The Art of Having Fun -- Water Fun That IS

The kids got to enjoy the last event of Eagle Mount Summer Day Camp getting wet at a local swimming pool.

They visited with the staff and talked of video games, cartoons, fishing, and planning of activities with Eagle Mount in the future.



Avery made a successful head first down the slide into the water which I did not catch on camera, but was instructed that he could not do this again because of possible injury. When wanting to go down again feet first, both he and Wynston could not figure out how to coordinate their bodies onto the enclosed slide. The Eagle Mount instructor, Deb (Avery's favorite) tried to help them both, but it was agreed that next time at other pools locally maybe they could try the slides that have no top over them. These kinds of slides are easier to mount and go down.



Wynston had fun playing/spraying other kids from Eagle Mount as pictured here.

Happel Art -- Mid-Summer Ramblings

The days seem to fly by so quickly. Savannah got to go on a 4 hour float trip recently and then the next day she and Avery got to go on a two hour float trip on the Missouri River. They both had a very fun time and I am sure will want to go again in the future.





Avery got creative again late the other night and presented his version of Spiderman to adorn our refrigerator. He applied tape heavily so it won't fall off. Unfortunately, Spidey is getting water logged from people getting ice for their cups while in the freezer and it melting.



Wynston was playing on the computer the other day and started dabbling with a small piece of paper. Here is his happy looking fellow he presented to me. I gave him compliments and Wynston's smile was as bright as his drawing's smile.



Savannah has been using the light box and tracing one of my embroidery patterns I found on the computer as well as a troll from a recent drawing book I got for the kids from Michael's.




Fred has been doing something he loves recently which is refinishing a small table. The original finish on it was very thin and wearing badly. He thought I was going to donate the table to charity, but I suggested he refinish it and play moving a few pieces of furniture around. I like the end result.




I have been busy stitching some hand towels and have had the bright idea to maybe make a few into quilted table runners/centers. I love finding vintage transfer patterns and flickr.com has a wonderful group with more being added almost daily -- more than I could ever stitch!