Kid's Quilts

My fantastic husband gave me this wonderful machine for our anniversary!
I have wanted a sewing machine for about a year now and
I LOVE IT!!
Thanks so much honey!
I quickly put it to work making quilts for birthdays.

I have had fabric sitting in my room for about a year. I finally made my little kids
the intended quilts and pillowcases for their new bunk beds.
But it's okay that it took me a year cause they just got bunk beds a few weeks ago.
The above pic of Ty's.

And this beauty is McKinley's! I absolutely LOVE it!!

These are the pillowcases I made.
I found a tutorial online and threw them together.

These are the two quilts together.
The kids love them and they also got pillow pets for their birthdays to join the new bedding!
I will post later about the bedroom redo with more pics of the beds.

Anybody Sleepy?

Pictures of my kids falling asleep at random times or in random places.
Like this one of Ty in a shopping cart.
I ended up buying a few items we didn't need to keep him comfortable!

Nice blanket.

This was just today.
He actually fell asleep in the shopping cart again but I didn't get a pic this time.

My sweet boy exactly one week old!

Chubby cheeks!!

Who gives a one year old soda pop? This Mom does.
Puts him right to sleep!

This is my adorable baby girl at five days old.
This is one of my all time favorite pictures of her.

Crash time.

This was just a few weeks ago.
This picture cracks me up. How are they even comfortable?
Ty had to sleep with ALL of his animals too!

I need to add a big
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MCKINLEY!
My sweet girl is 5 today.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Did you all have a good Valentine's Day? We did!
We started by painting our nails a week ago.

These are my toes. Hooker red with hearts for the holiday.
Don't look too close they're not that great.

These are Kinley's with matching fingers!

Then for joy school all the kids decorated pockets to put Valentine's in.
Aren't they cute? I love how all of their personalities show in their artwork!

I also made some for a few of the day care kids I watch.

Then my husband ended the day by making us a FABULOUS meal!
Oh my gosh my husband is the BEST cook.
This picture is our appetizer! Grilled shrimp guacamole tostada bites!!!
OH SO YUM!!

And this was our amazing meal!
Barbecued ribs and shrimp scampi linguine!
AMAZING!!
We should have had a side dish but we aren't much for sides and
this was plenty of food.

We had a wonderful day!
Oh and don't forget all the chocolate that we all got!!

New Glasses Day!

McKinley in her new glasses!

Kinley has now had glasses for a year and a half. Three days ago she got a new pair! These are only her second pair of glasses. She has done really well with them. We had the first pair for 8 months before they got broke. However, we did spend the last 4 or 5 months super gluing them together. Mostly because Ty likes to rip them off her face and throw them when he is mad at her.

Once January came around it was time for a new pair! Kinley picked these out all by herself. Personally they are not my favorite but I'm not the one that has to wear them. They are princess Ariel glasses! She loves them. The new place we went treated her like a princess and that made me really happy.

Now look closely.
Can you see it?
They are bifocals.

As most of you know McKinley has a "lazy eye". Her right eye tends to wonder. I have learned so much about this condition it is really interesting. Anyway, we patched her for a year and a half and she did okay with that. It did improve her eye a lot but the doctor felt we had corrected it as much a possible with the patch and now need to retrain it, hence the bifocals. Bifocals will teach her eyes to work together to see correctly both near and far. So far she has done amazing with bifocals! I have to admit I was worried. She is doing great and I have not noticed her eye wondering much with them! Cross our fingers that this will work for her.

I LOVE THIS GIRL!!!

Our 7th Anniversary!

This post is mostly just for me to remember. I don't keep a journal. It might be kind of boring and there are no pictures so don't feel like obligated to read it.

This past weekend was our 7th Anniversary! We had the best time! Friday night we headed to Delta with the kids. We spent the night there then headed up to Salt Lake. We got to Orem and stopped for some seafood! So yummy. Then we did a little shopping at the University Mall.

We then drove to Murray and checked into our hotel, provided my EVCO. It was the annual company party so we stayed in a nice King suite for the night. After check in a sprucing up a bit we went to West Valley for the company party. We had so much fun! It was long but one of the better parties we have been to. They had Polynesian food with music and booty shakin' music. The entertainment was fun and we danced a little and laughed a lot! Thanks EVCO and friends for the fun time!

Sunday was our actual anniversary. Keep in mind we are simple people and we have never done more than go out to dinner for our anniversary so being out of town was a big deal!! Plus we didn't have any kids with us! SCORE!!!

We spent most of our day at the Gateway. We took in a movie and laughed! Then we did some shopping for ourselves, okay mostly me! Thanks honey!! We wondered around, talked and held hands! So fun to reconnect. We had plans for a fabulous dinner at Tucanos but they were closed since it was sunday. I was so disappointing but I decided not to let that spoil our day. We ate at Z Tejas instead and it was delicious!

Then it was time to head to our room!! Wink, Wink! We stayed at the Anniversary Inn! It was so fun and different for us. We stayed in the Phantom of the Opera room. We chose that room cause it had an amazing tub. It was a great time. We slept in until they brought breakfast to our room at 10. It was so nice and relaxing. And for those guys out there, we did watch most of the Super Bowl.

On monday morning we started making our way back home. We stopped in Provo and ate at Tucano's. It is so good! If you haven't tried it you should go. Then we went to Delta and pick up the kids from my parent's. It was a fabulous weekend!! Thanks to my parent's for keeping the kids and a huge thanks to my Hubby for such a wonderful Anniversary weekend! I love Jeremy way, way, way more now then I did 7 years ago!!!

Fun with friends

We have been having lots of fun with friends around our house lately!
This is a pic of my kids painting with their best friend, we also call her
our 4th child, B.!!

Ty is working pretty hard on that airplane.

Kinley making sure all of her colors get used.
What a beautiful butterfly!

Being ballerinas!
This is Kinley's newest favorite outfit!
She dresses in this everyday and only puts on "real clothes" when I make her.

Now they are being SUPER HERO'S!!
This was a great activity cause it brought back old memories for me!
They had a blast for a few days with towels around their necks!

Fun stuff not pictured:
Making a hut with a blanket over the table.
Playing drums on the laundry baskets.
And many, many pictures created and painted.