your blog for a while now. I really had no idea where you were from. Imagine my surprise when I see my college roommate in one of your pictures! It really is a small world!
Valerie Page - Love these photos. Oh, how I wish you would come to Las Vegas and take photos of my family.
happygirl - Gorgeous pics. My hubby bought me a new camera, but still not an slr. 🙁 So, I’m trying to learn how to rock the automatic.
btw, I’m blogging on gratitude if you’d like to stop by.
Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - Love it! I wish I had your mad photog skills. But alas, I do not.
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Sarah
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Sarah@this farm family's life - LOVE them and you can tell that you have fun doing it!
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Penny - I wish you lived closer or I lived closer… You do beautifu work.
Shannon - What beautiful families and pictures!
Jennifer - Beautiful…especially the one of the little fella staring up at you with those beautiful blue eyes and that cute spiked hair! Oh my goodness…so precious. 🙂
Holly - very nice!
Melissa - Beautiful! I love the bricks!