Ice and Babies :)

So I am LOVING this warmer weather, but there are just some things about the cold even I have to admit are super cool... Like this crazy sculpture mom and I found on our way up to Alpine. I know it's a little hard to see, but it was probably 20 feet high, and it even had lights on it at night. I'm not sure how it was done, but it was just in someones front yard in some little neighborhood... crazy, right?

And I had to post my sweet boy... coloring with crayons at the counter, way to big for his britches :)

By the way, I find out what baby #2 is next Wednesday (the 2nd of Feb.) and I'm super excited!

Loves,

Holidays 2010

So I know I'm the WORST at keeping up with blogging, but now that the holidays are over, maybe I can be a little more consistent.

We just spent the holidays up Bountiful at my mom's house with my sister Lindsay and her family who came in from Boston. We had a ton of fun playing games, eating good food, crafting and being with family.

This is Jasper all bundled up and ready to play outside. I don't think he liked it all that much :)


My dad replaced a hallway and bathroom with bamboo flooring, and Jasper (who is ready to go to the pool, hence the shorts and rash guard) is helping with a toy hammer. Too cute :)



Jasper also really liked to help grandma with her sewing... Don't you love the glasses?

And my sister and I spent about an hour trying to get some awesome photos of her kids and Jasper... They are laughing at me playing peek-a-boo from behind the bed in this one :) Luckily, we got about 4 perfect photos (we shot about 200), and this is one of them. Love it!

And this is a quilt my mom made. She made one for each girl, and the flower tops are hand-stitched by her great-grandmother, which she then quilted into a blanket called 'grandmother's flower garden'. She worked REALLY hard on them, and they are such a beautiful keepsake. Every flower top is different, and so each quilt is different. I really love this, and am SO excited to find a great spot to display it in my house.

We also got to go to Chris and Becky's wedding! *Cheers* It seemed to go very smoothly, and Becky was stunning in her gown. The reception was beautiful, and I am so very happy for the newlyweds.

Loves!

Halloween Party Part 3

Hello Everyone!
Ok, so a little explanation and a little description. I had to do this in 3 parts because my computer will freeze if I try to add more than the alotted 5 pictures to each post... I know there is probably a fix for that, but I had my momentum going and needed to post asap, so I just dealt with it.

So the party was super great... We started around 6ish, and took pictures as people came. Everyone had a food assignment, and it was all fabulous! I love good food, so thanks to everyone who brought some. Then we had a pirate trivia game that I spent FOREVER putting together... You'd be suprised how much information there isn't.

Anyway, we played that (girls won of course :)) and then we just munched and chilled. I'm hoping everyone had a good time!

Mike, Shayla, Syd and Mark eating dinner.

Mike 'sitting' on mom's lap... He was actually just in a higher chair, but it was a great photo op.

Just the photo set-up. There was never really a good shot of people in it, so I just took one stag :).

Anyway, that concludes my Halloween posts for the year... maybe.

Loves,

Halloween Party Part 2

So yes, this is Dad (the wench) and Mom (the pirate). Can you believe that? Dad was seriously freaky... the high voice, the bosoms, the makeup... Wow. Way to go mom for being seen with him.... her.... whatever.

This is super cute Chris and Becky, so glad they came! Hope we didn't scare Becky off.

My little sister Sydney and her boyfriend Mark. *mini plug for ashley - I made that blue shirt she's wearing*. Anyway, they looked great. I love the snarl of Syd's face, super pirate-y. Oh, and she just got her wisdom teeth out yesterday, go go Syd!

My Mother and Father-In-Law, Joanna and JT and Joanna's daughter Helena... I'm super glad they came, Helena and her little family had just come back from Texas not even a week prior, so I'm glad she was available to come.

Awwwww, what a cute couple! Mike and Shayla are always so fun to have around. And even though Mike looked like a colonial pirate (at least he thought so), they looked great!

Ok, so I have a few more to post, I'll get right to it, but the party was alot of fun :)

Loves,

Halloween party part 1

So here is beautiful Cindy being cuffed, threatened, and forced to drink by her 3 brothers...
The 'Guy' team (they lost by the way). We couldn't decide where to put Dad because, well... he IS a guy, even though he was dressed like a girl. And we couldn't decide where to put Mom because, well.... she IS a girl, even though she was dressed like a guy. So in the end, since the girl team had more than the boy team, we decided that we rejected Dad as a girl, and put him on the boy team, and since mom was dressed like a boy and we were one short... Aaaaaanway, there you go.

The girl team (Syd is Waaaaay in the background there), but minus me cuz I had to take the picture :)

And oh-my-gosh, Jasper is the CUTEST pirate I've ever seen!

He was having the biggest blast running around in that hat, and delivering gold out of the treasure chest and onto the ottoman... This was right before bedtime, we had just retrieved him from the neighbors (thanks Lisa).

So there you go, my Pirate Party, October of 2010, YAY!

Witch Spider?

Hi there. So I'm gonna post a few pictures of my first two Halloween Extravaganzas, me as a witch, and me as a spider. I will post my Halloween party as soon as I get the pictrues printed on to a CD. Before me ask, I will quote the immortal words of Indigo Montoya: "Lemme splain. No, there is too much, lemme sum up."

See, my cameral stinks, so I asked mom to bring hers, and she did and it worked great. So then she sent them over to me from Costco.comc, and I didn't realize you can't actually download the pictures onto your computer for the Costco site itself if they are not yours... Soooooo, I have to make a CD of them, then load them onto my comtpuer so I can post them. Ugh.

Aaaaaanyway, here is me as a witch... Fake eyelashes, nylons turned gloves and a walmart hat I tweaked a little made for a fun witch outfit. Had a great time out with some girlfriends.

So for my spider costume, I really just wore black and did my face and hair up... This is an 'arial' view of my finished head... a tulle veil with a spider on top.

I saw this awesome tutorial online about how to make a web-face thing, so I used all my own makeup and just a little halloween makeup to create it.

I also parted my hair pretty far on the side, and braided about 6 strands... I lifted them up and spraypainted white under and the braids black to make a webby-ish look.

So here's the finished product... I am wearing fangs, just in case my smile looks funny... but that's with the veil and spider and makeup all done. I think I had more fun doing that than anything else :)

So anyway, I'll post the Pirate party asap. Love you guys,

So For a 'How to Host a Murder' night at a neighbors, Doug was assigned Bigfoot... So I had to make him an outfit that didn't cost a million dollars (have you SEEN the prices on gorilla suits?). So besides sewing him a hairy shirt, I made cardboard feet to attach to his shoes.


So first I cut out a cardboard outline of the feet I wanted, then trimmed some of the fur around it so I could fold it over the edges and between the toes.

I hot glued the fur in place and ended up with....

Some totally awesome feet!

Finished product, what do you think? Doug was a great sport about it, as you can tell by the 'can I take this off now' face. Love ya baby!