Zebra, 365, summer

I've been surrounded by zebra print lately, literally. Our girls' camp theme is zebras, and since I'm the leader, that's all I can think about. I'm getting a little sick of the zebra, I'm not ashamed to say. I've had some good ideas though, including these paint cans for each girl. Our stake theme is "Hunting for the Good in Others," so each girl gets a paint can with her name on it. We had some shelves built to hold the cans, and the girls will fill them with notes about the "good" they see in each other. Plus I made this pillow case. Yep, you read that right, I MADE it MYSELF. I don't sew, but after reading the pattern a million times I managed to tweak it out. And how cute is it, seriously!!! Ok, it took me all day, but whatever! I'm so proud I could bust. So I held it up in relief society in pride, and then begged someone to HELP ME! Fortunately, someone else volunteered (2 people) to sew the remaining 13. Whew! But I'm still so proud. The paint can is another story...I must make 17 and this is my only completed one. I have them all covered, but oh hannah, these take time. What was I thinking?!? Only 17 days to go. GULP. I am so not ready to lead these girls..I mean, seriously, I want to hide under my bed...stay tuned..

On another happier note and place, I have been participating in a challenge called Project 365. Basically, it's a challenge to take a photo a day. i have this scrapbook I've been keeping my photos in and writing a little about each picture. This has actually been really cool because it's been a challenge to find something new to photograph each day. My kids get into it and tell me, "this can be the POTD (picture of the day)!" Today's picture:
Just a little picture of B and his friend Caleb at the pool. Just a little thing, but something to remember. And how cool to look back at this in 5, 10 years and see

how we spent this year... Unfortunately Steve deleted a bunch of

pictures off his camera w/o checking with me first! And we lost most of April! Sigh...Thank heavens I got my own camera for Mother's Day! It's pink and I heart it!

These are some pictures from yesterday. Bray at swimming lessons. In the afternoon we went to the park for a picnic. I really like my job but I hate working in the summer because I feel guilty for leaving the kids in the mornings. So when I get home we try to do something fun each day. It's exhausting, but worth it. We had such a lovely picnic, and then the kids found this island in the creek and sat there forever sketching maps of the area. I just lay on my blanket and read my book and it was heavenly. What will be the POTD?