Craft Day

While Matt's cousin Summer is here we (all the girls) wanted to get together and have a craft day. So last Wednesday we met at Grandma C's and did some projects. Some made pillow cases, t-shirt dresses, headbands and these fun kids mats. Tara, Kerry, and I mostly worked on the kids mats to get ready to take to Disneyland. They are a mat, made out of fabric that folds into thirds and holds 3 cars. It rolls up and ties for east storage. We thought these would be perfect for the kids while on the airplane and to play with in the hotel room. So the ones we did are made out of Cars material and they have 3 pockets to fit 3 Cars cars in. We are going to get together tomorrow to make the girl one that will be princess fabric to hold little princess dolls. They turned out so cute and I know that Paxten and Parker with love them! Yay for craft days!! and Yay for getting projects accomplished!

Relief Society

I was recently put into Relief Society as the Relief Society Meeting Committee member. (the one that does Thursday night activities) and last Thursday was our first activity that me and the other lady that is on the committee had planned. We had a fondue party and had a guest speaker on Relationships. Then we made journals to help with those relationships. It was successful and a fun night. A lot of work goes into those meetings, but I am glad that we have a few people that share this calling so that it isn't quite as overwhelming. Since it was our first activity we overlooked a few things and two nights before we realized that we didn't have centerpieces for the tables. I had seen a cute craft project on HOW DOES SHE and immediately thought of the idea to do. So I was busy the day before putting together these cute Topiaries. I thought they turned out super cute and they were very easy to do. They ended up costing a bit more than I anticipated, but when we had 5 tables to decorate that happens. So we have cute little topiaries all over our house decorating for Spring time now. I just wanted to share how cute and easy they were. Go Here for instructions to make your own for next year.

Project Finished

I started making the kids levi quilts before Christmas with good intentions of being able to get them done for Christmas gifts, but it didn't happen. I was lacking in energy and it took me a lot longer than I anticipated to cut all the squares. So I bagged the Christmas gift idea and was shooting for Easter, or sooner. Well I put it on my list of things to do before the baby arrived and worked really hard in January to get them done. On the 28th and 29th I was able to work all day on them and got the tops all sewed together. On the following Monday my mom and I got together and tied them both. So glad to have them almost finished. And my mom was nice enough to finish them off by binding them for me. I was so gratful that she was willing to do that, because that day is when the doctor put me on bed rest. The kids are loving their new blankets and they turned out to be the perfect size to fit on their beds during the winter and will be just big enough for camping trips during the summer. I am hoping they will last throughout the kids teenage years as well. I am pretty happy with how they turned out and that the kids love them!! Yay for finished projects!!

Weekend of Fun

Last week I went to visit one of by best friends. We have been friends for almost 15 years and have stayed really close even after High School. Some friends are just so great that you want to keep close with them and Anne is one of those truly great friends. Her and Her husband recently moved away from me (sniff, sniff) and I was really sad, but glad that Josh had found a great job. Unfortunatley for me they now live 3 hours away! I guess it is better then 10 hours ofr across the United States. But still it is further than the 30 minutes they used to be. So I made plans with Anne to come for a weekend and visit. She was gracious enough to let me and the kids stay with them while we were there and we had such a wonderful time. The kids really play pretty good together, they do have the occasional disagreement, but overall the get along good and really loved having someone new to play with. I had hoped that Anne would like to work on a little craft project that I put together from the site HOW DOES SHE. I saw it on there and knew that it would be something we could do and finish on a day. I didn't want to start a project and then take it home to finish. Well we were able to complete 3 projects!! It was a very successful day. The kids played well, watched too much TV, and ate too many snacks, but we finished!! It was so much fun to sit with her and visit about life now and to reminisce about the "old" days. We are hoping to make this a common occurance to get together as often as possible. I know it was well worth the long moutainous drive!!!