Happy 5th Birthday, Katie!
In the spring the girls and I planted some wildflowers and sunflowers in a back corner of the yard. 
The polar bears are always entertaining. I guess this one was tired of being in the limelight. He was floating in the water with his chin resting on a rock.
Did you know that you can pet a shark? You can! They swim right up to you and you pet them with two fingers on their backs. Some of them would stand "upright" in the water (like the dolphins do). When they first swim up to you, it's hard to put your hand into the water. I kept hearing the theme to "Jaws" in my mind....
I love this photo of the girls watching the walrus exhibit.
They are very graceful under the water.
The girls rode the carousel and loved every minute of it!
At the end of the adventure, as we were walking to the car, Audrey said with in a very weary voice, "I am tired much...." It was a very good day.
Wow! I just received an email that one of my hairbows is being featured on an Etsy Treasury. What an honor! Click here if you'd like to see it. The black and white bow on the top row is from my Etsy shoppe!
Look at them now!
It's a jungle of tomato plants! Sometimes it's hard to see the tomatoes nestled in the plant and the grass. It sure is fruitful! Next year we'll do it exactly the same.
Well, we might actually invest in some tomato cages next year.
They'll probably grow as tall as trees!
These are gooseplums. I'd never heard of a gooseplum, but Mrs. Lucas said we'd like them and we were anxious to try something new. 
After all the hard work we put in pickin' the peaches, it was time for a rest. We went over to the lake to watch the hay-baler in process.
Mrs. Lucas was very hospitable and the girls enjoyed every minute we were there.
There was a little birds' nest nestled amongst the fruit. The bottom of the nest was an unripened peach.
The peaches were ripe and ready for pickin'!
Beautiful Black-eyed Susans in the flower garden.
We ended up freezing all of them except for the batch I used to make 7 pints of peach jam. Yummy!
I made these two dresses from the same pattern as the last two I posted. The pattern is from You Can Make This. 
Yes, it's another dress from You Can Make This! It's the same pattern I used for the candy corn dress, but I didn't do any stripwork. Instead, I cut a rectangle 15"x45" (the width of the fabric) and ruffled it using my ruffler foot for my sewing machine. (This is a size 3, by the way. You'd have to make the skirt longer or shorter depending on the size you make.) I did the same thing for the ruffle at the bottom using two strips that were 4"x45" and sewing them into one long strip before ruffling them.
I also added a tie belt for the back using scraps of the yellow fabric. I didn't even measure them, but they came out just right.
Elmo was a bit of a challenge. I'd never used applique with embroidery, which this design requires. I think he came out ok, considering he was a first! 
I finished this dress this week and I love it! The pattern is from You Can Make This and was easy to follow. It even contains full size patterns in the download! 
