Hello, meet Lion, and spotty the dog. After making our paper plate tambourines (below) we used the rest of our paper plate to make these adorable play masks. :) So for the past few days I've been hearing "Roar" and "Ruff Ruff". It makes me smile every time! (We enjoyed the sounds of our paper plate tambourine, we danced, and sang. It was absolutely wonderful.) It's nice to see some color in my vegetable garden. :) My daughter said "mom bee". So of course I had to snap a few photos of our garden visitor. Our summer days have been spent enjoying rainy days and reading books. For the past week, it has been raining, and I absolutely love it. We have been enjoying the simple things in life. Baking, crafting, some gardening, and my daughter's favorite seeing rainbows after the storm has passed. It's nice to see new flowers have bloomed, especially the ones our daughter has helped with. So ...