projects

Don't women love projects?  I think it all goes to our need to create.  Here's the last dress I finished for the Prom Locker.  Michelle picked it up at a garage sale for $8.  She said I could play with it and it would be ok if I ruined it. Apparently, I forgot to take a before picture, it might be on the Prom Locker blog.  Anyway, it was ugly.  Baggy, plain, grandma looking, gathered sleeves.  I tried to make it more fun and current.  Here is the finished product.

I also repainted my front room and got some new furniture for it.  I had an old wooden window frame from my mom that I wanted to put in there.  I painted it and distressed it.  Then I made this cool book page wreath. Mike doesn't like it but I do.  I also found a sweet new light fixture at DI for $10.  It was still in the packaging.  I'll post a pict later.  I love my new room.

Happy Birthday to ME!

I am so far behind on my blog and there is so many other things I want to catch up on (like half of Sept and all of October) but I just have to share with all 5 of my readers what my sweet (I think) husband and my very good friend, Michelle did for my birthday.  On Tuesdays, Connor and I leave for swim practice at 5:15.  We pulled out of the garage to this:

It was dark and I really didn't get to appreciate it in all it's glory until I got home.  After I drop Con off, I just stay to work out.  I walked into the work-out room to see this on the front wall, with some balloons.

The picture is after I got home, cause I just didn't think to take my camera to spinning.  Here's what the rest of my front yard looked like:

We live 1/2 a block from the elementary school.  It was pretty funny to watch the kids that walk by our house.  Also fun to watch the cars go by, slow down to read the signs.  It's good to be loved.

Braces (Take 3)

                                   It's Chase's turn!  He's so happy.  This is the before picture.

 I take these pictures only in effort to be a good mom and record as many memorable moments in my child's life as possible.

                               HA!  I just think it's funny and I can't resist the joker mouth!

After.  Stay tuned, in about 16 months I will have shots of the finished product.

Halloween 2011

 Our ward has a Halloween Carnival every year.  The YW/YM put it on for the Primary.  It's awesome, all the kids love it and many, many families come out for the fun.  This is Kenna after she had her face painted.

This is the girls and I before school.  I was lucky (ha ha) enough to get to sub in Kenna's class that day.  I just recycled Mike's Musketeer costume, because it was easy.

                      Kenna was a genie (thanks to inheriting a costume box from my Grandma

 Connor wore this outfit for Cowboy day during Homecoming and decided to recycle it for Halloween.  He's a pretty good-lookin' cowboy.  He took Kennadee out trick or treating on round 1.

                   Chase was a hospital patient.  Warning:  next material no suitable for children.

                                        **************not his real bum**************

 Kate just wanted to be a fat clown.  This costume made me laugh every time she walked away from me.  She had a pillow stuck over her bum.  Her legs looked about a foot long and she would waddle.  So funny.

                                                               HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Fall Break 2011

For fall break this year, we got a condo in St. George.  It was very nice, except for the nasty fish smell in the corridor, thanks to the neighbors.  Our first day there, we spent on the red rocks above St. George.  All the kids went through this little crack, called the narrows.  I even got brave enough to try it.  

These are just some other shots around there.  It's so fun because you can just hike and run all over the rocks, plus you have a fabulous view of St. George.

Afterward, we headed over for a tour of Brigham Young's winter home and then back to the condo for some swimming.  Later that day, we headed for this fun place call Anti-Gravity.  It was full of  bouncy toys and trampolines.  The kids had so much fun and Con even split his pants jousting with Chase.

Our last day, we spent hiking and playing in the sand in Snow Canyon.  It was actually really hot, but still enjoyable.  Next time, we will take our bikes.  We finished out with more swimming and some billiards at the condo.  Mike kicked my trash.

Crazy Hair and Pumpkins

 The week before Halloween the girls school does a red ribbon week.  The real purpose to help kids say no to drugs, but it seem to me an excuse to have a little Homecoming week for Elementary.  It's fun.  For crazy hair day, Katelyn wanted a Mohawk.

 Honestly, I tried, but I just didn't know how to get her thick hair to do it.  We went with this instead.

 Kenna just wanted a little color.  That weekend we also carved our pumpkins.  Connor carved one, but didn't want a picture.

                                        I just love it when we can carve our pumpkins outside.