Little C Walks

He walked!!! I know its about time! I only took 16 months! I hope he keeps it up. Anyway I hope you like this little video. However, the camera is a little bumpy. I was doing it one handed and then I handed it over to Little D.

**Update**

So we all slept comfortably. It was great. However we did a little test this morning to see if it would start up again and.... it failed to start. Big J knows what the problem is and so we are hoping that later today we can replace the part. So the kids have been turning on all the fans and now we have "action" to fill our Superhero capes!

Split Personality Superheros?

Well if they didn't exist before they do now! Super A and Super D! Above they are giving their best super poses. Little D has been running around with a towel tied around his neck for about a week so I decided to make him a cape. And if you make something for one you have to make it for both right? So yesterday I whipped up these 2 capes. They took me about an hour each to make and they are so cute! I am very excited about them Here is a picture of the Back.

They chose their own colors. And they were pretty cheap to make. You have to love Walmart fabric.

And as I mentioned before they had split personalities. So Super D is also Batman! And Super A is also Power Princess!

Mr. Fix it!

I am so blessed to have a handy husband. Yesterday our air conditioner broke again! I say again because this happened last year. The last couple of days it had been making funny noises so we kinda expected it to go out. Still, once it goes out you feel like, "How could it do this to you in the middle of summer?" So all afternoon we were sweating it out here. We went and got some fans and at about 9 pm it was cooler outside than it was inside.

By the time Big J got home at 11:30 last night it was only 87 degrees in our house. But hey it could have been worse I guess. So anyway we got ready for bed and Big J went outside and tried to figure out what was wrong. We then got in bed and said our prayers praying for the air to be fixed quickly (we had a man coming out tomorrow afternoon to fix it) Then Big J thought that he should go try one more time. He had me try and turn it on after he was outside and like 2 seconds later the air was flowing! And it was cool! He showed me what he had done so that I could tell the service man. We were so grateful that it was on and that we would be able to sleep comfortably. We said another prayer thanking Heavenly Father for helping us. Talk about your instant miracles huh?

So now I am terrified to turn it off. We still have the service man coming out to look at it later today. Hopefully we will be able to extend the life of our unit for a little longer. Everyone knows how expensive these things are, and we don't need that!

Little A's Party

So I actually did it. I gave her a Birthday party! I was back and forth with the idea for a long time and finally I decided to just do it. She was able to invite all the girls from her sunbeam class. They were all so cute! It was a Hawaiian theme and so we gave all the girls a Lei, skirt and a flower clip for their hair. We had water balloons, I was surprised at how much the little girls liked the water balloons. After I bought them I thought.... why did I buy these.... These are 4 yr old girls.... They don't like water balloons. Well, I was wrong, they loved them and they had lots of fun with them. They also had fun going down the water slide. They were all afraid of the big slide and would only go down the little slide at first. Even though the big one is slower and the little one you shoot off and hit your bum kinda hard. After one went down they were all into it. We played for a while and then did cake and presents, then they got to play until their parents arrived. Little A had so much fun and we were so glad that everyone was able to come.


Molly, Audrey, Tycee, Cloe, and Emma

Cloe going down the big slide

Tycee going down.

Here comes Emma!

Molly didn't want us to watch her slide down. So she walked down.

Little D showing the girls how to go one their stomachs.
I tried to get them to slide on their stomachs and they would go on their stomachs but they would go feet first. So I made Little D show them.


Here is Little C just after he fell head first into the cooler in the back ground. It didn't faze him much as you can see. But I guess that's why you aren't supposed to leave things around with water in them. Luckily I was sitting right there making more water balloons.

"The 4th" Part 2

So after the beach we went to the firework show at the local college. We go every year. We usually are able to park and go sit on the grass on the grounds but for some reason this year the parking lot was closed (we assumed that the grounds were also closed but we don't know for sure). So we had to find somewhere else to watch.


Once we found a good spot and once we were settled and it was dark we got out the sparklers. Little C was so funny!

