Sew much fun

wish i could say this was my original idea, but it wasn't. i saw this on a blog and had to try it. well, had to have my mother in law try it. i don't even own a sewing machine, but i knew she would be able to help me out. and i am glad to say it was pretty easy and i love the way it turned out. i am having a hard time buying maternity close, but who doesn't. (if you didn't please tell me where you got your cute clothes.) i can find pants ok, but am having a hard time with shirts. i am short and all the maternity shirts are long, oh so long and they make me look even shorter. i also don't like the "tent" look. you know what i am talking about. i had seen this type of shirt at a store, but didn't want to pay that much for one shirt so i headed over to the ladies department and bought a normal shirt just two sizes larger, and then sewed an elastic in the side seam. i should be able to wear it for a while, i am hoping anyway not to get that big that fast.

the before shirt

sorry kathy, you made it into the blog. thanks for your sewing skills.the after shirt. love the gathers on the side.

don't let that cute face fool you...
behind those blue eyes and freckle nose beats the heart of a...
well, a six year old little girl who loves her cat and love to bug her bother more.

A little garden fun

We had pretty good luck last year with our garden. Tons of tomatoes, quite a few cucumbers and two really tall sunflowers. I had decided not to have a garden this year, too much to do I thought. But then I went to a gardening for small areas class with a friend of mine and became inspired and motivated! I went home and took a look at my little square foot garden, cleaned it out, stirred the dirt a bit and was ready to go. We already have our strawberry plant growing. I am going to use a topsy turvy tomato planter for our tomatoes and have everything else in our little box. We have some seeds started inside and some stronger ones are in the ground. After a little bit of reading and researching on the square foot garden I hope to grow plenty of fresh veggies for this season.

grow, grow oh please grow!

If pictures are worth a thousand words, then this one says it all about my pregnancy. Kids pulling on me, everyone needing me, housework calling and mom is just plain tired.

Family Fun Day

The kids just finished their chapter in science on Insects. And they loved it, even Ellyn, who normally doesn't like science. So, for our Family Fun Day we went to the Bean Museum at BYU. They had so much fun. I had printed off some scavenger hunt pages and we were in teams, boys vs the girls. Not sure who won but I know that Andy had the most fun. It was great to see him reading his paper and looking for the answers. When he couldn't find what he was looking for he had to ask one of the workers and they told him just what he needed to know. This was our first Family Fun Day in quite some time, and it was good to be out doing fun things together again. The goal is to have a Family Fun Day each week. I hope we can keep it up.

Ready for some fun at the Museum.

This was Andy's favorite thing there, the Liger.

EEWWW big bugs.

Cool snake, Ellyn wouldn't even go near it (neither would Steve.)

Andy working on his scavenger hunt page.

Ellyn and her page.

Thanks for the help dad! And the fun day.

Oh my toe!

Have you seen these feet? They belong to my wonderful husband. Every once in a while Steve will ask me to give him a foot rub, and well, he knows I have trouble just being in the same room as his feet. They are just weird. I guess weird is not the technical term, weird bunions is more like it. He has has them for as long as I have known him, and they have not bothered him, until recently. So, he decided to have them taken care of. Well, at least one for now.

Day one after surgery, not much to see. He was a little nervous about having the surgery. Right before he was to go in everyone started telling him how painful it was. After 2 days he had to start putting weight on his foot and that was a little scary because he didn't know how much it would hurt. But he is a trooper. Didn't take much pain meds, they made him too sick, didn't need that much anyway.

After about 2 weeks he had to go back to have the dressing changed and make sure it was healing ok. Yuck!

I guess you could say it looks better. It is still hard to tell the shape of his foot because of the swelling, but I think it is better. Not sure if he is going to have the other one done or not.

15 weeks and counting

car seats
diapers
strollers
bibs
high chairs
nothing like starting all over again!