Scottish Fair

Two weekends ago John and I attended the local Tulsa Scottish Fair. The Scottish Fair comes to Tulsa every September. I had never been before, but John went as a teenager. I am a 1/4 Scottish so I figured it would be a lot of fun. John proudly claims his German heritage. He teases me occasionally about my heritage since I'm predominately Irish, Scot, and English. He says well we Germans took you guys over at one point. Anyway we went to get his sister and niece to take them with us. His mom pulled out the family genealogy book and low and behold John is Scot way way back in the day!!! So he had to concede and stop giving me a hard time. Of course the day we decided to go it was like 90 degrees and 100% humidity. We were all sweating so bad, good thing it was outside haha. Poor little Jordyn's face got red from all the heat. John bought Jen and I Celtic knot necklaces. We bought big lemonades to try and cool off. I shared my with Jo, and she drank most of it while I wasn't watching. There was a big tent were different professional groups were dancing. Jordyn loves music and started jumping and dancing around. John had to hang on to her so she didn't fall off the bench. After the music and drink break we walked around again. There was this little shop selling shields and swords for kiddos. Jo of course had to pick the biggest sword possible. She had trouble lifting it. She chose the shield with a lion on it with John persuading her to choose that one. Lowe in German mean lion, so naturally John has a thing for lions. He told Jo she could only get a shield with a lion haha. She finally picked a purple shield with a lion and matching sword. We tried to persuade her to pick a smaller sword, but being 2.5 years old she wanted the big sword because it matched the shield. All in all we had alot of fun, and we probably shed a few pounds from sweating so much.

All the girls

If you can't tell Jen is John's sister. Jo wanted to try on scottish leather caps but "Jen Jen has to wear one too."

Such a cutie trying out shields

Summer and Sooners

We are now loyal OU Sooners. Prior to school starting in August we completed many summer projects. John built a deck for my dad, helped me recover our couches. My brilliant idea to save a little money. Man I got myself into more than I thought of. John is quite the handy man and needed very little of my help with his deck project. I helped lay some decking, but all in all he did most of it by himself with the supervision and direction of my sister Samantha ha ha.

So when we decided that we didn't like our free red couches that John's sister gave us, I decided it would be a brilliant idea to recover the old couches. I of course have never recovered anything prior to this project. Fortunately John's wonder mother helped out. I will say the deconstruction of the couches was much more fun than putting them back together. It took John, his dad, mom, and myself to put the couches back together. The "big couch" took us four hours to put back together. We have yet to finish the love seat. It was a difficult but rewarding experience.

The beginning of the deconstruction

The inside of a couch

All the old fabric off

A glimpse of the "new couch"

About two hours in

Trying to get the arms to fit on right

AHHHHH the finished product (notice it is now dark outside)

Since the recovering of our couch we have enjoyed it thoroughly, and we have received many compliments. This was a fun project. I would have not been able to complete it without the help of my wonderful mother-in-law. She sewed the pieces together for me. She is a much more talented seamstress than I am. I love our new couches and I love that I got two basically "new" couches for less than it would have cost to buy newer. I wouldn't be afraid to tackle other projects just not in the near future.