At first he was very concerned at the sparklers but he quickly caught on.

Every time they would light one he would make this face. After we ran out it seemed like forever until the fireworks started. I started to think that they were not going to do any. Once they started it was fun. The 3 kids were saying Ooh! and Ahh! every time. What made it funnier was that Little C was doing it the most. I could hear the people in the back of the truck next to us laughing.

A Little Late "The 4th" Part 1

Well I know that this post is pretty late but I haven't felt like posting lately. Anyway, this is what we did over the 4th of July.


That morning we went to the Beach with the Lahoda's and the Fordham's. It was the first year that Little D actually got in the water. We had a lot of fun though. It was nice having so many people there.

The kids mostly played in the sand while the bigger kids and the even bigger kids went boogie boarding! Big J made me go out. The water was so cold at first but after like a minute you got adjusted and it was just fine. I was pummeled by wave after wave. One time, I was just grateful to have been able to make it to the surface alive, only to find (among other things) that another huge wave was right behind it. The waves and I were not getting along that day.

The kids had fun burrying Little D and then Big J. Little D got sand in his mouth like 3 times. It was his own fault though, I told him to quit smiling.

The kids were putting the sand on and he would just keep smiling.

Little C was so funny, He would not leave the towel. It was quite the nice baby gate. He would just sit at the edge and pick up the sand. It was funny mostly because he would pick the sand up and put it on the towel next to him.

Toward the end of the day we got the kites out and all the kids had a blast! Every time we go to the beach we bring them and they never get used. I'm just glad that this year they did.

Time + Fabric = This.....

Well I have been trying to stay home more lately and this is what I do when there is nothing else to do. First I have been making a few things for the Craft Fair thing that I will be participating in this December.

Also I looked at Little A's TV stand and said this looks horrible. Here is the before. So I decided to make some little boxes/baskets to put it all in. I had some left over fabric from when I made her Quilt for her bed, so I decided to make them match.



Here is the after.


The other project that I was working on was this. It is a Hopscotch Mat. Kathy found this idea online and we decided to make them. I just finished with mine.

I didn't want it to be too girly because Little D was excited about it and said to not make it pink. (not that he knew what hopscotch was before I made this)

I think that he was just excited about me making something for them.

Happy Birthday Little A!

Well today was Little A's birthday. She is 4 today! I can't believe that she is that big. Well she had a great day. She woke up to this site.....

I made sure to set up the Doll House and Bike before I went to bed. Mostly because she is always up before I am. Not today though.

We were all up to see her come into the room.

I think that she was a little confused about what all the presents were for.

She did know that it was her birthday but if you know Audrey she doesn't like too much attention.

I made her this cake this afternoon. She said that she wanted pink and purple frosting. Although I'm sure I could have done both I asked her if pink frosting with purple sprinkles would be OK. We practicaly had to force her on the bike at first but then she want to go for a ride. So we went for a ride around the block on her new bike after breakfast.

On our way out the door she was pleased to find a big sign that read HAPPY BIRTHDAY with some bubbles attached. Her Sunbeam teacher had put it out there early this morning. So on the ride we were halfway around and she was tired and wanted to stop but I urged her on back to the house. She did really well. She had trouble at first with pedaling she would get going and then all the sudden she would pedal backwards and stop. But I think that she has the hang of it now.

Later we had cake and then after dinner we went to McDonalds for some ice cream cones. She is pretty excited to say that she is now 4 instead of 3. She asked me today if she was all the way bigger. I said that she was a little bit bigger.

My New Awesome Purse!

So I just finished sewing this new AWESOME purse. I needed a new purse very badly. The edges of my old one were all fraying and coming apart. But thus one was is so fun! It was very exciting to see it slowly come together.

Here are the 2 pockets inside.

Here is a picture of the button that I made with the matching fabric. I've never made a button before so I thought that it was pretty cool.

This is a close up of the side so that you can see the cute little pleat.