Happy Easter--super late!!

We had a wonderful Easter this year--it got off to a crazy start. Jason and I decided to go down to UT for his mission reunion. We left town about 4:00pm drove to the reunion, went to dinner with some friends, and turned around to drive home. We hit the worst snow storm EVER in Ogden and decided to stay for a few hours in Tremonton. By this time it was midnight--we checked into a hotel--slept for 4 hours and woke up and SLOWLY drove into Burley. Luckily the kids were over with Chad and Bonnie, so they stayed the night there.

Saturday morning we went to a fun Easter Breakfast with Chad and Bonnie's ward. It was freezing, so we hunted eggs inside-- the kids had fun though!! We spent the rest of the day watching General Conference-- it was so wonderful!! Sunday we opened Easter baskets, ate a yummy Easter breakfast, watched Conference and headed over to Chad and Bonnie's for dinner, more Conference, and our annual Easter egg scavenger hunt and egg hunt--- so fun!!! I made the girls Easter dresses this year and matching ones for their babies--it was a lot of fun!
The best picture of all 3 kiddos-- so funny they will never all look at the camera at once!
Cute Kate!!!
Claire hunting for eggs--she was so funny walking around finding the "balls."
Claire and her new baby with matching dresses!!

Tagged

My sister in law, Abby, tagged me. It is the tag of FOURS...

FOUR shows I like to watch...
1. The Office
2. Thirty Rock
3. Chuck
4. 24-- but only in the box set--we like to watch them in bulk :0)

FOUR things I am passionate about...
1. Being a good mommy
2. Health
3. Jason
4. Pretty much everything--I'm a very passionate person

FOUR phrases I say a lot...
1. We'll see....
2. Pick up your toys
3. Be nice!!
4. I love you!

FOUR things I have learned from the past...
1. Every day is only as good as we make it.
2. Being consistent with your kids really does pay off.
3. Exercising everyday really does make me feel better.
4. There's nothing wrong with eating ice cream every day as long as you enjoy it!

FOUR places I want to go...
1. Europe again mostly Italy, France, England, and of course Germany but I would be happy to go anywhere in Europe-- I think I could go there every year!!
2. On a Caribbean cruise
3. China
4.Greece

FOUR things I did yesterday...
1. Talked to my sister-- I do this everyday
2. Ate mini cadbury eggs--my favorite Easter treat
3. Listened while Karson read to me.
4.Took Karson to guitar lessons and tried to stop the girls from terrorizing the place.

FOUR things I am looking forward to...
1. Finally using our Anniversary Inn gift card (this coming weekend yeah!!)
2. Going to the elite 8 game in SLC
3. Summer!!
4. Easter scavenger and egg hunts

FOUR things I love about spring...
1. Conference weekend
2. tulips and daffodils-- I really need to plant some this fall, so I can enjoy them at my own house.
3. Easter dresses
4. Warmer weather

FOUR things on my wish list...
1. to have our house and yard done-- that's pretty much all I can think of right now, but it is quite the wish-- definitely worth 4 things :0)!!

Sewing projects part 2

Here are a few of my latest... Skirt dress. I made this dress with Megi on Friday. We used one of her old skirts for the skirt part of the dress. I just free cut a bodice, but you could use a pattern for this-- just any sundress pattern that has a bodice you like. My favorite part of this dress is the gathered red ribbon around the middle--I'm so into gathering right now!!
This is a little skirt made of corduroy. I used an Amy butler green dot fabric for the waist band--just folded it over and sewed it to a tube of corduroy. Then hemmed it using fat ric-rac. This makes hemming fabrics that are hard to hem like corduroy so much easier. I made this skirt to match Kate's little apple shirt and headband in the previous post.
This is a little skirt I started over Christmas. It is so easy to make-- just a tube with an elastic waist band. The hem is made my folding over fabric and sewing the right sides together. then top stitch for a finished look. I added the ruffle and buttons the other day and love how it turned out.
Patchy jeans. Claire is still crawling--I know---obviously from this picture you can see that she can walk and stand, but she still prefers to crawl, because she's been crawling for FOREVER all of her pants are getting very thin if not holey in the knees. I appliqued these little flowers over the holes using pink corduroy-- it was a little tricky not to catch the back of the jeans, so I don't know if I would try it on bigger pants-- but so cute for a little crawler!!


Sundress-- I made this dress the other day. I started out making a pillowcase dress (you can find tutorials for these all over the internet). I just wasn't happy with how it looked on Kate, so I gathered the front bodice and took in the back.


