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I have moved back to blogger from weebly. I sure do miss having my own domain, hopefully soon I can repurchase the using of learningtolovehome.com but until this we will just have blogger be our host. I enjoyed using weekly for the past year, however in the past few months it seems that it was more difficult to blog the normal. It would take hours just write out a post, upload the photos, and figure out the layout. My desire to blog about upcoming family events was turning into a huge hassle.

So I have gone back and re-uploaded the important post to this blog, ones that I felt helped tell the story of Learning to Love Home. Hope you enjoy playing catch up with me. I promise not to post this many blogpost in one day again!

4th of July Wreath!

I can't wait to share with you how to make one for your front door. They are perfect for Memorial Weekend and the 4th of July! Plus that are super easy to make, I finished mine in just 2 evenings. It truly was the perfect craft for this super pregnant lady! :) 

What you'll need: 

    1 pool noodle. [Depending on your noodle, you may have to cut a little bit off. Make it into a circle to determine the size. Then tape the ends together with heavy duty duct tape]

    3 different colors of duct tape [This helps to remember to know which color goes where. Especially with the red and white, helps to make sure you have even stripes. Also the tape can help reenforce the pins as they go into the noodle]

    1-2 box of 1 1/16 inch dressmaker pins

    14 inches of blue felt  (will cut into 2 1/2 inch squares)

    22 inches of white felt (will cut into 2/12 inch squares)

    18 inches of red felt     (will cut into 2 1/2 inch squares) 

    7 stars (this can vary based on what you want)

Carolyn's wreath on her front door!

A few weeks ago my aunt Carolyn bestie came down from Pennsylvania, she was working on the following wreath for Carolyn. Tensley loved helping them make the wreaths, she put bring them the fabric squares and sometimes fold them so all they had to do was place the pin through it and onto the noodle. I loved them so much that when Carolyn was listing out her supply list to make more, I asked her to add enough for me too. I just finished mine on Monday and I can't wait to place mine on our front door for Memorial Weekend coming up at the end of Month. 

This is one my aunt Denise has started. You can see how we used clear and gray duct tape to divide up how many white and red sections we will need. Underneath all the blue felt pieces we had placed blue tape so we would know how big to make this section as well.

Here is a sample of all three felt colors, they are 2 1/2 inch squares.

Fold the square intro a triangle. 

Fold into a second triangle, then add your straight pin to it.

We used the tape to color code our sections. Here the blue is all filled up! 

Here is another one in progress. 

This is my completed wreath. I love how it turned out. Once you complete your wreath, place your stars on the blue to the design you want. I have 2 small and 2 large stars. Then you just glue them to your blue felt pieces.

Birthday Celebrations

This weekend we went to Chuck E. Cheese as a family to celebrate one of Tensley's best friends birthday. We had an absolute blast! 

We had never taken Tensley there before, so we were both excited to see how she would like it and how she would actually react when Chucky himself came out to say hello to everyone. Lets just say she loved it! She is totally bummed she didn't get her photo with Chucky and currently asking when we can go back. Looks like David and I could be looking into a package for her birthday in the fall, thought I'm sure by then she will be in love with something else. 

   

Oops. Slid right of the seat trying to reach the peddles.

Dad was quick to help out his mini racer! 

Birthday boy and his precious mama! NO worries he did smile later on, he just need some cupcake in him ;)

Love this sweet girl, blue cupcake face and all!

            How cute are these two! I just love their sweet friendship. #koltonandtensley

This ride was really cool, the kids got to choose between flying, riding, or a roller coster. These photos are all from them choosing the roller coster option, the seat would move up and down depending on what part of the video was on. They had no idea they were being recorded either, so the dads laughed watching their faces on little tv above them. I was so thrilled with how great these images came out! #koltonandtensley 

Tensley and her two favorite boys, Kolton and Lucas. She loves both of these boys so much, they have truly been her best friends since she was born. I love watching their friendship grow. We just love these two boys at our house too. Tensley says she is going to marry them both, honestly if she married one of them I'd be perfectly fine with it. I will say this girl will have a hard time picking which one, they both are such sweet loving boys. Plus we just love their parents! :)