summer nights

I know, we still need to post about our trip to Denver, but in the mean time I just had to share something that was too cute to wait. 

First, let me start with a story.  When I was young, like 9ish, my sister and I, and possibly my brother would steel leaves from our neighbor's tree.  These weren't just any leaves.  They were huge.  And our neighbor was a cop and we were totally afraid of him, so when we successfully got the leaves from his tree in the front yard, it was kind of a big deal.  The leaves were just the right size to be sewn together with pine needles to make little moccasin shoes.  We had great fun.

Now, fast forward to tonight.  Dane and I had just enjoyed a lovely bbq dinner with some friends and went outside to let the little ones run around on the front lawn.  There was a huge weed/tree growing in the front, so Mike, our neighbor, took the opportunity to hack it down.  I saw the leaves and my childhood memories took over.  I grabbed a couple of the leaves, some pine needles and made some little shoes for their 4 year old.  They were pretty cool until he walked in them and then they fell apart.  But that was ok, because it inspired something much cooler.  Hats.  We had a little too much fun and had to pick on Lynlee as our model because she had the perfect size head and didn't mind if we put anything on her.  So, I hope you enjoy (because we sure did!).

This is Jack with the first prototype hat on.

Then we had to make another, this time with the intent to be a hat.

But it really was the best when we wove two hats together. 

Lynlee didn't seem to mind it at all.