I love to sew and have been thinking of starting a sewing blog with step by step instructions on how to make cute little clothes and home decor. What do you think?

Sewing projects

Curtains-- here are my new dining room curtains. The lighting in these pictures is not the greatest it's so hard to get a good picture of my dining room because of all the windows-- I won't complain though because oh do I love my windows!! I am trying to liven up my dinning room-- next project is making chair pads, then I would love to refinish the table--we'll see...
I decided that I wanted to make all of my girls clothes for summer and I just got a new sewing machine :0). I started with these little skirts found here: http://sewmuchado.blogspot.com/2010/02/refashion-tutorial-toddler-ruffle-skirt.html It was so fun and easy. The shirt was $1 at Wal-mart. I added the little flower-- I'm in love with these flowers as you will see below I put them on everything and also wear a really cute brown one myself. I found that tutorial here: http://www.tipjunkie.com/2009/05/fabric-flower-tutorials.html Sorry I don't know how to make them into links. So anyway I love blogs and all their cute ideas, so I thought I'd share a few of my favorites. This outfit is for Claire...
Who managed to "wear it in" right away with pancake mix...
and was not too happy about me forcing her to sit for a picture!!
I made this outfit for Kate-- again a 1$ shirt. The skirt was made from an old shirt of mine I added a cute little ruffle by cutting out a bunch of circles and pinning and sewing them in a line down the skirt--you might have to click on it to see the detail.

Headband-- I made this headband to match the shirt below. I love sewing cute little beads in the middle. I also put Velcro on the back of the flower and the head band, so I can switch it out for other flowers.
The other thing I've had fun making are applique shirts--Kate told me she wanted apples-- so here they are. Again a $1 Wal-mart shirt and scraps of cute Gathering place fabric.
Here's another shirt I made. For these shirts I just made up my own patterns, but I also found that there are lots of patterns online-- just type in free applique patterns. Also don't forget your wonder under, and make sure your sewing machine has an applique stitch-- it finishes it so nice.

first tooth and Valentines

Karson lost his first tooth this weekend--- gotta love those toothless grins!! He was so excited to put it under his pillow and see what the tooth fairy would bring him-- we thought we'd be generous since it was his first tooth and gave him $5. The next day we took him to Wal-mart-- he just couldn't wait to spend it :0)!! Anyway in all the excitement and taking the 5 dollar bill out of his pocket to admire it numerous times, it ended up lost in Wal-mart. Jason and Kars searched the store with no luck. Karson was devastated (to say the least)! I was surprised when we got to the check out and there was his money in the cart. Karson was so thrilled and picked out a really cool monster truck. Later I was talking to Jason and found out that he had planted another $5 in the cart-- he did such a good job I was even fooled-- Jason is such a good daddy-- I think Karson learned his lesson and everyone was happy in the end-- except that was one pricey little tooth :0)!!
We made Valentine treat bouquets for Jason's grandparents and parents and delivered them yesterday along with homemade valentines from the kids and family pictures (I'll post our new ones soon)-- They turned out pretty cute and were lots of fun to make!

Snow Boarding

Jason and I went snowboarding today for the first time in forever (and our first time together)--9 years for me and 12 for him. Jason told me that he wasn't very good, only had been a few times, but he was pretty dang good-- I was impressed!!! I did okay and it made me want to go more in the future. I am already feeling sore from the many tumbles I took though and my quads are feeling it-- I guess I'm not in the greatest shape ;0). Oh and I got a new camera-- not my dream camera but a nice little pocket Cannon, like my old one that I loved and lost.
"I'm king of the world!!" We were on top of the mountain-- so pretty, windy, and cooooold!!!


The view from the top was gorgeous!!

Kate is 4!!!

Little miss Kate is 4!!! She had a princess party with a few of her little friends-- they all dressed up in their favorite princess clothes and were so cute! We made candy necklaces and mini pizzas and other than that kept it very simple-- best way, in my opinion, with a bunch of little ones! I am only posting a few pictures because my camera mysteriously walked away and so I borrowed my friends for the party. We have more pics of the rest of the day on a disposable camera-- so, maybe I'll post more later...
Kate and her friends!
Her princess cake!! All of you who know me well, know that I have horrible luck baking cakes-- I have never had one turn out well. Either the cake is crumbly, sticks to the pan, or the frosting is yucky. Anyway, I was so excited with how this one turned out, so I had to post a picture!! Yeah for princess cakes!!