Quest for Creative Outlet

When Ian went to Golden Valley Charter School, some of the moms would meet and have a knitting group. I wanted to learn to knit but I never made it to the group. I thought about it and decided that I could teach my self. So I learned with the help of YouTube. I made some scraves for the kids for Christmas.

From there I wanted to knit more things than scraves. So I looked into making a little toy for Ellie. I couldn't find any patterns for knitting cute toys, but there were crocheting patterns everywhere! So I used YouTube yet again, and learned how to do amigurami the Japanese art of crocheting small toys.

Ian's bear "Luke".

Ellie's Piggie.

In the midst of all this I found "needle felting" and made a cute bunny. You start with raw wool and poke it with barbed needles 'til it turnes into what you want.
I sure found a lot of crafty hobbies all at once! It has been fun! Now I'm trying to get my sisters to try the Amigurami too...

Halloween Again! Again!

I wanted to post more Halloween pictures. The kids are very IMAGINATIVE when it comes to costumes. We don't usually buy them. The kids create them. Isobel is a mummy here (toilet paper should do the trick!) and Ian is a Chinese man (Kacy brought an outfit for Ian from her stay in China. He wears it regularly, not as a costume. I think he was lazy about dressing up).
We also made a gingerbread haunted house. The whole family got in on this one! Notice Ellie with the scissors in hand!

Stop-Motion Family Home Evening

Featuring Lego!

Halloween Again!

We love Halloween! How can you not? Any holiday revolving around CANDY is A-OK in my book! I send the children out to work the streets for goodies that I take away and eat over the next couple of months! They shouldn't have it -it's not good for them. Decays the teeth, makes 'em crazy-hyper, and stunts their growth! (Hee Hee Hee more for me!) No really, last year we sent it all in to work with Mike. The story goes: we put the candy on the porch for the "Candy Witch". She takes the candy and leaves a toy for the kids in it's place. 

Here we have a ghost, witchie-poo, and another witch. Not pictured is momma witch. We had a full coven this year!

Back to School

We are back in school again. Isobel and Ian are both excited about school still! Isobel has the same teacher as last year, we love her! Ian has a very nice teacher. She's very patient. She thinks Ian is a little bored. So she sent Ian some sight words home to memorize. He can read a few simple books now. He is JAZZED about it! Now on to teaching him the alphabet.

Vampire baby

Do the books you read during pregnancy and breast feeding influence your offspring? Check out this pictures of Ellie:

She has cut the two top teeth second from the middle on both sides. Can you see the fangs?!

I have Stephanie Meyer to thank for this! I borrowed the first book when I was about 6 months pregnant with Ellie, and I finished the last book now while Ellie is 6 months old- I was enthralled with the series! - along with a majority of the female population out there.

So cute when she smiles!

10 Years!

Happy Anniversary to us! We met 13 years ago.



Tied the knot after 3 long years!



And have been blessed with 3 beautiful babies!


I am so blessed to have snagged Michael! What other husband cooks, cleans, brings home the bacon, makes the kids lunches... I had better stop here or else you'll question what's left for me to do. Well someone has to eat all the Bon-Bons and watch the TV!!! Happy anniversary Mikie-poo. I love you! Here's to 100 more lovely years (with modern medicine you never know!)