Hi there! I am still alive. I just have been busy trying to get through the last couple of weeks. Besides trying to keep up with family, laundry and house work... sewing has taken over my life. I am trying to finish making some extra pages for the QBs (I'm still not done yet!) . I made some cute baby bibs and blankies for friends and their new sweet babies last week. The bibs are the cutest ever :) I found the tutorial for them at this fun blog called crazy mom quilts. Check it out and make one! http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2007/05/bib-tutorial.html
Anyway...Halloween is approaching and costumes are beginning to be decided by my sweet but ever undeciding children. I will be sewing for that too :/ I just have this feeling:) But if I can ,we will be looking at second hand stores first and perhaps resewing some clothes into something else. Thys and Syd have birthdays in October and I teach preschool in October and the Super Saturday is in October too. Everything is going to be fun, fun, fun! It will be an exciting month. And all of you 2nd ward sisters better come to the Super Saturday or I will be very upset! LOL To check out the stuff for the Super Saturday blog http://secondwardsisters.blogspot.com/.

A face full of Braces!

Madison is such a beautiful girl. She is a delight to have around. She is always trying to entertain in one way or another. It seems from the time she actually started getting her baby teeth there has been a issue one way or another. Now her adult teeth are coming in and well there still is stuff going on inside that mouth of hers. Yes, she got braces in August and she will have them when she is a teenager too. Her teeth missed the" how to be normal lesson!" She was very excited to get them on though and it has been pleasant except for the first night they were put on.I hope I am not scaring you too badly with this close up shot. Can you see how crazy it looks in there. I think in this photo she has had her braces on for 2 weeks and we can already see a big difference in her upper right hand tooth. Dr. Larson is doing a good job. Way to go!

SEW & SWAP!

Tomorrow is the big day. It is our RS Ward Quiet Book Exchange. We are gathering for a Potluck luncheon and exchanging our pages that we have sewn so diligently for the last three months. There are 17 sisters in our swap! We had a lot of sewing going on! But its worth it. I have seen a good amount of the pages that are being made and they are amazing! Our ward has so much talent and ambition.
I made the barn page in Canada and my mom helped me with it.
I made this page and realized that I made it too small and re-did it. I changed a few things on it too. The cookie jar is a pocket now as well as a magnet board. The cookies have magnets in them and numbers on one side and corresponding chips on the other side.
This is the reverse side of the cookie jar. The cupcake has snaps to detach with stitchery underneath it.
And this is my cover page. Kathy so graciously stitched the title and bumble bee on with her machine. It looks so good. I am very please with it. On the back of this page is pocket for extra things to hold. The great thing about the end is that it is all done and isn't in my closet waiting to be finished.

Flower fun!

Madison got a hold of the camera and took some really cute photos of Thys and Kendell. Our flower garden is small but I think she captured something!Kendell is just growing up so fast. She loves to be with Madison. She calls her Maaaaa. Sydney is NeeNee and she can say Thys very well.
Try not to focus too much on the weeds! It is too hot to weed my garden right now. Or maybe I am just too lazy to do it.

Preserve it!

Canning, canning and more canning! It is that time of year. We had a little garden this year that gave us some yummy tomatoes, peppers and herbs. Lots of zucchini and carrots and chard. We were blessed to receive some donations from some other gardens (you know who you are) and able to make Salsa, Tomato Sauce and Peaches.

It makes me so happy to see it on the shelf ready to eat!

Madison, Sydney and Thys are in school and loving it! I miss them but its nice to have a little more time to finish some projects that I have had going on over the summer holiday.


Keeping with our tradition, we walked to school on the first day with all the children. Found Madison's and Sydney's classes and met their teachers.