Twice in one Week!

We made it to NRH2O two times this week. Sam worked second shift on Monday so we spent the morning at the water park. On Friday, Sam had off, so we met Alycia and her kids there. We are really glad we got the season passes. It has been such fun.

Just Like Dad

I came into my room to find Gavin wearing Sam’s CPACK mask while reading Renée a story. It was really sweet of him to read to her. I really have no idea why he would wear the mask other than to be just like dad.

Frisco Fun

While I was at the baby shower, Renée and the rest of the family went to Elaina Moses’s princess birthday party. Renée wore her pink princess dress and had a great time. I got to the Moses’s after the party was over and we were able to spend the afternoon with our friends, Tiffany and Jason. Their kids are the same ages as ours and their baby is named Carter too! Tiffany’s brother brought over his puppy and Carter had a great time playing with it. We stopped at IKEA to pick up a few things. Gavin and Renée were able to go to Smaland. It was Renée’s first time. Our last stop with our favorite restaurant Fadi’s, where they serve Mediterranean food. Yummy!

Nursing Pillows out the . . .

I went to a double baby shower for Ally Black and Megan Tilton in Frisco. It is an hour drive and my friend Gretchen is due in 10 weeks, so I figured I might as well give her a gift too. I make these nursing pillows and they are really great because they have pockets. You can keep a novel, the cordless phone, the TV remote, and all kinds of things in there. Anyway, I spent the week making three nursing pillows. It was busy but they turned out really cute!

Pool Time with the Nelsons

Alycia and her kids have been spending a lot of time with us at the pool. We are so excited to live close enough to see them almost every day! Sydney and Renée are the best of friends and have been playing really well together. Gavin and Blake seem to disagree a lot but that doesn’t seem to keep Gavin from wanting to spend time with Blake. Here Blake is in time out, and Gavin decided to keep him company. Trey is a little rough with Carter and sometimes pushes him down, but I am sure they will get along better when Carter grows.

Keep on Your Clothes! 5.30.08

If you look at my last post I am telling my sweet daughter to put on some clothes. I wish I was a better example to her, but on Saturday I accidental flashed several Wal-Mart customers. I wanted to get a tank top to run in and decided to just slide it on over my t-shirt to see if it fit. When I pulled the tank off, my t-shirt came with it and I didn’t realize it until both shirts were past my bra. Then I was scrambling to get a shirt back on and at that point I really didn’t care which one.

Jellies at Ross

I was shopping at Ross and the thing about shopping at Ross is that it is hard core shopping. They don’t arrange their shoes according to the size even though they have size signs. You have to go up and down every shoe isle until something catches your eye and then you have to hope that the shoes are in your size. You think that the disorganization would deter me from shopping there, but I love it. These jellies were one of my finds and as soon as I saw them it brought me back to first grade when I had a pair of clear jellies with lace in theme. Fancy, I know! They were only $2.99 and I couldn’t resist. I haven’t actually worn them yet, but every time I look at them sitting on my shoe shelf, I smile.

Put on Some Clothes!

Renée and Gavin have been watching Eragon over and over and over again. Because of this, Renée has developed a new love for dragons. I guess her dragon got cold and she didn’t have any other clothes to help her dragon warm up.

No, I did not pose Renée like this. She made up this outfit all on her own, a Superman cape and nothing else. She reminds me of Edita on Dancing with the Stars. The girl never wears clothes! Of course if I had Edita’s body, I wouldn’t wear clothes either.

Ready, Get Set, Sew!

JoAnn’s had a great sale on fabric this past weekend, so this week I have been busy sewing. I made valances for the kitchen, throw pillows for the family room and formal living room, and I altered my bedroom draperies to touch the floor. I added the red stripe at the bottom. After making my bedroom draperies I hung them all up and one of them was too long. I ripped out the seam and pinned it in place a quarter of an inch shorter. It was still too long. Then I tried a half an inch shorter and it was still too long. Alycia mentioned that I might want to measure the purple part that I bought at IKEA. That was it. One of the draperies was an inch and a half longer than the other three. Don’t you hate it when your project takes twice as long as you originally intended? I am happy with how everything turned out. It was really fun to find and match fabrics.

Our Decorator 5.27.08

While I was busy sewing pillows, Gavin was busy adding art to my bedroom walls. When he got up the next morning and the fan had blown some of them off the walls, he wasn’t discouraged. He just moved them all to the formal dinning room.

Eve or Snow White?

We are trying to teach our kids the articles of faith (13 key point of religious doctrine.) We are working on number two, “We believe that men must be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.” Anyway I asked Gavin why Eve ate the fruit. His reply was, “No Snow White ate the apple. She CHOSE to eat a poison apple.” Why didn’t Disney animate the Bible stories?

NRH2O

We got season passes to our local water park, NRH2O. We went on Memorial Day and on Friday. Sam has off every other Friday, so it was nice to go when the park wasn’t too crowded. The pictures are from Friday, May 29th. Alycia and her family got passes too, so we usually meet at the park. Gavin and Renée love it there and even love going down the big waterslides. Carter is getting used to the idea of playing in the water. Toward the end of our trip, he went in up to his ankles. The nicest thing about have the season passes is that we don’t have to do a marathon trip. We can just stay two or three hours and come back the next day if we want.

Landscaping

We are back in the picture business. I got the camera about two weeks ago but I got caught in another novel, The Other Boleyn Girl, and haven’t gotten around to posting. Great book by the way.

Here is my landscaping. It is doing well so far which is more than I can say about our vegetable and herb garden. I put in the rocks, mulch, rose bush, begonias, and salvia. I really like how it turned out so hopefully it will survive the summer.