Showing posts with label Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kids. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2009

Backyard fun!

Everyday was so beautiful, the second the kids woke up they were begging to go outside. Grandma has the best backyard! There's a playhouse with a play kitchen and tons of toys, there's a minitramp, a little slide, a bouncy horse to ride, tetherball... the fun just never ends. It was everything any kid could dream of. So off they went, after breakfast, outside. Tuesday, while I enjoyed a three hour nap (what the heck is that? I haven't had one of those in ages) Grandma played games with the kids. Like I said, DREAM VACATION!!!

Notice that this is an old Fisher Price vacuum? My Mother in Law has kept her toys in perfect condition, even after nine kids. They all still work and look brand new. She had a Speak and Spell that looked like she bought it yesterday and it worked like new too. My kids thought that was the funnest toy ever! Why don't they still sell it?





Thursday, February 26, 2009

I'm so excited...

Last night I went to my friend Suzannes house (I know shocker huh?) to make some pants for our girls. I've never sewn anything. Well, okay, I take that back... I've sewn two rag blankets of which I kept one for Sky and gave the other away. I figured I could sew straight lines and just gave it a shot. So last night was the first time I had ever sewn anything of WORTH. My mom is an excellent seamstress but rather than teach me she just bought me a sewing machine one year for my birthday. My friend Suzanne is the "self taught" master. She's basically a self taught photographer, and you've seen her work... AMAZING! And she taught herself how to sew. She can do it all. She makes costumes every year for Halloween. So, I thought I'd suggest we make pants and then do my best to learn from her. This is not a pattern we bought at the store, she made the pattern herself. We cut the fabric and she walked me through where to sew exactly. This is what we came up with...
I was so excited to try these pants on Brooke this morning. I got home way too late to do it last night. They are WAY too long, so I'll have to go back and make them shorter, but this is what they look like. You can see where I had to roll them so you could see her little toes at least poke out at the bottom.