Sweet Beans!

I have no idea why the title is Sweet Beans but it is what came to mind so I'm going with it.  7 days off vacationing with my family may have fried my brain.  Too much fun.  Too much food.  Too much laughing.

Wait...you can never have too much fun and laughing.  Too much food...I'm on the fence about that.  I'm pretty sure you can have too much food but I have yet to reach the exploding point so I'm stuck on if it was actually TOO much food.

I'm totally lame and didn't take one photo while on vacation.  My camera never even saw the light of day (or night).  I was having too much fun to worry about where my camera was & what I wanted to commit to photo memory.  It's a bad habit I've developed over the last few years.  I love photo's but I can't be bothered with taking them myself anymore.  I'm trying to get back into the swing of taking photographs but it's totally at hit and miss thing right now.

I guess I did take a few photo's while I was up in UT.  I, of course, had my phone with me (at least some of the time) so I got a few shots with it.

I took a couple shots of dragonflies while waiting at Lagoon.  The photo's do not do these crazy creatures justice.  They were far more beautiful & colorful than my phone camera can show.  Plus, they were HUGE!

I was standing by a bunch of trees & bushes and they just kept flying right besides me & landing.  I think they are the one "bug" I am not afraid of.  You know what they are when they are zooming towards you which always helps.

I managed to take these shots while on the way home yesterday.  For the life of me now I cannot remember if this farm is in UT or AZ.  12 hours in a car is TOO long & I slept most of the way home.  Too much fun & too little sleep while on vacation it seems.

It's an Elk farm...

I was so mad that this big guy decided to pose BEHIND the sign.  Another car stopped to take a look & kept chasing him off before I could get a good shot.

Here are some shots of some land up by my sisters house...

via my brother-in-laws phone

A view from my sisters back yard...


Via my niece Elizabeth's phone

I do have photo's to share from the family reunion but I have to wait until someone else shares them first so I can steal them.  I somehow managed to miss out on getting a CD of the family photo's we took. 

Seriously, I was too busy to be bothered with anything apparently.  At least, that didn't pertain to stuffing food in my face & lazing around on a recliner lawn chair or acting goofy with my family & giggling with my sisters.

I did manage to hop online for a few minutes a couple of times & imagine my surprise when Jillian from  The Life of a Lioness/Pretty Little Lion had a few photos of the birdhouses I sent her up in a post.  I sent them off to her and totally forgot to take photo's of the finished product.  Surprise surprise, I know.  I have to say they look pretty cool sitting in amongst her garden.  I just wish you should see the cool birds that are on one side of each roof.  They were actually the reason I made up these two birdhouses.  Once I added the bling I knew they needed to be sent to Jillian.  Sparkly jewel bling is her business after all.

Photo's via The Life of a Lioness/Pretty Little Lion 

Knowing people are enjoying my creations makes me want to craft more.  Crafting sounds like a great inside idea since it's been a blasted 116 degrees here lately.  At this time going outside is a thing you do only when you absolutely need to.  I was so glad to be home (at least to see the cats) but I definitely did NOT miss the Arizona heat!!  Movie watching & crafting will be my inside summer activities.  Yeah, that definitely sounds good to me. 

What are you doing to stay busy & inside during the summertime?